network effect a murderbot novel

"That b*tch messed with the wrong wife!" An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. Hell hath no fury than... A Woman Scorned!

Can jealousy make a monster out of human? General Jiang never thought so until he become a victim of one of his green-eyed friend's plots. And Jiang Yin Yue ,was the precious daughter of the General Jiang. She led a happy life until one crucial night. She lost everything in that one night. The noble life she lived happily...,Her loving family which she treasured most in the world...,The honor of her family which maintained for many generations..., everything disappeared in front of her eyes, while she was watching helplessly. Despite losing everything, she determined to survive. No matter how lonely, how painful, how much sorrow she felt, she thoroughly determined to survive, gathering all the courage she could mange to find. With the sole intention of avenging her family. Now everyday, every hour, every minute, every second, even every breathe she takes solely dedicated to succeed her mission of revenge. Changing herself completely with a different appearance, different character, and different personality...she is reaching her goal step by step very patiently but still with a traumatized mind. On her journey he get to experience the loyalty of a human, importance and worth of a sincere friendship and the warmth of a tender love. Experiencing those qualities, will she get her lost gentleness back? will she recover from her trauma? will she be able to give up the hatred deeply rooted in her mind? Fighting with the people in power, avenging for her family's unjust deaths, restoring her family's lost honor, It is the story of a daughter who became the "PRIDE OF HER FAMILY" as her father always used to say.

Hannah Jefferson, the daughter of the Alpha of the silver wolf pack, feels unfulfilled in her life. She yearns to meet her mate, hoping this will allow her to finally leave behind the difficult home she grew up in. However, on her eighteenth birthday, instead of meeting her mate, she is given a husband – Alex King, the future Alpha of the Sky Pack and someone she has secretly loved for years. The problem is that Alex's affections are directed at Alice, Hannah's adopted sister. Faced with this situation, Hannah rejects the arranged marriage, but it seems fate has other plans that are out of her control. Hannah finds herself at a crossroads. While she had hoped her mate would come to rescue her, she is now entangled in a forced marriage to Alex, someone she cares for deeply but who is mated to another. Read and discover how Hannah navigates the challenges of being married to someone mated to another, even as she harbors profound love for him.

Another name: TEARS OF A FLOWER "What do you want, Victoria?" Victoria walked closer to Vega, her eyes held hatred in them. "Look, let me warn you, don't even dare try to ruin my marriage, or else I will make your life a living hell!" "You knew he wasn't your mate, and you let him mark you, didn't you?" Vega asked with anger brewing inside her. Victoria lowered her gaze a little, which meant she actually knew. "So what if I know? I'm the one he marked, not you!" She yelled, showing Vega her marked neck. ****************************** What happens when your twin sister is accidentally marked by your one true mate? Victoria and Vega are twin sisters born to the Alpha of white snow pack. These sisters are so identical that it was very difficult to differentiate between them. Their Father Alpha Blake Gilbert sometimes found it hard to tell their differences too. Fortunately they had two distinct features that separated them, one is the fact that Victoria who happened to be the eldest was reckless and stubborn, while Vega was calm and quiet. But sadly, Vega was the one who always got punished for her sister's crime. Everyone in the white snow pack thought Vega was the black sheep among the two. Vega suffered silently. Secondly, Victoria's wolf was brown while Vega's was white, but no one had seen Vega's wolf which was a rare kind. Alpha Reynold Flames of Blue Stone Pack happens to be the most famous and well-respected Alpha in the northern province of Westland. He is a Lycan and he was very powerful. At the age of thirty, Reynold was still without a mate. When he visited white snow pack, his wolf sensed the presence of their mate. Excited as he was to find his mate, he was deceived into marking the wrong woman (Victoria) since she smelled just like his mate (Vega). What will happen to these three lives which have become entangled for life? Will there be a breakthrough for them or will things get even worse?

He is loathsome, arrogant and handsome doctor with uncouth mouth. She is a simple sales girl. Being straightforward and brave, she shamelessly pursued him, sending him gifts, meals, flowers and tried to get close to him. She was humiliated when his staff gossiped about her and she retreated. Then he rejected her and told her they could only be friends. She tried her best to avoid him but no matter how much she tried they frequently cross paths. Suddenly one day he told her. "Be my girlfriend!" What a mess!

