The Lying Game Ruth Ware

I, Anastasia Lancroft, was promised power—then thrown to the wolves. My fiancé betrayed me for a stronger alliance. My father chose his new wife over his own daughter. And I was left with nothing but rage. So I made a choice. The Bastorin. A school for the cruel, the cunning, the next kings of the underworld. I came here for one reason—survival. Instead, I found him: Alexei Vasiliev, the dangerously magnetic ruler of this academy. His gaze pins me. His presence devours me. And he’s not the only one. My stepbrothers are here too—Nathaniel and Gabriel. Cruel. Possessive. Hungry for my downfall. Three men. Three predators. And I’m the prey they refuse to share. Now, I’m the prize in their twisted game— where every glance burns, every threat tempts, and every night drags me closer to surrender. This isn’t a love story. It’s a war for dominance. And I’m the one they all want to claim.

Miranda, a captive-turned-lover, is caught between the ruthless mafias, Antonio and Don Vito. Pregnant with Antonio’s child and trapped in a deadly deal, she stumbles upon a shocking secret that binds them all. As the stakes rise and secrets are revealed, will Miranda escape the mafia’s clutches, or will her desperate bid for freedom cost her everything?

I glue my back to the door hoping it would swallow me up as a whole. “Is my feisty kitten scared now?” his 6’2 tall figure towering over me. Pulling up his right hand from his pocket, he grips onto my nape, bringing my face infront of his, mingling our breaths. I attach my hands to his chest in an attempt to put some distance between us. My efforts turn futile when he won’t budge but instead shoves his face into the crook of my neck inhaling my scent. “There is no point in running away now, kitten. You are already trapped” he speaks against my skin. Sparks erupt through my body, travelling down my spine and settling between my legs. Another hand going around my waist pulling me closer to dig his face deeper into my neck. “No wonder you always had men swarming around you all the time!” his deep growls affecting me in a way it shouldn’t.

volume 1 Are you trying to say that you want to eliminate the king?" Eve asked in a low voice. Even though she has torture a lot of people, killing the king will be a very difficult task and the fact that she hasn't even killed anyone before. "You heard me right Eve. He embarrassed me today right in front of everyone, and this is not the first time of him doing that. I'm the one who made him what he is today, and this is what I get." Mr Travis said, gritting his teeth in anger. A romance between a vicious maid and obnoxious prince. Eve is a girl raised to be vicious by her uncle after her parents death. She was sent to the castle as a maid to execute the king, but by mistake she became a maid to Eric, a obnoxious and conceited prince. Having no choice but to be the prince maid, she looked for ways to become the king's maid, until she made a with the prince to be his special maid for two month. "I'm definitely not going to keep up with this for two months." She thought. "What are you looking at?" He asked, noticing how she was looking at him so intently. "Nothing." She said looking from him. Will she be able to put up with his annoying demands? Volume 2 Liz, a innocent and nice girl working with the royal family to support her family got noticed by David, a young and handsome who had been with a lot of young girl. He was baffled when his hands couldn't get the one his eyes has caught. To what extent will he go just to let her body become his or something unexpected will happen between the both of them.

When Valentina met Matteo in 2019, they both felt as if they’d known each other before. Everybody knows Matteo Giudice is the first son of a billionaire who is probably, but not surely, the head of the Sicilian mafia. Everything he does seems to be for his own pleasure even though there’s a certain darkness to him that seems to follow him everywhere he goes. Burnt-out from a young age due to his generational wealth, being bored is his biggest problem in life. Valentina is the daughter of a successful Russian businessman and has always flown under the radar at school but now seems to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. There’s something a bout her, as if she has something nobody else possesses, that stirs up Matteo’s interest in the first place. Somewhere along the way of trying to figure each other out they unintentionally fall in love. When buried secrets come out, their lives turn into a deadly game of power, in which love and war have no choice but to co-exist. A slow-burn coming of age mafia romance novel, in which the only thing the protagonists know for sure is that fate doesn't care if you're ready for the love of your life. Part 1 of the Games We Play works.

