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After Six Years of Marriage, I Choose to Divorce My Husband Arthur Smith
As my fingers brush away the dust on my mother's Nobel Prize trophy, a resolution gradually becomes clear: from now on, I will live for myself!
Husband? No more! Children? None of that either!
Returning to the laboratory, I will stand on the award podium that everyone looks up to!
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"Allard is a seasoned author, and her experience shows in both the lapidary prose and the sensitivity with which she treats class division. Overall, this is a delightful, often funny story that also serves as a gimlet-eyed study of class division and the possibility of its transcendence. An unpretentiously philosophical assessment of class and love."~Kirkus Reviews"While the primary story follows Daphne's journey of the heart in parallel with Edward's journey towards making his mark as a writer,...

"We're even now."

Sean Winters' words cut deeper than the assassin's blade Eve Carter just took for him. Blood pools beneath her gown as she realizes this sacrifice means nothing—he'll never forgive her for the testimony that sent him to prison six years ago. What Sean doesn't know: Eve was pregnant with his child when she was forced to lie on the witness stand. What he doesn't know: their daughter Grace has been fighting for her life while he built his Wall Street empire on revenge. What he d...

"Breaking News Kyler Jacobs has been taken off the market rumor has it she is the CEO of CoLab Inc what a match made in heaven."
"No, my dream guy is off the market someone please tell me this is a joke."
'Wedding bells are ringing'
"Can that woman really be that beautiful? They look perfect together they look like royalty."
"OMW HAS NO ONE SEEN THEY ARE WEARING MATCHING OUTFITS. TALK ABOUT ROMANTIC"
"Oh, my word yes they are matching why didn't I see that before."
While reading the comments I a...

Warning: Contains strong language, smuts, abuse and some really explicit content, please read at your risk. "Let go of me…" Arabella said. She grimaced, shaking her head. "Do you think I would let you go so easily?" He questioned, then tutted. Sandro's nostrils flared as he sniffed her hair wrapped in his hands, Vanilla and Strawberry. The innocent yet naughty scent he remembered her with. "That would never happen, Cara Mia." Arabella gasped as Sandro pressed his body into hers. She moved to...

After Martina Martinez and Benjamin Walker's breakup, paparazzi captured photos of the business tycoon entering the Walker family mansion with a mysterious woman late at night.
This caused a stir, and this wealthy family was bombarded by various media outlets.
During a phone interview, the gossip reporter asked, "Miss Martinez, how do you feel now that Mr. Walker has a new girlfriend?"
Martina held her painful forehead and looked towards Benjamin, who was adjusting his suit by the floor...

"What is love!? Carmen did you just mention that!?" With his speaking of rage and burning in anger; he asked.
"Yes... I have always do— I love you" she mouthed with her words stressed.
"You can try and ignore me if you can... Only if you know how eager I am and how badly I want to tame you". With those promising words from her which left a dark creepy smile on her face; she walked out.
"Love did she just call it? Did she think I will fall for that shit? If only she knew how much love is a wea...

“A powerful opener to a series [that] will produce a combination of feisty protagonists and challenging circumstances to thoroughly involve not just young adults, but adult fantasy fans who seek epic stories fueled by powerful friendships and adversaries.”--Midwest Book Review (Diane Donovan) (re A Throne for Sisters)“Morgan Rice's imagination is limitless!”--Books and Movie Reviews (re A Throne for Sisters)From #1 Bestselling fantasy author Morgan Rice comes a new series for middle grade reader...

“One of the best thrillers I have read this year.”--Books and Movie Reviews (re Any Means Necessary)In the much-anticipated debut of a new series by #1 bestseller Jack Mars, when elite Delta Force soldier Luke Stone, 29, joins a secretive government agency, he is dispatched on the mission of a lifetime: a whirlwind race across Europe and the Mid-East to save the President’s daughter before she is beheaded by terrorists.In PRIMARY TARGET (Book #1), we see the forging of one of the world’s toughes...

I’m a new grad human in huge debt, and cheated by my Omega bf.
When I got wasted in a bar, I didn’t expect to have the best sex ever.
And the very next morning, I also didn’t expect to wake up and find my ONS hookup was my bf's Alpha billionaire BOSS….
How things are going to turn out after I accidentally became his 5yo daughter’ live-in nanny?
How did this happen? How did I wind up finally becoming employed, only for it to turn out that my new employer was the same person who I ...