*Book 2* Mei Liu learned suffering from an early age. After experiencing great loss, she spent years enduring abuse at the hands of a sadistic pack of wolves, while hiding her identity. All until the day she was saved by her fated soulmate arriving at her doorstep. Mei was finally free, loved and accepted, with her happily ever after on the horizon. But an unknown enemy has been searching for her and once he finds her he has no intentions of letting her go. Dark secrets will be revealed, and she will be pushed beyond her limits. Can she rise up and fight back and become the strong woman she was destined to be? Or will it all be too much for her to handle? A Queen Among Snakes is the second book in the Queen Among series. Each story is set up in the previous book, so reading the books in order is recommended. Here are the books in the series: A Queen Among Alphas - Book 1 Bite-Size Luna - A Queen Among Alphas Prequel A Queen Among Snakes - Book 2 Runaway Empress - A Queen Among Snakes Prequel A Queen Among Blood - Book 3 Whole Again - A Queen Among Alpha's spin-off A Queen Among Darkness - Book 4 Dark Invocation - A Queen Among Darkness spin-off A Queen Among Tides - Book 5 Valor, Virtue, and Verve - A Queen Among Tides Prequel Spin-off A Queen Among Gods - Book 6 A Queen Among Tempests - Book 7

Losing her mother, Julia didn't stop her father from getting married again, her father's happiness was very important to her despite her reluctance. But she was only cheated on by her stepmother and sister. On her wedding day, she was drugged because of which she spent the night with an unknown man and endured the darkest moment of her life. Her boyfriend was taken away from her besides her father's shadow. She was forced to leave the country but her fate brought her back again to the place. Julia came back with a boy, her boy. Everything was going well but then she meets the man she spent the night with and the man was a Billionaire mafia, Joshua. [Mature content] “Sign this contract if you wish to see your family alive," Joshua roared at the disobedient woman. “What is this?” Julia asked in fear. “This is the agreement about you staying with me until I lose my interest in you,” Joshua smirked. When he came to know that he had a boy with the same woman he wanted to possess, then there would be havoc.

“Tell me, Eleanor, do you like seeing me like this? Do you like seeing me angry with you?” he yells, banging the spot above my head. I keep my mouth shut so I don’t say the wrong thing and make him angrier. “Fucking answer me,” “N-N-N-o-o,” I stammer. “If you don't, then why don't you ever listen to me? The spanking wasn’t enough? Do you need me to unleash my beast on you before you listen to me?” he asks, and I shake my head. “Then give me a reason why I shouldn't take you across my legs right now and give you twenty lashes on each ass cheek for laughing at something Evan said,” he says, and I pause for a minute. “You shouldn't spank me because it's my right to laugh or not at what Evan said.” “You see, Eleanor, that's where you’re wrong. Only I can tell you if you can laugh or not.” “Excuse me?” I ask, looking at him confused and wondering if he’s on something. “I own your laughter, Eleanor.” “No, you don't.” “I do. And not just your laughter. I own all of you.” ------------- Eleanor Brown is a lovely lady trying to make ends meets. She lands a job after an unfortunate event happens to her. She is excited and can't wait to start a new chapter in her life. Unknowing to Eleanor, this new chapter of her life will be filled with a lot of troubles. Her boss, Jason Crawford, believes Eleanor wants to work for him for other reasons, and since he can't fire Eleanor, he decides to make things difficult for her. Will Eleanor survive working with a boss who hates her, or will she quit and back off the deal even though she needs money?

Alana Steel, CEO of Steel hotels and the only heir to her parents' fortune, crosses paths one day with the most infamous playboy, Raymond Dalton. Raymond is the firstborn to his family and next in line to take over his family's company. However, they won't allow him to unless he gets married. When Alana's parents asks her to marry her ex-boyfriend, who broke her heart and trust, in a moment of desperation, she finds herself next to the playboy who was just as desperate as her. During their conversation, they find a solution that serves them both. One year of fake marriage that will help them both get what they want; Alana will get her parents off her back, and Raymond will get his parents fortune. But what happens when one of them can no longer control their feelings for the other?

Jane never believed her life would turn out the way it did but somehow it happened. When her mother became critically ill, she needed the money and he needed the child, so they came to an agreement. He would give her the money she wanted and she would bear him a child. It sounded simple but what happened when Jane starts to dream of a complete family for her child and is determined to make Markus fall for her. But all Markus wants is a child not a wife and definitely not love.