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He had lived his entire life in solitude - hated by the world and abandoned by his own father just one day after his mother's death. Thrown into the streets, he grew up with nothing but hunger, pain, and the memory of the woman who once gave him love. Years later, the boy who was forgotten by everyone became the man whose name filled the newspapers - powerful, feared, and ruthless. He had turned into a monster, driven by revenge, swearing to destroy everyone who caused his mother's death. But among all the darkness stood her - the only girl who had ever looked at him with kindness. He watched her from afar for years, loving her in silence.

After three years of marriage, Alexander betrays his wife by giving his family's symbolic ruby brooch to his secretary, Elena. When he demands she show class while being publicly humiliated at a gala, she hands him divorce papers and walks away. Alexander assumes his orphan wife cannot survive Sicily alone, but he is unaware of her secret. She is actually the youngest daughter of Europe’s most powerful rival mafia family, now ready to return to her true roots.

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Running from her father's rejection, Isabella arrives in London determined to start over, only to walk straight into temptation and danger. Her obsessive ex is waiting at the airport. And the stranger from her one reckless, unforgettable night in New York is now her new billionaire boss. ************* "Hello, Isabella." Mateo Rossi's voice is low, smooth, and dangerously familiar, sending heat curling through her before she can stop it. She freezes. He leans back, eyes dark and unreadable, lingering on her just a little too long. "I never knew Nathan had a daughter like you," he says softly. "All grown up." Relief floods her. He doesn't recognize her. Not the girl from that night. Not the one who lost control in his arms. Or he does, and he is choosing to pretend. Because Mateo watches her like she belongs to him. He tests her, corners her, pushes her past every limit she thought she had. Doors close. Tempers snap. Boundaries blur. And Isabella realizes something far more dangerous than her past catching up to her. London was never her escape. It is his world. And this time, Mateo Rossi has no intention of letting her walk away.

18+ Explicit Content | Strongly Suggested for Reader Discretion Content Warnings: This collection contains strong adult language, age-gap dynamics, morally dubious characters, rough encounters, and explicit sexual scenes, definitely not for the weak of heart. Some certain desires are meant to remain hidden, there should be none of them. However, nothing is off-limits in these stories. Dirty Desires is an anthology of unvarnished, erotic stories in which temptation rules, control is challenged, and rules are broken. From forbidden lovers to impossible attractions, from hidden lusts to dangerous indulgences, every story pushes the boundaries. They are mischievous, they're mistaken, they are everything you have been longing to experience.

After being burned alive for a crime she didn't commit, a woman wakes up on her wedding day to billionaire Malcom Blair. To avoid her previous fate, she shocks society by kissing a beggar and attacking her maid of honor, Christine Wagner. In her past life, Christine framed her for a deadly hospital fire while Malcom provided false evidence. Now, she embraces a reputation for madness to dismantle their trap and survive the betrayal that once ended in her execution.

Millie Tanner and Iver Langford are known as the two hopeless cases of Kingsgate’s elite. While their siblings rule the underworld, the economy, the courts, and the medical field, these two live purely on family grace. After an arranged marriage brings them together, a public confrontation with a vengeful socialite leads to Iver being struck. However, their attackers soon realize that hurting the city’s most protected pair invites the fury of the four most ruthless legends.

For five years, I was the perfect, amnesiac wife to the tech mogul who "rescued" me from a helicopter crash. Then, a video from his mistress shattered the lie. It wasn't just her ultrasound; it was a news clip showing my real fiancé, Caleb, had survived the crash. My memory came flooding back. When I confronted their affair by setting fire to the vineyard he built for her, he chose to save his pregnant mistress over me. At the hospital, surrounded by reporters she had called, he publicly disowned me to protect her. "My wife has been unwell for some time," he announced, his words a final, cold betrayal. But they mistook my silence for defeat. Facing the cameras, I traced a secret symbol over my heart-a message only one man would understand. I leaned into the microphone, turning my humiliation into a call to arms. "Caleb," I whispered. "It's time to come home."

