Seventeen Diamond

During the biggest sales day of the year, my fiance's "sweet and clueless" assistant sells a one-carat diamond for one cent. In just 20 minutes, the company loses 200 million dollars. I am so furious that my entire body shakes, yet Hendrick Shaw, my fiance, pulls me into his arms and comforts me, "Don't worry. I'll handle it." However, that same night, Selena Suther posts a screenshot on social media—a transfer of 1,430,000 dollars, with the recipient note saying "I love you." The caption attached to the screenshot is "I made a huge mistake today, but my boss comforted me instead. He even reminded me not to be angry at the 'tigress' and to be good." I comment on her post, "I wish you both happiness forever." Selena instantly deletes the post, but Hendrick abruptly charges in and lands a resounding slap on my cheek. "What's your motive for liking Lena's post? She's now so overcome by guilt and shame that she's about to end her life! "The company only lost 200 million dollars. Do you have to force her into a corner over it?" He sounds so righteous and fearless. Later, why does Hendrick cry when he can't even afford a 20-dollar meal?

My husband was dead. He had saved a girl from drowning, yet he himself perished in the icy river. As I sank into a chasm of grief, the girl's father appeared at my door. He glared at me and demanded, "Where is my daughter's necklace? She was wearing it before she fell into the water!" Rage surged through me, and in the heat of our confrontation, he ended up dead. Then my phone… came alive. "Hide the body. The police are coming. I'll teach you how to dispose of a corpse…"

I was a writer. I rented a place in the countryside to seek inspiration. The villagers said it was a haunted house. Twenty years ago, a mad woman murdered her daughter by piercing a needle into her skull! I did not believe it, but I got a call from a little girl that night. She said it was 2002, and her mother was trying to kill her!

There's a little shop downstairs that sells organ soup. It's always packed with customers. People line up as if bewitched, eager for a bowl. I've often wondered what secret ingredient made their soup so irresistible. This afternoon, I finally found my answer. Floating in my bowl was a piece of human skin—inked with a tattoo I knew all too well. It was the one etched on my boyfriend's arm.

Alessandra Marino, 35, runs New York's most powerful criminal organization from a penthouse forty-two floors above a city she owns. She has built this empire with one purpose: to avenge her father Vittorio, murdered seventeen years ago in a warehouse on Fifth Street when Alessandra was eighteen. She has a scar above her heart from that night — a knife meant for him. She has never once questioned the direction of her war. The night she executes a traitor named Theron, she receives a call from an unknown woman who claims to know why Vittorio really died. The woman is Giuliana Torelli — daughter of the man who pulled the trigger, made to watch as a fourteen-year-old, carrying the truth for seventeen years while waiting for someone ready to hear it. What Giuliana reveals dismantles everything Alessandra believed: Vittorio wasn't killed for his power. He was killed because he was going to go federal — because his wife was pregnant with a second child and he wanted to run, to be ordinary, to give his family a life outside the empire. Thomas Accardi, the man who married Alessandra's mother after Vittorio's death, was the architect of the murder. And Accardi has always known about the second child. Her name is Mara. She is twenty-eight years old, living in Williamsburg, and completely unaware that her entire life is a lie — or that Accardi has just wired a hundred thousand dollars to a fixer named James Sullivan.

Sebuah pesta pernikahan yang diadakan oleh seorang janda muda bernama Delia Anastasya, bersama seorang duda anak satu bernama Erlan, kini hancur berantakan. Acara mereka diporandakan oleh beberapa orang berperawakan tegap. Delia merasa shock dengan kejadian ini. Ia juga bingung, siapa yang berani menghancurkan acara mereka. Hingga sesosok pria keluar, dan tersenyum sinis ke arah mereka. Dia bernama Defano Narendra. Siapakah dia? Apakah motif dibalik perbuatannya ini?

