White Lotus Not Easy to Make

Modern

I stood in the darkest corner of the Pierre Hotel’s ballroom, my cheap polyester dress itching against my skin while my wristband buzzed with a DARPA Priority Red alert. In front of the city’s elite, my fiancé Bryce Calloway took the stage, not to toast our future, but to publicly end our engagement and announce he was with my sister, Chloe. The room turned on me instantly, a hundred pairs of eyes pinning me down with pity and disgust as they physically backed away like I was contagious. When I returned home, my mother shattered a crystal vase at my feet, screaming that I was a humiliation and a "dropout" who didn't deserve a cent of the family fortune. Chloe and Bryce mocked me, laughing when I told them I had a mission with the National Security Agency, convinced I was either a pathological liar or a low-level criminal. They watched in horror as a black, unmarked military helicopter descended on our backyard to extract me, yet they still chose to believe I was being arrested for drug trafficking. They saw a pathetic girl who couldn't even parallel park, never realizing I was Dr. Nova Vance, the lead physicist behind the world's first successful fusion reactor. To secure funding for my research and gain a "fortress" of a name, I signed a thirty-day marriage contract with the arrogant billionaire Roman Knight. He treats me like a fraud, convinced I’m a gold-digger who failed out of college, while I quietly run global energy simulations from his guest bedroom. He has no idea that the "loser" he’s forced to live with is the same anonymous grandmaster who has been ruthlessly crushing him in online strategy games for months. "The contract is active," I told him, looking past his expensive suit. "But don't expect me to be your maid."

Romance

After six years, Julian has finally returned home. She is no longer the naive girl deceived by her so-called sister, nor the broken daughter crushed by her parents' mistrust. This time, she has only one goal-take back everything that rightfully belongs to her: her family, her place, and her parents

Romance

In the lavish Presidential room, under dim red lights, the smell of alcohol filled the room. There was still a faint scent of flowers in the air. It is the scent of a high-quality rose, carrying aphrodisiac effects, filled with a scent of love needless to be said. Calliope, wearing an elegant silk l

Literature

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of cl

Literature

How to Make an Index by Henry B. Wheatley

Billionaires

" I heard you are married to Vaughn Mcoy " Emily's face hardened when she heard those words. She looked at her sister with a confident look. " It's just a contract marriage, we shall get divorced in six months" When Six months passed and she still hadn't heard a word from her Billionaire husband,

Fantasy

Jasmine falls into bed with her boss after her husband asks for a divorce, but there's a lot more to sleeping with her boss than she expects. Her boss is an old God who uses his hotel to enslave women. Jasmine and her best friend are trapped in an ancient liar full of men looking for a good time. Ho

Romance

I woke up in a hospital bed, the lingering scent of antiseptic and the rhythmic beep of machines my first reality after a car crash. But the real shock wasn't the physical pain; it was the vivid nightmares, clearer than memories, of a future where I was dead, my husband Michael married my sister Je

Literature

Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Marryat's books are still read today.

Romance

Lila Carter was just looking for a job. Instead, she walked into the middle of a corporate scandal, a powerful CEO's guarded world, and a betrayal she never saw coming, from her own twin sister. Now working for the cold and calculated Nathaniel Sterling, Lila finds herself caught between loyalty,

Billionaires

One night of passion. A secret baby. A second chance at love. Alice never meant to fall for billionaire Carson MacPherson,the only son of the rich family she worked for as a maid. Now, she's raising their child alone as Carson is arranged to marry his childhood fiancee. When Carson comes back into

Modern

Kaelyn spent three years believing Andrew loved her completely, until one overheard conversation shattered everything. He had never returned for her. He had come back to save another woman, even if it meant taking Kaelyn's heart. Humiliated and done with loving alone, she agreed to marry Theod

Literature

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that adage is put to its test in Molly Make-Believe, a charming romance novel from Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. When up-and-coming businessman Carl Stanton falls ill and is prescribed weeks of bed rest, his fiancée Cornelia decides to go ahead with her

Romance

For ages, the harmless, resting form and grave of five sisters-a beautiful, tidy house has stayed silent, and undisturbed. Suddenly, this house is broken into by outlaws. There are set out conditions for humans to reside within this house, but unaware of the consequences if the rules are broken, and

Modern

To MY BROTHER DICK   The time of this story is a year and a term later thanthat of _The Gold Bat._ The history of Wrykyn in between these two books is dealt with in a number ofshort stories, some of them brainy in the extreme, whichhave appeared in various magazines. I wanted Messrs Blackto pu

Adventure

The New House at Holmswell lies, far back from the road, upon the great highway to Norwich. Local topographers delight to tell you that it is just forty-five miles from that city and five from the Cesarewitch course at Newmarket. They are hardly less eloquent when they come to speak of its late owne

Literature

White Slaves by Louis A Banks

Romance

Harvey Cantwell, is the high school bad boy. Popular he may be, he doesn't bother date a cheerleader. Their beautiful, but dangerous. They'll flirt with anyone. They'll break anyone. Drive you crazy, until you can't take it anymore. Such a trap. But that's not the case for Loren. Loren Grey is the

Literature

Make Your Own Hats by Gene Allen Martin

Romance

Eva Everett has spent five years in the entertainment industry while she is still an unknown little star. Every day, she dedicates herself to her work and makes money in order to pay back the debt her father owed. Her life is neither good nor bad. Matt Koch is the richest man in Phenix City. In one

Romance

It wasn't just about what this lady was wearing. It was her. Something to do with the way she moved. Like she was one with the music and with the stage. The music pounded in a hypnotic rhythm that was unashamedly sexual, and she moved and danced in time to the beat, her movements graceful and seduct