A RICH titan of industry. A POOR girl with nothing left to lose. And a marriage of convenience that was never supposed to get complicated.Elena Vance’s life shatters when her uncle leaves behind millions in embezzled debt. Enter Julian Blackwood—a cold, calculating Manhattan billionaire whose reputation is carved in ice and steel. To save her family from ruin and secure his corporate empire, Julian offers Elena a binding contract: play the devoted wife for twelve m...

In the high-spire courts of Oakhaven, weakness is a death sentence—and Lyra Vance is drowning in it.As a low-born archivist forced to catalog the dark, forbidden artifacts of the Fae aristocracy, Lyra keeps her head down and her magic locked away. That is, until a catastrophic vault breach binds her life force to Prince Kaelen—the dangerously seductive, notoriously ruthless heir to the Shadow Throne.Kaelen is cursed to feel every physical pain he inflicts, and Lyra...

An increasingly jittery young woman decides to see a psychiatrist about what she considers to be a complex emotional problem. She is worried by the fact that she seems to derive sexual pleasure from inflicting pain upon herself and hopes to find a cure, but instead her doctor teaches her to embrace her sexuality.

College student Abel Green murders a fellow dorm resident Emma White out of curiosity, only to be tormented and stalked by her vengeful ghost.