Love After Marriage

En un antiguo convento de Nueva Orleans, el silencio es ley, y el pecado no entra… hasta que llama a la puerta. Elena, una joven novicia con el alma dividida entre la fe y la duda, encuentra una noche a un hombre herido en los límites del claustro. Su nombre es Dante Ruggieri, un mafioso italiano en fuga. Para protegerlo, lo esconde. Para salvarse, él se disfraza: ahora es el Padre Lorenzo, un sacerdote con pasado de sangre y mirada de fuego. A medida que Dante predica falsas palabras ante las hermanas, Elena guarda el secreto más peligroso de todos. La mentira se vuelve hábito. El deseo, oración. Y entre ellos nace un vínculo tan prohibido como inevitable. Pero en el corazón de la Iglesia, ningún pecado se oculta para siempre. Y cuando la verdad salga a la luz, ya será demasiado tarde para volver atrás.

A successful businessman raised by his nanny, with very high values ​​and respect for his peers, has a knack for business that has made him a multimillionaire at such a young age, but advice from his nanny and an accident from his personal assistant, makes him look for a new helper without imagining that love began to hover nearby, your worst enemy will want to hurt you and where it will cruelly damage you, in your heart, taking away your true love. Will you fight for it? Will you let happiness be taken out of your hands? Read this wonderful novel, where you will laugh, you will cry and you will be on edge

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.

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.

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.

Cinco años atrás, María Elena huyó del único lugar que conocía, dejando atrás su inocencia… y a Leonel del Monte, el hombre que marcó su alma con una pasión prohibida. Él era el hijo rebelde de sus patrones; ella, la humilde trabajadora que jamás debió enamorarse. Sus mundos eran distintos. Sus caminos, imposibles. Ahora, con el corazón endurecido y una nueva determinación, regresa al pueblo dispuesta a enfrentar su pasado. Pero nada es como antes: Leonel ya no es solo el chico indomable que rompía reglas, sino el heredero oficial de la poderosa familia Del Monte. Aun así, sigue siendo tan arrogante, provocador y peligrosamente encantador como lo recuerda… quizá más. Cuando sus miradas se encuentran de nuevo, el deseo renace con una intensidad que ni los años ni el orgullo han logrado apagar. Pero las heridas del pasado no han sanado, y los secretos que ambos guardan podrían ser más destructivos que cualquier pasión. ¿Puede un amor marcado por el dolor y la diferencia sobrevivir a las cicatrices del tiempo… o terminará consumiéndolos de nuevo?

Matteo Vieri lo perdió todo cuando Elena, la única mujer que amó, lo traicionó brutalmente. Lo humilló, lo llamó un "fracaso" y lo abandonó, todo para forzarlo a sobrevivir. Su plan funcionó. El dulce Matteo murió, y en su lugar surgió El Vieri, un clon frío y despiadado del fundador del clan Costa Norte, consumido por el odio. Años después, Elena regresa. Su propio pasado traumático la obliga a buscar refugio en el mundo de la mafia, enfrentándose al hombre que destruyó para salvar. El Vieri la tortura, la desprecia y niega su amor, utilizando su propia fragilidad como arma. Mientras el clan Veira se desgarra por el misterio de la madre y el cambio de Matteo, Elena debe confrontar el monstruo que creó. En un mundo donde el amor es debilidad, el sacrificio de Elena es su única redención, pero también el arma más letal

A sus 19 años, la vida de Alma Reyes se desmorona cuando descubre que su padre la ha "entregado" como pago para saldar una deuda millonaria y salvar a su familia de la ruina. Su nuevo dueño no es otro que Adrián Vólkov, un CEO frío, calculador y despiadado. ​Adrián no busca solo dinero; busca venganza. Años atrás, las acciones del padre de Alma destruyeron a la familia Vólkov. Ahora, Adrián tiene el poder y ha regresado para cobrar esa deuda obligando a Alma a firmar un contrato que la convierte en su esposa. ​Atrapada y obligada a mudarse a la imponente mansión de su enemigo, Alma debe acatar una regla inquebrantable: fingir ante el mundo que son la pareja perfecta. Ella lo odia profundamente, considerándolo un monstruo que le ha robado la libertad. Él, por su parte, es un hombre implacable que asegura no creer en el amor. ​Sin embargo, convivir bajo el mismo techo desata una dinámica explosiva. Lo que comienza como un castigo calculado pronto se transforma en una obsesión peligrosa. Entre enfrentamientos constantes y una innegable tensión, la gruesa barrera de odio que los separa comienza a desdibujarse. Ambos descubrirán que mantener las apariencias es fácil, pero resistirse al fuego que empieza a quemar entre ellos podría ser el verdadero peligro. ​¿Podrá nacer algo real de un trato hecho por venganza?

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.