Marked By The Strongest Enigma
/1/129726/coverbig.jpg?v=d952b45e9b05aae9f5803a8b2c8d4fc6)
The Hockey Prince's Secret Ice Queen
All I wanted was to find a computer genius to process the non-linear dynamic equations for my ecological model. Instead, I found myself cornered by Julian Andrews, the university's hockey prince, trading a public, staged kiss for his academic support. To finalize our "deal," I was dragged to the campus ice rink. The cheerleaders and puck bunnies immediately swarmed him, mocking my plain clothes and treating me like a pathetic joke. Brooke, the head cheerleader, even set up a figure skating competition with a date with Julian as the grand prize. She performed a basic spin, blew him a kiss, and smugly waited for me to fall flat on my face and humiliate myself. His hockey teammates laughed from the sidelines, watching me try to support Julian as he stumbled around the ice like a newborn giraffe. But as I held his warm hand to keep him from falling, I couldn't help but feel something was terribly wrong. Why was a top-tier athlete faking such awful balance? And why did his ice-blue eyes stare at me with such knowing anticipation, as if he already knew about the professional figure skating past I had spent years trying to bury? "Just let go and skate." He whispered, slowly releasing my hand. I took a deep breath, glided to the center of the rink, and landed a flawless double Axel. As the entire rink fell into a dead, shocked silence, I realized I had just exposed not only my own hidden past, but also the biggest secret of the campus god.
Chapter 1 No.1
Sage POV:
"Let me kiss you."
The request was a low, hurried murmur—warm, quiet, and laced with the faintest edge of mortification.
Stunned, I snapped my head up toward the sound.
Julian Andrews filled my vision. He easily towered a head over me, his lean, athletic frame silhouetted against the bright morning glare, casting a long shadow across the cobblestones. Briar University's star forward. Team captain. The athletic department's untouchable golden boy.
Campus rumor had it that Julian was notoriously indifferent, never sparing anyone a second glance.
Behind him, a solid wall of navy-and-gold varsity jackets blocked the brick path. His teammates were whistling, shoving each other, and effectively cutting off my only exit.
The sudden commotion immediately bottlenecked the morning foot traffic. Whispers rippled through the crowd, and within seconds, a dozen students reached into their pockets out of sheer muscle memory, black camera lenses catching the light as they aimed squarely at us.
Julian's sharp eyes tracked the movement, his jaw tightening into a hard, irritated line.
Before I could take a single defensive step back, he closed the distance between us. Leaning down into my space, his broad shoulders shifted in a subtle, fluid maneuver—throwing up an impenetrable physical wall that completely shielded my face from the intrusive glare of the cameras.
His sharp, striking face hovered breathtakingly close. His deep baritone brushed against my ear, lost to the autumn wind, meant for me alone:
"Sorry to drop this on you," he whispered, his pale blue eyes disarmingly earnest, holding a quiet heat that sent a tremor straight down my spine. "The guys backed me into a locker-room dare... but I'm not here to use you as a joke. We can fake it. Angle it so it looks real—whatever you're comfortable with. Just help me get them off my back, and I owe you one."
It was only then that my brain finally rebooted.
What on earth? He's actually trying to kiss me?
A sharp flare of pure absurdity hit me, and my gaze dropped to my reflection in the dark glass door of the adjacent building: an oversized, faded gray hoodie that swallowed my frame whole, soft, thin jeans worn at the knees, bare-faced dark circles carved beneath my eyes from forty-eight hours of non-stop coding, my dark hair hastily twisted into a cheap plastic claw clip, and a pair of oversized, thick black-rimmed glasses sitting heavy on the bridge of my nose, completely hiding my face.
I looked like a refugee from an all-night disaster. How had Briar's golden prince ended up in front of me?
When I looked back up, my breath trapped in my throat anyway. He was too close, his clean scent of winter mint and cedar wrapping around my senses. Having those pale blue eyes staring straight down at me made my chest tighten in a way I really didn't want to acknowledge.
"Clock's ticking, Cap!" Landon howled from the sidelines, hands cupped around his mouth as the rest of the players lost their minds laughing. "Plant one on her, or enjoy the five-AM bag skate!"
A raucous chorus of barks and chest-thumping went up from the team.
A few yards away, two girls heading toward the dining hall froze in their tracks, pointing their phones.
"Wait, who the hell is that?" one of them laughed loudly, zooming her camera in on my face. "She looks like she just crawled out of a dumpster. There's no way Julian's actually kissing her. Post it on Sidechat right now—this is going straight to number one."
The cruel words hit like a splash of ice water, snapping me out of my daze and instantly killing the stupid flutter in my chest.
I hated the attention.
Four years ago, after my family and my former training partner framed me and destroyed my competitive skating career, I swore I would never be public entertainment again. I buried my name, switched majors, and hid behind oversized fleece and thick glasses just to live an invisible life. If I ended up on the campus forums with Julian Andrews, the internet vultures would dox me before noon—and drag up the toxic scandal I had bled to walk away from.
