Her mate ordered her to stop on a burning staircase—then carried his mistress to safety and left Tessa to burn. Weeks later, that same woman straps Tessa to an infirmary bed so Alpha Adrian can reject their bond in public without her there. He thinks the broken Luna will finally disappear. Instead, Tessa rejects him back. Then the restraints are found. The recording surfaces. The “bond treatment” in her medicine tests positive for wolfsbane. And the woman Adrian discarded turns out to carry Lycan royal blood—blood his Alpha command can no longer control. Now every lie, every dose, every order has a record, and Tessa is done begging to be chosen. This time, Adrian and his mistress are the ones trapped by what they did.
For eight years, Clara Vance was the unseen genius behind Julian Thorne’s Michelin-starred empire. She loved him silently, enduring late nights and burned hands. But when Julian hires a glamorous PR director who sabotages Clara’s kitchen, Julian publicly blames Clara, shattering a plate at her feet. In a split second, Clara's devotion dies. She walks out, deletes his number, and takes her copyrighted recipes with her. Now, as his empire crumbles, Julian will learn exactly who held the knife.
Clara gave up her architectural genius to care for their sick son, Toby, while Julian built his empire. But when Julian's first love returns, he abandons Toby to play father to her child. The final straw? A public gala where Julian forces Toby into the shadows, demanding he hide their relation to protect the other boy. Clara stops crying and starts plotting. She’s taking her son, her patents, and tearing down Julian’s empire brick by brick.
For four months, Sharon secretly cursed her ex-boyfriend Ethan Pierce every single day.
When she finally receives the call announcing his death, she can't believe her luck.
She spends the entire night choosing the perfect funeral outfit, arrives looking like she's closing a billion-dollar business deal, and delivers the performance of a lifetime—crying so hard that everyone believes she's the grieving woman who loved him most.
Except...
She faints.
When she wakes up, the supposedly dead Ethan is sitting beside her.
Turns out his death was nothing more than a carefully planned deception in a brutal family inheritance war.
Now the only witness to his survival is the one woman who can't stand him.
Forced into his dangerous game, Sharon soon discovers that pretending to mourn him is much easier than pretending she doesn't still have feelings buried beneath years of resentment.
Enemies.
Former lovers.
One fake death.
One impossible marriage.
And one very possessive man determined to prove that no one could ever love her more than he does.