Folger Shakespeare Library Washington Dc

She stood before him, her eyes blazing like a roaring flame and her heart pounding faster. He moved closer to her to feel her pain, but she stopped him before he went further. "You lied to me!" She said, her voice trembling. "I should have known this fairytale was too good to be true. And now, I've realized just how right I was." He swallowed hard and took a step closer to her until his eyes levelled into hers. Then, he spoke the first words that came to his mind. "I love you, Yolanda. It's the only truth I know." But Yolanda was no longer listening. Her heart was already set on another course. ****** Yolanda Hamilton, a successful detective in the city of Washington DC finds out the biggest secret of her life when she learns that she's a werewolf and a powerful sorceress. However, her powers were passed down to her to serve a higher purpose. What happens when love gets in the way of the fulfilment of her destiny?

Brandon Martinez has vowed never to get married. He enjoys a life devoid of commitment and filled with blonde models and contracts worth billions of dollars. Brandon is ready to go on living this way until his mother makes an announcement that rocks his world. Natalie Hayes is a simple girl from a small island in Louisiana. She has just lost her father, the only family she's ever had. She moves to Seattle, Washington in search of a new life and resumes work at the infamous Giancarlo restaurant owned by the wealthy Martinez family. A timely occurrence causes Rebecca Martinez, Brandon's mother to notice her and insist that she marry her son. Brandon has no intention of getting married, but even if he were to consider it, how could he stoop to the level of an impoverished waitress? Natalie just wants a simple life. Can she handle the responsibility and glamour that comes with being a Martinez? Can she stand Brandon's snobbery? Brandon and Natalie are two worlds apart. They are two broken people with hidden secrets. They'd never work. Or would they?

“Don’t tell me that meeting the man who slept with me at the whiskey library was all a part of your brilliant plan to Control me, my family, and my father's properties?” she throws the question at me. “It was not all a part of my plan” I try to defend. “If you knew something about the stranger at the whiskey library, why didn't you just tell me?” she asks, looking at me dead in the eyes with her Hazel eyes piercing deep into my soul. “Why did you bind me to an arranged marriage with you and accept my baby as yours when the Queen tried to throw me out as if you were doing me a favour?” she yells. “What was the aim behind your notion of false sacrifice?” she continues with her series of questions. “I know that you may not believe me right now, but I can swear on my life that the whole episode at the whiskey library was not part of the plan,” I try to explain even though I know that I sound really stupid saying that “So there was a plan,” she asks, wearing a smile that is loaded like a gun. “Can you please listen to me,” I plead. “Listen to you?” she scoffs. “Just because you are the billionaire crown prince of Orion you killed my father, then You set me up as the prime suspect in the murder case, blackmailed me to be around you or you exposed my identity as the legitimate daughter of Dylan Grayson and now I am stumbling on the secret that the stranger that I had a one night stand with at the whiskey library was all a part of your brilliant plan to get me entangled with you?” she scoffs in disdain

Penny Luther is a passionate werewolf romance writer who works in a writing and publishing agency in Washington, New York City. Penny tried so hard to achieve her dream of becoming a top Author. However life seemed harsher than she thought. Her colleagues hated her to the bones and going to work suddenly felt like a fiery path to walk through. Not until she came across Stiles Humphrey, the Ceo of the biggest fashion industry and he decided to help change her Career status from Zero to Zenith. However along the line, Penny learnt about the shocking truth of the Ceo which ended up putting her in a tight spot and also endangering her life. What happens next?

Evelyn Melgren is a CEO, living in Seattle with her lovable dog. She spends most of her days at her workplace, trying to make her company reach the corners of the city. One evening she meets the person from her past who owns a whole book in her library of memories. The person she'd tried to let go of, but couldn't. The person she loved with her whole being, and then lost herself for. Warren Archer is the CEO of a multi-million dollar empire. The guy who's been battling the memories that are in the shape of the girl he's loved since high school. The girl he never wanted to hurt, but ended up doing that. The girl he's loved with every corner of his heart. Ten years later when Evelyn and Warren cross paths. The universe plays with their heart strings, and the feelings that have died begin to resurrect. The dead love in one's heart starts to kindle due to the blazing heart of the other. A series of circumstances set in, and they get to have a second-chance at their story.

