Eight Hundred Grapes

When my fiance's childhood sweetheart, Jenna Gray, gets assigned to a rural work program, he, Austin Bell, volunteers to go with her for three years. Before leaving, he holds my hand and tells me a promise. "Save up while I'm gone and build our wedding fund. We'll get married as soon as I come back." Save up my ass. The moment he leaves, I start living my best life. A year later, Austin, who's supposed to be miles away in some rural village, shows up at our door with Jenna in tow. They're here to ask for money. What he sees when he walks through the door is me, eight months pregnant, lounging on the couch and watching TV. His hands tremble as he points at my pregnant belly. "I've been away for a year… How are you pregnant?" "You're early. If you'd stuck to the plan and come back by then, the kid would already be old enough to run errands."

Daddy brought me to Aunt Jenny’s party. As I was eating a piece of cake, I tasted a cherry between the layers and hurriedly spat it out. Once, I broke out in rashes after eating a cherry and nearly died, so I was deeply traumatized by that flavor even as a young child. However, Aunt Jenny looked heartbroken. “I hid a cherry in the cake as a little surprise, just like it’s good luck to get a bay leaf in a pie. How could you be so rude, Kenny?” Daddy did not even let me explain. He chased me out in the yard and made me stand there as punishment. Mommy said it had been more than a hundred degrees out lately, so she told me to stay home and not go out to play. Now I knew just how hot 104 degrees could be! My body was all itchy, too. I was finding it hard to breathe. I wanted to ask Daddy to forgive me, but he refused to open the door no matter how hard I knocked. He glanced at me coldly through the floor-to-ceiling window. He was not going to let me back in.

BOOK TWO OF THE MOON PRINCESS TRILOGY Caleb has decided to return after over one hundred and seventy-four years. After leaving Kyra and the rest of the pack. Shortly after arriving he finds that Kyra is visiting her family and then an attack causes Hunter to lose his life. Because of someone close to him, Hunter is sent to Purgatory, where he will have to do everything in his power to get free and return to Kyra. No one knows Hunter is trying to survive, while everyone else is trying to overcome the loss and overcome the monster that has planted itself in the depths of Caleb's soul. Kyra struggles to accept losing her mate and learning Caleb's truth. Secrets are revealed. They say the truth will set you free. Except in this case, will the truth be what Kyra needs to accept everything, or will it drive a wedge between her and Caleb as second chance mates? Was Caleb's return the reason for Krya's world to crash and burn around her? Will Kyra be able to accept Caleb and love him when her heart belongs to Hunter? Can Hunter find a way to get free? If he does, what will it take to return to Kyra?

On the day our son, Lucas Smith, turned one month old, my husband, Xavier Smith, learned that his precious childhood sweetheart, Wendy Xander, had been kidnapped. The kidnappers made an outrageous demand. They wanted him to personally cut off our son’s legs. He acted indifferent, as if it didn’t matter. But behind my back, he drugged my drink with a heavy dose of sleeping pills. Dazed and barely able to stay awake, I forced myself toward the nursery. That was when I overheard his conversation with his bodyguard. “Mr. Smith, there’s a good chance Miss Xander staged this whole kidnapping. Are you really going to do this? What if something happens to Lucas?” “It’s just a kid. If he dies, he dies. “Even if this is all fake, I won’t take a single risk when it comes to Wendy.” My hands trembled as I gripped the doorframe. So this was what I meant to him. Eight years together. His own flesh and blood. And none of it mattered more than Wendy.

Maureen Salagunting is a go-getter whose dreams are bigger than her ability and wallet. In fact, she wanted to become a neurosurgeon because she thought it is the hardest profession anyone could have, and she doesn't mind if she would be an old, loveless maiden as long as her bank account is fat and flooding with money. But fate didn't coincide with her plans and she settled with being a private school teacher, then an online live seller when COVID-19 shook the lives of humanity that made her lose her job as well. When she thought everything couldn't get any worse, her shaken life shattered totally when her mother lost the battle against the virus on the day of her 24th birthday, making her wish to cease her existence too. After crying her heart to God, a dashing, mysterious man in a business suit was waiting outside the chapel, telling her to fulfill the marriage agreement she signed eight years ago as a joke. Should she deny it? Or should they begin faking love amidst the pandemic?