He is Evil Some say he is a monster, a demon in disguise. He was called Ruthless because no one knows his real name. He listens to no one, not even his father, his step mother or his half brother until an unknown chubby girl walks into the Supernatural school and Ruthless finds himself melting and his two cold hearts changing. Vala, a half Dragon, Demon and Elf was sent on a mission to the Supernatural school. Make Ruthless fall in love with her and steal one of his hearts to unlock the chains that binds her father, Lucifer's brother. Stealing any of his Heart's is hard and impossible and falling in love wasn't part of her plan. Will she succeed in her mission? Can she change Ruthless?

Princess Aurelia of Northlaye lives in constant fear of her father King Edric. His sudden demand of her betrothal to prince Mallon of Ailingdale against her will is nothing compared to the cold, hard and brutal way his constant treatment is of her and the people of his own kingdom. Aurelia secretly tries to help her people from starvation and neglect in hopes her father will never find out. With her late mother no longer around to guide her, Aurelia must fight against her fear with her true confidant, the house servant Maude. A new and unlikely friendship and romance has Aurelia clutching to the hope things can get better, that is until King Edric hits her with his most ruthless blow of all. Will Aurelia keep her courage through all she has to face? or will her stone cold father keep her down for good?

Triana, a 20-year-old alpha of the Silver Pack, was independent, smart, and straightforward. Her strength was not less than that of the male wolves. She was kicked out of the pack due to the betrayal of her mate. The pack members she cared about the most turned against her. Her awful fate compelled her to become a rogue. While roaming through the woods, she ran into Blaze, the most ruthless and powerful alpha of the Blood Pack… who despised women and rogues because his wife cheated on him with a rogue. Despite Blaze's indifference, Triana falls madly in love with this cruel alpha. Can she heal Blaze and restore his trust in women? Or does fate have something even worse in store for her, something that will destroy her?

When 22-year-old Aria, an art student struggling to keep her life afloat, signs a surrogacy contract for the powerful and notoriously private billionaire Luca De Rossi, she expects a simple transaction not a story that will change everything she thought she knew about love, loyalty, and herself. But what begins as an arrangement soon blurs into something deeper. Luca isn’t the cold man the headlines describe; behind his control and empire lies a heart scarred by loss and trust built on careful walls. And Aria…gentle, stubborn, disarmingly honest starts breaking those walls without meaning to. When a single photograph exposes their secret to the world, the contract becomes a scandal, and Aria becomes the headline: The Mistress, the Billionaire, and the Baby. With the media frenzy threatening everything Luca built and Aria’s pregnancy advancing under relentless pressure, both must decide whether to hide behind duty or fight for a love neither expected. As betrayals surface in the boardroom and Luca’s empire trembles under corporate fire, Aria finds herself caught between the life she left behind and the dangerous world she’s come to belong to. Every choice she makes echoes louder for her child, for her heart, and for the man who swore to protect both. Set against the breathtaking Italian Riviera, this is a story of forbidden love, fierce loyalty, and the courage to stand tall when the world wants you to fall. A romance that begins with a contract… and ends with a fight for forever.

Si Agent Eighteen ay isa sa mga kilala at tinitingalang agent ng isang pribadong organisasyon na kung saan ang layunin ay mahuli ang mga malalaking kriminal na naninirahan sa Pilipinas. Dahil sa husay nito ay naatasan siyang hulihin ang isa sa pinakamalaki at pinaka delikadong Mafia Group sa Pilipinas, ang Black Spades. Sa pamamagitan ng kanyang undercover at pagpasok nito sa buhay ng mafia boss na si Death, matutuklasan ni Eighteen ang iba't-ibang gawain ng isang mafia at kung paano unti-unting mahuhulog ang kanilang damdamin sa isa't-isa.