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Romance

I was an intern nurse working exhausting shifts, yet my mother constantly forced me into blind dates with wealthy, arrogant men to secure our family's social standing. During a terrifying hospital lockdown, an assassin disguised as a doctor held a scalpel to my throat. I was almost killed, but a high-ranking military colonel threw his own body down a flight of concrete stairs to shield me. I survived with cuts and bruises, but when I went home, my mother didn't care about my near-death experience. She was only furious that I had rushed out on my blind date with Preston, a rich financial analyst. She forced me to meet him to apologize. When Preston grabbed my arm, bruised me, and mocked my attack as a pathetic lie, my mother still took his side. "Men get angry," she told me coldly. "It's your job not to provoke them. You will beg for his forgiveness, or you are no longer welcome in this house." I had narrowly escaped an assassin, yet my own family was willing to feed me to a monster just for a fat paycheck and neighborhood gossip. My heart went completely dead. So, when the intimidating Colonel appeared, offering me maximum military protection through a sudden marriage, I didn't hesitate. I walked back into my parents' house and calmly slapped a crisp marriage certificate onto the coffee table. "I won't be apologizing to Preston. I got married today."

Horror

Aiden is an average seventeen year old senior with crazy best friends and a supportive family. Aiden is what people would like to call a 'closet gay' for his own personal reasons. He goes through high school, doing what he knows bet; being invisible. But everything changes when his cousins come to s

Romance

Book One in the Mirchoff Series. Can be read as a stand alone I definitely didn't expect to wake up in the arms of someone so important and most importantly I didn't expect to wake up naked. How did I end up here again? I went to a bar to get drunk because I wasn't able to close a deal for my

Adventure

To the best of my knowledge we haven't gotten to the lodge yet’ ‘Drop me this freaking moment or I would scream bloody murder and tell the whole world you tried to rape me 'Rape! Rape!! Rape!!! What?!!!! Thought to myself. This could not be happening 'just like Suzy

Fantasy

Don't let what you love most, be the one to ruin you... Let's see how Christiana lived her life.. Christiana Cullen is a College school girl... Very famous and friendly to chat with.. She was loved by everyone and she feel loved.. She's a lover of fruits especially APPLE... But it was later u

Adventure

This tale spins around a love-child from an affluent Chinese clan. Despite the relentless dismissal she experiences from her half-siblings and wicked stepmom, she's busting her chops to make a name for herself in the cutthroat world of commerce. Along with this uphill battle, she's seeking genuine a

Romance

Ava Sinclair is a scholarship student at Westbridge Academy, a prestigious school where the children of the wealthy elite dominate the halls. Haunted by a devastating event from her past, Ava has spent the last three years staying out of the spotlight. All she wants is to graduate and leave the toxi

Short stories

In the small town of Lakewood in the nineteenth century, the future of Adam Lancaster and Sophia Willis has been set through an arrange marriage, but Sophia is in love with the son of the richest man in town and Adam has never considered marriage as part of his life. Will they give each other a cha

Short stories

All it takes is one wild night of pleasure to run the game and rule it.... Can you handle the heat?

Literature

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preservin

Short stories

"When Adam and Ana Marie meet is love at first sight. But what Ana Marie knows is that Adam is a private investigator from London, what she doesn't know is that Adam is on the hunt of a criminal that turned out to be her distant father. The plans to capture this man goes awry and it forces him t

Modern

I was scrolling through a local forum, a mindless habit, when a post titled "A Warning to a Woman in Tech" caught my eye. It described two people plotting at a cafe I knew: a man complaining about his "tech executive" girlfriend, and a woman suggesting they "get her to relax" by putting something i

Modern

My husband, Ethan, always told me my grandmother' s priceless Martin guitar was "just an old guitar." My heart, a delicate melody, had spent years devoted to his dreams, sacrificing my own. Then, at his startup' s glitzy SXSW party, he gave it away. As a "bonus" to his new intern, Sabrina, a girl b

Romance

"What happens when the person you were waiting for so long ends up belonging to someone else? " Whom would you blame? .... Peter is the youngest son of Xavier Richards and Suzan Richards. He was born with not a silver but a golden spoon in his mouth. He grew up with a broken heart and loads of e

Billionaires

Jenna, an exemplary daughter, lives alone with her father who raised her with a lot of love, discipline and responsibility. Mark Black, a very upright man who was widowed very young, but did not make another commitment to his daughter, to live happily. But life is like that, both contacted a blind d

Romance

It all started with a divorce, then chaos... Elodie Beaumont's life is a mess. Her little beach resort is on the verge of going under, thanks to a new competitor - her ex-husband, Valerian Blackwood. Desperate, Elodie makes a deal with the devil himself: an alliance with Valerian. He agrees, but

Billionaires

On Christmas Eve, Amelia Thompson caught her boyfriend cheating on her with his supposed cousin. This tragic experience pushed her to the famous footballer, Miller Rayn's bed. After the one-night stand, Miller promised to help her fulfill the Christmas wish list she intended to make with her boyfrie

Mafia

I stood at the altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the daughter of New York’s most feared Don, ready to lower myself to marry a common soldier. Then, a toddler in the front pew shrieked, "Daddy." Liam didn't squeeze my hand for reassurance. He dropped it like it was a branding iron. In front of five

Young Adult

Five years ago, an 11-year-old Jeremy murdered his best friend to protect someone close to him. The town was in shock when they heard what he did, including Arianna, the little girl who witnessed it. Stoneybrook town was at peace with Jeremy away, but now he's back. Two days after his arrival, anoth

Modern

On our seventh anniversary, my husband Dante tossed divorce papers onto the desk. He looked at me with cold indifference, his hand resting on the swollen belly of his nineteen-year-old mistress. "You are barren, Seraphina," he spat. "She carries my legacy. You carry nothing but ghosts." When I tr

Billionaires

"Mike, something urgent came up at Innovate. I can't make the Thanksgiving Gala tonight." My wife Jessica's voice was crisp, businesslike, citing an emergency only her CEO role could handle. I sighed, but promised my daughter Lily we'd still go, despite her mom's absence. But at the glittering sc