Second Time Is The Charm

She was his stepdaughter by law… but his temptation by fate. A contract marriage_ A stepfather who should be off limits. But when the sparks fly between them, pretending isn’t enough. She’s drawn to him in ways she can’t explain, and he’s trying hard to resist. But desire is a powerful thing—especially when tied to a past they never knew they shared. Can they keep their hands to themselves, or will their forbidden temptation destroy everything?

A journey of tangled hearts and rekindled flame when love is rediscovered. Hayley is heartbroken when she finds out her husband's ex is back in town and Kyle is leaving her. But their marriage was never a love match but just a business deal between their families to seal their legacies. And Hayley had definitely fallen in love with her husband after three years of marriage, blessed with a pair of twins. Now Hayley had given up any hopes of them ever reconciling after Kyle's betrayal and tries to move on. But Kyle realizes that he can't bear to see his wife with any other man beyond himself. Could it be that he had fallen in love with his wife and never knew it? Will Kyle and Hayley be able to put their pride aside and be together again, this time for the long run?

(((If you haven't read the first two books of the second chance alpha series, you should for a better understanding.)))After running into his mate, Brandon walks away. He's Don't want to ruin her life by claiming her and forcing her to carry the burden of the things that he has done. He has been marked as a dishonorable male and has been forced to live as an outcast amongst the humans.But when his mate shows up at the condo, he has a bit of a problem with getting her to stay away.

My mafia husband, Vincent Santoro, was born a monster, incapable of loving anyone. But one day, I discovered he was hiding a ‘forbidden fruit’. A girl from the slums, Claire Murphy. Scarred by life, yet as beautiful as a wildflower growing through concrete. For a man who'd waded through blood his whole life, she was a fatal attraction he never saw coming. He thought he'd covered his tracks. He was wrong. At the Santoro family's annual dinner, I confronted him about Claire, tears streaking down my face. He just lightly frowned, then had his consigliere slide the divorce papers across the table to me. "Isabella. Sign it. The three North Side docks and the shipping lines are yours." I tore the papers to shreds. He just kept raising the offer. He had me thrown into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan. He blew up my family's distillery—the Romano family's legacy. Finally, he took my parents. Tied them in an abandoned warehouse and made one watch as he set the other on fire. "Sign, or watch them burn. Your choice." I begged him on my knees, but the world was consumed by a roar of flames— The heat seared my skin, the ash of my parents clinging to my face. "No... NO!" When I opened my eyes, I was back. Back on the day I first learned about Claire. This time, no tears, no drama. That night, I called my family in Sicily and set my escape in motion. But the moment I vanished from his world… Vincent Santoro went insane.

Tony and Dillon have just entered 2011 and the next year of their love and lives. No matter what the world has in store to throw at them, they will make it through just fine regardless. The Second Symphony is the next book in the line of eight that will show how close two people can become. Walk with both Tony and Dillon again as they grow together while at the same time grow into individuals. Love, even an unconventional one like theirs, has the potential to weather any storm.

Lumaking mabait, masipag at masunuring anak si Anna. Kahit na salat sa buhay ay masaya ang kanyang pamilya pero nag bagong lahat yon nang mamatay ang kanyang ama. Nalubog sila sa utang at naging malamig ang naging pakikitungo sa kanya ng ina. Sa resort sa kanilang lugar ay namasukan si Anna. Nakilala nya rito si Arthur Bryce na unang kita nya pa lamang ay nagustuhan nya na ang binata. Isang secret Agent si Arthur sa isang patagong organisasyon na ang layunin ay sugpuin ang mga masasamang organisasyon. Lingid sa kaalaman ng dalaga na kaya lamang lumalapit sa kanya ang binata ay dahil kumakalap lamang ito ng impormasyon sa kanilang lugar. Unti-unting nahulog ang loob ni Anna rito pero mukhang 'di mutual ang feelings nila sa isat-isa. Lalo na mukhang nagugustuhan nito ang anak ng may-ari ng resort na pinagt-trabahuhan nya. Pero hindi naging dahilan ito para kalimutan nya si Brent kundi mas gagawin nya pa ang lahat para ma gustuhan siya ng Binata.

“Our pathetic engagement is done, so don’t ever show your miserable face around me again. I’ve been disgusted by it for years! You are dying soon anyways, your disease has no cure! RIP in advance.” Francis, my fiancée spat cruelly, each word like a wound to my already broken heart. Not bothering to know how deep his words were hurting me. And didn’t care I was already drowning in pain.

Amiya who was born during an era of an old war of nations, was reborn multiple times after she met her first love. She was in a repeat cycle of living and dying not until in the present time, she meets a person whom she never saw in all her life.

Her name was Cathedra. Leave her last name blank, if you will. Where normal people would read, "And they lived happily ever after," at the end of every fairy tale story, she could see something else. Three different things. Three words: Lies, lies, lies. A picture that moves. And a plea: Please tell them the truth. All her life she dedicated herself to becoming a writer and telling the world what was being shown in that moving picture. To expose the lies in the fairy tales everyone in the world has come to know. No one believed her. No one ever did. She was branded as a liar, a freak with too much imagination, and an orphan who only told tall tales to get attention. She was shunned away by society. Loveless. Friendless. As she wrote "The End" to her novels that contained all she knew about the truth inside the fairy tale novels she wrote, she also decided to end her pathetic life and be free from all the burdens she had to bear alone. Instead of dying, she found herself blessed with a second life inside the fairy tale novels she wrote, and living the life she wished she had with the characters she considered as the only friends she had in the world she left behind. Cathedra was happy until she realized that an ominous presence lurks within her stories. One that wanted to kill her to silence the only one who knew the truth.

Dahil sawa na si Thea sa pagbubunganga ng ina. Napilitang mag-abroad ang dalaga. Graduate siya ng BS Tourism. Sa isang construction company siya nakakuha ng trabaho sa Dubai. Maliban sa pag-o-opisina, on-call cleaner din siya. Isang araw, tinawagan si Thea ng kaibigan para maglinis ng unit ng boss nito. Sa isang hotel and casino nagtatrabaho ang kaibigan. Wala siyang hinihindian na part-time, kaya umo-oo kaagad siya. Hindi sukat akalain ng dalaga, na ang sikat na miyembro ng banda, na si Keith Hernandez pala ang kanyang kliyente nang gabing iyon. Kilala ito sa tawag na KH. Hindi niya maiwasang hangaan ito ng sobra. Sa loob ng dalawang buwan na pamamalagi ng binata, siya lang ang bukod tanging naglilinis at cook nito. At, sa maikling panahon na iyon, natutunan ni Thea na mahalin si Keith. Naisuko pa niya sa binata ang iniingatang perlas ng silangan, kahit na may iba itong minamahal. Hanggang kailan siya magiging rebound? Ano kaya ang gagawin ni Thea kapag nalamang ikakasal na pala ang binata sa iba?