"I will make them pay for making you suffer," Lukan said to me."Why me?" I asked, swallowing hard. "I'm not good for you. I killed my parents. I might repeat the same mistake.""I don't care about that," He replied, his voice steady. "I bought you because I want to mark you and make you mine."How do you survive when the only life you've known has been taken from you?At six years old, I was branded a murderer—blamed for something I didn't understand. My wolf w...

"I, Alpha Drake Collins Thaddeus, reject you, Layla Diana Montez, as my mate. You are nothing to me now—banished from this pack. Forever."What would you do if the man you gave your heart,tossed you aside like yesterday's trash?I gave Alpha Drake everything—my loyalty, my love, my body. I nearly died saving him. But when I needed him most, he turned cold, mocked my scars, and cast me out like I meant nothing.Scarred. Wolfless. Pregnant.I stumbled into Shadows...

"Be my girlfriend," Ryder said, his voice low and lazy."Obviously it's fake. We pretend to be a couple... make sure Caleb goes completely crazy."Lila Palmer never expected her senior year to start with heartbreak. She moved to Blackridge High for love—only to walk in on her boyfriend kissing another girl on her first day. His excuse? "It was just a dare."Humiliated and done with trusting boys, Lila wants nothing more than to disappear. But then comes Ryder Black: ca...

"I, Alpha Drake Collins Thaddeus, reject you, Layla Diana Montez, as my mate. You are nothing to me now—banished from this pack. Forever."What would you do if the man you gave your heart,tossed you aside like yesterday's trash?I gave Alpha Drake everything—my loyalty, my love, my body. I nearly died saving him. But when I needed him most, he turned cold, mocked my scars, and cast me out like I meant nothing.Scarred. Wolfless. Pregnant.I stumbled into Shadows...

"Be my girlfriend," Ryder said, his voice low and lazy."Obviously it's fake. We pretend to be a couple... make sure Caleb goes completely crazy."Lila Palmer never expected her senior year to start with heartbreak. She moved to Blackridge High for love—only to walk in on her boyfriend kissing another girl on her first day. His excuse? "It was just a dare."Humiliated and done with trusting boys, Lila wants nothing more than to disappear. But then comes Ryder Black: ca...

"I, Alpha Drake Collins Thaddeus, reject you, Layla Diana Montez, as my mate. You are nothing to me now—banished from this pack. Forever."What would you do if the man you gave your heart,tossed you aside like yesterday's trash?I gave Alpha Drake everything—my loyalty, my love, my body. I nearly died saving him. But when I needed him most, he turned cold, mocked my scars, and cast me out like I meant nothing.Scarred. Wolfless. Pregnant.I stumbled into Shadows...

"I will make them pay for making you suffer," Lukan said to me."Why me?" I asked, swallowing hard. "I'm not good for you. I killed my parents. I might repeat the same mistake.""I don't care about that," He replied, his voice steady. "I bought you because I want to mark you and make you mine."How do you survive when the only life you've known has been taken from you?At six years old, I was branded a murderer—blamed for something I didn't understand. My wolf w...

"You can't reject a mate bond on your own, Siren. It takes two.""Stop calling me that!""I prefer it.""This is bonkers. We're step-siblings!""Not blood. Our parents got married. That doesn't make us related."When twenty-year-old omega Soren moves into her mother's new husband's mansion, the last thing she expects is to discover that her arrogant new stepbrother, Felix, is actually her fated mate.Forced to live under the same roof and attend th...

"You can't reject a mate bond on your own, Siren. It takes two.""Stop calling me that!""I prefer it.""This is bonkers. We're step-siblings!""Not blood. Our parents got married. That doesn't make us related."When twenty-year-old omega Soren moves into her mother's new husband's mansion, the last thing she expects is to discover that her arrogant new stepbrother, Felix, is actually her fated mate.Forced to live under the same roof and attend th...

As per the findings of the Korean author, the Indian business community of Baniyas i.e. Marwaris, Gujaratis, Jains, and others has ruled the Indian economy world for ages. These Baniya merchant groups with their origins in Gujarat, Rajasthan, and around are merely 2% (about 2.5 million) of the Indian population, and currently run 8-9 out of 10 top conglomerates in India.The author has credited Indian Baniyas and their 3000 years of Karma legacy for making India the economic superpo...

This book presents innovative laser desorption ionization (LDI)-active nanophotonic structures for addressing the challenges that matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) is currently facing and for enhancing LDI efficiency. It presents a variety of cutting-edge nanophotonic structures to satisfy the mass-analytical needs of sensitivity, reproducibility, and quantification. As opposed to the commercialized, conventional organic matrix used in MALDI-MS, these...

The aesthetic industry has led the development and progress in different treatment methods of melanin-related conditions. However, it was rare to find a treatment method that was based on the understanding of melanin’s life cycle. Because the melanin treatment is based on the destruction of the melanocytes, different complications have been reported after the treatment. The purpose of this book is to provide a better understanding of melanin’s life cycle in order to address those complicat...