Is it possible to spend a lifetime loving your childhood friend? And after so many years apart, is it possible to win the love of someone who only saw her as a child? If you love Christmas stories, but think they could have spicier scenes, get ready, you're going to fall in love with "A Christmas Miracle - My Perverted Doctor" Ricardo and Manuela have known each other since they were children. She was always in love with him and her dream was to conquer him, but, being eleven years older than her, Ricardo only saw her as his sister's best friend. Now that Ric is back in Brazil, after living in Canada for eight years, he will meet the sexy and provocative woman that Manuela has become, in addition to being surprised by the erotic books she writes. Facing violent exes and many challenges, the love of these two will be tested, and only a Christmas Miracle will be able to unite them forever. HOT book prohibited for minors, with scenes of explicit sex, physical and psychological violence and profanity. Despite being a story of love and overcoming, this book contains triggers. ️Good reading.

Laura is the second daughter of Chief West and the first and only child of Chief West's late first wife. She had lost her mother in a ghastly car accident when she was barely eight months old so her father had to remarry so that she could be well taken care of, as a child. But as Laura came of age, she discovered that life would not be sweet and smooth running for her, with her stepmother and two stepsisters bullying and abusing her all the time especially as her father was always away on business. She continues to endure...until she meets him... Greg Williams is the city's most sought after bachelor. Stunning, rich and influential. He is one that most mothers wished for at their doorposts seeking for their daughter's hand. Greg had seen his share of women and had encountered hundreds of them in his lifetime but he didn't believe in love, never had. To him, sex was the only intimate connection between a man and a woman. But what happens when he meets an angelic beauty that would change his life forever?

Caring for her shattered heart and stomped pride, Tina Rodriquez gatecrashed her ex-fiance's engagement reception. At the corner of the huge hall, she bitterly observes his betrayal while drenching herself in several glasses of champagne. Her boyfriend for eight years suddenly fathers her scheming stepsister's unborn. Directly, they look so happy together. So, to get even, she randomly hooked up with a notable man among the crowd of fine gentlemen. Believing he is someone of prestige. Are lot However, that night, she became a joke when she found a pauper instead of a prince. She was immensely mocked for having nobody as a replacement for her rich ex-fiance, the President of N&S Revenue Companies, Nathaniel Fraust. From a millionaire boyfriend, she ends up with a struggling man who cannot even bring her on a date in her family-owned luxurious hotel. Unknowing to all, especially to Tina Rodriquez, she wasn't mistaken that night. Yes, everyone was right. The man she selected is unfortunately not a millionaire... ...But a BILLIONAIRE. The bussiness moneybags, CEO Jesse Santos. The precious firstborn of the world's richest family and eldest heir of the Petrov Mafia.

Ruby Rose Castillo, a twenty eight years old hardworking secretary at Whitlock's Group of Company, due to the influence of alcohol, she bravely accepted a dare of her friend to kiss the most handsome man in the bar. Upon laying eyes on Adam Whitlock, she was convinced that he was the most handsome man...not just in the bar but also in the whole world. So, without any hesitation, she kissed him. When her lips touched his. She become mindless. She wanted him to touch her intimately. She wanted to devour the man who made her body burn. She wanted to taste the decadence that was Adam. And that kiss turned into a hot and intimate encounter at the backseat of his car. He claimed her body, made her taste heaven, made her shout in ecstacy and made her a woman. After that night, she wanted to forget the man who made her climax. She wanted to convince herself that everything's happened was just a dream. But how can she forget him...when the next day that she meet her new boss...it was Adam...the man who pleasured him last night.

After being reborn, I'm taken back to the day I confessed my love for my childhood friend. In my past life, I had to plead and beg before he begrudgingly agreed to marry me. "You look pathetic when you beg me for anything, Annabelle." That was what Hayden Gulman always said to me. He was so cold to me that he even canceled the part where we read our vows to each other during the wedding. When I was eight months pregnant, he took a photo of my belly covered in stretch marks. Then, he complained to his true love about the unhappiness he faced after marrying me. When I went into a difficult labor due to my agitation, he and his true love were on vacation. At that moment, my heart finally died. It turned out my one-woman show couldn't be considered love at all. Now that I've been reborn, I smile when I see the disdainful look in his eyes. I say, "We have nothing to do with each other from this moment on. I only wish to be happy."