The Price Of Power

Zivah is traded to the Wolf King's fortress by her own father, arriving with a single goal: stay alive long enough to walk free. But beneath a floor stone, she finds a journal abandoned mid-sentence by a previous tribute—one of six women who never returned. The silver-haired elder's warm smile masks a decades-old bloodline hunt, and a midnight library meeting with King Ravn Ashvael crackles with a connection he declared illegal five years ago. Ravn built his reign on outlawing fated bonds after loss gutted him. Now his wolf recognizes Zivah before he even finishes reading her name. She plans to leave. He refuses to feel. But Vordenmaar's buried bloodline, a patient enemy thirty years in the making, and a bond neither can break are closing in—and neither will escape with their walls intact.

The night she planned to announce her pregnancy, her husband and son celebrated the safe delivery of another woman's child—a child a forged DNA test claims is the Alpha's. Alone in a different hospital ward, she loses her own eleven-week baby. Silenced by their ignorance, she severs the mate bond, divorces Knox, and abandons Blackwood Pack. Months later, with new Alpha Rhys Calder guarding her memorial box, an independent test and a forgotten recorder expose the truth about that staircase—and which child truly died.

Once a legendary titan in the perilous world of tomb raiding, my grandfather's illustrious career met a tragic and sudden end. Decades ago, a fateful expedition into a mysterious ancient tomb claimed his life alongside those of his closest companions. The only surviving relic of that disastrous expedition is a solitary jade ring, a silent testament to the secrets buried deep within the earth and the dark legacy left behind.

After serving a ten-year prison sentence for a hit-and-run her husband Timon committed, Marian is finally free at fifty-six. Instead of a loyal partner, she meets absolute betrayal. Timon hands her an insulting two-dollar bill while showering his mistress with millions. Forced into a secret marriage agreement to keep his empire untarnished, Marian refuses to remain a shadow. Seeking retribution, she contacts Timon’s most powerful rival to plot his downfall.

Told she'd never be more than a stand-in for her husband's dead brother's fiancée, she endured his coldness. When Lily's staged fall exposes her embezzlement, Chase believes her lies, stripping his mate's rank and demanding her blood for a fake cure. Unbeknownst to him, she carries his true heir. In her hour of need, she flees into a snowstorm rather than beg, finding salvation with Nolan, the Lycan King and Chase's fiercest rival. Divorce signed, empire rebuilt, she watches Chase discover the truth—but her forgiveness is a luxury he can no longer afford.

After surviving years of brutal abuse from her first mate, Margot Keys takes a stand by refusing to bear his heir, eventually killing him to secure her freedom. When she discovers Alpha Ezra Hart is her second chance mate, her trauma drives her to reject the bond. Ezra, haunted by the tragic loss of his first wife, is determined to protect Margot. To save her life, he marks her without permission, sparking fury and a difficult path toward healing and mutual trust.