Puzzle of fate

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

Being a teenager who has all she wants except the love and caring she craves for, all that Freezia Zarie Harrison ever wanted to do was to live a normal and simple life. A small family of her own, a loving husband and to become a successful fashion designer but all her dreams goes crushing down with

Romance

When it comes to finishing a puzzle, there is always this one missing piece that you can't seem to find. Well in the case of Paolo and Cassie, two fanatics of crime solving had the same thought but these two started at the wrong foot. From a not-so-friendly friendship between co-workers into a love

Adventure

In a small town, Bianca a beautiful young orphan girl, abandoned by all. Being a orphan, she hardly get to eat a meal a day. She warily reached the age of sixteen, but she accidentally offended the town bully. The bully's comrade beat her to an unrecognizable state. She curl there, thinking about he

Romance

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Romance

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Romance

What happens when a young lady is coerced into marriage by her parents after her step sister, who should have been the bride runs away with her lover-and then her soon to be husband has a hideous scandal attached to his name? Facing the challenges of being a married woman and trying to avoid b

Fantasy

Alexa is the girl who dreams of being a successful writer who writes stories from her imagination. One night on her way home, it rained heavily, so she was forced to stop in front of the church, but when she looked at her side, she saw an old book. She took it home.   The book that Alexa got is not

Romance

"Fragile Ties Of Fate" is a contemporary tragedy story set in a modern city, centered around the themes of love and loss. The two main characters, Nur and Zulfa, navigate their respective journeys against the backdrop of their complex personalities and backgrounds. Nur, a confident, decise, competit

Werewolf

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Literature

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Romance

The expression in his eyes shifted and he stepped closer. He slid his hand from my cheek, down my arm, catching my hand by the wrist, lifting it, and pressed my palm against his chest. I dragged in air in a gasp. The heat of his skin was not of mankind, and his heart beat hard and fast against my pa

Romance

Serene and Bryan were deeply in love and there is nothing more she could ask for. She has planned her future around him, but Fate has other plans for them. Serene found Bryan pleasuring another man whom he eventually marries leaving Serene dejected and hurt. Trying to move on from this heartbreak,

Fantasy

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Billionaires

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History

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Mafia

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Literature

The house was very silent. An odour of disinfectants pervaded the atmosphere. Upstairs hushed, swift steps moved to and fro.

Literature

Master of His Fate by J. Maclaren Cobban

Werewolf

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Romance

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