Getting pregnant by her boss after a one-night stand and suddenly leaving her job as stripper was the last thing Serena had hoped for, and to make matters worse he is the heir to the mafia.
Serena is calm while Christian is fearless and outspoken but somehow the two have to make it work. When Christian forces Serena to go through with a fake engagement she tries her hardest to fit in the family and the luxurious life the women live while Christian is fighting as hard as he can to keep his famil...

“You must understand something, little mate,” Griffin said, and his face softened,
“I have waited nine years for you. That’s nearly a decade since I’ve felt this emptiness inside me. Part of me began to wonder if you didn’t exist or you’d already died. And then I found you, right inside my own home.”
He used one of his hands to stroke my cheek and tingles erupted everywhere.
“I’ve spent enough time without you and I will not let anything else keep us apart. Not other wolves, not my drunken ...

Fiona, a perfect Luna, is left heartbroken when she discovers her fiancé has cheated on her. In an impulsive act of revenge, she orders a call boy for a night of wild passion. As the sun rises the next morning, she leaves cash behind and slips away, believing she's had her sweet revenge.Little does Fiona know, her life is about to take a jaw-dropping turn when she finds herself pregnant after the passionate night with the call boy. Amid the turmoil and crisis of her unplanned pregnancy, she acci...

Why Tech Billionaire Artemis Rhodes would post such a thing?!
*"Everyone is talking about the hashtag that just went viral in less than a few hours. Nevertheless, this girl has become a mystery everyone wants to solve. In fact, we have pictures from several people who have seen the girl in person."*
The screen of the phone is small but I catch several pictures of me flashing on the screen. This can't be happening!
You know that panic attack I had been pushing down? Well, that thing comes bac...

What exactly does it mean to be his bride?
Every year, in each of the seven villages that made up the great Kingdom of Ignas, a Choosing Ritual was conducted. During this Chosing Ritual, one of the ladies in the village would be chosen to be the dreaded Dragon King's Bride.
No one knew exactly why the ritual was being performed every year or what happened to the brides that had been chosen in the past.
Was he turning them into slaves?
Feeding them to his dragon?
Or was he... feeding ...

Play the BDSM game with the mafia triplets
"You were ours from the second we set eyes on you."
"I don't know how long it's going to take you to realize that you belong to us." One of the triplets said, yanking my head back to meet his intense eyes.
"You are ours to fúck, ours to love, ours to claim and use in any way we want. Isn't that right, darling?" The second one added.
"Y….yes, sir." I breathed.
"Now be a good girl and spread your leg...

Book 1 - The Rise of Alpha Ryder
Alpha Ryder is not your typical alpha. He was adopted into the Dark Moon Guardians Pack by the former alpha and luna who were unable to have children. Most pack members resisted him becoming alpha because he had no blood ties to the pack. Ryder was tramatized as a pup by his birth parents. Due to his past he's shy and uncomfortable around new people, especially women.
When he meets his mate Zoe he finds a strength he never thought he had. His pack troubles ...

"Your highness, this is my daughter, and I offer you my loyalty." At a fancy party, I hid in a corner and watched my father, an alpha, bend over to speak to the prince on the throne, while my sister, Bernice, wore a tight, glamorous dress, sit at the prince's feet and show him a charming and smug smile. It was a reception for the Prince and for my sister to be his mate. "My Girl, I got you." My Cousin's disgusting voice sounded. A chill ran down my back. "You can't get it off," he said, reaching...

Mature audience only: Contains mature language, sex, abuse and violence.
She has no name, not anymore, after so long she has simply forgotten what a name is, what it means to be able to choose, what it means to be able to wish, she has simply forgotten what it means to be a person.
She's just a slave in a pack that makes a point of reminding her that she's nothing more than an object to be used, whether it's to do household chores or to satisfy the sexual desires of her masters....

"She is deaf."
"What, she can't be deaf. I have never heard of a deaf wolf. It is impossible."
"I am serious. She had an accident when she was six. She didn't have her wolf then, and it couldn't heal, resulting in hearing loss."
She smiled. Her smile could have knocked me over. It was something I would want to see as often as I could. "Can you hear me?" She just shook her head.
How on earth would I communicate with her if she couldn't talk? If I marked her, I could mind-link. I could mark her ...

