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Claire Sterling landete im Gefängnis. Der Grund? Ihre eigene Familie hatte entschieden, dass sie im Weg war. Ihr Mann, Nathan Sterling, brauchte freie Bahn. Die Frau, die ihren Platz einnehmen sollte, stand schon bereit. Ihr eigener Sohn sagte ohne zu zögern gegen sie aus. Als sie aus der Haft entlassen wurde, machte Nathan ihr ein Angebot, das er für eine „vernünftige Lösung“ hielt: Sie solle sich entschuldigen, unauffällig an seine Seite zurückkehren und dem Namen nach Madame Sterling bleiben. Nichts weiter. Ihr Sohn verbarg seine Ablehnung nicht einmal. Claire lehnte ab. Die Scheidung wurde zu einem öffentlichen Desaster für Nathan. Claire ging mit dem Großteil des Vermögens, während ihr Ex-Mann weit mehr als nur Geld verlor: seine Glaubwürdigkeit, seine wichtigsten Verbündeten und die unumstößliche Kontrolle, an die er immer geglaubt hatte. Befreit von einer Ehe, die sie fast zerstört hätte, baute Claire ihre Karriere nach ihren eigenen Regeln wieder auf. Ihre Arbeit fand schnell Anerkennung, und ihr Name gewann wieder an Wert – unabhängig von den Sterlings. Zur gleichen Zeit zerfiel Nathans Leben, Stück für Stück. Die Frau, für die er alles riskiert hatte, zeigte ihre wahren, habgierigen Züge. Der Sohn, der seine Mutter verstoßen hatte, verstand zu spät, von wem er wirklich geliebt worden war. Die Familie, die Claire geopfert hatte, zerbrach von innen heraus. Als Nathan und sein Sohn schließlich an ihrer Tür erschienen, war von ihrer einstigen Arroganz nur noch Bedauern übrig. Sie baten sie, zurückzukommen, als wäre Vergebung eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Claire hörte ihnen zu. Dann traf sie ihre Entscheidung. Sie war nicht mehr die Frau, die darauf wartete, auserwählt zu werden. Von nun an entschied sie allein, wer einen Platz in ihrem Leben verdiente – und sie hatte es absolut nicht eilig.

My brother works for the most dangerous man in the city. I thought I’d never meet him… until dinner changed everything. Roman DeLuca is everything I’m supposed to fear—arrogant, ruthless, untouchable. Yet, from the moment his piercing eyes landed on me, I felt something I shouldn’t. Something I can’t ignore. He wants me. I want nothing to do with him. But in a world of power, obsession, and secrets, avoiding him might be impossible. One wrong step… one lingering glance… and my life may never be mine again.

A talented painter, Lexi Thompson, is kidnapped by a notorious gang leader, Julian Blackwood, and she is given 60 days to paint a duplicate of a priceless artwork. As Lexi works to meet up with the deadline, she uncovers mysterious secrets about Julian's family, her troubled past and her parents demise whose deaths were linked to the painting she was asked to make a replica of. Lexi and Julian navigate through tough situations from rival gangs, their prohibited love becomes the greatest danger of all. Will they overcome their troubled pasts and trust each other, or will the secrets unveiled tear them apart?

“I shouldn't be loving you..." Sandy and Anthony have been best friends since high school despite their differences in backgrounds. Sandy is hardworking even though she works as an assistant to her billionaire best friend who she has always had feelings for. Anthony has been the clueless best friend who is a known womanizer until family problems rises and he has to get married and have a baby. Will Anthony make the choice of having his best friend his wife and face the pull of love when it starts to grow in him for the first time?

"It took me twenty three long years to finally find her again I will never let her go"... Lindsey James never had an easy start to life, from her mother's long list of medical bills to her evil stepmother breathing down her back. One day she learns about how one of the most eligible bachelors in the country is going to lodge at a hotel her friend works at and devises a plan to blackmail him for money, a sum of one million dollars! Will she succeed or could she have bitten more than she can chew?...

