The Importance Of Putting Yourself In Others Shoes

Modern

The heavy iron gates of the Wilderness Correction Camp groaned as they released me after three years of state-sponsored hell. I stood on the dirt road, clutching a plastic bag that held my entire life, waiting for the family that claimed they sent me there for "rehab." My brother, Brady, picked me up in a luxury SUV only to throw me out onto a deserted highway in the middle of a brewing storm. He told me I was a "public relations nightmare" and that the rain might finally wash the "stink" of the camp off me. He drove away, leaving me to limp miles through the mud on a snapped ankle. When I finally dragged myself to our family estate, my mother didn't offer a hug; she gasped in horror because my muddy clothes were ruining her Italian marble. They didn't give me my old room back. Instead, they banished me to a moldy gardener’s shack and hired a "babysitter" to make sure I didn't embarrass them further. My sister, Kaleigh, stood there in white cashmere, pretending to cry while clinging to her fiancé, Ambrose—the man who had once been mine. They all treated me like a volatile junkie, refusing to acknowledge that Kaleigh was the one who planted the drugs in my bag three years ago. They wanted to believe I was broken so they wouldn't have to feel guilty about the "wellness retreat" that was actually a torture chamber. I sat in the dark of that shed, feeling the cooling gel on the cigarette burns that covered my arms, and realized they had made a fatal mistake. They thought they had erased me, but I had returned with a roadmap of scars and a hidden satellite phone. At dinner, I didn't beg for their love. I simply rolled up my sleeves and showed them the price of their silence. As the wine spilled and the lies crumbled, I sent a single text to the only person I trusted: "I'm in. Let them simmer." The hunt was finally on.

Romance

Lara Smith is a 30-year-old woman who has been living a dull and lonely life. She doesn't have a family of her own, she doesn't have her own savings, and she is working hard like a dog, just to make ends meet. She wished to be like Amanda Montserrat, a beautiful, rich and a powerful woman who owns

Literature

The Coming of Cassidy—And the Others by Clarence E. Mulford

Romance

In Egypt, Ivanna Neal met Marshell Walsh first time. At that time, Ivanna was doing archaeological work at the cemetery while she met the injured Marshall. She saved Marshall by the way. After that, Marshall took her sachet away. The second time, Ivanna was shopping high heels for the coming banquet

Billionaires

Being sexually harassed by her step father for a long time, Jenny Taylor, who could not bear it any longer, escaped from the family she had been living for thirteen years in a rainy night. She had nowhere to go but the orphanage where she grew up. Unfortunately, she passed out at the gate of the orp

Modern

"Sometimes, we are so smitten with happy endings, that we believe we'll end up with one too." Ambrosia Bellemore never believed in happy endings, even though the books she read said otherwise. The closest she ever came to magic was when she found the most beautiful pair of ruby red heels on Amazo

Young Adult

Nmachukwu, an 18 year old with numerous dreams and fantasies like every young girl her age, is put in a dilemma when she is asked to get married to a Chief and become one of his Wives. Being in love with Echezona who happens to be the eye candy of many girls because of strong and muscular he was b

Literature

Roman Holidays and Others by W. D. Howells

Literature

In this volume I have collected all the essays on Wild Bees scattered through the "Souvenirs entomologiques," with the exception of those on the Chalicodomae, or Mason-bees proper, which form the contents of a separate volume entitled "The Mason-bees." The first two essays on the Halicti (Chapters

Modern

Sushie Williams committed suicide due to chronic depression but she was rescued from death and entered into a world of mysteries. Will she learn to love herself? Will she be strong enough to face the challenges ahead or will she be weak? Read this book to find out!

Literature

In this amusing novel, Jerome K. Jerome takes what should be grim subject — bargaining with an angel who is attempting to record one's life's deeds and misdeeds — and transforms it into a thought-provoking and funny meditation on the true meaning of good works, charity and morality.

Literature

New Year's came in with a ringing of bells and firing of pistols. Four years more, and the world would reach the half-century mark. That seemed very ancient to the little girl in Old New York. They talked about it at the breakfast-table. \"Do you suppose any one could live to see nineteen hundred?\"

Literature

Prime Ministers and Some Others: A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell

Billionaires

Chantylle Lanzetta is a spoiled brat only daughter. She was forced by her parents to marry Vren Marzon-the ruthless, heartless business prodigy and the heir of a large empire, because their company was failing. At first she declined it but when she found out that her boyfriend was cheating, she did

Romance

They've spent years at each other's throats billionaire CEO Adrian Kellerham and Outspoken, spoilt Christine Paige daughter of Top conglomerate current CFO. Rivals in business, nemesis from birth . So when CHRISTINE father announces she's being married to him she has no choice but to agree because i

Romance

May found herself amid foes; those she called her family turned out to be her enemies; she found her man getting married to her cousin at their wedding when she was also wearing a bridal dress; she walked into the auditorium to receive the biggest shock of her. When fate gives May a second chance to

Fantasy

I could hear his heart race as he spoke, my head pressed against his chest. "And were you pleased with what you found?" I asked, giving in to the urge to find out exactly what he thought of me. "I found you to be exactly what I had hoped for, after all these years. You're smart, funny and generall

Literature

In The Boyhood of Lincoln by Hezekiah Butterworth

Literature

In the Name of Liberty by Owen Johnson

Mafia

Madison carter moved to a new city to leave her complicated family background behind, to focus on a new beginning, but when her car breaks down, her life takes a new turn she never expected. Aaron Thompson, a brooding mechanic with a past that intertwines with Mr Denzel Carter's connection with the