"My gaze traveled to his lips and I was trying to hold in my breath. Serena, you can’t— I repeated in my head over and over again. I can’t fall in love with him, I can’t. “Serena?” Christian tried to get my attention. “Hmm?” I asked and tried to look into his eyes once again. I could not be falling for him, I had promised him not to. “What are you thinking about?” Christian whispered and moved his hand to my cheek". Getting pregnant by her boss after a one-night stand and suddenly leaving her job as stripper was the last thing Serena had hoped for, and to make matters worse he is the heir to the mafia. Serena is calm while Christian is fearless and outspoken but somehow the two have to make it work. When Christian forces Serena to go through with a fake engagement she tries her hardest to fit in the family and the luxurious life the women live while Christian is fighting as hard as he can to keep his family safe, but everything takes a turn when the hidden truth about Serena and her birth parents comes out. Their idea was to play pretend until the baby was born and the rule was to not fall in love, but plans don't always go as expected. Will Christian be able to protect the mother of his unborn child? And will they end up breaking the rules? But most importantly, will he be able to keep his promise?

"Alessio leaned closer and I felt his breath on my lips. I closed my eyes, waiting for him to kiss me as he brushed his lips against mine. Only he never did. Flustered, I opened my eyes and looked at him, still unsure what to do. What was holding him back? He leaned in again, but this time he pressed his lips against mine and didn’t hold back. He traced my lips with his tongue, and I opened my mouth to let him in. Kissing him felt so good. It was perfect, as if nothing else mattered. It felt so good that it terrified me, to the point where I had to pull away when it finally hit me what I was doing." When Jimena, a young single mother with a dark past and a violent ex she's desperate to forget, crosses paths with Alessio, heir to the Fanucci family, her world is turned upside down. All she wanted was to get by working as a maid at the Fanucci mansion and to keep her distance from the three infamous Fanucci brothers as much as possible. Things take a turn when the oldest brother and heir, Alessio, breaks off his arranged engagement with his ex and urgently needs a new one. Alessio, cold, ruthless, dominant, and not someone anyone talks back to, sees the quiet Jimena as nothing more than his pawn. Meanwhile, she sees Alessio as nothing more than another monster she needs to escape. As they spend more time together, the lines between fake and reality begin to blur, and they discover they have more in common than they initially thought. Tensions rise when Jimena's ex returns, threatening her new comfortable life and the secrets she’s been withholding. He is out for revenge and is determined to go to any length for it, even if that means forming an alliance with the Fanuccis' enemy, who happens to be the family of Alessio’s ex. With a war, untold truths, and feelings at stake, will Jimena’s newly formed bonds keep standing, or will everything around her crumble?

"My first instinct was to push him away, but I couldn’t. My body responded, and before I knew it, I deepened the kiss. I pressed my hands to his chest, still warm from his shower. I hated how much my body craved him, how he made me feel. 'No,' I whispered against him, then roughly pushed him away. Kylan’s lips curled into a smug smirk, satisfied by the kiss. He loved control, loved knowing he could get under my skin. It was clear he thought he had me right where he wanted me. 'I suppose I’ll see you in two days,' he looked me up and down, not losing his smirk. 'Now leave my room, and don’t show up here again.'” *** When Violet Hastings begins her freshman year at Starlight Shifters Academy, she only wants two things—honor her mother’s legacy by becoming a skilled healer for her pack and get through the academy without anyone calling her a freak for her strange eye condition. Things take a dramatic turn when she discovers that Kylan, the arrogant heir to the Lycan throne who has made her life miserable from the moment they met, is her mate. Kylan, known for his cold personality and cruel ways, is far from thrilled. He refuses to accept Violet as his mate, yet he doesn’t want to reject her either. Instead, he sees her as his puppy, and is determined to make her life even more of a living hell.