My research was already on the verge of falling apart. I didn't have time for this circus.
I locked my grip around my heavy binders, my knuckles straining white.
"Find someone else for your dare, Andrews," I said coldly, taking a step back to put distance between us, my voice tight with adrenaline. "I'm not interested in being part of your game. Move."
I kept my head down, attempting to brush past him.
"You're Sage Kelley, right?"
The sound of my name brought my boots to an immediate halt.
I blinked up at him, caught completely off guard.
"Professor Beaumont's senior research student," Julian straightened up slightly, his cadence measured and even, carrying an intellectual sharpness that seemed impossible beneath a varsity jacket. "I saw your Havenwood Creek senior capstone proposal sitting on his desk over Sunday dinner."
My heart gave a hard, hollow thud. Professor Beaumont was my academic advisor—and the guardian of the final research endowment my late father had left behind.
Julian leaned in slightly, his voice dropping to a near-whisper against the whistle of the wind. "I spent an hour going over your codebase."
My lips parted. "You... read my proposal?"
"Your simulation keeps crashing because your core fluid algorithm strategy is flawed," Julian murmured, his pale blue eyes deadly sharp. "And Uncle Des mentioned that if you don't deliver a working version by this Friday, the department is pulling your grant—which means you don't clear your senior thesis, and you don't graduate in May."
The hair on the back of my neck stood on end.
Friday was the deadline. If the funding was pulled, the project died, my senior capstone failed, and I would be forced to stay another semester without my degree. Worse, my father's final ecological legacy would be reduced to scrap paper.
I had been panicking over that exact deadline for two days straight, and Julian had just laid it out like it was nothing.
Worse, I couldn't even brush him off. I had heard the rumors about Beaumont's nephew—the CS prodigy everyone in the department talked about. I just had never realized it was him.
"I know how to fix your algorithm," Julian stated plainly, laying his cards on the table, his gaze locking onto mine with an unshakeable, quiet certainty. "Help me get through this bet. In return, I'll rewrite your boundary calculations tonight. Deal?"
/0/70308/coverbig.jpg?v=7fa6dfbd8e75ea7436475527802cbfc3)
Marked by the Moons
In the shadowed depths of Silverwood, secrets run as deep as the ancient forest. Luna Brightwater has always been a rebellious omega, yearning for freedom from the rigid traditions of her pack. What she doesn't know is that her blood holds a power so ancient, it could change the fate of every werew
/0/57800/coverbig.jpg?v=e6ea311e09fe5c14586808e8730bac18)
Marked by the Moon.
My entire existence has led to this moment, the day I finally put an end to this misery, the day I pay tribute to the sacrifices of my loved ones, the day I grant freedom to the human race. All it requires is a simple pull of the trigger. I desired this, worked tirelessly for it, but inexplicably, I
/0/88763/coverbig.jpg?v=f77b4b2939edb98e25e9411498db910e)
MARKED BY THE ALPHA
Marked by the Alpha By Macphinee Forsonnie In the cursed city of Ravenshade, where secrets howl louder than wolves, 17-year-old Seraphina never expected her blood would awaken an ancient bond. When an Alpha with fire in his eyes demands her loyalty, she answers with a crown she never asked for. To
/0/18455/coverbig.jpg?v=de10f8b057e9ef3eebd6730b226af0a4)
Marked by the bully.
Book 1: Marked by the bully (completed) Book 2: Protected by the bully (completed) ... Whenever she'd be asked about a thing in life that disgusted her the most, she would fume in anger and answer, "That bad bully bastard!"... shouting loudly, she would point at the round big corner table in the
/0/71450/coverbig.jpg?v=14b8735971d946b42bc37813e3b9a46f)
Marked by the Shadow Prince
--- Marked by the Shadow Prince Aria's life was simple-college, friends, and an ordinary future. That all changed the night she crossed paths with Lucien, a ruthless vampire prince hunted by his own kind. Marked by his touch, she is now bound to a world of darkness, power, and bloodlust she never
/0/87327/coverbig.jpg?v=1f288f7c87e29a45a67f5602ea6afafd)
Marked By the Hunter's Daughter
One bite changed his body. One girl might change his heart. But the Wolf's Legacy could destroy them both. Seventeen-year-old Alexander Marshall never expected his midnight escape to end in blood. But when a dying legend-the first werewolf-passes him the ancient Wolf's Legacy, Alex becomes the tar
/1/133028/coverbig.jpg?v=ce9c24f7e81fc4e39264fd4013e83ae7)
MARKED BY THE RUTHLESS ALPHA
Ava thought she was just a rogue surviving on the outskirts. Until the most feared Alpha in the territory catches her scent. Alpha Kael doesn't just rule his pack he rules with an iron fist and a heart of ice. He doesn't believe in mates. Until the night he catches a trespassing rogue, and his wolf
/1/111280/coverbig.jpg?v=a1373c13e86a0bdf73c4f392ef429b14)
MARKED BY HIS WOLF
Asha finds herself in the middle of the mating grounds where the mating night is supposed to take place. Confused, and trying to escape a crime she thinks she committed, she runs away from silver Crest pack. Fate then leads her to a dying stranger at a river bank. Healing him of his wounds, a
/1/104265/coverbig.jpg?v=39a26579e423fe84b21125431d6a4062)
Marked By His Sin
"You don't belong in my world," he growled, his hand tightening around my waist. "Then why do you keep pulling me deeper into it?" I whispered. Ten years ago, I lost everything, my parents, my innocence, my trust in fate. I only remember his shaking hands... and the birthmark on his arm. Now, the
/0/86982/coverbig.jpg?v=20250913153315)
Marked By Midnight
Secret identity, arranged mating, enemies to lovers, slow-burn passion, alpha x hidden omega, forced proximity, betrayal, revenge, emotional healing, Romance.
