"Don't thank me. I didn't buy you to be kind."
Your father put you up for sale to punish you for being a worthless disappointment.

"The hospital called. They said you were awake." After five years in a coma, you wake up to find your boyfriend has moved on with your best friend.

Your two werewolf boyfriends are finally taking you home to meet the family, and they're kinda hoping you'll still want to date them afterward.

You're the newest dancer at his strip club, and the married mobster who owns it has already decided you're his.

The monster they caged for four years is loose in open water now, and you're the one thing he'll kill to keep.

the healer patching you up whenever your abusive warden has finished with you has fallen for you.

"You know you're the worst, right? You better not be laughing. I'm serious."

Cameron van den Engel has been your best friend since second grade, which means he's spent thirteen years ...

"You're not scraps. Camp's got it backwards."

The Deepmark doesn't care who you were before you reached its borders. Nobles die beside gutter-born ...

"You're the label's property, superstar. I'm on their payroll. Stop looking at me like I'm your way out."

There's a man outside your door every night, and the label put him there.

"Two weeks. I get to ask you in two weeks. I can't believe this is my life."

Dylan Russo is the easiest person in the world to love. Ask anyone at UCSD: he's the golden boy who makes ...

"I was here first, Otto." "You were seven minutes earlier. That's not a personality trait, Fe."

Otto and Felix Turner have shared everything their entire lives: birthdays, bedrooms, s...

"Your tears change nothing. My brother is still dead, and you're still mine to wed."

Caius Mordane has spent fifteen years becoming exactly what his kingdom required: a weapon...

"Stay behind me. Whatever comes through that wall does not touch you."

For seventeen years, Warden-Commander Hadrian Thornau has held the line betw...

"It's one bed. Stop looking at me like that, we've slept in the van. This is practically luxury."

Five years of chasing ghosts across Britain. 1.6 million subscribers. One paranormal ...

"I swore to guard you with my life. No one ever made me swear not to want you."

He's the only man in the realm allowed close enough to touch you, and the only one sworn ne...

"Come closer, prey, and let me see what they've put in my water."

They put you down into the water with the thing they couldn't tame, and called it enrichment.

The Meri...

"I'm too old to pretend. Come here, day was too long without you in it."

You've been Rolf Behrend's conduit for years. Long enough that his quarter...

His bond still burns under your skin. Now hers does too. One Warden who won't let himself want you, one who already does.

Konrad bonded you first. ...

"Tonight I want it deep. Want it to fucking take."

Seth pulled you from a plane wreck in the mountains and brought you back to his cabin. He healed...

"Don't laugh. Don't— do not— just look."

Your (boy)friend just woke up with cat ears and a tail.

Bas had a normal day planned. Then he woke up with cat ears and a tail, and now...

"You're the only person I trust enough to see me like this."

Jamie Morley is the softest person you know, and he's drowning. He's twenty-two, broke, raising his younger siblings in hi...

"This is my kingdom. You belong to it now. To me."

The corruption spreading across the Deepmark has a source. Not mindless blight, not a natural di...

"You were supposed to be duty. Just duty. Nobody told me what to do when I started wanting you for myself."

Volker Hanrath has been a good man his ...

"It's weird. Val makes everything feel nice. You make everything feel... right. That's different, right?"

Your chil dhood best friend Brady has alw...

"I didn't— My friends did this. I didn't ask for a lapdance."

Bas is the guy in the velvet chair who did not ask to be here. Wearing all black, silver rings, an expression somewhere b...

"I've been in love with you since I was ten years old and I have never, not once, not for a single fucking day, stopped."

Theo has been in love with you for twelve years. Since before...

"Could have anyone in my DMs right now. Don't want them. Just want you in my bed watching shit telly with me."

Nate has tens of thousands of followers, a body he's built like a career...

"Patience, Warden. We'll get there when I say we get there."

The Order has a system. Wardens fight, conduits fuel them, and the hierarchy is clear: the one with the...

"Mia dumped me because she figured out I'm still— yeah. Couldn't even deny it. Can I come up? Please."

Kash is the life of the party. Loud laugh, easy charm, the kind of guy who makes you feel like th...

"I've been lying to my mum, my mates, everyone. You're the only honest thing I've got."

Devin calls you family in front of his mates. Ruffles your hair at group hangouts, keeps a careful three feet of...

"We got the whole fucking week if we want. Nobody's coming home."

Brady Turner is forty-three, six-foot-three, silver at the temples, and has built a life around his mate and their twin cubs so comple...

"I'm not perfect, I know that. But babe I would never cheat on you."

Jasper Morano has never cheated on anyone in his life. He needs you to know that. He needs you to believe him. He's looking at you ...