cunning

Do you know the feeling? When someone is soo close but still soo apart..! When someone who is still your better half on papers but in real life, they are nowhere... When you go crazzzyy searching for the one thing that would have gone wrong but get nothing! When you don't know what exactly was your fault that drove your other half away..! This is exactly how he was feeling. DEV KHURRANA A very straightforward, cunning and manipulative Lawyer for the outside world. But from inside he was just another man searching for his solace, and he cannot have his peace Unless & Until he knows why would his wife runaway from him. ANUSHKA TANDON She was the one who ran away leaving all the marital responsibilities behind. Leaving him behind. Or so the world thought. But.. Was this the truth? What would have made her take such an impulsive decision?

Ace was raised in a world where death and betrayal go hand in hand. How can she move forward if she's still trapped in her past? She can't trust anyone except herself and her trusty bullets. Can someone thaw her frozen heart? Or will she kill them all and it will be too late for her.

She is his passion, desire and his obsession. Luciano Greco, a formidable mafia boss has one goal in mind: making Jade Peterson his wife. And not even the forces above can stand in his way. * * * |Strong female lead, Dominating Male Lead, Obsession, Crime, Love and Lust| Luciano Greco, the ruthless crime boss of the Italian-American mafia has been betrothed to Jade Peterson but his would be wife is not as submissive as he imagined her to be. Infact, she is the opposite of everything; she is fierce, bold, outspoken, and impulsive. But still it does not deny the fact that he is pulled to this impulsive and cunning woman no matter how hard he tries to mask it. She has him on his knees but he is unwillingly to admit it. He is addicted and she is his drug. He is a sinner and she is his greatest sin. He needs to claim her for himself and tame the fiery spirit in her. From an arranged marraige which sets off a chain of events that tends to tear them further apart, will they both be willing to let down their guard and confess their love amidst the chaos? Will she let him claim her soul the way he yearns to claim her body as his?

Bea had a deep crush on Thyago since fifth grade but he happens to be her cousin's boyfriend- Elena. Thyago was not only the good Mayor's son and the grandson of a Multi-millionaire Business Tycoon but he happens to be the Captain of the football team and the ultimate crush of every girl on the whole campus. Following the persuasion of her friends, she befriended him until she finally succeeded in being close with him. As a hopeless romantic girl, she chronicled all her emotions in writing a diary and hid herself in the codename: Miss Pretty, but as the saying no secrets will remain hidden, Elena found the diary and humiliated her to the whole Campus. The worst part is Thyago avoided her after learning about her diary. When she tried to explain, Thyago only broke her heart into pieces by telling her to stay away from his life. 8 years later, their paths crossed again in unexpected ways. Thyago Williams happens to be the VIP client of her firm. Being professional, she set aside the past they had and tried to work with him ethically. To her surprise, Thyago suddenly turned out to be very vocal and aggressive in showing his attraction and desire to have her. Being vengeful, she rejected him many times but the cunning Billionaire never accepts no for an answer. What he did is kidnapped and blackmailed her to marry her. He bargained and offered her something she doesn't have a choice to decline with. With all the deceit and manipulations, will she marry him and take to risk her heart for another heartbreak once more?

Theodore Maxwell, a ruthless business tycoon driven by vengeance, plots to marry Alina Roosevelt, to kill two birds with one stone; get revenge on her father and, to inherit everything that was rightfully his. Alina, a budding author with a heart as pure as her prose, was blissfully unaware of Theodore's ulterior motives when she said "I do." As Theodore's cunning plan unfolded, he found himself captivated by Alina's charm and kindness. Despite his initial intentions, he couldn't help but admire the woman he had married. But just as unexpected love began to blossom, everything crumbles with Alina’s father, who devised a cunning scheme that shattered the fragile peace in their marriage. Consumed by rage and betrayal, Theodore divorces Alina, blaming her for her father's deceit. It's too late to realize that Alina was a mere pawn in her father's malicious game. Regret gnawed at his heart as he desperately searched for her, but she had vanished without a trace. Haunted by the memory of his cruel actions, Theodore is set to find Alina and make amends. And he will stop at nothing. How long will Alina be successful in keeping her little secret hidden? ----------------------------------------------------- “I’m not your wife anymore, Theodore!” I yelled, shoving him away from me. He had absolutely no right to march back into my life. “Here’s where you are wrong Alina,” he took dangerous steps towards me until I was pushed against one of the walls, as he held me captive. “You were mine, then. You are mine now. And you, most definitely, will stay mine in the future. Not even you can separate yourself from me Alina, because you were born to be mine!” And that’s when he smashed his lips against mine in a furious kiss.