I watched the man I was contractually bound to marry dive into the freezing water. But he wasn't swimming toward me. Only seconds prior, his mistress had shoved me into the ornamental pool. I struggled to surface, my heavy silk dress dragging me down like a lead weight. Jax, the ruthless Underboss of Chicago, swam right past me. He reached for the woman who had pushed me, scooping her up as she faked a leg cramp. He carried her out, stepping over my hand as I clawed at the slippery edge. Every Capo and soldier in the underworld watched the heir choose a jersey chaser over his fiancée. "You are making a scene, Eliana," Jax said, his voice devoid of emotion. "Go home." He didn't offer a hand. He ordered me away like a disobedient dog. Later that night, when I tried to return his ring, his mistress laughed and shoved me down a flight of stairs. I lay at the bottom, broken and bleeding. Jax didn't check if I was alive. He comforted her instead. To him, I was just furniture. A guarantee. He thought he had broken me. He thought I had nowhere to go because our families were allied. He was wrong. I left the five-carat diamond on the table. I left my car keys on the dashboard at O'Hare Airport. I didn't just run away. I boarded a one-way flight to New York to join his mortal enemy, the Tran Syndicate. Jax Little thought he owned the board. He didn't realize the Queen had just defected.

Forced into a marriage as a substitute Luna, Regina discovers that the cold Alpha of the Silver Moon Pack, Lionel Williams, is her fated mate. However, Lionel’s immediate rejection and the return of his former lover leave Regina in despair. When he actively destroys her aspirations of becoming an actress, she finally chooses to abandon her unrequited love and escape the pain. Yet, despite his previous hatred, Lionel unexpectedly refuses to grant her freedom.

He drew her before he ever met her. She dreams of him every night... without knowing who he is. Nora is a brilliant editor in a prestigious journalism company - confident, successful... and completely unaware of her past. But night after night, she dreams of a mysterious warrior prince in a realm that feels far too real. When Edward, the enigmatic new CEO of her branch, walks into her life, her world starts to unravel. He's the son of the company's owner, and though they've never met, he's been drawing her face for years. As their connection deepens, strange events begin to blur the line between reality and fantasy. What neither of them knows is that their souls are bound - not just in this life, but in another. In a parallel world, Leela is a fearless warrior and spy, sworn to protect her people. Jing, the prince of a war-torn kingdom, trusts her with his life... but must never love her. Their bond is dangerous. Forbidden. And yet, undeniable. Two women. Two men. Two worlds on the brink of war... and love that defies fate. When destiny calls across dimensions, will they choose duty - or the one their soul remembers?

A legendary bounty thief attempts to trade a life of violence for the quiet world of an artist, but the mafia refuses to let her go. When her former associate, Black Viper, arrives with a photograph of the blind boy she has spent a decade searching for, her retirement ends. To secure his location, she must accept one final mission from Old Fox. The target is the Mermaid's Tear, a mysterious treasure set for auction by the Gilbert Group.

The rain assaulted the glass, mirroring the storm inside me. For three years, I, Vivian Sterling, played the perfect wife to Julian Kensington, draining my life. The antique clock ticked, a reminder of time lost. Then, I found it: a blonde hair on Julian's suit, reeking of Midnight Rose, and a text, ""Candy: You left your cufflinks on my nightstand. I'm already missing you."" My world shattered, revealing his betrayal. This was just the beginning. I exposed Julian's fraud and his family's violent plots, surviving assassination. But their malice stole my past. Then Alexander Vance, my protector, uncovered a terrifying truth: my birth mother was alive, held captive by a shadowy order. My life was a lie, built to shield me from my dangerous bloodline. I found strength and love with Alexander, the man who walked into fire for me. Yet, as I prepared to rescue my mother, a new life stirred within me, a secret threatening to complicate the impending war.

