Ex Libris: Confessions Of A Common Reader

When Avery Quinn gets fed up with her loveless marriage and the humiliation she was constantly fed with, she leaves with the divorce papers, vowing to herself not to get mixed up with any arrogant billionaire again. But she might have spoken too soon, because she finds herself drawn to another emotionally distant, and cold billionaire - and his 7 year old daughter.

My husband Bill and his beautiful assistant Doris are laughing and eating like they're on a first date. But the joke is on me... I'm here, Bill's wife, watching them from across the room, tending to my flat belly where a little life is now living. Of course, Bill doesn’t know about the baby yet. The news is still fresh in my mind, barely a few hours old. It is supposed to be a family dinner gathering, but I'm never the welcome one but an outsider. Watching Bill take the steak cut and handed over by Doris, his young age best friend who knows him the best, I guess I'm spoiling their fun by telling them now that I'm having a baby. Three years of marriage, and his frequent absences from the family left me feeling overwhelmed and alone. I've even forgotten the reason we got married. Maybe it was a mistake to begin with. Finally, I made a decision. Divorce. But a man came along and shifted things dramatically. And it didn't occur to me that this man was still deeply connected to bill's family. He was Bill's uncle.

Walang ibang nasa isip si Emerald kundi ang ipaghiganti ang kaniyang sarili laban sa kaniyang half-sister na si Brenna at sa ina nito. Ngunit ang tanging tao na makakatulong sa kaniya ay ang kaniyang ex na si Trevor. Kung kaya’t mapipilitan siyang pakasalan ito. Anong mangyayari sa kanilang dalawa? Mauuwi ba sa totohanan o mananatili sila sa kanilang pagpapanggap bilang mag-asawa?

After getting divorced and arrested by her husband, billionaire tycoon Oliver Quinn, who believed she had tried to kill his ex, Nella is unexpectedly saved by his business rival, Michael Hills. He offers her a shocking proposal: A contract marriage, in exchange for providing for her and the child she carries, Nella must supply Michael with information that could potentially bring Oliver's company to its knees. Five years later, Oliver wants both Nella and their child back, and his heartfelt gestures surprisingly move her. Will Nella fall for him again and end her five-year marriage with Michael?

Elena's world crumbles when she finds out her husband, Alex, has been cheating on her. After confronting him, he doesn't show regret; rather he demands for a divorce and she walks away for good, giving up her marriage and the career she carefully built. To move on, she strikes an unexpected deal: a contract marriage with Max, who turns out to be Alex's past rival. But just as Elena begins to rebuild her life, Alex realizes what he lost—and wants her back. But Elena isn't the same woman he once knew and she is not alone anymore.

Isabella’s world shatters when her longtime boyfriend, Damon Sanchez, publicly proposes to her best friend. Humiliated and heartbroken, she drowns her sorrows in a bar—only to wake up on the bed of Matteo Moretti, the city’s most powerful billionaire. Their one-night stand should have been the end of it. But when her brother Alan's illness and Damon's vengeance leave her jobless, fate delivers Isabella straight into the jaws of her most dangerous mistake—Matteo Moretti, now her ruthless new boss. Caught between Damon’s vindictive games and Moretti’s dangerous allure, Isabella must decide—is survival worth the cost of her heart? Especially when Matteo’s seven-year-old son, Noah, starts calling her "Mom."

After a totally disastrous marriage, she has decided to keep her heart locked away for the rest of her life from the most hurtful things that can ever come to her. To be precise, men. She has finally realised that it’s so stupid to rely on any man or bid her own happiness on them. Even if it can be tough to be a bread earner and a single mom at the same time, even if she feels lonely at times, she will never ever enter any romantic relationship anymore. There’ll only be one person she will love with her whole heart, her babies. She can do this, and she must do this, because she is an independent strong woman who is the owner of her own fate. However what happens when the man she has solely voted to be away from comes to her aid? He comes back and asks her to be his wife? “Marry me ex-wife” on his knees, he begs. “Sorry, ex-husband, I can’t.”

Jayda Marlowe gave up everything for love. She left the racetrack, the speed, the thrill… for Antonio Moretti, the man she thought was her forever. But when he asked for a divorce, she walked away heartbroken, believing she had lost him for good. Now, stronger, faster, and untouchable, Jayda has built a life on her own terms. She races across tracks and boardrooms alike, leaving the past—and him—behind. Antonio never expected to lose her. The woman he let go is no longer the one who waits quietly in his shadow. He’s chasing her with obsession, power, and regret, desperate to prove he never stopped loving her. But Jayda isn’t the same woman he knew. She has strength, independence, and a fire he can’t control. Will he ever be able to win back the woman who walked away?

She sacrificed everything for him because of the love they had for each other. Hailey went to the extent of disobeying her parents just to marry him. But at last, he surprised her with a divorce paper with his name already signed. How can an orphan who she helped do this to her? He kicked her out of the house she greatly assisted him to build because his first love was back. Of course, she left the house, but then something intriguing happened. ~~~ Excerpt “Congratulations, ma'am. You're pregnant.” Dr. Derrick announced with a smile curving his lips. “What!” Hailey's eyes widened in shock. “ My husband and I just got divorced…”

Isadora finds herself in a bit of a dilemma when she finds out her boyfriend was only with her for the money, worst he is plotting with her her father and step-sister to claim the wealth, killing her on the night of their marriage. Broken by this betrayal, she went to the club to drown it all , while planning her next move, somehow she ended up in the bed of Michael King, the city's most powerful and feared man, his wealth untold and she was the heir to a million riches. And to make things better, Xavier is her ex enemy and so is her father. She instantly proposed a marriage between them, till death do them apart. But was this marriage a great help or her worse decision? What happened when She found out his true identity, what happened when his real lover came knocking, what happened when her Ex determination to end her get the better of her, What happens when the real truth comes out.