Cherry Blossom Depression Glass

My sister and I were caught up in a severe car accident during a family road trip down the mountain for the New Year. Shattered glass pierced straight through my heart. Amid the excruciating pain, my fiance and family insisted the rescue team take my sister, who only had a scratched arm, to the hospital first. As I cried out for them to save me, my fiance snapped at me. “Carol, you should know when to stop vying for attention! “Delila is bleeding so much. Why must you compete with her?” Dad shook his head and sighed while Mom looked at me with disgust. I forced my stiff neck to look over. They were all surrounding my younger sister. She only sported a faint red mark on her arm. No one saw the blood gushing from my chest. No one heard my fading heartbeat. I died during that snowy, bitterly frigid night. When they finally remembered me and came across my cold body, my fiance and family went mad.

Two families at war. One marriage for peace. Many lies to hide the truth. ​Alessia Moretti did not marry Lucien Valenti because she loved him; she married him to get information. As the daughter of the Moretti leader, she believes the Valentis killed her brother, Enzo. Now, she is living in their home, ready to destroy their business from the inside. ​Lucien Valenti is a man of secrets. He knows his wife is a spy, and he is ready to play her game—until a person from the past returns with a warning: the real enemy is not the husband she lives with, but the father who forced her into the marriage. ​When a stolen file reveals "Project Veil"—a terrible medical plan paid for by her own family, Alessia is forced to work with the man she wanted to kill. From the expensive parties in Manhattan to the dark hallways of secret labs in Italy, Alessia and Lucien must deal with many betrayals. ​In the world of the Syndicate, the truth is more dangerous than a lie. And the truth is: some secrets are better left hidden.

"Angelica San Andres" Isa ito sa mga pangalang hinahangaan at kinakatakutan ng buong mundo. Her influence rules the world of business or perhaps our world. She change the landscape of every sector of any industry with her creativity, intelligence, and wisdom. "She was glorified by the world" ika nga ng karamihan ngunit sa gitna ng kaniyang pamamayagpag ay kailangan niyang lumisan at bumalik sa pinanggalingan dahil sa isang tungkulin na kailangan niyang gampanan. Si Angelica ang tagapagmana ng kahariang Xeria sa planetang Sedus kung kaya't sinigurado ng kaniyang ama na babalik ang kaniyang anak upang gampanan ito subalit labis ang pagkamuhi ni Agelica sa kanilang planeta dahil ito ang kaniyang sinisisi kung bakit hindi niya nararanasan ang kaniyang mga kagustuhan at ito ang attensyon at oras ng kaniyang ina at mas lalong umusbong ang kaniyang galit nang mamatay ang kaniyang ama. Pilit na tinatanggihan ni Angelica ang kaniyang tungkulin at nilabag ang ilan sa mahihigpit na batas ng Xeria. Ginawa nito ang lahat upang makaalis sa kanilang planeta, nakipagkasundo ito sa mga kalaban o mga aktibista ng kanilang kaharian upang makabalik sa planeta ng mga tao. At nang siya ay magtagumpay, isang hindi inaasahagan nilalang ang kaniyang makikilala sa mundo ng mga tao na kawangis na kawangis nito. Isang bata na magpapalabas ng kaniyang mga kahinaan. Isang bata na susukatin ang kaniyang mga paninindigan. Isang bata na magpapaalala kung sino siya sa nakaraan. Isang bata na poprotektahan niya hanggang kamatayan. Isang bata na magiging daan upang manumbalik ang kaniyang pagmamahal sa pinanggalingan. At isang bata na tatapos sa kaniyang buhay.

At just twenty-five years, she finds herself in a whole new world completely different from the one she grew up in. This new city is one that never sleeps nor slumbers, earnestly running on a 24/7 work system barely giving anyone the chance to catch their breath. With her best friend by her side, she sails through this unfamiliar way of life- long commutes, endless bills you name it. Life isn’t getting easier, but she manages to stay afloat and thrive. After about two years of living from paycheck to paycheck, her tireless efforts finally pay off when she lands a new job that promises to be sustainable. For the first time in her work life, things finally seem to be going as planned. She earns more and is now able to send enough money home to her family and have some left for herself. But just when everything seems to be perfect, things take a sudden turn left. A coworker accuses her of work malpractice, an allegation that could tear apart everything she has worked so hard for. With her reputation and livelihood on the line, will she be able to prove her innocence before it's too late or will one false accusation destroy the trust she gained from her boss and get her fired?

Vivienne Laurent has everything money can buy — except freedom. Trapped in a glittering empire built by her late father and ruled by her ruthless stepmother, Vivienne lives behind glass walls no one else can see. When her childhood sweetheart reenters her world during a high-stakes business deal, old wounds reopen — and dangerous truths surface. In a world where love is leverage and loyalty has a price, Vivienne must decide whether she will remain a beautiful prisoner… or shatter the glass and claim her own future.

