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My Sister's Husband: Surrogate For The CEO I Once Loved - undefined novels & stories
Author Beibah
Cassandra Hart spent her whole life giving up everything for her sister. She surrendered her grandmother's last gift, her education, her first love, and even her marriage because her parents always believed one thing: "The older sister should sacrifice.” So when they ask her to become a surrogate for her younger sister, Cassandra agrees—for a price. $10 million. A severance letter. An OUT. They agreed without hesitation, certain she'd never really leave. Living under the same roof as billionaire CEO Dante Caldwell was never supposed to change anything. He was her sister's husband, the father of the child she carried, and the one man she had buried her feelings for years ago. But somewhere between hospital appointments, midnight cravings, nursery plans, and quiet evenings preparing for a baby that wasn't supposed to be hers, feelings neither of them should have began to grow. And the closer Dante grew to Cassandra, the more the cracks in his seemingly perfect marriage became impossible to ignore.
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Give Me 30 Days to Cook for You - undefined novels & stories
Zen Jethro
Wanda Edisa is a great chef. She made customers cry with how good her food was. She uses nostalgia like it was the secret seasoning to her dishes. In a world where Mechahumans (half-mecha and half-human species) make up 97% of the world's population, making a restaurant that evokes human-exclusive feelings was Wanda's calling. So when a part-mecha writer who is a heir of a conglimerate company was left unimpressed in a birthday dinner, Wanda felt threatened and challenged. "Give me 30 days to cook for you. I'll make you forget half of you isn't human." This is the love story of Wanda Edisa and Eli Wright.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲  - undefined novels & stories
Osh Jham
The Billionaire’s Secret Bride Bhemzly Acson thought she was untouchable, forever. She could manipulate and control everyone—even Jack Devera, the quiet, unassuming boy who was once a plaything in her youth. But time turned the world upside down. Now, Jack is on top—a respected billionaire, not only brilliant but also wielding immense power… including control over Bhem’s fate. In an agreement she cannot escape, Bhem is forced to accept the role of contract wife to the man she once hurt. What she doesn’t know is that Jack’s motives go beyond revenge. Beneath his cold exterior lies a man who has long harbored feelings for the woman who wronged him. And this agreement isn’t just to teach her a lesson—it’s to protect her, shield her from greater danger, and help her rediscover the heart he once broke. But amidst anger and hesitation, the true colors of their emotions gradually emerge. When hatred begins to crumble in the face of a rekindled heart—is there still hope for a marriage built on lies to become real? A story filled with emotion, unexpected secrets, and a man who, despite the wounds of the past, chooses to love the woman who caused them.
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In Love & Death - undefined novels & stories
TeganJayne
As long as I can remember, I've been plagued by strange dreams. He comes to me when I sleep, calling out to me with such love. His face is so familiar yet strange to my eyes. Every dream was just that, a dream, until a family heirloom was handed down to me. With the book now open, the man I yearned to see in my sleep... is now real. Thrown back into the 1800's I find myself having to solve the mystery behind the screams that haunted me, and the loving touch from my dreams. How can I save the love that calls to me when my mind is torn between right and wrong? Or will the past make its way to my present world before I can stop it?
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Do Me To The Full: The Love That Finds Me  - undefined novels & stories
Everlight Everest
The first time I saw Daniel, I did not think he would become the man who would change everything. It was a quiet evening, the kind where the sky looked tired and the wind carried the scent of rain. I had gone to the café only to escape my thoughts. Love and I had never been on good terms, and I had long decided that my heart was safer when it belonged only to me. Then he walked in. He wasn’t loud or dramatic. In fact, if you weren’t paying attention, you might have missed him completely. But there was something about the way he moved—calm, steady, like a man who understood the rhythm of life. When his eyes met mine, he smiled. Not the kind of smile men give when they want something from you. No. This one was different. It was warm, patient… almost like he already knew my story. I looked away quickly, pretending to read my phone, but my heart betrayed me. It beat faster, louder, as if it was whispering a secret I was not ready to hear. That night, I didn’t know his name. I didn’t know his voice. But somehow, in the quiet space between strangers, something had already begun. And before long, Daniel would teach me something I had spent years running from: What it truly means to love… and to be loved to the full.
