The Secret Daughter

Jesslyn Scott menandatangani surat perjanjian pernikahan dengan Earth karena ia membutuhkan uang untuk biaya pengobatan ibunya yang sangat mahal. Jessy pikir pernikahan kontraknya dengan Earth, sang penerus Caldwell Corporation dikarenakan Earth tidak ingin dijodohkan dengan putri dari rekan bisnis sang kakek, tetapi Jessy salah. Alasan sebenarnya dari pernikahan kontrak itu adalah Caroline, cinta pertama Earth yang berstatus janda tanpa anak. Jessy dijadikan tameng oleh Earth untuk menutupi hubungan Earth dengan Caroline yang sudah berlangsung tiga tahun. Di dalam keluarga Caldwell, siapapun yang menikahi janda maka ia tidak akan bisa menjadi penerus. Dan Earth yang tidak ingin kehilangan harta warisan serta Caroline memilih memanfaatkan Jessy yang merupakan staf di salah satu toserba milik keluarganya. Awalnya Jessy bisa menjalani kehidupan pernikahan kontraknya dengan baik. Akan tetapi, Jessy melakukan sebuah kesalahan yang membuatnya menyiksa diri sendiri. Ia jatuh cinta pada Earth yang mencintai Caroline. Lalu, akankah Jessie bisa bertahan di dalam kontrak pernikahan yang tidak boleh melibatkan perasaan ketika hatinya menjerit kesakitan karena rasa cemburu yang membakar jiwa? Dan bagaimanakan kehidupan Jessy setelah bergabung di dalam keluarga Caldwell yang sangat terpandang? Bisakah Jessy mengatasai tekanan demi tekanan yang diarahkan keluarga Earth padanya? Atau Jessy harus menyerah dan mengembalikan uang yang ia dapatkan dari Earth bagaimanapun caranya?

There were only two types of people in our town. "The Guerras and us, the "Caolins". My father classified them as our neighbors like that. "The Guerras were either too stupid or too smart to leave." While we wondered how to escape. There was no doubt about which of the two could rule the town. My father obeyed one of the Guerras men, but I never had the courage to ask him why he did it. My father was a doctor and he knows many things or hides something terrible from me. I know that he hides many secrets from me and has protected me in every way from knowing the truth, but I will grow up and with his help I will either not know everything, or my name will not be Delmon Salvadore. My father tells me every day that danger is on my side and that I have to protect myself so that I never become someone I don't want to be. If it has to do with my life or my origins, I will know, but one thing I know is that there are dark mysteries that torment me and this always happens on the full moon. I am afraid of what could really be, I believe that many things are involving my mother, the one who mysteriously disappeared, leaving me alone with my father. If there is something that I do not know, it is about to be revealed because my dreams reveal it to me and I believe that it is my future in a few years. If this is true, I will be a terrible person that I do not really know. However, now I am ready to face everything that comes and one of the things is to avenge my father's death.

Kisah pilu tentang menemukan saudara kandung yang telah terpisah selama beberapa dekade. Sang adik menjadi detektif, sementara kakaknya adalah pembunuh bayaran. Apa yang akan Joe lakukan, jika adik yang selama ini ia cari adalah target yang harus ia bunuh? Xander Maddox, detektif pembakang yang selalu memiliki pemikiran gila dan melanggar aturan kepolisian Las Vegas. Terlibat dalam tugas berbahaya dan jatuh cinta pada saksi pembunuhan yang menyimpan begitu banyak rahasia, Foxire Dawson. Maddox juga harus berhadapan dengan organisasi mafia serta diburu oleh kaki tangan mereka, Joe Black. Fakta berikutnya cukup menguncang, karena pembunuh bayaran itu adalah kakak kandungnya sendiri, sekaligus bekas kekasih Foxire Dawson. Akankah Maddox bisa menerima Foxy dengan masa lalu kelamnya? Atau cinta mereka harus tersingkir karena mengalah demi Joe Black? Xander Maddox, detektif yang menjadi secret agent paling ditakuti, harus berjuang di antara cinta segitiga dan konspirasi kotor dunia politik juga kejahatan internasional! "Aku mengingatmu, Mad. Bayi yang pernah kubanggakan menjadi saudara lelaki. Jika kini aku harus mundur demi kebahagiaanmu, jangan halangi. Karena demi mencari dirimu, aku berusaha untuk tetap hidup!” "Brengsek! Jangan selalu berkorban demi aku, Joe!"

Ainee Davina Rae, the only daughter of the most dangerous and most influential mafia boss. When her parents died at the age of ten she inherited all the property of her father and mother, and as the heir apparent daughter of the powerful mafia, she also had to follow in her parents' footsteps. She inherited all the businesses developed by her family, including the organization formed by her father when he was still alive. When she reached the right age she learned to stand on his own feet and live alone, but she still carried traces of the past. In her desire to track down the people who killed her parents she reorganized her father's organization. She pretends to be someone else to do her mission well and unexpectedly she meets a man who will cause her plan to go awry. Will she succeed in her desire for revenge? Or will the wind just blow away the plans she has made?

