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Paint Me Saved ✓ Book 1 by wanderedwriter
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{18+} 🏆 WATTYS 2023 SHORTLISTED ROMANCE Zemira Ford knows a thing or two about paparazzi and being under the limelight. What she does not know is how to use it to save her father's failing business. Not until a certain media mogul proposes an engagement of convenience. She will do anything to protect her parent's legacy, even if it means sacrificing her happiness and entering into a loveless marriage. Sgt. Leonardo Brenton believes love only happens once and everyone should get their chance. When his younger brother decides to marry a stranger for her business, he finds it difficult to reason - especially since hiding the truth about their steamy encounter. With lies being exposed and threatening families' reputations, Leo and Zemira find themselves working together. When old wounds are bled open and secrets spill, ripping them apart and putting their love to the test, Leo and Zemira must decide. Is it worth opening one's heart to love someone, and be saved in the process? Or love, like all things perfect, only happen once. Book 1 of the Redeemed by a Soldier series. 🏅Awards~🏆AMBYS 2022 WINNER - New Adult 🏆 Contemporarylit Ambassadors shortlist - The Fall Awards 🏅Shortlisted in the NA Romance awards. Featured~ ✨ Romance ✨ Profile Mental Health ✨ NA ✨ Contemporarylit ✨ WattpadSpiritual ✨ Dangerous love ✨ Wattpad ESL ✨ Action ✨ Wattpad Military Fiction ✨ Stories Undiscovered - March 2022 ✨ Bullying Prevention ✨ Chicklit India ✨ Come and sit with us ✨ LY ✨ Wattpad After Dark ✨ Wattpad Romance India ✨ Wattpad Literary Fiction ✨ NA Romance ✨ Wattpad Fusion ✨ Wattpad Multicultural ✨ Humor ✨ FreetheLGBTQ ✨ Badass Reads ✨ Wattpad Series ✨ Newly Written Books ✨ Books Got Talent ✨ New Adult reads The story contains PTSD and assault references. Reader's discretion advised.
The King Killer | Mafia dark romance | ✔️ by wanderedwriter
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[✅ ⚠️]- Book 1️⃣ "I want to fuck you. Not kiss, fuck. So hard, your echoes would be louder than the noises from the party." ~ Los Zetas - the Mexican cartel run by the Moralez family is feared by everyone for their violent ways. When the cartel takes over Ramon Ramirez's business, he places a pawn to seek revenge - his daughter Valentina. For Valentina Ramirez the opportunity presents as an offer to be the new wife of cartel head, Antonio. What she doesn't fathom is the future, where she finds herself embroiled in matters of love; family and otherwise. Antonio Moralez, an enraged widower is forced to marry for an heir to the throne. Heading the syndicate with other two brothers, he finds himself at crossroads with decisions of life and business with the woman he is forced to consider his wife. Will the marriage to the mighty deviate Valentine from her revenge mission? Will Antonio move on from his grief to recreate a new life? Or will they end up damaging each other further? Part 1 of the Cartel Chronicles Series. PLEASE BEAR WITH ME WHILE I EDIT THIS OUT. Featured: ✨ Stories Undiscovered ⚠️ Book contains mature scenes, physical abuse description and other shitty stuff which my protagonists think will get the job done. Read at your own discretion⚠️
Bulletproof (#1) ✔ by TahliePurvis
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When Franny learns why former popular boy Tyler fell from grace, she gets thrown head-first into his dangerous world but also closer to his timid heart. ***** Eighteen-year-old Tyler Madden used to have everything. He was captain of the football team, popular, high achiever, and was set to have a successful career. But when a secret too hard to handle comes to light, he turns to underground fighting to deal with the pain. Now, he's in too deep. And when Francesca Howard befriends him at school in the hopes of figuring out what went wrong, she unknowingly gets pulled into the criminal world he's now stuck in. As the two find comfort in each other, they find themselves faced with their impending future and trying to get Tyler out alive. Content/Trigger Warning: this story contains scenes pertaining to drug use, substance abuse, and violence. [#1 in teen fiction, romance and action]
Love Invalid by athrhteera
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What happens when one kiss turns your world upside down? That one simple kiss makes your life into something unexpected. Athena Delaney works at a publishing company to publish gossips and news about celebrities. One drunken night, she met a well known football player from Spain. Well not exactly, she didn't know he was even a football player. Alexander Herrera finds her interesting that he couldn't resist her pink tempting lips. So he kissed her. Him, the well known footballer kissed a stranger he just met at the bar. But little did he know that, one kiss changes it all.
