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While we were eating, Tristan Shaw suddenly set down his fork and looked at me. “Who is Fatcat Cook?” The fork in my hand froze midair. My heart skipped a beat. Fatcat Cook. That name was someone Lena Moore and I made up on a drunken night. We had agreed that if anything ever went wrong and we couldn’t reach each other, we would use “Fatcat Cook” as a code. No one else knew that name existed. Only the two of us. And Lena had been missing for a full month. She said she was going to Valoria for a trip. Then she never came back. I looked at Tristan’s calm, almost indifferent face, and felt my heart sink. How did he know that name?

"I'm willing to be a papa to your son, but don't ever expect me to treat you like a wife." To realize her son's dream of having a daddy, Lily is willing to enter into a contract marriage with Keenan, who also happens to be desperate to find a wife to inherit his family's company. An agreement was made where the relationship between the two would appear harmonious only in front of the child. However, they cannot resist the fate that has fostered unusual feelings. Unfortunately, the appearance of a past figure is also inevitable. Making it hard for both of them to go further. Will Lily and Keenan stay together? Or will each of them choose to give up when there is no more reason to survive?

The day Joe Tanner’s parents died and his classmates cornered him in cruel bullying, I was the one who jumped into the river to save him—and lost my heart to him in that moment. For the next ten years, I poured everything I had into him. I hid my own admission letter to Great Eastern University. I washed dishes until my hands cracked, hauled bricks until my shoulders bled, even sold the pocket watch my mother left me—all so he could study without worry. I watched him rise from a ridiculed illegitimate child to a celebrated professor at the very peak of academia. All I ever wanted in return was a home we could call ours. But the day he achieved success, he forgot the woman who had built his world. So, I made my choice— If he could abandon my love, then I would walk away without looking back.

Sofia Vez lives a life filled with insults, mockery and constant pressure from her parents to keep her wolf hidden.They claim she is the weakest wolf known to their kind.One that would be thrown away or worse, killed if the truth is out.Sofia does everything in her power to obey her parents but the night of Blood moon takes a shift in her small happy world.Her boyfriend Anthony, who claimed to be her mate turns out to be in someone else's fate. Heartbroken and disappointed, driven by pain, Sofia decides to end her life but that very night she bumps into a stranger. He is no stranger but Alpha blood from the Dark Shadow Pack.Carlos DeLuca, smart, strikingly handsome, ripped with muscles.Thrives on power and with a hint of darkness, he is feared by most yet a sight to behold. A small misunderstanding and Sofia finds herself entangled with Carlos in his study room. “I don't do young women” He claims yet his actions speaks the otherwise.He is unable to keep his hands off Sofia, the girl that tortures him in his sleep and thoughts. As their attraction overpowers all the morals, truth unveils itself, doing lot worse damage they could take. Everything is at stake, and they must find a solution. Dig in the chapters to know what happens to Sofia and Carlos. Are they mates? Will they fall in love or ruin each other in the process?

Rose Miller, a 20-year-old, traveling to find a place to live away from everyone she ever knew after her parents died during a global pandemic. She stumbled upon an unknown place full of mystery and dark secrets. Her blackout episodes grew after she meets a stranger named David. The mystery starts to unravel as she becomes acquainted with David and his friends. She needs to listen to the voice in her head to save herself from the danger that awaits her.

Kiera Hart was a kindergarten teacher, until the day she was the only thing standing between her kids and a man with a gun. Kiera was injured and can no longer be in a classroom without having a panic attack. A year later she has just moved to New York and started a new job, a quite boring job. But before she can even settle in, her boss, William Lund needs help in a family matter… a matter that has her fake married to her handsome icy boss, a boss she was told is gay. How will Kiera handle it when she starts falling in love with her fake husband, not to mention her bond with the cutest little girl in the world, Frida.

This book follows the story of childhood best friends Luciano and Natalie Luciano has been in love with Natalie for as long as he can remember, but he doesn't think that Natalie reciprocates those feelings and so he continues being the best friend Natalie has mixed feelings. she is not sure whther she loves his as a friend or not years into their friendship, Luciano is in 'need' of a wife and so asks Natalie for her hand in marriage as he does not want to tie himself to someone else

On New Year's Eve, my own brother slapped me three times. He stood there, full of himself, and spat at me in disgust. "This is my house. Who do you think you are, coming in here and telling me what to do? Get out. You're nothing but bad luck. If you dare stay, I'll hit you again." He seemed to have forgotten something. The house he was living in was the one I had bought for Mom. The jewelry his wife wore was all paid for by me. The money in his children's hands was the generous allowance I had just given them. My face still burning, I looked around at the others. My sister-in-law curled her lips into a mocking smile and let out an icy snort. The two children stared at me with open hostility. Mom, who had called me there tonight for my birthday, stood silently in the corner. Just like always, her eyes were red, yet she said nothing. At that moment, something in me snapped.

In Bannister Academy, there was an ultimate bully named Cahleen Seth Monteserio that was admired by everyone despite of his bad attitudes. However, Shantal Farah Lindzbergh the scholar of the Academy was never attracted to him. They were like cats and dogs that always fight whenever they see each other. But behind those actions that they flaunt to each other, there was a hidden chemistry that was going on between the two of them. The bully that was known as the clever one will change his life for the girl who captured his heart. While the simple girl that was nothing to worry about was having a hard time on a guy that caught her attention. He, secretly adores her. She, undeniably loves him. It was the beginning and end of everything.

Delmar fell in love with a childhood friend named Brisa who was getting married in two days. "I love you, Bri." "Are you crazy, Del?" "Yeah, I'm crazy for loving you. And also face the fact that you will marry someone else! I have gone mad!” "We're friends, Del." “But it's been a long time since I no longer consider you as my best friend. I love you, Bri." Delmar's hope is the only hope. Bri left him without answering his question at all. Because Brisa did not accept the feeling, Delmar chose to leave. Five years later he returned and found Brisa had many physical injuries which she assumed were the result of domestic violence. Will Delmar save Brisa or let Brisa live with her choices?