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When Athena's father dies mysteriously, she ends up in a contract marriage with ruthless billionaire Levi Strauss-Jackson in a bid to investigate the mysterious circumstances. Trapped in a cold marriage of convenience fueled by ulterior motives, Athena unexpectedly falls for her callous husband while also finding friendship in his charming brother Samuel. Ensnared in an opulent but twisted world of secrets and conflicting agendas, the newlywed heiress soon realizes her investigation has also made herself a target. As buried truths claw to the surface, Athena discovers bonds can become shackles and new family ties may be fatal. To reclaim her power and ensure her survival, she must see through the smoke and mirrors of the Strauss-Jackson empire to uncover who the real enemy is while fighting her growing attraction to her new husband and his brother. But will the truth about her father’s death free her...or will it instead seal her own? In the glittering corridors of power and wealth, even wedding vows and blood pacts can be decisively broken.

Asha has had a rough go of life, seemingly always ending up in situations that are the opposite of her namesake. She breaks up with her ex a few months prior to halloween and the day of the dead and takes a vow of celibacy that, little does she know, a dead ex has used to bargain his way out of hell. He didn’t come back to become her angel, just emerged from the shadows to drink her light and hopefully turn out her halo. She prays for a guardian angel to hold her through these difficult times but her gift is a territorial demon.

What's worse than getting kicked out of your home? Being pregnant and kicked out of your home because some lies were far easier to handle than the truth. Lily Hayden struggled to feed her child and herself- a child her husband never knew about. Two years later the twenty-six-year-old landed a job in one of the strongest, richest companies around where she then met someone new. Xavier. It was an unplanned meeting. And so was falling in love with each other. Everything is starting to look brighter and more clear with her life starting to stir in the right direction but what happens when an old lover comes knocking on her door? Will love set you free or cage you in? Read to find out more.

Thelma. Seorang perempuan yang sangat gemar mendengar cerita dari sang pencerita. Hidupnya penuh dengan warna-warni kehidupan dan terlahir dari rakyat biasa. Namun untuk mencari mata pencarian sehari-hari, kedua orang tuanya terpaksa berpindah ke kota. Ayahnya membuka kedai buku atas bantuan ayah kepada isterinya. Walter. Seorang lelaki yang dalam diam mendambakan cinta dari perempuan idamannya. Perasaan yang membuak-buak sehingga dia sanggup buat apa sahaja untuk perempuan idamannya menyedari kewujudannya. Namun ternyata hubungan terhalang dek kerana darjat mereka yang jauh berbeza. "saya takkan pernah pilih awak meskipun awak memilih untuk memiliki saya. Saya sedar...saya orang biasa," ~ Thelma "Nothing will change my mind and I'll only choose you from the beginning until the end," ~ Walter Bak kata orang mencintai itu tidak seharusnya memiliki. Dan itu juga yang Walter hadapi saat hatinya menginginkan Thelma, dirinya harus berhadapan dengan pilihan orang tuanya. Baginya hidup seorang manusia itu, bila mencari pasangan sehidup semati, tidak harus memandang pada darjat atau kekayaan semata. Tapi cinta. Namun pelbagai dugaan harus ditempuhi. Hubungan cinta mereka dihalang dan Thelma memilih untuk pergi saat dirinya jatuh tersungkur. "Saya pergi andai kepergian saya ini adalah membahagiakan awak," ~ Thelma. "Saya mohon...jangan pergi," ~ Walter. Adakah kesudahan bahagia menanti mereka berdua? Disaat seorang dari mereka beralah pergi, akan adakah peluang kedua untuk cinta mereka menyatu kembali?

The day I found out I was dying, Alpha Griffon Knight broke up with me. Our relationship was a contract, but when his true love came back, he didn’t need me anymore. He canceled our contract and told me to get lost. I thought that after five years, his frozen heart would thaw for me. How wrong I was. So I packed my things and left. Without telling him… I only had three months left to live. Griffon Knight’s private jet landed at the airport at 7:00 p.m., just as the sun was starting to set, vivid orange and red giving way to the bright light of the moon. Within a half hour of his arrival, he requested that I be brought to his downtown penthouse.

"I need to see Mr. Winchester! Please! My father--my father is dying I need..." "The world knows you are his mistress but Mr. Winchester does not entertain mistresses when he's working. Have some dignity and leave." ┌ Olivia Cabello has been the mistress to Ryat Winchester for two years. For two years she fools herself that the billionaire who's stone cold demeanor is well known by the press will one day love her and treat her more than just a plaything. She gets the shock of her life when Ryat gets engaged to a billionaire heiress and she is declared the other woman. A loose woman, they call her. A woman with no morals, they say. When the two red parallel lines on the pregnancy stick slap her with the bitter truth; it's time for Olivia to choose herself first. Except Ryat Winchester isn't letting go anytime soon. Not in this lifetime at least.

"What? A potential wife from the village?" "Definitely rustic and not stylish." Those were the words of Dante Julian Vascos when his grandmother was about to match him with a girl who was not from the city where he lived and was not on the same level as him. As if swallowing his own words, as if being hit by karma for his remarks, Dante, in his seclusion, met a girl he had never imagined. "Let's pretend to get married, so that your siblings won't act as they please anymore," Dante suggested. Keep reading and supporting my work with constructive comments. Follow GN's account on Instagram at @authorparadista. Hopefully, this book will be better written than the previous ones. Apologies if there are still many shortcomings. Thank you, and happy reading.