Sparknotes Treasure Island Novels & Stories

Brandon Martinez has vowed never to get married. He enjoys a life devoid of commitment and filled with blonde models and contracts worth billions of dollars. Brandon is ready to go on living this way until his mother makes an announcement that rocks his world. Natalie Hayes is a simple girl from a small island in Louisiana. She has just lost her father, the only family she's ever had. She moves to Seattle, Washington in search of a new life and resumes work at the infamous Giancarlo restaurant owned by the wealthy Martinez family. A timely occurrence causes Rebecca Martinez, Brandon's mother to notice her and insist that she marry her son. Brandon has no intention of getting married, but even if he were to consider it, how could he stoop to the level of an impoverished waitress? Natalie just wants a simple life. Can she handle the responsibility and glamour that comes with being a Martinez? Can she stand Brandon's snobbery? Brandon and Natalie are two worlds apart. They are two broken people with hidden secrets. They'd never work. Or would they?

The New Year's Day had barely started when my usually unromantic husband, Everett Grant, surprised me by booking a tour for me. The moment I settled into the bus, however, a line of text suddenly drifted across my vision. [Poor Tina! Her jerk husband booked a one-dollar tour for her, and then turns around and drops ten grand taking his mistress overseas.] I froze, convinced my eyes were playing tricks on me, and kept chatting with the woman beside me as if nothing had happened. Then the messages showed up again. [Seriously? Tina's still smiling like an idiot. She has no idea this tour is really a trafficking ring. Once they get her to the island, she's done for!] [Oh, no! The bus leaves in three minutes. Is Tina actually gonna die like this? That's such a miserable way to go!] The bus had been quiet until the tour guide suddenly spoke up. "We'll be departing shortly. It's about an hour's ride. After that, we'll transfer to a boat to reach the island."

"I don't fix broken hearts, Lucas. I only fix organs. And you don't seem to have either." Six years ago, Aria Vale was rejected, humiliated, and left to die in the snow while pregnant. She woke up to a death certificate for her son and a heart turned to ice. Today, she is The Viper, the most feared surgeon in the underworld. Aria’s plan for revenge is simple: make her old pack crawl. But everything changes when Dante Rinaldi, the ruthless Lycan King, and capo of the obsidian syndicate, kidnaps her to his island fortress to save his dying heir. Aria doesn't care about the monster’s child. She has no interest in playing mother, but when Dante offers her a deal she can’t refuse, she finally sees her chance to strike. Now she must cover the Syndicate's secrets, outwit a King who claims her as his own, and survive a pack that is now hunting her down for reasons she doesn't yet understand.

I'm finally bored after pursuing Hugh Freeman for ten years. I give up on him and get together with Christopher Sanders, who's always had feelings for me. Christopher lights the city's sky with fireworks throughout the night. He even buys a small island to propose to me. However, he goes missing right before the wedding. When I find him, I hear him talking and laughing with someone. "I only pursued Jessica to get on Hugh's nerves—I lost interest in her once I got together with her. "Still, I don't want to let her off so easily because of everything she put me through. That's why I'm going to leave her at the altar—to humiliate her. Fun, isn't it?" So, I decide to run away before he does. I turn him into the laughingstock of the city. Later, I hear that Christopher scours the capital in search of his missing bride. He never finds her, though.

I met evil when I was a teenager. It never left me after that, hovered over me like a dark cloud, followed me everywhere. When I least expected, he barged into my life like he owned it. Kidnapped and vulnerable, I am trapped on a stranded island with no way out. There's nowhere I can hide. I am afraid. I fear his gentleness more than his cruelity. I don't know if I can survive this but I do know that one of us will be ruined by the time this ends. Every princess dreams about meeting a prince charming. I don't get the prince, I get the King who wants to rule over everything. He's a Beast but I am no Belle. The Beauty changed the beast. The Beast fell in love with her. A beautiful fairytale it was. The Beast doesn't love me, I can't tame him. This isn't a love story. It's a story of obsession. 18+. Not your traditional Mafia Romance. Proceed with Caution.

