Hardships

Eleanor Heather likes her life to be ordinary. She enjoys working as an accountant while paying off student loans and living in an apartment with her best friend, Lana. Until one night, her encounter with a strange man who suddenly attacked and bit her neck traumatized her to go out alone again. But that was only the starting point of changing her life. When she met Nicholas Shaw, a lawyer and owner of a law firm that she happened to be auditing, her life changed drastically. There are many dark and terrible things about Nicholas that she hides from the world. Even so, Eleanor couldn't stop thinking about him, and Nicholas Shaw didn't want to let her go.

Since day one, Shen has never been so fascinated by the bouquet of red roses and box of chocolates that always appear at the gate of her apartment every evening. Thinking it was just only nearby to her, or someone she knew, she didn't put any attention onto it. Not until a crime happened in Metro whose main suspect is a secret admirer, she became eager to find all the possible answers that may lead to the true identity of her mysterious secret admirer.

(This book is a three part series) "She looks exactly like me but we're very different." Gabriella. "You're always gonna be beneath me no matter how hard you try." Gabrielle. Twin sisters, Gabriella and Gabrielle may look alike but they are definitely complete opposites. Gabrielle, the proud, popular and overly ambitious sister, who loves to be the center of attention and would go to any length to get whatever she wants, without any care of the consequences. Gabriella, as opposed to her twin sister is the quiet one, the gentle one and the smart one and she unlike her sister is not overly ambitious or power and fame hungry. Liam Helton, son of famous fashion designers in New York bumps into both sisters on the same day but on different occasions but falls in love with one and detests the other.

Jessica is a hard working woman struggling to balance work, school and build a career. Destiny places her right in the path of a brighter future as she meets her first love and paves the foundation for her career. Everything is going well until she falls in love with another man. Can she love two men or is this a recipe for disaster?

Shelly Armas' life is very... out of the ordinary. Instead of having a dream husband, she bumped into a husband who led her to her death. Yes, he is an assassin and is training Shelly to be an assassin like him.

When a pampered socialite in post civil war Boston seeks adventure and romance, she finds peril, heartache, and tragedy along with it. Answering an ad in The Matrimonial News, she secretly marries by proxy, but is widowed before she gets to meet her husband. The fact that she's naïve and unskilled in the ways of love when she finally encounters the man of her dreams only adds to her situation.

Rebecca's world is about to be turned upside down as her memories are soon to be erased. Born and raised in a rural paradise, she is faced with the threat of losing everything she holds dear. The only way out of her predicament is through a man she fears, a man who offers her a way out in exchange for her father's debt. She accepts his offer, unaware of the loveless marriage that awaits her. As she tries to escape her unhappy life, she finds herself falling for her husband. But when she finally thinks she's safe, her past comes back to haunt her, threatening to drag her back to the life she so desperately wanted to leave behind. Can she find a way to escape and start anew, or will she be trapped in a never-ending cycle of pain and regret?

A drunk Eliza Harper ended up having a one-night stand with Benjamin Clayton, a powerful billionaire, after getting cheated on by her boyfriend on their one-year anniversary. The two thought that they were meant for each other until Shannon, Benjamin’s feisty ex-wife brews up a storm between the two. Will Eliza and Benjamin survive love’s hardships? ---------------------------------- “Mommy, how come I don’t have a daddy like the other kids?” Eleanor questioned her mother with her glistening bug eyes. Her mother stopped her work and stared at her lonesome daughter. Tears flowed down her face like a stream as she took her daughter in her arms. She didn’t know how to answer such a difficult question....

In a whirlwind of multiple jobs and her relentless pursuit of happiness, Violet Carter finds solace in the one thing she adores most - shopping. Struggling to juggle her law degree, mathematics tutoring, personal shopping, and even stripping, Violet yearns for the rush of endorphins that come with spending money. She's no stranger to hardships, having grown up in poverty and shouldering the responsibility of caring for her nine siblings and a quirky pet snake. But when a chance encounter with Markus Legazpi, a man from the very social class she despises, sets off a chain of events, Violet is faced with a life-altering decision. Will she forsake her principles and embark on the most disreputable love transaction of all time?

Gabriella (Sunny) Khan, gorgeous fearless and sed spy; and heartthrob, Daniel (Lance) Cortez; the backbone of law enforcement p through strife, grief, loss and hardships in their quest to eradicate the human trafficking syndicate in their country. As agents of the National Bureau of Crime Investigation (NBCI), they are forced to put their love for each other aside for the sake of the mission which leads Gabriella into the very arms of the man she loathes and wants to nab, Dario Pavel; leader of the syndicate due to loss of memory while Lance strives to fight against external and internal obstacles in order to ensure that the mission is complete and later on, he has to choose between Gabriella and the mission and between love and duty. What will his choice be?