Gail Scaffe

"""I won't kiss you."" His voice was cold. Right, it's just a business deal... But his touches were warm and...tempting ""A virgin?"" he suddenly stared at me... ***** Emma Wells, a college girl who's about to graduate. She was abused and tortured by her stepmother Jane and stepsister Anna. The only hope in her life was her prince-like boyfriend Matthew David, who promised to make her the happiest woman around the world. However, her world was completely crashed down when her stepmother took $50000 as the betrothal gift from an old man and agreed to marry her off. Even worse, she found her dear boyfriend cheated with her roommate Vivian Stone. Walking on the street under the pouring rain, she was desperate and hopeless... Clenching her fists, she decided. If she was doomed to be sold out, then she'll be her own seller. Rushed into the street and stopping in front of a luxurious car, she just wondered how much her virginity would worth..."

Liesl McGrath is an up-and-coming artist but for eight years she focuses on her husband as a devoted partner, adjusting her life and her career around him achieving his goal of becoming CEO by the age of thirty. Her life is perfect until her glass castle crashes down. Her husband admits to infidelity with none other than her own sister and there is a child coming. Liesl decides the best way to mend her shattered heart is by destroying the one thing he holds more important than anything else: his career. Isaias Machado is a billionaire first generation American he knows the value of hard work and doing what it takes to survive. His entire life has been geared to the moment he can take the McGrath company away from the corrupted men who once left his family homeless. When Liesl McGrath approaches the billionaire to bribe him with information set to ruin her ex-husband, Isaias Machado is chomping at the bit to take everything the McGrath’s prize including Liesl. A story of love, revenge and healing needs to start somewhere and Liesl’s pain is the catalyst to the wildest rollercoaster ride of her life. Let the bribery begin.

To the world, he is the untouchable prince of the empire. Behind closed doors, he is the monster who locked my cage. Arthur Sterling was supposed to be my cold, distant stepbrother. He gave me a home when I was nothing but a bruised orphan. He taught me to play the piano, clothed me in silk, and gave me an illusion of peace. Until the night I brought a boy home. In the span of a heartbeat, my saintly brother vanished, leaving behind a ruthless predator. He didn’t just break my boyfriend—he broke my life. He built a soundproof room beneath the manor, wrapped my wrists in velvet ribbons, and whispered cruel promises against my skin: “You were never meant for the sun, Elena. You belong in my shadow.” For years, I fought. I ran across oceans. I hid under false names, worked in dirt, and found solace in broken strays—just to breathe air that didn’t belong to him. Every single time, he hunted me down. He bought an entire island just to build a fortress for his bird. He brought me to my knees with silk, shadows, and whispered ruin, swearing he would burn the whole world before letting me fly free. I don’t want his billions. I don’t want his twisted love. I want his ruin. And if a monster refuses to let you go… you teach him how it feels to bleed.