"Stop. Stop, please." I sob as the whip comes down on my back once more. "Shut up yo-" my tormentor's words are cut off by a ferocious growl. I sense another masculine figure in the dark room, but can't make out a word he's shouting. The burning and searing pain that I'm experiencing is just too much. A sickening snap is heard and something drops onto the cold, stone flooring. The chains around my wrists and ankles are broken along with the tight metal collar around my neck. "Mate." my rescuer growls, gently cradling me in his arms. ********************* Charlotte Beck has been tortured and abused by the Red Stone pack ever since she turned eight. She doesn't know why they hate her or how she ended up a lower rank than the Omegas; no one even bothered to label her as a slave. She has never known the true meaning of love or how it felt like, all Charlotte knows is that her pack surely doesn't feel that way about her. Finding a mate was a dream that was thrown out the window long ago; all of the verbal abuse led her to believe that she didn't deserve one. It's not until she attempts to escape again that she realizes that she has a chance of living a better life, one where abuse isn't an everyday thing. Xander Reynolds, Alpha of the Lunar Shadow pack, finds her when she's taken to his cells as a trespassing prisoner. Known as the strongest Alpha in the continent, he does everything he can to protect his mate. The only problem is that she's too emotionally scarred to allow him to. His dark and violent reputation is the only thing that Charlotte knows about him. The memories of their childhood together beaten out of her mind. Traumatized and high on fear, she struggles to let down her walls. Her real home is with a man who she cannot remember and a brother who she wishes she remembered. Can Xander get his mate to love him? Or will Charlotte let her past keep them apart?

"I don't want to be your mate." she tells me. "Why don't you want to be my mate, sweetheart?" I ask, wincing when she growls at me. "Don't fucking call me that." she snaps. "Why?" "Because I can't be Luna." she whispers. Just for a split second, I see pain in her eyes, but the emotion disappears as soon as it came. "You live in a nice house, you have food on the table everyday, and..." My mate shuts her mouth as if she had spoken too much. "Finish what you were going to say." I urge. "I can't." she whispers, tears forming in her eyes. "It's... It's a secret." ************ Josephine Mancini has been abandoned by her family when she was just fifteen years old. Now a senior at her local high school, she tries her best to ignore her family's absence and move on with her life. Archer Stone is the Alpha of the Blood Moon pack, the strongest and most feared werewolf pack in North America. He's known for his merciless ways and violent persona. Everyone thinks that he's incapable of feeling love, but in reality, he's just been saving himself for his mate. The only problem when he meets his mate is that Josephine tries to reject him on the spot. Ever since her family left, she hasn't felt the need to have anyone's love or support. She believes that having a mate will only hurt her in the long run and that Alpha Stone will only use her to provide an heir, then dismiss her afterwards. Over the years, she has grown accustomed to living an independent life. Archer wants to begin his first romantic relationship with his mate, but he has to prove to Josephine that not everyone she loves will abandon her before they can start dating. She doesn't believe that she's fit to be Luna and that her reputation will cause problems. Lunas don't get failing grades, work three jobs, or struggle to pay rent. Will Archer be able to show her that love isn't always a bad thing? Or will Josephine keep her financial and family problems to herself?

➳sequel to My Broken Luna "Alpha and Luna, we're in this together." he says, wrapping his arms around my battered body and pulling me close. "No matter what happens, I'm here." ******************** Their baby boy is healthy, the pack is running smoothly, and everything is peaceful. Life is just perfect for Charlotte and Xander as they continue leading the pack as Alpha and Luna... or so they thought. Threats start showing up across Lunar Shadow territory and soon, "accidents" are happening around Blake and Charlotte. Knowing that these events aren't just coincidences, Xander and the rest of the pack begin hunting down whoever is behind this, only to find out that Charlotte and Brody's past has something to do with it. Does Brody already know why these attacks are happening? Can the pack protect Charlotte and Blake? Or will Xander have to go to unthinkable lengths in order to keep his family safe?

