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THE FAE'S BARGAIN
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She came for the money. She stayed for something she never planned to want. Darcy Vane has one rule: never make a deal you can't walk away from. She breaks it on a Tuesday in November, when a gold-eyed stranger in a Notting Hill antiques shop offers her £600,000 in exchange for thirty days pretending to be his Fae consort. Her father's debt — the one that has been choking her life for three years — gone. Triple. All she has to do is play pretend for a month in a world she didn't know existed. She shakes his hand. The mark appears on her wrist before she can change her mind. Caspian Ashworth is not what she expected: three centuries old, a prince in exile, returning to a dying court full of immortals who want him dead and a brother who wants everything he has. He chose Darcy because she can see through glamour, survive court politics, and won't flinch. He did not choose her to feel things about. He's feeling things. The bond they're faking has rules neither of them agreed to — shared dreams, shared chambers, and a magic that responds to emotions they're both desperately pretending not to have. The court is watching. The clock is running. And somewhere between the masquerade balls and the midnight confessions and the kiss she will absolutely not think about, Darcy Vane stops performing. That's when everything gets dangerous. The Fae's Bargain is an 18+ fantasy romance featuring fake dating, Fae court politics, a slow burn that ignites, and a debt collector who turns out to be exactly what a dying court needs.
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Mated To The Rival
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She has never needed anyone. He has never let anyone in. The mate bond did not care about either of those things. Sera Whitmore is the next Alpha of Silvercrest. Kael Voss is the next Alpha of Ironvale. Their packs have hated each other for two hundred years and they were raised to hate each other too. But when they meet at a peace summit in the neutral zone between their territories, something older and more stubborn than hatred decides it has other plans. The bond snaps. He walks out without a word. She tells herself she can manage it. Neither of them can manage it. Within days war is coming — thirty days, then twenty, then less. Kael's father Aldric is mobilizing. Sera is leading her pack's defense from the front. And in between all of it, in secret, at midnight, in ten miles of forest that belongs to neither pack, they are meeting. Ten feet apart at first. Then nine. Then eight. Then a message on a piece of bark that says I felt you get hurt. Sent from thirty miles away. Because he felt it. Because the bond told him and he could not pretend it did not. She keeps that note. But the forbidden romance is only half the story. Because Sera has been quietly investigating her mother's death for ten years — officially a border accident, never sitting right. And what she finds changes everything. A locked box under her mother's floorboard. A journal inside it. A truth that has been buried in both packs' records for two hundred years. The war was built on a lie. Two hundred years ago a Silvercrest Alpha killed his own Luna to destroy her mate bond with an Ironvale Alpha, then blamed Ironvale for the murder. The grief-destroyed Ironvale Alpha declared war. And Kael's father Aldric — the man running this war right now, the man mobilizing twenty days away — has known this for his entire rule. He keeps the war alive because it keeps him in power. And when Sera's mother found the journal — he had her killed. Sera's mother did not die in a border accident. Now Sera has the journal, the truth, and a kill list with her own name on it. She has twenty days. She has Kael — the enemy heir who cannot stay away, who named her the Compass before he knew her name because everything pointed at her even when he was walking the other direction. And she has a plan. This is an eighty chapter slow burn werewolf romance with a murder mystery underneath, a conspiracy that runs through both packs, and a love story that earns every single moment. Kael Voss is not the Alpha who dominates everything. He is the Alpha who felt his mate's pain from thirty miles away and wrote it on a piece of bark because he could not keep pretending he did not feel it. The war ends. The bond wins.
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THE DEVIL'S CONTRACT
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Elena Vasquez has one mission: bring down the man who ordered her father's death. She spends six months building a cover identity, sharpening her grief into something useful, and walking into Dante Marrano's world with a single purpose. She has a plan. She has evidence. She has nothing left to lose. What she doesn't have is the full truth. Because the man she came to destroy didn't kill her father. Someone who serves him did — using his name, his seal, his reputation as a weapon. And Dante Marrano, the most dangerous man in New York, has been quietly pulling the same threads she has. He knew who she was by day three. He let her stay anyway. Now they're building a case together. Working side by side. Getting closer than either of them planned. And Elena is running out of ways to pretend that what she feels when he looks at her is anything other than what it is. The mission was supposed to be simple: get in, get justice, get out. Nobody warned her that the most dangerous thing in Dante Marrano's world would turn out to be him.
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