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Nineteen-year-old Iris Maxwell has always known exactly who she is: a scholarship student fighting her way through design school, devoted daughter to the adoptive parents who found her abandoned at a fire station, and fierce protector of her four younger brothers. With nothing but raw talent and relentless determination, she's determined to build a fashion empire from scratch, no connections, no trust fund, just hard work.
When Iris wins the prestigious Metropolitan Design Challenge, she catches the attention of Tony, a mysterious business student who offers to help with her startup plans. Their coffee shop meetings crackle with unspoken tension and possibility, but Tony harbours secrets of his own. As the heir to the Kennedy fortune, he's trapped between family expectations and his growing feelings for the brilliant designer who refuses to rely on anyone but herself.
Everything changes when Iris enters the Lawson competition, a design contest worth fifty thousand dollars, hosted in memory of Roxanne Lawson, an heiress who vanished twenty years ago. The missing girl shares Iris's birthday, and Tony's strange reaction to this detail hints at connections neither of them fully understands.
As Iris races to complete her collection, she must navigate the cutthroat world of high fashion, the complexities of falling for someone from a different world, and the unsettling possibility that the iris pin she was found with might be the key to a past she never knew existed. Some coincidences are too perfect to be accidents, and some secrets are too dangerous to stay buried.
A contemporary romance about ambition, identity, and the courage to claim your destiny, no matter who you were born to be.

She thought it was just a routine field trip. She woke up as prey.

Seventeen-year-old Lana awakens alone in a dark forest, her classmates vanished and her memory blank. As she desperately searches for her missing friends, she discovers she's trapped in something called the Pine Protocol—a horrific experiment that turns high school students into test subjects for psychological manipulation.

Hidden cameras track her every move. Masked hunters stalk her through the trees. And beneath the forest lies a secret facility harboring the darkest truths.

Why was she chosen?
Who is pulling the strings behind this nightmare?
What happened to the other "missing" students?
Can she break the system before it breaks her completely?

As Lana transforms from terrified prey into a deadly hunter, she uncovers that the Pine Protocol's reach extends far beyond her worst nightmares. This conspiracy involves government agencies, vast sums of money, unchecked power... and people willing to pay any price to watch teenagers fight for their lives.

But Lana doesn't yet know the biggest secret: the real reason she was chosen. When the truth surfaces, she'll face an impossible choice—one that could destroy everything she holds dear.

Some experiments have a cost worse than death.

A dark psychological thriller that will make you question everyone around you.

In the wasteland era, the soil is dead. Whoever can grow food is king.
In my last life, my brother gave me the spore we had nearly died to get, and the two of us awakened plant-growing powers together.
But every grain he grew was full and perfect, and the leader placed him on a pedestal; everything I grew was poisonous, and I was mercilessly cast out as worthless.
It wasn't until I died that I learned the truth: his power was never plant-growing, but transfer.
As long as he had eaten the spore, he could transfer away all the crops I grew.
When I got a second chance, I returned to the very day my so-called brother tried to shove the spore into my mouth.
This time, I slammed into him, knocked the spore to the ground, and crushed it under my foot.

“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery! The author did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side that is so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. The plot is very intelligent and will keep you entertained throughout the book. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) ONCE PINED is book #6 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with the #1 bestseller ONCE GONE (Book #1)—a free download with over 700 five star reviews! Men and women are turning up dead in the outskirts of Seattle, poisoned by a mysterious chemical. When a pattern is discovered and it becomes clear that a twisted serial killer is on the hunt, the FBI calls in their best asset: Special Agent Riley Paige. Riley is urged to return to the line of duty—but Riley, still reeling from the attacks on her family, is loath to return. Yet as bodies mount, and the murders become more inexplicable, Riley knows she has no choice.The case takes Riley deep into the unsettling world of nursing homes, of hospitals, of drifting caretakers and psychotic patients. As Riley delves deeper into the mind of the murderer, she realizes she is hunting the most terrifying killer of all: one whose madness knows no depths—and yet who may just appear shockingly ordinary.A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, ONCE PINED is book #6 in a riveting new series—with a beloved new character—that will leave you turning pages late into the night. Book #7 in the Riley Paige series will be available soon.

