In Darkness And Despair

Warning: contains mature content Elena has long harbored a secret crush on her enigmatic billionaire boss, Andrew Blake. One night in San Francisco turns a routine business trip into a forbidden, passionate affair.Back home, Andrew faces pressure from his family: if he doesn’t marry before his stepbrother Matthew, he could lose the company. Determined to secure his inheritance, he offers Elena a contract marriage and she accepts.But life gets complicated. Matthew is her ex, his fiancée is her best friend, and a betrayal orchestrated with a scandalous video shatters Elena’s world. Humiliated, she disappears, determined to build a new life away from Andrew and Matthew.Yet escaping a billionaire isn’t easy. Torn between revenge and forgiveness, past and future, Elena must decide: can her heart truly heal before it’s too late? especially when the truth about the betrayal surfaces?

"Killian Walker was shocked when he discovered that not only was his father not married to his mother, but he had three half-brothers in the same situation. Facing each other for the first time at the reading of Dusty Walker’s will, the atmosphere could best be described as hostile. The terms of the will didn’t help matters.Spending a week in Red Creek, Kansas in Dusty’s house was just not on his agenda of things to do. But if he wanted the money to start his own ranch, he’d have to grit his teeth and man up.Lexie Choate had big dreams about success in the world of art. The last thing she expected was for the man who stole her heart to also steal the prize from her. She ran back to Red Creek, to heal her broken heart and recover from her disappointment. As the owner of Heart Starter, the popular coffee shop in town, she was busy building a new life for herself. Hope never dies.Lexie and Killian is created by Desiree Holt, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author."

Blood and Moon is a story between two packs. One master and the other slave. The two packs are forced to live at each other's mercy because of the witch wars that has scorched the world and covered their earth in death and ash, blocking most of the earth from the sun. Isolated on their land, Moons try to survive, living amid the Bloods, their betters. Desire Dawson is a Moon that had just graduated and planned on leaving when her stepfather signed her up to work at the Blood's packhouse without her consent so he could receive her wages. She was sent to work in a place where she was regarded as a lesser wolf. The wages were good, and her life would have been easy there if Adam Kingston, the son of the Blood's Alpha King and only heir, did not take interest in her. This is the first book in the Blood and Moon series. It focuses on the love story between Desire and Adam during the witch wars. *Can be read alone*

When they were in a proximity of 20 meters, she threw coffee on his secretary. When they were in a proximity of 2 meters, she hit him where the sun doesn't shine. When they were in a proximity of some mere centimeters, she broke his nose. Now, she broke his vase of a million dollars and he is ready to take his revenge. He wants her as his fake fiancée and act the part but what happens when they are surrounded by people believing they are in love and the flowers really do blossom? Amelia Carter is ready to be the fake fiancée but is she ready for the slow caress and steady hands of Mr. Alexeev? Mr. Alexeev is ready to take revenge while making sure he gets out of the arrangements of his mother but is he ready to take on the clumsy but pure Amelia? What happens when the burning red of their attraction forms something akin to... love?

"This brutally romantic mafia love story will grip you!" ~#1 New York Times bestselling author Helen Hardt Arranged-marriage, age-gap, Mafia/cartel romance Capo to the Luciano Famiglia was my birthright. The cruelty needed to succeed in this life has been beaten into me since I was a young boy. My father, Vincent Luciano, taught by example and with the slap of his hand. My independent streak took me down paths my father would never have gone. With our enemies gaining strength, it is my idea to attempt an alliance with an unlikely bedfellow. The Roríguez Cartel and the Luciano Famiglia are improbable partners, yet even Vincent Luciano can’t deny the possible benefits. The only way to solidify the deal is for me to marry Catalina Ruiz, the eldest daughter of Andres Ruiz, a top lieutenant in the Roríguez Cartel. Catalina is young, beautiful, and thinks she understands the path she is being forced to follow. There is no way for her to know the monster she is about to wed. A man doesn’t become a made man at thirteen if he is capable of love. That emotion is beyond my scope of expertise. Saving the famiglia is my goal. And once this alliance is made, ours will be but the first of the brutal vows exchanged. Have you been Aleatha’d?

Beautiful Allison Harley was a victim of domestic violence that made her a loner in school. Hunter Vaughn was the hottest boy in school, the golden boy who thought he had it all until a tragedy took away his perfect life and temporarily blinded him. When they met, Allison was running away from her past, and Hunter thought he had no reason to undergo the treatments needed to recover his eyesight. He was blind, but he saw how beautiful she was. She gave him a reason to live… a reason to see again... a reason to fall in love. Hunter went through a transplant that enabled him to see again, but separated him from Allison for more than a year. When he got his eyesight back, he also got his perfect life back. Once again he's the most popular boy in school and she's the outcast he doesn't even remember. Will Hunter find his way back to Allison? Or will he choose to live his perfect life and pretend he never even knew her?

