Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained Origin Novels & Stories

My girlfriend, Phoebe Norton, insisted on bringing her best friend along on our trip. What she did not know was that her friend, Shanine Graham, was a shameless flirt. Wearing nothing but a tiny thong beneath her clothes, Shanine kept finding ways to tease and tempt me…

For as long as she could remember, Amelia Hart had always been the second choice and second place in her family. Her parents adored her younger sister, Sophia, while Amelia was treated like someone who only existed when sacrifices needed to be made. So when the family’s business starts falling apart and a marriage alliance becomes the only way to save them, Amelia is once again expected to give up everything. The marriage was never meant for her. It was meant for Sophia. But when Sophia refuses to marry the cold and powerful heir of the sterling dynasty, Amelia is forced to take her place. Humiliated and shamed on her wedding day by a husband who mistakes her for the wrong woman and blames her for ruining his life, Amelia enters a marriage filled with loneliness, misunderstandings, and the cruelty of life itself. To him, she is nothing but an unwanted replacement.To her family, she is disposable And to her younger sister who secretly wanted it all, Amelia is simply an obstacle that must be removed. After years of heartbreak and betrayal, Amelia finally walks away with nothing except the secret she never intended to keep. She is pregnant. Years later, Amelia returns stronger, successful, and no longer the broken woman everyone once ignored. But when the man who once wanted nothing to do with her discovers the truth about the children she kept hidden, he realizes he was far too late and that he destroyed the only woman who ever truly loved him. Now, he wants his family back. The problem? Amelia no longer wants anything to do with him.

Sometimes kissing the Beast does not turn it into a Prince Charming — instead, he is a fascinating mogul you want topunch.Jules is an ordinary nineteen- span- old omega from a impeccably respectable family. He ’s not the most beautiful, or the smartest, or the strongest of the four Blake siblings. And he ’s fine with it, really. He is n’t unhandsome or anything, but by omega morals, he ’s nothing special. Jane is an ordinary nineteen- span- old omega from a impeccably respectable family. He ’s not the most beautiful, or the smartest, or the strongest of the four Blake ’s. And he ’s fine with it, really. He is n’t unhandsome or anything, but by omega morals, he ’s nothing special. “ Nothing special ” describes Jane ’s whole life. It ’s considerably boring. So when strange paraphernalia start doing in their house, it piques Jane ’s curiosity. There ’s a beast in the Blake family manor; Jane is sure of it. He sometimes hears growls and screams coming from the basement, and the men guarding the door look favorably scared. What could scarify grown mornings? Jules will have to probe! But his probation comes withsurprises.like the Beast's disarming effect on jane's omega nature. It does not mean anything. Of course it doesn't. Jules is just curious; that is all. Curiosity can change a life, but when you are attracted to a feral morning whose real face you have n’t yeaseen.will it change for the better? What if the Beast is no Prince Charming but a cold-hearted, misanthropic bastard? A bastard Jane should not want — but does. A bastard jane should stay out from — but can't

Camilla finds her husband cheating on her with her stepsister, after which they brutally murder her. She is granted another chance at life but doesn’t expect to also get a second chance mate, who is not just any werewolf but a Lycan, who will stop at nothing to make her his.

Azania Kunene and Lincoln Zion are childhood sweethearts, bound at birth. Born on the same day, two years apart, their shared birthday was nothing more than one of the few things that sealed their bond. All that is soon thrown out the window, however, after a deadly accident that saw Lincoln flee th

A ruthless mafia boss crosses paths with an ambitious, by-the-book defense attorney. She wants nothing to do with crime—he wants everything that threatens to ruin her carefully controlled world. But when a case forces them together, desire collides with danger, and neither of them can walk away clean.

Reymond Lingard didn't know how his life turned completely upsidedown, his crazy obsession for his daughter-in-law made him go insane. Nothing was more important than having Jesse Lingard who was his daughter-in-law in his life..his relationship with his son turned sour as the woman he yearned for was his son's wife.. "Listen son, Jesse is just a woman, don't let her bring enmity between us, give up on her and leave her for me..I gave up my entire life for you and the only woman who gave me happiness was taken away by you.. now it just so happened that you got married to her.. do you expect me to stand for it? Can't you give up this one thing that I ask of you as a father?" Trey sighed helplessly, he knew the affair that took place years ago between his wife and father but for the fact that he loved Jesse and she was already his wife, there was nothing he could do. "Dad, we both know there is little or absolutely nothing I can do about this. Learn how to live with it. I understand you gave me your kidney but that was because you are my father" "Trey you have two options here, it's either you give up on Jesse or you give me my pound of flesh...I don't care about the circumstances before" Mr Lingard yelled crazily. What will the fate of this turn out to be like?

On the night she learns her marriage was nothing but a lie, one desperate mistake lands her in the bed of her husband’s younger brother, the cold, violent wolf no one dares cross. And he makes one thing very clear: she doesn’t get to walk away.

Everette and Jack know next to nothing about romance novels.... or women. So when they accidentally join a book club full of both, they have no idea what to think. But, as the book and time goes on, the ladies in their book club become more interested in a different plot. The love lives of both men.

I was one of the lucky ones.Was.It all ended for me when I was 12, when I was taken away from the last bit of hope and family that I had left.Now, this is my life. Destined to rot away in a cage until a vampire comes to take me as theirs.Destined to be nothing but a pet.