"Her name isn't Sophie, I lied, her name is Fatima Safiya Ashlynn - I thought she would die where I left her."

"Don't leave mad." He said suddenly, panting, as my fingers brushed the doorknob. I paused, curious and fuming all at the same time. "Please." His voice broke, making my heart drop to my stomach. "Never leave mad."

"Child, he doesn't know anything about his own life. You think he's a mystery to you and the world? Little do you know that he's a mystery to himself. He doesn't know of the lies that surround him. He has dark secrets Rita, dark secrets that practically swallow him whole. He's in a dark place right now, and I know that deep inside, you know it too. I've seen the way you look at him. You look at him like he's someone worth giving up the world for. Be his light child. God knows he needs you." !@#$%^&*!@#$%^&*!@#$%^&* Aretha Washington was never ready for the day that her life would change for the better. It sounds strange putting it that way right? At age 23, her only aspiration was to become a manager at The Maestri Hotel so that she could use her pay check to pay for her grandmother's cancer treatments. She meets four adorable identical quadruplet girls and they steal her heart without her knowing it. When she finds out that they belong to the mysterious CEO of Maestri Empires, she's astonished, but it also sparks curiosity within her. When she's unjustly fired for something she didn't do, it opens possibilities for her that she never would've seen coming. At age 29, Raphael Maestri is the CEO everyone's talking about, but that no-one knows anything about. He's at the top of his game, but things have to turn around for him to acquire an important deal. He thinks it's impossible for him to get what he wants, until he meets the woman who his little girls seem to have latched themselves onto. It would seem she holds the key to everything. Dark secrets are revealed. Carnal desires spark. Love grows. It's The Maestri Amour, a family love affair. !@#$%^&*!@#$%^&*!@#$%^&* #4 General Fiction - 27 July 2015 #5 General Fiction - 15 July 2015 #7 General Fiction - 5 July 2015

Is it normal to have a sexual relationship with your assistant who's smoking hot? Seven years ago, a hopeless romantic seventeen year-old Chloe Pike fell madly in love with a guy who loathed her -- Philip Connor, a graduating college student who is extremely attractive but he is an arrogant and self-glorifying man. Phil hated Chloe because she is loud and annoying but there is something about her that made him unimaginably attracted to her. After months of Chloe's persuasion, one event led them to stay under the same roof -- a night that they will never forget, the night Chloe lost her virginity. Phil left her before she woke up. Chloe went to him after the encounter, to publicly reject her. Now, Chloe is one inch away from reaching the peak of her career as she is tasked by her cousin Jesse, an owner of a multi-billion dollar company. But what happens when Phil Connor is assigned by Jesse to become her assistant? WARNING: may contain MATURE content and tons of errors you can imagine. 18+

"Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry!" My face burned from the embarrassment of tripping over flat ground, and falling on top of a complete stranger, smashing my lips against his in the process. "No problem at all. It was the best kiss I've ever had," He smiled back at me, his beautiful eyes crinkling kindly. * * * Eighteen-year-old Sawyer Adams is too tall, lanky and awkward - the reason why she never gets asked out by boys her age and can't seem to fit in. That is, until she fell over and kissed a stranger in Barnes and Noble.