Two wonderful tales! My Beloved Alpha: Alissa has always been physically and psychologically abused by her stepfather, all she wanted was to get out of his clutches and run as far away as possible, where he couldn't find her and hurt her anymore. After his mysterious death, she is free to live her life fully and leaves for a small town that goes unnoticed by naive eyes, she wanted to start over and leaves in search of a new beginning. What Alissa still doesn't know is that this city is different from all the others and that she will encounter beings she thought never existed. *** Double dose: Amelina's mother made a request to her daughter before dying: That she live and not give in to grief, her mother wanted to see her happy and fulfilled. And that's what Amy did, she answered her mother's last request after cancer took her. Amy left Seattle and moved to Washington, she was willing to start over and leave all the years of suffering in Seattle behind. The first thing she did upon arriving in town was looking for a job, and it was at the Balzer Company that she found love, but love came in the form of two spectacular men.

One is a wolf on a path of Vengeance,the other is a Sorceress on a path to discover her true self and the power she possess. What will happen when the collide, will they surrender to the power of love or defy it. ****** Camille was an Elite special force Commander, she died on duty while protecting a little girl , and transmigrated into the body of an abused and rejected Duke's daughter who was prophesied to be the reincarnation of a powerful sorceress of the four lands. ________ little Prince Arthur watched his parents murdered and the throne usurped by his uncle, he was exiled by his uncle, who found him as a threat to his throne , Years later the Little Prince became the God of war, with his name at every one's lip . He's on the quest to kill everyone involved in his parents death. * What happens when he found out that he's mate's father killed his parents! *Transmigration * Reincarnation * Revenge * Werewolf * Magic * Romance Read and Add to your library!!

What happens when the love of your life becomes your greatest regret? When the choice you made to protect your dreams turns into the haunting shadow of "what if"? Falling for my billionaire Ex is a story that dares to explore those questions. This isn’t just a tale of exes reunited. It’s about two people—flawed, complicated, and human—who must confront the raw truth of their choices and the scars left behind. Elliot and Susan’s journey is messy, heartbreaking, and full of longing, but it’s also a testament to the power of second chances. Expect tension. Every meeting, every word they exchange carries the weight of a past that neither has forgotten. Their chemistry is undeniable, but so are their wounds. And as they step into each other’s worlds again, you’ll feel the magnetic pull of their connection just as they do. Explicit steamy and euphoric scenes starts from chapter 49... see you there. Love it, add to your library

Alina Hart, a sharp-tongued high school senior, hides behind sarcasm and wit to mask the pain of fractured family life. Shipped off to a prestigious boarding school by a father who no longer sees her, Alina struggles to find her place in a world of strict rules and academic expectations. Enter Professor Cristiano Wright, a 27-year-old literature teacher whose calm demeanor and sharp intellect make him both an enigma and a fascination. Tasked by Alina’s older brother Ethan to keep an eye on her, Wright finds himself drawn to the complexity beneath her rebellious exterior. In the backdrop of Shakespearean sonnets and Romantic poetry, Alina and Wright navigate an increasingly fraught connection. What begins as reluctant mentorship soon transforms into a tangled web of forbidden emotions, unspoken words, and an undeniable pull that neither can ignore. Set against the bustling corridors of an urban high school and the quiet corners of a library filled with unspoken confessions, Silent Flames, Forbidden Paths explores the fine line between admiration and desire, duty and vulnerability. As Alina and Wright grapple with their feelings, they must confront their moral boundaries and the cost of their choices. Can they maintain the lines they’ve drawn, or will their emotions blur them beyond recognition?

An ancient curse. A desperate spell. Two brothers claim Marylin Rose, a mysterious woman from a different timeline, as their only hope for an heir. But at what cost to her freedom? Wanna find out? Add this book to your library!