James Arks
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unbreakable
Adventure Unbreakable: A Story of Dynasty, Deception, and Dangerous Love
Elara Vance is the perfect daughter, a poised heiress, and the symbol of her family's billion-dollar legacy. Her world is a golden cage built on strategy and silence, where her life is planned out for power and meant to join with the next best asset.
She never intended for her perfect world to crash-literally-into Kai Reyes, a passionate, working-class musician who smelled of sawdust, rebellion, and downtown life. Their secret moments, like stolen kisses in Kai's dusty shop, laughing over salty chips, and whispered promises, became the only real things in Elara's life. warful man in the city, Marcus Vance, discovers their forbidden connection, the war begins. Her father doesn't threaten with violence; he uses economic annihilation, putting a target on Kai's struggling music shop and, worse, on the college future of his younger sister.
To save the man she loves from financial ruin, Elara must make an agonizing sacrifice: she orchestrates a devastating, public betrayal that forces Kai to believe she chose her comfortable future over him.
Two years of brutal, deliberate silence follow.
Elara commits herself to becoming the ultimate Metric Perfected, learning her father's empire from the inside out to find its single, fatal flaw. Kai channels his heartbreak into a relentless ambition, building his life into an unassailable fortress where no Vance can ever threaten him again.
The final clash is unavoidable. On her twenty-first birthday, Elara puts her last plan into action, giving up everything-her name, her comfort, and a big part of her father's fortune-to win the one thing that matters: Kai's lasting, unbreakable freedom.
Unbreakable is a story of love forged in the fire of deception, proving that the deepest connections are those you fight for, even if it means tearing down a dynasty.
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THE DON'S SECRET OBSESSION ( His Bride, Her Prison)
tianahtianah I never wanted any part in this. But I have no choice. With a deep sigh, I force down an invisible lump in my throat, looking up at the priest.
I press my fingers tighter into the flower I am holding, hoping it hides how much I am shaking. Dreading the words the priest is about to utter.
"Do you, Ariella Cecilia Boone, take Dermos Salvatore to be your lawfully wedded husband?" The priest asks.
I blink.
I badly want to say it, badly want to scream that I am not Ariella Cecilia Boone.
My lips tremble as I force the truth down my throat, "Yes, I do." I murmur, my voice a little over a whisper.
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Ariel Hannah Boone didn't know what life had in store for her when she woke up on her twin sister's wedding day, only to find out her sister had run away.
She went into panic when her mother insisted she take her place because Dermos Salvatore was no man to joke with.
Dermos was the most feared Don in the whole of Sicily, one who killed without care. A blood thirsty murderer with no remorse.
In an attempt to save her family from his wrath, she takes her sister's place at the wedding.
Pain, suffering, and betrayal are all she knows the moment she became his. Secrets begin to unveil as she realises her family isn't what it seems.
And when whispers of her sister's disappearance reach her, she finds out the truth.
He never wanted Ariella; it had always been her.
Ariel has to choose between a love built on lies or betraying her sister and family.
She was his bride, and he was her prison, yet he would never let her go.
Little Red Riding Witch
VictoryAnne Vice Rosalynd Reid was just an ordinary young woman from LA. Or at least she thought she was, until one fateful day when, forced from her home by her mother's betrayal, she leaves LA, heading north to the refuge of California's redwood coast.
During her journey she encounters surprises she never expects and potential love in the arms of a young alpha.
Things get even more complicated when, on her 23rd birthday, a birthday blessing turns surprisingly magical. She is a real witch with real powers that had been waiting for the right time to awaken. In her great need, the universe sends her a new home and companion, a secret billionaire leprechaun hiding in the woods of Arcata.
And if that wasn't enough, her arrogant but alluring literature professor turns out to be the leader of the local coven. This man who irritates her in all the wrong ways brings her into the world of witchcraft where she soon learns she is the focal piece in a long brewing war between the three factions--wolf, witch, and fae. Because lurking in the shadows is another secret, one that spans generations...
Will Rosalynd find true happiness in the arms of one of her lovers, or will the past come back to haunt her and destroy everything she has created? Wake Up, Dream Boy!
Mr. Ben Having some of the poems in the first edition of the poem collection, ‘The P.O.T (Poured Out Thoughts)’ published in several poetry magazines as High On Poems, Earthborne Magazine, Deadsnakes and so on, the author has ushered in the second, titled ‘The P.O.T (Poured Out Thoughts) ---The Reloaded.
It is said to be ‘reloaded’ because there are other poems to be added to make this edition slightly richer than the first. With poems as ‘Out of the Box’, ‘Dad Loves Me’, ‘Heralding God’s Magnificence’ being published in notable poetry journals and magazines, the sequel is hoped to make an impact to the entire world, beginning with the readers.
The Table of Contents has the additional poems that readers, who have read the first edition, would realize. They are intended to look into general issues, family, gender, parental, religious (Christian faith), children, love and personal/motivational.
The aim behind this piece is simple. As said in the first edition, it is about entertaining, enlightening, inspiring or motivating and enabling people think for themselves.
Worthy of Note: The author believes that subsequent edition(s) of the work would carry the above-stated aim.