Barbie In The Nutcracker Clara

When the kingdom of Ormond is invaded, eighteen year old Princess Eithne is enslaved by the cynical conqueror, Xander of Frankia. Her innocent eyes are opened to a world of untold cruelty and depravity at the heart of which is her estranged mother, Clara Sylvain Lovell. Mourning the death of her beloved father, King Stephen, Eithne is worried about her older brother, Ephron, who has not been heard from for a while. Xander claims acquaintance with the disgraced royal heir and says he is currently in jail overseas. He swears he will try and secure his release in return for her favours. But is he to be trusted? Eithne sees another side of her sometimes brutal master when they learn that young girls are going missing all over the realm. Does this resonate with him on a far more personal level than he is letting on? And is Xander really the blackguard he seems, or will love tame the tamer?

Sieben Jahre Ehe. Maximilian von Falken behandelte sie kalt wie Eis, doch Clara begegnete ihm stets mit einem Lächeln. Weil sie ihn zutiefst liebte. Sie glaubte, eines Tages sein Herz erwärmen zu können. Doch alles, was sie erntete, war seine bedingungslose Liebe zu einer anderen Frau, die er mit allen Mitteln beschützte. Verzweifelt kämpfte sie weiter um ihre Ehe. Bis zu jenem Tag – ihrem Geburtstag. Sie war tausende Kilometer gereist, um ihn und ihre Tochter im Ausland zu besuchen. Er aber nahm ihre Tochter mit, um jene andere Frau zu treffen, und ließ sie allein im leeren Haus zurück. Da starb endgültig etwas in ihr. Als ihre eigenhändig großgezogene Tochter verlangte, die andere Frau solle ihre Mama werden, brach Clara das Herz. Sie setzte die Scheidungsvereinbarung auf, verzichtete auf das Sorgerecht und ging ohne einen Blick zurück. Von da an kümmerte sie sich nicht mehr um Maximilian und Tochter, sondern wartete nur noch darauf, dass die Scheidung vollzogen würde. Sie gab die Familie auf und kehrte zu ihrer Karriere zurück. Die einst von allen verachtete Frau verdiente mühelos ein Milliardenvermögen. Doch sie wartete und wartete – die Scheidung wurde nicht nur nicht vollzogen, der Mann, der früher nie nach Hause wollte, kam plötzlich immer häufiger zurück und klammerte sich immer fester an sie. Als er erfuhr, dass sie die Scheidung wollte, drängte der sonst so vornehm-kalte Mann sie in eine Ecke: „Scheidung? Das kommt nicht in Frage. “

LIBRO UNO Él es dueño de la escuela. Yo apenas sobrevivo en ella. Cuando mi mejor amigo, Matt, elige a mi acosador por encima de mí, algo dentro de mí se rompe. Entonces aparece Lucien Knox Ravenscroft. Heredero de la Academia Ravenscroft, peligroso, intocable y muy consciente de que ella es su ex. Me ofrece un trato: una relación falsa que pone a toda la escuela de cabeza. Yo quiero que Matt se arrepienta de todo. Él quiere venganza por haber sido reemplazado. Entonces llega su apuesta. Si Matt vuelve a notarme, yo gano. Si no, le pertenezco a Lucien durante todo el tiempo que él quiera. Cuanto más fingimos, más real se siente. Y Lucien nunca juega con suavidad. LIBRO DOS Aurora Harrison nunca planeó convertirse en Barbie Noir, la stripper más codiciada del club clandestino de la élite neoyorquina. Pero cuando su madre enfermó y su padre la dejó sin nada, hizo lo que tuvo que hacer para sobrevivir. Cinco años después, baila en las sombras, rezando para que los fantasmas de su pasado nunca la encuentren. Pero algunos fantasmas siempre regresan. Kai Mercer ya no es el chico dorado que ella una vez amó. A los treinta años, es un CEO multimillonario con un imperio secreto construido sobre el deseo, el poder y el pecado. El mundo ve a un empresario impecable, pero a puerta cerrada… —Ha pasado mucho tiempo, Aurora. Él gobierna el club más prohibido de la ciudad, oculto de su padre, del público… y de la chica que lo rompió. Hasta que Aurora entra en su suite privada para un baile de veinte mil dólares. Una mirada. Un susurro. Una chispa. La quiere de vuelta—de forma obsesiva, peligrosa, completamente suya.

Five years in a coma. That’s how long Ava Jameson’s world was on pause. She woke expecting love and care from her husband, only to find her husband, Ethan, married to her sister Clara and raising a boy. It breaks her heart. She's sent to Blackwell Manor to recover at the mansion of her husband's stepfather, Damian Blackwell, a billionaire CEO with a reputation for ruthlessness. Damian has no interest in messy family drama, until he sees Ava. She awakens something he thought had died with his wife. This is dangerous and their attraction is forbidden. But when Ava is pressured to give up her settlement and is pressured by Ethan to live quietly, Damian offers her a shocking deal, a fake marriage in return for revenge. But now Ethan wants her back, and she finds herself caught between her past and her present, especially her father-in-law makes her feel things, her Ethan never did.

