Vital Organs

My husband, Joaquin Landon, is a renowned wax sculptor. He hangs up on me when I call him to save my life so he can focus on the wax sculpture his cousin wants. Amphetamine is injected into my system, so my mind is clear as I watch my nails get removed one by one. Every inch of my skin is covered in burning hot wax. My hair and lashes are plucked off, and my organs are ground. Steel pipes are inserted into my legs, and I'm turned into a wax sculpture. Joaquin sees me during an exhibition. His colleague tells him that the wax sculpture he sees looks eerily like me, but he merely looks disgusted. "All she does is cause trouble and act unreasonably. She's better off dead." What he doesn't know is that I already am. Joaquin doesn't recognize that I'm the wax sculpture before him.

Titre du roman : Jeux d’Ombres Résumé : Dans une ville rongée par la corruption, le crime organisé et les ambitions politiques, Fabrice, un jeune homme discret, se retrouve pris dans une toile dangereuse tissée par Vital, un homme de l’ombre au service du pouvoir… mais surtout de lui-même. Ce dernier confie à Fabrice une mission étrange : kidnapper une jeune femme, Nina, sans lui faire de mal. Fabrice accepte, sans savoir qu’elle est la fille d’un haut conseiller politique, Nathan N’Dongo, et que sa disparition va mettre la ville en alerte. Tiraillé entre sa loyauté, son passé criminel et sa promesse à sa mère de rester honnête, Fabrice va peu à peu comprendre que ce qu’il croyait être un simple “contrat” cache en réalité un vaste complot mêlant trafics, trahisons et ambitions personnelles. Au cœur de ce chaos, Fabrice devra choisir : devenir complice… ou briser la chaîne du silence. Entre tensions, manipulations et révélations, Jeux d’Ombres est un thriller haletant où les héros sont rarement ceux qu’on croit.

Crystal Lin is drowning in the debt her father left behind, a deadly 10 million dirham IOU to a ruthless Dubai loan shark. With just two months left before her organs become the payment, Crystal juggles two lives: waitress by day, stripper by night. But everything spirals when she unknowingly gives a lap dance to the heir of the Al-Fayad empire. Amir who is a cold, commanding, and dangerously powerful. Amir doesn’t want love. He wants an heir. And he’s offering Crystal a marriage contract worth millions to get it. Desperate to survive, she agrees. But fate has one more cruel twist, Ahmad. Amir’s kind-hearted twin who turns out to be the mysterious stranger who once stirred her heart with a glance. Now he’s her husband’s brother and he's the man she can't stop thinking about. Torn between duty and desire, caught in a billionaire’s twisted game, Crystal must decide. To lose the life she’s barely clinging to, or risk it all for a love that was never part of the deal.