The Artful Revival Melodias Triumph Over Adversity

Romance

I woke up on silk sheets that smelled of expensive cedar and cold sandalwood, a world away from my cramped apartment in Brooklyn. Beside me lay Ezra Gardner-my boss, the billionaire CEO of Gardner Holdings, and the man who could end my career with a snap of his fingers. He didn't offer an apology for the night before; instead, he looked at me with terrifying clarity and proposed a cold, calculated business arrangement. "Marriage. It stabilizes the board and solves the PR crisis before it begins." He dressed me in archival Chanel and sent me home in his Maybach, but my life was already falling apart. My boyfriend, Irving, claimed he had passed out early, yet his location data placed him at my best friend's apartment until three in the morning. When I tried to run, I realized Ezra was already ten steps ahead, tracking my movements and uncovering the secret I'd spent twenty years hiding: my connection to the powerful Senator Grimes. I was trapped between a CEO who treated me like a line item on a quarterly report and a boyfriend who had been using me while sleeping with my closest friend. I felt like a pawn in a game I didn't understand, wondering why a man like Ezra would walk up forty flights of stairs on a broken leg just to make sure I was safe. "Showtime, Mrs. Gardner." Standing on the red carpet in a gown that cost more than my life, I watched my cheating ex-boyfriend's face turn pale as Ezra claimed me in front of the world. I wasn't just an assistant anymore; I was a weapon, and it was time to burn their world down.

Literature

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Modern

My wife, Vicky Sterling, delivered the news over breakfast as casually as she' d asked for more coffee: she was pregnant, and the father was Julian Vance, her personal trainer, who was also moving into our penthouse today. I felt the last thread snap. She told me I' d be moving into the guest room

Modern

For ten years, I was the unseen force behind Hewitt Distilleries, my family' s secret yeast and unique aging techniques turning a failing bourbon into an industry legend. I even convinced my parents to mortgage their last possession to save the company. Then, at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival gala,

Modern

Three women are going through a lot; Sasha Smith, a rising pop singer who grew up without her father, falls into dangerous attention as her talent begins to grow. Ava Adams, a respected neurologist and loving wife, cares for her husband at home after he suffers a stroke; only to be betrayed later. C

Short stories

When Zheng Mimi, a brilliant chef working in Starlight-a popular restaurant in China-accidentally eats a rotten egg, she finds herself in the same story she had been reading nonstop. The story being 'The Overwhelming Lord's Sweet Consort'. A web novel that had attracted readers not only because

Romance

For a year, chef Amelia Hayes lived a secret life, hidden from the world as the wife of Charleston old money heir, Ethan Vance. Her dreams were on hold, her identity masked, all for the "right time" Ethan promised would come. But their clandestine world shattered when Ethan' s manipulative stepmot

Modern

My brother David's St. Florian's medallion, a cool silver comfort against my palm, was my anchor, a constant reminder of the hero I'd lost three years ago in the city blaze. His best friend, Mark, became my fiancé, a bond everyone insisted David would have blessed, yet his growing neglect felt like

Others

Cold and calculated, analyzing and shrewd, planning and executing. Those were the styles of the three detectives, each upholding the law in their respective countries. One is cold and calculating, a real bastard for lack of a better word. The other one is an analyzer and always observes things from

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Dorothy's Triumph by Evelyn Raymond

Literature

Excerpt: ...of the trench. One dead German was lying on his back, with a rifle sticking straight up in the air, the bayonet of which was buried to the hilt in his chest. Across his feet lay a dead English soldier with a bullet hole in his forehead. This Tommy must have been killed just as he ran his

Romance

I had thalassophobia, a condition rooted in an incident ten years ago when I saved Alec Johnson from a dangerous undertow. He once held my shivering body and swore he would never let me near the ocean again. Later, his first love, Rosalyn Martin, known as the "Mermaid Dancer," injured herself

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Budd Boyd's Triumph by William Pendleton Chipman

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Trial and Triumph by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Billionaires

Season 1 Jessica gets divorced on her third anniversary, in a way no one would want to. Heartbroken, she finds solace in some belongings she receives from the nursing home. As she finds a relic pendant, she also finds a picture of her parents, and the fact; she was born out of wedlock. Amidst this

Sci-fi

For seven years, my husband Jake, a firefighter captain, made our home a tomb. He blamed me for his high school sweetheart Chloe's death in a wildfire, a fire where he "saved" me only because I was pregnant with his son. His constant accusations and cold silence were a living hell. Then, he annou

Werewolf

𝚂𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚜𝚙𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛, 𝚁𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝙰𝚕𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚘 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎, 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚖 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛, 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎

Fantasy

The stick showed two pink lines. I was pregnant. My husband Julian, future titan of the Hawthorne empire, would be ecstatic for his heir. But holding that test, my heart froze, a chill seeping bone-deep, because I knew this was the start of the end for me in my last life. The memories burned with

Literature

Over literatuur by M.H. Van Campen

Literature

Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

Modern

I poured my heart and soul into Momentum Marketing, the agency my fiancé Mark and I had built. My loyalty to him ran deep, a bond forged over years. Then, Mark dropped a bomb: he slashed my salary by more than half, citing financial crisis. Days later, his chirpy executive assistant, Chloe, plast