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Edna vows to destroy the man who has crushed her life into dust. Edna would make Acelon Grishold regret picking her up from the orphanage, and then making her as his sex slave. Even though in the past she loved her adoptive father like she loves a man, Edna will no longer let that stupid feeling control her heart again. She has to get Acelonlon Grishold under her feet! Edna made a plan, Edna created many lies to destroy Acelonlon slowly. But Edna's plans are in danger of falling apart when she learns that she is pregnant. Acelonlon immediately claimed the baby as his own and desperately wanted the baby. On the other hand, Edna didn't want the baby. She was angry and repeatedly tried to kill the baby, but was always thwarted by Acelonlon. One day Edna had a plan. She will use her baby to slowly destroy Acelonlon and after that she will leave Acelonlon forever.

On the day of the wedding, Paige took her sister's place as bride and married the wealthiest man in town, Chris Jewell, after her sister was caught cheating. Her mother had warned her. "Don't let it get to your head. Chris only married you as a temporary measure. He doesn't love you.”But dang, post-wedding, Chris handed her a no-limit credit card.Paige understood that she was just filling in for her sister and did not want to embarrass Chris by being frugal. Bling and a fancy villa came next, but Paige wasn't blinded by the glitter.Even when Chris played knight-in-shining-armor against her bullies, she knew the deal.Then, catching her reflection, Paige spotted a baby bump. Was this part of the plan too?

Cassie had a whole life figured out she thought that she have everything going for her and everything in her life was perfect until an unexpected turn of events happened that would change the way she view life and love forever. After a failed engagement and finding out that her fiance had cheated on her and had been doing so for five years and has a child with someone else that she thought her fiance was friends with she decides to attend a friend's wedding while heartbroken and ends up falling in love with someone who he didn't expect to fall in love with and ends up getting married accidentally. Not only did she get married to the guy who's ex wife was the other woman, but he also turned out to be the guy his company her father wants to overtake and own. Will she come out with the truth now that she is married to him ,or she keeps secrets that could destroy their Union forever and is she really in love with this guy? Grayson has always made it a point to go out with his sisters friends they are some friends his sister kept from him but he wasn't at all bothered by that because he had fallen for the one friend that she had always loved and married her. A couple of years into the marriage he finds out this wife was cheating on him with her highschool sweetheart , after her sudden death he also found out that his son wasn't his son. When he crossed paths with Cassandra Hunter his life is turned upside down in a good way , even though he hated her he ended up feeling as if she was the best thing he never knew he needed.

Adalah takdir seseorang untuk dilahirkan, dan juga takdirnya untuk menjemput kematian. Tapi bagaimana jika jiwa yang ada dalam raga yang telah mati itu masih ingin hidup? Ia masih ingin hidup dan memperbaiki segala kesalahan yang telah diperbuatnya. Dan bagaimana jika jiwa itu ingin memang hidup, karena ingin mencari jiwa lain yang menjadi tujuan dan misinya sedari awal? Seseorang memutuskan untuk mati dan dilahirkan kembali selama beberapa kali. Ia juga menyambut segala penderitaan dan kesedihan yang didapat dalam kehidupannya di dunia, karena ia memang ditakdirkan untuk menjalaninya. Tapi di sisi lain, jiwanya sebenarnya telah terluka dan luka itu hanya bisa sembuh bila ia telah mencapai kesempurnaan. Dan kesempurnaan itu hanya bisa didapatnya saat ia mencapai kebahagiaan, dan yang bisa memberikan kebahagiaan itu hanyalah satu orang. Satu orang istimewa yang memang sedari awal menjadi poros hidupnya, meski orang tersebut sama sekali tidak menyadarinya. Dan dalam takdirnya yang buruk itu, ternyata seseorang yang menjadi poros hidupnya pun memiliki tujuan yang sama dengan dirinya. Yaitu untuk mencapai kebahagiaan yang sempurna. Ini adalah cerita mengenai garis hidup seseorang dan bagaimana seseorang menjalani kehidupannya, dari sejak ia dilahirkan hingga kematian menjemputnya kelak. Bagaimana perjuangan seseorang untuk meraih kebahagiaan dan bagaimana pada akhirnya, seseorang dapat menjalani hidupnya tanpa penyesalan.

