She had been secretly in love with him for three years. They had kept a hidden relationship for three years. But one day, she heard a shocking truth from her best friend: he was already in a relationship with someone else. She finally realized she had only been a stand-in all along. To claim her father’s inheritance, she agreed to a blind date. But by mistake, she sat at the wrong table. “I’ll marry you,” she said calmly. “One year later, we end the engagement.” The man opposite her raised an eyebrow. “Fine. But why wait? We can register the marriage now.” Later, her ex saw the ring on her hand and regretted it. He grabbed her wrist with red eyes. “Let’s get back together, please.” Before she could respond, a hand wrapped around her waist from behind. A cold voice sounded: “So you want to be a homewrecker?” He glanced at her ex. “Sorry, you’re holding my wife’s hand.” “And if you don’t let go… I might break it.” Only then did the ex realize—she was now his rival’s wife.
Lyra Blackwood spent her entire life bleeding for her pack. As the strongest warrior of Blackwood Pack, she defended the borders, fought their enemies, and sacrificed everything to protect the people she loved. But no matter how much she gave, strength was never enough to earn affection. To her family, Lyra was a weapon to wield, not a daughter to love. Then, in a single night, everything she fought for was ripped away from her. Her mate betrayed her with her younger sister. Her family cast her aside. And the pack she nearly died protecting stood by and watched her break. Publicly humiliated and sentenced to a thousand lashes by her own father, Lyra is abandoned by everyone she trusted. Everyone except him. Cold, ruthless, and dangerously powerful, Alpha Kael Draven of the northern territories is a man feared enough to bend pack politics around him. But the moment he witnesses Lyra refusing to kneel even after betrayal and torture, something dark inside him awakens. Now the North Alpha wants the girl everyone else discarded. Trapped between ancient pack laws, dangerous political alliances, and a possessive alpha who looks at her like both prey and queen, Lyra must decide whether becoming the North Alpha’s Luna will finally set her free… —or destroy her completely.
In her past life, she was framed by her scumbag ex and stepsister, destroyed in reputation, abandoned by everyone, and died with endless resentment. Reborn, she kicked the scumbag away and married a cold, paranoid, disabled tycoon. Everyone thought she would be tortured to death within three months. But the tycoon doted on her like a princess, fiercely protecting her and cruelly defeating those who wronged her. The world sneered: “He’s in a wheelchair all year—he can’t possibly make her happy.” The tycoon stood up gracefully: “Who said I can’t?” She secretly rubbed her waist, begging softly: “Honey, can I take a day off tonight…”
The day she found her husband in bed with another woman... She also found out she was pregnant. For the sake of the baby, even though she wasn't ready to forgive him, she decided to give him a chance to explain. But he didn't show up. He was with the other woman while she was waiting for his explanation. And she didn't beg. She just walked away from the man she had loved for seven whole years. That should have been the end of her story with Rowen. But it wasn't. Homeless, jobless, and pregnant, she crossed paths with a man she should never get involved with. **Adrian Henrix.** Billionaire CEO. Her husband's boss. Cold, ruthless, and notoriously impossible to get close to. Adrian has one rule: **Don't get involved in other people's lives.** Until he meets Serena. One encounter leads to another. A helping hand becomes something harder to explain. And the man who keeps everyone at a distance starts breaking his own rules for the woman who still belongs to someone else. But Serena isn't looking for another love. Or another man to save her. She's trying to learn how to save herself. And when her husband decides he can't let her go... Serena finds herself caught between the man who broke her heart... and the man who is silently trying to repair it.
She never thought the seven-year marriage curse would happen to her. The moment she caught her husband cheating, she made him sign the divorce papers and walked away without looking back. Just as she was ready to rebuild her career, the powerful CEO who stood at the top of the business world entered her life with overwhelming confidence. In an empty conference room, he trapped her between the table and his strong arms, his deep voice filled with temptation. “Miss, before we discuss business, shouldn’t we settle an old debt first?” “What debt?” she asked, her ears turning red. He leaned closer, his breath brushing against her skin. “You saved my life when we were young. I planned to repay that debt…” He placed a contract before her and smiled. “Will you sign this, Miss? I’ll spend my lifetime making you mine.”
** Warning: mature content ** Copyright 2026 Brenda Minnaard - Groen. All rights reserved. Cover Design by Zhandre Dex G. (MC Damon) No part of this publication may be reproduced. “If you kick me when I’m down, you better pray I don’t get up”. Athena is a little unorthodox. The odd one out. Which, in a world of werewolves, is saying something. Always wearing black, baggy clothes and her hair in a messy bun, she isn’t the epitome of femininity. Nor does she share the same interests of her female pack members. She used to be extremely close with the Alpha twins, Jake and Jerry, until they cast her aside like the flip of a switch at the age of 6. The entire pack followed suit, tormenting her on a daily basis. The once friendly, funny and sweet Athena turned into a loner with a grudge and trust issues. Her summers are spent in red runner pack, where she blossoms at the hands of her new best friends: the Alpha’s son Maxim, and the beta’s daughter Millie. For a long while, Athena’s only solace are her summers away from blood moon. Until her best friend Millie from red runner gets transferred as an exchange student to blood moon for the semester. Millie’s carefree and feisty nature, in combination with Athena’s protective instincts, are a recipe for disaster in a pack like blood moon. Especially for the pack outcast. Her beatings and bullying are taken up a notch, until she has been reduced to nothing but a shell of her actual self. Until she finds out that her father is cheating on her mother, that is. Her life starts to spiral, fast, and she finds her self-control slipping. She is no longer able to hide the wolf that she has successfully kept hidden for 11 years. Fleeing her pack and finding refuge at red runner, Athena begins to heal again. While her hatred for blood moon, especially Jake and Jerry, continues to grow, the twins come to find out that not everything turned out to be as it seemed when they started tormenting her. Is it too little, too late? While they now try to fight for her attention, so do the warlock prince and the Lycan prince, who have all taken an interest in the unconventional girl. But what happens when 2 dark, dangerous, and extremely handsome twins join the party? One is company, two is a crowd. So, what is six?
