GOLDEN HEART

Modern

I went to the City Clerk’s office for a routine copy of my marriage license to finalize a trust fund audit. I expected a simple piece of paper, but the clerk’s pitying look told me my entire life was a lie. "The license was never finalized, Ms. Oliver. In the eyes of the state, you are single." The three-hundred-guest wedding at the Plaza and the Vogue features meant nothing. My husband, Gray Cooley, had intentionally filed the documents with a "procedural defect" so he could discard me without a legal divorce. Moments later, an iCloud invite titled "Our Little Secret" popped up on my screen. It was a photo of my best friend, Brylee, holding a positive pregnancy test at our Hamptons estate. Gray’s text to her was the final blow: "Happy anniversary, babe. This baby is the best gift. Once the trust unlocks today, we’re done with the charade." I soon discovered they were even stealing my career, reassigning my architectural masterpiece to Brylee while preparing my eviction notice. Gray's mother called me a "barren mule" in a leaked recording, mocking the infertility I suffered after saving Gray’s life in a construction accident. I wasn't a wife; I was a three-year placeholder used to secure his inheritance. How could the man I bled for treat me like a disposable prop? How could my best friend carry his child while pretending to comfort me through my darkest moments? The betrayal burned until it turned into a cold, hard stone of fury. I didn't cry. Instead, I walked into the penthouse of the Barretts, the Cooleys' most powerful rivals. I signed a marriage contract with Kane Barrett, the man the tabloids called the "Beast of Wall Street." "I want a wedding," I told his father, my voice steady and lethal. "Bigger than the one I had with Gray." If they wanted me gone, they would have to watch me become the woman who owns their world.

Fantasy

In a kingdom where magic is feared and revered, the obsessive alchemist Elias Veyra seeks to create the legendary Philosopher's Heart, an artifact said to merge mortal emotion with unparalleled magical power. When Lyra Ashborne, a spirited herbalist with rare innate magic, stumbles upon his tower se

Young Adult

GOLDEN HIGH 🎓 [ Senior Year Serenade... ] Genres: High School/Romance ****OLD PROLOGUE**** In a place in Korea( Seoul ),there's a school popularly known as GOLDEN HIGH, A very famous school consisted with the most smart and cute students,it's filled with about 5,000 students fro

Billionaires

"Why do you suddenly want to see me, Oliver?" Sheila burst without even exchanging pleasantries with him. "What's your problem, Sheila?" "You're my problem, Oliver. You can't play with my emotions just like that," she warned him. "Is that the reason you're blackmailing me with empty threats

Fantasy

And now came for that household at Wimperfield a period of agonising trouble and fear. The boy's illness developed into an acute attack of rheumatic fever, and for three dreadful days and nights his life trembled in the balance. Not once did Ida enter her husband's room during that awful period of f

Modern

It was near midnight: The company gathered in a famous city studio were under the impression, diligently diffused in the world, that the end of the century is a time of license if not of decadence. The situation had its own piquancy, partly in the surprise of some of those assembled at finding thems

Literature

The Golden Butterfly by Walter Besant

Literature

The Golden Silence by A. M. Williamson

Fantasy

Celyn has been through many lives, and this is her life number twenty-one. This time she wakes up in the body of Irina, daughter of Viscount Everleigh, who is treated poorly by her family. She and Irina's younger brother, Adiel, are forced to leave the mansion and go to the Magic Academy of Velhoja.

Literature

The Golden House by Charles Dudley Warner

Literature

Though most of his action-adventure tales were set against the backdrop of World War I, in The Winning of the Golden Spurs, author Percy F. Westerman takes readers back in time for a rip-roaring romp set in the Middle Ages. Fans of historical fiction will love this fast-moving tale of a skilled arch

Literature

LOOKING back to those days of old, ere the gate shut to behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect. But to those whose nearest were aunts and uncles, a special attitude of mind may be allowed. They treated us, indeed,

Modern

My life was a constant grind: three jobs, every cent, every heirloom gone, all to keep my wife, Sera, out of prison. She was supposedly in a high-end facility, recovering from a failed tech startup, and I believed I was saving her, sacrificing until nothing was left. Then the phone call came, a fi

Romance

He handled it with tenderness, with ceremony, making a place for it on a small satin mat. "My Golden Bowl," he observed--and it sounded on his lips as if it said everything. He left the important object--for as "important" it did somehow present itself--to produce its certain eff

Romance

Nafisa Musa, a driven university student from Kaduna, Nigeria, works as a cleaner at one of Madrid's most famous football stadiums, saving every cent to finance her dream business back home. Her disciplined life shatters the night she attends a staff celebration. Devastated and drunk after a betray

Literature

James Oliver Curwood was one of the highest-paid writers of his time, and many of the action-adventure scribe's books were made into films during the early age of movie-making. The Golden Snare is a gripping tale that pits a rookie member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police against a shadowy fugiti

Literature

The Golden Scorpion linked the story lines developed in the Yellow Claw (1915) with Dr. Fu Manchu who appears but is not named. "He wore a plain yellow robe and had a little black cap on his head. His face, his wonderful evil face I can never forget, and his eyes — I fear you will think I exag

Literature

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preservin

Literature

The Golden Bough by George Gibbs

Werewolf

Dimah is forced to reside in the untamed lands of the lycan kingdom after her pack is brutally taken over. She is packless, with no status. Once she turns 18, Dimah runs to the castle and enters the guard Trials, where she battles against hundreds of high-blooded boys. The guard Trials are a series

Fantasy

Alex is born in a continent where power is respected. His mother dies during his birth. His father then marries another wife with whom he gets two sons. Alex fails to awaken his powers thus his mother treats him badly while his father turns a blind eye to his son's predicament. Alex is fed up with