Maximilian Draken is an apex predator. He rules the city with a cold fist and a colder heart, treating everyone he meets as an asset to be exploited. When he brings Kaelen Volkov into his inner sanctum, he thinks he’s gaining a quiet, perfect instrument. He doesn't realize he’s invited a surgeon into his life—one who intends to dismantle him piece by piece. As his empire burns, Max finds that losing his throne is the easiest part. The real agony is the addiction. He’s forced to watch his legacy turn to ash, and in the ruins, he discovers a terrifying truth: he doesn't want revenge. He wants the man who destroyed him. He wants to be the one who bows. Max was meant to lead. Now, he only knows how to beg.

Yulia Farislan woke up as the villainous princess in a world that felt like a fantasy game she once obsessed over. Her fate was already written—execution, exile, or worse. But when her “punishment” sends her straight into the Dark Temple as a sacrifice to a sleeping Black Dragon, something goes very wrong. The dragon doesn’t kill her. He silences the voices in his head. For the first time in centuries… the world goes quiet. And he decides he’s keeping her. Not as prey. Not as a sacrifice. But as something far more dangerous—his. Now trapped in the domain of Caerus, the god-slaying Black Dragon feared even by the heavens, Yulia discovers the truth: The gods are not watching. The heroes are not coming. And the monster she was sent to die to… might be the only one who ever saw her as real.

My fiancé gaslit me for my tech patents. My adoptive sister poisoned my morning tea. And my family left me to cough up blood in a New York alleyway. But the universe made a mistake. It let me wake up three years earlier. The last time I lived this day, I signed my rights away and smiled like a good girl. This time? I grabbed a pair of shears, hacked off my hair, and burned my five-thousand-dollar wedding gown in the penthouse fireplace. By 9:00 AM, I stole the family’s entire database. By 11:00 AM, I leaked my sister’s sex tape with her manager. By midnight, I walked into a private club and offered myself to Alessandro Del Toro—the terrifying "Executioner of Wall Street" and my family’s ultimate nightmare. My ex-fiancé thinks he can still PUA me. He corners me, raising his hand to strike. But before his fingers can touch my skin, Alessandro’s 6'3 frame blocks the light. With a sickening CRACK, Alessandro snaps my ex's wrist, his amber eyes burning with homicidal rage as he locks him to the concrete floor: "You touched my woman. Now, choose which of your family's companies goes bankrupt by morning." They thought they buried a victim. They didn't know I was a bioweapon—and I just brought the devil home as my bodyguard.