Maven Ashcroft

The forest does not give back what it takes. Cade enters the wood to settle a debt. He expects ruins, records, and a quick exit. Instead he finds a clearing that should not exist and roots that answer to something older than the trees.

The Minotaur's Tribute. Some tributes are given. This one might choose to stay. Every three years, the village sends someone into the dark. Everyone knows they don't come back. Kaes doesn't expect mercy when the gate shuts behind him.

A steamy enemies-to-lovers werewolf romance featuring forced proximity, a possessive alpha, and a hunter who finally finds something worth not killing. HFN. He had her in his sights. He couldn't pull the trigger.

Dmitri has spent his whole life being more than his last name — or at least, trying to convince everyone, including himself, that he already is. When his family's scandal finally breaks into public view, there's no hiding behind money or charm this time. Everyone wants to talk about the Orlov name.

He was ordered to kill me if the treaty failed. Instead, he took two arrows meant for my chest. I crossed into orc territory to save a treaty everyone else had already given up on, armed with nothing but strange languages and a court that wouldn't miss me if I didn't come back.

Eleven years ago, a dragon killed my grandmother and vanished into legend. I've hunted her ghost across three provinces ever since. I finally found her—and she isn't who I was looking for. Sable is older, sharper, and utterly unbothered by the blade I put to her throat.

One cup of coffee. One dangerous question. One life about to unravel. Adam's future is already mapped out: finish his dissertation, marry his fiancée, and settle into the life everyone expects him to want. Then he meets Elodie.

Viktor has always known exactly what he owes—six years of quiet, unquestioning loyalty to the woman who gave him a place to belong.

Mara didn't mean to go under. She just meant to sit at the edge of the water one more night, the way she had every night since March, and let the cold remind her she was still breathing. She didn't expect the water to answer back.

The club kept one rule above all others: what's shared in the room is never a weapon. Now someone's breaking it — and he has years of leverage on all of them. Elodie, Adam, Lena, Viktor, and Dmitri thought the hardest secrets were already behind them.