"Yes baby, just like that. Oh fuck yes! Yes!"
I opened my mouth as utter shock and pain filled my body. My husband was fucking my step sister on our wedding night. Hot tears dropped from my eyes as the wet sounds and moaning grew louder and louder.
Larissa, the esteemed Luna of the Tokenmoon pack, had it all. A loving husband and a strong pack. But it was all a lie. Stefan, her alpha husband, was the devil. He maltreated and abused her constantly while cheating on her with her step-sist...

The day I found out I was dying, Alpha Griffon Knight broke up with me. Our relationship was a contract, but when his true love came back, he didn’t need me anymore. He canceled our contract and told me to get lost. I thought that after five years, his frozen heart would thaw for me. How wrong I was. So I packed my things and left. Without telling him… I only had three months left to live.
Griffon Knight’s private jet landed at the airport at 7:00 p.m., just as the sun was starting to set, vivi...

Once upon a time, there were two kingdoms once at peace. The kingdom of Salem and the kingdom of Mombana.
Until the day, the king of Mombana passed away and a new monarch took over, Prince Cone.
Prince Cone, has always been hungry for more power and more and more.
After his coronation, he attacked Salem.
The attack was so unexpected, Salem never prepared for it. They were caught off guard. The king and Queen was killed, the prince was taken into slavery.
The people of Salem that survived t...

Medici and her two vampire lovers.
"Guys, this is Isabella" Sarah introduced me,
"Okay guys so Isabella is apparently a first year, and from a random orphanage and didn't even know that her Dom is a king" Sarah laughed to me.
"You're with Edward? I couldn't handle him" Payton said.
"Handle him?" I asked, the girls all giggled.
"I didn't even make it past his manners phase" Sarah told me.
"Edward shares the throne of England and Russian territory with his father" Veronica explained to ...

"Do what?'', I asked nervously. Damn, I am getting wet having him so close to me.
He smirks and says, "lick you up and down".
Before I can respond he lifts me place me on the counter snugs between my legs and starts kissing and licking me.
His tongue reaches my neck and I shiver. I grew wetter than I already was.
My body was getting hot, my common sense was gone, and I moved my bottom half closer to him.
Hinting to him that I want his fingers inside me. And he did just that, he slid on...

“How much for this temptress?” Beta Daniels asked causing me to flinch at the name.
“ 100 jewels.” Came a voice from someone sitting up front.
“200.” Came another voice.
“500” Hollered another.
The room was silent for a moment.
“500 going once, 500 going twice, Sold to Lord Issacson,” Beta Daniels announced.
I felt my heart skip a beat. I had been sold.
“ I want her.” Came a loud snarl.
Everyone in the crowd grew silent.
“Your…Your highness.” Stumbled Beta Daniels, bowing down onto hi...

“When done properly, this position can be most satisfying for a woman because it allows deep penetration."
I open my mouth to respond, but all that comes out is a staggered breath and a small sigh. He chuckles, a low, rough rumble and then leans down and kisses the middle of my back.
I feel the tip of him again at my entryway. He pushes in slightly, and my body comes to life again. My muscles react to his presence, contracting and loosening, as if my body is trying to suck him deep inside.
He's ...

A lycan prince in search of his mate. An abused omega desperate to escape her past demons. A prince who does not know how to love. An omega whose only hope at redemption is finding true love.
Prince Draven, first out of the three lycan princes and next in line to the throne, is a ruthless, blood-thirsty, and arrogant man. He was exposed to the brutality of the world at a tender age. To claim his inheritance and become king, he must find his mate, a mission that appears almost impossible.
When he...

Giving up has never been an option….
While fighting for his life and freedom has become commonplace for Alpha Cole Redmen, the battle for both hits a whole new level once he finally returns to the place he’s never called home. When his fight to escape results in dissociative amnesia, Cole must overcome one obstacle after another to get to the place he only knows about in his dreams. Will he follow his dreams and find his way home or will he get lost along the way?
Join Cole on his emotional jo...

