Connor Reed was hiding behind a steering wheel when Charlotte Hayes ran into his headlights—barefoot, drugged, and pursued by armed men. He saved her life. Once she recovered, they shared a night neither could forget. Then he disappeared. More than four years later, the beautiful CEO finds him beneath a truck in a rundown garage. This time, she brings a little girl with his eyes. Charlotte wants answers. Their daughter wants a daddy. Connor wants them both close enough to protect—and far enough from the truth to stay safe. Because the man Charlotte thinks she can bring home is the man his enemies call the Merchant of Death. And someone has just discovered he has a family.

Ella Bennett escaped her family's cruel scheme—and spent one unforgettable night with a man whose name she never learned. A month later, she's pregnant. With her grandmother's care held hostage, Ella travels to meet Cole Whitmore, the cold commander her family expects her to marry. She intends to end the engagement, not make him responsible for a stranger's child. Cole refuses even to meet her. He's searching for another woman, and sends money to make Ella leave. Then he sees her. Suddenly, the man who wanted her gone is begging her to stay. But Ella has already learned what promises can cost. Before she'll trust his, Cole will have to prove he wants her—not just the baby.

Audrey Lane has packed her suitcase, signed the divorce papers, and prepared to take her little girl out of Julian Mercer's life. Their three-year marriage agreement is over. She refuses to spend another day being wanted in his bed and kept at a distance everywhere else. But one last kiss becomes the goodbye neither of them can finish. Then morning comes—and her billionaire husband refuses to let her take the child who calls him Daddy. Audrey wants a life she can choose: her daughter beside her, her jewelry studio secure, and her wrongfully imprisoned father home. Julian wants her to stay. As her former lover returns and carefully planted lies threaten everything she's rebuilding, Julian finally begins to show her what his silence has hidden. He wants her. He always has. But desire isn't an apology, protection isn't permission, and the most dangerous secret in their marriage belongs to the man asking her to trust him.

Evelyn Hart tells her husband she’s carrying his child. Nathaniel Cross tells her he has never touched her. She remembers the night he came for her. He insists it never happened. After twenty years of loving him, Evelyn discovers that their marriage was built around a revenge she never understood. When his supposed lover dies, Evelyn becomes the woman everyone blames—and escaping him costs more than she could have imagined. Months later, blind and grieving, she meets Luke, a gentle stranger who asks before touching her and stays when she’s afraid. For the first time, Evelyn wants a future without her husband. But Luke’s hands feel familiar. His voice sometimes changes. And whenever she mentions Nathaniel, the man who makes her feel safe goes strangely silent.

I was one missed paycheck away from losing my apartment when I told Brooklyn’s most feared man to step away from his own son. Three-year-old Leo Moretti had shattered a plate, bitten a bodyguard, and screamed until the restaurant fell silent. But when I sat on the floor with warm milk and let him choose, he reached for my hand. “Don’t go.” His father, Rico, could buy almost anything. Naturally, he thought he could buy my tomorrow. I told him no. Then I agreed to two hours in his house—with conditions. I expected a difficult child and an impossible employer. Instead, I found a little boy terrified of another goodbye, and a dangerous man who had mistaken control for protection. Leo trusted me first. His father would have to learn how. Because I was beginning to want more than afternoons in their house—and wanting Rico didn’t mean I could afford to trust him.

Eight months pregnant, Claire Bennett discovers her mafia husband’s vasectomy records—and overhears his friends betting on who fathered her baby. Vincent isn’t shocked by their wager. He’s running it. Behind his devoted-husband image lies a calculated betrayal, and the woman he calls his sister has helped arrange every part of it. Claire quietly gathers evidence and prepares to leave. But when Vincent forces her to attend a welcome-home party, she discovers how far he will go to keep her powerless. He expects a disgraced wife begging him to stay. Instead, Claire begins taking apart everything he thought he owned—including her.

Mara Bennett only accepts the live-in nursing job because she desperately needs money for her younger brother’s cancer treatment. Her patient is Vincent DeLuca, one of Chicago’s most feared mafia bosses—a ruthless man left badly injured after an ambush and determined to drive away anyone who tries to help him. Six nurses have already quit. Mara becomes the seventh, but she refuses to be intimidated. As Vincent slowly begins to recover, Mara discovers that someone inside his own estate has been secretly keeping him weak. Worse, the danger soon reaches her brother. Trapped between betrayal, buried family secrets, and a growing attraction neither of them is willing to admit, Mara must decide how far she is willing to go to save a man who trusts no one. And Vincent must decide whether the woman who broke every rule he gave her might be the only person he can trust with his life—and his heart.

Elena Bennett loved Dante Moretti for eight years, but every time she asked about marriage, Chicago’s most powerful mafia boss gave her the same answer: he couldn’t marry her. Then an invitation arrived. Dante was marrying Victoria—Elena’s older sister. Heartbroken, Elena disappeared to Switzerland. Three weeks later, she discovered she was pregnant. For nearly three years, she raised their son, Leo, without ever telling Dante he was a father. But when her father’s death forces Elena back to Chicago, one accidental encounter at O’Hare changes everything. Leo takes one look at Dante and innocently says, “Mommy… that man looks like me.” Dante immediately realizes the truth. Now the man Elena spent years trying to forget wants answers—and a place in his son’s life. But buried inside her father’s estate is an old contract that reveals something even more devastating: Dante’s marriage to Victoria was never what Elena believed. And the real reason he refused to marry Elena may change everything she thought she knew about the man who broke her heart.