Lillian Blackwood

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.

Horror

When Eli is forced to enroll at Blackwood Academy, he thinks it is just another remote boarding school. But on his first night, he realizes the terrifying truth. This school is a prison. Trapped in endless, deadly time loops, students are forced to complete cruel, supernatural trials. Ghosts, cursed

Billionaires

To access his trust fund and save his family's company, Derrick must marry. Hope, a young woman burdened by debt fits the bill perfectly. Their contract is straightforward; marriage, cohabitation, no emotions involved. Yet, as they play the perfect couple for the world, their staged affection begins

Werewolf

Ashwood is a small, isolated town with a great history of werewolf legends. Bonnie Blackwood discovers she's the last living heir of an earliest werewolf lineage. As she journeys through her newfound identity, she falls in love with Asher Fell, the Alpha heir of the Lunar Pack. But their love is for

Romance

Lena Martinez never imagined that her desperate need to save her younger sister's life would land her in billionaire Nathan Blackwood's world. When Julian, Nathan's loyal cousin and right-hand man, offers her a contract for a life-changing sum of money she cannot refuse-impersonate Nathan's fiancée

Romance

An innocent small town girl, desperate to get a job, Annabel finds herself torn between the devil and the deep blue sea. But there is no sweeter devil than Maxwell Blackwood; the CEO of Blackwood precious stones and jewelries. One of the biggest jewelry manufacturing and marketing company in the st

Billionaires

Lila Hart never meant to fall for her boss. Especially not Aiden Blackwood-the cold, untouchable billionaire who trusts no one. But long nights, stolen glances, and a connection neither can ignore pull them into a dangerous, forbidden romance. When Lila discovers her estranged father was the man ac

Mafia

In the roaring flames of the abandoned warehouse, my skin blistered and peeled. Through the crackling fire, my sister Elara's malicious voice echoed. She told me my husband, Damien, was dead, and it was all my fault. For years, I had treated Damien like a monster. I fought him, threw tantrums, and

Billionaires

Ivy Sinclair never expected her father's last desperate move to be selling her off like a pawn-to the coldest billionaire in Manhattan. Lucien Blackwood doesn't believe in love. But he believes in power, and marrying Ivy gives him just that-until the fire in her eyes threatens to melt the ice arou

Romance

The Alliance Summit, a high-stakes gathering where powerful families declared their allegiances, hummed with electric tension as I, Aurora Blackwood, stood poised to make the fateful pronouncement that would bind my ancestral legacy to Caleb Vance.It was the day I once proudly, fatally, linked our f

Modern

Seraphina had loved Damien through three years of marriage, yet she could never outshine the first love Bianca he had cherished in his heart for a full decade. On the very day she was diagnosed with gastric cancer, he was by Bianca's side, accompanying their son for a medical checkup. She made no

Werewolf

She was born in secret, raised in hiding, and crowned in blood. Mira Blackwood should have died as a baby. Instead, she survived the purge, tore her pack from the old Alpha's grip, and became the fiercest leader Blackwood has ever known. But peace is fragile when old enemies remember what was sto

Romance

Maya Sullivan was trying to save her father. She never imagined he would repay her loyalty by signing her away. Five hundred million dollars. That was the price of his debt. And Maya was the collateral. Silas Blackwood doesn't want a mistress. He wants an image. With the public watching Blackwoo

Romance

"She was an average student at the university. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. They lived in two different worlds, but destiny connected them together. Until a car accident happened, their love suffered from a critical strike. Four years late, he came back and met her again. However,

Literature

The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest by Lillian Garis

Literature

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Fantasy

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Literature

A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote) by Algernon Blackwood

Literature

Algernon Blackwood was a prolific British author best known for his ghost stories.  Blackwood's most famous work includes The Willows and The Wendigo.  This edition of Day and Night Stories includes a table of contents.

Literature

from book: After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-b

Fantasy

Selena has spent her life as an outcast. Born a hybrid in a world that values strength and pure blood, she was never meant to belong. Rejected by her own pack and abandoned by the one man fate tied her to, she is forced to rebuild her life far from everything she once knew. In the human world, Sel