"Are you wet for us already, baby doll?" Braton's deep voice said, traveling through my nerves and setting down my core.
"Take off your clothes slowly," Lucien commanded, prompting my hands to move to the straps of my dress instantly.
"Go lay on the bed and spread your little pussy wide open for our view." Without hesitation, I did as I was told.
"So fucking responsive."
Sophie was tossed between foster homes, where life seemed an endless cycle of neglect, ...

"In three days, you will attend the Rejection Ceremony,"
"The Alpha needs to have a strong mate by his side to lead the Pack successfully," Lily's father explained, "And that is not you, an Omega."
Lily Bray was the Omega of the Blue Creek Pack, but not just any omega. She was the omega illegitimate daughter of the Alpha. Her life was worse when she was forced to reject her mate, the Alpha to be to the Grey Blood Pack, and be mated to his disfigured, ruthless reject brother.
Garrett Hunter, t...

"Wait, she's YOUR mate?" Mark asked, "That's...wow... I did not see that coming..."
"WHO did that to her?!" Andres asked again, still staring at the girl.
Her injuries were darkening with the passing of each minute.
Her skin even seemed paler in comparison to the deep browns and purples.
"I called the doctor over. You think it's internal bleeding?"
Stace addressed Alex but looked back to Lita, "She was fine, I mean flustered and bruised but fine, ya know. And then boom, she was passing out. ...

My father’s body hadn’t even been in the ground more than a few hours before my uncle had tried to take his place as head of the family. Now, the only thing standing in his way was the imperial summons and me. Hundreds of years ago, the dragon king began summoning humans for the Trial of Fire in search of the next queen. To defy it would mean death to the entire family. As far as I am concerned, every member of the Ryuyama family deserves a painful death, except for my little brother who was fi...

Phoebe Addison has dedicated her life to proving the existence of sirens.
She gets the opportunity of a lifetime when she's invited to participate in a research expedition to the South Pacific, but one stormy night, everything goes wrong, and her world changes forever.
She finds what - no who - she's been searching for, but little does she know, he's been looking for her, too.
Wake is nothing like she expected and everything she's been dreaming of. He's beautiful and dangerous, a predator fro...

"I knew I wanted you right from first glance and I came for you."
"Let go of me!!!" I yelled back but when his fingers connected to my skin, I gasped and a moan escaped my lips.
"Do you not like this, my pet?"
I looked at my captor, hunger shooting to my spine and my thighs in heat. I swallowed hard and I gave a nod. "I like it, Daddy."
Kidnapped by a ruthless Mafia Lord, Nora should be scared of her fate but deep down, this monster isn't really a monster. Is it not her fate that she was made...

Angela, from a rough background, tied the knot with Carlos, the rich CEO, all for the moolah. The deal she had to get it on with the out-of-it Carlos within three years and pop out his kid. But getting frisky with a guy in a coma? Talk about a tough gig.
After a ton of tries, Angela finally gets knocked up. She thought she'd hit the jackpot as a billionaire's missus. Surprise, surprise! Carlos wakes up and asks for a split, head over heels for someone else.
Fast forward seven years, Angela rolls...

''Well, do you have something to say?''
A strapping, muscular naked man asked me as he sat across from me as I was also sitting there naked, half-submerged in this large tub of water.
''Don't worry, I won't bite you, baby...''
He said as he moved closer to me, pulling me into his lap and placing me on his leg.
''Wh-what is this, Master?'' I finally asked him as he handed me a small bar.
''I am not your Master,'' he snapped at me in a harsh tone.
''I am your Mate.''
-------------------------...

"Don't touch me, I'm not your whore," I spat out through clenched teeth, my eyes turning red from anger.
He smirked and lifted a hand to my hair. I flinched as he did that and averted my eyes from his.
"Now listen bella. . ." he said slowly, a cruel expression on his face. I tried to bite back the moan of pain that almost escaped my lips.
"I fucking own you and I can spank that pretty ass of yours so hard that it'll bruise. . ." He paused briefly and continued, "And you won't do a thing abou...

“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 being betrayed by my boyfriend, I went to a bar to drown my sorrows. Under the influence of alcohol, I ended up in bed with a handsome stranger.
The next morning, I hastily got dressed and fled, only to be shocked when I arrived at the office to discover that the man I had slept with the night before was the new CEO...
（I highly recommend a captivating book that I couldn't put down for three days and nights. It's incredibly engaging and a must-read. The title of the book is "The Billionair...

