A week before her wedding, Audrey Bennett discovers that her fiancé and her best friend have secretly changed the destination—and bet on how long it would take her to notice. Then he takes the engagement ring off Audrey’s hand and gives it to her friend as the prize. After ten years of explaining away humiliation, Audrey stops asking to be chosen. She ends the engagement, accepts the career opportunity she nearly gave up, and keeps the wedding reservation she paid for in Ireland. There, an old friend offers her something unfamiliar: help without conditions, affection without pressure, and the freedom to say no. Preston expects an angry bride to arrive in Iceland. Audrey has plans of her own. A romance about betrayal, an unforgettable wedding reversal, and learning that love should never require you to surrender your dignity.

Audrey Bennett came to her best friend’s wedding as a bridesmaid. Before the night was over, she was standing beside the groom. Nathaniel Blackwell is wealthy, guarded, and convinced every relationship comes with a price. When his fiancée disappears, his family proposes a replacement. Audrey agrees on her own terms: her job, her independence, and the right to leave. Their marriage has separate bedrooms, carefully negotiated rules, and a plan to part after one year. It should be simple. Until Audrey discovers suspicious payments at work—and realizes her new husband’s family would rather question her motives than examine the money. Now her best friend is keeping secrets, her livelihood is threatened, and the man who planned their separation is finding reasons to knock on her door. But wanting Audrey is the easy part. Can Nathaniel learn to love her without deciding her life for her?

For four years, Elliot Mercer has hidden his scent beneath an enchanted ring. He has a loving family, a place at university, and one rule: never let an Alpha decide what happens to him again. Then his former tormentor corners him at a university reception. The ring breaks. Across the ballroom, Alpha heir Rowan Ashford recognizes his mate—and Elliot tells him to stay away. Rowan stops. It is the first thing about him Elliot doesn’t know how to resist. But the man who hurt Elliot has brought something more dangerous than a threat: a document bearing Elliot’s signature, supposedly granting permission to take him back. Elliot never signed it. As they challenge the claim, Elliot discovers how many people helped bury his escape. Rowan discovers what protecting him could cost his family—and how easily protection can become another kind of control. Between stolen glances, careful touches, and kisses Elliot chooses for himself, an unwanted bond becomes something neither man is ready to lose. But wanting an Alpha is one thing. Trusting him with the scars is another.

My brother was knocking on the bunker door. My brother was also sitting beside me. Eight years after the outbreak, Rowan Hale knows the infected can imitate the living. What she doesn’t know is how the thing outside learned her brother’s voice—or why the man protecting them wants her to open the door. Then she finds the medicine he refused to give her dying brother. Beside it: a transfer list bearing their names. Rowan escapes with her twin brother and her best friend, Tess, only to discover that surviving a bite can make someone worth hunting. Their last hope is Mercy Ridge, a fortified community with doctors, fresh food, and children playing behind its walls. But its medical records tell a different story. Some residents are patients. Some are prisoners. And some are wearing glasses for a reason. To protect the people she loves, Rowan must discover what the city is keeping alive—and what it is willing to take from everyone else.

June Mercer had one terrible day, one private rant, and five seconds of spectacularly bad judgment. She kissed the portrait of her impossible boss—then heard the real Adrian Vale speak behind her. June expects to lose her job. Instead, Adrian reveals why he rejected the waterfront proposal she spent six weeks building: the warehouse at its center belonged to his mother, and its abandoned plans contain a photograph of June’s late father. As June investigates why their parents’ project failed, she finds a disputed signature, missing tenant applications, and a trail of property deals threatening the businesses still standing on Riverton Avenue. Adrian has the power to help her, but his family helped create the mess—and his own name appears on one of the old documents. June must decide how much she can trust the man who finally sees her work, while fighting for a future that belongs to the neighborhood rather than another Vale.

Daniel Mercer had finally made his restaurant a success. Then a fire destroyed it, leaving twenty-six employees without work and Daniel facing a mountain of debt. His mother admits she set the fire because his adopted brother, Evan, could not bear watching Daniel succeed. Worse, Daniel’s fiancée knew they were discussing how to force him to close. Daniel pays his staff, reports what he knows, and starts looking for proof. As investigators recover footage from the restaurant, he discovers that his mother has also tried to sell the house his father left him. The buyer’s deposit has already gone into Evan’s new coffee shop. Everyone expects Daniel to protect his family. This time, he intends to find out exactly what each of them did.

Claire Bennett Vale gave birth to twins while her husband’s phone was switched off. Before he came home, she found a document bearing her signature—one she had never signed. It laid out where their children would live if the marriage ended and who would make decisions about their safety. Claire took the babies to a hospital, then left the guarded house behind. Adrian insists he knew nothing about the document. But his company’s security chief knows where Claire is staying, his mistress has heard details of the twins’ medical care, and his oldest business partner claims Claire agreed to everything. With two newborns depending on her, Claire begins tracing the papers that bear her name. Adrian must face the choices he made long before the forgery—and learn that finding his family is not the same as earning a place in their lives.

Blake Whitmore threw his sports car keys at the feet of a man with an old bicycle. “Pick them up.” Evan Mercer refused. Minutes later, Bellwether University’s president welcomed him as the new chair of its board. Blake’s public humiliation should have ended there. Instead, Evan realized Blake knew about a confidential plan to redevelop East Hall—a residence filled with scholarship students and a community teaching center. The figures presented to the board were out of date, a crucial appendix had disappeared, and the developer seeking the property was Blake’s father. As an edited video turns the campus against him, Evan has to find out who shaped the deal and stop students from losing their rooms. But Bellwether is running out of money. Exposing the proposal may save East Hall while leaving the university without the funds it needs to keep its promises. Evan came to campus expecting a board meeting. Now he must decide what his family’s influence is worth if he cannot use it to protect the people everyone else left out of the plan.