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A young woman trying to make it in a small town. She was born and raised here, everyone knew her and she knew everyone. That does not make life easy. The lies, manipulation, cover ups. Everyone knows the secrets, they see the scandals but no one is brave enough to say anything. To stand up for her. They will help when it seems like the time is right but they also use and abuse her when the time is right. How will she ever break free and become her own person. Abuse can come in many different way...

" I do not appreciate you ignoring my calls, especially at times like this." Elliot scolded Jonah as he stepped into the room. "Well, I don't appreciate you kissing the girl who's supposed to help you." Jonah sneered "So that's what this is about." Elliot said sighing. "Look Jonah you know that had to happen we had cameras in our faces."Elliot tried to explain. Jonah walked closer to Elliot till his back hit the wall. Elliot's breath grew shallower as Jonah was trapped. "Look I'm tired of you tr...

Leo’s a broke artist with paint-stained hands; Daniel’s the city’s golden architect, heir to a dynasty that hates the air Leo breathes. One wild night ignites a secret love too fierce to hide, until Tara’s leaked videos torch their world. Hounded by press and literally hunted by Daniel’s family, they’re one contract away from freedom from the city starting a new life elsewhere. But when Vince Russo, a ghost from Daniel’s shady past, demands blood money or jail time, the odds stack sky-high. With...

Can an arrogant playboy drummer win a church girl's heart? Hot, famous, and successful, Trey Johnson and his reggae band have risen to fame in a spectacular fashion. Proud of his bad boy reputation, he has no interest in changing his ways. Until he meets her. Charlie Villanueva is the gorgeous female mechanic that he can't get out of his head. Every time she brushes him off, Trey finds himself becoming more and more obsessed. But when one bad decision puts his entire band in danger, Trey must ...

When Cory's father suddenly dies, his entire perfect world is torn apart.
Gone is the loving mother, doting sister, lovely house, and the huge allowance. Instead, Cory needs to deal with the bank auctioning off the home he gave his first steps in, an illness that befalls his little sister, and the depression that's eating his mother alive.
Just as it can't get any worse, Patrick with the golden-brown eyes, the infectious laugh, and the rich life eventually showed interest in Cory. The thing th...

I was infertile. My husband Edric said he would love me no matter what.
For three years, he had always been gentle to me, I was happy that I found someone who truly loved me and didn't mind that I couldn't give him a child.
Until one day, I learned the fact that he's been cheating on me a long time ago, living a double life, and having a baby with someone else.
And that woman was a very close friend of mine.
I was mad, I slapped her, but didn't expect it would kill her baby.
Edric was furi...

It's been two years since he has gone to study abroad.
I still remember the day when I came to live in this house after my parent's death.
I still remember the day when he suddenly barged inside my room. I was so shocked because of his sudden appearance in my room. He locked the door and started coming in my direction with a pissed face. I knew that I was in danger by looking at his angry. I knew that I should run away at this moment and hide somewhere but I can't move my body.
Bloody hell, ...

"So, Ava, tell me about yourself. What makes you think you're the right fit for Ryan Industries?"
Ava took a deep breath and summoned the courage to speak, launching into her prepared speech. She told him about her background, her skills, and her experience. She highlighted her achievements and her passion for the industry.
Caleb listened intently, his eyes never leaving hers. He nodded occasionally, his expression unreadable.
When she finished, he leaned back in his chair, steepling his fingers...

King Tus III is anxious to find a bride for his son and heir - Prince Kyan. But the defiant Prince insists on having a wife "whose thoughts move the Earth."
The King and Queen search the Kingdom yet do not find such a girl, so they invade other Kingdoms and conquer them, searching for a befitting bride for their son.
Isla is the first child of a peasant family in the Kintail Kingdom. All her life, she has been suppressing herself because of the strange powers she possesses. Her world crum...

