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Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger

The History of England A Study in Political Evolution by A. F. Pollard

James Carter, a 44-year-old billionaire, is not your usual business mogul. He's the Alpha of the Silver Crescent Pack, one of the most powerful werewolf dynasties in the 24th century. On the surface, he's a ruthless businessman who rose to remarkable heights in the corporate world, but beneath that lies a dark secret. For years, James has been battling the curse of his bloodline: a prophecy that foretells a fated betrayal and a war that could put the supernatural world apart. Amanda, a 27-year-old brilliant scientist, comes into James' life, full of her own agenda. While he's drawn to her vicious intelligence and beauty, Amanda keeps a deadly secret. She's connected to a group of rivals with ambitions of their own. Her brother, Mike, and their allies, Liam and Kathy, seek to depose James and gain control over the ancient werewolf bloodline that holds the key to ultimate power. As power battles deepen, James finds himself cleaved between his feelings for Amanda and his loyalty to his pack. Dark forces begin to rise, and James must decide: will he sacrifice love for power, or will the prophecy lead to his inevitable downfall? Betrayals run deep, alliances shift, and love is tested. With the fate of the werewolf world hanging in the balance, James must face the ultimate battle, not only for survival but for his soul.

Love is for all, so a vampire believed, living among humans with a new heart. Despite humiliations and rejections he accepted his real nature and made exploit, encompassing his quest to learn love. Howbeit, he found a human love through hurtful times and learnt love and how it could heal him.

"Look at you," he purred, dragging his knuckles down my stomach. "Trembling... Is it fear... or are you wet for the man who got your nonna killed?" He taunted, his smile mocking. "I'll kill you-" "I can't wait, amore mio [my love]," he growled, and without warning, his hand slid between my legs. I jolted. "Don't-!" Too late. One thick finger pushed inside me, hard. I sobbed, my back bowing off the bed, but he only chuckled, working me open with slow, cruel, torturous strokes. "Devil." He chuckled, low and wicked. "You keep saying that." His fingers slid lower, through my slick, and my breath hitched. "Yet here you are," he murmured, "dripping for the devil." ****** "He came for a debt. Instead, he took a bride." Alina Moretti lost everything in one night-her fiancé, her fortune, her future. Desperate to secure her inheritance, she needs a fake fiancé. When she approaches Milan's most dangerous club, hoping to find a willing stranger, she instead finds herself kidnapped by the devil himself. Valentino Romano, popularly known as The Devil of Milan, is the ruthless heir to Italy's most feared mafia empire. Two years ago, Alina's father borrowed from him, promising a repayment that never came. Now, Val is back, and he's not interested in money. He wants her.

Astral finds herself given in marriage to a very wealthy billionaire, despite her protest. Not only that, her true and real identity was hidden. Why? She was given to just an ordinary billionaire, but to her family's greatest enemy who despised her mere existence. How come? Finding herself in a caged marriage, her husband promises her a life of luxury but not of devotion as he sees her as beneath him, not only that, he gives her an agreement to sign. She left him after three years. Hurt, Astral is confused and wonders why she is in this trapped marriage. Why? I guess that's for you all to find out in this billionaire romance filled with twists.

After the death of her mother, Vanessa was tormented by both her stepmother and step-sister, who vowed to make her stay in the house a living nightmare. After successfully turning her father against her, Vanessa was forced to leave home to live with her best friend when she figured her presence would only cause chaos in the house. A tragic incident arose when her best friend died in childbirth. Vanessa took it upon herself to adopt and raise the child alone, but she was forced to seek help from her father when the child was diagnosed with leukaemia. "I'll help on one condition-marry the billionaire's son" her father declared. Things took an unexpected turn when Vanessa found out the behaviour of her supposed husband was nothing to write home about. "I need your cooperation, your sincere assistance in making sure Scot doesn't mess all this up, and in return, I will give you whatever you desire." Will she accept the proposal of her father-in-law? What will happen to her adopted son? Find out more in the story...

For ten years, I, Eleanor Vance, played the perfect wife, silent and supportive, while my celebrated architect husband, Robert, built his monuments of glass and steel-and enjoyed a revolving door of ninety-nine mistresses. But the real crack in my meticulously constructed facade came when his latest, Liam, moved into our guesthouse and began digging up my most cherished possession: my rose garden, a sacred memorial to the two children we lost. Not only did Robert permit this desecration, but he publicly humiliated me, praising Liam as a "dazzling talent" at a lavish party more extravagant than our wedding, while our social circle whispered and pitied me. The ultimate blow came when he used the memory of our dead children as a weapon, ordering me to kneel before Liam. How could he so casually dismiss my grief, my sacrifices, and the sacred space I carved out of our shared tragedy? How could a man I loved with every fiber of my being tear down my very soul for an empty imitation of a past ghost? In that shattering moment, as a cruel smile spread across his face, I knew my love for him was finally dead; and Eleanor Vance, the dutiful wife, chose to embark on a radical, irreversible path to reclaim her life, her dignity, and her legacy, planning a public, messy fight he wouldn' t see coming.

