Novels by HO PE

BURB: Nathan Reed was born with a physical disability, he has a weak leg from birth and a seizure which leads to nose bleeding and he litterrily grew up in poverty. Quiet and introverted, he was a social outcast in high school, eventually becoming the primary target of a bullying clique. While Noah Grayson was the leader of that clique—the polar opposite of Nathan. He's Born into an elite family, he was a tall, athletic playboy who never knew the meaning of struggle. Traumatized by the abuse from the Noah group, the Nathan was forced to drop out. He spent years working grueling jobs—repairman, delivery driver, construction worker—until he finally landed a position at his current company. Starting from the very bottom, his diligence and competence eventually led him to the position of department manager. Just as he thinks his life is finally on track, his nightmare—Noah reappears. Despite Nathan professional success, he still feels like an ant in the face of the Noah's immense power and status. Mustering his courage to confront him, Nathan was shocked when Noah claims he has come to apologize for his past sins. Asking him to give him a chance to purse him. Is this a sincere confession or a cruel joke? Is the Noah truly repentant, or is there a hidden scheme at play? How will Nathan choose this time?

Enid, a secret billionaire who lost his parents at a tender age with only his grandfather's support who guided him to take over the company, secretly. But one day he announced his retirement thinking he would have to take on the responsibility of the company, he had being managing behind the shadows all this while. But his grandpa suddenly revealed that he had arranged a marriage with a renowned CEO in England, 20 years ago and he was to travel there to live with the arrogant Gay man. He refused, because he is straight, but his grandfather promised him that if after 12 months and he doesn't have feelings for him, he would gladly call off the engagement. He had always stayed in the countryside with his grandfather and managed the company from the background, and this made the fiancee family thought he was just a country bumpkin since her family background wasn't revealed. Not knowing he was a also a billionaire, in disguise.

BLURB: Ethan was just a college student trying to keep his unsteady life together. Boring lectures, empty bank account. A future that felt blurry at best. Nothing about his world was exciting… until he walked into that lecture hall. Then he saw him. A magnetic qns handsome. The kind of man who silences a room without trying. Professor Kai was brilliant, untouchable, and completely off-limits. Every student wanted his attention. Ethan just wanted to survive it. He told himself it was only admiration. A harmless crush. Professors and students don’t mix, right? He was wrong. Because this Professor isn’t a professor at all. Behind the tailored suits and sharp lectures is a spy in disguise, sent on an impossible mission that could shift the balance of power. One mistake or questions . And Ethan’s life becomes collateral damage. Ethan never thought attraction could be fatal. But the closer he gets, the more secrets he uncovers… and the harder it is to walk away. Every lie pulls him deeper. Every glance feels like a warning he refuses to hear. The more dangerous the truth gets, the more obsessed he becomes with the man keeping it. Now Ethan is trapped between fear and desire. Between running for his life, or falling for a man who was never meant to be loved. This is the story of a student who fell in love with secrets. And a spy who never planned on being found. The question is: when the mission ends… will love survive it?

LOVE AND DEATH LOVE AND DEATH Cael Russo was nine years old when he watched his father die. He did not see a murder that night. He saw a man kneel, and another man pull the trigger, and a boy's entire world collapse in the space of a single second. The man who pulled the trigger was Adrian Frost, the most feared crime lord in the city. The boy who watched from behind a cracked door grew up eating at Adrian's table, sleeping under Adrian's roof, and hating every single second of it. For fifteen years Cael has been waiting. He had being learning. Becoming exactly the kind of dangerous that Adrian never saw coming. He knows every weakness, every pressure point, every name in every deal. He has one plan, one goal, one reason to keep breathing inside that house. Burn it to the ground. Then Lucian Ashford comes home. Adrian's only son is nothing like his father, which is the most inconvenient thing Cael has ever encountered. He is perceptive and warm and infuriatingly impossible to manipulate, and the seduction that was supposed to be Cael's fastest route to the ledger that will destroy everything keeps going in directions he did not plan for. Lucian was supposed to be a target. He was never supposed to see through every wall Cael has ever built and choose him anyway. Now Cael is running out of mission and running out of reasons to leave, and the truth about everything, about Adrian, about his father, about the fifteen years of grief he has been aiming in the wrong direction, is about to detonate what is left of the life he built around his revenge. He came here to destroy a family. He never planned to become part of one.