The mystery of a locked heart

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.

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The Mystery of Space by Robert T. Browne

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The Mystery of Choice by Robert William Chambers

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The Mystery of Cloomber by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Part of James H. Foster's series of action-adventure novels geared for young audiences, The Forest of Mystery begins with a chance encounter with a mysterious figure who recruits intrepid explorers Bob and Joe for a top-secret mission. The task seems tame compared to the boys' many overseas adventur

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Grace Livingston Hill was a prolific American author who wrote over 100 novels which often featured young Christian women.  Hill's writing features the themes of redemption and good vs. evil.  This edition of The Mystery of Mary includes a table of contents.

LGBT+

Being alone in this white and black world made Laty weary of those around him. Abandoned when he was still a baby, he has nothing of his biological parents aside from the locket he was found with. And that makes it all the more special to him. Bullied for his petite size, Laty thinks the world i

Young Adult

Classic adventure novel. According to Wikipedia: "Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine. Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, and journalist, but his most notable work was that that he performed

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The Mystery of the Barranca was written in the year 1913 by Herman Whitaker. This book is one of the most popular novels of Herman Whitaker, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literat

Modern

"A splash of chloroform . . ." The drunken man was staggering -- but he was quite alive, when the thoughtful gentleman stumbled upon him in the thick Melbourne night, and hailed a cab to take him home. By the time the cabdriver was in the proper neighborhood and was turning around to ask d

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Richard Marsh, also known as Richard Bernard Heldmann, was a prolific British author in the Edwardian period. Marshs best known work is The Beetle, a supernatural thriller novel. This edition includes a table of contents.

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The Beetle A Mystery by Richard Marsh

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A Political Thriller from the Author of DraculaThe Mystery of the Sea by Bram Stoker contains the same compelling elements as "Dracula". It's a mixture of adventure, romance, mystery, and fantasy. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of cont

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In the dead of night on a lonely Melbourne street, a cabbie discovers to his horror that his drunken passenger has been murdered — poisoned with a chloroform-saturated handkerchief. The killer, his motive, and even the victim's identity are unknown. The last person to be seen in the victim's c

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The Mystery of Francis Bacon by William T. Smedley

Romance

Two thieves go to Diagon Alley Cemetery to fulfil an antique dealer's request. They stole a valuable necklace. However, they don't realise that the owner has been observing their movements. Lucius Damien is a police inspector investigating an ancient pendant rumoured to be missing from a museum exh

Werewolf

Nova has always been an outsider-an orphaned half-human, half-wolf with no pack to call her own. When her reckless sister, Aria, is kidnapped by the ruthless alpha Ryker, Nova is forced to infiltrate the Crescent Pack and steal the Lunar Amulet, a relic of unimaginable power that could save her sist

Mafia

At eight months pregnant, I was locked inside the sweltering glass sunroom of my own estate. My husband's "sweet" adopted sister, Sophie, stood in the cool air on the other side, sipping ice water as she watched the midday sun bake me alive. When I shattered the glass to escape, my husband—a ruthl

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From the book:On the eleventh day of April, 18 -, the officers of the Bank of England were greatly excited on receiving notice of a special meeting called for that night at ten o'clock, an unusual hour, and indicating, surely, something of great importance. Promptly at the hour appointed fifteen dir

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College student Patricia Randall's life is suddenly turned upside down when an anonymous letter arrives. Inside is a large check and a note instructing her to use the funds to bankroll a year of tuition at a well-respected institution. Who is the mysterious benefactor, and are there strings attached

Horror

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was left unfinished at the time of Dickens' death, and his intended ending for it remains unknown. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on Drood's uncle, choirmaster John Jasper, who i