Sugar and Shadows Beneath the façade

Modern

Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he'd dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family's land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell-the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I've suspended Hugh's executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I'm just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.

Romance

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Romance

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Romance

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Werewolf

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Young Adult

"Shadows and Sunshine" follows troubled newcomer Annie Thompson as she navigates a new school and a turbulent home life. Tasked with tutoring her, quiet senior Joey Reynolds sees past Annie's tough exterior to the vulnerable girl beneath. As their friendship deepens into love, they confront shadows

Young Adult

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Mafia

She was treated like a piece of property, and he was the one with the winning bid. Now, she is at the mercy of a monster. Isla Laurent has always been the dutiful daughter, gentle, and groomed to fit the mold of a perfect high-society lady. However, when her father's gambling debts spiral out of c

Literature

The Story of Sugar by Sara Ware Bassett

Modern

Desperate to make ends meet, young stripper Emma catches the eye of enigmatic billionaire Robert at the club. Their age gap and different worlds aside, he offers her a proposition: be his sugar baby and he'll take care of her financial woes. But when a surprise pregnancy tests their arrangement, Emm

Romance

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Romance

Elena Rossi, a 17-year-old bookworm, has always lived a sheltered life under the watchful eye of her overprotective father. What she doesn't know is that her father, Antonio Rossi, is a powerful mafia boss who has been keeping her in the dark about their family's dangerous legacy. When a rival mafia

Romance

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Billionaires

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Billionaires

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Werewolf

He was bred for war. Caged like a beast. Until she walked in. Aria is no one-just a servant girl hiding in plain sight, disguised as a boy to survive the ruthless world of wolves who see human women as nothing but prey. But when she discovers the kingdom's most dangerous secret-a feral lycan locked

Werewolf

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Mafia

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Fantasy

In a world ruled by dominance and desire, being an Omega is a curse, especially when you're mine. On his eighteenth birthday, Luca wakes to a nightmare, his wolf has chosen the lowest rank of all. An Omega. The scent of submission, the mark of shame and the kind of wolf others own, use, and discard

Modern

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