Gumuho ang mundo ni Cherry Villafuerte sa paulit-ulit at harap-harapang pagtataksil ng kanyang nobyo. Dahil sa pagkabigo, parang nawalan ng direksyon ang buhay niya, at napilitang mag-leave sa trabaho. Ngunit sa kanyang pagkalugmok, isang lalaki ang biglang pumasok sa buhay niya—si Reynan Cuevas, ang dating masungit at suplado niyang pasyente, siya ang tila naging ilaw sa madilim niyang mundo. Sa kanilang hindi inaasahang pagkikita, may kakaibang alok sa kanya si Reynan. Isang solusyon na maaaring magpapalaya sa kanya mula sa sakit—isang kasal na kontrakwal. Ngunit handa ba siyang sumugal sa kasanduang kasal na hindi tiyak ang kahihinatnan? O mananatili siyang magpapagapos sa relasyon na siya lang ang nagmamahal?

Isang malusog na sperm. Ito lang ang kailangan ni Virgou sa lalaking nakitaan niya ng katangian para maging ama ng kanyang anak. Si Zerriko Gray. Estudyante sa paaralang itinayo ng kanyang yumaong ina. Hindi siya nagdalawang-isip na alukin ang binata at nagtagumpay na mapapayag ito. Ngunit, hindi pera ang hiniling kapalit kundi ang kanyang puso. Paano niya ibibigay ang hinihingi nitong kabayaran kung ang puso niya ay tumitibok hindi sa lalaki kung hindi sa katulad niya ng kasarian? Magagawa ba nitong basagin ang baluti niya at ilabas ang marupok niyang katauhan? *** Para kay Zek, si Virgou ay isang bituin. Isang bituin na mahirap abutin ngunit kusang kumalas sa daan nito at nahulog sa kanyang kandungan. He knew her depths and darkness. Her light, because she was like a transparent glass. She is smooth and hard. Beautiful and clear. Can resist the heat. Endured pressure and breakage. But more than a mere glass, she is his queen. Always and forever. His glass queen.

Penelope Davenport—perfect Luna, devoted mate, strategic partner—thinks she is a smart woman who built an unbeatable empire beside her Alpha husband. Until the sex tape message that shatters her and instantly makes her realize that she had only ever been a stepping stone. But her unremorseful alpha husband rejects her when she confronts him, calling her infertile and casts her aside for his mistress—a cruel widow who has hated her all along. By nightfall, Penelope is kidnapped to be used as leverage in a struggle between pack Alphas grasping at power and authority.  When her husband is offered the chance to come and save her, he tells them to kill her and get her off his hands. And so they do, unaware that Penelope had been thrown under the bus. But death is not the end. Penelope wakes two hours before the public proposal that once sealed her fate and this time she refuses to be sacrificed.  She rejects her mate afore the entire elite circle and exposes his affair, claiming that she has already moved on. She kisses a stranger walking into the room on impulse to cement this and he turns out to be Lorcan Callahan—the most powerful young Alpha heir in the country. What no one knows is that Lorcan remembers dying too, and this time, he refuses to lose his mate again. Now bound by a contract marriage and a shared thirst for retribution, Penelope and Lorcan will dismantle empires because revenge is always sweeter the second time around.

After a devastating fire ends her career and fractures her memory, famed concert pianist Mila Renard retreats to the Halden Institute, a luxurious psychiatric clinic hidden in the Swiss Alps. Her goal is simple: disappear into silence, avoid the past, and never ask questions. But Halden is not the safe haven it pretends to be. Files vanish. Patients whisper. And her assigned psychiatrist, Dr. Adrien Kael, is as enigmatic as he is unorthodox. Drawn to Mila’s haunting music and unreadable silence, Adrien begins to suspect her amnesia is no accident. When strange accidents start to occur and fragments of that lost night resurface, Mila realizes she didn’t come to Halden by chance—she was brought here. Now, every answer uncovers a new danger. Because some memories were buried for a reason. And someone is watching, waiting, and willing to do anything to make sure the truth stays dead.

Blindfolded and placed on his knees, August takes every pierced inch of the stranger's cock down his throat while his rough hands gripped his hair as cum spills hot inside him, marking him, owning him—another hook up at the club that leaves him sore, broken, and craving more. Accidentally, he gets a job as a live-in housekeeper in a glass house downtown, just a day after that hook-up. He encounters the hot, right-handed man Levi, whom he can't seem to resist. In the house, everything feels strange, as if eyes are watching and walls are listening. A stalker starts sexting him, and he plays along with them. Unknown to him, the house is always watching. Slowly, he started having nightmares, seeing things of his past again, a part he thought he had buried. The house was jogging his memories. He sees a piece of his past in the house, a piece that belonged to his supposedly dead best friend, making him start asking questions about the actual owner of the house. August is trapped with, the anonymous Sexter that doesn't stop making endless demands, Levi the sexy hot assistant, the flashbacks with the Stranger from the club, and an idea that his supposedly dead friend, might not be dead. This is a raw, unapologetically addictive dark erotica, where the only way out is deeper in.