"I thought you were the man who saved me. I didn't know you were the one who set the fire." The day my father gambled away my life was the day I learned that some monsters don't have claws—they wear tailored suits and drink vintage scotch. To the world, Abram is a philanthropist, a billionaire, and the undisputed King of the Lycan Underground. To me, he is the man who bought my freedom for the price of a debt he secretly engineered. He calls me his "Little Wolf." He dresses me in diamonds that feel like cold chains and keeps me in a soundproof penthouse where my screams are just background music to his obsession. He is the Gentle Gaslighter. He whispers that he loves me while he wipes the blood of my past from his hands. He tells me I have nowhere else to go, forgetting that he was the one who burned every bridge behind me. But Abram made one fatal mistake: He taught me how to survive him. Underneath my silk gowns and practiced smiles, the girl he "broke" is dead. In her place is a master manipulator who has learned to weaponize his own obsession against him. I will let him mark me. I will let him believe he won. And when he is at his highest, I will show him that a velvet noose still strangles just as surely as a hemp one. He told me I was his entire world. Now, I’m going to end it. Tropes: * Mafia Alpha x Captive Omega * Age Gap (42 & 20) * He Falls First (Obsession) * Vengeance/Revenge Rebirth * Betrayal & Tragic Twist

"My boyfriend? Huh. He is the heir of HongYoonChoi organisation. HongYoonChoi is one of the richest organisation in the world. And my boyfriend is their heir." If only Celine can turn back time, she would never lie about a man who doesn't exist in her current life. Celine Kim is a jobless 25 year-old single lady. She believed that there will be a bright future ahead of her as long as her father's last will shall remain unfulfilled. "Find HongYoonChoi organization's heirs and tell them my name," her dying father told her before she left his daughter alone. She heard that HongYoonChoi has influential and rich members that passed through generations. However, Celine was afraid to meet the dangerous secret group known for being ruthless killers. One day, Celine attended her highschool friend's wedding. At the reception hall where she met her old highschool classmates who belittled her ever since then, she was so eager to regain her pride and thus she lied about her current relationship with a young rich man whom she never met - HongYoonChoi's heir. Little did she know, the supposedly fake boyfriend was also at the party! This is the start of the struggle in Celine's peaceful life: when she's going to meddle inside the dark organization and when she falls in love with the hideous monster among the three heirs, Joshua, Jeonghan and Seungcheol. "My life has no door, you can never escape," Joshua whispered on the prisoner's ear. In HongYoonChoi, there are no doors. And Celine can't escape from them anymore.

She abandoned her baby, but is unexpectedly hired by a ruthless billionaire tech mogul to become his nanny. Emily, a rookie journalist, walked away from her toxic billionaire ex boyfriend, Leo. She left behind everything that reminded her of him, including her newborn baby. Four years later, she encounters the past she thought she had left behind, when she's unexpectedly hired by a powerful billionaire tech mogul, Rex, to become his son's nanny. Just as feelings slowly developed between Emily and Rex, her toxic ex reemerged to take her back. Secrets start to unfold, leaving Emily in a love triangle, a custody battle and series of revelations. Will Emily go back to her ex?, or will she overcome these secrets?. Find out in the book.

Leila, a young Austrian aristocrat and student in Classics, is drawn into a world of conspiracy and danger when her aunt is involved in a suspicious car accident. Leila travels to her aunt’s chalet to take care of her husky, but soon discovers a body in the drawing room. Terrified, she runs out and bumps into Dick, a nosy English banker who becomes entangled in the mystery. When they return to the drawing room, the body has disappeared. Leila takes the husky for a walk and discovers that the body has been moved to a house recently purchased by another branch of her family. She finds a notebook with encrypted entries in the drawing room and uses her linguistic skills to decode them. She discovers the initials, address, and phone number of someone involved in the plot. Leila calls the number and is warned against getting involved. Undeterred, she discovers a bizarre research center where a conference on German mystical past is taking place.She suspects that there is a bizarre cult operating underground. Leila learns about their plan to topple every democracy in Europe. The cult is after an artifact that may be hidden in her aunt’s chalet. However, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Leila discovers that the aristocratic cult members are pawns in a larger game. They are unknowingly being manipulated to cause disruption in the European banking system using an AI virus.The chaos will cause turmoil in the Euro zone. As Leila and her aunt race against time to stop the virus from being unleashed, they uncover an even more shocking truth: Leila’s own family members are part of the conspiracy. With betrayal and danger at every turn, Leila must use all of her wit to outsmart the cult.

Nate Donalds has survived high school by hiding behind books But when his private journal his darkest secrets, therapy struggles, and forbidden love for Cole Michaelson is exposed, the walls he built around himself shatter. Humiliation, betrayal, and bullying threaten to destroy him for good. Cole is the school’s golden boy with secrets of his own, steps in to protect Nate but at a cost. He’s bisexual, trapped in silence by his abusive father and terrified of losing everything if the truth comes out. Between stolen kisses, hidden meetings, and the relentless cruelty of high school, Nate and Cole are forced to ask: is their love strong enough to survive the lies, the fear, and the betrayal waiting to tear them apart?

When Royal Robinson loses his brother and sister-in-law in a fatal car crash, the truth about their child comes to light. Finding out they had used a surrogate and hid the truth from the family devastated him, especially when he found out it was never made legal and the biological mother still has legal entitlement to the child. When Famke Noor realizes the people she had considered her friends were gone and his family wants her to step in and assist in raising the child who she felt strongly she was never meant to parent, she finds herself in over her head. Two strong and stubborn personalities with their hearts in the right place but their pride in the way will need to learn to put their differences aside to help a five year old little girl navigate a world without the only parents she ever knew. Despite nosy family, high-maintenance exes and drama she asked for Famke finds herself falling in love with the billionaire tycoon and his pint-sized charge. Is love enough when the world is against you? Famke is about to find out.