Lúcido(a) E Independente

When I saw her from across the bar with her pretty little face, her big brown eyes, her long black hair and her beautiful body, I just knew that I would never be able to shake her from my damn mind. She turned my life upside down from the day I laid eyes on her. But then, the situation changed. She saw something she shouldn’t have seen. Found out who I really was. The truth behind my rugged exterior. But you know the rules of the Corsican Mafia. No witnesses… So I had to take her in. I had to make her my hostage. And I had to make her my wife… Whether she liked it or not.

Côte d'Ivoire, les années 1930. La France a achevé de faire de la Côte d'Ivoire une colonie. Xavier qui est connu de tous comme le mulâtre d'Assinie possède le plus grand domaine de la région de grand-Bassam. Il est riche et beau mais il est confronté au constant mépris des blancs de la colonie. Il veut à tout prix se faire une place dans la haute société. Une éventuelle union avec Agnès Lebourgois, la fille d'un noble et très raciste colon pourrait lui permettre d'atteindre ses objectifs. Xavier hésite cependant face aux sentiments qu'il éprouve pour la douce Eba, la fille de son contremaître. Alors entre Eba et Agnès Lebourgois qui deviendra l'épouse du mulâtre ?

Is Landon my Daddy or Gray? Little Lyra asked. Ren ignored the little girl. The man she'd fallen in love with, the man she risked everything for, kicked her out the moment he recovered from traumatic brain injury. He never thought of all her sacrifices and dedication. Now he's back, asking. "Is she mine?

I was a monster, and she was too innocent for my world. But that didn't stop me. One taste of her kept me going back for more... Even if it killed us.

Salma’s life seemed perfect—engaged to Juan, a man who could offer her safety and stability. But when Vito, a dangerous and magnetic mafia boss, steps back into her life, everything changes. Vito’s presence ignites a fire in Salma she hasn’t felt in years, a passion so fierce it consumes her. Caught between two men—one offering love and security, the other thrilling danger and wild desire—Salma is torn. Vito’s dark world lures her in, intoxicating her senses, while Juan clings to her, desperate to hold onto the woman he loves. As tensions rise and secrets come to light, Salma must decide which man she’ll surrender to—the one who makes her feel safe or the one who makes her feel alive. But in a world of power and betrayal, every choice comes with a deadly price.

Andrea - Deciding that I was going to skip a day at work so I could have first time sex with my boyfriend seemed like the most absurd decision I could ever make. Or at least that was what I'd thought. Until I'd walked in on my said boyfriend cheating on me with some redhead and decided to get my revenge by losing my virginity to his wealthy billionaire father instead. Crazy, right? Trust me, I know. Like that's not enough, things take a drastic turn for the worst after I realized I was in love with him and pregnant with his child. Alejandro - I should have known better than to get involved with someone way younger than me. It was something I've never done before. But like the saying goes, there's a first time for everything. The first time I met Andrea I was captivated by her beauty. More than that there was this innocence in her that called out to me like a moth to a flame. I ignored all the warnings in my head and went after what I wanted. And what I wanted was her. Unfortunately what she wanted was revenge against my son. I told myself that it had to be some kind of mistake. There was no way she had been playing with my feelings and planning some silly revenge this whole time. But she had. But I couldn't deny that she'd fooled me real good alright. So naturally I cut ties with her. And that's supposed to be the end, right? Wrong. Turns out that our story was never destined to end just there. . .

Ivy Rivera, eighteen years old was known to be the girl from the wrong side of the river. Everyone in Winslow, Arizona, a small town where she grew up looked down on her and she was labeled a jinx. Ivy Rivera life changed after spending a whole night with a stranger who showed her love and attention she had never received even from her parents. Soon Ivy found out that she was pregnant, and to avoid being mocked by people, she left the small town to start a new life in Los Angeles. Ivy Rivera locked up her past life to focus on her career as a photographer. Her top priority was to give her child the life he deserved and the love she never received as a child from her parents. One day, Ivy found the the stranger she had a night with ten years ago. Feelings would stir up but would Ivy be willing to let the stranger near her son? Would she set things aside and let love overpower the doubt and fear she has been keeping for years? An eye-opening love story and family drama.

Who would expect a story titled ANTIMAGIC to be about wizards, mystical creatures and fantastic, unusual adventures? Yet, it really is ... It's even more than that. You'll see if you read the story, that there is, beside all this, a spell, mightier than the strongest spells ever, even than Abracadabra. Yes, Antimagic is the most powerful magic of all known and unknown in the wizards' world, because it's a spell that can stop any magic, no matter how powerful it is. The narrative in Antimagic story will succeed not only in helping the children's minds to imagine fantasy worlds or to create their own stories with fairies, princesses, famous wizards or knights, because they already know how to do it, but it will develop even more their thinking and desire to KNOW. Reading this book they'll see and understand what all wizard students got after their decision to study magic at the famous and old Elmbridge School of Magic. What they all got is that they'll become skilled and wise wizards and magicians only through study and long and painstaking search for knowledge. And even more than that, this book will help grown-ups too to remember to dream again, because we, grown-ups, kind of forgot to do that. Therefore, dear readers, young or grown-ups, enjoy the lines of this book and discover with Elizabeth Catherine Edwards and her friends the mysteries of magic. Go through wonderful events with the heroes of this book, more or less unusual, strange. Swim with her friends in the mysterious waters of the Purple Oasis. Run with them from the dangers that are all over the Ancient Forest and into the maze beneath Elmbridge School of Magic. Admire together imposing creatures such as ogres, carticors, fantastic hybrid mole-elephant-badgers, lycanthropes and many others interesting as well.

Rosine est une jeune fille de 20 ans qui face à des situations financières se laissera emporter par la debauche au nom de l'amour

Dans les bas-fonds d'une métropole corrompue, Aelis Marlowe, une ancienne prostituée devenue informatrice pour la police, croise la route de Nikolai Drevan, héritier d’un empire mafieux. Leur rencontre explosive scelle un pacte toxique : elle infiltrera le Syndicat responsable de la disparition de sa sœur, en échange de sa protection. Nikolai cache une double vie de hackeur génial, manipulant les données du Syndicat pour venger la mort de sa mère. Ses tatouages tribaux, marques d’allégeance à un clan oublié, deviennent le symbole de leur rébellion. Au fur et à mesure qu’Aelis s’immerge dans ce monde dangereux, elle découvre que Nikolai est en réalité le fils illégitime de l’homme qui l’a violée quand elle était plus jeune, liant leur destinée dans une spirale de haine et de désir. Leur relation évolue de la manipulation à une symbiose dangereuse. Aelis développe un don troublant : elle peut ressentir la douleur d’autrui, un pouvoir que Nikolai exploite pour localiser leurs ennemis. Lors d’une rave clandestine sous un pont abandonné, Aelis utilise son corps comme appât pour piéger le chef du Syndicat. Alors que Nikolai est forcé de la regarder se faire torturer, il bascule dans une folie meurtrière, révélant son vrai visage : un prédateur prêt à incendier la ville pour la sauver. Ce récit entrelace les codes du thriller mafieux et de la romance noire, explorant la frontière ténue entre sauveur et bourreau, tout en abordant des thèmes de traumas, de vengeance et de pouvoir malsain.