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Candice had been by Alex’s side since she was eighteen, evolving from just a partner to something more. Power and wealth gave her confidence, which got her thinking she was one of a kind in his heart. However, Alex hired a new secretarial intern, Sonia, who was youthful, naive, and charming. Despite her innocent look, Candice felt threatened; not because of what Sonia might do, but because Sonia reminded her of her younger self, of when she first met Alex.

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. 𝗙𝗶𝗳𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 I’𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻. ——— ꧁ Marisella ꧂ – “Stop protecting me from a life I’ve already been living… without you.” 𖤓 Alexei 𖤓 – “I didn’t survive the Bratva just to let you destroy yourself.” ——— Marisella is drowning. To save her dying mother, she takes a desperate gamble—one night as a high-end escort. She expected a faceless stranger, but she found a monster. Alexei left as a sickly boy and returned a lethal Bratva assassin—hardened, wealthy, and dangerous. When he accepts a "replacement" for the night, the last person he expects to see in red spandex is the girl he was supposed to protect. His stepsister. The discovery ignites a firestorm of fury and forbidden desire. But as the Bratva’s debts come due, the lines between protector and predator blur. Alexei is determined to keep his hands off her to save his soul, but Marisella is no longer a child. She’s found the only thing more dangerous than the men hunting them: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗲’𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿. 🔥 ——— Tags / Themes: • Forbidden Romance • Dark Romance / Mafia-lite • Guardian / Protector • Secret Provider • Forced Proximity #Stepbrother #Mafia #BDSM #Possessive #HiddenIdentity 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️

After her mother shoved her away, Astrallaine moved in with a woman she didn't know. She must be self-sufficient and capable of standing alone — without leaning against other walls. Will she be able to continue in life when a man appears and makes her even more miserable? Will she be able to let go of the wretched version of herself?

I was a sketch artist acting for the police. On a secret mission, I was discovered by a murderer. My eyes were gouged out, and my body was dismembered, unceremoniously dumped in a garbage bin. On the brink of death, I called my boyfriend, a criminal investigator. However, he hung up on me because he was busy accompanying his first love to a prenatal checkup. A few days later, he received a painting that was a vital clue to finding the murderer, but he thought I was playing tricks on him. In his anger, he tore that portrait to shreds. After he found out the truth, he spent the whole night searching through the garbage to piece it back together.

I was the stand-in who looked most like my husband's first love. He put me through countless plastic surgeries, both major and minor ones, until I became her exact likeness. But then, she came back from the dead. All it took was her saying, "I don't like anyone looking like me," and he sent me right back to the operating table once more. I begged him, telling him that my body couldn't handle it anymore. Alas, he only looked at me with irritation. "Seeing that cheap imitation of her face just disgusts me," he sneered. "No matter how close you come, you'll never be her." In the end, I died on that operating table. Yet, he went mad, trying desperately to recall what I once looked like.

Meet Esmerelda Sleuth. Sleuth is her name and investigating is her game. (Paranormal Investigating, that is.) Esmerelda makes a good living as an investigator in a rather progressive firm. She lives a stable and sensible life until she meets Lance; an old money "hottie" who works for a real estate firm next to her building. After accepting an invitation for a weekend getaway party, she quickly discovers that Lance has a secret. He is wealthy. That part is true. And, yes, he's procured a job as a realtor in the building next door. His secret is that he belongs to an underground society of humans who didn't abandon their connection to magic centuries ago when religion declared it evil and he has traveled through time specifically to find her and bring her back to his time to marry him. If that isn't enough of a far fetched tale to absorb, he informs her that she was born in his time to a family belonging to that same secret society and was promised in marriage to him as an infant. When enemies who didn't want to see the union of families take place made attempts on her life, her parents sent her into the future and erased her memories of them as a precaution. Possessing virtually no belief in magic, ghosts, psychics, time travel, etc., it takes some doing on Lance's part to convince her to believe his story and go back with him. When she does, the lies, deceit and attempts on her life start all over again. Will she escape emotionally and physically unscathed? "The Other Side Of the Mirror" is a steamy-paranormal-romance- mystery-thriller and book one of the Esmerelda Sleuth series.