Julian Barnes Books

Julian Ashford, the golden boy of the city's elite, had his left leg broken by his father with a golf club -- all because of me, a scholarship student. He was stripped of his billion-dollar inheritance and cast out of the family. For three years, he dragged that ruined leg around an auto repair shop, doing backbreaking labor just to scrape together enough for my college tuition. Everyone said I was the luckiest girl alive -- that I'd brought the untouchable heir of a financial empire to his knees, made him willing to live on scraps in the worst part of town. Today was our three-year anniversary. I was carrying the freshly signed Holloway Group inheritance confirmation documents, ready to finally tell him my real identity and pull him out of this misery. I walked down the corridor of The Grand Pavilion, holding a box of vanilla shortbread -- his favorite. Through the half-open door of a private suite, Julian Ashford stood tall on two perfectly healthy legs, dressed in an immaculate tailored suit, sliding a rare pink diamond ring onto the finger of Victoria Sterling -- the city's most celebrated socialite. "Victoria, I used that scholarship girl as a shield to survive three years of my old man's relentless arranged marriage schemes. My body's completely untouched. You've always been the one I was going to marry." I looked down at my own hands, cracked and raw from the cold, and tore the inheritance documents to shreds.

“Thirty minutes for 10 thousand dollars.” That was the deal. Julian Valentino is the “Holy Billionaire,” an ice-cold CEO who views love as a liability. After a brutal Valentine’s Day betrayal, he didn’t just swear off women…. he chose a path of strict celibacy, vowing to keep his body as untouchable as his empire. For years, he has been a saint in a world of sinners, until he is anonymously drugged in his own hotel. With his control now crumbling and his body on fire, he turns to the only woman who can quench the flame: THALIA. Popularly known as "Tee" in elite lounges, she is a high-end sex worker who doesn’t believe in fairytales love and only lives for the bag to fund the search for her lost identity. What she expects to be an easy paycheck turns into a nightmare when a city-wide murder triggers a 48-hour security lockdown. Now trapped with a possessive, drug-fevered billionaire, thirty minutes of service becomes two days of raw heat and secret whispers. But when the doors finally open, Julian doesn't want to let her go. He wants a new deal... a new contract to buy her time and be her exclusive client. And that is when it dawns on Thalia that she has walked into a trap. Behind the closed doors, another contract was waiting. She isn’t just a worker anymore… with the outside contract? She’s now the very weapon sent to destroy the Valentino empire. CONTENT WARNING: This story is strongly 18+

Title: The Billionaire's forbidden Ward Genre: Contemporary Romance / Forbidden Tropes The Hook: Twenty-one-year-old Elara thought the hardest part of the year would be graduating college. That was before her mother married Julian, a man as cold as he is powerful. He was supposed to be a guardian, a family figure, a protector. But behind closed doors, the air between them7 crackles with a tension that isn't fatherly. When a family secret threatens to tear their world apart, they are forced into a dangerous game of shadows—where the only thing more dangerous than the truth is the desire they aren't allowed to have.

This is the third book of the Bloodstone series. It can be a stand-alone but will have cross-over characters from the first two books, Alpha Erik and Everlasting Fire. The Bloodstone pack was always known for its thirst for blood and its brutal Alphas. But a lot has changed in the last thirty years. So what happens when the youngest of the Bloodstone family decides to expand the pack business and leave the magic world behind to indulge in a different kind of hunt. Will he keep his place in the human world and sell his soul to the devil? When Balor Bloodstone comes out to play, all bets are off, or so he thought until a new player entered the game—putting him in the crossroads between salvation and damnation.

Are you ready to be taken on the journey of your life? To feel emotions you never expected to be able to feel just from reading a book? A series full of drama, love, and s*x! Alena is nothing but ordinary, or as she sees herself anyway. With a bad past, she hides away from anything and anyone. When her housemates force her to celebrate her party, Alena finds herself going home with one of her housemate's brothers. Only their passionate affair is cut short when the housemates arrive back home. With Jackson now on her mind, Alena steps out of her comfort zone to date him, only he has secrets hidden, one which he is afraid Alena will take the wrong way. His business is not for the faint-hearted, and well, Alena is one for fainting. Alena - A university student, living in the UK. She had to take time out due to a bad relationship. Jackson - A millionaire, with a dirty secret and a business that makes people stare wide-mouthed. He is a navy seal and sees his team as his family. His likes are selective! WARNING! This whole series involves scenes of BDSM, such as but not limited to, CNC, Punishments and funishments. Knife, fire, wax, and needle play. Voyeurism, humiliation, Bondage, Rope Bunnies, Breath play, Cuckolding, Edge play. I'm sure you get the picture, it involves a lot of aspects of BDSM. Not only these but the books also include FF, MFF, MFM, FFF, FMF and also RH style (3 men 1 woman) and lastly MFFFM. The books are not just happy smut either! As it features navy seals, there is also aspects of Kidnapping, attempted rape, talk of DV, drugging, addiction, torture and more! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

