The Messy Lives Of People

Celeste is a worrywart single mother who has a phobia about her past catching up on her. Her teenage son, Neil, is growing up so quickly, and at his phase, needs a father figure which she's unable to give to him. Running from her past, she ran into Nathan, a talented chef. A handsome hunk is an ex-marine planning to start his restaurant business putting his wonderful cooking craft into reality in Celeste's hometown. There Neil takes a liking and a fond attachment to Nathan leaving Celeste no choice but to admit there is more than just the chemistry between them and she wants him in her life as a friend, lover, father to her son, and most importantly a life partner. But all seemed impossible when an acquaintance from Celeste's past comes to hunt her putting the lives of the most treasured people in her life in danger. With reassurance, faith, and love Celeste discovers there's more to life than just being uptight and playing hard-to-get. Nathan was one who is made just for her.

Evangeline Atkins is a promising violinist. Although she lives with her addicted mother in a trailer park, it doesn’t make her go the wrong way. So when there is a recital, where there are possibilities of important contacts to play in other countries, she turns to the only person she has in life. Your mother. The woman who uses almost all the money in her vices, says that she can not help her. When the girl is accepting the idea that her life will be stagnant living in that trailer, her mother makes her a proposal. There would be a party at the mansion where they worked as a maid and needed people to help. She would take Evangeline to earn that extra money on one condition. She could not under any circumstances, go to the second floor of the house and enter the left room. Being the curious girl she has always been, Evangeline goes up and enters the room where she shouldn’t. That simple act will awaken the desire of newcomer and mobster Alec Castello who will use all his money and ruse, to make Evangeline yours and yours alone.

A girl who was forced to be a slave in her own home, and she wants to know who she really is. She lives with her father, stepmother, stepsisters and the servants who lives at her father's house. But what they don't know that they lives will be changed forever when their ruler comes to visit and the girl's stepmother did truly awful. The Honourable King falls in love with the girl at first sight and she knew that you should never judge someone by their appearances.

Hatred is blind so is Love.... "Never try to change anything here!" His evil eyes did promise me some danger indeed. Meet Esha Varnav, a twenty five year girl who lives life in her own terms. She never cared about things and always remained in her own world of fantasies. Punctuality was never her thing. She wanted to enjoy her life to the fullest with no regrets. But all her plans and desires change when she crosses path with an arrogant billionaire. Here comes Aadhvik Tiwari, a twenty five year young rising billionaire in the world and a youth tycoon. He is a man of money and power. He is a man who runs the city. He knows how and when to get things done. He always orders people but never takes any and last but not the least, he is the man with many invisible scares and a painful past. What happens when both of them are locked together in the name of marriage? What happens when Esha slowly come to know about his past? What role does Esha play in his life?

BOOK TWO OF THE MAFIA MEN SERIES. *** He taught her how to live. She taught him how to love. *** Everyone called him a monster even the people who were close to him. But I was the only one who saw the troubled man hiding demons from his past. They called him a killing machine; he took lives without a second thought. But he saved mine, he saved me. I had no idea my savior would come in the form of a scarred face, covered in tattoos, who can't—or choose not to—speak a word to me. But I decided to take a risk. I opened the cage where his demons lived and I set them free. And then... I handed my heart to the monster to do as he pleased. TRIGGER WARNING: This book is provocative. It is categorized as DARK ROMANCE for a reason. It will not be for everyone. If you are a reader with certain triggers or sensitivities common to the dark romance genre then know that this book contains: a very dirty talker hero, sexual degradation, dubcon, rough play, and s&m themes

Celeste thought she was just planning one big corporate event until a late-night meeting with a cold, ruthless billionaire CEO turned her life upside down. Julian Sterling never did relationships especially not with the woman who could disrupt his world. But one night of heat, and everything changed. Now, Celeste is pregnant. And despite every reputation that hangs over his name, Julian offers her one brutal solution: a contract marriage to protect them both. As they settle into cold formality, what blooms in between boardroom exchanges, midnight admissions, and office-after-hours confessions is something neither expected. But nothing is easy when pride, ambition, and a messy past keep both of them trapped. With twists, misunderstanding after misunderstanding, financial games, and stolen moments that crack their walls, Celeste and Julian must answer one question: can a marriage built on convenience become real love? One contract. One baby. One impossible connection.

Love makes you do crazy things — like inking your husband’s name on your lower back. A permanent gesture for a forever union, right? Wrong. In the throes of a messy divorce, Sienna is back to the tattoo shop to get a coverup tattoo. But the tattoo artist, she doesn’t remember him looking so hot and smelling so damn good. He is Gavin Kessler, the Tattoo Master. Tough on the outside, tougher on the inside. With an ugly past casting a long shadow on his present and future. What starts out as a crazy bet between them spirals into something far more dangerous. Sienna soon realizes that she wants more than a tattoo from the Tattoo Master. She wants his díck, his protection, and if the differences between them will allow, his heart. Which of these is Gavin willing to give? ⚠️ WARNING: This book is exclusively for adult audiences (18+). It explores themes such as BDSM, morally complex characters, toxic family dynamics and occasional violence.

Five years in a coma. That’s how long Ava Jameson’s world was on pause. She woke expecting love and care from her husband, only to find her husband, Ethan, married to her sister Clara and raising a boy. It breaks her heart. She's sent to Blackwell Manor to recover at the mansion of her husband's stepfather, Damian Blackwell, a billionaire CEO with a reputation for ruthlessness. Damian has no interest in messy family drama, until he sees Ava. She awakens something he thought had died with his wife. This is dangerous and their attraction is forbidden. But when Ava is pressured to give up her settlement and is pressured by Ethan to live quietly, Damian offers her a shocking deal, a fake marriage in return for revenge. But now Ethan wants her back, and she finds herself caught between her past and her present, especially her father-in-law makes her feel things, her Ethan never did.

The Hawthorne Effect sets a story of a F.B.I survey into the criminal lives of certain individuals identified with a Crime Boss, Ron Druman whose identity the Bureau is unsure of. While the story goes on, a look into the immigrant lives of these individuals forced into crime is looked at.

Rosela a young teenager of about 16 years old wants nothing but love and care from the people she calls family. The woman that was supposed to look after her is being blinded with by love, the same man that murders her late husband, Rosela's father. She always live a life that pleases her mother while she suffers silently in the hands of Amunsa, her step-father. She kept remembering how her late father died and he wanted to tell her before he passed on. Suffering everyday in the hands of Amunsa is a nightmare she wishes to wake up from and pretend as if it's never happens. In the process of putting a stop to Amunsa's molestation, the wort it's becomes. Along the line, she was able to find out who really killed her father. Now despite her young age, she swore to fight against the the person that murders her father and also putting a stop to Amunsa's obsession towards her. Will she lives or loses her life in the process of digging into the past on finding the killer?