Graves Hume Public Library

Layla's career has been stagnant since she returned to America. When her friend came with a project unlike any other, she hoped that will be her big break. The assignment? An expose on Lucas Asher, a billionaire tycoon that everyone is talking about. The goal is to uncover something unseemly about his background and ruin his reputation. She feels bad about it, but it is the only price for success and she decides to pay it. Besides, the public deserves the truth, right? When Layla poses as a heiress of a conglomerate and manages to get some time with Asher, she finds that he is charming and considerate. He's nothing like she expected. The more time she spends with him, the more her feelings grow until she realizes she is unable to complete her assignment. What will happen when a secret from the past zooms into the present and Layla has to stay away because if he ever found out about her true background, her budding relationship would be doomed? Can the present be redeemed or the past will destroy it? Will Layla follow her heart or a deadly mission assigned to her?

In a single night, Serena Vale's entire world falls apart. Her ex-fiancé is set to marry her sister, and to make matters worse, her family blames her for it. Just when Serena thinks things couldn't be more disastrous, she receives a dreaded invitation to the wedding. Enter Damien Cole-ice-cold, irresistibly charming, and richer than anyone she knows. He proposes a deal: pretend to be his girlfriend to make his ex-girlfriend jealous and sidestep a marriage he doesn't want. In exchange, he promises to help her regain her footing in life, one public appearance after another. What begins as a plan for revenge and temporary convenience, quickly spirals into stolen glances, kisses that feel far too genuine, and secrets that neither is prepared to face. Yet, they both agreed to one rule: never fall in love. But the heart doesn't follow rules or contracts. If stories filled with fake romances, slow-burning tension, family feuds, betrayal, and a dangerously possessive billionaire entices you, then Selfish Romance will be your next obsession

Élianor is a young woman whose existence has been a long suffering. Due to her weight, she was the target of mockery her entire life, both within her family and throughout the city. The walls of the school became the stage for her daily and relentless harassment. Her torment reached its peak during a public humiliation, so cruel and violently orchestrated that she found herself covered in an indelible disgrace in the eyes of all. Broken and consumed by shame, she had no choice but to flee this city that had become a hell. Her exile was marked by an additional drama: she left, carrying a child whose paternity she did not know, possibly the result of ultimate violence or a desperate relationship. Five years later, Élianor returns. The timid and wounded girl has disappeared. In her place stands a woman of breathtaking beauty, slim and radiant, possessing a power and authority that cannot be contested. She returns to the land of her former nightmare with a single obsession: to take revenge with cold methodical precision on all those who broke her, and to make the entire city pay the price for its indifference and cruelty.

Lena Carter has always been invisible at Ridgewood High…mocked, overlooked, and definitely not the kind of girl a boy like Derek Hayes notices. Derek is everything she’s not…star quarterback, school bad boy, and untouchable. Until she becomes the new live-in babysitter at his mansion. Suddenly, she’s under the same roof as the boy who once watched her humiliation in silence. At school, he ignores her. At home, the tension is impossible to ignore. When Derek’s possessive ex turns the entire school against Lena, cruel rumors and public humiliations push her to the breaking point. Derek should stay away…his father demands it, his reputation depends on it…but the more she tries to keep her distance, the harder it becomes to resist. And when dark secrets about Lena’s past emerge, Derek realizes the quiet girl everyone underestimated might be the one capable of destroying his family’s perfect world. Living under his roof was supposed to be temporary. Falling for her was never supposed to happen.

Después de que la ex de mi esposo me empujara, tuve complicaciones graves al dar a luz a nuestro segundo hijo y morí en la esquina de la escalera del hospital de los Hesselink. Antes de morir, mi hijo de seis años lloró sin parar, rogándole a su papá, Marc Hesselink, que me ayudara. La primera vez, él solo se burló: —Tu mamá se volvió más inteligente… ahora usa al niño para hacerse la víctima y engañar a todos. Después de eso, le soltó la mano a nuestro hijo y se fue como si nada. La segunda vez, nuestro hijo le dijo que no paraba de sangrar. Marc se fastidió: —Qué llorona. Solo es un aborto, no es para tanto. Siempre tan dramática. Luego sacó al niño de la habitación y le ordenó al médico que nadie se acercara a ayudarme. —Es culpa mía por mimarla tanto. Si no la dejo sufrir un poco, nunca va a aprender. La última vez, nuestro hijo se arrodilló frente a Angie Pavard y le rogó con desesperación. Marc estalló de furia y mandó a sus guardias a maltratar a nuestro hijo. Lleno de heridas, lo arrastraron fuera de la habitación, dejándolo ahí tirado para que se burlaran de él. —Si vuelves a molestar a Angie mientras se recupera, saco a tu mamá de la familia Hesselink y no la vas a ver nunca más. Aun así, nuestro hijo arrastró su cuerpecito de regreso hasta donde yo estaba, dejando una línea de sangre tras de sí. Esta vez, como él quería, tanto mi hijo como yo terminamos muertos. Y ya no vamos a volver a verte nunca... nunca más.

