The flowers were gone. Hope was gone too, and the only thing of value left in her parents’ house was Nadia. Nadia did not cry out. She simply walked toward the canoe like someone accepting her own disappearance. She felt the pitying stares of the neighbors, saw her mother turn away, and felt the cold…
The road was silent, scorched by the afternoon sun, when a woman bent beneath a bundle of firewood took another trembling step. Dust clung to her skin. Two little girls followed behind her, barefoot, their faces far too serious for their age. Then a black luxury SUV stopped. Inside, a powerful man forgot how to…
Billionaire Gabriel was the only son of Chief Amzandu and had lived abroad since the age of twenty. After the death of his father, Gabriel returned home to take over the family business. His mother, Gloria, was a classy and beautiful woman, yet very humble and caring. She employed three maids in her large mansion:…
Part 1 Master Chief Nora Cade had spent twenty years in places where fear killed faster than bullets and ego got men buried. She had served with Naval Special Warfare long enough to become a rumor in rooms full of hardened operators, but at Joint Maritime Training Center in Virginia, rumor meant nothing to Major…
Part 1 By the time the twelfth hour of the hostage deadline began, Colonel Adrian Mercer had run out of famous men to trust. Somewhere in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, Ambassador Thomas Hale was being held inside a fortified stone compound controlled by Khaled Nassar, a warlord who had already released one execution video…
Abandoned by her father and tormented by her stepmother, Azima’s life was a silent hell until the day her stepmother’s cruelty burst into a public beating in the middle of the village market. While everyone watched in silence, one man stepped in. Baraka, the reclusive farmer, made an unexpected offer. He bought Azima’s freedom with…
Imagine this: you are a poor orphan girl living under the cruelty of a wicked stepmother. One day, to punish you and destroy your future, she forces you to marry a blind beggar. But there is one twist no one sees coming. The man is not blind. He is not poor. He is a secret…
“My daughters, please help me carry my firewood. I’m so tired.” “Don’t you ever call me your daughter.” Joy and Tracy were best friends in the village of Aduka. They were both 19 years old, both in secondary school, and everyone knew them as the two girls who were always together. Tracy was bold, sharp-tongued,…
A woman selling puff-puff on the street gave her last batch to three starving children. Years later, a convoy of luxury G-Wagons stopped at her tiny stall. When people talk about rock bottom, they usually imagine one terrible moment. But sometimes ruin comes in layers. First, life takes your joy. Then it takes your future….
I felt like the hospital floor was moving, as if I were walking on water. I tried to remember where Ernesto had been those days. He had insisted on staying with Lucía “so you can rest, Valeria.” He had said that I, as a mother, was already doing too much. He had also repeated something…
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