27 Twenty Seven

“A love timed too soon, a secret held too long.” After a one-year trial marriage born from heartbreak, MaiMai disappears with a vow: to raise their child alone, never revealing the truth to Rayn Jasper. But fate flips the script when her CEO-friend’s latest client turns out to be him. And now, seven years later, Jasper is no longer the heartbroken man she left—he’s powerful, distant... and suspicious. What happens when love’s biggest secret demands to be heard?

"Do you believe desire can be holy ,or is it always a sin" ? " Depends. Sometimes it saves you . Sometimes it ruins you." "And if you knew the ending was tragic , could you still want it" ? "Every time " Twenty different tales of obsession, betrayer,and temptation-where love is never simple or safe. From rejection mates and cursed vampire to priest breaking vows ,ex-wives hunting revenge ,and human traped between werewolves and mermaid-These stories test the limit of what we dare to want . Some lovers burn the word for each other. Some are destroyed by their own hunger . But all of them prove one truth; Desire always costs .

Just like every other girl her age Golden has a big dream but hers was different her dream was to become a popular and we'll known musician before the age of twenty unlike other girls who wanted to meet their prince charming. After much struggle she got admitted into her dream school with her sister but what she didn't plan on began to happen. She started falling in love with her music instructor and the leader of a well known and popular music band called the M'4 band. The big question is will she be able to add love to this big dream of hers??

Anastasia Crane, twenty years old low rank maid is in love with Prince Kai, the crown prince of Gardenia. Now that's a very bad decision. Fate brings them together and Kai returned Anna's feelings. Thier forbidden love was sure to go down the drain in the end. Kai is betrothed and said to marry in few weeks time. Thier secret affair went on and on the end, they were caught. Anastasia was locked in the dungeon, set to be beheaded the next day but Kai broke her out. He set her in a carriage and promised to come search for her. What Kai didn't know was that Anastasia was pregnant. She was carrying a royal seed in her. The royal seed that got lost.

Three years ago, I rescued the CEO of the Patton Group. That very night, he appeared at my door with his grandson and proposed marriage. I'd secretly loved the young man for seven long years, so I accepted it without hesitation. For three blissful years, Damian Patton showered me with affection so profound it sparked envy in everyone around us. But the illusion shattered when the Patton family's adopted daughter returned from abroad. I stumbled upon him cradling her tenderly and whispering words of devotion. "Grandpa won't hand over the company until Serena gives birth to an heir. But I don't care about inheritance anymore. I want to marry you now." Harriet Patton's lips curved into a sultry smile. "No rush, darling. I want you to marry me as the rightful heir to the Patton empire. Just promise me you won't fall for her." His eyes softened. "Seven years ago, you pulled me out of that fire. I swore then to love you forever." Those words crashed over me like an avalanche, burying my heart under a crushing weight of betrayal. His love for me had been all a lie. I was the one who had braved those flames to save him. It was not her.

It’s end of October 1985 and the crumbling river town of Dubois, Iowa is shocked by the gruesome murder of one of the pillars of the community. Detective David Carlson has no motive, no evidence, and only one lead: the macabre local legend of “Boris Orlof,” a late night horror movie host who burned to death during a stage performance at the drive-in on Halloween night twenty years ago and the teenage loner obsessed with keeping his memory alive. The body count is rising and the darkness that hangs over the town grows by the hour. Time is running out as Carlson desperately chases shadows into a nightmare world of living horrors. On Halloween the drive-in re-opens at midnight for a show no one will ever forget. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

I discovered two things after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. I was first on what appeared to be a fake marriage certificate with Julian Fitzgerald. I had raised my son for six years, and he was already aware of it. In fact, he wanted his mother to be someone else. It was then that I realised my life was just a hoax. Seven years of not being in touch with my family, keeping myself solitary and making sacrifices but it was all just plain cruel. So, I did three things. The husband and son who had betrayed me, I went missing. In preparation for our seventh wedding anniversary, I called off the romantic dinner reservation made a month ago. Besides my participation in several health-related group discussions, I also left my son's kindergarten parent groups. These groups were all designed to improve the well-being of my husband and son. My second action was to contact my physician and request a stress evaluation. I requested a special prescription to prevent any complications that might arise during my international travel. The third person I contacted was my older sister, whom she had not been in touch with for seven years. My words were, "To marry in a place where I don't belong to my family is just miserable."

Small town girl Rayne Summers just wants to make enough money working her parttime job at the local diner to pay her way through her last semester of college. But everything changes when her best friend Emma takes her on a birthday getaway for her twenty first birthday to her old hometown of Ridgewood. As Rayne and Emma enjoy a night out at the local bar called Rider’s, the one person that has plagued her dreams for years walks into the bar and their eyes meet for the first time in six years. Everything that happens that night will change Rayne’s life forever and she will realize the ones you trust the most are the ones that will betray you.

As a Catholic girl I was just trying to make it through college. I wasn't looking for a lot in life. Just good grades, getting married before twenty two, having a few kids and God's blessings. People say that in life, you don't always get what you want and life has a way of roaming from the trail you planned to follow. I never realised how true the saying was. Religion was my everything, so what happens when I end up falling for the same gender? It couldn't get worse, right? But as life always feels the need to show you, it could... And it would.

A loveless arranged marriage brought Tessa and Elvis together. After two years, Elvis divorces Tessa, revealing his undying love for his childhood sweetheart, Harriet. Tessa discovers she's pregnant, two days after the divorce. Seven years later, a shocking truth is revealed. Is the child Tessa came back with, his? Has she moved on? What happens as Elvis tries to win Tessa back? Will Harriet sit and watch?