Stay Close Harlan Coben Summary

Lucian King doesn't give a about anyone. The only thing that he cares about is King Enterprises; his father's company. Life is already hard enough for Lucian as the CEO's son, but without a doubt, the ultimatum that his Father enforces on him only makes life harder: Either gets married and Lucian's father will give up his spot as CEO to Lucian or Stay single and never work in King Enterprises again. That's where 24 years , Malea Hayes comes in. Malea works full time as a bartender a club that coincidentally Lucian attends often. In a drunken haze, Lucian chats up Malea. A deal sparks between the two. Malea must help Lucian find a wife.Malea knows she needs help financially and hesitantly asks her best friend, Alesandra Rodriquez for help. Alesandra suddenly is into the world of fame, money, deceit, and lies and soon her character has changed. But the real question is that did she change For better or for worse? With Alesandra married to Lucian, Malea thinks she's finally happy and at peace. But is she wrong?

Once bitten, twice shy. This saying motivated me to abstain from things that have hurt me in the past and one of it, is women. I'm Adam, a famous billionaire. I owned multinational companies and funny enough, I have only male employees. I don't let women get close to me. I avoid them like they were a plague but then, it came to a matter of life and death and - she's the only one that can save my son's life....

Book Two of Cruel Intentions Series. This book can be read as a stand-alone, but for better comprehension of the characters, it is recommended to be read after Betrayed the Mafia. Theodore is the second in command of the Irish mob in New York. He is known as a player, use and toss. Theo hates relationships seeing them as useless. Theodore is funny and lighthearted around his friends, but when dealing with business, he is ruthless and heartless. His cold heart always prevails. Theodore is manipulative and a great liar. Theodore is chosen to help forge an alliance between the Irish and the Americans. He needs to marry the daughter of the boss. He takes his job and position seriously and accepts his fate. He doesn’t believe in love anyway, so that nothing will change for him. He will just have to wear a ring and play house. What happens when she is the girl he has avoided for years, the girl he feels the need to protect? He sees her as a weakness. He condones how she lives her life, but the day he allows himself to get close to her, everything changes, and his addiction to her becomes impossible to resist. Theodore is everything Everly has always dreamed of as an online romance novel writer, and she is inexperienced and sassy. The only way she has experienced love is through her books. She lives almost in captivity because of who she is, and Her purity will be negotiable. But once Theodore pops her cherry, he can’t stay away, involving her in a thread of lies and manipulations that she could only imagine as a plot of one of her books.

A man who lost his daughter clones her to see her face once more and keeps her existence a secret from society. Amelia, tired of being kept inside and hidden from the world, start chatting with a guy named Ryan on her phone. But once she escapes from her father to see Ryan in person, she discovers he isn't the sweet man she has gotten to know but a fearsome mafia boss who plotted to kidnap her all along. Because Amelia is the daughter of Ryan's greatest enemy—her father. Ryan is adamant to never let anyone close to him again, not after he tragically lost his wife and daughter. He is convinced love would only get in his way and cloud his mind. Loving someone is a weakness. But what happens when you start falling in love with the person you swore to despise?

My stepsister falsely accuses me of causing her allergies to act up. My three brothers stuff me into the cramped cellar and chain the door shut. I pound on the door and beg them to let me out. My eldest brother, an outstanding businessman, snaps, "It's bad enough that you keep bullying Lori. How could you make her eat seafood when you know she's allergic to it? Isn't that just murder? Stay in there and reflect on your mistakes!" My second brother, an award-winning singer, and my third brother, a genius painter, scoff contemptuously. "It's unbelievable that someone as evil as you is making excuses to garner pity. You can stay in there and repent for your sins!" After that, they take our shuddering stepsister to the hospital. The oxygen in the cellar soon runs out, and it gets difficult to breathe. Ultimately, I die in there. My brothers only remember me three days later when they bring our stepsister back from the hospital. Unbeknownst to them, I've already died of asphyxiation.

Synopsis He close the expanse between us and I won't lie I close my eyes for a bit because I don't know how it got so hot and steamy between us. His lips touch my jaw, making me tremble. He continues a line of kisses along my jawline and I nod. I know he is right, I have no idea what this is. As his lips touch the spot just below my ear I moan and he does it again, this time sucking the skin. That electricity between us appears again, this time more wild than ever before. Why is this always happening with him? I shut my mind off from my thoughts and wrap my arms around his neck to steady myself. he rubs his thumb over my bottom lip and in a swift he crash his lips with me and deepen it immediately and all sexual attachment aroused and I felt unsatisfied. His lips move in sync with mine as he eat out my lower lips and I moan out unconsciously. He palm my ass cheek in his hand. He raise me up and I wrap my leg round his torso with no one ready to pull back. He kiss me passionately and it felt like he had always wanted to do this for so long because he poured all his love into it.

“Congratulations, Catherine. You've just become my fiancée.” A sultry smile curved Hunter Thorne's lips as he watched me with his predatory gaze. He was the future Don Cartelli, the purest embodiment of danger, and I was about to become his wife. How was I supposed to know that the hot stranger I kissed in the club was one of the most fearsome men in New York?! Once I realized my mistake, I chose to stay away from him. My fate, however, had other plans… When my quiet little world began to fall apart, this notorious Mafia boss became my only salvation. I needed money and protection, and he needed a wife. This was supposed to be a simple deal, but nothing is ever simple with Hunter Thorne. He's the devil incarnated, and I've just entered his hell. This devil craves my body, heart, and soul… and I'm seconds away from surrendering every last piece of me.

[You can now catch Mercedes, Sedar and Neriman appearing in, Hidden Secrets: A Screwed Up Love Story. Thanks!] Mercedes Winterburn awoke in a stranger's bed to discover she was married to him; she immediately demanded a divorce and walked out of his hotel suite without looking back. A few days later, she demands a large sum of money in exchange for agreeing to stay married for one year to Sedar Ozturk, a Turkish billionaire with a past that comes back to haunt him, plunging Mercedes into a world of chaos. What began as a contract marriage evolved into something far greater than either of them could have imagined. What will the Turkish billionaire do to save his wife when they are thrown into a world they are both unfamiliar with time and time again??

Rosaria is a care free she-wolf whose adopted into the moonstone's pack beta's family. She finds out the man whose supposed to be her mate lied to her a day before the mating ceremony. This leads to her seeking refuge with the Alpha king. They start developing feelings for each other but things are not that simple. A curse and a promise prevents them from being together, will the couple be able to overcome the obstacles and stay together or will they keep the promise to stay away from each other?

'No matter if I am there with you or not, don't let anything get you. Just close your eyes, think about me, and persist. You are a female-wolf, Lisa, and a female can do anything if she determines it.' ~~~ It was Lisa's Twenty-first birthday when all the hell broke loose. Her parents, Alpha king and Luna queen died a painful death while saving her. Her brother, Sebestian, threw himself at the mercy of the enemies so that she escaped from their filthy clutches. They wanted her. All of them in the pack wanted her after the ambushment of her father's rule. And to protect herself, Lisa kept running away— until she fell in the arms of Alpha Alan, the strongest alpha of the continent who disguised himself as a rogue to keep her protected. But after months of saving her, he willingly let her be taken away. What made him take such a decision? He knew she was in danger, then why did he let her slip away out of the warmth of his protection and fall back in the hell she's been running away from?