A terrible, world-changing curse.
When Jack Sylvan and his best mate Nolan are unwittingly manipulated by an evil mastermind, a horrible, undead curse is unleashed upon the entire continent of Northern Aldoria.
Forced to flee their lifelong home, the city-state of Lazaras, Jack and his friends must lead a group of terrified survivors to safety. But soon, powerful forces beyond Jack’s understanding, and a mysterious young woman, compel him toward a grand destiny for which he feels entirely unpre...

She was killed by her mate and was dumped in the forest for bird to feed on but was saved by a soccerrer who turned her into an hybrid with a black magic.... How cruel must fate be when she got mated to the same man in her new body?

Letty has a passionate once night stand on the night of her divorce. After waking up with fuzzy memory of the night before she heads off to work as a sports writer. When she shows up to an interview of a difficult sports superstar she runs right into her one night stand. Is this the beginning of true love?

Jiah thought that by running away from her troubles she could get off scot-free, but the Argi prince was so cruel that he deployed bodyguards to look for her.
All his cruel interrogations made her confess and finally, Jiah made a deal to become his subordinate to take over the kingdom.

His hand slid under my dress, fingers circling my inner thigh. My hips pushed toward him, needing more. He traced the edge of my panties, teasing, then slipped his fingers underneath, his cool touch making me shiver.
“Your dress is begging to come off, Morgan,” he growled in my ear.
He kissed down my neck to my collarbone, his hand moving higher, making me moan. My knees went weak; I clung to his shoulders as the pleasure built.
He pressed me against the window, city lights behind us, his body h...

PROLOGUE
WYNTER'S POV
I ran blindly through the bushes, looking back every few feet I got, the twigs scratched at me and the leaves roped round my feet but I didn't care. The owls were hooting loudly and mysteriously but I couldn't hear it, all I heard was the insane pounding of my heart.
I fell all of a sudden and wanted to bounce right back on my feet but the pain was more than I could ignore. I could hear their voices somewhere behind me and they were fast approaching mercilessly. I didn't ev...

Daphne's groom failed to appear on the day of their wedding. Daphne was so devastated by the breakup that she lost control and drank all night, eventually running into Nathan, a successful businessman who had recently relocated to the country.
Daphne, inebriated at the time, barged into Nathan's private meeting, causing him to lose some of his most lucrative clients. Daphne spent the night in detention as a result of this incident.
As an apology for Daphne's hasty actions, however, Nathan offe...

Losing the memory of who you were growing up sucks. Trying to find a job after graduating college in a bad economy sucks even more.
For Esmeralda Griffin, being offered a job as a secretary to the CEO of the biggest company in the continent is a once in a lifetime opportunity she's going to grab with both hands even if she has never heard nothing good about him.
When the CEO turns out to be a man she has been previously seeing a younger version of in her dreams, she is confused. When he starts...

Gabrielle is a private investigator and is about to embark on her most dangerous undercover mission yet: spying on The Golden Hive, a secret society where a lot of women go in…but never come out. She becomes fast allies with Dante, a billionaire who is infiltrated as a member of the society. They work together to take down the dangerous cult-like club, but their growing attraction to each other might not only get in the way of their mission but could also cost them their lives.
“Dante ...

Marked and mated, Luna Ariel lives her best life alongside her fated mate, Alpha Gorgio of Eclipse Howl, the most handsome leader of the werewolf community worldwide.
The two have been inseparable ever since they found out they were meant to be together. Gorgio is both a feared and respected werewolf leader, while Ariel, the Alpha King's daughter, is a strong warrior and master of martial arts. The Alpha adores his Luna, never takes his eyes off her.
Until she leaves for the General Meeting of ...

“I don't understand... you always felt this way?”
The confusion rolling through me at yet another confession of lust or love was overwhelming. The last thing I had expected when I came back to the lake house was to be surrounded by three men all trying to win my attention, yet here I was.
Caught in a lust driven haze of sex and pleasure I didn't want to escape from.
Juliet loved spending time at her grandparents’ home growing up, so when they passed away right after graduation she couldn...

