Is There A Soft Power Book Summary Available Online?

THE BILLIONAIRE'S FORBIDDEN WEAKNESS (Where the Ice Breaks) Damien Cole built his empire the same way he built his walls — brick by brick, from nothing, with bleeding hands and a heart he locked away so long he forgot it was still there. By thirty-two, he's untouchable. Ruthless. The kind of man who commands every room he enters and feels nothing when he leaves. His assistants don't last. His relationships don't either. He doesn't do warmth. He doesn't do weakness. Then Nathalia Bennett walks in. Fresh out of university, armed with ambition and absolutely zero patience for arrogance, she takes the job nobody wants — personal assistant to New York's most feared CEO. She isn't impressed by the money. She isn't intimidated by the power. And when he's cold as ice, she doesn't flinch. When he pushes, she pushes back. It should have been simple. Professional. Temporary. It becomes anything but. From the steel and glass of New York to the rain-soaked streets of London, the glittering excess of Monaco and the quiet devastation of a Bali night — something is breaking open between them. Something neither of them asked for. Something Damien will fight with everything he has, because the only thing more terrifying than his past is the possibility that she could make him forget it. He has survived everything life threw at him by feeling nothing. Nathalia Bennett is about to become the one thing he can't survive. Some walls don't crack. They shatter.

At forty, Lucian Vale has everything a man is supposed to want—a billion-dollar empire, a beautiful wife, two children, and a reputation powerful enough to silence an entire boardroom. Immaculately controlled and brutally intimidating, he has spent twenty years ensuring that neither desire nor weakness could ever rule him.Then Seraphina Laurent becomes his secretary.Fresh out of college, twenty-two-year-old Seraphina appears almost painfully innocent. She is soft-spoken, unfailingly thoughtful, and quick to hide behind a shy smile whenever Lucian looks at her for too long. Yet beneath her sweetness lives a calculating young woman who learned early that innocence is most useful when other people believe in it.Raised in a broken home, betrayed by the mother who chose a predatory husband over her own daughter, Seraphina has survived by studying people, discovering what they want, and quietly becoming indispensable to them. She doesn’t join Vale International merely to answer phones and arrange meetings. She wants money, influence, security—and a life in which no one will ever have the power to hurt her again.Lucian is supposed to be another step in her carefully constructed plan.But seducing a married billionaire is easier than surviving what happens after he begins to want her.What starts with lingering glances and calculated touches becomes a dangerously consuming affair. Behind locked office doors and beneath the polished surface of Lucian’s marriage, desire turns into possession, ambition into obsession, and Seraphina’s perfect mask begins to crack. In a world where love is leverage and loyalty has a price, Seraphina must decide whether she wants Lucian’s heart, his fortune, or the power to ruin him.Because she may be his sweetest temptation—but she has always been her own most dangerous lie.

Some moments you plan for while most of the good ones, you don’t. Sweet Surrender is a collection of stories about the moments right before everything changes. It’s a storm that leaves two strangers with nowhere to run, a work trip that blurs every line that was supposed to stay straight, a wedding where the wrong person says exactly the right thing. These aren’t stories about perfect people making perfect choices. They’re a little guarded, a little stubborn to the point that whoever finds themselves in situations that make resisting feel pointless and surrender feel like the smartest and easiest thing they’ve ever done. Come in and get comfortable. Don’t make plans for the rest of the evening.

Every woman wants Dean—until they finally have him. Nothing escapes his notice. Not lies. Not betrayal. No one has ever truly possessed him. Not even Janiya, his devoted fiancée, who believes she’s the only one—until she discovers the truth. For Dean, business always comes first. He’s engaged to Janiya, but his sights are set on marrying Brooklyn, the daughter of a powerful family at the heart of AI innovation. Brooklyn brings status and opportunity, and Dean is determined to claim it all. Brooklyn will be the perfect wife; Janiya, the irresistible secret he can’t let go. Dean knows he’s playing with fire—but that’s exactly how he likes it. In this high-stakes game of love, loyalty, and ambition, will Janiya settle for being Dean’s mistress, or will she fight for a future of her own? Discover the tangled web of Power, Pain and Pleasure, where every choice comes with a price—and nothing is ever as it seems.

In the high-stakes world of the elite, Seraphina Rossi is an invisible woman. The unacknowledged daughter of a billionaire dynasty, her acting career has been strangled by her own father, leaving her desperate to fund her comatose mother’s medical bills. But a night of terror at the exclusive Vault Club sends her fleeing into the one place she should never be: the penthouse of Czar Alexander Mordrake. Known as the "Shadow Sovereign," Czar is the most powerful man on three continents—and the most isolated. He lives in a sterile, golden cage, cursed by a lethal, unexplained "allergy" to women that makes even the slightest touch a death sentence. Until he wakes up next to Seraphina. When Czar survives their accidental encounter, the world-shattering discovery turns Seraphina from a fugitive into a biological miracle. Czar offers her a cold, calculated deal: he will settle her debts and save her mother if she becomes his "medical lab rat" and private assistant. As doctors scramble to find the secret in Seraphina's blood, a dangerous game of obsession and power begins. While the cold walls of the Mordrake estate begin to thaw between the lonely mogul and the resilient actress, a web of shadows is tightening around them. In a world where touch is a weapon and love is a lab result, Seraphina and Czar must decide if they are each other’s cure—or if the truth behind the Sovereign’s shadow will destroy them both before the first real touch can even happen.

North’s life was already on the edge of collapse when Lucien Crowe’s world found him. A final year law student crushed under his family’s debt, North sees the offer for what it is: a transaction. Becoming a billionaire’s kept secret feels like a silver lining, and he takes it without hesitation, unconcerned with consequences. Lucien Crowe built his empire on control. People bend. Systems obey. What fascinates him most are those who still believe in the law, especially before they learn how easily it can be broken. North was supposed to be temporary. Another indulgence. Instead, his indifference cracks Lucien’s perfect exterior, awakening obsession, jealousy, and a possessiveness he no longer knows how to contain. For North, everything has a price. Affection is leverage. He never intended to fall in love, especially not with a man who represents everything he despises. But when rules are broken and lines blur, North becomes the villain for refusing to give his heart in return. North’s revenge demands sacrifice, and love proves far more expensive than money. As power tightens its grip, North must decide whether he can truly love a man who embodies the system he hates, or if playing with Lucien’s heart will destroy them both first.