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The Billionaire CEO's First Love  - undefined novels & stories
Tee's Pen
Sexually abused by her father and betrayed by her mother who sleeps with her fiance on the day of her engagement, Natalie involves herself in a one night stand with a young virgin, Liam Li. 3 years later, Liam Li returns back to country X and accidentally meets with the lady who disvirgined him and claims her as his girlfriend. "Can I kiss you Natalie" Liam sulked like a little boy deprived of his favourite toy. "If you kiss me, will you take responsibility?" Natalie asked while playing with his hair Liam blushed hard and lowered his head recalling what happened 3 years ago "Yes I'll take responsibility for you" Before Natalie could form another counter attack, Liam had already kissed her desperately like he had been starved of her. What happens when the hotel worker she had a one night stand with happens to be CEO of the company she was interning at, for her college grades? Who was the woman in the shadows or rather, the people in the shadows? "Kill her tonight or return to me dead"
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The Woman I Became After You - undefined novels & stories
Utunestrokes
Elena Marlowe once believed she had everything a woman could ask for. She had a powerful family, a successful future, and a man she thought she would love forever. But when the man she trusted betrays her and the secrets surrounding her family begin to surface, Elena’s carefully built life falls apart. Instead of allowing heartbreak to destroy her, Elena decides to rebuild herself. She returns to her career, takes control of her life, and slowly discovers a strength she never knew she possessed. She no longer wants to be defined by the man who hurt her or by the family secrets that followed her for years. Then Adrian enters her life. He is powerful, successful, protective, and completely different from the man she once loved. Adrian sees Elena as a woman who does not need to be rescued, and he respects the independence she fought so hard to regain. Their attraction becomes impossible to ignore, but falling in love again means risking the very heart Elena has spent years protecting. Just when she begins to believe that she has finally found the love she deserves, a shocking truth about her family threatens to destroy everything. Elena must face betrayal, hidden enemies, painful memories, and the secrets of her past while deciding what kind of future she truly wants. This time, she is not fighting to be chosen. She is choosing herself, choosing the life she wants, and choosing a love that allows her to remain completely herself.
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The Girl He Left Behind  - undefined novels & stories
.Chithority
“I don’t care anymore. I have friends now. I’m sure you made plenty in London.” She didn’t look affected at all. The coldness of it actually made me shiver. “You’re being immature.” “You’re an asshole.” “Watch your tone. I’m still your boss.” “My apologies, Mr. Montgomery,” she said, quiet now. “Don’t I get a welcome-back hug?” I asked, hoping, now that we’d finally said something real, she’d give an inch. Jasmine Ray and Japheth Montgomery were best friends before they were anything else — before four years of silence turned two children into strangers wearing grown-up names. Then he comes home. As her boss. Japheth is handed a company in crisis, a rival who wants to watch him fail, and the one person he never stopped thinking about, sitting behind a desk with a stranger’s coldness in her eyes. Jasmine is handed something worse: a father who’s spent nine years reminding her what she owes this family, and a man she trusts turning that debt into a weapon. Because someone close to them needs one thing — a signature, one document, one moment of Japheth’s total trust — and he knows exactly how to make Jasmine get it for him. She has one impossible choice: protect her family by becoming, once again, exactly what she swore she’d never be to Japheth again. Or risk everything to tell him the truth, and pray he doesn’t throw her out of his life a second time. This time, staying quiet isn’t safety. It’s the same mistake that cost her everything once already.
