Avery transmigrates into another world—and finds herself selling her own stepbrother to a slave trader. She looks at the arrogant buyer before her, then at the stepbrother behind her, his face empty of hope. She pushes away the beast crystals being offered. “I’m not selling him.” But after taking him home, she discovers they have nothing but bare walls. Without selling someone, they really might not survive. Her other stepbrother is away with the hunting party, but his share of the meat is barely enough to feed Avery alone. Three people in the household. Two going hungry. Yet both brothers work tirelessly, never complaining, too timid to stand up for themselves. What else can Avery do? She touches her own animal ears, rolls up her sleeves, and gets to work feeding her brothers. … A few world-building details: Females retain a partly animal form, while males ordinarily look human and shift into beasts when hunting. The extent of their transformations and mutations depends on their rank…

Emily Carter is barefoot beneath a mafia boss's desk when her husband walks in and tells him she's unstable. For three years, Derek has controlled her money, her friendships, and the story everyone believes about their marriage. Tonight, Emily has nowhere left to run. But Alexander Moretti refuses to hand her over. Then Derek mentions her dead father's name—and the man who hasn't flinched at a single threat suddenly loses his composure. Emily thought she was escaping a cruel husband. Now she must uncover what he has been searching for, why Alexander knew her father, and how much of her marriage was a lie.

For a hundred years, Evander Vale loved the woman everyone feared. He shared his life with Seraphine, healed her broken magic, and helped her reclaim her place among the elven courts. Then she tore out his soul. To please a saint who had framed him, she burned his body and promised to bind his spirit to another man's sword. When asked whether she would miss him, she said, "He is only my familiar." Evander has seven days to survive—and one chance to escape. This time, he intends to leave nothing behind. Not even his love for her. But some bonds survive the worlds that separate them. And the woman who destroyed him may be far more dangerous when she realizes he is gone.

At eighty years old, Eleanor Whitmore walks into a prestigious New York dance academy, only to be mocked by arrogant instructor Adrian Cole and his students. But when Adrian performs a legendary routine to humiliate her, Eleanor calmly reveals something that leaves the entire room speechless: she created the choreography herself. What begins as an embarrassing confrontation uncovers a fifty-four-year-old secret involving stolen artistic credit, a powerful dance dynasty, and a woman whose name was erased from history. Now, with time running out before the historic studio closes forever, Eleanor must confront the man who stole her legacy and prove that it's never too late to reclaim what belongs to you. A powerful story of dignity, betrayal, second chances, and the courage to be remembered.

Before we married, my husband promised his son from his first marriage wouldn’t disrupt our life. Then, on Thanksgiving night, a fourteen-year-old boy appeared on our doorstep, soaked through and shivering. “Could I stay here for two nights?” When I hesitated, he apologized and turned back toward the rain. I caught his wrist and let him in. I thought he needed a warm bed. Then I noticed how he watched our faces before taking food—and how quickly he offered to leave whenever his mother called. Giving him a place to stay was easy. Convincing him he deserved one would take years. Twenty years later, he bought me a mansion. His birth mother arrived demanding to know why the house belonged to me. But money wasn’t the only thing she wanted from the boy she had once let walk away.

Anthony Moretti has spent decades making dangerous men obey him. Then a three-year-old girl walks into his secret meeting, places a purple crayon beside his loaded pistol, and asks to borrow him for one day. Sophia needs someone for Family Day. Her father is dead, her mother needs to work, and Anthony looks like a man who can clear his own schedule. He says yes. But his most trusted lieutenant seems strangely interested in whether he’ll keep that promise. And when an ordinary afternoon ends with a photograph of the woman Anthony believed he buried thirty-four years ago, he starts asking questions someone close to him has spent a lifetime preventing. Sophia only wanted a day at school, the swings, and strawberry ice cream. Anthony may have to dismantle the life he built to give her anything more.

For thirteen Christmases, Claire Whitmore watched her family celebrate without her. Every year brought another excuse—and another photograph with no place for her at the table. Then her grandmother leaves her the family’s favorite seaside house. Two days before Christmas, twenty-three relatives arrive with luggage, assigned bedrooms, and a locksmith. They haven’t asked permission. They expect Claire to open the gate, make their beds, and swallow her resentment. This time, she refuses. But her grandmother left more than a house: three binders, an old iPad, and a letter warning Claire whom not to believe. As her family demands to be let inside, Claire begins discovering why they kept her outside for thirteen years—and what they’re afraid she’ll uncover next.

Two nights before her wedding, Nora Bennett was sleeping in her car. Now she’s standing beside a hospital bed in a private chapel, marrying a feared Chicago mafia boss who cannot say yes—or refuse. The arrangement is simple: stay beside Adrian Voss until he dies, and his family will pay for her mother’s care. But Nora used to be an intensive care nurse. And the doctor overseeing her new husband’s treatment is the same man whose testimony destroyed her career. Something about Adrian’s care doesn’t add up. While his cousin waits to inherit control and his doctor warns her to stop asking questions, Nora begins keeping a record. She speaks to Adrian when nobody else bothers. She treats him like a man instead of a fortune waiting to change hands. Then his finger moves after she asks him a question. Now Nora must discover who she can trust—and whether the husband everyone considers helpless has been listening all along.