Hardships

Choices, life if full of them and each one offers several paths to walk down. Mary knows all about choices. It was because of a string of them she went from living a happy life with her parents to end up an orphan working in the castle kitchen. Mary is now working hard while praying she wouldn't be kicked out on the street. The man she loves, her best friend, doesn't see her but is courting another woman who does her best to make Mary feel worthless. To top everything off, the sickness is back in the city which means Mary's only refuge is gone. She is trapped and she feels like a trapped animal. That is when Lady Tariana comes back into Mary's life. She was the one that saved Mary when she was a child. Now she is back and she offers Mary new choices, travel back with Lady Tariana to her home. It's just one choice, but with each of the choices comes a myriad of new choices and consequences. Can she leave her love behind? Would she managed to survive in a new world? And what about magic? Does it really exist? Time is running out and she needs to make her decision or the world will make it for her.

Ares finally broke his life long curse of having the worst luck on the planet, but that doesn't mean his life got any easier. Going to West Ora is just as wild as ever with little to no rules, only now he has to do it while trying to raise his daughter- who is far from a normal child. On Elara's shoulders rests the fate of the world- the prophecy child. A hybrid unlike any other with such powerful magic that all the world wants her. Not only do Ares, and his mate Andy, have to teach Elara to be good, they have to fight literal demons as they do it. Can they teach Elara to make the right choice or will she choose the dark side? With an angel and a demon at her side at all times posing as her friends can she even tell the difference between good and evil anymore?

Danica, a 25 years old who got married to a mafia boss name Zeke. Her life before was miserable and she choose to get married to experience a normal life but as soon she meet Zeke the mafia, she struggles to be the mafia's wife. She only thought her husband was ruthless and scary but later on she felt how the mafia's show it's loved for her.

Boss mong akala mo ay galit sa'yo, bigla na lamang magtapat na gusto ka. Maniniwala ka ba? Si Arrianne, isang probinsyanang lumuwas ng Maynila sa kagustuhang mabigyan ng maayos na pamumuhay ang ina. Nagtiwala at umibig sa kababata na akala niya ay tunay siyang mahal, ngunit hindi pala. Paano kung may muling kumatok sa kaniyang puso, na hindi pa tuluyang maghilom. Papapasukin kaya niya?

Athena Raven Lark had everything a girl could dream of, a life of abundance, surrounded by opulence and comfort. But tragedy strikes when her parents die, but was it all to their death? They left her and her younger brother behind. Forced to live with her less-than-loving aunt, Athena's world is turned upside down. Then she meets Azazel Black, the son of a devil, whose obsession with her goes beyond reason. He will stop at nothing to possess her, even if it means destroying everything in his path, including her. His dark and twisted love threatens to consume them both, leaving Athena trapped in his web of obsession. But when Athena is accused of a crime she didn't commit, the murder of Azazel Black’s mother, the evidence against her is damning, and Azazel is convinced of her guilt. He subjects her to the relentless wheel of revenge, leaving her isolated and alone, with no one to turn to for help. As Athena struggles to prove her innocence, she wonders if she'll ever be able to escape Azazel's clutches. Will she survive his trial of obsession or become his victim, forever lost in the darkness of his love? The truth lies buried deep within the shadows of their twisted relationship, and only time will tell if Athena will be able to break free from Azazel's hold.

Warning: 18+ This book contains strong adult language and mature themes; rape, abuse, and racism. Read at your own risk! Pebbles Hemington is a biracial young woman who is being victimized by a man she refers to as the devil. He despises her because of the colour of her skin. The abuse becomes even worse after the death of her grandmother. Proceeding to her college days, she meets and falls in love with a remarkable gentleman, they eventually get engaged. Things are going great until the devil shows his ugly face again. What will happen to Pebbles after she is beaten and left for dead by the devil? Will her guardian angel finally save her or will she succumb to the claws of the devil?

Struggling with the same mad man, Arist Bañara, who she never wanted, Mercian Ara Bueno spent the rest of her two years within her boyfriend's iron hands. She became the woman that wasn't really her and even developed fears that could easily bully her in times of attacks. When the couple had the chance to move at Arist's biological parents' house, Mercian hoped to finally seek help from others to escape from her boyfriend's mistreatments. But what shocked her was actually seeing Lucre Marcus Zorron being Arist's brother. Who would've thought that the man she lived with all this time was related to her ex lover?

Lana Bellen is an 18 years old naive student with a dream of flying high. She has a passion to travel her wonderland and when it executes; she collides into real danger; a fatal mobster. A 28 years old Armando De Luca who is famous as Lord of Mafia. His heartless trait radiates fear in the core of hearts. Betrayal awakes his devil, his loaded bullets thrusts their bodies before culprits could clean themselves up. He is known as "El Veneno (The Poison)". As heir of D. L Enterprises Holding Inc and Master of Spanish Mafia, he owns half of the intercontinental sphere where his sharp jaw and cold eyes confirm his foreboding. Nobody dares to mess up with a man like him. But when his own captive makes his heartbeat for the first time, How would he fight with love and ferity?

*This is a VERY dark, age-gap, stalker romance* What Harley Savage doesn't know is who he is or that he's been watching her for years. What he doesn't know is that on the night of their first encounter, she plans to end her life. Brixton Steele, her admirer, hates seeing the tortured, broken girl in front of him, so he devises a clever plan- or so he thinks—to whisk her away to the safety of his secluded house outside of city limits and keep her for himself. Forever. When she realizes she isn't going home anytime soon, she begins to accept her fate with the troubled, tattooed, Greek god, who wants nothing more than to save her precious soul. Captivity suits her well, though, and she finds herself not wanting to escape his terrifying clutches. Instead, she tries to help fix the broken shell of the man who kidnapped her, in hopes that he’ll be able to heal from the trauma that suffocated him for so long. They say everyone has that one person in their entire life who was made specifically for them. Is he her person? Is she his person? When two very different worlds collide, can they put each other's broken pieces back together and learn how to help each other heal? Or will his plan backfire and end with him losing the girl of his dreams, never getting a chance to try to save either of them from themselves?

They say memories stored in our brain could be sometimes forgotten, but then the heart does not forget. Because our heart always remember, the heart recognizes our beloved when our brain couldn't. Years after they lost contact with each other, Zhanaia encountered Dion again on the same place where they met. And funny how destiny works, they met again just like how they first met, accidentally bumping with each other. Zhanaia's heart was filled with joy, she couldn't contain her happiness and jumped to hug Dion, not wanting to let him go again. But all the hope in her shattered when Dion pulled away from her embrace and asked her, "I'm sorry, miss, but... who are you?"