I transmigrated into a novel as the cannon-fodder wife of Garrison Harvey, an ice-cold Wall Street billionaire. According to the original plot, my fake best friend Adelaide was sitting across from me right now, secretly recording me complaining about my suffocating marriage. That single audio clip breached my strict prenuptial agreement. Because of it, I was thrown out of the penthouse with absolutely nothing. I can still feel the freezing rain hitting my face and the rough concrete scraping my knees. I remember Garrison handing me the divorce papers without a single word or a second glance. And I remember Adelaide standing in the warm luxury lobby, smiling her perfectly contoured smile as she watched me freeze on the streets. Until my last breath, my lungs burned with bitter injustice. Why did I let a fake friend manipulate me into giving up my wealth? Why did I expect romance from a mute, robotic CEO instead of just taking the money? Blinking hard, the blurry cafe sharpened into focus. I was back. Adelaide was leaning forward, her phone face-down with the red recording timer running, coaxing me to vent about my husband. Instead of falling into her trap, I stretched my lips into a flawless, sickeningly sweet smile. "Torture?" I said loudly, making sure the microphone caught every word. "I have absolutely nothing to complain about. Garrison is the most perfect husband in all of New York." This time, I'm treating my icy contract husband like my ultimate VIP client, and that massive trust fund will be mine.

"How can you live your life if you can't create new memories?" "How can I move forward when I'm stuck in the past?" "I know that the saddest moment is when a person who gave you the best memories, becomes a memory but I guess having no memories to treasure at all is the worst." It was just a normal love story until it happened. An unexpected death of an heir would bring an upside down on Leyra's life, a girl who suffered from anterograde amnesia-a rare type of amnesia in which a person can't form new memories- after an incident that'll changed her life forever. Will she find a way to know who murdered her fiancé despite of her condition or it will remain unsolved after she fall in love with another man? Find out what she finds out when she goes back to the place where it all started, and what mystery lies behind all of it. Unlock Leyra's game of life as she recall some of her past memories related to the heirs of Atticus and what she'll encounter to meet each one of them and may lead her to its killer. Would bringing back her past will just ruined her present? Or will her present ruined everything she knew from the past ? What will she choose? The love she remembers or the love she never knew existed?

La conquista di Roma by Matilde Serao

Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton Mackenzie

After five years trapped in a cursed slumber, I finally woke up. The first thing I did was follow the scent of my mate, my Alpha, Kaelen. I found him in his office, kissing another woman—a mousy Omega I barely recognized. He told me she meant nothing, that she was just there to soothe his grief. Like a fool, I believed him. But when I went to the pack's Hall of Records, the elder told me I had been declared legally dead three years ago. The petition was signed by my own parents and executed by Kaelen. He had already chosen a new Luna: her. My own son told me I should have stayed dead. He said the other woman was nicer and should be his mother. Then, the woman who replaced me tried to kill me, pulling me off a cliff into a raging river. Kaelen dove in, swam right past my outstretched hand, and saved her. Lying paralyzed in a hospital bed, I was forced to listen as Kaelen used his Alpha's Command to order a blood transfusion to save her life. He never even asked who the donor was. He just demanded they drain my life to save his chosen mate. As my life drained away, I saw my entire family—my mate, my parents, my son—gathered around her bed, a perfect picture of happiness. That's when I finally understood. Waking up was a mistake. My only path forward was to disappear and pray they would never find the ghost I was about to become.

Aria was born with nothing; an orphaned girl in a cruel world that only ever wanted to break her. Raised in a pack that never accepted her, she survived in silence..... until the day Alpha Lucien, who is her ruthless, cold-blooded stepfather sank his teeth into her neck, marking her as his mate. Trapped in a twisted bond with the man who should've protected her, Aria fights to resist the pull of the forced connection. Every touch, every word, every dark promise he whispers is meant to dominate her spirit. But Aria won't break easily. Not even under the torment of betrayal, pain, and an unwanted claim. When his stepbrother named kael appears bearing eyes filled with sorrow and secrets of his own, Aria's world begins to shift. There's something different about him. Something dangerous. Something... familiar. As hidden truths unravel, enemies rise from the shadows, and a forbidden past resurfaces, Aria is forced to choose between submitting to a destiny she never asked for or fighting for the freedom and love, she's always deserved. In a world ruled by alphas, marks, and power, can an orphan girl defy fate and reclaim her life before she's devoured by the darkness?

