ECHOES OF DECEPTION

Spending all her life with her very shrewd, arrogant but poor single mother, JULIA AUSTIN,a teenage girl preparing for college with a great ambition lives and has a slight flare for drama still endures the pain given to her by her single mom whose hatred,is due to the circumstances surrounding her birth. Julia sees herself always talked down by her mum who seems to have a lot against her. The only consolation and confidant Julia has is her very good and childhood friend who also happens to be here best friend, RICARDO THOMPSON, who is also being raised by a wealthy single mom. Ricardo is a sweet guy with a very personable spirit. He's always there to console and be a broad shoulder for Julia to rest on. The both of them share their story together and see themselves as siblings from different wombs. Ricardo makes it clear to Julia that he detests how she's wrongly treated by her mum and yet she always puts her first and wants to make her a proud and happy mother. Though Ricardo hates what Julia's mum does to her,he still tries respecting Julia's unconditional love for her mother. Unknown to Julia, Ricardo's friendship ends up creating an urge in him to take this friendship to the next level. He secretly starts finding interest in her and starts spending more time with her under the pretense that they're friends. She also has her instincts whispering to her that Ricardo has feelings for her but he refuses to admit his feelings. He's always there to help her out with her chores and even goes as far as taking her for outings afterwards. He just makes Julia believe that it's his way of being friendly. A day comes when he meets Julia's mum shouting and bullying her and decides to finally confront her and while this confrontation is going on, Julia's mum slums. Julia in dismay and Ricardo I'm shocked quickly rush her to the hospital. They arrive at the hospital and finally find out after a series of tests that Julia's mum due to a lot of drinking and smoking is faced with an ailment called LEUKEMIA which needs immediate medical attention. They didn't have enough money to pay for the treatment and she wasn't ready to take any help from Ricardo cause she sees him as a partial reason for her mom's condition and this causes a drift in their friendship. So Julia takes it upon herself to start doing things to generate the money which leads her to doing something which she never imagined she'd do and this is SELLING DRUGS. She started doing it and was able to generate a good amount of money but unfortunately for her,on a particular day,she was caught on camera by a low-key mafia king named GEORGE HART. She pleads with him and Eventually told him her situation but he still uses this to threaten her to get her to steal something from the museum and even promises her to pay her handsomely for her mum's treatment.This she does without telling her best friend. Even after this,she's still made to do some other things for him. They eventually get caught by the police and this leads to him denying all the allegations and making Julia look like a bad person but someone quickly comes to her rescue who happens to be a spy. Julia becomes shocked to see who the person was? Who could this person be?

"Love is blind!" Lucinda abandoned her beautiful and comfortable life because of a man. She married him and slaved off for him for three long years. One day, the scales finally fell off her eyes. She realized that all her efforts were in vain. Her husband, Nathaniel still treated her like shit. All he cared about was his lover. "Enough is enough! I quit wasting my years with an ungrateful man!" Lucinda's heart was shattered into many pieces, but she summoned up the courage to ask for a divorce. The news caused a stir online! A filthy rich young woman recently got divorced? She was a good catch! Countless CEOs and handsome young men immediately swarmed to her like bees to honey! Nathaniel couldn't take it anymore. He held a press conference and begged with teary eyes, "I love you, Lucinda. I can't live without you. Please come back to me." Would Lucinda give him a second chance? Read to find out!

Lindsey's fiancé was the devil's first son. Not only did he lie to her but he also slept with her stepmother, conspired to take away her family fortune, and then set her up to have sex with a total stranger. To get her lick back, Lindsey decided to find a man to disrupt her engagement party and humiliate the cheating bastard. Never did she imagine that she would bump into a strikingly handsome stranger who was all that she was currently looking for. At the engagement party, he boldly declared that she was his woman. Lindsey thought he was just a broke man who wanted to leech off her. But once they began their fake relationship, she realized that good luck kept coming her way. She thought they would part ways after the engagement party, but this man kept to her side. "We gotta stick together, Lindsey. Remember, I'm now your fiancé. " "Domenic, you're with me because of my money, aren't you?" Lindsey asked, narrowing her eyes at him. Domenic was taken aback by that accusation. How could he, the heir of the Walsh family and CEO of Vitality Group, be with her for money? He controlled more than half of the city's economy. Money wasn't a problem for him! The two got closer and closer. One day, Lindsey finally realized that Domenic was actually the stranger she had slept with months ago. Would this realization change things between them? For the better or worse?

Maia grew up a pampered heiress-until the real daughter returned and framed her, sending Maia to prison with help from her fiancé and family. Four years later, free and married to Chris, a notorious outcast, everyone assumed Maia was finished. They soon discovered she was secretly a famed jeweler, elite hacker, celebrity chef, and top game designer. As her former family begged for help, Chris smiled calmly. "Honey, let's go home." Only then did Maia realize her "useless" husband was a legendary tycoon who'd adored her from the start.

Aria Wilson agrees to her step- sister offers to have a one night stand with an old man interchange for large amounts. It will be use for his brother’s operation. What they don’t know is the man she had sex with is turned out to be Jake Thomson! The most powerful man in Golden City, a multi-billionaire. Her step- sister Ayah, pretended that she is the one he was with that night so she is the on who gained wealth. Aria got pregnant and walked away but after five years she came back and her children…

Blurb "Part your legs for me, princess" Alpha Damian humored huskily like he was intoxicated, I whimpered as he voice sents a jolts of emotions round my body. An emotion that I wasn't supposed to feel. Selene was 18 years old when she found out that Alpha Jasper of the Silver Crescent pack was her mate at her Awakening ceremony. Being a reject with no parents she lived with him for over one year as a slave and he never acknowledged her as his mate because he couldn't accept a reject as his mate. On her 20th birthday, her mate not only rejected her and chose her best friend; Imogen, as his new mate, but he also sold Selene to the most feared Alpha; Alpha Damian of the Crimson Moon pack whom everyone referred to as a beast. Not knowing why Alpha Damian chose to buy her, she can only resign herself to fate. What has the moon goddess installed for me again? Is this the freedom she solely crave for? Will she be tied down with the shackles of the unknown?

Everyone was shocked to the bones when the news of Rupert Benton's engagement broke out. It was surprising because the lucky girl was said to be a plain Jane, who grew up in the countryside and had nothing to her name. One evening, she showed up at a banquet, stunning everyone present. "Wow, she's so beautiful!" All the men drooled, and the women got so jealous. What they didn't know was that this so-called country girl was actually an heiress to a billion-dollar empire. It wasn't long before her secrets came to light one after the other. The elites couldn't stop talking about her. "Holy smokes! So, her father is the richest man in the world?" "She's also that excellent, but mysterious designer who many people adore! Who would have guessed?" Nonetheless, people thought that Rupert didn't love her. But they were in for another surprise. Rupert released a statement, silencing all the naysayers. "I'm very much in love with my beautiful fiancee. We will be getting married soon." Two questions were on everyone's minds: "Why did she hide her identity? And why was Rupert in love with her all of a sudden?"