Eight Hundred Grapes

Everyone in our circle knew I had always been obsessed with Daniel Rothman. I followed whatever he did—went to school, learnt eight different languages, studied finance. After all, the Rothmans and Fosters were destined to merge through marriage—our intertwined business empires depended on it. However, on our wedding day, Daniel flew overseas to rescue his crush in distress. Our childhood bond, once the envy of everyone, became the biggest joke of all. There I was, wearing a wedding dress worth millions, standing alone as I completed the grand ceremony by myself. The headlines were everywhere. For the first time, my name came before his in the news. How foolish. Men were a dime a dozen. But there was only one well-established business empire. I did not just want his body. I wanted his money, too.

I am a billionaire titan who controls the world’s medical supply chains. With one phone call, I can bring an entire city’s healthcare to its knees. In the boardroom, I am the queen they all fear. But eight years ago, I was nothing. They said a girl like me was lucky to have even breathed the same air as a Harrington. I was the "placeholder" wife of Ryan Harrington, a man whose family name carries the weight of a dynasty. To the Harringtons, I was a nameless girl from the gutter, a woman Ryan married and discarded like a piece of trash. His mistress threw me out into the winter night, pregnant and penniless, expecting me to wither away and die. But you can’t kill a woman who has nothing left to lose. I used to pray for his love. Now, I’m coming for his empire.

Synopsis Vera, a plus-size she-wolf, suffers the ultimate betrayal when her mate Alpha Daemon publicly humiliates her by sleeping with five she-wolves during their Moon Ceremony before rejecting and banishing her. Broken and alone, she's attacked by rogues until Dante Russo—a ruthless Lycan hybrid and mafia king—saves her life. When their second-chance mate bond ignites, Vera tries to reject it, terrified of more pain. But Dante has waited eight years for his mate and refuses to let her go. As he introduces her to his dangerous world of crime and violence, he makes a deadly vow: everyone who hurt Vera will pay in blood. Now Vera must decide if she can trust again and accept her place as queen of the underworld, while Dante wages war on anyone who dares disrespect his mate.

After eight years together, I've proposed to my boyfriend 108 times. Each time, he found a different excuse to turn me down. On the 109th try, I give up a promotion and transfer opportunity. Finally, he said yes. I think he's moved by my sincerity. But instead, he brings his first love into our marital home and falls into our bed with her. "I only proposed to her to spite you. If you just say the word, I'll dump her at the altar and marry you instead!" Staring at the scene before me, I take the tight engagement ring off my finger and toss it down the drain. I decide to call off the wedding before he can. But after I walk away, the man who swore he'd marry someone else went crazy searching for me everywhere.

“I can’t believe you are coming back after all this years Aria, you still haven’t learnt your lessons after all this years.” Jessica said harshly. Aria look at her deceptive sister dead in the eyes, “ The only lesson I learnt is never to underestimate a mother trying to take the rightful heir for her children.” Eight years ago, Aria’s world shattered when she caught her billionaire husband Michael cheating with her own sister Jessica. Divorcing with a little money in her account, She left the city. Now, Aria is back, much stronger than ever before with her twin sons Alex and Austin. As betrayal unravels, Micheal realizes his greatest mistake was losing Aria. Can Aria conquer this high-stakes games of secret and lies within the elite billionaire world with her sons on her sides ?

Sara is used to being hated, ever since birth. Being the illegitimate step-daughter of the alpha of her pack, her life was the most mierable. She dreams of escaping the abusive household, however that becomes impossible when she is thrusted into a forced marriage barely eight months away from finding her true mate. But life as a wife of an alpha took an unexpected turn, especially when her husband turns out to be a loving one. Unexpected emotions bloom between them and they find solace in each other, healing each other's shattered pieces and deepest wounds. But just as she starts to believe in the possibility of finding long lasting happiness, fate throws an unexpected reality in her face that might shatter everything she's built. Will Sara choose to follow her heart and choose a love that mended the broken pieces of her life or succumb to what fate has chosen for her?

A cabin by a lake for the summer with barely a soul in sight sounds like the perfect place to disappear to for eight weeks. Just me and my laptop, writing my next bestseller. Away from the city and the drama. My plans soon change on my first day here, all because of a handsome stranger who turns out not to be as much as a stranger as I thought. Sound's complicated, right? I didn't come here to get involved with anyone, the opposite really, but Kyson has a way to get to me easily, one which isn't so easy to fight especially when he is next door for the entire summer. I could resist, I should resist, but it is hard to fight chemistry, lust and connection, all things we seemed to share. I didn't think when I came here my summer would change everything and not all for the best.

"The story of wedding proposals and unexpected rejections from each other influenced by their family members", is the one line narration of Persuasion, a romantic novel by Jane Austen. Frederick Wentworth, a Naval officer proposed to wed Annie, when she was 19 years old. Anne's family members felt that Frederick is not the right match for her as Frederick is poor and does not have a family back round. Influenced by her family members including father, sister and brother-in-law, Anne later decided not to marry Frederick. Russel, acting in place of her mother, breaks the engagement. Eight years later Frederick becomes wealthy and he is now a captain. Anne still unmarried now and meets Frederick who has not forgiven Anne's rejection. Being an eligible bachelor now, he publicly declares he would accept proposal from any one except Anne.

The day my mafia boss husband, Zann Lima, went bankrupt, a car accident crippled both his legs. He was paralyzed from the waist down. I inherited his astronomical debt, and with it, the responsibility to care for him for the rest of his life. For an entire year, I was beaten by debt collectors until I vomited blood, yet I couldn’t bear to buy painkillers. I collapsed from exhaustion working eight jobs a day, yet I couldn’t bear to take a day off. Every penny I earned went toward keeping Zann alive. I believed this was love’s steadfast devotion, until one night, when I was delivering drinks at a club. I stumbled upon the man who was supposed to be sitting and waiting for me at home in his wheelchair, now clinking glasses with his guests, who all revered him as Don!

My boyfriend of eight years didn’t just leave me. He left me for my sister. And then suddenly, they were getting married. I hate being seen as the weakling, the ugly one. So I did what I could. I made an offer to Liam Carter —my Highschool Bully when we met in Tuscany. The last person I ever wanted to owe anything to. We pretend to date for the summer, to make everyone believe I’ve moved on and in return I help with his PR stunt. It was supposed to be fake. No feelings. No strings. Just a deal between enemies with something to prove. But the more we pretend, the more the lines blur—and suddenly, the boy who once made my life miserable might be the only one who truly sees me. And the worst part? I think I’m starting to fall for him.