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The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis by Victor G. Durham

A story of secrets, forbidden passions, and a fight for what matters most. Beatriz Sosa has lived her entire life in the shadows, fighting to keep her ailing brother safe and ensure her mother's survival. She works tirelessly in the underground world of Villa Esperanza's elite, where the wealthy feel they own everything, even the souls of others. However, when her life hits rock bottom, a tempting offer arrives from Eduardo Moura, the arrogant heir to the powerful Moura family. He doesn't see her as a servant, but as a tool. A key player in his intricate game of power and betrayal. Eduardo, owner of a family empire and a future marked by wealth, offers her a unique opportunity: to be his eyes and ears in the mansion, to become his secret confidant in exchange for what Beatriz needs most: money, medicine, and protection for her brother. A high price, no doubt. But what she doesn't know is that this offer could destroy what remains of her dignity. Between luxurious corridors, dark secrets, and a love that defies all rules, Beatriz must decide how far she is willing to go. How far can she risk her heart and soul for a better future? In a story of class, ambition, and a passion that knows no bounds, Beatriz and Eduardo will find themselves caught in a whirlwind of emotions, impossible decisions, and an attraction that could change everything. The Invisible Girl and the Millionaire is a novel that challenges the limits of love and betrayal, where every step could be the last, and the price of love is higher than either of them ever imagined.

The clerk handed me the pen to sign my marriage certificate. But as the gold nib hovered over the paper, a brutal reality tore through my mind. I remembered how my life ended. My perfect fiancé, Blaine, and my best friend, Jazmin, had murdered me. In a cold hospital room, Blaine's hands—the same ones now resting on my back—had twisted my ventilator tube, suffocating me. Jazmin had stood beside him, smiling like a razor cut, mocking how much I loved him. They were just waiting for me to die so they could swallow my family's three hundred million dollar fortune and steal the tech company I built from scratch. I had adored him for three years, only to die with my lungs burning and my vision fading to black, betrayed by the two people I trusted most. Why was I so blind to their greed? Opening my eyes, I wasn't in a hospital bed. I was back at City Hall, and Blaine was looking at me with that perfectly loving, fake smile. I dropped the pen and knocked my chair over. "Don't touch me!" I screamed, fleeing into the Manhattan traffic. When a billionaire's luxury car hit me on the street, I didn't panic. I saw my perfect alibi. Lying in the VIP hospital ward, surrounded by my powerful family, I looked at Blaine's desperate face and put on the performance of a lifetime. "I don't know you," I whispered, shrinking away in fake terror. In my last life, I was their prey. This time, playing the amnesiac victim, I am going to destroy them.

Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

Amidst her monotonous daily life as a middle-aged woman named Amanda, she felt trapped in boredom and disappointment in her marriage. Unsatisfied with the relationship she was in, Amanda began to seek pleasure outside of her marriage. With the help of her younger friends, Amanda decided to try establishing a relationship with a gigolo. However, although initially giving her a new sensation, Amanda still felt an unfulfilled emptiness in her heart. Not long after, Amanda met a mysterious young man named Alex. Alex, an intelligent and knowledgeable toy boy, caught Amanda's attention with his charming personality. They began an intense relationship, where Amanda found the satisfaction she had been searching for. However, their forbidden relationship did not escape consequences. Amanda had to face opposition from her environment, including family and friends. Moreover, Alex also had ambitions and personal aspirations that may not align with Amanda's desires. As Amanda began to consider whether the relationship with Alex was worth fighting for, she realized that what she needed was not a substitute for boredom, but a deeper self-understanding and a relationship that truly fulfilled her needs as an individual. Through this emotionally tumultuous journey, Amanda learned that true happiness cannot be found outside, but within herself. She had to find peace and satisfaction in her current life, without depending on relationships that may only bring emptiness and dissatisfaction. With that, Amanda decided to find happiness within herself, take control of her life, and build healthier and more meaningful relationships with those around her.

Ruby’s worst nightmare was to get married to a person from the mafia. She wished to never marry a ruthless person, but destiny played its cards. She gets forced to marry a mafia king. When forced marriage with the billionaire mafia king occurs, will Ruby be able to adjust to the new mafia life which she feared all her life?

I was nineteen, trapped in a nightmare, living in a house where my mother' s fists were a constant presence, leaving me bruised and broken. My father was my only hope, a beacon of normal in the chaos, though often conveniently absent. One day, my boyfriend Ethan, witnessing another brutal attack, finally called 911, but a mysterious video my mother showed him twisted his concern into chilling disgust in an instant. He walked out, abandoning me, branding me "sick" and "dangerous." Before him, my own grandparents, the very people who once hugged me tight, had turned their backs after seeing that same hidden footage. My father, who promised to protect me, also saw the video and joined the silent chorus of condemnation, leaving me utterly alone. The beatings continued, escalating, my world shrinking to a painful, isolated cell. What was on that damned video that could turn everyone I loved, every single person, against me, twisting their affection into hatred and judgment? The injustice burned, the confusion was a constant ache, an unbearable mystery that defined my monstrous new reality. Pushed to the brink of death in a final, savage assault, the truth finally surfaced: the horrifying secret the video held wasn't about me at all, but my own father' s unspeakable abuse of my sisters, and my mother' s twisted, monstrous attempt at protection. I was just a pawn in their dark game, but now, finally, I knew their secret, and this time, everything would change.

