The Lies Between Us

“Fine,” I heard myself say, the word tasting like rust. “You want an open marriage? We’ll do open.” A slow smile curved his mouth—victory, not warmth. “Good girl. Then I suppose you won’t mind if I reintroduce Kisha.” The camera panned. There she was, curled on what I now realized was our hotel suite couch, her legs tucked under a cashmere throw that used to be mine. She waved, manicured nails glinting, belly softly rounded under a silk camisole. My world tilted. I forced a smile that felt like glass. “So she’s your girlfriend?” Daniel’s hand settled possessively on that gentle swell. “Not just my girlfriend,” he said, eyes locked on mine. “The mother of my unborn child.” Jayla Carmichael smiles for the cameras as the perfect senator's wife while her world burns. But queens don't kneel. They conquer. Fueled by whiskey and wrath, Jayla ensnares Warren Christopher, a brooding billionaire CEO, after saving his empire in a bar-side twist of fate. Love was the first lie. Revenge is the foreplay, and the truth? it's coming for them all...naked, ruthless and dripping in karma. Will Jayla's vengeance destroy her soul or will warrens fire forge something eternal?. This book isn't just romance, it's war with benefits.

Si Seira Anthonette at Jairus Gael ay matalik na magkaibigan mula pagkabata. Nang sila ay lumaki at natuto, nakaramdam sila ng pagnanasa sa isa't isa. Kahit na mayroong nangyayareng milagro sa kanila ay hindi pa rin nawala ang pagkakaibigan nila. Nahulog ang puso ni Seira kay Jairus. Samantalang si Jairus ay may ibang napupusuang babae na balak niyang pakasalan. Nang malaman ni Seira na nagdadalang tao siya at napag-alaman niyang magpapakasal si Jairus sa kaniyang nobya. Mas pinili ni Seira na lumayo at itago ang batang dinadala niya. Anong mangyayare kung muling magtagpo ang landas nila Seira, Jairus at ng kanilang anak? Anong mararamdaman ni Jairus kapag nalaman niyang tinago sa kaniya ni Seira ang katotohanan?

It had been ten years since Julliane was cast out by the very people she once called family. Her own mother and stepbrother had driven her away from Magnolia Manor-the grand estate owned by the Dankworth family. Now, after a decade of silence, Lance Dankworth, the eldest son of the man her mother had married, stood at her door. He came bearing grim news, her mother had been in a tragic accident. An event serious enough to require Julliane's return to the manor she had long left behind. Julliane couldn't forget how Lance used to see her. He'd branded her a troublemaker, a slut, even when she was just a girl. To him, she had brought nothing but shame and pain to his family. And yet, here he was, asking her to come back with him. She knew he despised her. So why, after all these years, was he suddenly asking her to stay-and worse, to marry him?

Anna has a secret, one that could ruin the relationship she has with everyone, even her own family. She is in a relationship with Alejandro, her older sister's husband, one of the top billionaires in the world Two nights before Anna arrived in New York City, she had a one-night stand with a mysterious man who she later found out was her sister's husband Alejandro.

The seventh time I planned to register for marriage with Piero Conrad, he didn't show up again. I was about to text him and ask when he would arrive when I stumbled upon his childhood friend's post. [Celebrating the 999th day since marrying my dear, from the past to the future, it's always been you.] The video showed a marriage certificate, with Piero's name listed as the husband. The registration date was May 20, three years ago. I realized that was why he never showed up those seven times. He was already married to someone else.

Para sa mga taong, minsan ng nagparaya para sa pagkakaibigan, sa mga taong minsan ng nagpalaya para sa ikabubuti ng lahat.Ito ay kwento ng isang teenage girl na minsan ng nakalimot sa kaniyang nakaraan. Ikinasal sa kababatang lalaki, sa edad na labing siyam. Makikilala niyang muli ang lalaking minsan ng nagkaroon ng malaking parte, sa kaniyang nakaraan. Mapapalapit muli ito sa pangalawang pagkakataon, na siya namang pag-iiba ng pakikitungo at trato sa kaniya ng naturang asawa.Darating ang panahon na malalaman at maalala niyang muli ang nakaraan. Gustuhin man niyang magalit at kamuhian ang mga taong malapit sa kaniya, dahil mistulang pinaglaruan siya ni kapalaran. Napunta siya sa taong minsan ng nagparaya para sa pagkakaibigan, napalapit siyang muli sa taong minsan na niyang minahal at ipinaglaban.Pilitin man niyang talikuran ang lahat, at kalimutan ang nakaraan, ngunit pipiliin niya paring yakapin at harapin ang kasalukuyan, sa ngalan ng pag-ibig, sa huli mananaig padin ang pagmamahal at pagpapatawad.

