Cherry Blossoms After Winter

It was a low-class family similar to all others, with its social and economic difficulties that prevented it from boasting luxury and grandeur. The daily life of its members was based on the need for everything, which caused constant inertia in some and total revolt in others. This was the case with Nathália, a teenager who was completely embittered by the poverty that surrounded her on all sides. She was not born with the capacity to love, she saw this feeling with contempt and made fun of seeing people in love. Their purpose in dating that rich young man was simply in order that they could get married and secure the future. After all, he was the sole heir to a great fortune, he would become the owner of all the family's assets after his father's death, a great businessman with an important name in the business world. His ambition was limitless.

Paulo Henrique is left at the altar for the fourth time after several attempts to be happy in love and goes into a deep depression. Disappointed with the women, he escapes into himself, living isolated in the dark of a room in total anguish, located on the outskirts of the city. Surrounded by drug dealers, drug addicts and deep social misery. He doesn't want to see the light of day or make new friends, and he makes silence and eternal loneliness his best companion.

At a time when the Northeastern population was punished by intense misery, due to the terrible drought that cracked their feet under the scorching sun that seemed to hate them, a family of retreatants was forced to get rid of everything, even their children, afterwards. to be cowardly expelled from their lands. And it is in this scenario of a people condemned to suffering that we will learn about the story of Mercedes, a woman who from an early age had to learn to live with the pitfalls of the miserable life that fate gave her. When she was a child, she was raped by pedophiles in a brothel of her aunt, Izabel, who was a juvenile. Ten years later she is unjustly accused and imprisoned, beaten, threatened with death and the victim of persecution. His biggest reason for living is the thirst for revenge that feeds his soul after so much suffering, but everything will change after he finally knows true love.

At a time when racism prevailed in a prejudiced society and the only future reserved for blacks was slavery, a dark-skinned girl receives the opportunity to be raised and educated by a Portuguese godmother. However, soon after such luck she is violated and forced to witness her parents being burned alive at the stake by a cruel slave. After growing up and receiving the same education given to whites, he becomes hostage to his master's sexual desires and to achieve the freedom he needs to be happy, he is subjected to the worst trials, tortures and humiliations that fate has in store for him. But his strength and courage allow him to endure everything with faith, determination and unshakable hope, until he knows true love.

After having the opportunity to become the sole heir of the most traditional family in the region, coming from a humble origin and without significant roots, Luís Gustavo loses his lucidity when he learns that he had passed the three most important courses offered by the largest and most reputable universities of the State, becoming a man totally distant from the reality that surrounds him. After failed attempts to cure him, despite all available resources, his adoptive mother abandoned him to fend for himself, ending up like so many other beggars who begged for bread on the streets of the city and lived in the open, without any hope of a cure. However, years later destiny takes charge of reversing his luck and gives him lucidity, allowing him an impressive restart.

"I want to hear it from you. I want to watch you look me in the eye and tell me they aren't mine… without looking away even once." I swallowed hard, because the game he was playing was cruel. I knew that the slightest flicker in my expression would feed his suspicions. I lifted my chin, met his gaze without blinking, and spoke slowly, "They. Are. Not. Yours." The muscle in Damian's jaw tightened, and his breath brushed my face, warm and steady. "You've gotten better at this, Harper," he murmured, using my last name like a provocation. "But you're still not that good." "Or maybe you're just hearing what you want to hear," I shot back, fighting the suffocating closeness. "You hate losing. But sometimes, losing is inevitable. Accept it and get out of my life." Stella was desperate. After dropping out of college to pay off the debts her father left behind, all she wanted was a fresh start, even if that meant forging a résumé and swallowing her pride to land a job as the secretary to the ruthless CEO Damian Winter. What she didn't expect was that her new boss would be as irresistible as he was dangerous. Or that a series of sharp provocations and intense encounters would lead to an indecent contract. A secret agreement ruled by power and desire, in which Stella committed to satisfying Damian's every whim, with one single condition: she could never get pregnant. But what would happen when Stella discovered she had broken that rule? Now pregnant and emotionally shattered, Stella learned from the news on TV that Damian was engaged to a wealthy heiress. Hiding the truth seemed like her only option. But secrets would never stay buried forever.

At eighteen, Chloe Brooks married billionaire CEO Dante Montgomery, believing his promise of a fairy-tale life. Instead, she found herself trapped in a marriage that existed only on paper. Now, at twenty-two, she was still a virgin, living a dull, empty life with a husband who barely acknowledged her. One day, she received photos of Dante with other women. Instead of falling apart, something inside her snapped. Fueled by anger, Chloe decided she was done playing the perfect wife. She set out to claim the pleasure she'd been denied for four long years, only to meet a man who became obsessed with her after a single night together. The irony was almost unbelievable. That man was Dante himself. Without recognizing his own wife, he was willing to spend a fortune just to keep her all to himself. Chloe seized the opportunity to make him pay. By day, she would remain his invisible wife, the woman he had never truly seen. By night, she would become the high-end escort her own husband couldn't resist.

A loud moan escaped my throat as Alessandro slams me against the wall, his hard body pinning me tightly. “Keep fighting, baby,” he growls in a low voice, while sliding his hand under my dress. His Fingers find me soaked, plunging them deep and curling until my hips buck and I cry out. “Your body already knows you’re mine.” “Say it, mia cara. Say you’re mine.” Elara Voss is her family’s dirty little secret, the hidden daughter their dad loved in silence, while her sisters burned her with hate. To bury the shame and seal a massive deal, they force her to marry Alessandro Russo, Vegas’s deadliest mafia don. Her sisters were promised to perfect men. While She got handed over to a monster. But he didn’t just take, he became addicted to her. She became the only one who could calm the rage in him. Only she drives him wild, fantasizing about her mouth on him, swallowing every drop as she trembles and begs drives it to the edge. After he learns how cruelly she was treated by her family, the cold rejections and all of the hidden pain, his obsession turns lethal. “I own you,” he said in a raspy voice one night, his fist in my hair, yanking my head back to meet his burning eyes. “Every breath and every cry, if anyone should as much think of Hurting you again, I’ll make you watch while I tear them apart, piece by piece. Any man who gets close to you, dies screaming.” She then later uncovers his darkest secret, the bloody truth he buried deep underneath. Will it shatter them… or chain her to him forever?