"I own you now, so you don't get to call the shots.” He leaned in closer, his hot breath fanning against her ear. “You're mine, and you will do as I say, Wifey.” ********** A few weeks before her wedding, Kourtney Allen’s world comes crashing down when she discovers her fiancé cheating with her biological sister, Kathlyn. She rushes home to seek support, only to get slapped by her father. She then realized her parents approved of the affair because Kathlyn was their favorite child. Feeling devastated, Kourtney tries to start a new life abroad. However, she met with a minor accident when her car collided with Sebastian Woods’, the city’s most powerful Billionaire. Sebastian, the strikingly handsome yet ruthless business tycoon who suffers from an unusual allergy to females is surprised and intrigued to find he feels no adverse effects with Kourtney. He crafts a cunning scheme that ends in a flash marriage. But, how will Kourtney come to terms with being his wife when he was the exact kind of man she despised the most? An arrogant, domineering, and unfeeling psychopath with an ego the size of Mount Everest! He was dubbed by the media as “The Stone-Hearted CEO” due to his terrible personality. To HIM, marriage meant control, dominance, and ownership of his possession - HER. Yet, Kourtney swore to break free from his obsessive clutches. When the secret behind her birth is revealed to the world, and when his first love returns to claim his heart, would he finally let HER go?

When they are ambushed and her mate dies in her arms, Cora vows to avenge the traitor who has done this, even if she has to die in the process... That is why she has gone to the human world in quest of the ideal guy to stand in for her husband and pretend to be him until she can expose the traitor. Cora is unnerved when she meets Cole, a handsome stranger who appears to be a regular human and looks exactly like her husband. What Cora doesn't realize is that Cole has his own secret, and when everything is revealed, Cole wonders whether she did more harm than good by putting everyone else's life in jeopardy just for her selfish interest. What happens when Cole's intentions involve late-night , seduction, and a scorching yearning unlike anything any of them has ever experienced? Will Cora do the right thing for her pack or will she be fooled by a deceptive lover's whispers and a cunning smile?

A tragic accident leads her to woke up into a new era she never knew before. Slowly learning about her new identity, she also learnt there was some connection between her former life and her current life. Woke up and found herself tied up and being kidnaped, no one believe her when she said she might be Jiang Xi Yu, the daughter of Duke Jiang from Luoyang. The two eunuchs, who saved her, brought her to served their sly, cunning wangye. After being forced to spend a night full of lust with the first Prince of the kingdom, she got the offer to become his sex slave. She, who believe she was a daughter from noble family, against him, who believe she belong to him from that night forward. Their fate started that way. From a night full of lust to forever be tangled in love.

Elena thought she would never mate with anyone in her life because she didn't trust men: her pack's Alpha possessed her twin sister at a very young age of her, and her father ran a business selling other girls including her best friend. All the men in the world were dirty, cunning, selfish, violent bastards to her, until she met Alpha Archer. But just when she was finally able to trust, he cut off their mate bond.

BLURB: A driven event producer named Anna Bennett finds herself caught up in a perilous web of forced marriage, retaliation, and a risky one-night affair in the luxurious world of New York City's elite. Anna and wealthy CEO Victor Blackwood clash in a struggle for dominance and desire when the latter learns of Anna's relationship with his rival. Anna must negotiate a perilous path as secrets come to light and allegiances are put to the test. She is divided between her desire for vengeance and the unexpected love that emerges in the heart of a cunning millionaire. In this high-stakes game of desire and deceit, will she give in to the temptations of vengeance or will love triumph over all?