"You thought you could escape me. That's so f*cking adorable, bunny." - DK ••• To him, she's merely a pawn and possession he acquired through marriage to ascend the brutal hierarchy of the mafioso. And to her, he embodies the fear she holds for her dear life. First, snatched away like a toy second, chained by a coerced marriage and the end? She does not know. Her life bears no worth beyond being a puppet wife to this ruthless beast. ➺ An innocent girl who knows the world only through her books ~ ➺ A sadist man who is obsessed only with his power and dominion ~ ▪⬞▪ ❛ 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 ❜ ▪⬞▪ "𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦, 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦" ▪⬞▪ Dark Romance with Toxicity and Triggering Contents.

Since young, Dione Amaris has always been fascinated by supernatural creatures; vampires, fairies, werewolves and many more. Her mother always read her stories about them. Until she turn to a fully grown woman, she has collected a lot of books about them and would still read them time to time and after she ends reading a book, she can’t help but think if they really exist. But what if… they really do exist? And one of its kind has been by her side all along? And she, herself has a blood of the creature she's been fascinated at? Will it be a start to a something new to her life? Or… it'll start a havoc in her life?

My dad was a zombie. My mom? Even scarier. She was an uber-powerful mutant. At the crack of dawn, she was already yelling, "Derick Olson! Don't make me come over there! What kind of zombie are you? Glued to your headphones all day—are those audiobooks really that captivating?" I rolled over in bed and promptly fell right off. Scrambling to my feet, I started tidying up my room in a flash, terrified she might actually make good on her threat. "Look at Mr. Hoffman next door," she hollered. "He roams the streets day and night, probably gobbled up more brains than you've read books!"

Follow me on IG : @sizuniilee Manjadi seorang istri tentunya sangat tidak mudah untuk Valeria, apalagi keluarga dari suaminya selalu saja menuntut Valeria menjadi sempurna. Setelah melahirkan seorang anak, tubuh Valeria yang berubah drastis membuat suaminya berselingkuh dengan alasan Valeria tidak cantik lagi. Tak lama setelah itu, Valeria juga kehilangan anak yang baru saja dia lahirkan. Semua orang menyalahkan Valeria karena tidak becus menjaga anak. Julian menceraikan Valeria, di saat yang bersamaan, keluarga Valeria membawanya pulang dan diam-diam dia menerima warisan dari keluarganya yang pura-pura bangkrut selama ini. Valeria kembali bangkit, dia mulai mengubah penampilannya dan menjadi CEO di perusahaannya. Perlahan, Valeria membalaskan dendamnya kepada keluarga Julian. Saat Valeria menyelidiki ternyata keluarga Julian bekerja sama dengan seorang mafia untuk memperlancar bisnisnya. Karena Valeria hanya fokus membalas dendam, dia tak tahu jika mafia itu tertarik dengan Valeria. Valeria yang sudah trauma dengan percintaan kini di goyahkan lagi dengan pria mapan dan berwibawa itu. Dengan semua usaha yang di kerahkan Salvatore, Valeria mulai kembali membuka hati. Sal bahkan membuat Valeria semakin bertumbuh menjadi wanita yang jauh lebih baik. Mereka menjadi pasangan yang paling di segani di dunia perbisnisan.

A Spin-off to Rejected Mythical Luna —Julian X Robin Story They say destiny determines how our lives play out, that the Moon Goddess shapes our paths. But if that’s true, then she did a terrible job with mine. Because as I’m being dragged away, all eyes on me and tears burning down my cheeks, I finally understand how cruel destiny can be. After surviving the war with my Alpha and the Luna, a new battle begins, one I didn’t choose but must finish. Revenge? Justice? Maybe that’s what I should live for. Maybe that’s what should keep me fighting, to hunt down the Men of Shadows who destroyed everything I loved. But as I run through that field with the people I now dare to call friends, none of that seems to matter anymore. All I want is my life back. My family. My pack. Him. And if that means killing again, I’ll do it, only this time, I knew better than to do it alone. “Did you really think leaving me behind was the best choice?” he asked, his breath hot against my skin. “I came to you twice, Julian,” he says, his grip firm, his voice trembling with something between pain and love. “You pushed me away both times. This time, I won’t let you fight alone.” Then his lips crashed against mine, and a single tear slipped free. Was this the retribution I’d been seeking… or just the beginning of a curse written by fate.