Irene's life crumbles before her when she is used as a substitute for her father's enormous debt and she is forced to get married to a man she doesn't want to get married to because of her father's debt. Irene develops immense hatred for Xavier because he didn't only force her to get married to him but he was also a beast and a werewolf! Alpha Xavier who is cursed by the moon goddess and deprived of having a mate for years, forces Irene to get married to him because he must have Luna by his side before becoming the Supreme Alpha. In a bid to become the supreme Alpha, Alpha Xavier deceives the Supreme Alpha and the other pack that his mate is a werewolf and his curse has been waded off. He also develops sudden hatred for Irene after she almost ruined his chance of becoming the Supreme Alpha. What would happen when the current Supreme Alpha finds out that Xavier tried to deceive him? What would happen when different forces tried to stop him from mounting the throne of the supreme Alpha? What would happen when Xavier realizes that his curse has truly been waded off and Irene was his destined mate and Luna?How will the immense hate between Xavier and Irene vanish when they realize that they are destined for each other?

« Je veux sortir de ce mariage », dit Adrian froidement — même si c’est lui qui l’a trahie cinq ans plus tôt. ~ Lena Rivers n’est plus la femme douce et fragile qu’Adrian Ravel avait épousée puis jetée sans ménagement. Aujourd’hui PDG reconnue de Stellar Furnishings, Lena est audacieuse, résiliente, sereine et farouchement protectrice envers son fils, Milo. Elle n’a aucun intérêt à revisiter la douleur qu’Adrian lui a causée. Mais le destin remet Adrian sur sa route, l’obligeant à affronter leur passé, l’étincelle ravivée entre eux, et une vérité choquante : le fils de Lena pourrait bien être le sien. Malheureusement pour eux deux, l’actuelle petite amie d’Adrian, Bella Hawthorne, refuse de lâcher prise. Bella est impitoyable, calculatrice et dangereusement obsédée. Elle est prête à tout pour garder Adrian — même si cela signifie détruire la réputation de Lena et démanteler tout ce qu’elle a construit.

For Tracy Bennett, her date was supposed to be sweet with the man she thought was her forever. Instead, she found him cheating on her with her best friend in the hotel where they had planned to meet. Heartbroken and furious, Tracy stormed out, blinded by tears and anger, only to collide with a stranger. A tall, handsome man whose smirk made her blood boil. That man was Nick White, the wealthy billionaire who had just been appointed CEO of Haven Enterprises, where Tracy worked. She wanted to forget their brief encounter, but fate had other plans. The next day, Tracy discovered that Nick wasn’t just an ordinary stranger, he was her boss with a personal vendetta, and he wasn’t shy about using his power. Charmingly ruthless, Nick made her an offer she couldn’t resist: submit to his whims and seize the chance to get back at those who had wronged her so badly, or risk losing the career she had spent years building.

I was eighteen when I'd given my heart to Julian Thorne, friend of my father and a silver-haired god who ruled the city. He'd laughed, called me a child, and then exiled me to Europe. Five years later, I returned, no longer a naive princess but a desperate pawn, destined to be sold into an abusive marriage to save my bankrupt family. Julian was the only key to my cage. He agreed to save me. He bought my father's debt and claimed me as his own. His price was my submission-my body in his bed, my life under his thumb. All along, I'd thought I was playing a game of seduction to survive, when, in fact, Julian was playing a game of war. And when I found out he used our nights to steal my inheritance and destroy my family, I ran. I disappeared, faked my own death, and took the one thing he could never reclaim his son. Three years of freedom reduced to naught the instant he found us. He dragged me back into his gilded cage, intent on revenge. But before his vengeance could take root, a rival's sabotage put him in a coma. The moment Julian opened his eyes, he remembered his empire, his rivalries, his treacherous ex-fiancée, Seraphina. He remembered everything.except the woman he'd risked his life for, and the son who carried his eyes. Now, I am trapped: in a fight with a forgotten man, haunted by the ghost who swore his love to me in a final dying letter, facing an enemy who wants to eradicate the only thing Julian cannot forget: our connection. To save myself and my child, I have to make the monster fall in love with me all over again-before his past decides I'm a risk worth killing.