"Never call a girl a bitch," I glared into his eyes as he opened them, piercing into me, the bright blue drink I had just poured over him still dripping from his dark hair. "Or she just might act like one." I gave him one last sarcastic smile before pushing by him and walking away, practically strutting. Well, this year will be fun... • • • • Crystal Summers; a self-proclaimed expert in all things sarcastic and the human embodiment of destructive decisions. Trying to get away from her troubled past, she moves with her mom to California to start a new life, and potentially not screw this one up. There, she quickly meets Scarlett and Savanah, her new-found partners in crime, and her life finally begins to feel normal again for the first time in years. But she just so happens to also collide with the school's sexy, notorious jackass, Ashton Monroe.. and his pack of asswipes. She loathes him, and the feeling is mutual. But as the poets say, the line separating love and hate is a very thin one. And often times, when two people hate each other, it can grow into much more. Hopeless devotion, if you will... • • • • !!!TRIGGER WARNING!!! • slight mention(s) of suicidal concepts • substance abuse, addiction, anxiety, PTSD • sexual assault, domestic abuse • strong language and mature scenes • • • •

I wasn't prepared for this. I wasn't supposed to find out. I'm not supposed to be here with them. Yet, here I am... Arianna Gallardo is changing. Changing cities, schools, houses, friendship. Now she must figure out which way to go. When she meets one stranger, he shows her that the impossible can happen, that it isn't just myth and fairytales, it's reality too. She meets someone else, and he shows her that it's not as easy to be broken as she thought. Now, she's caught in both of their webs, trying to escape, or trying to decide between Kaleb and Daniel. But Arianna is more worried about if she'll make it out alive...

Shyanne Beeker has a hard time being the Omega in her pack. She's practically invisible now, but she has learned to deal with it. When she meets a trespasser on their territory, she feels a boldness that she's never felt before with the dangerous Lycan. He pushes himself into the pack, though he was unwanted at first, he becomes accepted. He's trying to prove himself to his family that not all lycans are vicious, ruthless killers, but in the process he ends up falling for the Omega with her head down. Shyanne can't deny the connection she feels towards him, but she fights it, not wanting to be woth the man who had hurt her. Secrets are revealed and tension rises when Shyanne finds out that her birthmother was keeping secrets from her, even though she was dead. She doesn't understand her newfound power, but she's hoping she doesn't kill anyone in the process...

Emmie and Ethan are from two different parts of society. He's the hot bad boy that everyone is intimidated by, but yet the guy that every girl gets a taste of. But when he meets Emmie, he sees no one but her. Emmie is a good girl, though she gets into trouble every once and a while, she plays by her own rules, but is completely sweet and innocent. When she meets Ethan, she gets a taste of the wild side of life, and becomes addicted, to the lifestyle, and to him.

Zoey Gregory was already haunted by shadows, but when she takes a vacation with her mother, everything gets so much worse... This is a short thriller story that I wrote for a writing contest, but I decided to share it here.

~~~BOOK 1~~~ "You will never know just how beautiful you are to me" "Did you just quote Ed Sheeran?" "Yep." ".......I'm not even mad." *••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••* Alexis Cook. She has many secrets, some she doesn't even know of. This crazy adventure of her last year of high school leads to her finding them out. See more to figure out what those secrets are. ~~~BOOK 1~~~ •~I'm really bad at descriptions..but please don't let it stop you from reading it. Give it a chance! Please! :) ;)~• *cover by @apxtheosis :) feel free to make me one if you want* Being finished by @abacadanial

Everyone has a fear. Fear of spiders? Arachnophobia. Fear of small spaces? Claustrophobia. And of course, the fear of being tickled by feathers: pteronophobia. Sophie Smart fears drowning. No, her fear isn't some made up malarkey like exposedflabophobia (acute paranoia when wearing a swimsuit and baring pasty thighs and a round bottom). Sophie drowned as a child. She died for three minutes. Her childhood trauma is real. Yet Sophie, hot-shot advertising executive, isn't a child anymore. Now Sophie's most important client, handsome Matthew Silver, is insisting she learn how to swim. She can't blame him really - he's the owner of a chain of swimming centers, and Sophie's in charge of his new advertising campaign. The last thing Sophie wants to do is get in the water, in a clingy swimsuit, with a client she's trying to impress. She's not going to win him over flapping around like an idiot, is she? But with a broken heart from her last relationship, maybe getting into the pool is just what Sophie needs. Maybe she can trust Matthew with her fears. Maybe it's time for her to forget about her past and take the plunge?