I have kept my collar high and my throat covered since I was presented at court.The title is settled at midnight. I came to the ballroom anyway.Ian does not pretend to be a gentleman about what he is.Three nights ago I lifted my chin and pulled the lace down myself.Take it, I said, and he did, without hurrying, until the room tipped sideways.He held me up through the rest of it and left marks I have been dressing around since.I wore a high collar ...

I clip the leash to my collar at the entrance, the metal snap cutting through the club's pulse. Quade's hand presses at the small of my back, a silent claim, while Lorcan's stare burns from the bar. My body wants to drop to my knees for the one who will keep me.But this is the shifter club where pets get passed and contested. I have always obeyed, always needed that tether to feel safe, yet the fear of being discarded after one night claws at me harder than the rival's hands ever c...

Vincent Lawson keeps the debt scroll at the base of the Obsidian Spire. The runes along his forearms mark him as the one who will collect. The ancient blood debt binds his fate to Kate's. The ritual it demands will claim her body and power to preserve the coven from ruin.Kate's yielding form belies the sharp defiance in her eyes, a contradiction that threatens the warlock's authority even as it ignites the hunger he refuses to name. Every spell circle multiplies their reflections, ...

I spent fifteen years making certain I belonged to nobody at all.Now there is one name I answer to, and I did that to myself on purpose.Robert does not argue when I push at him. He pins my wrists above my head and waits until I stop.Last night he set his teeth to the birthmark on my collarbone and held them there.Ask me, he said. I would not.So he put me in the leather instead and had me until the marks came up, and he still did not bite.I lay the...

Una Fleming reads the tribute letter nailed to the ranch gate, the threat of seizure hanging over her omega body if the alphas fail to pay. Robert and his partner stand ready, their fated mate bond pulling her toward the double claiming that could secure her forever. The rival is already smirking.Yet the deadline of the Blood Moon demands they breed and mark her before another can take what is theirs, her quiet fear of abandonment clashing with the submission their dominance demand...

Odessa keeps coming back to the hayloft above Alexander Lancaster's remote ranch. One low command is all he needs. Her instinctive submission draws his shifter instincts like a magnet, the need to leash and breed her clashing with his terror that the beast will seize control and ruin the guardianship they share for the orphaned cub.He takes the spare lead rope from the wall and orders her to kneel. The line stays taut in his fist, binding them in the ownership that could shatter he...

Tristan has guarded his vampire ranch for centuries, but the blood debt Rosamund owes him demands more than money. It demands her surrender in the form of a collar around her throat and the life she carries for his bloodline.In the tack room he fastens the leather strap himself, and the leash goes taut on his word alone. Her body answers before her mind catches up, obedience rising even as she clings to the independence she lost long ago.With the rival's claim approaching, ...

Queenie Ingram has guarded the Volcanic Dragon Peaks with fierce independence, but the fated bond ignites the moment her skin meets Henry's at the fallen boundary stone. The dominant rider's protective strength promises the safety her outcast past craves, yet the dragon heat stirring beneath her collarbone birthmark threatens the control they both need.Pack law demands their alliance secure the territory against rivals, but every shared breath in the heat-hazed lava tunnels pulls t...

Petra has buried the need to yield since childhood, and the sigil on her collarbone still answers to it. Gerard demands her surrender as they move to claim the ancestral territory under the new moon. The scar he carries and the orders he gives wake exactly what she swore she had outgrown.The obedience bond he offers promises to steady his feral edge while marking her as his, yet every command risks exposing her to abandonment once the rival is defeated. She aches to kneel for the s...

Camille Ellsworth has fought alone for the stockyard lease, her bold challenges masking the terror that anyone she needs will eventually leave. The fated bond with Lorcan Quarles and his fellow rancher changes everything, their dominant presence turning the required partnership into an inescapable claim she both dreads and craves as their scents begin to claim her skin.At the breeding pens Lorcan takes her by the waist and claims her by scent, and his fellow rancher finishes what h...

I have fought the bond that marks me as fertile for any dragon rider's bloodline for as long as I can remember, yet one low order from Ashton on the dawn ledge makes every refusal feel pointless.He treats the scale-like birthmark at my throat like something he already owns. The possessive need in his silence matches my terror of being claimed and then abandoned after so many years alone.The succession rites demand proof through intimate breeding under rival threat. Crossing...

I have endured centuries of solitude in these shadowed stone corridors, my possessive dominance a shield against the loneliness that threatens to consume me. Willa Quill is the virgin who must become my bride, her yielding innocence the salvation I crave yet refuse to admit I need, the blood ritual promising to bond her mortal body to my eternal claim.Every night she comes to the narrow corridor beneath the blood moon and stops short of touching me. She denies the surrender she bot...