The Ides Of March Novels & Stories

A series of past murders catch the attention of the police and the media. All the people who were killed were women, all of which had some sort of relationship with a well known and successful businessman named Asriel Parker. For some reason, the murders all point to him as the number one suspect and connection between them. The reasonable thing to do is to put him behind bars but there is one problem. "Everyone is innocent in the eyes of the law until proven guilty." There isn't a shred of evidence that actually pinpoints Asriel Parker as the culprit. With that statement in mind, Selena March, a good police officer and detective is sent undercover as his live-in Personal Assistant to dig up whatever information she can use to put the murderer behind bars. Selena has no idea what she signs up for but she knows for a fact that falling in love is not part of the whole 'undercover' mission

Nick Henderson and Gabriel Swann are so very happy with their love affair. They have had five years of being alone with each other, and they have talked about having a third party in their relationship. Being bisexual they both love women but they both agree it would take someone so special to love both of them. All Millie Ashton wants is a family who loves her. Her mother has zero maternal instinct, and her two older half-sisters, twins and fashion models Pearl and Ruby, use her as a slave! After a massive row over a ruined top, Millie leaves home. On a wet and windy March day, Millie walks into what seems to be akin to a tiger's den. Superstar rock-god musicians Nick Henderson and Gabriel Swann, need a housekeeper. Was looking after the twins a case of better the devil you know, or will Millie find the most wonderful family.

Une menteuse incontrôlable face à un PDG glacial Léna a un don : elle ment comme elle respire. Pas par méchanceté, juste parce que la vérité est souvent… ennuyeuse. Embellir son CV, inventer des expériences incroyables, se faire passer pour quelqu’un d’autre ? Un jeu d’enfant. Mais quand son dernier mensonge la propulse dans une multinationale dirigée par Adrian Blackwood, l’homme le plus redouté du monde des affaires, elle réalise qu’elle a peut-être joué un peu trop gros. Un PDG qui ne tolère pas l’erreur Adrian Blackwood est un homme de principes. La rigueur, l’efficacité, la vérité. Il ne laisse aucune place au hasard ni aux erreurs humaines. Alors, quand il découvre que sa nouvelle assistante a un CV plus bidon qu’un billet de monopoly, il devrait la virer sur-le-champ. Mais quelque chose chez elle l’intrigue. Sa confiance insolente, sa façon de se sortir de chaque situation par une pirouette verbale… et surtout, le défi qu’elle représente. Un marché impossible Plutôt que de la mettre à la porte, Adrian lui propose un marché : un mois d’essai, à une seule condition. Pas un seul mensonge. Un écart et elle est dehors. Léna accepte… puis réalise qu’elle vient de se condamner elle-même. Dire la vérité ? Elle n’a jamais su faire. Surtout pas face à un patron qui semble capable de lire dans ses pensées et qui, malgré son air glacial, commence dangereusement à lui plaire. Entre tensions et mensonges Quand la vérité éclatera, qui sortira vainqueur ?

Leila, princesse de la mafia marseillaise au sourire solaire, rentre d'exil pour découvrir son destin scellé : épouser Yanis Belmecher, le parrain rival qu'on surnomme "le Serpent". Leur union n'est qu'un marché de paix entre clans ennemis. Lui, froid et calculateur, ne voit en elle qu'un pion à briser. Elle, révoltée, jure de le haïr. Pourtant, prise au piège de ce mariage forcé, Leila comprend qu'elle n'a qu'une arme : toucher le cœur de ce prédateur aux yeux noirs. Mais comment attendrir un serpent ? Alors qu'elle s'enfonce dans son univers de violence, elle découvre avec effroi sa fascination pour les ténèbres... et pour les mains tatouées de celui qui jure de la détruire.

Je pensais m’être échappée. Je pensais pouvoir passer à autre chose, construire une vie avec l’homme que j’aime, et vivre avec mon fils unique. Mais tout s’est effondré quand je l’ai revu. Dominic Lawson. Il était mon demi-frère, celui qui me tourmentait émotionnellement. J’ai juré de ne plus jamais le revoir, mais maintenant il est de retour, tenant un secret assez puissant pour ruiner mes fiançailles avec son meilleur ami. « Épouse-moi pendant deux ans. » C’est ce qu’il a dit. C’était son marché pour garder la bouche fermée, mais j’étais déjà fiancée à son meilleur ami, Daniel. Maintenant j’ai deux jours pour décider. Épouser mon demi-frère ou tout perdre.

