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What happens when a billionaire CEO goes to college? Faith is about to find out. Utterly and completely broke, Faith is forced to work three different jobs to support herself through college. Unlike her counterparts, Faith failed to get the good fortune of being born into a rich family. God's attempt to make it up to her must have been giving her a super sharp brain which is the only reason why she could attend the prestigious Barbell University on a half scholarship. But, with the remaining half of her tuition going into $35,000, Faith is forced to slave away night and day at her part-time jobs while simultaneously attending classes, completing assignments, taking tests and writing exams. Faith would do anything--literally anything, to get some respite, including taking on the job of tutoring a famously arrogant, former-dropout, self-made billionaire CEO of a tech company for a tidy sum. Devlin has returned to college after five years to get the certificate he desperately needs to close an important business deal. Weighed down by memories of the past, Devlin finds himself struggling to move ahead. Can Faith teach this arrogant CEO something more than Calculus and Algebra? Will he be able to let go of the past and reach for something new?

“A Luna is meant to be graceful and elegant not…” His mother sniffed, her nose up in the air, “not this.” Disdain and disgust dripped from her words. Every word felt like a blow to my heart, I kept still, waiting for Roland to come to my defense like a good mate. I sent a pleading gaze to him but all I got was an icy stare in return, but I still held faith in my heart. He sighed and his gaze softened with something that looked like self-loathing, “I'm sorry Selena, you're not just Luna material,” His gaze shifted to the person beside me, “And I'm in love with another.” There was a ringing in my ears as time slowed and my world came to a standstill, “W-what?” I choked out, dazed. Selena was the fat unwanted twin, the one her mate rejected for her prettier, slimmer sister. Once rejected, betrayed and left for dead, she almost gave up on life itself. When she stumbles into the arms of two alpha werewolves the world fears, she doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Four years later, she returns, stronger and fiercer, a queen in her own right. The weak fat wolf is dead and in her place is someone they would never see coming. A weapon. Vengeance.

Eve finds herself in a stranger's bed and she does the first thing that comes to her mind; run. This stranger appears later on to give her the formal offer to be his girlfriend with benefits. But what kind of benefits are they? And does she agree? What does the future hold for her and this stranger? Find out.

Benjamin Harper has everything: wealth, power, charm … Yet, an injury following his abduction years ago has rendered him impotent, so much that he's long refrained himself from worldly pleasures and dedicated his life to Zofism instead. That is, until Victoria Jameson strides into his life, turning everything he once believed upside down. Now, ensnared by the woman who might very well be a wonder of her own league, Benjamin has to play his cards well or risk being consumed by Victoria's relentless flame—though, he suspects being claimed by a woman as feisty as she is might not be the worst thing that could ever happen to him. In fact, it might very well turn out to be quite the opposite.

MICAH. I’ve always done as my father commanded—until he sells me to a family in Sicily and I become the property of Sullivan Stone. He’s everything I always want to stay away from; cold, ruthless, and dangerously intent on having what he wants. But what I didn’t expect was how easily his darkness would pull me in—how quickly his world would become mine. Running was never an option. And by the time I understand the truth, I’m already too deep in his game to crawl out. SULLIVAN. I wanted her the moment I saw her—feisty, sly, and meant to be broken. She doesn’t know it yet, but I’ll make her mine in every sense of the word. I’ll train her, tempt her, and mold her until she fits perfectly into my hands. But when she uncovers the secret that brought her to me, she’ll realize survival always demands a price. And this time, that price might be our everything! Get ready for a steamy chaotic mafia novel!

—No logro sacarte de mi mente... Era ya de noche, y él me besaba con hambre y ganas. Él era mi esposo, pero por error y de mentiras. Una vez, yo estando toda borracha, una cosa llevo a la otra y me lo termine follando, pero lo que nunca pensé era que el asunto pues se me saliera de las manos. Entonces yo, una señorita de la alta alcurnia, no tuve más remedio que permitir que dicho arruinado se casara conmigo y se convirtiera en mi esposo. Debido a la mucha insatisfacción q ue yo sentía y a mi nulo deseo de estar con él, me encargue de hacerle la vida de cuadritos, entonces lo humillé, abusé de él, le di cachetadas, puños y patadas, y me aguanto cuanto regaño o insulto se me saliera, pero él en cambio pacientemente nunca se enojó, y siempre mantuvo hacia mí una actitud dócil y gentil Pero algo en mi corazón fue cambiando con el tiempo, y justo cuando poco a poco me fui enamorando de él, me pidió el divorcio. Al parecer ese joven gentil y lleno de virtudes del pasado de repente se convertía, en un hombre calculador a quien yo quizás no conocía. Mas, sin embargo, y por las vueltas que da la vida, mi familia paso de la abundancia a la escasez, pero a él eso no le importo y estuvo allí para socorrerme, el marido virtuoso aquí alguna vez pisé y traté como mierda, se convirtió en mi único apoyo.

