Ex Libris: Confessions Of A Common Reader Novels & Stories

Three years after a bitter divorce by failed marriage, Sophia Carter has become a confident and successful entrepreneur after taking back her lost dignity. But her ex-husband Damian Kingsley has never really moved on and when a crisis threatens both of their companies, they have to enter an unexpected business partnership. Working together will bring back old feelings, and unwanted memories, including the pain from their past. But this time, Damian made a promise that he won't lose Sophia again. He is determined to win back his ex-wife he once lost. He will do any ways if it means breaking every wall she has built around her heart. But unfortunately, Sophia is not the same clever woman as he knew. Can love still grow again after unforgivable and heartbreaking betrayal? Or the broken and abused heart been ruined beyond repair?

Betrayed by the man she loved. Thrown out by the mistress carrying his child. Struck down in the street with nothing left to live for… Anna Storm died broken. But fate had other plans. Given a second chance at life, Anna wakes up in the care of a mysterious man named Hae-Jae, far from the pain of her past—and far from the child she once carried. No longer bound to Max, no longer a shadow of who she used to be, Anna is reborn with a new purpose: to rebuild her life, reclaim her strength, and rise from the ashes of betrayal. She was once the wife they discarded. Now, she’s the woman they’ll regret ever crossing. In a world where second chances come with power, vengeance, and unexpected love—Anna must choose: Will she hide in the shadows of her past, or rise and become the storm she was always meant to be?

Heavily pregnant, she was kidnapped and thrown into a life-or-death gamble. Her husband paid a hundred million dollars to save his first love, while she was left to die in a raging fire. At death’s door, she finally remembered the identity of herself. Five years later, she returned—not as the obedient wife of the past, but as Elianna Carrington, the esteemed Fifth daughter of the powerful Carrington family in Bryston. Loved by her father, cherished by her brothers, adored by her son, and pursued by the elites, her life was perfect. Joseph Kensington finally realized the truth. This elegant, untouchable woman was the wife he’d been searching for all these years. Desperate, he took her to court. Elianna: Give it up, Joseph. Both sons are mine. Joseph: The kids are yours. You’re mine. Overnight, Bryston was shaken. The dominant heir to a financial empire had now fallen at her feet. To win his wife back, he risked everything—his pride, his life, his heart. Too bad his two sons were his biggest obstacles. Eldest son: Daddy, my credit card swipes faster than yours. Second son: Scumbag dad, get lost!

Today was my birthday—the day Jason promised he would propose. Instead, I found him in bed with my cousin. My heart shattered into a million pieces. I had grown up in my uncle and aunt’s house after losing my parents, enduring their cruelty and coldness, and Jason had been the only light in my dark world. Now even he sided with the people who had tormented me the most. As if betrayal weren’t enough, my own family drugged me, planning to hand me over to some man to secure a business deal. I thought my life was over—until fate intervened. I ended up in the bed of Adrian, Jason’s untouchable, powerful uncle.  One night changed everything. I had decided to bury it forever in my heart, but he grabbed my wrist and said slowly, “If all you need is a marriage… how about we get married?”

Onika gets her heart broken by the playboy Billionaire Nathan McAlison. But when Nathan shows up seven years after, Onika decides to make sure her revenge is a dish best served cold. Or Maybe not. When she begins to fall in love with him, Onika must decide what is more important to her: Forgiveness or Malice.

A shared touch. A brief glance. A single taste of her is all it took for James to regret ever losing her. He fumbled big time. The only woman that ever occupied his mind and brain has slipped off his grasp. Nowhere to be seen again. Where is she? Did she ever get married again? Lisa. Lisa had good news for her husband. News that would completely change the trajectory of their marriage. She was pregnant. However before she could inform him about the news, he served her with divorce papers, and with no option Lisa signed them. It is not until the two meet again that they have a painful realization that there is still a thick sexual tension between them. Will the two act on their sexual tension or will they allow their past differences to get the better of them?

Mabel James’s fairy-tale marriage to the wealthy Hoss family shatters when her husband Ethan and his “best friend” Hailey steal her place, and her baby, leaving her humiliated and heartbroken. Five years later, now a successful stylist, Mabel returns to New York to hunt for the truth, only to find the clues traced to Damian Croft: a charming, dangerous man with ties to Ethan who may be the ally she needs, or the one who’s been manipulating her all along. Torn between revenge, a fight for her child, and an unexpected spark with Damian, Mabel must decide who to trust before everything she’s rebuilt is taken away.

After losing her self-respect for three years, Victoria finally let go of the man who never loved her and the family that never accepted her. She had previously sacrificed her true self in the name of love, but now she aims to reclaim it again, not for someone else’s love, but solely for her own. Unexpectedly, the man who had been distant towards Victoria suddenly became passionate with her. Nevertheless, Victoria had already made a firm decision, or so she believed. On the way to her new journey, Victoria faced several challenges that she never expected. Past dug around and hidden truths unravelled along with endless drama and schemes of enemies. Could she put everything together and find her way alone in this journey, or would she get back the love she has waited for three long years? **** “Alessandro...” I called out to him, eager to express the words that were difficult for me to say: I am pregnant! Not a lie anymore but a fucking truth... I want to say it to him. He stopped and looked back. “Now, don’t waste time. Apologise...”  In a split second, I was caught off guard by his words, causing me to respond with something unexpected and completely out of character. “Let’s get a divorce,” I did not even let him finish his words… (Book 1: Completed ch1-ch156) ************ Book 2: Greetings, Mr. Husband (Ongoing, started immediately after Book 1)

Retired Marine. Force Recon. When Callan 'Cannon' Asher retires from the Marines and joins the best security firm in Miami, the jobs seems too easy. Protecting civilians is all he knows, pulling the trigger on people who don't deserve it is all he knows. When he receives a job to protect the Mayor's daughter, all hell breaks loose because the raven haired girl isn't just a brat but unlike any woman he has ever seen before. When he sleeps with her and abandons her when she gets too clingy, he learns the hard way that love isn't like one of his covert missions in Afghan (simple and fast) but a shitty complicated game. He never wanted to settle for one woman. Yet she's the only woman in his mind. He never dreamt of having a family behind a white picket fence. Yet she gave him sons. Twins! Most of all he never expected to lust over a married woman because not only did Nicole Montenegro screw him over by hiding his sons from him but she also went ahead and got his children a man to call their dad. For him, this is by far the most deadliest mission he has ever been on. Code name: Cannon Mission: Get his woman and his sons.

Marrying the love of her life is the cherished dream of any woman, but for Olivia, it was a complete nightmare, because Harrison treated her as if it was the worst thing that happened in his life, until the day she couldn't take it anymore and asked for a divorce, despite the pleas, the woman could not get him to give her a second chance, subdued and humiliated she had to return to her parents' house, what Harrison family, not even he imagined, was that Isabella would return, but she would no longer be that humble woman who pretended to have nothing, now she had everything, she returned with the intention of taking revenge, but in a convenient way Harrison was awakened in love, Will he be able to get his heart back without getting hurt in the attempt? Will Olivia be able to forgive so much pain?