A House With Good Bones

She had just one job. To fill in her mother’s role at work while her mother's boss, Jordan, searched for a replacement. Filling his head and heart wasn’t part of the bargain.

After five years of marriage, Zac Saunders felt the need to protect his son with his mistress. Not only did he pressure me into terminating the pregnancy, but he also conspired with the board of directors to remove me from my position as vice president. He held Jemma Jacobs close, wearing a wicked grin."Samantha Lewis," he sneered, "since you won't obey...""...Jemma take your place from now on," he continued.I pushed his hand away, pulling Jemma in front of me. Ignoring her struggles, I firmly grabbed her hair and forced her to tilt her head back."Come on," I urged, "tell him, who do you belong to?"

The moment I was born, I took her life. They called me a murderer. Marcus used to burn me with cigarette butts, and Dad would say it was my fate. “You’re a curse. If you had any conscience, you’d have gone to join Mom a long time ago to repay what you owe.” When Marcus was diagnosed with kidney failure, that same cold, distant father knelt in front of me. “Please… save him…” I put my hand on Dad’s shoulder. “Dad, I’ll do the surgery. But can you promise me one thing?” Dad performed the surgery himself. It was a success. He saved the son he loved most and took the life of the daughter he hated. But after I died, Dad turned himself in to the police, and Marcus lost his mind.

"I assure, all those who dared to mock me will soon regret it, especially you, my dear ex-husband!" Samantha Swan, a 24 years old young woman, orphaned and working as a waitress, found herself pregnant by Marcus Johnson, a billionaire known for his arrogance, ruthlessness, and icy heart. Her life turned into a living nightmare when she was coerced into marrying him for the sake of their unborn child. She never experienced love, only enduring abuse at the hands of Marcus and her mother in-law, until one fateful day when she could bear it no longer. She made the courageous decision to escape, even though she was pregnant. She had reached her breaking point. Realizing that she would rather be a single mother, raising her child alone, than endure the pain inflicted upon her by her husband and mother in-law under the same roof, Samantha took a leap of faith. One day, as fate would have it, she collapsed on the road, only to awaken in a grand and opulent mansion, standing before a bearded and elderly man seated in a wheelchair. "Glad you're awake, my daughter," he said with a smile. From that day forward, Samantha discovered that she was the long-lost daughter and the sole heir of the Trillionaire, Zeus Monte Verde.

My mother was the best portrait artist in the police station. She had a strong sense of justice and brooked no evil. However, all I got was a sharp retort when I called her to save me. "You know it's your sister's coming-of-age celebration today, and you're cursing her? Kidnapped, are you? Fine, the kidnappers can kill you for all I care." She assumed it was a prank call. So, she refused to go to the police station and do her job. I wasn't saved in time and was tortured to death. When the DNA report came out, she came to the scene all wobbly. She drew a portrait of me with my bones as reference, her hand trembling all the way. "Jessica? It can't be her. This is a mistake!" She tried again and again. Yet, it didn't matter how many times she redid it as the portrait showed my face. My mother, who had hated me my whole life, teared up.

Loyalty. Pride. Family. These are the only values that matter. Jozef is both nephew and enforcer to the Koba crime family. He is ruthless, brutal and completely loyal to his family. Shaun is a doctor working in the Ukraine with Doctors Without Borders. She’s logical, kind and honest. Shaun has been trained on how to deal with hostage situations, but nothing prepares her for Jozef or the life he’s forcing her into. From the operating room to an opulent glittering ballroom and a forced engagement, Shaun is wildly out of her depth. Every step she takes is monitored and the man who kidnapped her watches her like a feral dog preparing to strike. Caught in a deadly plight, Shaun has no choice but to give her heart to a killer or become another victim of organized crime.NOTE: Sinner’s Empire contains scenes of sexual content, violent situations, and panic attacks.Sinner’s Empire is created by Nikita Slater, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