Jack Cooke—my husband, who'd never so much as scrambled an egg—suddenly went full kitchen freak. He bought a ton of pots and spatulas, then spent all day just... polishing them. When I called him out, he shrugged. "I like things clean. That a crime now?" Behind him? A mountain of dirty socks. Then it got weirder. He dragged all the kitchen stuff into our bedroom. At night, he'd get weird with a dishcloth. Like, disturbingly weird. I was done. I asked for a divorce. Jack stormed into a private dining room and shredded the papers right in front of our investors. "You're seriously ending our marriage over this? Kinda dramatic, don't you think?" I didn’t blink. “I gave up my spot for your pots and pans. A little thanks wouldn’t kill you.”

Bestselling romance novelist Emma Chen has built her career writing about passion she's never truly experienced until her new editor turns her perfectly ordered world upside down. Jake Morrison is everything Emma tries to avoid: cocky, unpredictable, and dangerously attractive. When he's assigned to edit her latest manuscript, their professional relationship quickly becomes a battlefield of creative differences and undeniable chemistry.As they clash over every steamy scene Emma has written, Jake challenges her to dig deeper, to write what she really knows about desire. But Emma's carefully constructed walls exist for a reason she's never recovered from a betrayal that left her heart and career in shambles three years ago. When Jake pushes her to experience the passion she writes about, Emma must decide if she's brave enough to let someone past her defenses, or if some risks are too dangerous to take.With a manuscript deadline looming and their attraction reaching a boiling point, Emma and Jake must navigat it the thin line between professional collaboration and personal desire. But when Emma's past threatens to destroy everything she's built, including her growing feelings for Jake, she'll have to choose between the safety of her solitary life and the terrifying possibility of real love.

Shortly after we said "I do," the Family sent my husband, Dario, down to the Mexican border. He told me it was a meat grinder down there—cartel territory. where guys were zipped into body bags every day. He said he had to go—to expand the territory, for the glory of the Family. He claimed it was too dangerous and that his enemies would paint a target on my back, so he wouldn't take me with him. I believed him. I stayed behind in his old, rot-infested house in New Jersey, taking care of his bitter, spiteful parents. I spent my days and nights in the Family's moldy laundromat, washing bills stained with blood. He told me he sent every dime he made down there to the widow of a brother who took a bullet for him. He asked me to be understanding. I never complained. Day after day, I pressed expensive suits in that humid laundromat, waiting for him to come home. It wasn't until the eighth year that a mobster came back drunk. When I asked about Dario, he froze, then sneered at me through a haze of alcohol. "Dario? Are you kidding? He’s been a King in Manhattan for years. He’s the youngest Underboss of the Corleone family." I stood frozen, the iron in my hand burning a hole right through a shirt. "And he got married seven years ago. Biggest cathedral in New Jersey. Half the mob was there to toast the groom..." He pulled a crumpled photo from his leather jacket. Snuggled up against my husband was a woman in a high-end couture gown—the very same "poor, widowed sister-in-law" he had told me about. The next day, I contacted a fixer who specialized in fake IDs. On the application for a one-way ticket to Europe—a ticket to vanish off the face of the earth—I filled in the fake name I had prepared long ago. He trapped me for seven years with a sham marriage. From now on, I’d be done with this damn loyalty.

Imagine being forced to choose between four powerful and gorgeous men who all claim to be your perfect match. That's Aria's impossible dilemma. After her world is turned upside down, Aria discovers she's the key to breaking a centuries-old curse, and all she had to do to make this happen, is choose her true mate out of the four. Sounds simple but practically difficult. As she spends time with each of the four Alphas, she realizes they're not what they seem. Are they truly interested in her, or just what she can do for them? Running from her destiny is not a choice either. The clock is ticking- Aria must find a way to break the curse. Will she be able to break it before it's too late, or will she become another victim of the curse's wrath?