Reyna's eyes closed uncertainly. She bit her lower lip as the man crushed and sucked on the top of her breasts.
Her boyfriend had never done it before. This was a foreign feeling for her, but the sensation was extraordinary for Reyna.
Seeing that his opponent was aroused, Aryan began to do foreplay casually. Reyna moaned as the kiss moved down to her waist.
“Of all the women I've tried, why is this the only woman who can make me feel the pleasure of heaven on earth?” It was t...

He ruined her reputation—now she wants nothing to do with him.Brynn Windham loves being a member of the US Ski Team. But after learning a disturbing family secret, she loses her focus and puts her spot on the team in jeopardy. Her coach assigns a skier to help Brynn regain her competitive edge. Unfortunately, the one person who can help her is the last person she trusts.Ryland Guyer might be the heir to his family’s sportswear company, but skiing is his priority. As he recovers from an injury, h...

my story is a gripping mix of crime, romance, and suspense, set in a gritty, atmospheric Atlantic City where love and loyalty are constantly tested. The characters feel raw and real, each carrying their own scars, secrets, and desires, making their struggles deeply compelling

“I have to feel instant attraction to my roommate, unlike anything I have felt before, but he is not only straight, but a player!”-Remington
“My best friend is a geek in the most adorable way ever.”-Cassidy
Sometimes opposites really do attract. These seemingly very different college room mates have become best friends over the last decade, but how long can Remington keep the decade long secret of his infatuation with his best friend, especially, when Cassidy is such a playboy with the ladies an...

In a city carved by loyalty and lies, one love dares to defy the odds.
Nico Valenti thrives in the shadows of Chicago’s mafia, a 29-year-old enforcer who knows the cost of weakness. Enter Luca Moretti, a 25-year-old barman with an innocent glow that Nico can’t resist—a forbidden flame flickering in a world that crushes softness. Their secret romance unfolds in stolen whispers and desperate touches, a lifeline neither expected to find.
But secrets have a price in the Valenti family. When cash dis...

"You think you can escape this, Amara? You're mine, just like she was."
Amara Vale never asked for any of this. What started as a quiet life in her village quickly spirals into chaos when her home is destroyed by vampires. Captured and brought to the Crimson Palace, she’s accused of witchcraft but only to uncover the truth: she’s the reincarnation of Queen Seraphina, a long-dead ruler. And Lucien Draven, the ruthless prince of the kingdom, is bound to her by an ancient curse.
Lucien, tormented...

The stranger kissed her so fiercely she almost couldn't breathe, and he caressed her back, causing her to tilt her head back in unexpected bliss.
"Who are you?" Rakiza moaned between his kisses. Everyone had their first experience, but this man gave her the best.
"I am your guardian," he groaned as he stroked his lips on her neck. And his kisses had the ability to draw out all the demons within her.
Rakiza had never been touched by the opposite sex before, but this man was so swift to entice her...

My husband Raymond is the youngest and most powerful CEO in Skyview City.
But at a family gathering, he walked toward me with a child and a woman by his side.
"Mr. Brown, I want a divorce!"
He directly hoisted me onto his shoulder and tore at my clothes.
As he forcibly entered my body, I let out a mocking laugh between gasps.
"Don't waste my time finding a boyfriend."
****Caroline and Raymond reunited at a bar. She fell in love with him at first sight. They had a one-night stand, but half ...

“I’ll give you anything, Elsa—money, a car, a house, jewelry—just agree to the transplant. Ria really needs it.” I couldn’t believe his audacity. Was this really my husband, trying to bargain my body to save his fiancée?
“Sorry, I’m pregnant. I can’t donate a kidney,” I said, my voice shaky but determined. Anger boiled inside me, but I knew he was powerful. The pretend marriage was over, and his true colors were revealed. Afraid of what he might do to me, I didn’t yell or fight him. I just wante...

