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My husband and I had an arrangement.

Ten years of marriage, him keeping mistresses while I pretended not to see. He called it a "modern open relationship." I called it "dignified mutual betrayal."

I thought we'd live like this forever, cold and calculated.

Until that night when his little lover brought him home, declaring her territory right in front of me.

In that moment, I suddenly smiled.

...

I heard the recording. My six-year-old son Jerry had been helping my husband cover up his affair, for an entire year.

Later, at his birthday party, I overheard his friends: "That's Jerry's nanny. His real mom works overseas."

My son told everyone I was just the nanny.

That day, standing in the hotel hallway, Jerry looked at me and said: "Can you promise to never come find me again? So Michelle ...

Five years ago, a devastating fire took her loved ones and burned away her past.
Now, she returns with her twin children, no longer powerless, but a secret venture capital mogul and world-class designer, ready to strike back, humiliate her enemies, protect her children, and reclaim everything that was stolen from her.
By a twist of fate, she becomes the bride of Sebastian Vanderbilt.
He is the mos...

"You have no idea what you've done to me. I've been replaying every sound you made, every way you came apart for me." His grip tightened. "I'm not letting that go. I'm not letting you go. Fuck the friendship. I want you."
I let out a little gasp. His thumb rubbed across my lower lip.
"I don't just want to f**k you—I want to keep you. You're my favorite sin, and I'll commit it again and again unt...

I'm the Santos family heiress—born into the kind of wealth and power that people kill for. For eighteen years, I've adored my "brother" Diego with all my heart—that golden, gorgeous surfing champion who's the pride of our family.

Then came that shark attack. A mysterious lifeguard nearly died saving us. When that DNA report landed on my desk, my world shattered completely: this beaten-up kid Luca...

My daughter was taken by rogues, and my husband didn't care.

But when his childhood friend went missing in another attack, he spared no expense searching for her.

I searched for our daughter alone. When I died in the wilderness, I'd been looking for fifty years.

As I bled out that day, I had only one thought—I'm sorry, Lily. I'm so sorry I couldn't find you.

Then I opened my eyes and found mys...

On my twentieth birthday, I walked out of Boston Medical Center with a piece of paper that might as well have been my death certificate. "Stage IV pancreatic cancer. Three to six months, maybe less." The doctor's words were still ringing in my head.

You know what it's like to come home with news that's going to destroy everything, holding onto some stupid hope that maybe, just maybe, your family ...

My marriage to sports management CEO Kieran Vale was supposed to be simple.
Two years. Two million dollars. Stay out of each other's way.
For eighteen months, we barely spoke. He was the ice-cold businessman, I was the broke boxing coach who needed the money.
Then something changed.
Suddenly, Kieran started caring about what I ate, where I went, how I felt. He hired nutritionists, canceled meeting...

"The night I miscarried our baby, my husband was toasting his mistress's award win."

Five years of secret marriage. I was Broadway producer Maximilian Cross's hidden wife while the world thought he was a golden bachelor. Only I knew who he was really fucking every night.

Until that bitch Vivienne Sterling showed up.

She became his "artistic muse." I became his live-in booty call. He took her to...

I was married to Finn Murphy for five years, listening to him drunkenly cry my half-sister Isabella's name every single night. She had been sent to the Moretti family in my place and died in a shootout. Finn blamed me for her death every day, believing I had stolen Isabella's life and destroyed their love.

Then Finn died in a gunfight protecting me. With his last breath, he begged me to stop clin...

I was in love with Ethan Black, a brilliant man with big dreams. I gave him my twenties, my body, my loyalty. I worked three jobs while he chased his startup dreams. And when he finally made it, he became a stranger.
Then I found out he got another woman pregnant, the same woman who dumped him in college when his family lost everything. That nearly destroyed me. But I stayed. I told myself love w...

I almost gave up admission to a top-15 university for my childhood sweetheart Brent, fantasizing he would finally confess his love.

Until that afternoon when I overheard him telling his friend dismissively: "Without me, she's nothing."

Turns out I could never compete with Sienna, the blonde beauty who transferred here three months ago. Turns out he chose Michigan State because the pretty girl ne...

To avenge my father, I married Philadelphia mafia don Salvatore and poisoned him with my own hands on our wedding night. I thought my revenge was complete, until I met his son Matteo at the funeral—a cold, handsome,dangerous man.

