Once upon a night

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

BLURBS/ DESCRIPTION. In the quiet town of Ocampos, a sweet yet sinister figure lurks the beneath the surface. For years, the town has enjoyed a peaceful co-existence, untouched by the violence and living in harmony. But their peaceful existence is shattered when series of gruesome murder rocks the

Romance

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Werewolf

Losing her mate to the vampires takes a turmoil on Peyton Barlowe, and things get worse when no one from her pack believes her because she's nothing but a mere omega. Instead, she gets accused of her mate's death even when she made it known that he got killed because he discovered the vampires' secr

Horror

The discovery of an invincible sword in the Mortal Realm brought about blood and carnage in its wake. Follow the tale of a group of young friends from a small town and their strange experiences… with the supernatural. So began the adventures of these young friends as they encountered the paranormal,

Romance

What if Cinderella absolutely hated Prince Charming? Several years and a handful of scandals were enough to make Taliana Avilla forget all about her sworn enemy, Sebastian Phillips. Too bad a one-night stand and a lost diamond ring made her remember all over again.

Adventure

What started as a game quickly escalated to two dead bodies dying from some unknown reasons. The five friends find themselves in a dangerous spot when they discover that their school was a front for drug dealers. The killer has kidnapped one of the foursome and threatenes to kill her if they don't

Literature

Once Upon A Time by Richard Harding Davis

Billionaires

On the night of her highly anticipated jewel launch, Eloise's world shatters when her husband Lucian publicly divorces her on national TV, rekindling his relationship with his ex-lover Jennifer, who is also Eloise's step-sister. As Eloise picks up the pieces, she meets a new man, who happns to be he

Romance

Ariella's simple but difficult life changed in an instant when she met a wealthy man named Anton in a famous bar where Anton was always there. The night they met, fate seems to have tied them together. In Ariella's desire to get out of poor life, she accepted Anton's offer. She married Anton

Romance

We have heard about the Villainess who was framed, reborn. Or the innocent person who was used as cannon fodder, given a second shot at life. But have we ever seen an evil person get the chance to go back in time and change her past? Sibra has been given a chance to journey back to her past. She doe

Romance

Yang Zijin traveled through time, only to find herself the owner of a brothel… dressed as a man. Then, ten years later, her father and step-mother find her. They’re very high status, except her step-mother is more treacherous than she can imagine. Yang Zijin sets off to make herself rich and battle

Billionaires

Camilla's sole desire has always been to experience love and receive fair treatment from her family. However, her world takes a drastic turn when her family arranges a marriage with the seemingly uninterested and arrogantly indifferent Leonardo. Will they defy the odds and make their marriage work,

Romance

I’m in love with you”. Leila whispered lovingly in the rain, her salty tears mixed with the relentless downpour. Ethan Cruise gazed at her, impassive at her state. “That was your mistake” At the tender age of twenty two, Leila Kart walked down the aisle, believing she had found her happily ever a

Romance

"I'm not a good man. A good man would sacrifice you to save the world. I have no such inclinations." When one is offered a job that would have them set for life, would they allow a fickle thing such as a moral compass stand in their way? Abigeal Starr, former soldier of the US Army, didn't thin

Young Adult

Alan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London on January 18th, 1882. He was a pupil at Westminster School and then Trinity College, Cambridge where he graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1903. Whilst there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. Coming to the attention of Punch M

Romance

All she needs is to see him again even if it's just once. Amanda falls in love with her best friend's boyfriend. She tried her best to stop herself but finds herself growing to love him more, Can they be? Would her friendship last?

Werewolf

In a werewolf country cursed to be forever cold, Evadne wished under the full moon for many years to find her mate and escape from her hell of a home where her father, Alpha Marcus of the Moonflame Pack, and Elodie, Evadne's sister, constantly made sure her day won't end without her being bullied or

Romance

Maya woke up feeling sore all over her body, she sat upright on the strange bed trying to figure out what happened. She turned to see an unfamiliar figure on the other side of the bed sleeping soundly, she gasped and quickly had a flashback of what happened. Maya is a young beautiful lady who gr

Werewolf

Even if he hated me, I couldn't look away from him. Even if he called me an imposter, a trickster, all I could think of was how alluring his scent was. Even when he was ready to take my sister's words over mine, I couldn't help falling for him. I wanted him to take me in his arms and tell me that

Romance

Ashley Moore hasn't met anyone that caught her interest again after several heartbreaks, She had always been used and so unlucky when it comes to love. She eventually stopped believing in love. Well, all that is about to change in the course of one sexy night. Meet Andrew Renolds, wealthy, cute, a