This Side Of Paradise

Friends turn lovers romance... Alexis Crawford and Mason Davis are childhood best friends, but over the years since college they have kind of drifted apart but with Alexis moving to New York and living in the same building with Mason they get their friendship back on track. But things change when their feelings for each other resurfaces, they both want and crave each other but they don't want to act on it with the fear of ruining their friendship.. Can a friends with benefits situation work for them or not?

Megan Hurley orchestrated a bullying scheme to drive a wedge between me and my childhood friend, Eugene. I fell into her trap as she intended, but only saved Eugene Carson. The thugs she hired, however, proved reckless. As a result, she accidentally died. This enraged Eugene to the point of hatred. He was convinced I had set up the bullying that led to Megan's death. On our wedding anniversary, he pushed me off a high building, his face twisted with relentless fury. "This is what you owe me and Megan. Sherlyn, you deserve to die!" When I opened my eyes again, I found myself back on the day of the bullying. This time, I didn't intervene. Later, he knocked on my window in the rain, saying hoarsely in despair, "Sherlyn, why do you no longer care about me?"

On my son’s birthday, my husband had asked his first love to pick our son up from our home. While I stubbornly refused to let him go, a huge fire broke out in the hallway during our standoff. I was struck by falling debris, and blood started streaming from my head. However, my son was unharmed as he lay beneath me. My husband, who was a firefighter, came forward to rescue us. But he handed the only gas mask he had to his first love. “Miss Leia has a weaker constitution. Dad, please get her out first. Mom, wait for the other firefighters to save you!” I watched them leave with a faint, bitter smile. It appeared that they had both forgotten my severe asthma and the fact that I would die without a gas mask.

In the high stakes world of wealth, philanthropy, and power plays, Shadows of Desire weaves a tale of love, betrayal, and redemption. At the center of it all is Sophie Langston, a passionate and driven woman who co-founded a charitable foundation with her long-time business partner and lover, James Thornton. Their organization, built on the ideals of changing the world, has become a beacon of hope for struggling communities. But as the foundation grows in influence, so do the enemies lurking in the shadows. Sophie and James find their relationship and partnership tested when an unexpected visitor walks into their lives, Richard Mallory, a disgraced businessman with a tainted past. Despite having tried to undermine the foundation before, Richard proposes a substantial investment, claiming he wants to make amends. Torn between suspicion and the potential benefits for their projects, Sophie reluctantly agrees, setting off a chain of events that unravel deep-seated conspiracies and hidden agendas. Soon after, whispers of internal conflict and financial instability begin to surface. Rumors swirl about a power struggle between Sophie and James, putting their relationship under intense public scrutiny. Behind the scenes, they uncover a more sinister plot at play. Dominic Kane, a ruthless corporate raider infamous for hostile takeovers and blackmail, has set his sights on their foundation. With a history of exploiting the vulnerable for profit, Kane sees their organization as his next target, aiming to use it as a pawn in his larger schemes. As Sophie and James grapple with this new threat, they must navigate a web of deceit, power struggles, and hidden motives. Old allies resurface, trust is tested, and secrets from the past are unearthed, forcing the couple to confront their own vulnerabilities...

Aurora is a calm and patient girl, incredibly beautiful that her beauty will put the moon to the shame, leaving her life with books and in solitude until she crosses the paths with the devil himself on a stormy night. She helps him not even thinking that it's going to change her life forever. Rafael Delgado! The Spanish mafia kings get captivated by the beauty at first glance and then what, the game of Obsession begins. Will Aurora survive his wicked games or will lose her mind to the devil? Will Rafael change his ways for her or will destroy her like every other thing in his life?