Matteo suspected from the start that I'd killed his father. According to plan, I was supposed to get close to him, seduce him, then kill the last Rossi heir when he trus...

The champagne in my glass had gone flat, but I barely noticed. From our VIP box at the Vienna State Opera House, I watched my husband lean close to the pianist Lucia—close enough that she was practically sitting in my lap.

Five years of marriage. Five years of playing the perfect Habsburg wife, smiling through charity galas and dinner parties, pretending I didn't see the way other women looked at...

I woke up in his tent thinking I'd finally gotten everything I'd ever dreamed of.

Six years. Six entire years of making myself into whoever Noah wanted me to be, giving up my UCLA full-ride scholarship, planning to follow him to Boston, convincing myself this was what "love" looked like.

Until I accidentally saw the messages on the iPad.

"Had to get it done before school starts."
"Jade's my tra...

Valentina Roseheart has been making my life hell since the day I won the scholarship she thought was hers. Cornering me in parking garages, leaving scars, making sure foster trash like me knows exactly where I belong.
Then she sent Tyler Brooks to finish what she started.
Her ex-boyfriend showed up with that devastating smile and an offer I couldn't refuse.
"Come to my world," he said, blue eyes s...

They say unrequited love hurts the most.

They have no idea.

Ten years. Ten years of stealing glances at Caspian Brooks across training pools, memorizing the way his eyes crinkled when he laughed, treasuring every casual touch like it was made of gold. Ten years of pretending friendship was enough while my heart bled every time he looked through me like I was invisible.

I thought if I was good e...

For nine years, I loved Jake, heir to the Steel Knights MC, like a fool—until I saw him tangled up with my own cousin in the garage… while she was carrying his child. They laughed at me, called me "just a mechanic," treated me like their loyal dog. But I'll show them—the most underestimated roses grow the sharpest thorns. From Texas to California, from a cast-out nobody to the underground racing q...

Pain shot through my body as I woke up. Every muscle ached in ways I'd never felt before. My face burned as memories flooded back: his body pressed against mine, his deep voice commanding "Engrave this name into your soul. From this night forward, you're mine—for a lifetime, for eternity." But now? He was gone. Just a card left behind like I was some transaction. My fingers trembled as I crumpled ...

My name is Serena, and I've always lived in my sister Stella's shadow.

In the werewolf world, only she-wolves with Moonlight bloodline can bear the strongest heirs for Alphas. When my sister Stella refuses to marry the car-accident-disabled Alpha Adrian, I'm pushed forward as her substitute bride.

Everyone believes I'm Stella with the precious Moonlight bloodline, including my gentle "crippled" ...

I saved Frank from an avalanche. He paid me back by locking me at home with a pregnancy monitor and a salt-free diet. When he announced to the world on television that he was single, causing me to miscarry in a blizzard that very night, I knew this man was beyond saving.
So, I made him drink a potion that erases memory. Now, he has completely forgotten me, his wife, and our dead child.
And my grea...

I am Scarlett King, heiress to a Texas oil empire and a woman who has died once before.

In my past life, I thought my marriage to cowboy Colt was nothing more than mutual respect and distant politeness. It wasn't until I was sorting through his belongings after his death that I discovered the truth—those yellowed photographs, handwritten love poems, a decade's worth of secret devotion...

"She is...

Three months after I died, he used his Grammy acceptance speech to shame me before thirty million people. He accused me of ethical violations, of seducing him, then running off with his money and our dog, leaving him with massive medical debt.
Little did he know, our dog Max and I were both gone, taken by the same cancer.
At the stroke of midnight, as his words still hung in the air, my Instagram ...

The sunset over Portland looks like something out of a postcard tonight. Too bad I won't be around to see many more of them.

Six months. That's what Dr. Martinez gave me this afternoon. Stage four stomach cancer, spreading fast. I sat in my car in the hospital parking lot for an hour afterward, trying to figure out who I'm supposed to call with news like this.

My phone buzzes—my brother, right o...

At eleven p.m., I'm staring at the charity foundation's financial report, barely able to focus on the numbers—Theron is "networking" again, but for three years now, his "networking" has always involved another woman. Then my phone rings. It's Tommy, the paparazzo: "Mrs. Sterling, your husband's on his private yacht, all over some 22-year-old blonde intern!"

Thirty-seven times. Have you ever tried...