Allen Carter is an innocent young and beautiful woman who had her life all rosy and sweet but fate took a massive turn on her when she suddenly needed money badly for her grandmother's surgical cancer operation.

While in desperate need of money, a guy she met at the bar where she works approached her and told her about an offer to marry a billionaire for six months only for a huge sum of money.

She hesitated at first but soon agreed cause of how urgent she needed money.

What she didn't know was that she was made to replace the CEO's 'run away bride' because she had the exact same facial identity as her.

She eventually find out that this CEO was the (ruthless and coldest CEO Raymond) that everyone talks about in the country.

She thought she could pretend well as the run away bride for six months and divorce him but Raymond find out already that she wasn't his real wife.

But it got even worse when the CEO accused her that she was the one who hid his run away bride, and that if she didn't provide his run away bride, he would destroy everything in and about her

Would it be an impossible thing if these two people from two different world fall in love? Why don't you read to find

"I'll make her fall for me and then abándon her!"

A daring bet--Who falls for who?

Scarlett Kingston is an actress with a promising career. However, Scarlett doesn't believe in love. For her, it's a big waste of time ...until she meets the CEO of an entertainment company, Ryder Thompson.

Ryder is a playboy who plays around with the feelings of women...He is enraged when he finds a woman who isn't affected by his charm...He sets out to win her heart but Scarlett proves more though than he imagines. He then gets into a bet with her. In six months, he'll make her fall for him. However, there is a condition. For that six months, they have to live as a married couple.

But who falls for who?

"Impossible!" I cried out, shock coursing through me as the silver wolf transformed right before my eyes, shifting into the very slave I had acquired to master the art of pleasing my fiancé.

Curtis chuckled softly, his voice soothing, "Please, don't fear, my Luna. I have no intention of consigning you to the realm of Hades, as I have done with other royal families." His hand grazed my cheek, his eyes ablaze with an intensity that sent shivers down my spine.

"Show me the results of our shared lessons in satisfying men," Curtis commanded.

Trembling, my hands tentatively explored Curtis' muscular frame. The fear of death propelled me to obey his orders, despite my apprehension.

Never could I have imagined that my purchase of a slave would trigger the downfall of my kingdom through Curtis' unexpected onslaught. Now, I must ready myself to trade places with Curtis, to become his captive. As I desperately cling to the hope of an opportunity to escape, I silently pray that fate will intervene, granting me a chance to reclaim my freedom...

‘Sol Ildenson' needed to carry on with managing the Sea Research Center in the middle of the ocean, which was left to him by his parents after they were betrayed and killed by a group of people who wanted to steal their ‘data’. The data with the information of the two ‘Megalodons’, the enigmatic creatures of the sea, long thought to be extinct.

As his parents loved them so much, Sol also viewed ‘Dy’ and ‘Dylan’, the Megalodons, as the only family he had left.

Until one day, fate intervened when Sol crossed paths with ‘Dylan’, an attractive man with whom he had a series of intimate encounters on land, and ‘Dyvan’, Dylan's brother.

As he was ashore, something unexpected happened at the Sea Research Center…with the arrival of an unwanted guest…

Will Sol be able to protect his sharks? What will happen to the tangled relationship he has with the two brothers? The secrets of the Sea Research Center and the kings of the sea are soon to be unveiled...

All she wants is freedom.
All he wants is her surrender.

Anelisa’s world shatters when her fated mate rejects her—for her stepsister. Stripped of dignity and hope, she is sold like a worthless offering to the ruthless Dragon King, a monster feared for slaughtering her kind without mercy.

Legends say no one has ever seen his face and lived to tell the tale.

Anelisa refuses to become his next victim. She plans her escape—
But instead of freedom, she crashes straight into the arms of the king himself… and now she’s not just his captive.
She’s his mate.

Bound by betrayal, scorched by desire, and cursed by a destiny neither of them chose—
Can love bloom in the ashes of hate, or will it burn them both alive?