One hour before her wedding, Elise Wright is locked in a room by the people she trusted most—her parents and her younger sister, Lillian. By the time she escapes, the ceremony is already underway… with Lillian walking down the aisle in her place, marrying the man Elise loved for five years. Humiliated and abandoned, Elise walks away from what she thought was her future. But Elise is not the weak, obedient daughter her family believes her to be. Hidden within her late grandfather’s will lies a secret that changes everything—Elise is the majority shareholder of Celestial Holdings, a multi-billion-dollar tech empire… and the silent force funding her ex-fiancé Adrian Blake’s entire company. When Elise steps into power, everything shifts. Contracts collapse. Investments disappear. Empires crumble. Now Adrian is desperate. Lillian’s “perfect marriage” begins to crack. And the Wright family finally realizes they chose the wrong daughter. They took her wedding. But Elise will take their world.

For three years, I was Julian’s secret ghost-chef. I perfected his menus in the shadows while he basked in Michelin stars. When he announced his engagement to a vicious socialite using our private anniversary dish, I stayed silent. When she burned my hands and he rushed to check her designer dress, I walked away. What Julian doesn't know is that I’m not just a lowly sous-chef—I’m the Vance hospitality heiress. And my new fiancé is about to buy Julian’s entire empire.

Claire watches her husband lie to her on the phone while he has his arm around her best friend twenty feet away. She doesn’t confront him. She makes Vanessa’s husband, Roman, a better offer: no strings, no feelings, just revenge. Then Ethan hears Claire moan on the phone—and the husband who hasn’t touched her in three months suddenly abandons his “business trip” and races home demanding answers. Too late. Claire is done begging for scraps. Vanessa can keep lying. Ethan can keep panicking. Claire and Roman keep going back to each other, even when no one is watching and there’s nothing left to prove. Revenge was supposed to make their cheating spouses hurt. It was never supposed to make Claire want Roman for real.

Seraphina Vance rules the underground Obsidian Syndicate with an iron fist and a frozen heart. Untouchable and lethal, she trusts no one—until Kaelen Thorne. Stoic, deadly, and fiercely protective, Kaelen becomes her ultimate weapon and her darkest temptation. But when Seraphina is violently overthrown and thrown into a televised survival arena, she discovers the mastermind watching from the observation deck is the man she almost loved. He wants her ruined. She wants him dead.