The Only Way Is Up

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

The launch party for my company was supposed to be the peak of my life' s ambition, but my eyes were glued to the door, waiting for my wife, Olivia. Just last week, she' d finally warmed up to me, hinting at starting a family after three years of a marriage that felt like a contract. Then the door

Romance

She is bold & He is shy ! She knows everything about the world . He also knows everything but only of his world That revolves around His parents & Some friends . She is a girl with Dreams and fantasies about her man but note that She is one man woman. He is also a one woman man but He doesn't hav

Modern

My husband stood me up on the biggest night of my career—my first solo art exhibition. I found him on the news, shielding another woman from a storm of cameras while the entire gallery watched my world collapse. His text was a final, cold slap in the face: "Kacie needs me. You'll be fine."

Romance

Serina was in a whirlwind marriage with the CEO of Liverteo foundation. She one-sidedly fell in love with him after, but secrets and lies made her miserable. She died on the day she saw him lying next to a woman, but with a twist of fate she was able to travel back to a year before she met her trag

Billionaires

In San Francisco, everyone knew that the always cold and aloof daughter of The Green family had married a crippled man from a wealthy family. Three years into the marriage, she remained childless, and outsiders mocked her, saying she was still a virgin. But no one knew- For three years, she had been

Literature

In the Permanent Way by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Literature

E. Phillips Oppenheim was a popular 20th century writer best known for penning suspenseful thriller novels like The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown. Many of his more than 100 novels are still read today, including The Lighted Way, one of the stories that Oppenheim bragged about in calling himself "prin

Modern

Eleanor was adopted as a child only to serve as a blood donor for the family's real daughter, Jordyn. Marked by a hideous birthmark, she endured years of abuse and was finally forced to marry a feared man to reclaim her parents' belongings. The world waited for her downfall, but Eleanor stunne

Romance

Lisa, a struggling model, always doubted her luck, trying in the modeling industry over years, she had always struggled and never got any chance that she deserved, that made her understand that beauty is not everything. Her beauty didn't work when it came to her career and her mother got sick. Lisa

Fantasy

From all people, she is the only blessed one. Not knowing the dangers of the world, can she continue fighting for what she love?

Fantasy

Having no one to take care of her and being in a household where it seems like everyone is against her, Aurora has given up and went along to another city, a human city, will she survive there as a dragon?

Literature

John Luther Long (1861-1927) was an American lawyer and writer best known for his short story "Madame Butterfly," which was made into a play and an opera.

Young Adult

My phone screen lit up, not with a text, but a stark, black-and-white pop-up. "Ethan' s SAT scores: 1580. Stanford bound with Tiffany. You' re the 'just in case' girl." Just moments earlier, my childhood crush Ethan, whose father my own dad died saving, feigned despair over "disastrous" SAT sc

Romance

When Alesther's world is shattered by a devastating tragedy, she finds herself on a perilous journey of self-discovery and healing. As she navigates the dark corners of her own heart, she's drawn to David, a childhood friend who's harbored a secret love for her. But as they embark on a tentative rom

Billionaires

Colton is known in the Philippine Navy Seal for his fierce underwater swimming skills. But in his last mission before marrying his longtime girlfriend, Colton got shot multiple times by their opponents. The pain was unbearable, and he almost lost consciousness. While struggling to hold onto his pr

Literature

The Way of the Wind by Zoe Anderson Norris

Literature

The Right of Way, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Modern

When his father's life is put to an end; Harry Banks has to take over his father's company as the rightful owner. To tangle things up, Harry has a stepmother; A stepmother whom no one knew her true colours. Everything is tangled; Who will untangle this? Will Harry be able to do so or will he be don

Literature

The Way of the Wild by F. St. Mars

Billionaires

Loving family, lots of money, amazing friends and dream job. Blair Andrews had all of these, what many would call a perfect life. Until one day, when her determination led to the downfall of her family business. Now she had only one way. To get married and make everything right. Being married to