Three women, three brothers, a single, crumpled dollar bill. Alina's world shatters the moment she's auctioned off-and claimed by the powerful Hawthorne brothers. Thrown into Adrian Hawthorne's cold, dangerous world, she becomes his to control... his to protect... and, terrifyingly, his to desire. He's ruthless, possessive, and hiding secrets that could destroy them both. But the deeper she falls into his world, the harder it becomes to tell if she's his prisoner-or something far more dangerous. Because the Hawthorne brothers don't just take. They keep. Viviane has spent her life surviving, so when Julian Hawthorne "buys" her freedom, she knows better than to trust it. Men like him don't save people-they collect them. But Julian isn't as simple as he pretends to be, and the deeper she's pulled into his world, the more dangerous it becomes to walk away. Especially when she realizes she might be the only thing he's ever been willing to fight for. Lena doesn't belong to anyone-and she intends to keep it that way. Brilliant, guarded, and hiding more than anyone suspects, she enters Lucien Hawthorne's world on her own terms. But Lucien doesn't play fair, and he doesn't let go. When her past comes crashing back, Lena is forced to face the one thing she's been running from: trusting someone who could destroy her... or save her. Three women. Three choices.Stay. Fight. Or burn it all down. Because being sold was only the beginning.

After a catastrophic lab explosion kills eight students, Professor Leah Callahan is pressured by her friend Bertha to take the blame for Owen Rountree’s fatal error. This choice leads to Leah’s dismissal and a gruesome death at the hands of grieving families, while her daughter suffers a tragic fate. When Leah suddenly awakens five minutes before the original blast, she is granted a second chance to expose the truth and prevent the upcoming devastation.

Elara is not a fighter. She is a healer. Her power is the rarest in the werewolf world. It was meant to protect her Pack and secure her place next to Alpha Kael, her destined mate. However, on the night of their claimed bond, Kael rejected her. He labeled her power a deadly threat. With a brutal and calculated act, he wounded himself with wolfsbane and publicly turned Elara away. She had to choose between saving the man who humiliated her or proving his belief that she was too dangerous to love. She saved him, but that night, the healer inside her died. Banished and broken, Elara sheds the blood-soaked title of healer and retreats into the shadows. She finds an ancient master who teaches her not patience, but poison. Instead of comfort, he shows her retribution. She learns to harness her past pain, using the volatile wolfsbane as her weapon. Five years later, the once-strong Lunar Pack is suffering from a mysterious illness that even their best doctors can't cure. They must look beyond their borders for help. Elara returns with a new name and a clever disguise. She is armed with charm and a dark plan. She is the Pack's only hope, and she will bring about the Alpha's downfall. Her revenge has a careful strategy. The closer she gets to healing his body, the closer she gets to ending his reign. But to destroy the Alpha, she must risk reigniting the very mate bond she vowed to forget.

I sat in the front row of the theater, my hand in my fiancé' s, waiting for the premiere of the true-crime podcast he' d been consulting on. But when the host' s voice filled the room, it wasn' t telling the story of how I survived a brutal kidnapping-it was accusing me of faking it for attention. And the "anonymous source" who provided my private therapy tapes was the man sitting right next to me. Dr. Erik Nichols wasn't just the psychiatrist who "saved" me; he was the mole who handed my darkest traumas to his ex-girlfriend for a viral hit. On stage, they played my weeping confessions, edited to sound like manipulation. The audience turned on me, jeering at the "Girl Who Cried Wolf." Erik grabbed my arm, whispering that this public humiliation was just "exposure therapy" for my own good. I was drowning in panic until a booming voice cut through the crowd. "Let her go." FBI Agent Ewing Oconnor, the man who actually found me in that cabin years ago, stepped onto the stage with his badge raised. He didn't just rescue me from the mob; he handed me the weapon to fight back. Now, I' m not just the survivor. I' m the plaintiff, and I' m coming for everything they have.