They say werewolves only love once, love until death.

But when my destined mate chose another woman in a life-or-death moment, when I tore up that sacred contract with my own hands, I finally understood—some loves are destined to end in betrayal.

I am Ainsley Silverstone, heir to the Silver Moon pack. I thought the worst pain was being betrayed, until I awakened memories of my past life and disc...

All my life, I've been the invisible daughter in this family.

My sister Madison radiates brilliance, my brother Ryan is the beloved golden child, while I'm Harper—just an "unplanned surprise," as my parents openly admit, their unwanted burden.

Serving as unpaid labor at engagement parties, abandoned with a 103-degree fever while they vacationed in the Bahamas, having my very bloodline questioned...

"Didn't know a clumsy girl would be sent to me?" He said, and I felt a ripple go through me.

His voice!

It was the deepest one I have ever heard. His aura screams power but I don't know why I kept on looking at his face as if I was under a love spell.

"You keep looking at me, did you find me too pretty?" He asked, and his deep voice jolted me awake, goosebumps traveling down my skin when I rea...

Sheila moaned into his mouth, her fingers slipping away from his neck and then traced under his shirt, nails grazing his skin.
Arthur growled in response, heat surging through him like wildfire.
She had let loose his last string of restraint, and all he wanted—all he fucking wanted—was to bury himself inside her, to claim every inch of her until she forgot every other man who had ever touched her...

Time always bent in her favor—until it didn’t.

Anna Joe had lived through betrayal, heartbreak, and even death in another life. This time, she vowed to rewrite her story.

But fate had other plans.

After being manipulated by her cold-hearted ex-husband, Anna ends up in a stranger’s bed. By morning, flashing cameras and a room full of paparazzi greet her with one headline: ‘Adulteress Heiress C...

I didn't look up until I was done packing, then I clutched my suitcase and looked at him. He glared so hard at me, so hard that I feared he was going to do something again. His eyes were cold and I knew he was fighting so hard to keep the anger just beneath the surface. But I had made up my mind. I was leaving. I couldn't stay here any longer, not like this.

"I can't believe you're doing this,...

So after this weird plague, basically all the alphas disappeared. Only a few packs had alpha bloodlines left, so they formed an alliance. Whoever could produce an alpha pup in the younger generation becomes the next pack leader.

I'm Natalia from Moon Stone pack. My dad's the alpha, I've got alpha blood, but I can't shift. So everyone treats me like garbage. My mom died young, dad remarried this b...

After being publicly humiliated by the domineering CEO, Aubrey Sterling vanished into Chicago's rainy night in tears. She took with her not only a broken heart, but also a secret—Connor Blake's child.

Seven years later, Connor unexpectedly reunites with his former lover at a business meeting. The once vulnerable girl had transformed into a brilliant architectural design queen.

He desperately pur...

I watched my husband choose another woman over me.
Less than three seconds. That's all it took for Dr. Colton Whitmore to decide which pregnant woman to save first during the December storm. Me—his wife, bleeding out from a car crash. Or Sienna—his high school crush, back in town and conveniently helpless.
"She's an athlete," he told the nurse. "She can handle it."
Handle what? Dying while he shop...

I got switched at birth with a billionaire's daughter. At forty-five, they finally found me.
The Montgomery family invited me to their Aspen resort for Thanksgiving. I thought maybe I'd finally have the fancy family I always wondered about.
But Delphine, the fake daughter who stole my life? She looked me up and down and called me "authentic." Said my ski gear was "cheap" and unsafe for "advanced s...

The moment I found myself bound in that warehouse, I was still foolishly hoping James would come to my rescue. Four years—I had washed countless shirts for him, written innumerable papers, even helped him pursue other girls. Everyone called me lovesick, but I believed I had a place in his heart.

Yet there he stood, pointing at Emily, saying, "I choose her." As the knife pierced my chest, all I fe...

From the moment she was born, she was an anomaly: a wolfless daughter of an Alpha, heir to a pack she could never truly lead. She was destined to rule with her best friend and fated mate at her side, but he shattered her world by rejecting her and siding with tradition. Her heartbreak and humiliation were absolute, leaving her a leader without a pack, an outcast in her own home.
Miles away, a rogu...

