Hardships

Athos Mazza is the CEO of the Mazza law firms. Young, handsome, and a multimillionaire, yet he possesses a heart as cold as ice and doesn't hesitate to hurt people when it comes to speaking the truth. With a tumultuous and painful past, he avoids at all costs a feeling called LOVE. However, one casual night of sex finds the CEO in the arms of a stranger, experiencing the peace he had always sought, leading him to search for this faceless woman since, due to drunkenness, he doesn't remember her appearance. Olivia Martins is a simple girl from a small town. Born into an intolerant and old-fashioned family, she decides to secretly take a complete secretarial course in order to attain financial independence and finally leave home, taking her younger sister with her. However, upon completing the course, Ollie decides to celebrate with her peers, and amidst drinks, she has her first night of sex with a stranger resulting in an unexpected pregnancy. Expelled from home due to an unwanted pregnancy, she seeks help from her aunt Julian, and months later, twins Liam and Levi are born. A year and a half later, Olivia starts working at Mazza's company, Law and Order, and to her surprise, discovers that her boss is the father of her children. He is an arrogant, intolerant, ill-tempered man feared by all around him. Now Olivia has an important mission... to hide her children from a dominant and dict.

Rune's existence has been nothing but a series of unfortunate events, from being born into a drug-addled family to her only true ally being snatched away too soon by sickness. Things go from bad to worse when Rune's ex resurfaces, threatening her self-made family, and her career prospects take a sudden plunge with her job's new bosses. Micah and Shane appear amidst the chaos, their opposing personalities each tempting Rune in unexpected ways, but false assumptions, pride, and others' poor decisions threaten more than just her own happily ever after. Will Rune be able to overcome the obstacles preventing her from becoming who she was truly meant to be, or will she find her life in ruins at the end of the day? Please Note: This is a MFM romance, but there are no MM scenes.

When Summer, who hates attention and dating, meets Elijah, little does she know her life is going to be turned upside down once the inevitable occurs. - Summer Hayes has everything one could ask for - an understanding family, the bestest best friend ever and good grades. Boyfriend? She hated that word. But when she meets Elijah Grey, she should have nothing to do with him since he is the type of guy she completely despises. Then approaches the history trip of the college which ends up bringing them together for a day, making her she realize that she doesn't want to stay away. And so does he. However, when all odds start turning against them, the choices Elijah is left with, leads to a heartbreaking story, one that is planned out well by their fates. But, will he be able to choose what's right with a realistic mind, even though that will snatch everything away from him...again? *** "FIRST" is the first thing I wrote before I started embarking on a journey of being a writer so please be kind with my newbie mistakes. TW: Contains unclean language. Not rated mature. WILL contains accidents and deaths and heartbreaks.

In the near-future, Earth is ravaged by nuclear detonations and out-of-control wildfires, society crumbles into a lawless wasteland. The cataclysm, known as The Burning, leaves most of the Earth scorched, the air thick with ash, and the remnants of civilization scattered and broken. This post-apocalyptic landscape is where Maya Greene, a 32-year-old former ER nurse, must navigate not only the physical dangers of survival but also the emotional wreckage of her past.

Lia Harrison is a witch who cannot use magic. Her poor aptitude for magic is a stain to her mother's reputation. That is, until a wrong turn in the bustling city of New York leaves her stranded and in the company of a Demon. Travis, a high-ranking demon, is on a mission to kill the Jade witch. The first face he sees when he arrives on Earth is Lia’s. Lia thinks that he is a human. The fact that she has no knowledge of a demon’s traits only makes matters worse. Travis doesn’t sense any magical aura from Lia and also assumes she is human. And so the Demon and the witch become friends, both being none the wiser. In a world where witches and demons walk separate paths, will their love end up like the dying embers of a flame, or will it transform into a blazing inferno?

After being disowned and thrown like a trash by her father when she got pregnant by a stranger, Celeste, the perfect daughter and the Yuchengco princess, finds herself in a difficult situation whether to abort her baby or continue her pregnancy with nothing. No money, house, food, or support from her family. But after 6 years, a new Celeste Koa came back to the Yuchengco family. Not as a daughter, but as the biggest enemy of her former family, with the secret child of the conglomerate son of the most powerful family, the Rioflorida.

