Three days before my due date, my husband came home and told me he was marrying Bianca Voss. “Her baby is due any day now,” Luca said. “If I marry her, I get the Don’s seat.” I stood there carrying his child and asked, “So you want me to spend the rest of my life as your hidden mistress?” He promised me doctors, guards, money, and a guarded house outside Chicago. He said I would still be his wife in private, as long as I never appeared in front of Bianca. When I refused, he looked at me with pity, as if I was too ordinary to understand the world he truly came from. He thought I was just Aria, the quiet woman who grew tomatoes by the lake. He had no idea I was Aria Castellano, the only daughter of the Chairman of the High Mafia Commission. I looked at him and whispered, “What if I told you Bianca’s family was nothing compared to mine?”
Carter is a disabled 19 years old ex football player. After an accident one year ago, he was cursed to a lifetime in a wheelchair. Ryder is an antisocial 18 years old jock. He became the quarterback of the football team after his biggest rival, Carter Matvey, changed schools for a totally unknown reason. What happens when Carter's father employs the jock to be the boy's caregiver? Are the two quarterbacks able to go a few quarters back and score points into this crazy match of love? What about the fact that under his impenetrable shell of muscles Ryder hides a very soft core? After Carter breaks his walls will he transform into puddle? Follow their juicy trip of love and hate and you'll find out . "Ryder? I think Rider suits you better... in like... Cart Rider "
Eighteen years ago, Leonardo Gambino ruled New York's underworld. At eighteen, he took control. By thirty-three, he survived a brutal war that buried half his brothers. That night, he learned his wife was pregnant—and for the first time, he had something greater than power: a family.So he walked away. He divided his fortune, abandoned his legend, and vanished with his wife and closest friend. Under a new name, he opened a small bar in a quiet town and built an ordinary life.Eighteen years later, no one recognizes the former Godfather in the gentle bartender. To his seventeen-year-old daughter Sofia, he is just Dad—a harmless man shielding her from his dark past.Then Sofia becomes the target of vicious bullies. Threatened and terrified, she lies to protect the father she believes is only a bartender. She has no idea what he used to be.
Until Leonardo sees what they have done to her.Black cars arrive in the rain. Armed men emerge from shadows. Old soldiers bow before their Godfather. Luca stands at his side. And in the darkness, Dominic Gallo—believed dead—still lives.The Colombos think they have inherited his city. They are wrong. When the Gambino crest appears, Jack's arrogance crumbles. When hundreds answer one call, Jacob—once Leonardo's driver—realizes the truth: Leonardo did not disappear because he lost. He chose family over power.
Now someone has hurt his daughter.Sofia watches in disbelief as her gentle father transforms. The bartender is gone. In his place stands the man who once made New York kneel—the Godfather whose name still commands fear and loyalty.Old enemies gather. Former allies return. The Colombos come for blood. Leonardo must decide how far he will go to protect the family he sacrificed everything to build.
They have no idea they are touching the daughter of the Godfather.And when the man who made a city bow finally stops hiding—who will be left standing when his old name is spoken again?
Mia Falcone, the Don’s daughter, gave up everything for Leo Romano after he took three bullets to save her. For seven years, she lived in secrecy as his wife, raising their son without a name. After Leo’s brother died, his widow, Jasmine Moretti, returned, and Leo chose her and ambition over blood. When the humiliation threatens her son, Ethan, Mia walks away and returns to her true identity. As Leo desperately tries to win back the woman he lost, Mia teaches him a fatal lesson: he didn’t just break a heart—he declared war on the wrong bloodline.
Hearing cries for help from beneath the enclosed pool cover, Black Marcus was blocked bythe boy s father and grandmother, who mistook him for a trespasser-until he rescued their missing son.
After a severe car accident, 7-year-old Isabella Wellington was abandoned after having her blood drained out by evil family members, in order to keep her own brother alive. 17 years later, Olivia struggles to fight off brutal bullying from the Wellingtons whom she works for. Unknown to the Wellingtons, their target of bullying, daughter raised by a janitor, Olivia, is in fact Isabella Wellington, the precious lost heiress, whom they have been searching for for 17 years.
At seven, Hailey left her mother Claire to avoid burdening her during cancer. Years later, now a billionaire, Claire eventually finds Hailey—betrayed by her fiancé and about to be harmed by his mistress, Claire, furious, pulled out a gun…
Summer, a rural girl who grew up in a backward countryside, faced harsh treatment from her parents, who made her drop out of school to work and support her younger brother. When the time came for her brother to get married, Summer's parents planned to marry her off to an old bachelor in the village for $100,000. At the same time, Summer's best friend Megan was locked up by her parents, who intended to marry her off to an idiot. Determined to escape, Summer and Megan fled to Rosetown, where they vowed to establish their independence. Through hard work, Summer gradually climbed the social ladder, and one day, a misunderstanding led her to cross paths with Jason, the wealthiest man in Rosetown. Thus, an unexpected romance that would change everything began.
Framed, disfigured, and stripped of her memories, Dragon Queen Etheline hides in a fishing village, raising her daughter Prisca alone. When Prisca enters the school and catches the royal family’s eyes, the buried secrets surface, awakens Etheline's lost memory and bloodline. Finally, the whole family reunites in an unexpected way.
Mute rancher Martha and Frank take in abused orphan Lily and raise her to Frontier Edge's Chief Architect. Their son Ethan frames the couple to steal the ranch's $2.8M and throws them out beaten. At his birthday gala Lily reveals her title and brings the heir to his knees. In a warehouse Frank takes a bullet for the son who betrayed him—chosen love outweighs blood.
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