Why Does Lizzie Investigate In Pride And Premeditation?

Outside the private room, Charlotte Riley overheard Zac Gibson say, “Charlotte is gorgeous, no doubt. But the reason I pursued her? She reminded me of Wendy Cooper. For years, I was just searching for traces of Wendy in her.” That night, she finally made the call she had been avoiding for years. “Dad, I’m ready. I’ll come home and go through with the engagement.” Later, when Zac saw Charlotte at a high-society gala—elegant, untouchable, and more dazzling than ever—only then did he realize the truth. And he completely lost it. * The night Charlotte walked away from her family’s arranged marriage, Sean stood by the window, swirling his wine, his expression unreadable. “Lottie, one day, you’ll come back to me willingly.” Rumor had it that Jersey City's most powerful heir, Sean Jasper, was cold, reserved, and indifferent to women. Charlotte believed it. Until she realized just how intense and unwavering his devotion truly was beneath that composed, self-restrained facade.

It had been ten years since Julliane was cast out by the very people she once called family. Her own mother and stepbrother had driven her away from Magnolia Manor-the grand estate owned by the Dankworth family. Now, after a decade of silence, Lance Dankworth, the eldest son of the man her mother had married, stood at her door. He came bearing grim news, her mother had been in a tragic accident. An event serious enough to require Julliane's return to the manor she had long left behind. Julliane couldn't forget how Lance used to see her. He'd branded her a troublemaker, a slut, even when she was just a girl. To him, she had brought nothing but shame and pain to his family. And yet, here he was, asking her to come back with him. She knew he despised her. So why, after all these years, was he suddenly asking her to stay-and worse, to marry him?

Lucy Davidson has always lived a structured, predictable life as the only daughter of a strict, powerful businessman. But everything spirals off course the morning she lays eyes on Brian, the quiet, disciplined, and impossibly handsome salesman working in her father’s company; sparking an instant, consuming obsession that quickly takes over her every waking thought. What begins as harmless curiosity quickly turns into an undeniable ache—a pull she cannot resist. Brian is entirely out of her league by her father’s standards, yet his warmth and unspoken depth awaken a side of Lucy Davidson she never knew existed. With a future husband already handpicked by her father to merge two powerful dynasties, Lucy knows she never loved him, seeing that forced match as nothing more than a cold business arrangement—until Brian gave her a reason to truly feel alive. Through stolen glances and late-night conversations, the chemistry between them becomes a wildfire. But the consequences of being caught are catastrophic. Her father would destroy a mere sales boy to protect the family name. Her upper-class reputation would never survive the scandal. Yet, the more they try to distance themselves, the harder they fall. As jealous rivals plot to sabotage Brian and rumors begin to spread, every meeting becomes a high-stakes risk. Every touch feels like a crime. Caught between family loyalty and a forbidden desire, Lucy must decide if she will protect her father’s empire or risk everything for the man she loves—unaware that there is far more to Brian than meets the eye. Their love is passionate. Secret. Dangerous. And once the truth begins to unravel, nothing will ever be the same.

"This is wrong, Rosie. I'm engaged to your mother." Henry murmured, touching my cheeks softly. "It's wrong that I want you this way." "Then let it be wrong," I whispered, pressing my body against his. "Because I don't know how else to make it right with you. And I'm tired of having you in my thoughts and dreams alone." ****** Rosie has a secret, a forbidden one. And obsession to the one man she could never have. Her professor. Gareth Henry, disciplined and respectable. Henry was nothing more than Rosie's fantasy, until fate pulled them together. Not as her professor… But as her mother's fiancèe. Forced to live under the same roof, Rosie is trapped between what she wants and what she should never desire, every glance, every accidental touch and every quiet moment between them becomes a crack in their restraint. Because Henry remembers her. And the tension between them is no luck them one-sided. But lines exist for a reason. And crossing them could destroy everything, her family, her future and the fragile control they're both desperately holding onto.

Meet Esmerelda Sleuth. Sleuth is her name and investigating is her game. (Paranormal Investigating, that is.) Esmerelda makes a good living as an investigator in a rather progressive firm. She lives a stable and sensible life until she meets Lance; an old money "hottie" who works for a real estate firm next to her building. After accepting an invitation for a weekend getaway party, she quickly discovers that Lance has a secret. He is wealthy. That part is true. And, yes, he's procured a job as a realtor in the building next door. His secret is that he belongs to an underground society of humans who didn't abandon their connection to magic centuries ago when religion declared it evil and he has traveled through time specifically to find her and bring her back to his time to marry him. If that isn't enough of a far fetched tale to absorb, he informs her that she was born in his time to a family belonging to that same secret society and was promised in marriage to him as an infant. When enemies who didn't want to see the union of families take place made attempts on her life, her parents sent her into the future and erased her memories of them as a precaution. Possessing virtually no belief in magic, ghosts, psychics, time travel, etc., it takes some doing on Lance's part to convince her to believe his story and go back with him. When she does, the lies, deceit and attempts on her life start all over again. Will she escape emotionally and physically unscathed? "The Other Side Of the Mirror" is a steamy-paranormal-romance- mystery-thriller and book one of the Esmerelda Sleuth series.

“I can’t stop myself. You consume me Olivia , all of you!” Olivia Murray finally finds love at a cost after a series of failed relationships and a cheating fiance. She cannot deny her attraction to the one man she knows she can't be with, Leonard Devine, a mysterious man who hides his true identity. A relationship birthed on secrets, lies, and getting revenge, Olivia and Leonard find themselves breaking their one rule- falling in love. Olivia found herself heartbroken again, but decided enough was enough, she sort out for revenge, but it was expensive and it demanded everything from her. From trying to get revenge from her ex fiance who cheated on her to falling in love with one who would ruin her. But will this love stand when she finally learns of the truth about who he really is? And his mission to take down her family for their crimes? Leonard's secret identity turns out to be one of the many secrets kept hidden from her. Or is he truly the one in the dark? “She knew. Fuck!”