James Arks
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unbreakable
Adventure Unbreakable: A Story of Dynasty, Deception, and Dangerous Love
Elara Vance is the perfect daughter, a poised heiress, and the symbol of her family's billion-dollar legacy. Her world is a golden cage built on strategy and silence, where her life is planned out for power and meant to join with the next best asset.
She never intended for her perfect world to crash-literally-into Kai Reyes, a passionate, working-class musician who smelled of sawdust, rebellion, and downtown life. Their secret moments, like stolen kisses in Kai's dusty shop, laughing over salty chips, and whispered promises, became the only real things in Elara's life. warful man in the city, Marcus Vance, discovers their forbidden connection, the war begins. Her father doesn't threaten with violence; he uses economic annihilation, putting a target on Kai's struggling music shop and, worse, on the college future of his younger sister.
To save the man she loves from financial ruin, Elara must make an agonizing sacrifice: she orchestrates a devastating, public betrayal that forces Kai to believe she chose her comfortable future over him.
Two years of brutal, deliberate silence follow.
Elara commits herself to becoming the ultimate Metric Perfected, learning her father's empire from the inside out to find its single, fatal flaw. Kai channels his heartbreak into a relentless ambition, building his life into an unassailable fortress where no Vance can ever threaten him again.
The final clash is unavoidable. On her twenty-first birthday, Elara puts her last plan into action, giving up everything-her name, her comfort, and a big part of her father's fortune-to win the one thing that matters: Kai's lasting, unbreakable freedom.
Unbreakable is a story of love forged in the fire of deception, proving that the deepest connections are those you fight for, even if it means tearing down a dynasty.
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Mr. Ben Having some of the poems in the first edition of the poem collection, ‘The P.O.T (Poured Out Thoughts)’ published in several poetry magazines as High On Poems, Earthborne Magazine, Deadsnakes and so on, the author has ushered in the second, titled ‘The P.O.T (Poured Out Thoughts) ---The Reloaded.
It is said to be ‘reloaded’ because there are other poems to be added to make this edition slightly richer than the first. With poems as ‘Out of the Box’, ‘Dad Loves Me’, ‘Heralding God’s Magnificence’ being published in notable poetry journals and magazines, the sequel is hoped to make an impact to the entire world, beginning with the readers.
The Table of Contents has the additional poems that readers, who have read the first edition, would realize. They are intended to look into general issues, family, gender, parental, religious (Christian faith), children, love and personal/motivational.
The aim behind this piece is simple. As said in the first edition, it is about entertaining, enlightening, inspiring or motivating and enabling people think for themselves.
Worthy of Note: The author believes that subsequent edition(s) of the work would carry the above-stated aim.