Demi Moore—the “manang” secretary of TC, fantasizing her boss named Quiver Tejada, the man who’s sexually attracted to his twin’s fiancée. Matagal pinangarap ni Demi na mapansin siya ng boss niya ngunit hindi ito natutupad. But her innocence and kindness moved the playful yet ruthless twin brother of Quiver who named Tei; Demi’s other boss. One night, she surrendered her virginity to her boss. She got pregnant by one of the Tejada brothers ngunit hindi niya alam kung sino sa dalawa ang ama ng batang dinadala niya. Si Quiver ba na minamahal ang fiancée ng kakambal niya o si Teiver ba na nakatakda ng ikasal sa babaeng pinakamamahal ni Quiver?

This book is authored by Kit Bryan. I'm an ordinary waiter, but I can see people's fate, including Shifters. Like all children, I was tested for magic when I was only a few days old. Since my bloodline is unknown and my magic is unidentifiable, I was marked with a delicate swirling pattern around my upper right arm. I do have magic, just as the tests showed, but it has never lined up with any known Magic species. I can't breathe fire like a dragon Shifter, or hex people who piss me off like Witches. I can't make potions like an Alchemist or seduce people like a Succubus. Now I don't mean to be unappreciative of the power I do have, it's interesting and all, but it just really doesn't pack much of a punch and most of the time it is just pretty much useless. My special magical skill is the ability to see threads of fate. Most of life is annoying enough for me, and what never occurred to me is that my mate is a rude, pompous nuisance. He's an Alpha and my friend's twin brother.

Liam Benjamin Chua, an anxious introvert who loves to be by himself. But his sluggish and dull existence changed when an infuriating girl named Aerielle Magpantay came out of the picture and made his world upside-down. Sometimes, life doesn't choose to sympathize with what we want. It always surprises us we don't expect to happen, and that fortuitous day happened when destiny played hard between Aerielle and Benjamin's life. There's a miserable happened to this annoying girl, causes her not to remember the person she promised not to leave his side until their hair turns into gray. Will she forget him totally and their precious memories together? Will Benjamin let the woman he loves neglect him and just let go of her because some people told him that their story are already over? Will he fight, win Aerielle's heart, and risk everything to bring back the memoirs of his love? But... What if the day comes when Aerielle's memory returns, but she finds out that the man she secretly loves for several years is the reason behind the loss of her memories?

"I don't know why the moon goddess blessed me with a mate when being mateless was my punishment. But once your fate is written with mine, love me or hate me....you are mine. MINE!" *** Being assigned to kill the head-hearted barbarous Alpha, Ven went to his territory willingly after their first meeting. But the thing she didn't know then was, he was an immortal, like her. She wanted to find a way to end her immortality and in that journey, a mysterious man asked her to kill Aragon. Meeting Aragon was pre-planned by that mysterious man, but feeling some unavoidable affection was fate. When he was desperate to keep her by his side, she badly needed to leave him. Why so? Because she was no one ordinary. She herself was made of poison. Even a single scratch from her was enough to kill. She didn't want to kill him anymore, neither she wanted him to know about her reality. She was fated to be his mate but no way he could mark her. Not that her poisons would kill him, but it would make his life worse than death. And he had a magical universe to protect. Could he accept her like a poison damsel when it was harmful to his pack? How would they remove the curse to accept each other when it was their punishment of some sins from a past life? Was it even possible? And also who was the mysterious man to pave the way for their journey? Was it a selfless help for two love birds or a selfish trap for two powerful immortals? Being bound to protect the magical world, were they fated to be together or moon goddess planned to fall them apart?

His teeth sank into my neck, and I cried out, biting back just as he said, but it didn’t hurt like I thought it was, it was euphoric in a way, dangerously good as I moaned. He hadn’t broken through my skin, but I could tell that bite was different, that something had been left and I knew the faint ring of teeth markings wasn’t going to fade any time soon. Now the two other brothers were waiting to do the same. My body trembling, already in ecstasy, how was I going to take all three of them? Ellie was wealthy, but her father never gave her a single display of affection. Until her path crossed with the Sined brothers. Werewolves and vampires were part of dark stories in Ellie’s mind, until she meets not one, not two, but three werewolves, and a very powerful vampire. What makes things more complicated? They all want her for themselves. The Four Sides of Desire is created by Claire Wilkins, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.