It's Summer break and schools out. . . Two adventurous groups decided to visit Sincity for its known beauty, wealth and name. None prepared for what they were about to encounter in the famous City. So many rules they didn't know about. So many laws and death penalties. The outside world has known Sinctiy for the better part of it but none ever visited and returned to tell the darkness that lies within the great city walls. Its hidden atrocities and abominations. What happens within the Great walls, stays within the Great walls. Would these groups be the Sunlight that the city desperately hoped would shine upon its darkened soul or would they end up like the many who had walked into the Great Walls and never came back alive to tell the tales of the horror that is, SINCITY.

Matapos masaksihan ni Ezrah ang pagkamatay ng kaniyang kasintahan sa harapan niya mismo ay wala siyang nagawa kundi ang mag tago sa farm na ipinamana sa kanya ng yumaong mga magulang para lang takasan ang masasamang loob na nais rin siyang kitlan ng buhay. Nang akala niya ay magiging ligtas na siya sa lugar na pinagtataguan niya ay tsaka naman dumating ang isang misteryosong lalaki sa buhay niya. shot and severely beaten. Ganyan ang kalagayan ng nag hihingalong lalaki na bigla nalang lumitaw sa harap ng pintuan niya. At dahil nga sariwa Pa sa ala-ala niya ang pagkawala ng nobyo ay tinangka niya itong itaboy at tanggihang tulungan. Akmang pagsasarhan na sana niya ito ng pintuan nang bigla itong humandusay sa harap niya. Labag man sa kalooban niya ay wala siyang nagawa kundi tulungan at gamutin ang binata. Noong una ay pinilit niya itong itaboy pero bigo siya. Sa halip ay nag kasundo silang doon muna manatili ang lalaki kapalit ng pagtulong nito sa gawain sa farm. At sa araw araw na nakasama niya ang binata ay hindi niya maalis ang takot na nararamdaman niya sa katauhan nito, ngunit sa Kabila ng takot na iyon ay natangpuan Pa rin niya ang sarili na unti unting nahuhulog sa estranghero. Pero paano nga ba niya magagawang tuluyang mahulog at mag tiwala sa binata gayong wala siyang alam sa katauhan nito? At ano nga ba ang sikreto sa likod ng misteryoso niyang pagkatao? May kinalaman kaya ito sa nakaraan ng dalaga? Aksidente nga lang ba talagang napadpad roon ang binata? O may dahilan ito kung bakit gusto niyang manatili roon?

For Minlyn, a woman who is used to making sacrifices and putting others first, it is no different for her to leave the man she loves, Hendrake, for the sake of his future. She loved the man so much that it reached the point where they were about to get married. But as they say, you can't reach true happiness if you don't suffer for it. Fate is playful. When everything is going well, then problems will come that require one of them to sacrifice. With the woman sacrificing for the man she loves, will all this be reciprocated? Or will it reach the point where they really need to go their separate ways? Since the man is ignorant, he has no idea what will happen to them. In his belief, all he knows is that the woman has to suffer because of the hurt she did to him. He could not accept what had happened. He was blinded by anger. No matter where a woman goes, she can never escape her destiny from a man. "I made a mistake, I'm ready to face his punishment. I'm ready to face the punishment of The CEO'S Revenge."

Zephyr is the last air dragon in existence. For a century and a half, she has searched for her mate. Finally, she decides to have a true dragon with Avani, the last earth dragon and only remaining male dragon. Her son, Ancalagon, is the last of the pure dragons. Ishir is a Bengal tiger shifter. He became friends with Avani before he was captured and placed into an Arena. There he met Tana, the fire dragon. He befriended her, her hybrid daughter and eventually her Lycan mate. He has been working to rescue shifters and sometimes even missing humans as his job for years. It was during a meeting to discuss taking down a new Arena that Ishir met Zephyr and realized that he was mated to a dragon. When Zephyr recognizes Ishir as her mate, she refuses to acknowledge him. After all this time, she finally finds her mate when she’s just had her son. But a dragon can’t stay away from their mate, and in a moment of weakness, she goes to Ishir, spending a night of passion more intense than anything she could have imagined. However, when she returns home, she finds that her son has been kidnapped, taken by hunters. She begins searching for him, half crazed to protect him from the people who so willingly kill shifters. When she finally finds her son, Oliver, the lead hunter makes an agreement with Zephyr. She will work for him in exchange for her son’s life. Now Zephyr will have to go against her very nature, becoming an assassin to kill those she is sworn to protect in order to save her son. Can Ishir find Ancalagon, protect the shifters and save Zephyr from herself, or will she lose herself to save her son?