/0/92237/coverbig.jpg?v=20251218145651)
Marked by Desire
"Issabella, desperate to escape poverty, strikes a dangerous deal with ruthless billionaire Cassian De Rossi. What begins as survival soon ignites forbidden passion, where love and power clash in a world of secrets and desire."
/0/39235/coverbig.jpg?v=60388a4258f0344a7bfe4f2774bdd875)
Marked By The Alpha's son
When it's full moon and he lost control of himself "You have got no idea how loudly you will scream" ** He was described to be ruthless, merciless, cold and everything bad but he was handsome, hot and ridiculously rich. Also. He is our Alpha's first son and the next Alpha of Night Pack, Also a wel
/0/81965/coverbig.jpg?v=e4de741bb03b2316fb77618c23aa205d)
Marked By The Enemy Alpha
Hunted her entire life, Aria has always hidden the mysterious fire within her-an ancient, forbidden power that even she doesn't fully understand. When she's captured and marked by Alpha Kael, the cold-hearted leader of a rival pack, Aria vows to escape... but the fated mate bond threatens her resolv
/0/92883/coverbig.jpg?v=82857399c35001943a26b692a251ab68)
Marked by the Night Prince
One night changes everything for Aria Hale. On her way home she is attacked in the dark, bitten by a vampire prince and marked by a powerful werewolf alpha. Now two ancient enemies claim her as theirs, and both will fight to keep her. Torn between Kael's fierce loyalty and Lucian's dangerous charm,
/0/54242/coverbig.jpg?v=04a2eef0e92b93170cce6b8b953eea21)
Marked by the wrong Alpha
TITLE: MARKED BY THE WRONG ALPHA GENRE: ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE TROUPE: WEREWOLF In the heart of Wolverine city, Ethana's world flourished amidst a mesmerising pack of wolves. Within the boundaries of this mystical realm, she found solace under the enigmatic guidance of her beloved Granny. Bo
/1/100126/coverbig.jpg?v=7c5b7a7d5f167d1bb4457fd87bee06c4)
Marked by the Moon Tyrant
Elyra Vance was executed by the Moon Tyrant-Alpha King Draven Nightfall-after being framed for a betrayal she never committed. But instead of dying, she wakes up three years earlier, on the night fate first marked her as his fated mate. Now Elyra has one goal: escape the destiny that once destroyed
/1/112458/coverbig.jpg?v=04ccaf6e16a0463048a925a301100ee9)
Marked By The Devil's Heir
"I'll delete the pictures depending on how obedient you are. You have to do everything I say. If I want you to become a dog, you get on your knees and bark. Do we have a deal?" Pierce leans down to Malakai's height, his lips brushing the shell of his ear, close enough to taste his fear. "You don't w
/1/115502/coverbig.jpg?v=8286116804bc3b2f86dcd89ac5e6a20d)
Marked By The Alphas Heat
Contains a raw, unfiltered sex scene. Prepar to cum in your pants: After she lost her parents to a brutal attack, Liora is taken in by the mysterious and powerful Alpha, Kane. Raised under his protection and his umbrella, she knows how to follow the rules, how to remain obedient, and how to for
/0/58691/coverbig.jpg?v=f642258ab4dc265f4342a34ace09bcfd)
Marked By The Vengeful Alpha
Things take a turn when Alpha Kane finds his mate, but things turns out to be worse when she's used as a leverage and the next wolf to die. Would he safe her or sacrifice her for the sake of his pack? What happens when she's the chosen Luna and the one destined to punish he and his pack. Would they
/0/83541/coverbig.jpg?v=8d583e927a28dac2996e6026f6fc4546)
Marked By The Rogue King
Celina Vale was born into nobility, but she has only known pain. After her brother, the crowned Alpha of Emberlight, was murdered in a rogue ambush, her life was shattered. Convinced the infamous Rogue King, Maddox Grey, is responsible, she enters the forbidden Shadowlands with one goal: to assassin
