Clara sacrificed her culinary career—and the use of her right hand—pulling her fiancé Julian from a kitchen fire. For three years, she ghost-created the recipes that won him a Michelin star. But when she catches him giving the Executive Chef title of their dream restaurant to his tearful mistress, Clara realizes her sacrifice bought nothing but lies. Armed with the truth and backed by Damian Cross, a ruthless hospitality mogul who has always known her worth, Clara is ready to burn Julian’s empire to the ground.

Ethan Hayes thought his three children had died at birth—until he discovered his professor wife had secretly handed them to her student and lover for human experiments. Two were already dead. The third, a disabled daughter Ethan had never been allowed to meet, was still alive. When he tried to expose them, Vivian branded him unstable and Lucas turned him into the next test subject. Ethan escaped, found his daughter, and lost her all over again. This time, he stopped fighting. He let everyone believe he was dead. Weeks later, Lucas stepped onto the stage at a prestigious medical gala, ready to claim the greatest honor of his career—only to watch the dead husband walk through the doors.

When Vivian Hayes discovers her billionaire husband gifting her unreleased masterpiece gown to his mistress, she doesn’t shed a tear—she legally revokes his empire’s entire upcoming collection. For four years, Vivian was the secret genius behind Locke Luxury, while Harrison took the bows. Now, armed with ironclad copyright documents and a cutthroat lawyer, she’s dismantling his life stitch by stitch. He thought she was just his shadow. He’s about to find out she’s the entire sun.

Clara thought Marcus was her savior, lifting her from poverty. But when his heiress fiancée reveals Marcus has been stealing Clara’s jewelry designs to build her brand, the illusion shatters. Trapped by a predatory contract and her father's massive gambling debt, Clara has one way out: a dangerous deal with Marcus’s ruthless billionaire rival, Julian Thorne. Will she become his pawn, or the queen who finally takes the board?