As their wedding approaches, Britney catches her fiancé, Conrad, cheating on her with her own cousin, Stephanie. Resolute, she calls off the engagement immediately. That same day, she suffers a car accident but is fortunately rescued by a mysterious man. Upon waking up in the hospital, Britney, still shaken by her near-death experience, gazes at the stranger who saved her. A bold thought crosses her mind, she looks up at Manuel Castro and says, "Marry me, and I'll support you financially!" Manuel raises an eyebrow, gazing at this disheveled yet determined woman, and to her surprise, he agrees, "Alright." Britney had heard that men stationed at the training area and don't have many day offs, with few women around them, so she assumes a marriage to him would shield her from romantic entanglements and let her focus on her own life. Expecting a carefree life post-marriage, Britney is taken aback when, within just two months, Manuel completely overturns her assumptions. Every evening, he returns home early, pulling her gently into his arms, his gaze warm with affection and deep longing. The tender passion he shows leaves her no room to escape. One morning, as the soft sunlight filters through the bedroom, Britney wakes to see Manuel still asleep beside her, frustration and irritation filling her mind. "Mr. Castro, shouldn't you be back at the training base by now?" she asks. He opens his sleepy eyes, a mischievous smile playing at his lips. "Didn't someone promise to support me?" Britney, rubbing her sore back, feels a strong sense of foreboding. But before she can protest, Manuel pulls her back into his embrace, whispering softly in her ear, "Your husband is temporarily off duty."

Getting married to an old man when Athina Papageorgiou clocked eighteen isn't what she planned for, on the day of her wedding she ran away from home. Establishing a business which soared isn't what she expected but she accepted with a good fate, coming back from her business trip she met him Colton Martakis. The mistake she made was believing she would get married to an old man, what she never knew was that the old man actually came to take her off for his nephew, Colton Martakis. ★★★★‡‡★★★★ Colton knows what belongs to him and was ready to go for it, he was angry that she would leave him stranded at the altar, he would go to any length to have her as his. Even after seven years of searching for her, he never gave up, only that the timing was a little bit late.

When I was being torn apart alive by starving dogs in an abandoned warehouse, my fiancé Forrest was drinking whiskey in our penthouse. I had called him begging for help when the serial killer cornered me, but he just yelled at me over the loud party music. "I never want to hear your voice again," he had snarled, before hanging up and leaving me to die. After my brutal death, my soul was dragged back to our shared home. I watched Forrest pull his new lover, Evelin, into his arms, letting her wear my clothes while my blood was still wet on the concrete. When the police showed him photos of my blood-soaked purse and the absolute carnage of the crime scene, he didn't shed a single tear. "She's faking it," he sneered to the detective. "She probably bought pig's blood to stage this little play just to force me to marry her." He completely erased five years of my devotion, reducing my horrific murder to a pathetic, jealous tantrum. I couldn't understand how he could be so cruel, abandoning me in the freezing rain while I was pregnant with his child just to comfort Evelin. But as my ghostly form floated above my own corpse, the terrifying truth finally hit me. Evelin hadn't just stolen my fiancé. She had deliberately dressed me in a floral gown, knowing it was the exact trigger for a local serial killer, and spoofed Forrest's phone to lure me into the trap. They think they have won, burying my existence under perfect lies. But as a dark, violent energy begins to pulse through my translucent hands, they are about to learn a terrifying lesson. A woman scorned is dangerous, but a murdered woman is a force of nature.

The good-for-nothing son-in-law hides his powers and influences forever. When his wife is insulted, he decides to break through his real face.

"Prisoners of Love" Two souls bound by a destiny they never chose. One haunted by revenge, the other by secrets too dark to tell. When 19-year-old Liana Cruz wakes up in a stranger's mansion with no memory of how she got there, she's told she now belongs to Damian Blackthorn, a cold and powerful mafia heir who claims she destroyed his past. But what starts as revenge turns into obsession. Liana begins to remember flashes of a life she never lived, and Damian starts to question everything he's believed. As hidden truths unravel and fate tightens its grip, can love free them from the chains of the past - or will they remain... prisoners of fate?

In this world, rejecting your mate is not an option,Not even when he is responsible for wiping out your entire pack and family. What can Geneva do in this heartbreaking situation? On the night of her first pack hunt, Geneva's pack is attacked by unknown wolves who wipes out her entire pack and takes her hostage. To add to her pain of losing her family, she discovers that the Alpha of these wolves turns out to be her mate. Furious at the moon goddess for bestowing her with such a harsh fate, Geneva swears to never be mated or marked by that monster even when rejection is not an option. She would take death over anything. Zion Kincaid is a man out for war until he finds his mate in his quests for revenge. He has no way to prove he isn't the monster she thinks he is but that didn't mean he would let her get away with her foolish decision of not bearing his mark. A mate wouldn't make him weak. Embark on the journey of two destined hearts at war and see how they look past their hurt to find the happiness that is meant for them.

