Ryan Library Hours Novels & Stories

The dream of everyone with regard to marriage is to be able to find that special someone and settle down with them. Even arranged marriages grant you an opportunity to meet your partner briefly before the wedding. How will you feel about waking up in the morning with someone sleeping next to you who is not just anyone but your legally married partner yet with no memory of how that had happened in just a few hours of going out the previous day? This is the story of Jason Haward and Julia Harrison, two complete strangers trapped in a marriage they never planned. The quest to find out why led to the unfolding of a mystery, which made them realize they are both living a lie. To find out more, read this amazing story of love, betrayal, revenge and murder.

My husband doesn't touch me on our wedding night. He claims he's too tired and asks me to wait. Then, he sneaks into the basement in the wee hours of each night. Whenever he returns, he needs to shower to wash away an indescribable smell. I ask him what he does down there, and he tells me he works out. Why would anyone work out in the middle of the night? I can't take it anymore. One night, I decide to sneak into the basement to see what's going on down there. He chases after me and grabs my pajamas, roaring, "Come back up here! I'll divorce you if you step foot down there!"

When she had just gotten married, her husband tragically passed away mere hours after their wedding. To her horror, she witnessed the ruthless murder before her very eyes. How could someone commit such a heartless act without considering the value of human life or the impact on the victim's family. She must have been completely devastated by this shocking incident, but what happened next was beyond comprehension. The individual who took her husband's life had actually purchased her with money. It is truly unimaginable how someone could engage in such an inhumane act towards another person. Will she ever be able to move forward in her life, burdened by the knowledge that she was bought with money? Delve into the story to discover the answer.

Two hours before the wedding, Ahn Hana was abandoned by her fiance. Drunk and upset, she picked up a young bad boy from the street. Waking up with no memories of the night, she found herself next to a handsome boy in the next morning. What happened when she found out that she is being fooled by a playboy? When a mystery came to light, she realized that she had to fight her fallen mind to win the battle against a serial killer who had been obsessed with her. Was her entire life manipulated by a serial killer?Will this arrogant and proud lawyer able to resolve the murder case of the century while facing the whole nation's hate? Will she become the real killer's target or she will target the murderer?

During a rainstorm, I wait at a bus stop for three hours, but Joanne Sanders never shows up to keep her promise to pick me up. Just as I'm about to hail a cab, I see her secretary post an update on social media. In the photo is a familiar car dashboard. The caption reads, "Thanks to my boss for driving me home!" In the past, I would have bombarded Joanne with calls and messages, demanding an explanation. But this time, I simply move my finger across the screen and like the post. After I leave without a word, carrying my luggage with me, she panics and searches for me everywhere. She says, "I can change. Please don't leave me."

Reputation is more like a currency in Minerva's high. But ‘perfect’ Vienne Reyes seem to be going bankrupt recently, especially since her boyfriend chose to humiliate her by through a public breakup. As though that wasn't enough, he got together with her spiteful ex-best friend who would do anything to get her trampled on. Beautiful, good grades, perfect social standing, big family name, but these all seem to be mocking her after Ryan Knox broke up with her and gave the elite students of Minerva's high school chance to gossip about her. Mortification and emotional disruption had lead her to the club where she got ‘entangled’ with a boy and the scene got captured. Key in Damon Calloway; blunt, cold and nonchalant. One of the school's brooding scholarship kid and basketball star who wouldn't want to have anything to do with the elite kids and their drama; infact he looks down on them even with his tanking grades. Vienne wouldn't back down with a fight; she wants her boyfriend back, hence the fake-dating proposal with Calloway as a result of the pictures. Fake dates, hangouts, pictures, and all in exchange for tutorial sessions. Through snide remarks, playful bants, jabs, inevitable proximities, no one knew when the line between fake and reality began to get blurry. Gossips, aristocrats, schemes, romance, twists and secrets, would the two be able to get through? ‘ Ryan was looking over? Was he really? Right at the moment, I could truly feel the heat of his gaze on the back of my neck. “Is he still looking?” “Yeah” I adjusted my hair, not knowing why I was getting unnecessarily giddy. “I don't have a food scrap on my lips right? Do I look pretty enough?” A few seconds passed before his deep low voice rasped out. “Gorgeous…” ‘

Lia Ryan is a woman who seemingly has it all; beauty, money, and a successful career. The only thing missing in her life, or as far as her grandmother can see, is a husband to stand by her side. Lia, on the other hand, does not share the same beliefs and prefers to enjoy her life as an independent single lady. In order to stop her grandmother from setting her up for an arranged marriage, she was forced to hire a fake boyfriend and introduce him to her. But what happens when the fake boyfriend she hired turns out to be the handsome new CEO of one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world? And what if said handsome CEO suddenly proposes to her? When two headstrong personalities collide, will the explosion be of destructive bombs or magnificent fireworks? Read on to find out!

Ryan Carter was not supposed to survive Blackridge. Being a victim of political manipulation and a corrupt system, he is sentenced to be silenced. But he refuses to fold. Stubborn, defiant, unbreakable, and dangerously intelligent, he refuses to submit, turning himself into a problem the prison cannot ignore. Then Michael arrives in prison, also a victim of the same scheme, a lover who doubted, betrayed, and refused to trust him. Trapped inside a system built to destroy them, buried beneath secrets no one is meant to uncover, they are forced into a dangerous game of power and control. To survive, they must do the impossible. Break out. Expose everything and burn the system to the ground. Will they survive long enough to achieve this goal or crumble under the weight of Blackridge’s fire? The uncertainty hunts them like a plague.

Mila Cross spent five years loving a man who slowly taught her how to hate herself. Every joke at her expense. Every apology that somehow became her fault. Every lie dressed up as honesty. So when her longtime boyfriend demands an open relationship, something inside her finally shatters. She doesn’t plan the night that follows. She doesn’t plan the stranger with tattooed hands and dangerous eyes who makes her feel wanted instead of tolerated. She especially doesn’t plan on sleeping with him and him being Ryan Wilder… her brother’s best friend, a man wrapped in violence and loyalty, the undisputed president of the Night Reapers MC.

Clocking 18, Suzie had just one thing in mind, to take revenge on everyone who has bullied her, including her father and the quadruplet brothers, one of them which she has given her entire heart only for him to shatter it. But hours before her shift, the goddess played a trick on her, mating her to the same brothers she desperately wanted to play with their lives. What would become of Suzie’s revenge especially now that the four brothers want to be with her? Even with their lives in danger, all they want is for their mate, whom they have tortured all this years to love and forgive them. Would this be possible for Suzie? Or would she turn a blind eye and watch their lives turn miserable? Find out.