Shafira gadis yang malang, dengan tega ia dijadikan jaminan oleh keluarganya sendiri demi menebus ayahnya yang ditawan akibat ketahuan mencuri di rumah seorang saudagar kaya-Tuan Abimana Guinandra- Kenward Albern Guinandra kemudian rela menjadi pengantin pengganti demi menjaga keselamatan Shafira yang hendak dijadikan istri ketiga oleh kakeknya. Pernikahanpun terjadi meskipun tanpa didasari cinta. Di hati Kenward masih bersemanyam nama Clara Anastasia-mendiang istri-yang sangat dia cintai. Berbagai kecaman dan perilaku yang tidak mengenakkan pun dirasakan oleh Shafira bahkan Alice dan Ibunya tega menfitnahnya. Semua itu dihadapi dengan tegar. Dia tidak ingin Ayahnya kembali mendekam di balik jeruji besi. Lantas, bagaimana Shafira akan menghadapi kesulitan ini sendiri? Sedangkan cinta dari suaminya pun tak kunjung dia dapatkan.

Elliot Sinclair has it all—money, power, a picture-perfect fiancée, and the eyes of the world watching his every move. But behind closed doors, his life is anything but perfect. Because Elliot is in love. With Jonah Hartfield. A man. Jonah is everything Elliot shouldn't want—fierce, reckless, possessive. Their affair is a powder keg of passion and danger, one kiss away from destruction. The world can't know. His family can't know. And Clara, the woman he’s supposed to marry for the cameras, definitely can’t know. But Jonah is done playing games. He doesn’t care about appearances. He doesn’t care about the cameras. He just wants Elliot. Completely. And he’s not interested in sharing. When jealousy boils over and secrets get harder to hide, Elliot is forced to choose: keep pretending for the world—or burn it all down for the man he can’t live without.

Ryan Badawi selalu dikenal sebagai orang yang penuh kasih sayang. Tetapi pada hari ketika cinta pertamanya terdiagnosa kanker, dia malah kasih aku obat yang bisa membuat seseorang amnesia. “Mona, Clara sudah mau meninggal. Kasih aku tiga hari, aku akan memenuhi pernikahan impiannya." "Aku tidak akan membuatmu sedih. Obat ini hanya membuatmu amnesia sementara. Ketika pernikahan kami selesai dalam 3 hari, kamu minum obat penawarnya dan akan kembali mencintaiku. Saat itu, kita menikah kembali." Melihat tatapannya yang sangat mendesak, aku mengambil obat itu dan langsung menelannya tanpa ragu-ragu. Tapi Ryan tidak tahu bahwa obat amnesia itu adalah hasil penelitianku sendiri, dan sebenarnya tidak ada obat penawarnya. Setelah tiga hari, aku akan benar-benar melupakan dia.

My marriage to Dante, the Moretti heir, was meant to be a union of power, an alliance of empires. But for me, it was also the real deal. Then his adopted sister, Clara, showed up at a party. She was wearing his custom leather jacket, straddling his prized Ducati, and she looked right at me with a smirk. "Dante says," she purred, "that I suit these precious things better than you do." My smile froze. Dante had her on a plane overseas so fast it was like she'd never existed. Five years later, the night before our wedding. I found him staring at the design for our wedding rings. He'd changed the engraving. The "Amor Aeternus"—Eternal Love—was gone. In its place: "Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa." My sin, my greatest sin. I took off my veil right then and there. "The wedding," I said, my voice like ice, "is off."

The day before the semester began, my childhood friend Daniel Carter asked if he could borrow my private jet. Thinking he'd finally changed his ways, I agreed without a second thought. A moment later, he transferred a single dollar, calling it rent because he couldn't stand the thought of freeloading. The quirky amount said more than words ever could. I smiled and accepted it. On the first day of school, I kept things low-key, taking a cab back to campus. But when I arrived, there it was, my private jet parked right in the middle of the quad. The jet had been decked out in bubblegum pink, and students crowded around, their eyes shining with envy. My heart leapt. For once, I thought Daniel had finally figured it out. Beaming, I braced myself for his surprise. But as I drew closer, my smile froze. Sitting barefoot in the pilot's seat, my seat, was Clara West, the campus' queen bee.

Jason Reed had been my boyfriend for seven years. He suddenly disappeared, and the last place I was able to trace him was Melvaris. That night, I received a video call. In it, a man holding an electric baton yelled, “Bring 50 million dollars as ransom to the industrial zone. Otherwise, don’t expect him to return alive.” Jason was beside the man. He was covered in blood. He pleaded desperately, “Clara! Save me! They promise to let me go if we give them the money!” Without thinking twice, I did as I was told. However, when I arrived, I was drugged and knocked unconscious. In the end, I was tortured to death. What hurt the most was not that. Jason took one-third of the ransom I had prepared. Then, he returned to Caldovia and married Hannah Blake, the student who had received financial assistance from my family. But when I opened my eyes again, I found myself back on the day he went missing.