Campus food deliveries vanished so often that no one even commented anymore. Then it happened to me again and again. I never identified the thief, but by New Year's Eve I was finished with being an easy mark. I set out a bowl of soup as bait and soaked it with water wrung from an old bathroom mop. I meant to make whoever stole it regret touching my food. A week later, the police did not come for the thief. They came for me. The counselor slid a penalty notice across his desk—600 dollars for food costs and medical fees, due next week. The person who ate my food had been hospitalized for "poisoning." The school was already discussing a major demerit, the cancellation of my first-class scholarship, and the loss of my needs-based stipend. That stipend was the money keeping my sick mother alive. They planned to pin everything on me, shield the real culprit, and bury me under paperwork. Unfortunately for them, they chose the wrong target. I was the law department's resident argument addict, and I intended to turn their dirty little mediation into a public collapse.

Natalia, after being bought from a strange orphanage home was showered with fake love and affection only to be used by her foster parents as a blood bank to save their daughter, Emily. She tried to live up to their expectations but everything came crumbling down when Emily found out that she was loved by the almighty Bellamy A. Brooks, a perfect figure who was loved by the public but has his dark side. He was married to an heiress of a prestigious family due to her weak health status. He showed her no love at all since his heart was only for Natalia. Out of jealousy, Emily finally got rid of her obstacle to get closer to Bellamy. But it made things worse. Bellamy returned to becoming a devil. He showed no mercy to anyone who defiled him because the love of his life was gone. Little did he know she was reborn as his weak wife whom he showed no love. Will he realize the truth before it's too late? Will he be able to remove his own obstacles to be with the love of his life again?

Arranged to be his wrath, possession and lastly his bride. Heira’s life changed completely when she was forced to marry a cold hearted billionaire, Dante Moretti. Her father, Charles Arven’s reputation is being tarnished as a result of a public scandal. His company was losing investors and also going bankrupt. He had desperately set up the marriage with the aim of acquiring influence from Dante’s family. Dante agreed to the marriage without revealing the cost that comes with it. But from the moment Heira says "I do," she knows something is wrong. Dante doesn’t just resent her, he wants her nowhere near his world. Unknown to her, he had plotted the downfall of her family’s company and orchestrated the marriage as a part of his long game of vengeance. He planned to take his revenge fully on Heira, but she is nothing like he expected, soft where he is hard, and warm where he is cold. When the truth about the past is revealed, their relationship is put to test. Will their marriage survive the fire or burn with it?

I’m the public lover of Tara Brewer, the underworld queen. She often dotes on me and treats me like I'm her most precious treasure, and she goes as far as to claim that she wants to give birth to ten children for me. But when I'm getting beaten up by others while completely drenched in my own blood, Tara doesn't recognize me at all. Instead, she turns to comfort her beau, Brandon Holden. "That filthy bastard has crossed you, honey! You can just beat him to death! I'll be your safety net!" Only then do I realize that Brandon is Tara's lover this whole time. As soon as Tara's words fall, she snatches the boxing gloves from Brandon and begins punching my face, which has a mixture of blood and tears streaking down my cheeks. At the same time, she says icily, "Don't worry. Once you're dead, I'll inform your wife so that she can pick up your corpse."

At 15, Valeria Startam finds herself in the midst of two handsome and wealthy sons of a billionaire. . Ergon Mickelson is the youngest of two brothers, who Valeria fell in love with. Noah Mickelson is the elder brother of Ergon who hate Valerie's guts for no good reason. Things got ugly when Valeria is to work as the assistant maid in the home of her boyfriend, Ergon. Valeria, though was a maid did not get the treatment deserving of a maid all because of Ergon. This further aggravated Noah's hate for Valeria. He went as far as humiliating her in public and calling her a gold digger. But one night, something strange happened in her bed in the house of the Mickelsons. Ever since that night, it became a regular routine until the day doom knocked on her door in the form of an unwanted pregnancy. Valeria faced the worse part of life when she is rejected by her very own boyfriend who denied ever having sex with her. Would Valeria be able to face the trauma and birth an unwanted child whose father she knows nothing about?