Build Tension Meaning Novels & Stories

Masked Queen is a novel that takes you on a journey filled with music and romance. Lana is a big-time celebrity famous for hiding her identity as a model, a practice pretty uncommon in the modelling world. She runs from her past to build a new beginning and start afresh, she just didn't expect her past to catch up with her In so many ways. Forced into the limelight she has spent decades to avoid, she tackles two different career paths, double lives, and two different relationships with the same freaking person. What's a girl to do when her web of lies are wound up so right around her neck, she's practically choking? Reveal the truth or, get eaten alive?

Nyssa gave everything to her pack, her loyalty, her future and even her life. As Luna, she helped her mate build an empire from nothing. She thought she had the perfect life, until the night he poisoned her. She was betrayed by her mate, replaced by her best friend and killed off like she was nothing. But death was not the end for her. Nyssa wakes up five years in the past—on the day she was forced to accept the mate who would destroy her. This time, she refuses. This time, she walks away from the pack that broke her. And this time, she’s not here to love or to be used. She’s here to rise, rebuild, and make every single one of them regret ever touching her life.

For the last ten years, Zack Riley– the delinquent, school bully– had been mercilessly teasing Anna Reece– the sweet, nerdy girl everyone liked. But one day that all changed… Due to jealous possession, Zack confessed the feeling he had been hiding since they were children. Can this misled boy work through his own psychological trauma and be boyfriend material? Can Anna work through her trust issues and look past her past with deceitful boys, to accept Zack’s feelings? Yes, and yes, in fact, these two unexpected characters, manage to build a bond stronger that most bonds. They share a connection so deep, some might say that it is fate.

On her husband’s 34th birthday, Marie and their young son planned a surprise visit to his company, excited to celebrate. However, their joy quickly turned to shock and humiliation when they discovered that Marie was not recognized as the CEO’s wife. Her husband had been publicly presenting another woman as his wife, leaving Marie devastated and embarrassed. Weeks later, her ex-boyfriend returned, only to learn that Marie no longer owned the company he had helped build before he left. As her ex-boyfriend contemplated seeking revenge on her husband, Marie’s young son, Simeon, gave him an unexpected ultimatum: either seek revenge and walk away, or marry his mother and leave the past behind.

He is cold-hearted and he hates her.  Following a tragic car accident that leaves him cold and heartless, Dominic Maximus marries the woman responsible for the death of his family to avenge their loss. Charlene Maximus, a former ballet dancer who lost everything due to the accident, serves time in prison before marrying Dominic. She thinks it's love, but their marriage is one of pure revenge and agony. Faced with a loveless marriage and a husband who despises her, Charlene must uncover the truth and make her marriage work, if it's not too late. Can they put aside their past to build a future together, or is their love destined to fail? Discover the unanticipated twists of this gripping story of love, loss, and marriage.

When Charlotte’s fairytale marriage turns into a nightmare, she tries to fight to stay with her husband and build a home like the one her parents had; filled with love and happiness, but the reverse was the case. Her marriage was filled with heartbreak, neglect, and old flames, which drove them apart. Amidst their failed marriage, they embarked on different journeys as she let go to rebuild her life and pursue her dreams. Rogerio decides to reconcile with his ex-girlfriend and soon realizes that he can’t live without her. He embarks on a journey to win back her heart. Will they be able to mend their broken hearts and give their love a second chance, or are some wounds too deep to heal?

A company trust building trip turns into a trip home to the company’s CEO Micha Moran. He takes the group back to the ranch he grew up on. While there he finds that Sophia is also a farm girl and she proves to be much more to him then he planned on when a deal between them for two weeks could turn into forever. A true statement was you can take the person off the farm but not the farm out of the person. Sophia proves this to herself and to her boss who doesn't stay her boss for very long. They have everything the other wants in a partner. As they build their life together from the foundations of the farms they grew up on everything else finds its place easily.

Milene sees her world crumbling down after the death of her father, what seemed like a perfect world comes crashing down within the twinkle of an eye. Being the eldest daughter of the Scardoni family, she felt the need to help out when her family began to face endless embarrassment from loan sharks but what seemed like a duty to maintain the peace of her family ended up with her being sold to a capo in the Italian mafia world. All Angelo needed is a bride who would ease the tension surrounding the sudden attempt on his life. He used the helpless situation yet selfish act of the Scardoni widow to gain her daughter as his bride but ends up developing deep feelings for her. As Milene is being forced to live with Angelo as his wife, she is faced with some difficulties in the underworld facing endless criticism from women who has been there before her. With the increased tension, Angelo finds himself going through anything just to protect his wife, he finds himself being forced to forfeit his role as capo because of his unwillingness to send Milene away and then get himself acquainted with the Russian mafia family by marrying the pakhan’s daughter. What happens when he wakes up one morning to discover that Milene is no longer by his side? Would he give up everything to look for her or would he believe the tales that is being told.

Some people are trained to disappear. Others are trained to make problems disappear. Reid Calder operates in the space no one admits exists. His team is untraceable, unacknowledged, and brutally efficient. They are deployed when the mission cannot fail and cannot be traced. Control is the only reason it works. Distance is the only rule. Alexis Harper is not part of his system. She’s a linguistic and counterintelligence specialist designed for environments Reid’s team can’t survive. Unassuming when she wants to be. Invisible when it matters. Dangerous in ways that don’t leave bruises. She’s placed into his unit without his consent, into a world built on silence and authority, and she refuses to play small. They clash immediately. Reid sees her as disruption. Alexis sees him as arrogance wrapped in control. Their arguments are sharp, relentless, and impossible to ignore. Every room tightens when they’re together. Every exchange feels like a challenge neither is willing to lose. The closer they’re forced to work, the more volatile the tension becomes. Because some battles aren’t about dominance. They’re about restraint. And when two people trained to never lose control are pushed into constant proximity, the fallout is inevitable. Proximity Hazard is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance packed with covert operations, razor-sharp banter, forced proximity, and tension so thick it borders on reckless. Perfect for readers who crave dangerous men, brilliant women, and chemistry that feels like a threat.

The last thing Sophia Rossi ever expected was making a deal with the devil. When the ruthless mafia boss, Nikolai Lev, stormed into her home seeking revenge against her father for the murder of his father, she had no choice but to offer herself to him, even if it meant losing her freedom. Sophia offers herself in exchange for her father's life. What she doesn't expect is a shocking marriage contract from the handsome devil who threatened to kill her father. Now she must become his wife, share his bed, and give him an heir, or her father will die. As Nikolai's plot for revenge against his real enemies continues to build, so do his feelings for Sophia.