In Love With Mr. Billionaire by blooming_rose18
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Caroline Marshall, a sweet and cute girl, who hates rich guys since her father threw her mother away to marry another woman for money. Living with a step-mother, a step-sister and a cruel father, her life was worse than hell. Aaron Woodwords, a multi-billionaire and the CEO of Woodwords corporation, has everything a person dreams of. From money to women to anything. He is egoistic, merciless and arrogant. Owners of different companies fear from him whereas women throw themselves to him. What will he do when a girl will throw money on his face for scratching his car? What will happen when Caroline meets a guy who is rich, and too much proud of his money? or that is what she thinks. What will she do when she realises she is falling deeper and deeper for that guy? Will she confess her feelings for him? Will she be able to forget her dreadful past, and give him a chance? Join Caroline in this journey, of falling in love with Mr. Billionaire. Cover by: @Anishka14 #1 in romance
Melting the Ice by bourbonvanilla
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Analeigh Kerrigan is chasing her dream of becoming one of the best figure skaters in the world. Zach Crawford is already living his dream of being the best ice hockey player. Their paths collide unexpectedly. But they have a lot of things in common. They both live on the skates. They both love the sound of their skates sliding against ice. And they both know the pain of falling down on the ice. Analeigh hides more than she shows to the world. She's a mystery and Zach sees her as a challenge. He wants to get her to open up her petals and bloom for him. And Zach Crawford is known for loving a good challenge.
Her, Saving Grace by mediogress
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She wasn't that drunk. So the six-foot something creature rummaging through her fridge half-naked, at eight in the morning was real. Now here's the tinsy winsy problem; She lives alone. ------------------------------------------------ Let's just say Catherine Wright wasn't having the best day. Everything just wasn't going well-right. So after a couple of sips of wine, she ended up 'praying' for some kind of distraction instead. Who knew the heavens answered prayers from drunk women. Now Damon Grace would be exactly what she asked for. And a few other things that would make her wish she never drank at all. (p.s. It wouldn't hurt to check the tags this story is on) Copyright © 2015 Liz Martinez All Rights Reserved
All This Time by setphaserstostunning
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Christmas Break spent in the Netherlands sounds like the perfect way for Charlotte Wright to relax with her best friend - until she sees the family that they'll be spending Christmas with! Wolfram van der Waals makes no secret of the fact he isn't Charlotte's biggest fan, even though he's never met her before. A quitter may have given up on getting Wolf to like her, but Charlotte is determined to make it a very merry Christmas - and that includes getting Scrooge to crack a smile! Her efforts blow up in her face and with Christmas soured, she has no reason to think of Wolf in the ensuing five years that she's spent establishing her matchmaking business in New York City. Until one day he makes her an offer too good to refuse...
Zana by MichaelFaudet
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A dark, modern fairytale with a touch of burlesque, magic and mischief.
XAVIER'S PRECIOUS ✔ {Editing In Process} by ericawoham
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Previously known as The Billionaire wants her. Highest ranking #1 in Romance 03-02-2016 #3 in Romance 09-04-2017 #2 in Romance 17-04-2017 (Book #1 in Manhattan Series) 'I loved her, not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence her demons' - Christopher Pointdextor How can someone so cold, make you feel so safe? That's what Erica Dixon found herself asking when she came face to face with the man himself, Xavier Manhattan. Mr Manhattan - the cold, distant and most eligible bachelor available. Some regard him as a monster. Others just pity him. Many don't understand why the man with everything seems to have so little. Miss Dixon - the professional, warm-hearted and normal girl trying to provide for her family on the edges of Toronto. She has her reasons to dislike the Manhattans, but in the end will her heart rule over her head? Let the sparks fly. Let the battle commence. Join us on the journey of the meeting of two shattered souls on the way to trying to locate their purpose in life. The bewildering plot twists, passionate romance and tragic heart breaks make for an exhilarating and unexpected adventure.