สาวงามในบทขับลำนำมีหลายประเภท ที่ได้ยินบ่อยๆ ก็มี สาวงามสร้างชาติ สาวงามล่มอาณาจักร สาวงามอาภัพรัก สาวงามร้อยเล่ห์ อ้อ...ที่ขาดไม่ได้เลย คงจะเป็น สาวงามสู้ชีวิต ถ้าให้ลองจัดประเภท อัยน์นา คงเป็นหญิงงามชื่อแปลกที่ครอบครองตำแหน่งทั้งหมดที่พูดมาแบบเกือบจะเหมาเรียบ ไม่ใช่เพราะเธอสวย ไม่ใช่เพราะเธอดวงดีหรือดวงซวย คุณหนูอัยน์นาคนนี้ได้ทุกตำแหน่งมาครองเพราะเธอ 'เป็นเหยื่อ' ต่างหาก แต่เป็นเหยื่อประเภทที่สามารถเปลี่ยนให้คนที่มั่นใจว่าเธอเป็นเหยื่อ กลายเป็นเหยื่อที่น่าสงสารยิ่งกว่าได้ในชั่วพริบตา นี่คือเรื่องราวของผู้หญิงที่ดูคล้ายซินเดอเรลล่า แต่ดันเป็นซินเดอเรลล่าเจ้าเล่ห์ที่พร้อมจะผลักแม่เลี้ยงกับพี่สาวทั้งสองลงเหวทุกเมื่อ กับ คนที่เป็นเหมือนเจ้าชายอสูร แต่ดันเป็นเจ้าชายอสูรที่หล่อที่สุด สุภาพที่สุด สุขุมที่สุด ดูนิ่งที่สุด แต่ก็เจ้าเล่ห์ที่สุดเท่าที่เคยมีมา เมื่อเจ้าชายอสูรกับซินเดอเรลล่าร้อยเล่ห์มาพบกัน การฟาดฟันระหว่าง "นางเอก" กับ "เจ้าชายอสูร" จึงเป็นเรื่องที่เลี่ยงไม่ได้...แต่ต่อให้เลี่ยงได้ก็คงไม่มีใครยอมเลี่ยงหรอกมั้ง ก็ทั้งคู่ดูจะสนุกกับการฟาดการฟันครั้งนี้มากนี่นา

จากองค์หญิงศักดิ์สิทธิ์ผู้สูงส่ง ตกเป็นนางบำเรอของแม่ทัพที่โหดเหี้ยมต่ำช้า หนิงซิน องค์หญิงองค์รองของแคว้นป๋าย ต้องทุกข์ระทม หลั่งน้ำตาดุจธาราในหน้าฝน ในแต่ละวันถูกกระทำย่ำยีเยี่ยงสัตว์เดรัจฉาน แม้สิ้นสติไปแล้ว บุรุษต่ำช้าที่ใต้หล้าครั่นคร้าม ก็ยังไม่ยอมรามือ ข่มเหงรังแกนางอย่างไม่ปรานีปราศรัย ไม่มีแม้แต่เศษเสี้ยวของความสงสารเห็นใจสักนิด จากสูงส่งเสียดฟ้า กลายเป็นดอกหญ้าให้คนย่ำเล่น หนิงซินที่ตกเป็น 'เชลย' ในมือศัตรูที่ร้ายกาจที่สุด จะเอาตัวรอดอย่างไรไหว...

I'm severely allergic to many things, so my husband buys a separate villa for me. It's supposed to be sort of a nursing home. When my future daughter-in-law learns about this, she thinks my son is cheating on her. She breaks my bones to vent her anger. When she finds out I'm her future mother-in-law, she caresses her belly and looks at me smugly. "I'm already pregnant with Shawn's child. Think about whether you want this child to make it into this world." What she doesn't know is that the Ziegler family's fortune belongs to me and that Shawn Ziegler is only my adoptive son.

The emergency center I worked in went haywire as the typhoon closed in on our town. That night, my husband’s first love made seven emergency calls in a row to me. However, she did not say anything when I picked up. By the eighth call, I thought it was a prank caller, so I gave them a piece of my mind. Then, I heard my husband’s angry voice. “Melinda! This is the eighth time Sadie's called you for help! Haven’t you made her suffer enough?!” After that fiasco, he decided to avenge Sadie by taping my mouth, tying my wrists and legs up, and throwing me into our basement for three whole days, despite it being flooded with seawater, I begged for mercy, but it was to no avail. “You knew Sadie couldn’t talk because she hurt her throat, yet you still hung up on her! I'm going to make sure you feel the same hopelessness she felt!" Those three days left me with a collection of severe infections. I ended up having to remove my kidney. Even after all that, that man still had the gall to kneel by my bed and beg me to give him another chance.