The Detective Tag

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.

Others

Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad, AMIP, is called out by nervous CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies, all young women, all ritualistically murdered and dumped on wasteland near the Dome. As each post-mortem reveals a singular, horrific signature linking the vict

Romance

Davis family is known in Akuji as the green keeper that symbolizes great knowledge. However, the second generation didn’t expect to bear a white tag which symbolizes power and has all the ability of all the tags. It's the most powerful among all the tags that's why it is considered forbidden in thei

Werewolf

"You're in heat and turning me on..." He said, coming closer. My heart cut in half. Was Lucien a werewolf pervert trying to get down with me? "What? What's heat?" He stared at me, stunned. "You! You're not human...You're a werewolf....Not just any werewolf...An Omega." Seraphina thought werewolves

Young Adult

Gemma Van Cleave was just twelve years old when she witnessed the killing of her father. It made a very huge scar that ran deep into her and a trauma that she would carry to her grave. After the cold-blooded killing of her father, she and her mother fled to Texas where they stayed till she got a j

Literature

Harry Blount, the Detective by T. J. Flanagan

Literature

Shadow, the Mysterious Detective by Police Captain Howard

Romance

"We'd like you to come with us to the station immediately," Vanessa's heart began to beat faster, "I don't understand," she said, "What for?" "Mrs Spencer, you're wanted as a prime suspect in the murder of your husband, Mr Christopher Wesley. You need to come with us to the station for question

Werewolf

A detective with a unique ability to sense supernatural beings is tasked with solving a series of murders in a city plagued by a hidden werewolf population. As they delve deeper, they uncover a sinister conspiracy.

Others

Laird Hedalgo is a victim of insults and other people's judgment because of his appearance. But he did not care. In the morning he was known as Laird Hedalgo— the geek. At night, he is known by the code name 707 as a detective in their town. His ability to solve cases was tested when he was assi

Literature

During the greater portion of a very busy life, I have been actively engaged in the profession of a Detective, and hence have been brought in contact with many men, and have been an interested participant in many exciting occurrences. The narration of some of the most interesting of these events, ha

Billionaires

Ella Naismith, A Police Detective on top of a high profile murder Case, which she sees as her chance to up her career, blind to everything but finding the truth. Ella's fight for an exclusive Case will test her ethics, her patriotism, and her courage. During the course of her investigation, she dis

Sci-fi

In a world of action and supernatural secrets, mercenary Max, endowed with extraordinary powers, finds himself on a journey of redemption and revenge after surviving an explosion. As he struggles to control his gifts, he finds himself involved with detective Ruth, who is determined to unravel the my

Fantasy

{ Mature Contents} R18..... Riya steps out of her favorite bar around the corner, only for her to bump into a gruesome murder scene with a strange entity lingering around that reveals a dark side of her she hadn't realized exists and takes her into the supernatural world. Journey with Riya and El

Literature

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private co

Literature

Classic CD Books speaks new life into Mark Twain's greatest detective story. In this once-celebrated sequel of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Tom and Huck get rescued from spring fever by a serendipitous trip to visit Tom's Uncle Silas. But little did the family know, Tom would b

Werewolf

Jessica Marshall is the youngest detective in her precinct who had her heart broken by the only guy she has ever been with. Cheated on by her ex-boyfriend, she buries herself in her work until one night, she decides to stop feeling sorry for herself and have fun. At the club, she meets a mysterious

Romance

"My life is a one great big mystery. Every glance I take, drowns me into clues with unsolvable questions. Strange is normal and ordinary is rare." -Reed Bryst Detective Bryst, one of the known detectives in the world shall encounter a mystery harder than any other. He'll came across confusion as

Romance

Loretta Stewart, a detective, is assigned the job of investigating a Mafia Lord, Ethan Smiths. On the first day of her mission, she meets with a stranger. Soon, they got to be friends and later fell in love with each other. Loretta finds out that Ethan, is the Mafia Lord she has been investigating

Romance

BLURB:  Loretta Stewart is a smart, intelligent and brave young woman and as an investigative journalist, she is not afraid to wine and idne with the devil. However when she is given a new case that involves exposing the truth about the city’s underground mafia network, her abilities are put to th

Adventure

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) has produced some of the most memorable writings in the English language, including such well known works as "A Christmas Carol, Sketches by Boz, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Daivid Copperfield, Great Expectations, and The Pickwick Papers. Dickens is famous f