She thought she was loved at first, but she soon realized that wasn't the case. She was nothing more than a duplicate, a doppelganger, and a stand-in for them. And when the original reappeared, she had no choice but to vanish...... He thought he'd spend the rest of his damned life alone, in pain and loneliness, until she delivered herself to him on a silver platter one day. He will do anything to have her in his arms, even if it means denying her many identities. To have him by her side, she will shed her adversary's blood and bury whoever threatens her happiness. They will defy the heavens and fight against the world to be together.

Sometimes, getting over pain and betrayal means Getting Up, Getting Even and Getting a Better Man! Astrid has planned out her perfect wedding. That is before she found out that her fiance, Bryan, is cheating on her with her cousin-slash-best-friend-slash-maid-of-honor, Geena. Worse, Bryan got Geena pregnant. Just when Astrid thought it couldn't get any worse, she received an invitation telling her that her Fairy Tale wedding will happen exactly the way she planned it. Except that she is no longer going to be the bride! So when her parents urged her to attend the wedding "as family", she planned the perfect revenge. She hired Ryder, the smoking hot bartender she met, to pretend to be the perfect Prince Charming--rich, smart and totally in love with her. Ryder pulled off the role quite well. And soon, everybody thought Astrid was really with a smoking hot guy who wears expensive suits on a daily basis, drives a luxurious sports car, and is totally in love with her. Astrid invented the perfect guy every girl would kill to date, and every ex-boyfriend would hate to be compared with. Or did she really just invent him? What if she really did kiss a frog and tamed a beast? And her quest for revenge was really the start of her happily ever after?

~If Love is a drug, then I want to be high on you forever. If Love is a crime then I wanna be your victim but if Love is an Addiction then I wanna get insanely Addicted To You. . Brianna Anderson hasn't met anyone that caught her interest. Well, all that is about to change in the course of one sexy night.

Kylie Shell,a 24 years old CEO of Shell Design is forced into a marriage all planned by her mother. She's in love with Rex Monroe but with certain circumstances she obliged to her mother's demand promising herself to hate her husband Leonard Michaelson. Leonard Michaelson,a billionaire with the body of a demigod hates the idea of marriage but when he's forced to give into marrying Kylie Shell,he finds himself falling for her first.

Forbidden, passionate, secret love. The love you kill for. The love you defend with your soul, heart, and body. Love that only happens once in a lifetime, when you are not ready for it. A man who hates touches and a woman who does not know them in an intimate sense. Both equally damaged, he alienated, she alien. The passion that will ignite will transcend the boundaries of everything measurable, reveal secrets, tear down walls, mow down victims. Samantha is a young girl who enters into a contract marriage with Blake's brother, but no one knows that except the two of them. On their wedding day she meets Blake and here begins the forbidden, here begins the passion at first sight. Blake is a handsome man who falls in love for the first time with his daughter-in-law, whom he meets on the day of his brother's wedding. Blake is a smart man who will immediately notice that there is something in this marriage. He does not believe that it is a real marriage. He will enter a forbidden There is no turning back from it. Such love happens once in a lifetime. The only question is are Blake and Samantha strong enough to continue to fight for themselves, for the new strength they have found in each other, or will fate beat them again, bleed old wounds, and show that there is no happy ending for them?

He was unlike anything one of our kind should have been. He was evil! And... he was my father! He had a duty as an Alpha to protect the pack, but it soon became apparent, the pack needed protecting from him! Unable to save our pack, My sister Winter and I had been left with no other option but to run for our lives. We hadn't been able to save our pack from our father... now I had to wonder... were we going to be able to save ourselves?