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One Nightstand With My Brother’s Bestfriend  - undefined novels & stories
Miswrites6
On her twenty-first birthday, Avery got heavily drunk and ended up spending the night with her brother’s best friend, Alexander Reed— the world’s richest trillionaire. She had no memory of what happened between them. When she woke up the next morning, she found herself lying beside him in bed. Shocked and utterly confused, she quietly slipped out of the room while he was still asleep. She expected him to bring up that night eventually, but he never did. Assuming he had also been too intoxicated to remember their one-night stand, Avery buried the incident deep in her heart and did everything she could to avoid him. Six years later, Avery has been in a loving relationship with Lucas Paterson for four years. To celebrate their fourth anniversary, Avery decides to surprise Lucas by flying to his home in the Bahamas and walks in on the ultimate betrayal. Lucas— kissing her best friend, Olivia. As if that wasn’t enough, she discovers the two of them are expecting a baby together. Heartbroken and devastated, Avery leaves the Bahamas and returns home. Fate, however, has other plans. At one of her brother’s friend’s weddings, she comes face-to-face with the one man she’s spent six years avoiding— Alexander Reed. But the biggest shock isn’t seeing him again. It’s discovering that she’s already engaged to him… and their wedding is expected to take place in less than three weeks. As if that revelation isn’t enough, Alexander calmly told her he has always known she was the woman he spent that unforgettable night with years ago. Avery stares at him in disbelief. “What nonsense are you spouting, Alexander?” she demands, her voice trembling with anger. “Why on earth would I marry a notorious Casanova like you?”
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HER: Secrets I carried alone  - undefined novels & stories
Tori
All my life, I thought I had it all figured out — the quiet, obedient girl who did what was expected and stayed in the shadows. But life has a way of turning everything upside down. I’ve lived with rules, expectations, and secrets I never dared to speak aloud. I’ve tried to be who everyone wanted me to be, but now… I’m starting to ask myself who I really am. And then there’s Lucas — a presence I can’t ignore, though I’m not sure what he truly means for me. Between past pains, the choices I make, and the life I’m trying to claim for myself, I’m learning that growing up is complicated… and sometimes, it hurts.
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THE BILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR - undefined novels & stories
Naomiwrites
When introverted college student, Gabriella Brooks, escapes her overbearing parents grasp. She finds solace in a quaint LA apartment. But her newfound peace was short lived as her next door neighbor Kai Alexander Flynn, a tattooed enigma with piercing eyes and a sharp tongue stirred up trouble. He was everything she'd been sheltered from, he was her antithesis: darkness to her light, chaos to her calm. Yet, in the storm of his presence, she found an unexpected freedom. She began to realize that his kind of chaos might be exactly what she needed to break free. As their animosity ignited into something fierce, she'd have to decide: Was he her ruin or her salvation? Was he her reckoning or her rebirth?
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The Cobra of Smoke  - The Burden of Sight - undefined novels & stories
StaceSteele
Shantali Mae Cross, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Ancient Arts, encounters an impossible phenomenon during her night shift—smoke from the heating vents coalesces into the form of a cobra near ancient Egyptian canopic jars, showing her visions of possible futures. She sees herself accepting a promotion, arguing with a dark-haired man in a hospital, wearing a wedding dress, and standing at a graveside in autumn. Shaken by the experience, Shantali becomes obsessed with understanding what she witnessed, diving into research about serpent smoke divination practices. Her investigation reveals that others throughout history have experienced similar visions at crucial crossroads in their lives, but those who became consumed with interpreting and controlling their prophetic glimpses inevitably destroyed the very relationships and opportunities the visions had shown them. As Shantali spirals deeper into her research, she begins shutting out her boyfriend David, a fellow security guard who loves her deeply. When David witnesses the cobra phenomenon himself, he helps ground her in reality rather than obsession. Through her studies, particularly the warnings left by Dr. Amelia Thorne—a researcher who died alone after chasing similar mysteries—Shantali realizes the cobra's true message: choose love over fear, presence over obsession. The visions weren't warnings of tragedy but glimpses of a life fully lived with all its ordinary struggles and profound connections. When David proposes, Shantali chooses their real relationship over her pursuit of supernatural answers. She completes her research by writing a fictional novel about her experience, transforming obsession into art while helping future cobra witnesses understand that some mysteries are meant to guide rather than be solved. The story explores themes of choice versus destiny, the danger of sacrificing present love for future certainty, and the wisdom of embracing life's uncertainties alongside those who love us.