Meet the Devil’s Saints Motorcycle Club….
When Taz was just a little girl, her family was killed and she barely survived. Raised by her uncle in the club, she abandoned them after an incident at the mother house. Circumstances bring her back to the Saints where she meets Riffraff, a single dad to a daughter attending school abroad.
Taz puts her life back together and finds that there can be more to life than just working and training for her next MMA fight. Including love and a family that she ...

"You animal! Leave her alone!" My father screamed pulling at the bars but it had no effect on Axel he continued fondling my breasts and kissing my neck.
I could feel his erection push at my ass and my heart broke all over again. I was going to lose my virginity in front of my parents in the cruellest of ways.
Heir to the Lycan throne, Axel the Black is a tormented king. Captured by the wicked humans who sold his siblings and hid his parents, he was abused until he overtook the humans and r...

"You keep speaking as if you have a choice."
"I do have a choice! I'm done with you, Roman Ashfield. Go back to the woman you think is worthy of you and leave me alone."
"You will never be done, Evelyn. Not tonight. Not this week. Probably not this year," he said as he closed the small gap between them.
He heard the satisfying sound of her hitched breath as his fingers trailed the side of her body down to her bare thighs.
"I own you, Evelyn Bright, whether you like it or not."
"You don't ...

"I won't marry you, it's just an accident."
I buried my face in my hands, trying to block out the sight of the Alpha's strong, naked body next to me. He had just proposed, but I didn't even know his name. What the hell had I done last night after getting drunk?
"Accident? You are my mate. Didn't you feel that?" He gripped my hand tightly, his eyes burning with danger.
"No, that's impossible..." I exclaimed in panic.
Because I was a wolfless Omega.
Harper Laurier was one of the daughters of...

I had one plan for the summer after my college classes ended. I needed a job since I recently lost mine and my apartment. I can’t stay with my brother forever. I need my space back, and I am sure he needs his, too.
But all that is about to change when my brother’s best friend Paxton comes to stay for the summer, and my plans go out of the window.
To the rest of the world, Paxton is a millionaire rockstar who is a bad boy who screws around and is always getting himself into trouble he shouldn’...

“Who is she?” I asked, feeling tears well up in my eyes.
“He met her at the Alpha training camp,” he said. “She is a perfect suitor for him. It snowed last night, indicating that his wolf is happy with his choice.”
My heart sank, and tears made their way down my cheeks.
Alexander took my innocence last night, and now he is taking that thing in his office as his Luna.
Emily became the laughingstock of the pack on her 18th birthday and never expected the Alpha's son to be her mate.
After a ...

Ava is a beautiful young girl who has faced more than a fair share of hardships. She was terrorized and ill-treated by her father, who accused her of the demise of her mother. She worked day and night to pay off her father's debt, but she was jinxed as she was being sold by her own father to a sex-slave master to pay off his gambling debt.
She was ruled by her harsh master.
"Slave, you should know your place and who you belong to. Slaves are meant to satisfy their masters.
You are my property,...

A twenty-one-year-old woman is handed over as payment to two Russian mafia bosses. Her parents owed them a lot of money and, as they had none, they gave their only daughter as payment.
A woman who was mistreated by her own parents now belongs to two of Russia's most dangerous mobsters.
What's worse, she has no way of escaping them.

Mafia boss Alessandro Rossi retrieves his heir from his runaway wife.
He employs the young Victoria to care for his son. After spending one drunken night together, she is pregnant for him.
Their lives are entwined now and they end up in a loveless marriage. She finds comfort in the arms of another.
Read to find out what happens when the nanny and wife to the mafia boss brings the enemy straight to their doorstep.

Being created by the moon goddess to be a rejected soul, comes with so much challenges. The other day, I was sold to the emcee by my wicked uncle, and yesterday, I was sold to Alpha Roman Moscow, to be his slave.
My name is Linda Mines, and I was rejected by my uncle because he tagged me a wolf less girl. Here I am, unsure of what the future holds for me. I laid on my bed, while pondering about my life, that I didn't notice when he stepped into my room. It was the moment that he forcefully grip...