Katheryn thought that she was just an ordinary adult woman who grew up in a broken home family until she finally decided to go out of her house and met a man named Acheros Corentine. The CEO of one of the biggest technology companies. She fell in love with a man at the first sight because of his good looks and his alluring aura. She just agreed so easily when the man asked her to live with him. But then she felt so brokenhearted to know that in the end, Acheros married one of his business colleagues. Yes, Kath thought her life was just as simple as before. But it turns that it didn't. There are so many of the past that hasn't to be revealed yet. About her family, treasure, love. It all mixed into a painful mix for Katheryn Moana. It hurts so much when someone you trust with all your heart turns out to be the culprit of all the destruction in your life. "I love you, you are mine, only mine, and always be mine," Were the words Acheros whispered as they shared their sweat. Moaning on the bed looking for the satisfaction of their lust. Everything was beautiful until, in the end, Kath remembered it all. "Are you going to kill me too?" asked her in a low tone. -Secret Behind The Dangerous Lady- *** Follow my instagram: Iridescent_0000

Sinopse Ingles Kataleya is a witch who was born on Titiana Island. A beautiful woman, who was hurt as a child by cruel men who abused her body. Angry, hurt and vengeful, Kataleya killed them all using her supernatural powers. Even after revenge, her heart remained wounded, becoming a dark witch, promising that she would never be touched again. With these hands, I cursed you, I condemn you, every man who dares to touch me. With my anger, my sorrow I condemn you to the most painful death.   Those were the witch's words, if untouchable and anyone who touched her would die in the most painful way. Years later he meets Igor, the captain of the 7 seas who fears no one. He needs to travel to certain islands in search of treasure, but only witches can find it. They are cursed islands, but they hide the most valuable objects. Igor will take Katelya with him and the two will set off on this new adventure, the problem is when the two feel attracted to each other. They fall madly in love with each other, but Katelaya is untouchable. Kataleya finds herself lost because she will have to resist or else her love will die in the most painful way. Will she be able to resist! Love will be able to undo the spell.  

Some exes stay in your past... Mine moved into my boyfriend’s house, so to speak. I thought meeting Ethan’s mysterious older brother would be the hardest part of this relationship.I was wrong...The hardest part is standing in the foyer of a mountain manor, staring at the only man who ever broke me, still wearing the cheap twenty-dollar ring I put on his finger seven years ago, while my ‘current’ boyfriend squeezes my hand and says, “Isn’t he great? He basically raised me!”Tristan, Alpha and Ice king, my first love...Ethan, Hockey star, he sunshine personified, my present...They are brothers, of course they’re brothers.Now I’m trapped in their manor during a mountain-sealing storm, hiding one brother in a wardrobe while the other delivers warm milk to my door, and somewhere between the secret passages and the matching rings and the way Tristan looks at me like I’m both his greatest treasure and his deepest wound, I’ve completely lost control of my own heartbeat.The real problem? So have they, they both adore me. And when two werewolf brothers want the same woman, “complicated” doesn’t even begin to cover it.“Choose wisely, Chloe. Wolves don’t share.”

Eight years ago, my cousin Wendy Cooper was involved in a drunk driving hit-and-run. Yet, my parents made sure all the evidence pointed toward me. The victim's family waited outside my school every day with gasoline, threatening to die with me. Because of that, the school took away my guaranteed admission to university. That day, my parents and brother all tried to persuade me. "Wendy's terrified. Just give her your spot to make her feel better." I refused, fought back, and even tried to talk them out of it. But the next day, they handed me over to the police themselves. Lance Stewart, my fiance and a powerful business tycoon, had orchestrated it all. As he was afraid I'd run or cause trouble, he personally pinned several charges on me and sent me to an isolated island prison. He left me with no way out. When my sentence began, he made me a promise. "Esme, just endure it for a few years. I'll get you out once Wendy graduates, and then we'll get married."

Martina was a compassionate daughter for her father, who became disabled due to an accident caused by her. Feeling bad, she vowed to do anything her stepmother wanted, which included marrying a stranger. She initially resisted the idea, but her evil stepmother threatened to cut off her father's treatment if she didn't. She had no choice but to marry the man her stepmother had arranged for her. She soon found that the guy she was about to marry was someone wealthy, which motivated her to believe that her future husband might be able to assist her father's recovery by arranging for the best physicians and treatment available. She was willing to give herself up for her father's sake, but what she didn't expect was that the man she is about to wed is one of the richest men in the world, someone who was much older than she was—even much older than her dad! After being married, Zion decided to bring his new wife to his place, an island secluded from civilization, where Martina met a handsome man, a handsome man that made her heart flutter.