Growing up in the MC, Sons Of Morning Star, Marlowe Mills has never received respect from her dad, the club's president.
Treated as just another one of the stable girls for the club, she dances for the drugs she has become addicted to because of the Club Mother, a woman who rules the stable girls with an iron fist. Ordered to dance for a customer within a private room, she finds herself performing for Torin Montero, a member of SOMS, as well, the man she has been in love with since she was fif...

"I never believed in soulmates, but how do you explain the feeling of déjà vu when her eyes meet mine? How do you explain the certainty that I’ve known her forever, even when we’ve only just met?"
Emma’s life is a mess. Recovering from a devastating breakup with her controlling ex-boyfriend, she’s determined to rebuild herself—piece by piece, step by step. But the summer holidays drag on, her attempts at distraction failing, and loneliness starts to creep in. Enter Alice, her mischievous best fr...

“Grey is mine. This child is ours. You are in the way Evelyn, always in the way.” The whore said as she stabbed me again. I couldn't feel the knife go in anymore. The blood tasted metallic on my tongue. I begged her not to kill me and she laughed. Everything was turning black as the woman continued to talk. “I will have Grey as my own always. We will raise this child together. I will lead our gang by his side as his wife. You and that pain in the ass friend of yours cannot stop me now.” It sound...

After years of trying to escape her past, Mabel heads to Moscow, where an invitation to the mysterious Sodoma club pulls her back into a world of seduction and danger. Czar Gregovivk, an irresistible and ruthless man, draws her into a deadly game where every move could be her last.
"You can run, Mabel, but you'll never escape who you truly are," Czar whispers, with a predatory gaze.
Now, Mabel must decide how far she is willing to go to survive and confront her demons.

Eliza Harrington had encountered her father's colleagues before, but the stunning, half Italian Alpha Romano Alessandro Visconti left her at a loss for words. After a year and a half of being married, Romano became cold and distant. In desperate attempts to leave a relationship filled with both passionate intensity and cold hatred, Eliza finds the courage to request a divorce. However, before he can fulfilling her wish, Romano requires something in return: an alpha son an heir. one day Eliza eav...

After the sudden death of her parents, Maya is forced to run away and start over.
With only the knowledge that the man who had killed her parents was still after her, she leaves the all human town she had grown up in and began her new life as a University student in Maine.
With no friends or family left, she tries her best to blend in as a human, but when strange people and things begin happening around her soon she finds out that maybe fate brought her here.
Will she finally find out the ...

An arrange marriage in the 21st century, a cruel husband, and a runaway wife. As per her adopted parents’ wishes, Annalise was forced to marry her adoptive step-brother and spend the rest of her life with this oh-so-gorgeous husband. If you think about it, there isn’t much of a problem. Her adopted parents are nice people, and she had a good life even after her parents died. The only problem is that her soon-to-be husband has always despised her, and he had a girlfriend who abandoned him after l...

Meet Alexa Johnson.
she's an orphan girl who had hoped, found and got love. She had everything she hoped for. The perfect life, perfect house, perfect husband. But nothing had lasted long for her, neither her marriage.
When she found out her husband cheated on her, she was so hurt. She didn't even get a chance to tell her husband that she's pregnant. What's more hurt is that her husband said that he doesn't love her anymore. Heartbroken, Alexa does the only thing that she could do is that sign...

Do you have wild fantasies and you want to try them out? This book is about a teenager who tries out his wild fantasies. Read it and I bet it'll be your favorite high-school story!

Rye: I'm out for revenge. I just saw Lauren Blakewell on national TV. Twelve years after she and her con woman mother scammed my father and ruined our lives, there she was. Looking like a goddess. Engaged to the son of a U.S. senator. She and her evil mother never paid for what they did. But I’ve never forgotten. Now I’m going to DC and I’m out for justice. I’m Rye McAllister, heir to the former McAllister fortune, and I’m going to stand up for my family. Lauren will pay. One way or another, I’l...