Two rival families come together through a business deal to secure their 'Billionaire' status, sealing it with a marriage arrangement between their children, Clara and Bryce. However the future couples devised a plan, a contract governing their union unknown to their families. Eventually, love bloomed between them causing jealousy from those that were close to them. Follow the journey of Clara and Bryce. Fighting against all odds, TOGETHER

My name is Nathaniel Lester, a legacy in The Directorate, a secret agency where my legendary father, "Ghost," once operated. I chose to sacrifice a leadership career, opting for a field agent role, all to stay close to my high-ranking handler wife, Sylvia, whom I loved more than anything. That choice shattered my world during a mission in Eastern Europe when I was captured by mercenaries, tortured, and had the crucial "Rosetta Key" cut from my arm, leaving me broken and left for dead. My hero, Sylvia, later rescued me, but her voice from the hospital hallway - "using the mercenaries to set up Nathaniel... maybe we went too far," followed by, "Caleb needs the Rosetta Key... As for Nathaniel? He has me. That's enough" - echoed louder than any scream. My wife, the woman I devoted everything to, and my lifelong mentor, conspired to leave me brutally maimed for a promotion for some rookie named Caleb, destroying my body, my career, and my very identity. They systematically fed me lies, delayed my healing with fake serums, and orchestrated my public humiliation, stripping me of my clearance and painting me as a traitor just as Caleb, the one who benefited from my agony, was groomed to replace me. How could my closest allies betray me so utterly? What dark game were they playing, and why did my sacrifice mean so little? Alone in that locked room, with nothing left but searing pain and raging fury, I remembered one thing they forgot: my father, Ghost, always had a contingency for betrayal. I activated his hidden protocol, a desperate signal sent through my life force, relinquishing my old self to call the Ghost home, knowing this was either my end or my ultimate rebirth.

Title: WOLVES WITHIN WALLS Genre: WEREWOLF / URBAN CENTERED/ LEGENDS AND MYTHS --- I. Introduction Zara: A quiet but fiercely intelligent woman who just moved into a luxury high-rise on the 23rd floor. She's recovering from a traumatic past and trying to start over. Lucien: Mysterious, charming, and intimidating. He lives in the penthouse. No one knows much about him-he's rumored to own the building or have dangerous connections. Setting: The building itself feels alive-glitches, flickering lights, strange sounds in the walls, and neighbors who vanish. --- II. Inciting Incident Zara encounters Lucien in the elevator. He's cold but intrigued by her presence. A strange event occurs-Zara hears scratches from the 25th floor, which supposedly doesn't exist. Lucien warns her not to ask questions. --- III. Rising Action Zara starts receiving cryptic messages and experiencing lucid dreams where Lucien appears. She begins to suspect Lucien is hiding something-he's connected to the building's secrets. Despite herself, she's drawn to him-and he to her. She uncovers old news articles about disappearances, all residents of the 25th or higher. Zara witnesses something inhuman in Lucien during a blackout-glowing eyes, a guttural growl. --- IV. Climax Zara learns the building is a sanctuary-or prison-for supernatural beings, and Lucien is its reluctant guardian. Her arrival triggered an old prophecy. She's not just a tenant-she's the key to opening a sealed dimension within the walls. Lucien is torn: protect her or fulfill his role and sacrifice her to maintain the balance. --- V. Falling Action Zara refuses to be a pawn. She digs deeper into her past and learns her bloodline is tied to the 25th floor's original architect-a man who went mad building a gateway between worlds. Together, Zara and Lucien confront the entity trapped inside the wall. A showdown ensues: betrayal, confessions, and a forbidden kiss amidst chaos. --- VI. Resolution The balance is restored-but at a cost. Lucien vanishes or is trapped behind the wall. Zara stays in the building, now changed-stronger, more powerful, and connected to its secrets. A final scene hints Lucien may still be watching-or waiting to return.

"Le--Leave Me, Christian" I stuttered, as his closeness was driving me crazy. I was screaming in my mind to push him away, I belonged to someone else but... my heart was ditching at that moment, telling me to melt in his arms again and drown in the pleasure pool. He seemed to be the firm rock in my solitude providing me light in my mafia dark world. Ivanna being the simple girl was a love-struck fool until she was dumped by the man, whom she loved dearly. Her life then reversed a whole 180 degrees when a stranger entered simultaneously with her ex's entry, who wanted forgiveness and to get back with her. Ivanna was left with two choices: one who had been a complete stranger to her but brought immense happiness and light while the other with whom she had a complicated past. Who will she choose? .

Excerpt: "It was in the year 1492, which you know is only 370 years since, on the third of August, a little before sunrise, that Christopher Columbus, undertaking the boldest enterprise that human genius ever conceived, or human talent and fortitude ever accomplished, set sail from Spain, for the discovery of the Western World. I will now give you a short account of Columbus, who was one of the greatest men the world ever produced. He was born in the city of Genoa, in Italy; his family were almost all sailors, and he was brought up for a sailor also, and after being taught geography and various other things necessary for a sea captain to know, he was sent on board ship at the age of fourteen. Columbus was tall, muscular, and of a commanding aspect; his hair, light in youth, turned prematurely grey, and ere he reached the age of thirty was white as snow."

Three children or triplets all orphans , now live in an orphanage ,they are considered rare and special so their adoption process is highly tedious and no family wants all three , can these three survive without getting separated ?