The Billionaire's Broken Doll Returns

‎ ‎ ‎Sophia Hayes has perfected the art of control. In the high-pressure world of The Metropolitan, she's the youngest senior journalist ever hired-an achievement built on ruthless discipline, flawless execution, and a reputation that makes even seasoned reporters double-check their facts before speaking to her. She is sharp. Unshakeable. Precise to the bone. Her life runs on deadlines, color-coded calendars, and emotional walls tall enough to withstand anything. ‎ ‎Dean Mercer is everything she isn't-and everything she doesn't have time for. A wildly successful illustrator whose comic series Love Is a Mess has a cult following online, Dean lives in a world where structure is optional and inspiration is everything. His apartment is chaos. His sleep schedule is chaos. His heart is chaos. He creates brilliance in messy strokes but hides his deepest truths behind humor, charm, and a smile that masks more wounds than he lets on. ‎ ‎So when the magazine pairs them for a high-stakes project-a revolutionary feature blending investigative journalism with illustrated storytelling-everyone expects disaster. Sophia expects worse. ‎ ‎Their assignment: explore modern love through real stories across the city. Raw, unfiltered, unpredictable love. ‎ ‎Exactly the kind of assignment that makes Sophia want to run. ‎ ‎Dean arrives late to their first meeting with coffee stains and excuses. Sophia arrives with a binder thick enough to double as a weapon. Dean studies her timeline like it's written in a foreign language. Sophia studies Dean like he's a problem she needs to solve before he derails everything she's built. ‎ ‎Their partnership begins in sparks-sharp, heated, dangerous sparks. ‎Arguments disguised as discussions. ‎Discussions disguised as power struggles. ‎Power struggles disguised as creative differences. ‎ ‎But tension has a habit of twisting into something else when the nights grow long. ‎ ‎As they dive into the city-interviewing strangers whose love stories survived decades, storms, heartbreaks, second chances-something shifts between them. Slowly. Quietly. Against both of their wills. ‎ ‎Sophia begins to see past Dean's easy humor to the man underneath-the one who fears failing the people he cares about, who draws comics because it's the only way he knows how to tell the truth. And Dean sees the cracks in Sophia's armor-the vulnerability she protects like a secret, the softness she doesn't show, the fire in her that the world misunderstands as coldness. ‎ ‎Their conversations deepen. Their arguments soften. Their laughter blends. ‎And the chemistry-the kind they both pretend not to notice-tightens around them like an invisible thread. ‎ ‎But the closer they get, the heavier the air becomes. Because both of them are hiding something. ‎ ‎Sophia hides her fear of losing control. ‎Dean hides his fear of being the reason someone gets hurt. ‎ ‎And the feature they're creating-meant to uncover the truth about modern love-begins exposing truths they never meant to reveal. About each other. About themselves. ‎ ‎Their late-night work sessions grow intimate, electric. Their stories blur with the stories they're collecting. Dean sketches Sophia without meaning to-capturing expressions she never lets the world see. Sophia writes notes about him she can't bring herself to delete. Something real starts forming in the space between them, fragile but undeniable. ‎ ‎Until the past they both buried finds them. ‎ ‎A mistake from Dean's life-one he thought he'd left behind-reaches the editorial floor at the worst possible time. A detail with enough weight to derail the feature, shatter their progress, and wound the one person who finally saw him clearly. ‎ ‎Sophia's instinct is survival. Run before she gets hurt. Seal her heart before it cracks open. Dean's instinct is retreat. Protect her from the version of himself he fears is still true. ‎ ‎Deadlines tighten. Trust fractures. ‎Their work stalls, their communication splinters, and the connection they've been dancing around threatens to snap under the strain. ‎ ‎But desire doesn't listen to logic. ‎And hearts don't obey deadlines. ‎ ‎Even as they pull away, they keep orbiting each other-drawn back together by an ache neither can extinguish. Their arguments deepen into something rawer, heavier. Their silence holds more meaning than their words. ‎ ‎They must choose: ‎fight for the story that could define their careers... ‎or fight for the connection that could rewrite their futures. ‎ ‎And when an unexpected message, a truth revealed too late, and one irreversible decision collide, they're forced to confront the question their feature was meant to answer: ‎ ‎What does love look like today- ‎and can two people living at opposite rhythms find it before it slips through their fingers? ‎ ‎On the edge of losing their partnership... ‎their second chance... ‎and each other... ‎ ‎

Elite agent Marcus Thorne attends a high-society gala to protect a billionaire, but the night turns deadly when a trusted ally reveals a hidden agenda. As an assassination plot unfolds amidst the champagne and luxury, Marcus must navigate a web of lies to save his client. Trapped in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, he battles skilled mercenaries while uncovering a conspiracy that threatens to destroy his career and his life.

