Strong Girl

"In my defence, I thought he was someone else. In my further defence, have you met Reid Callahan?" Willow's boyfriend Mark cancels on our anniversary… again and calls her deadwood in bed over the phone in earshot of others. Now she has something to prove. So, she let herself into his apartment. Dark room, no lights, she strips naked crawls over his naked body whispering “Hello Lover” She will show him that she isn’t deadwood and earn some dignity back. Let just say the earth moved. By morning she’s had the best s*x of her life but with the wrong brother. It was Mark's brother. Reid Callahan. Her boss's boss. Now how did her manage this. She had just cheated on her boyfriend with her CEO and it had been frigging unbelievable. She knew what he looked like naked how was going to look at him again without picturing him naked!

A corset changes everything. Damian Steele didn’t expect that. Nicole is his assistant, the definition of off-limits. But one moment she’s fine, and the next he’s cutting a wretched corset off her body. He’s ached for her for years, but he can’t ignore it any longer. He wants her. He needs her. And he won’t let anything stand in his way. Nicole Avery just can’t seem to completely untangle herself from her crappy ex-husband. The last thing she needs is to fall for another toxic man. But when her boss’s desire for her becomes unignorable, she leans into his touch. Maybe her friend is right. What better way to soothe her battered ego and give her ex the middle finger than to have a harmless little fling? She knows what Mr Steele is like, so it’s not like she’ll be like the other women and fall for his charm…right?

Her husband divorced her for his pregnant mistress. For six years, Marion Rhodes gave everything to her marriage. Then Julian Hart blamed their divorce on her inability to have children and made sure the world knew she was the barren ex-wife who wasn't good enough. Humiliated and abandoned by everyone she trusted, Marion walks away from the Hart family and returns to painting. Then billionaire heir Bastien Beaumont offers her a marriage of convenience. He needs a wife to secure his inheritance. She needs protection from the press. The rules are simple: no love, no jealousy, separate lives and an expiration date. But Bastien becomes her friend. He makes her laugh, supports her dreams and never treats her like she's broken. Soon, friendship turns into attraction. It isn't meant to be serious. They're just two friends who happen to be married, scratching an itch. Until Marion gets pregnant. The woman Julian discarded for being unable to have children is now carrying Bastien's baby. But with Julian wanting her back, Nadia determined to ruin her and their contract nearing its end, Marion has no idea whether the family she's building will survive. Their marriage was supposed to end. Then Marion fell pregnant. And fell in love.

To save her father and brothers from a certain death on the front lines, Eleanor Vance makes a desperate deal: she will become the wife of the ruthless general, Damien Sterling, the very man who orchestrated their peril. But a wedding is just a contract. Her new husband is a volatile and demanding master of a household filled with warring Mistress and a cold, calculating mother. He makes it brutally clear: she is his wife in name only, a "Madame General" without his heart. Eleanor Vance must navigate this viper's nest, trading her dreams of love for a cold, calculated fight for survival. Yet, in a world where one misstep means death, an unlikely bond begins to form. When an assassin's bullet meant for her father finds the general instead, the lines between enemy and ally, duty and desire, begin to blur. But will his dangerous obsession and her hidden past burn them both... or forge an unbreakable alliance?

"Zero points. Zero memory. Six hundred acres of cursed land. And a mysterious power to make the deadliest plants in the world bloom for her." Willow Elmwood should be dead. Instead, she wakes from a root cocoon in the mountains with nothing—not even her past. When she's assigned the most dangerous land in the city, pressed against the killer The Briar Corridor, everyone expects her to fail. The The Briar Corridor has other plans. Now she's building a farm with mutant chickens, a scarred ex-soldier, and a dung beetle that produces miracle medicine. But her peaceful life is threatened when a familiar face arrives—the man from her forgotten past, now the most powerful soldier in the nation. Some secrets refuse to stay buried. And some farms grow more than just food.

Bir korse her şeyi değiştirir. Damian Steele bunu beklemiyordu. Nicole, onun asistanı; kesinlikle dokunulmaz bir kadın. Ama bir an her şey yolundayken, bir sonraki anda Damian onun vücudundan berbat bir korsenin kesip çıkarmaktadır. Yıllardır ona karşı bir tutku beslemiştir, ama artık bunu görmezden gelemez. Onu istiyor. Ona ihtiyacı var. Ve hiçbir şeyin yoluna çıkmasına izin vermeyecektir. Nicole Avery, berbat eski kocasından bir türlü tamamen kurtulamıyor gibi görünüyor. İhtiyacı olan son şey, başka bir zehirli adama aşık olmaktır. Ama patronunun ona olan arzusu artık görmezden gelinemez hale geldiğinde, onun dokunuşuna kendini bırakır. Belki de arkadaşı haklıdır. Yaralı egosunu yatıştırmak ve eski kocasına orta parmağını göstermek için zararsız bir kaçamaktan daha iyi ne olabilir ki? Bay Steele’in nasıl biri olduğunu biliyor, yani diğer kadınlar gibi onun cazibesine kapılmayacak… değil mi?

Before meeting Candice, Tom Riddle knew only darkness. That Gryffindor girl who descended from the sky gave him the first piece of candy and also the first glimmer of light. He deceived her. Using her to retaliate against Dumbledore, using lies to achieve love, using the spell to seize souls and burdening her with human lives. Candice died for him twice, and Riddle gave up immortality for her. When the Dark Lord finally understood love, that piece of candy had turned into a poison. -- This is a story about "He loved her, but used all his strength to destroy her."

I caught my boyfriend cheating with my best friend on our anniversary. To get revenge, I had a one-night stand with a dangerously handsome stranger at the bar. I thought I'd never see him again. Until I walked into the office on Monday and he was sitting in the CEO's chair. Julian Vane. My billionaire boss. Cold, possessive, and now he won't let me go. He says that one night wasn't enough. He wants me in his office. In his bed. Every night. He offers me a deal: Be his fake girlfriend to escape an arranged marriage, and he'll give me the promotion I deserve. But what started as a contract is turning into something real and obsessive. My ex wants me back. My boss wants to own me. And the biggest secret of all? That one night... left consequences I never expected. Will I become the CEO's obsession, or will his possessive love destroy us both?

The psychology major Agatha's soul was transferred to a Victorian-era British maid. She found herself in a predicament where her master was shot dead and her fiancé had run away. Desperate, Agatha went to 221B Baker Street to seek help from the famous detective Holmes, only to discover that Holmes was the runaway fiancee... From then on, Agatha settled down in Baker Street under the name of Holmes' fiancee. She worked together with him to solve strange cases and fell in love with him in this false marriage. And Agatha, relying on her own strength, persevered and eventually became an excellent psychologist and a negotiation and psychological consultant for the police.

Reid Thomas is known for having a revolving door of females in his bed and for not wanting a mate. He's even created rules for himself to follow so he doesn't fall into the trap of a committed, long-term relationship. But when he loses a bet to his best friend, he's sent on a blind date. There, he meets Taryn Campbell, a feisty warrior with a personality to match, who has him questioning his strict rules. After all, aren't rules made to be broken? *This is Book 2 of the Crescent Lake series. It can be read as a standalone, however, for context and an introduction to the world and characters, it is recommended that you read "The Alpha's Pen Pal" before reading "The Beta's Blind Date."*