Mona, calm down. " I looked at him through narrowed lashes. "I have a name and that is Ivy. " I let my hands ran in my hair. "what exactly should I call you, brother, uncle or lover " He just watched, he stood there like an eucalyptus , seeing me this hurt yet he did nothing . He knew, yet he f

We all have an inspiration to live. We all have that one person who keeps us from fighting and moving. That someone who keeps our heart beating. That someone who keeps on giving us a blissful morning. But what if one morning while laying in the dark, the person you loved the most is the person you can't remember anymore? Fall Navarez never thought that this day would come. Never did he think of losing the memories of that someone in his head. Later did he realize, he came up with a question: "Who's Grace?" There's a lot of variations in their testimonies. Some have scarlet threads attached. Some had loose strings which means a dead end. Fall Navarez didn't know what story he had to believe. He wanted to believe them all, but every person he asked, died the day after. "Grace is your girlfriend, Fall." "Hell no! Grace is your wife." "That would be gross, but I only know was that Grace is your sister." "Oh my God, you really don't know, do you? Grace is your f*ckin' psychologist!" Why would Fall had a psychologist, assuming that Grace is indeed one? "You're hell-bent, Fall! You're crazy!" "Who's Grace?! Answer now or I'll f*cking kill you!" He smirked. "As you did to your mother?" he held his tongue and spit saliva at Fall. "Hell yeah! YOU KILLED YOUR F*CKING MOTHER!" Maybe there's someone who's deceiving. Maybe someone had asked them to deceive Fall! But wait, where was the lie? To the you-killed-Grace part or the Grace-is-your-mother part? Hmm, did Grace really fall from grace? "Put the gun in your mouth. . . pull the trigger." FALL FROM GRACE by ANONYGLITCH

Makenzie, born of human and vampire. she is the only of her kind. by day she lives like a human and by night she's a vicious vampire slayer. one night of patrolling, she stumbles upon a young woman, trapped in a dark alley by a group of vampires. Anita, an orphan since birth, has no one. she works nights at a 24hr restaurant/bar as a waitress. she keeps to herself having never had anyone to show her love. one night she was walking home from work when a group of vampires corner her in alley.

Im Endstadium meines Nierenversagens wurde die für mich passende Spenderniere – auf Entscheidung meines Mannes – meiner Schwester gegeben. Ich lehnte den Vorschlag der Ärzte ab, weiter auf ein passendes Organ zu warten, und ließ mich frühzeitig aus dem Krankenhaus entlassen. Wenn die Enttäuschung lange genug andauert, hört man auf zu kämpfen. All mein angespartes Vermögen übergab ich meiner Schwester – endlich lächelten mich meine Eltern wieder an. Mein Mann kümmerte sich Tag und Nacht um sie. Ich war nicht wütend – im Gegenteil, ich ermahnte ihn, besonders fürsorglich zu sein. Sogar als mein Sohn sagte, er wolle, dass sie seine Mama sei, lächelte ich und stimmte zu. Jetzt ist alles so, wie sie es wollten. Warum bereuen sie es auf einmal?

Meet Esmerelda Sleuth. Sleuth is her name and investigating is her game. (Paranormal Investigating, that is.) Esmerelda makes a good living as an investigator in a rather progressive firm. She lives a stable and sensible life until she meets Lance; an old money "hottie" who works for a real estate firm next to her building. After accepting an invitation for a weekend getaway party, she quickly discovers that Lance has a secret. He is wealthy. That part is true. And, yes, he's procured a job as a realtor in the building next door. His secret is that he belongs to an underground society of humans who didn't abandon their connection to magic centuries ago when religion declared it evil and he has traveled through time specifically to find her and bring her back to his time to marry him. If that isn't enough of a far fetched tale to absorb, he informs her that she was born in his time to a family belonging to that same secret society and was promised in marriage to him as an infant. When enemies who didn't want to see the union of families take place made attempts on her life, her parents sent her into the future and erased her memories of them as a precaution. Possessing virtually no belief in magic, ghosts, psychics, time travel, etc., it takes some doing on Lance's part to convince her to believe his story and go back with him. When she does, the lies, deceit and attempts on her life start all over again. Will she escape emotionally and physically unscathed? "The Other Side Of the Mirror" is a steamy-paranormal-romance- mystery-thriller and book one of the Esmerelda Sleuth series.