After a one-night stand with her brother's friend, NYC mafia boss Cassian Cross, a woman’s life becomes a nightmare. Following years of abandonment and his cruel return with a former lover, Cassian intentionally traps her and their son in a burning car. Miraculously, she wakes up back on her twentieth birthday. Haunted by his murderous betrayal, she decides to flee the cycle of obsession. Instead of choosing him again, she makes a life-altering call to his first love.

Skyla Silara Rossi, the Lycan King’s daughter, battles an uncontrollable inner beast at Midnight Academy. Her isolation ends when twin brothers Aleric and Royce Arden join the faculty. As the sons of the Shadow Wolves’ Alpha, these new teachers harbor secret agendas that collide with Skyla’s chaotic life. This young-adult fantasy novel follows their illicit connection, where lust and lies threaten the princess’s future. Amidst shifting loyalties, Skyla must decide if these Alphas are her saviors or her ruin.

High on a snowy peak, Shawn Foster blames his partner for Susan Taylor's altitude sickness. As punishment, he uses a Prusik knot to tie her up and abandons her five thousand meters above sea level. Despite her desperate pleas and lack of oxygen, Shawn leaves her behind to save Susan. He remains unaware that the woman he left to suffer has already perished. Three days later, while he considers forgiveness, her body lies buried deep beneath the mountain snow.

I woke up in a bedroom that screamed old money, but the body I occupied felt sluggish and fragile. I was now Chris Olson, a man known as a pathetic failure who spent his marriage groveling at his wife's feet for a single look of approval. Elizabeth didn't even wait for me to clear my head before she threw the divorce papers on the nightstand. She stood there in her silk robe, eyes cold as ice, demanding I sign them before breakfast so she could finally go public with her "White Moonlight," Greg. "You're walking away with nothing," she snapped, her voice full of the disgust she'd harbored for years. She reminded me that my family had disowned me and that I'd be on the streets within a week without her charity. As I sat up, a metallic, garlic-like scent on my breath confirmed a terrifying truth: the Olson family hadn't just disowned me; they had been micro-dosing me with arsenic for years. They wanted me weak and mentally unstable so they could split the inheritance without a fight. The original Chris would have cried and begged for her to stay, but I just looked at her like she was a target. I realized then that my "loving" family and my "faithful" wife had been watching me die in slow motion, and neither of them had lifted a finger to stop it. I signed the papers without reading a single line and walked out with nothing but a duffel bag and a rusted sedan. I didn't need her alimony; I had already called her greatest rival, Adelia Cherry, to discuss a merger that would rock the city. "I'm not here to save this marriage," I told Elizabeth as I moved into the mansion right next door to hers. "I'm here to bury it, along with everyone who thought they could poison me and get away with it."

Cast out from the Crane estate with nothing but twenty-six dollars, a woman finds an unexpected lifeline in a discreet job notice. Seeking safety from her past, she accepts a live-in position caring for three children at a Gold Coast mansion. She soon discovers her employer is Dante Bellandi, the powerful Don of a Chicago crime family. What began as a search for shelter evolves into a legal marriage and a fierce new bond. When her arrogant ex-husband returns to demand an apology, he is met by the Bellandi triplets and a husband ready to defend his wife’s honor.

My fiancé staged his own kidnapping as a sick loyalty test, betting I'd risk our unborn child to save him. The shock of his betrayal cost me our baby. When I confronted him, he protected his mistress and burned our son's ashes right in front of me. He sneered that I was just his "loyal little soldier" and that only death would end us. He was right. He just never realized he was talking about his own death, at the hands of the queen who owns his entire army.

Shen Ning, a skilled special operations captain, has dedicated her life to duty and high-stakes missions. Amidst the chaos of her professional world, she navigates a complex emotional landscape where love and distance collide. As her dangerous career creates physical and symbolic barriers, she must confront the reality of a long-term separation. This poignant story explores resilience, deep-seated passion, and the endurance of the human heart.