Susie Chance always claimed to value fairness above all else. Because of that, she ordered a specially designed chip implanted into my body. Whenever her childhood sweetheart suffered bouts of stomach cancer, all his suffering would be transferred onto me. On the day he underwent tumor-removal surgery, I collapsed in agony in the hospital corridor. Meanwhile, Susie gently comforted him in the ward. “So? It didn’t hurt at all, right?” Later, she said she wanted to hold a wedding with her childhood sweetheart, so he could experience being a groom as well. “Even though the one marrying me is Mark, the one I’ll register with in the future will still be you. I told you… I’ve always treated you both equally.” I said nothing, simply returning the wedding ring she had once placed in my hands. However, when the wedding march finally began to play, I boarded a one-way flight far away.

My mother kept a red notebook recording all of my sister's favourite things. She had a blue notebook for me too. When my mother was hospitalized, I took leaves from work to take care of her. My sister had never shown up. However, my mother recorded in the blue notebook, '15th March, I am not well and am hospitalized. Celine owed me 450 dollars for food allowance. I knew that was not a notebook about my favourite things, but a notebook of all of my expenses. Behind the closed doors, Mother said to Father, "Celine is an evil person. She always likes to compete with her sister. We must take a chance to steal all her money and leave with Belle. Later when we are old, we will ask her to take care of us. I think we should just ask her to pay us back all the money we spent on her that I have recorded in this notebook. I was devastated at that moment.

My family sold one of their properties to put me through school abroad. Nathan Kingsley and I had been together three years. Two of those were long-distance. Through those two years of me alone overseas, he never broke contact — airport pickups, long phone calls, every anniversary remembered. I'd never once doubted him. I thought distance hadn't beaten us. The day I flew home, he was waiting at Arrivals with a bouquet of flowers. He smiled and said, "Finally." We set the engagement date. We picked out the dress. We booked the reception. The day the wedding march began and I stood at the top of the aisle looking at him, I thought — these three years were worth every minute. Then the doors behind me opened. My sister walked into the chapel, in a white dress, and slid her arm through his. She smiled at me. "Sorry, sis. Those airport pickups? I'm the one who sent him. For the last three years, he's been mine the whole time."

Élora, une jeune femme vivant parmi les humains, est traitée comme une servante par sa famille adoptive. Son beau-père, le Comte Raeden Valtieri, l'a recueillie après la mort de sa mère, mais il ne voit en elle qu'un fardeau. Maltraitée par ses demi-frères et sa demi-sœur, elle n'a qu'un seul soutien : Lina, sa petite sœur de sept ans, la seule à lui témoigner de l'affection. Un soir, le Compte a pris une décision irrévocable : il l'a vendue au marché des elfes noirs Sans savoir où elle sera envoyée ni ce qui l'attend, Élora comprend que sa vie ne lui appartient plus. Mais son destin pourrait bien être plus terrible... ou plus surprenant qu'elle ne l'imagine

My husband only married me for a family alliance, but his heart was always with his first love. To please her, he even threw her a grand wedding. He forced me to play the wedding march at their ceremony. When I hit a single wrong note, he stood by as she drove steel needles through my fingers. “Weren’t you so proud of being a pianist? Then I’ll take that away from you.” “This is my revenge for forcing me into this marriage!” Later, I got pregnant. However, Yaron Hayes, my husband, left for an extravagant trip abroad with Ellie Jensen. When he finally returned and saw my swollen belly, he immediately assumed I had cheated. He locked me in a closet, forcing me to endure a brutal childbirth alone—one that cost me my life. Yet when I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day the Hayes family arranged our marriage. This time, I let go of my foolish devotion. I booked a flight to study abroad in half a month. “The sky is vast, and birds are meant to be free. It's time for me to follow my own path.”