Q&a With Gretchen Powell

BLURB ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** You can’t force me to go with you,” I sneered. “I will carry you myself, Vanessa, if you insist on acting like a kid.” “I‘ll yell out for help, someone will hear.” “And sentence your loved ones to death? I think not,” he squinted. “What was their name again, Alena… Eugene" “Kai, don’t you dare touch my loved ones!” I said in gritted teeth as I walked closer to him, warning him, “Or else I will— He scoffed, and he grabbed my hand. “You will what? Huh?” Tears began to fall freely from my eyes. “Kia, don’t touch the ones I love!” I said in between tears. “We made a deal,” he said, grabbing my hands as I struggled to be free from his grip. “There is no going back. If you ever run away again, I won’t even give you a preview, you will attend the funeral of your loved ones.” his voice was dangerously low. Hot tears fell from my eyes. “I won’t touch you, so that you can suffer for your mistake,” he smirked. “You and I know, the pain is worse than death,” he said in a whisper. I closed my eyes and let tears cascade down my cheeks. I now understood what I had done. Understood that I had made a deal with the monster who was once my lover. I was foolish to think he had changed.

Sara Meyers, a young woman who was run over on her way back from work, was taken to a city hospital by the man who ran her over, Mason Clark, a young millionaire, who is known in the city for his eccentricities, his holidays, and the enormous way he spends his money, but above all for being an inveterate Casanova. She did not carry any information about her family, so Mason did not have a legal problem and agreed to take care of everything related to Sara during her recovery, while he takes care of her daily in the hospital and the visit begins to arise feelings between the two inexplicable, she loses her memory completely and the only thing she perceives as someone she knows is Mason. The life of the two of them takes an unexpected turn, because Mason changes his ostentatious life for this woman, but what neither of them knows, is that she has a family and a past that is looking for her, Sara does not manage to recover the memory, but she is debating between who she should love, since it is her past that was what she had before the accident, Or this is his present and what he loves most at the moment. A story with endless emotions and sentimental entanglements, which will make us think at what point in our life it is worth fighting for someone.

Jennifer Nath, who was nineteen years old, lived alone and moved a lot out of concern that her tormentors would track her out and find her. She is the Alpha's child and a member of the Pintos pack, where her father and the rest of the pack hated her merely for being there. He grew ruthless and started abusing drugs and alcohol. At age 5, he started abusing her since she was too young to understand what was occurring or why. He was out of money and his pack was disintegrating. So, when she was 15, her father sold her to a group of cruel men. She has never experienced love or compassion, making her distrustful. The Black Aries pack's 21-year-old Alpha is Don Damian. From a young age, he learned how to respect and behave decently with women. Because of his power and capacity to guide and protect his pack, he was given the name Zeus in honour of the Greek hunter. Since his first shift at age 16, he has been waiting for his mate, but she has never appeared.

Kloe Eleanor Echavez, a graduating student who lives a normal life. However, because of her drunkenness while at the bar, she suddenly went with someone she didn't know and what she never expected to happen in her whole life happened. She got pregnant by a stranger during their one night stand. And they only did it because of the influence of alcohol and lack of self-control. On the other hand, she didn't know that the one who got her pregnant was an heir. The dashing Mafia heir of the Castellanos, Kael Hendric Castellano. Dumating kaya ang panahon na makikilala niya ang taong iyon? Hahanapin nya ba ang ama ng kanyang dinadala? o Ipalaglag nya ang pagkakamaling kanilang nagawa? Paano namn pag nagkita sila? Agad nya bang sasabihin kay Kael na may nabuo sa isang gabing pagsasama nila? At paano kung malaman ni Khloe ang totoong pagkatao ni Kael? Itutuloy nya ang pagpapaalam na may nagbunga? From Khloe Eleanor's normal life it immediately changed to an ironic life that she never thought she would face.

Alyssa Hart is out of options. Drowning in medical debt, with her mother’s life hanging in the balance, she’s desperate for a solution. When an unexpected email offers her an interview at the mysterious Valentino Enterprises, she doesn’t hesitate. But what she walks into isn’t a job opportunity—it’s a marriage contract. The powerful and feared Valentino family needs a wife for their heir, Stephano Valentino. Cold, ruthless, and utterly uninterested in love, Stephano has discarded every woman his parents have introduced him to. They don’t expect Alyssa to be any different. The deal is simple: marry Stephano, bear his heir, and in two years, she’ll be free—with enough money to ensure her mother’s survival. There’s only one rule: this is not a real marriage. Stephano can do as he pleases, but Alyssa is bound to him alone. She should hate him. He gives her every reason to. But the longer she stays, the more she begins to see through the cracks in his armour. Beneath his icy exterior is something broken, something she can’t help but want to fix. And Stephano, who swore he would never care, finds himself drawn to the woman he was never meant to love. But in their world, love is a weakness. And breaking the rules comes with a price.

Starting with a boy named Daffa Setyawan who is constantly bullied, he unexpectedly gains a system power to eliminate the bullies at his school. However, instead of just targeting the bullies, he inadvertently attracts the attention of all the gangs in the city, making himself the hunted. Will he succeed in conquering both the school and the city, and be able to control the situation?

Like they say, we find love in the most unlikely places. It was love at first sight for him. Dash always found beauty in the most weirdest things, places and even people. That day, he had hit Rosario with his car, that was when he first saw her. He came from a dangerous mob family and he knew he had nothing to offer her, but the feelings were already there, so he made it his mission to avoid her, though it didn't help that they attended the same school. He couldn't ignore her for long so he decided to allow himself to live for once even after knowing it might end disastrously. He asked her out against his dad's will and they started dating. Rosario's mother was against the relationship too. One day she came to know something deep and bad about Dash and started blackmailing him with it to leave her daughter alone. Due to some life threatening events she went through with him. She pieced things together. People were after him. Eventually Rosario found out all about his lies and deceit and secrets and she was left disappointed and scared. What scared her more was who was after Dash. Not just his family enemies... But his own dad. Will Dash be forced to leave her to give her a chance at living peacefully?

Colette cares about two things; love and love songs. Her heart is filled with butterflies and yet no one ever loved her back. Sometimes it feels like her loveless fate had been destined and sometimes she wanted to fight this stupid fate by letting herself love shamelessly and pushing for the best case scenario. It started with Hussein. A dear friend of hers with cute afro but Hussein said he loved another girl. He promised to be friends with her forever but why does he still look at her...that way? Then she met Romeo by chance, a charming young popstar with the eyes of the sun. It was only natural, she fell for him. But Romeo turned out to be a jerk to her incapable of loving anyone. But the issue here was her heart couldn't stop loving them so she never stopped trying. Will Colette ever find the love she so desperately wanted? Or will the love she searches for be the very thing that will ruin her beyond repair?

Jessica is a successful businesswoman who is focused on her career and has no time for love. One night, she decides to let loose and ends up having a one-night stand with a stranger.

Aurora is a twenty-year-old young woman currently studying journalism. What sets her apart from others is her exuberant joy, audacity, and frankness, known for not mincing her words. She is in search of a polite, caring, and loving man, just like Alexander, a college colleague for whom she harbors a platonic passion. However, as she often says, "Life loves to play tricks on me," her path crosses with that of Tristan Callahan, the ruthless and sadistic president of one of the top accounting firms in New York. Despite Aurora being a modest girl, lacking expensive material possessions, she holds something extremely valuable to Tristan: her virginity. He is desperate to obtain it, but Aurora is not willing to easily give in.