His hand slammed against the wall beside my head, his gaze burning into mine.
“Tell me, Little Wolf… you feel it too, don’t you?”
My breath hitched. “Feel what?”
“The bond,” he growled, leaning closer, his lips brushing against my ear. “The pull that doesn’t care you belong to him.”
“You’re my mate’s brother,” I whispered, my voice trembling.
His smile was sharp, dangerous. “Exactly. Which means I...

When I was twenty, Samuel called off our engagement and chose Stella instead.

After the engagement party ended, he told me: "Stella saved my life once. Now her father wants to marry her off to that disgusting old man Harrison Burke. I can't just stand by and watch."

He said to give him three years to repay his debt of gratitude, and after three years he would come back to me.

Like a fool, I wai...

As an Omega, Stella suffers from a rare condition called frequent heat syndrome, enduring burning desire every week. But her boyfriend Alexander grows increasingly cold, preferring to "study" with the scheming Madison until late at night rather than help ease her suffering.

When another heat cycle arrives and Alexander abandons her once again, Stella finally breaks down. She turns her attention t...

Nine and a half million followers. Penthouse in LA. More money than I ever dreamed possible.
I built my empire teaching people to transform themselves, to become beautiful despite their scars. What I never told them was why I needed to learn that skill in the first place.
Then she slides into my DMs: "OMG ScarlettGlow! We went to high school together! Your biggest fan here!"
Madison Blackwell. The...

My childhood friend Jake prepared an elaborate confession ceremony for Madison during our graduation trip.

Everyone thought I would show up crying and making a scene to stop him, because in their eyes, I was madly in love with Jake.

But I only went to return the necklace he had given me, and then I left.

Jake thought I was playing hard to get, but I really wasn't. Because that night I was alrea...

Claire got her death sentence at life's happiest moment—advanced cancer, six months to live.

At that very time, her husband Kelvin was at a crucial juncture in his career. To avoid becoming his burden, Claire orchestrated the perfect "betrayal"—letting Kelvin witness her "affair" with his own eyes. The enraged Kelvin immediately filed for divorce, and Claire became exactly what she intended: an u...

My mother came to my baby's first birthday party with murder in her purse.
Not a literal weapon—something far more vicious. A fake DNA test claiming my daughter wasn't my husband's child. She planned to destroy my family in front of everyone: friends, neighbors, people recording everything for social media.
She got her wish.
Caspian shattered. Jumped off the balcony right there at the country club...

My husband Michael's father and my own father shared the same name—Robert. His was Robert Carter; mine, Robert Smith. I once thought it a sweet coincidence, until that 3 AM phone call turned this quirk of fate into a living nightmare.
The nursing home called to say Robert Carter had died, but when Michael returned from his business trip, he assumed it was my father who had passed. "Old Robert's fi...

I thought next week I'd be walking through the daisies on Grandma's farm to marry the man who promised to treat me like a princess—until our wedding planner's call shattered everything. He'd changed our venue to a Tuscan castle because it was his childhood friend Lina's favorite place? When exactly had I agreed to that?

What chilled me to the bone was seeing Grandma's heirloom necklace—my heirloo...

I used to think I was living the perfect life. I had my career as a strategic planner that was respected across the region. I had Kai, my fiancé who I'd loved since we were kids. I even daydreamed about the pups we'd have someday, little ones running around the pack house with his eyes and my stubbornness.

But that was all bullshit.

One conversation I wasn't supposed to hear changed everything. ...

I believed in our love story. Then I uncovered the truth in the company books: my husband was funneling my money to his mistress. He was paying for her spa and a child that wasn't even his. He betrayed me in our own bed, then laughed in my face, calling her his "real family." Okay. Challenge accepted. I'll show him a real lesson in loss, using the very wealth and influence he desires. Mess with a ...

At the Rossini family gala, I clutched my wine glass, listening to Patrick chat with the senator's daughter about politics and business, without even the right to join their conversation. It wasn't until I overheard him in his study late that night calling me "just a plaything from peasant stock" that I realized how ridiculous my six years of devotion had been.

After fleeing to Los Angeles, I tho...

Adele Monroe thought she had love all figured out—until betrayal shattered her world. Now, starting over in New York, she wants one thing only: to survive the city without letting anyone close enough to break her again.
Then she meets him.
Liam Lancaster, the untouchable billionaire CEO everyone fears. Ruthless. Controlled. Infuriatingly magnetic. The kind of man who builds empires with one hand a...