Il y a six ans, j'ai donné tout ce que j'avais, mon cœur, mon corps, ma confiance, au garçon qui avait mis le feu à mon monde. Le lendemain, il a disparu sans un mot. Depuis, la vie n'a pas été tendre. J'ai enterré mes parents la même semaine où j'ai ramené mon fils nouveau-né de l'hôpital. À tout juste dix-huit ans, je suis devenue mère et tutrice de ma sœur de quinze ans, survivant à peine au poids de tout cela. Alors que je pensais enfin trouver la stabilité avec un mari aimant, j'ai découvert qu'il menait une double vie, avec une autre femme. Maintenant, mon fils, Jaques, se comporte mal, est en colère contre le monde et porte des blessures que je ne peux pas guérir. Après un nouveau coup de téléphone de l'école, cette fois-ci pour une expulsion, je savais que nous ne pouvions pas continuer à prétendre que tout allait bien. Nous avions besoin d'un nouveau départ. Je ne m'attendais pas à ce que ce nouveau départ me conduise dans une ville de montagne endormie cachant un dangereux secret... ou à lui. Car cette ville abrite une meute cachée de loups métamorphes, dont l'alpha n'est autre que le garçon qui a disparu il y a six ans. Le même garçon qui ne sait pas qu'il m'a laissé plus qu'un cœur brisé... Il m'a laissé son fils. Avertissement ! Cette histoire contient des scènes explicites (y compris des relations entre hommes) tout au long de l'histoire.

En mi vida pasada, mi hermana Marina y yo dimos con dos huevos misteriosos y los pusimos a salvo. Del suyo nació una serpiente de hielo, y del mío un fénix envuelto en llamas. Marina me arrebató el fénix que yo había criado con tanto cariño, pero nunca pensó que acabaríamos viviendo un apocalipsis de calor extremo. Ella se murió asfixiada por el calor y, en su último aliento, logró persuadir a Iván, mi esposo —la serpiente de hielo— para que me estrangulara. Pero nadie imaginó que volveríamos al mismo día en que esos dos huevos empezaban a romperse. Esta vez, Marina se quedó con Iván. Creía que, con él a su lado, podría salir adelante sin problema en ese infierno de calor, confiando en su poder helado. Pero lo que no sabía era que, para mantener su fuerza, esa serpiente necesitaba alimentarse de sangre fresca todos los días.

En el festival de la manada, una bruja me entrega un orbe de cristal que revela la verdad. Cuando le pregunto por qué, me dice que le fue encomendada su tarea y me recuerda que solo lo use cuando esté sola. A medida que la imagen en el orbe se hace más clara y aparece mi compañero, me olvido de cómo respirar. —Jared Hamilton, ¿me amas? —pregunta una mujer con su voz más dulce, rodeándole el cuello con sus brazos. —Sí. Claro que sí. Eres la única a quien amaré el resto de mi vida, Luciana. Mi mano resbala. Incluso después de que el orbe de cristal toca el suelo, todavía puedo oírlos hablar. —Juro ante la sagrada Diosa de la Luna que estaré contigo, Luciana Rose, hasta mi último aliento. Si alguna vez rompo este juramento, que nunca vuelva a conocer la alegría. Me siento sofocada. Solo puedo mirarlo con incredulidad. La mujer a la que jura amar de por vida no es otra que mi mejor amiga.

She married him to save her family. He married her to settle a score. Neither expected the silence between them to hurt this much. When Lucy Benjamin is forced to take her sister’s place in a high-stakes marriage to the cold, powerful billionaire Gabriel Fernandez, she believes she’s being handed to a monster. Gabriel, haunted by betrayal and bound by secrets, sees Lucy as part of the lie that ruined him. But as icy tension turns to burninig glances, and unspoken pain gives way to raw emotion, both must confront the truth behind the lies that tore them apart. In a world ruled by wealth, power, and manipulation, can love survive the silence or was it never meant to begin?