Chasing The Courtesan A Vampire Cinderella Story Book2

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

DREAMS CAN COME TRUE BUT JUST NIGHTMARES. In Des Pontonniers, a super-dread blood sucking human is blamed for the spate of vicious attacks; Max Blake wishes the cause was that simple. Unfortunately, hiding his vampire identity, especially from Miley Evelyn, while fighting his need to transform,

Fantasy

Courtesan is a dark, emotional story about Harper Walker, a resilient 17-year-old girl sold into a luxurious yet dangerous courtesan house after defying a powerful trafficker named Ross. Disguised as a boy to survive, Harper is forced to navigate a world of power, manipulation, and secrets, where su

Fantasy

The Vermounth Kingdom has lost a princess, and Veronica, as a pure-blooded vampire princess, is helping the Vermounth Kingdom locate the whereabouts of the lost princess. During the mission to find the missing princess, Veronica encounters Vera, a girl with a peculiar life; she appears to be a vampi

Romance

In a mediaeval kingdom, there lived Carissa, a young troublesome girl who dupes, take advantage of, perform criminal wonders and the popular king Alaric who's known to have many princess courtesans, he has a secret, he locked something that's supposed to be valuable to the kingdom. He locked his tw

Billionaires

Axel faces a dilemma when his mother asks him to get married soon. In fact, Axel has been dating Rachel for the past five years. However, as a top model, Rachel refuses to get married right away because she’s at the peak of her popularity. In this difficult situation, Laura, a woman from Axel’s

Romance

“I want nothing but your love, Isabella. Give it to me and I’ll make sure that no harm will come to you,” he said affirmatively. “But…” he placed his finger on my lips in an attempt to shut me up, his strikingly hazel eyes planted on my lips. He drew me close, our faces inches apart. I could feel h

Billionaires

Heartbroken and deceived by her ex-boyfriend, Mark, Ella has to live with her Aunt and her daughter who treat her like shit. Mark ran away with his high school sweetheart, leaving Ella with nothing but debt. Ella gets in trouble for messing with Edmund Fox and now out of the blue, he’s forcing her t

Literature

A Modern Cinderella by Amanda M. Douglas

Billionaires

I was just a diligent sales associate, trying to make ends meet in a luxury boutique on Rodeo Drive. After refusing a notoriously cruel socialite's outrageous demands, I was unexpectedly offered a breathtaking new life by charming billionaire Ethan Vanderbilt. No more retail hell, just endless luxur

Literature

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish physician and writer known around the world for his stories about detective Sherlock Holmes, which all but created the literary field of crime fiction and made the name Sherlock Holmes synonymous with detectives. Aside from the Sherlock Holmes

Adventure

Her parents had passed away. It was a day when she was twelve years old. Her parents died, and she was about to be killed by shapeshifters. Daenerys was terrified. Her eyes welled up with tears, but they also gleamed with hatred as she looked at them. 'Go to hell!' The moonlight bathed their cla

Romance

Fat, chubby and bullied Illegitimate daughter, Cinderella is betrayed by her Fiance, and stepsister. Escaping a life threatening situation after her nudes is forcefully taken, Cinderella encounters an extremely gorgeous and arrogant black Angel who is as mysterious as he could be. Who is this Myste

Fantasy

Christopher is a billionaire, he leads a life of luxury and desires that can be given just by saying it, however, he hides a secret from his family; He is addicted to gambling, in the evenings when he has free time, instead of going to a party with his friends, he prefers to go betting lucky in a ne

Fantasy

The author of this book was the daughter of that Count Rostopchine who was governor of Moscow when it was burned in 1812, and Napoleon was obliged in consequence to make his disastrous retreat from that city. Born in 1799, Sophie de Rostopchine married, in 1821, the Count de Ségur, a son of o

Werewolf

Ayla Garrison never expected to survive in a world where bloodlines, power, and dominance define every aspect of life. As the lowliest wolf-shifter in her pack-an outcast with a painful past-she spends her days hiding in the shadows, scrubbing floors and avoiding the cruel jabs of those who see her

Literature

There is to-day a widely spread new interest in child life, a desire to get nearer to children and understand them. To be sure child study is not new; every wise parent and every sympathetic teacher has ever been a student of children; but there is now an effort to do more consciously and systematic

Romance

Adele Maxwell was an organized woman and things always seemed to go, just the way she wanted it to. Taking care of herself and her mother after a horrible childhood had spurred her into becoming a woman of purpose and she had great dreams to achieve. When she gets an offer to work for one of the ric

Modern

At the project kickoff party, Isabelle casually mocked the new capital representative, calling him a suit with a trust fund. A low, magnetic voice spoke from the shadows right behind her. It was Bennett Lloyd, the man holding the purse strings for the entire project. But as Isabelle turned around, h

Romance

'Penelope Connal' is a teenager of 18 years old who has her entire life planned out by her overprotective father, who wants her to graduate from high school with honors and go on to become the medical doctor that he dreams of her becoming. As she began an affair with Ethan, whose identity is still

Fantasy

In a supernatural world shrouded in mystery and prophecy, Prince Darcy, an ancient vampire of royal lineage, embarks on a perilous quest to save his dying father, the vampire king. Bound by a haunting prophecy that foretells the king's release from suffering only when an innocent witch bears a child