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The Billionaire Who Regretted Letting Me Go  - undefined novels & stories
Ibrahim
"Sign the papers, Sophia. We both know this was never a real marriage." Five years ago, those words were the last thing Alexander Knight said to her before she walked out of his penthouse — and out of his life. He never knew she was already carrying his son. Sophia Hart rebuilt herself from nothing: a name, a career, and a son who has his father's eyes, his father's stubborn jaw, and absolutely no idea who that father is. She swore she'd never let Alexander Knight back into either of their lives. Fate didn't ask her permission. When Alexander spots a little boy throwing the exact tantrum he used to throw at five years old, the resemblance stops him cold — and the math isn't hard to do. His son. The one thing his money, his name, and his empire never bought him a say in. For the first time in his life, Alexander Knight isn't in control of anything. He wants Sophia back — not the polished, guarded woman standing in front of him now, but the version of her only he ever knew, the one who used to fall asleep mid-sentence on his shoulder during late-night work calls. He's willing to burn down every deal, every rival, every lie his own family has been hiding, just to get her back. But Sophia has spent five years learning how to survive without him. Trust isn't something she's willing to hand over twice. And somewhere in his own boardroom, someone has known about his son for years — and has every reason to make sure father and son never find their way back to each other. This time, if Alexander loses her, he won't just lose the woman he loves. He'll lose his son before he ever really had him.
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The Last Light Between Us - undefined novels & stories
SB_Authors
When Mara Vale returns to the quiet coastal town of Bellweather to restore its abandoned lighthouse, she expects broken windows, old memories, and a fresh start—not Elena Reyes. Elena has spent years caring for her family and running their struggling bookstore, quietly putting her own dreams aside. Mara, meanwhile, has built a life around leaving before anyone can give her a reason to stay. Forced to work together on the lighthouse restoration, the two women begin as reluctant partners. But late-night conversations, shared laughter, unexpected kindness, and quiet moments by the sea slowly turn their friendship into something neither is prepared to name. As their feelings grow, both women must confront the lives they've built, the choices they've avoided, and the fear that loving someone might mean losing themselves. When Mara receives an opportunity that could take her away again, they face their biggest challenge yet: choosing between the lives they thought they wanted and the love they never expected to find. The Last Light Between Us is a heartfelt LGBTQ+ romance about second chances, courage, belonging, and discovering that sometimes, home isn't a place. Sometimes, it's a person.
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When Dreams Wear a Suit (ENGLISH VERSION) - undefined novels & stories
ArtofPollyanna
Elara Raenor had spent most of her life dreaming of true love. Her ideal man had to be handsome, well-groomed, wealthy enough to provide a comfortable and secure life. “Let’s admit it,” she would often say. “You can’t survive in this world without being practical.” She wasn’t greedy or a gold digger. Elara simply wanted to build a stable family and avoid returning to the hardships she had experienced. Then Rhett Alaric came into the picture. Years ago, Elara had seen him on the cover of a business magazine. He was a young CEO dressed in a perfectly tailored suit, handsome and composed, with a sharp yet remarkably calm gaze. From that moment on, he became the image of her ideal man, someone she believed she could only admire from afar. But fate had other plans. One ordinary day at the coffee shop where she worked, Elara looked up and saw him standing there. The same man from the magazine was suddenly real, breathtaking, and only a few feet away from her. Unfortunately, their first meeting was nothing like the romantic scenes she had imagined. In her rush to serve a customer, Elara accidentally spilled hot coffee all over Rhett’s expensive suit. Shock, embarrassment, panic, and a ridiculous flutter of excitement rushed through her all at once. Then their eyes met. His gaze was cold, sharp, and intimidating. Rhett Alaric wasn’t simply a handsome man in a suit. He was the kind of man everyone was afraid to disappoint. And in that humiliating moment, Elara realized she had not only spilled coffee on the man she had dreamed about for years. She had probably ruined his first impression of her as well.  Little did she know, that disastrous encounter would change their lives forever.
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