"Y–You're a sick bastard" He laughed softly, grip loosening from my hand slightly and with eyes will fixed on me, cleaned the spittle slowly with his other hand and licked it. I gulped, a weird heat blooming at the sight of this. Seriously? I bit the bottom of my lips. There's no way I'm getting excited from this... "Delicious" he mused "Let's have you spit on something else with that cute mouth" ___ Alessia Ferraro, tossed as a sacrifice into a marriage with Mafia Lord, Cesare Marchetti in an attempt to save her family must figure out a way to clear her father's name and satisfy this craving Monster. Cold, dominant and possessive, Cesare hates the fact that he's been forced into a marriage with the daughter of a traitor based on a vow his father made. He vows to break her, but she refuses to bow... even as his touch awakens some cravings beyond her control. Will this fire of passion ignite something else, or will the dangers lurking the Shadows fuels it to burn them and leave them dead in their ashes?

When a sudden rift tears through the sky, monstrous entities descend to push humanity toward extinction. Amidst the global chaos, a group of unlikely survivors discovers hidden abilities within themselves, becoming the planet's last line of defense. As cities fall and hope dwindles, these warriors must master their newfound powers to repel the invaders. This action-packed adventure follows their desperate struggle to reclaim Earth and survive.

"I can't stop myself. You consume me Olivia, all of you!" Only daughter of powerful business mogul and drug lord, Olivia Murray wants a family of her own. Her world is shaken after she finds her husband-to-be, Asher in bed with one of his employees a week before their wedding. Feeling betrayed, she cancels the entire wedding ceremony against her family's wishes, leaving her father disappointed by the disgrace she's brought to the family. Olivia has a new plan on getting revenge as she meets a mysterious guy who also has a vendetta against Asher. Their worlds become intertwined as they work to bring him down while navigating their attraction to each other. Olivia finds herself falling in love no matter how hard she tries not to. She is torn apart when she finally discovers who this mysterious guy truly is and his mission to take down her entire family. Olivia is left with one choice to make, choosing between her family or the man she's fallen deeply in love with. Leonard Devine, a skilled undercover agent gets assigned to work on the O'Neill's family's case to expose their illegal dealings with arms and drugs. His mission leads him to the Murray family and the only heir, Olivia. Striking a deal with her under a false identity to help her get revenge on her ex-fiance, Leonard finds himself falling in love with her as they enter a fake marriage. The lines of his mission begin to blur as he becomes entangled in his love affair with Olivia. They must decide whether to trust each other as they navigate the treacherous world of secrets and lies. Will their love stand the test of betrayals? Especially when he finds out he has been played and Olivia isn't who he thought she is.

On the eve of my wedding to Grant Sutton, the heir to a vast real estate empire, I discovered the devastating truth. I wasn't his great love; I was just a convenient replacement for his wild, untamable ex, Ivory. He didn't love me. He loved that I was a polished, "suitable" version of the woman he truly wanted. When I walked away, he didn't just let me go. He destroyed me. After I published an exposé on his company's shady dealings, he had me fired and systematically ruined my reputation, painting me as a vengeful liar in the press. My own family turned on me, furious. "Think about us, Avery! You owe us this!" my sister shrieked, caring only about the fortune I'd lost them. I was left with nothing-no career, no family, no future. All because I was a placeholder in a love story that was never mine. Three years later, I came back. Not as the broken fiancée, but as A. Trevino, the anonymous journalist whose latest investigation targeted an elite institution. An institution with deep ties to the Sutton family. And this time, I wouldn't be the one who was destroyed.