Moneyball Parents Guide

Sold like a circus animal. Collared, forced into misery and self-hatred. With a single blow, she hopes to change her life, only to find herself trapped again. Ocean has no idea what freedom means, but she desires nothing more than a taste of it. The secrets hidden from her will unfold before her eyes, no one can escape the truth. ~~~ The book excerpt: "Here, I have a key to your heart," I left the key in my palm, metal, and skin together. I stumbled upon the ancient artwork in the locker rooms. It caught my attention because it resembles a dagger, so I took it and waited for the perfect opportunity. "Silly girl, that is not the key to my heart. Pathetic attempt." Vladimir growls in disgust. If I'm lucky, I'll be free by the end of the night. Taking the first step toward my destruction, I grin and move my hips in time with the slow music in the background. Vladimir swallows, his Adam's apple bobbles in his throat. The vampire's eyes focus on the crook of my neck as I stop directly in front of him. I place my palm on his chest, guide my fingertips down to his abdominal muscles, a corner of my lip twitches in disgust. When he closes his eyes, I take the opportunity to plunge the key directly into his heart, smiling as his eyes shoot open and he looks down at me in horror. "Are you still convinced I don't have the key to your heart?" I ask, grab him by the collar, and pull him closer. My lips nearly touch his ear as I whisper, "It fits."

A blizzard is approaching. Yet my mountain guide girlfriend, Clover Ainsley, insists on waiting for her childhood sweetheart, Elliot West, to return to the group before leading everyone down the mountain. In order to save everyone's lives, I keep pleading with her to take us down the mountain first. Finally, she reluctantly agrees to my pleas and takes us home. Unexpectedly, Elliot is trapped in a cave afterward. He ends up freezing to death because help never comes to him. Clover claims that she doesn't regret saving me and the rest of the group. In fact, she even proposes to me afterward. But on the night of our engagement, she poisons me and drags me to the snow mountain. "If it wasn't for you demanding me to leave the mountain, Elliot wouldn't have died! He was the billionaire's son, you know! You can't even compare to him at all! "He had died naked, and his stomach was filled with snow! I want you to suffer the same way he did!" After that, Clover strips me naked and pushes me into a snow mound. When my body goes all stiff from the cold, she drags me to a high ledge before throwing me off the ledge. Just like that, my body shatters into pieces because of how brittle I've become. When I open my eyes again, I've returned to the day the blizzard is about to come. If Clover wants to wait for Elliot, who's taken on my identity as the billionaire's son, then she can go ahead and do that. I'm not going to meddle with their fate this time.

When my cousin, Rita Pike, brings her boyfriend, Benny Booker, home to meet her parents, I get labelled as a freeloader for some reason. As soon as Benny steps through the front door, he shoots me a disdainful glance. "You're the cousin who refuses to move out of my girlfriend's villa, right?" I just stare at him in confusion. Yes, I do live in this villa. But my parents have left this property to me as a part of my assets. My name is the one printed on the property deed. Heck, I'm the one who told my butler to give Rita a room to stay here! Why is it that I'm painted as the poor relative who refuses to move out now that she's dating another man?

"I know,” I cried out. His back was faced towards me as I spoke. “I know how it feels like to love you.” Anger started boiling inside of me as I said, “It hurts to love someone like you.” ---- Samantha Parker is an ordinary female werewolf who wishes to have something good in her life after her parents’ death. That good thing turned out to be her worst nightmare as she found out that Ryder Jackson, her brother’s best friend, was her mate. Not only that but she finds out that there was someone, who was responsible for her parents' death, lurking in the shadows ready to take her away. She would encounter difficult situations which led her to think that her life was a lie and the truth needed to be unraveled.

Hana never thought that on her wedding day, She would have to face the harsh reality. Hana's future husband, Valdo, had an affair with her best friend. Not only that, Hana, who had just handed over her late parents' company to Valdo, was kicked out from the company. Armed with anger, Hana decide to go to a company that was a rival of her parents company. The company is led by Delldora, a mysterious man who is on the list of most wanted men in the world. With all effort, hana managed to become Delldora's secretary. Even Hana managed to make Delldora willing to help Hana to get her revenge on Valdo. But, of course not for free. Hana must be willing to give everything to Delldora who turns out to be a Demon that had lived since several hundred years ago!!

Separated by an accident that took the lives of their parents, Lily and Layla turned from sisters to strangers. They each start a new life after getting adopted into new families who lived hundreds of miles apart. Lily maintains her identity while her sister's adoptive parents change her name to Joan Lewis. years later, their world crossed as Lily fell in love with Harvey in college and Harvey happens to be her best friend and childhood of Joan Lewis. But Joan did not want their relationship to end there as she had fallen deeper in love with Harvey. Fueled by jealousy and anger, Joan hatches a plan to kill Lily not knowing Lilly is her long-lost sister. Unfortunately for her, Lily survived only to face Harvey's strict mother who has vowed that only Joan could marry Harvey.

When Serenity, a young she-wolf, finds out on her 18th birthday about her brother Brady, the Alpha of the Black Gem pack being her mate - her world capsizes in an ocean of doubts. Not only does she get to know she is adopted but her mate chooses another over her. She finds herself seeking out her real parents, only to fall for the Alpha of the pack where her parents settled. This Alpha is head over heels in love with her. He will do anything to get close to her. But Brady has secrets that could change everything. Everything including the love and adoration for her new love interest. With Serenity’s belching heartbreak, which Alpha will she choose after she has not only been rejected but also backstabbed?

After her parents are killed in a pack attack, Celia escapes the clutches of the alpha and his notorious pack members only to find herself face to face with the youngest Lycan Prince, Jasper. He is someone everybody avoids, nobody understands and even the King is wary of. "Just kill me and be done with it” I said as irritation building up inside me found its escape through my tongue. I was not even afraid of death anymore. I could even picture meeting my parents again in the afterlife. "Things have gotten too interesting for that” He replied, dragging me out of my thoughts. He gave me a malicious look and a smile that did not reach his eyes. Death would have been an easy way out but there was no escaping Prince Jasper.

"Sign this contract, Sara," Zack said with a smirk playing on his lips. "Think about it. You will get your revenge, and I get what I want,” He added. Orphaned after the death of her parents, Sara Miles vowed to take revenge on her parents’ murderer, whom she strongly believed to be her uncle. She set her sights on the biggest tech company in New York. Along the way, she encountered the rude and arrogant CEO of the company, Zack Enterprise, Zack Samuels. Surprisingly, despite their less-than-ideal first encounter, he offered her the job. Little did she know, there was more to this. They entered into a contract marriage to both achieve their revenge. For Sara, it was her uncle, while for Zack, it was his ex-fiancée, Nora, who had cheated on him.Will they fall in love, or will their situation forever be a contract marriage?

It was a perilous time when the fittest survived. Alphas were usurped and Packs were overthrown by the powerful. Vera was thrown into a conspiracy when her father, the beta of the Shifters Pack, was accused of treason. Her parents were killed and she was labelled a traitor's daughter. Everyone turned their backs against her. Her mate, the Alpha heir, rejected her and she was banished from the pack. Resolute to prove her parents' innocence, she escaped from her killers only to fall into the hands of a ruthless Alpha, Alpha Joash. She soon realized that he was her second chance mate but he was oblivious to it. In her state, she couldn't voice it out. Still at his mercy, she realized that all that she had believed were lies. She needed to save herself, prove herself and unknot her twisted fate.