"Aakitin ko ang hot bodyguard ko!" Pagkatapos ng dalawang buwan nang maging CEO si Savannah ng Williamson’s Company ay may nangyari na kaagad na trahedya. Isang sunog ang naganap sa palapag kung nasaan mismo ang opisina niya. Pero hindi niya kayang lumabas upang iligtas ang sarili! may takot siya sa maraming tao! ngunit hindi rin siya maaaring manatili sa loob dahil tiyak na mamamatay naman siya sa sunog! Takip-takip niya ang kaniyang ilong at bibig habang unti-unti nang napupuno ng usok ang buong opisina niya. Thinking about what she will going to do Savannah felt a strong pair of hands held her shoulder and before she could say a word the person put a wet blanket on her and guided her to the exit. "Careful." Rinig niya ang baritonong boses nito! When they left the building she saw her savior. Napalunok siya, the man is tall. He has light brown skin, dark eyes, thick eyebrows and his eyelashes are long! She doesn’t want to mention his lips but she can’t help because it was luscious! Okay, she’s checking on him, but no, indeed, the man is good looking! Nakuha kaagad nito ang atensyon niya! He introduced himself as Ace. Her personal bodyguard. Pero hindi sukat akalain ni Savannah na guguluhin ng kaniyang guwapong bodyguard ang isip niya lalo sa gabi! She's having dreams with him in her bed. Her screaming his codename in pleasure, them doing nasty things!

EXPECTATION. That's how Zialla Trixie Alcantara describe her life. She's the type of girl who craves for freedom ngunit pinagkait ito sa kaniya. Living in a world full of perfectionist, hindi alam ni Trixie kung saan pa ba siya lulugar sa mundong ito. She almost believed that disappointing everyone is her talent because that's the only thing she's good at. She's aware how dark her life is because she always feel lonely and alone. Even her father never treated her special dahil maging ito ay mataas din ang expectasyon sa kaniya. She's too soft to even resist her father's expectations that's why she didn't had any second thought to obey her father's will. Her main goal in life is to experience the feeling of being inlove and to be loved by someone not until Kairo Ace De Guzman entered her life. Ang akala ni Trixie ay nagbago na ito pero roon siya nabigo. At sa ikalawang pagkakataon ay muli na namang nasaktan ang puso niya. Paano pa matatakasan ni Trixie ang taong pilit niyang kinakalimutan kung mismo ang tadhana na ang naglalapit sa kanilang dalawa? Will they be able to chase the love they had before, or they will just leave it behind and just call it as their memory of the past? Handa na ba siyang tumaya ulit para sa kaniyang kaligayahan o tuluyan na niyang tutuldukan ang kaniyang nararamdaman at sundin ang kagustuhan ng kaniyang magulang? It is the battle between love and expectation.

What if you woke up in an unfamiliar bedroom and find out that you got kidnapped? What if you find out that you have magical powers? What would you do if your beloved got murdered that very day? And what if you fall in love with the murderer? Particularly, I would call myself insane but the case was a lot different with Cressida. Cressida, a girl with a goddess like face and body, perfect grades and with a promising future, will face an incident which will bring a great turn in her life, will make a predictable future turn into an unpredictable one. All the kids with the magic manipulation powers will be kidnapped by a mysterious academy; one which promises to guide them to the right path and help them learn how to use their powers. But what will make their lives more astounding, will be the secrets that will keep unfolding, thanks to Cressida and her 4 more friends. The Prophecy states that 4 Keystone Diamonds, will come, their loyalty bounded to the Queen of Magic Manipulation Powers, and the fate of the century old powers will rest in her hands. But what else lays behind the Prophecy, that the academy tends to keep hidden? Will Cressida be able to unravel the mysteries, handle the surprises, heat of the undesirable love, and beat her mysterious enemies? Follow the adventure of Cressida with her friends to have fun at an amazing ride of bunch of genres, all at once!

Humans and Shifters living among each other? It’s been nearly a decade since the shifter packs have left the shadows and now they’re basically running the place while the humans try to stay out of the way. So what does it mean that over the last decade since coming out that more and more shifters are finding their mates? Sage Montgomery was just the nerdy girl with a side business that actually puts her photographic memory to use. It’s rare that Sage ever forgets anything and she definitely won’t forget the day He walked into class.