The Stolen Love: An arranged marriage by Mara J. Raven

AnastasiaAs a child, I dreamed of a love taken from the stories my mother read to me. A love like she had and which brought her to where she is now.Now, at the age of twenty-two, I still dream of my first love that ignored me for so many years. Struggling with anxiety since then, traumas that I’m still trying to get over, I try my best to ignore him.But when he appears in my life unexpectedly, our parents forcing us to marry for the good of their company, I feel like my world is falling apart.Enzo is sick. Enzo also made me sick and crazy after his madness and illness.Enzo was my obsession and he is my breath that I felt I had lost for so many years.But he is with my cousin and I am totally forbidden.Forbidden to love me a second time.EnzoShe has no way of knowing that the reason why I left was her.The little girl running with her tail in the wind stole my heart and there was no way I could make her mine. I didn’t want to pollute her with my thoughts and I didn’t want her to be part of my world.After years of not seeing her, I feel that now I can have a cure.I can finally allow myself to love without being consumed by thoughts and demons.But Anastasia Garcia is not a cure or salvation for me.It’s my obsession. Destruction. My own massacre.And it will be mine at any price.”They said we were impossible.At present, my future remains uncertain, but I am accepting of this ambiguity, mostly.The arrival of my childhood crush, Enzo Fernandez, a cantankerous landscaper, piques both my interest and amusement. When the news that I have to marry him for the family business comes out, there is a favorable opportunity to make him notice me.There’s a big problem though.He was about to engaged with my cousin until he found out about our wedding.Sometimes, unexpected events occur.”