The Way It Used To Be

When Valerie Adams gets to know that she is betrothed to the youngest billionaire in New York, just to save her father's dying company, it is two nights after she caught her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend. She is upset with the news of the betrothal and becomes more pissed when she finally meets him. Ryan Lorenzo is the most arrogant, pompous, and cold-hearted guy she will ever cross paths with. He is less interested in keeping a woman but what he needs is a wife to satisfy his parent's desires for him to be married and considered responsible. Valerie decides to take advantage of the situation, to save her father's company and to make her cheating boyfriend jealous. She suggests a CONTRACT for their marriage and Ryan is making the RULES.

Jenna, an exemplary daughter, lives alone with her father who raised her with a lot of love, discipline and responsibility. Mark Black, a very upright man who was widowed very young, but did not make another commitment to his daughter, to live happily. But life is like that, both contacted a blind date company, where they did not speak, wore masks that did not let recognize anything of each other's identity, without knowing it, they do something that would cause pain, regret, tears. Even so, there is an unrevealed truth that in the end will cause their lives to change in their totality. What will that revelation be? What truth will that be? Find out when you read this controversial novel. Where they discover that sex takes place with who can be something for you, but neither knows anything about the other, since everything is done in silence and with masks, but there are also sayings such as. "NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS". Love will overcome very hard obstacles and its protagonists must have strength to cross them, because sometimes friendship and fidelity is something temporary, sometimes who you should take care of is the person you appreciate the most, not always friends are what they seem and say they love you.

It all started with a car accident. Aviana Cole is a Twenty-three-year old who moves to LA to seek greener pastures. However, on her first day in LA, her seven-year old brother is caught in a car accident. What she doesn't expect is, the driver, Ethan Urkel, is the Ceo of G&K company, a top billionaire of LA. For Ethan, Aviana is the kind of girl he never met in his life, a poor but sincere pretty, who rejected his money but took a job to earn her own life. But for people around him, Aviana is nothing but a PA girl, trying desperately to get into high society. His family despises her, and his fiance frames her, but all that only pushes him closer to her. Love thrives when no one knows. Open the book to read a love story between a lovely couple and their cross-class marriage. ******* Excerpt "Why do you have to get in the way between me and her?" Ethan questioned his father with anger, "You wanna know how to tear us apart? Fine, you'd have to kill your own blood to do so. Because as long as I live, I'll always love her." He turned to his father and let out his last warning. "I won't let you hurt, even a strand of her hair, father." Then, he stormed out of the mansion.

Paano nga ba masasabi kung ikaw ay umiibig na? Sino nga ba ang magdidikta kung sino ang iibigin mo, ang puso mo ba o ang utak mo? Sa bida nating si Portia ay malalaman natin ang kasagutan. Ano nga ba ang mas matimbang, ang utak mo ba na nagdidikta sa puso o ang puso na tumitibok lamang sa taong magustuhan nito?

Samantha Black was sold to a monster by her father, a few months later she was sold at an auction to the highest bidder. She was bought by Appolo Nicolaou a mafia boss. She thought things can't get worse but she was wrong. Apollo tells her she will give him an heir or he will send her back to where she came from. Will she be able to handle the pain and suffering? Is she strong enough to survive the mafia world? Will she ever feel loved? Join the journey between Apollo Nicolaou and Samantha Black.

Livie thought she found her forever with long-time boyfriend Abel. Livie and Abel were just meant to be. At the age of eighteen, they sneak off to get married. On the night of their wedding, things go too far. A drunken Abel is tricked by Livie's sneaky cousin, Anna. Anna has been jealous of Livie their entire lives. Determined to wreck Livie's happiness, Anna does a terrible thing. When Livie discovers what Anna and Abel have done, she runs away, stepping out of their lives. A heartbroken Abel moves away when his band becomes an overnight success story. A sick Anna reaches out to make peace with Livie nearly a year later. Livie forgives her dying cousin. Suddenly, Livie is thrust into parenthood by caring for Annas young son, Fin. Fin's famous father adds to the distraction of Livie's new reality. Faced with the truth that it is time for her to move forward in life, Livie reaches out to Abel for a divorce. Unfortunately, Abel causes a stir when he declares he wants their marriage to work out. Livie must learn to navigate her feelings for Abel and her desires for a fresh start. Her fresh start may be with a new man or it may be with a second chance romance.

Does Ana honestly believe that she and Brian have been in a love affair forever? She thinks she can rule the world as well as Brian's life! Believing they can stay together until they live is one thing to know if that will happen and another thing entirely! In the heart we cannot rule and much less in the lives of others with time “Ana” will understand that not everything is the way we want it, much less love! However, Brian and Ana were very young, they had a whole life ahead of them to decide if they were really made for each other. Only they would never imagine that the world would go around so many times and accomplish something they never wanted and with that today they don't know how to solve it without hurting anyone! Who never believed that their childhood love would be forever? I believe that just like Ana thought, did you also believe one day?

Luca Vitiello is cold, aloof and the Mafia boss of the New York underworld. But he seized so many other outfits into his control, making him the Ultimate boss of half of the US. He was seen less, and talks even less. He is ruthless and emotionless. People will either freeze or shiver when they see him.He is colder than the Arctic. What happens if he was forced to protect a warm-hearted and innocent girl, who starts to melt the ice around his heart since the moment she met him?Emma Costello is the unwanted daughter of Frank Costello. He treats her like a maid and a commodity. What happens, when she was taken away from her sad life into a life of luxury. What happens when her savior starts to fall for her.He is 10 years older than her.Will she love him back?Will he be able to protect her when her father comes back for her?What will Luca do, when he finds out that her father sold Emma to a highest bidder?

The news of the creature of the night has spread all over the city like wildfire. People are said to be missing every day, but to DeLorna, it was nothing but a folktale. She never believed a bit of it, she sees it as a way people wanted to grow famous. But one night, DeLorna is shocked by the incident which took place a few hours ago. She was scared and she felt like staying over at her friend's place to spend the night but she couldn't because it was already late that night. That very night, the creature came to her room. Knowing her thoughts and how much she disbelieved the news, he decided to pay her a visit. DeLorna didn’t realize who he was, but she heard before he left, "I will come back for you for YOU ARE MINE and MINE ONLY." He grunts out and before she could give a reply or question the stranger he disappeared at a very fast pace. THIS IS WHEN IT ALL BEGAN . . . Find out more in STORY. Don't miss OUT this Epic Story

Only a fool looks Alpha Denver in the eye when he speaks. You dare not interrupt him, and if you're an omega girl just like I am, it’s best to hide. I learned these tricks early in life. I knew not to look up, not to make a sound, but to make myself invisible in the crowd of people that filled the banquet hall to celebrate the Feast of the Moon. But I never did anything right. When asked to take a step to the left, I ended up on the right. And whether I took a step to the right or not, fate always works in reverse for me. If I sowed well, I reaped misfortune. ******* Skylar Richardson hoped when she turned eighteen, she'd be free from slavery. Then, her fated mate would somehow find her and claim her from her misery. But what Skylar didn't expect is that fate would be so cruel to her, mating her to the one man she least expected. Her Alpha Boss, Denver Ruiz. When she attempts to flee to a different world where no one, not even Denver, could find her, she had no idea Denver had eyes everywhere. “You can run away, Princess, but you can never hide from me.”