Faithful and humble wife Kokei Keyu seemed to enjoy a near-perfect marriage until her husband, Dodeye, accepted a chieftaincy title from home. Kokei’s life is about to change forever.
In a compelling and spellbinding drama, age-long secrets burst into a once-peaceful home, causing more damage than all anticipated, revealing the past and showing that what we sow is really what we are going to reap.
The truth is we never really know when or where true love will show; it's always best to be prepared and embrace our destiny.
Many of us we will only get once chance at real love. This island romance is something I think most of us can easily relate to and for which we secretly wish!
College is a place where you deepen your experiences and get ready for the big wide world.
Lorrie is heading home for a break, but it seems to be more of an empty house she stares at rather than with her workaholic father. No changes there.
“Don’t be afraid. Just push your lips against mine, and then follow my lead.”
With her father away along with an absent mother, Lorrie’s experiences with men and relationships are lacking – but is eager to learn. Luckily, Lorrie has a friend called Emily, who is pretty cool even though she is a little older than her. With some experience under her belt, Emily offers to take Lorrie under her wing in to provide comfort – in more ways than one. While daddy is away – Lorrie and Emily have all the pleasure play …
“You like this, don’t you? Naughty girl.”
Jenny is the daughter of one of the wealthiest businessmen in L.A. She has everything she wants right at the swipe of a credit card. Well, almost everything. After an attempt on her life, Jenny's father has assigned her a personal bodyguard. Fabian follows her wherever she goes with his delicious bulging muscles and chiselled features that Jenny wished she could run her hands over... Having a babysitter is bad enough, but did he have to be so hot?! Not that Fabian is completely happy with the arrangement, either. Jenny is spoiled, entitled, downright irritating, and has a sumptuous body that makes his job, well... quite hard. Mutual attraction aside, though, Fabian has a job to do. Jenny is in danger. But will they be able to fight their feelings for long enough for him to do it?
Centered around the lives of two sisters, this piece deals with two siblings who share more than love as their bond. Amidst the story lines, we get to see firsthand what family secrets really can do.
When Mintaah's attempts to get Pastor Essel to propose to her fail, she plans to seduce him so that he will impregnate her. Thus, one evening, when she sees a man coming to Pastor Essel's room from afar, she goes to lie in his bed half naked, and closes her eyes and covers her face with clothes because she cannot look at Pastor Essel's face while she makes love with him. When the man enters the room, and sees Mintaah half-naked in the bed, he is carried away by lust and makes love to her. But unknown to Mintaah, the person she has seduced is not Pastor Essel, but his twin brother, Bentil who is the exact resemblance of Pastor Essel. All along, Mintaah does not know that she has seduced the wrong person, but goes home thinking that she has succeeded in seducing Pastor Essel. As time elapses, Mintaah becomes pregnant and mentions Pastor Essel as being responsible for the pregnancy. What will happen with Mintaah, Bentil, and Pastor Essel as the story unfolds?
A Hand To Hold offers a story about characters living real life events in New York City and struggling to find happiness and a little romance in life.
The heroine of A Hand to Hold is Adina Springfield, a middle-aged woman who was orphaned as a child in Ethiopia and adopted by an American couple. When the story opens, Adina has been divorced for a couple of years and is struggling to make ends meet as a single mother supporting her three children. When she loses her job, Adina is forced to ask her ex-husband, Charles Kumi, for financial help. Charles and Adina have a difficult past, so the last thing she wants to do is ask him for help, nor does he make things easy for her. But Adina's adoptive parents taught her to be resilient, and never ever to give up hope. She is also lonely, so with the encouragement of her girlfriends, she reenters the world of finding romantic relationships in the not-so-romantic space of Internet dating. But then unexpectedly, Adina meets a loving and caring man interested in her story. With a little courage on her part, this encounter leads Adina to her big career break and to second chances in a beautiful romantic relationship.
In this novel, author Seconde Nimenya parallels real life events, exploring the cultural hindrances that rob many women and girls worldwide of their dignity. In that respect, Seconde writes about stories we can all relate to, and learn from.
Julia has been let go from her job of 20 years, as a ground water geologist in Eastern Washington and must find a new way to support herself. She decides to pack up her belongings and return to her family's cottage on Pine Island. There she hopes to find a new meaning to her life, while living in the peaceful and serene setting that she always experienced in the northern woods of Canada.
She is surprised to discover that her old buddy, Andrew, still spends every summer across the river on Brown's Island, where he spent his youth with his family. The two had always spent their childhoods playing, fishing and enjoying the tranquility of island life as children. Once again, they share time enjoying the love of the great north.
Julia had left for college over two decades ago, to make a life for herself working on the plutonium ground water cleanup project left from the atomic bomb processing, at the Hanford Nuclear Site in Richland, Washington. There she had made a life for herself; not returning to the island she loved so much. Destiny forced her to reevaluate her life and priorities encompassing many changes in attitudes and lifestyle.
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