The Alfonso's series✓ Book 1✓ A King is incomplete without his Queen. Just as Vincenzo Isaac Alfonso is incomplete without his little, innocent girl. Ava Sophie Marcus. Vincenzo Isaac Alfonso, a name that made everyone on earth shiver in fear. He's a second God. Vincenzo is a thirty years old ruthless Mafia boss, he's labelled, Death. He kills ruthlessly. He always got what he wants and no one is able to question or stop him. Even the government respects him, the FBI steer clear of him because everyone is under him. What happened when the almighty Vincenzo Isaac Alfonso became attracted to the timid, gentle, and fragile Ava Sophie Marcus and will stop at nothing to make her his wife? Will he have his way? The answer is, yes of course. without a fight, I might add. Join Ava on her rollercoaster journey of being the Mafia Don's wife.

The charity gala was in full swing, a glittering celebration of my boyfriend Mark' s success, and the return of his high school sweetheart, Emily. I stood quietly, a shadow in a white dress, watching him hang on her every word. Then, he finally noticed me, and with a flicker of annoyance, pushed a glass of champagne into my hand, instructing me to toast Emily. I murmured that I couldn' t, as only he and I knew I was two months pregnant. He dismissed me, his friends and Emily' s condescending stare suffocating me. Trembling, I swallowed the bubbly liquid, and a sharp cramp immediately seized my abdomen. I gasped, dropping the glass, as a dark red stain spread across my white dress. Pain blinded me. Through the agony, I saw Mark. He hadn' t even glanced my way. He was carefully spoon-feeding Emily expensive caviar, laughing. "Don' t mind her," I heard him say, his voice distant and dismissive. "She' s just a pet I keep. Can' t live without me." I woke up in a cold, white hospital room. The doctor gently told me the baby was gone. My heart hollowed out. On my phone, Mark had updated his profile picture to Emily' s elegant side profile. I tried to message him, but a small, gray text appeared: You have been blocked by this user. My heart hardened. The image of him feeding Emily while I bled, his words-just a pet I keep-echoed in the silent room. This time, I didn't cry. I booked a one-way ticket to Paris, leaving in three days, and a strange calm washed over me.

After being used and discarded by the man who destroyed his youth, Jade rebuilt himself under the watchful hand of a mafia leader who owns his freedom. But when his past lover reappears through a corporate contract, and one simple hookup that should have meant nothing, turned out to have been with that same man's brother, Jade must decide just how much the past no longer matters to him, or whether he has been given a hand with which to get full closure on the same man who put him through hell. Will he fall a second time, or will he use the hand of another to get revenge and hurt another innocent in his wake?

I had one dream, one path: the U.S. Naval Academy. Every study session, every athletic drill, built towards Annapolis. It was my future, bright and clear. Then, my childhood friend, Ethan, handed me a drink, "Just something to help you relax, Maya." It was drugged. I failed the medical exam, my dream crumbling to dust. While he soared to Ivy League success, I ended up packing boxes in a dead-end job, my spirit as empty as the containers I filled. Years later, at our high school reunion, Ethan's girlfriend, Jessica Hayes, saw him glance at me. That night, she smiled triumphantly, "You don't fit into the script," before pushing me off a balcony to my death. As I fell, a chilling truth struck me: Jessica knew. She was reborn too. This wasn't merely fate; it was a sinister, orchestrated setup, spanning two lifetimes. The scale of their malice left me utterly enraged. I gasped awake, seventeen again, in my old bedroom. Three months before the SATs, before the Annapolis medical evaluations. A cold fire ignited within me. Rebirth. Another chance. Not just to reclaim my dream, but for revenge. This time, I knew their script, and I was going to rewrite it into their downfall.

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) by John Marshall

Travels in Arabia by Bayard Taylor

Marlowe Reyes wakes up the morning after her wedding warm, happy, and certain her husband is asleep beside her. Then her phone rings. It's Adrian's voice, apologizing for missing the wedding night, stuck at the airport overnight. He asks if his brother made it home safe to help her with the bags. She turns and looks at the man still sleeping next to her. Same face. Same hands that touched her all night. Wrong man. Lucian Castellan is the twin nobody in this family talks about. The brother they all act like is dead. He won't explain why he was in that house, or why he let her believe he was someone else the whole night through. All he gives her is a warning. Don't tell Adrian he's back. Marlowe married into the Castellan family to save her father's failing company and his failing health. She didn't sign up for this. But the secret she's keeping isn't the only one in that house. Adrian is hiding a betrayal of his own, one that could destroy the family from the inside. And Lucian's exile wasn't an accident. Someone close to Marlowe helped bury him alive years ago. As the truth unravels one piece at a time, Marlowe finds herself torn between the husband she married and the man she can't stop wanting, caught in a web of lies, debt, and old family wounds that go back further than her wedding day. Every answer she finds only opens a worse question. Some marriages start with a lie. This one started with the wrong man in her bed, and there's no version of the truth that doesn't cost her something.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​