Eliana whom was maltreated by her stepmother, after her father died, planned to elope with her highschool sweetheart. Instead, when he found out she was pregnant, he left their small town without her. Years later she met a man and try to give love another chance. Without knowing the real identity of the man. She also heard about a famous footballer was in town and he is her baby daddy sworn enemy. She tries to find this sworn enemy of her baby daddy so that she could use his help to get her reve...

Strange, this drowning man, his lips are not cold, but hot. Joseph Alcock is not conscious, but he feels hot and full of unexplained sexual desires, which he can not control. When the soft lips are again on his lips, he suddenly reaches out and grabs me in front of him and kisses me fiercely. I fights hard, but I am weak under his force, so I let him go further and further. Do not know how long after, the man's movement finally ends.
He kisses the tears out of my eyes and says softly, "I'm sorr...

Renee was 27 and had just inherited a beautiful home in the middle of no-where Oklahoma. She had 2 kids and was hoping for more one day, but her dreams of a big family grew small when her husband Leo had died, and she was to nervous to date again. As happy as she was with her little family she was equally as alone, craved company, craved a life she didn't know, something new. One afternoon she received an email from her late husband's lawyer asking if she could make time to come in for a meetin...

Kori, a single mother reeling from her husband’s betrayal, inherits an old Victorian house deep in the woods from a mysterious uncle she never knew. Struggling with limited resources, she moves to the property with her eight-year-old daughter, Megan, hoping for a fresh start. However, the house comes with more than she expected: eerie wolf sightings, unexplained disturbances, and the unsettling presence of Carter, a young boy Megan befriends, who reveals himself to be the rightful heir of the be...

Day one: My fiancé betrayed me with my best friend and threw me off a cliff to die.
Day two: I woke up, alive, the morning before our wedding, with a second chance to fight back.
This time, I’m done being the perfect bride. I shredded my wedding dress and stormed to the doorstep of my fiancé’s rival, a ruthless mafia kingpin with a dangerous grin. “Help me destroy him,” I demanded, “and I’ll give you his empire.” He leaned closer, eyes gleaming. “Deal,” he said, “but I want your loyalty—body and...

Rachel Green thought she had left her tumultuous past behind. After a bitter divorce from her billionaire husband, Alexander Sterling, she moved to a small town, where she rebuilt her life with her young son, Odegaard—a child Alexander doesn’t know exists. For years, Rachel has lived peacefully, focusing on her son and her career, until fate pulls her back into Alexander’s orbit.
Alexander’s empire is crumbling. His once-thriving marriage to his new wife, Victoria, is on the verge of collapse. ...

"""You're mine, Betty. You always have been.""
""I'm not…""
""Yes, you are. Fight me off all you want. Lie to my face that you don't feel shit for me anymore. Keep refusing to tell me why your son has such a striking resemblance with me. I don't care. Because one thing is clear as fucking day, Betty…""
""And — and what's that?""
""You miss me. You crave my touch. Now say that's a lie too. I dare you. I double dare you…""
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Not all broken hearts are beyond repair. Davis Jones finds the world to be chaotic and overwhelming, especially since his fiancé died. But as the owner of a small-town hardware store, he enjoys fixing what is damaged--his life excluded. Attempting to escape his demons, he visits his family where they are volunteering in Thailand. All he wants is to help others in relative peace and quiet. But the beautiful and gregarious service director has other plans. Chloe Rodgers has lived in Thailand for t...

As the last of his kind bound by royal blood, Kai never expected to fall for a human. Raised to be cold and calculating, the alien warrior has one goal: to protect his war-torn planet from an ancient enemy. But when he rescues Maya, a fearless human who’s crash-landed on his territory, Kai finds himself drawn to her in ways that threaten everything he’s ever known.
Trapped in a land of strange customs and ruthless power, Maya refuses to submit, even if it means challenging the alien prince hims...