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.

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.

At eighteen, Miles Bennett survived an abduction because Audrey Whitmore understood his secret warning and called for help. Fourteen years later, she is his wife—and the person he trusts most. Until an anniversary-night lie exposes her growing attachment to a younger colleague. Until the breakfast she once promised Miles appears on another man’s table. Until Miles decides to leave. Then he wakes up bound to a chair in a warehouse. Audrey arrives with the ransom. She is told she can take only one man home. She chooses the other one. Left behind with men who want more than money, Miles must survive a second betrayal: a carefully edited video that makes him look responsible for his own abduction. But Miles edits films for a living. He knows how easily a cut can hide the truth. And this time, he refuses to let anyone else tell his story.

Tessa Ward only meant to rest for five minutes after an eighteen-hour shift. Instead, she wakes in Nico Bellini’s private bedroom, wearing his shirt, just as his grandmother and two guards walk in. When photographs of Tessa enter the wrong hands, Nico announces that she is his fiancée without asking her. By noon, Tessa has lost her job. By the next day, someone is using the supposed engagement to question her family’s connection to Harbor Light, a charitable fund tied to the Bellinis. Tessa refuses to let Nico’s protection become another decision made for her. Following the photographs, old account records, and the truth her mother kept hidden for twenty-seven years, she discovers that the fund’s secrets reach into the present. Nico can help her find the records. He cannot choose what she does with them—or whether she will ever trust him enough to stay.

Nathan Cole only meant to sit beside a woman who looked lonely at a wedding. He made her laugh, asked her to dance, and learned afterward that Victoria Bennett owned the hotel—and ran an entire hospitality group. Nathan is a widowed father who has spent twenty years building his woodworking shop. Victoria is used to people wanting something from her. For a few weeks, they find something easier with each other. Then a photograph of their dance spreads, and Nathan’s customers begin asking whether his work comes with a favor from the CEO. When a restoration project at Victoria’s company opens for bids, Nathan enters on his own terms. He wants the committee to judge the work his team can do. Victoria steps away from the decision, even though giving him that space may mean losing him. One dance brought them together. To find their way back, they will each have to decide what trust asks of them.

Samuel “Sam” Bennett has no patience for Leo Callahan, the arrogant, sharp-tongued CEO standing between his hedge fund and a billion-dollar Wall Street deal. Every meeting becomes a battle, every conversation a challenge—and neither man is willing to back down. But after midnight, Sam has someone else. On an anonymous voice app, he knows him only as North. No photos. No real names. No jobs. Just late-night conversations, dangerous flirting, and a connection Sam never expected to need. What Sam doesn't know is that North is Leo. And when Leo discovers that the man confessing his secrets every night is the same rival fighting him across the conference table every day, he keeps the truth to himself. Soon Sam finds himself falling for two men at once: the anonymous stranger who knows him better than anyone, and the infuriating CEO he's supposed to hate. Except there were never two men. And when Sam finally discovers how long Leo has known the truth, their billion-dollar business war may become the least dangerous thing between them.

Ethan Blackwood is a ruthless young billionaire CEO who controls every room he enters. Julian Cross is everything Ethan despises—a reckless underground racer with a dangerous smile, a talent for breaking rules, and absolutely no respect for authority. They can barely stand each other. Then their families announce the unthinkable: to end a decades-long feud, Ethan and Julian must become engaged—and live together for ninety days. What begins as a fake relationship quickly becomes something neither man planned. Arguments turn into jealousy. Provocation turns into attraction. And somewhere between protecting each other and sharing one dangerous kiss, pretending becomes impossible. But both men are hiding something. Ethan isn't merely a billionaire CEO. Julian isn't merely a wild street racer. They are the secret heirs to two enemy families—and someone has been manipulating their families into war for years. When the truth finally explodes, Ethan and Julian find themselves standing on opposite sides with guns pointed at each other. They were supposed to choose their families. Instead, they may choose each other.

Elias Hart built Harborline Civic by hiding the one truth that could end his career: he is an Omega in an Alpha-dominated industry. Then a sabotaged hotel air system traps him with Rowan Blackwood—the S-class Alpha rival who has just taken the contract Elias spent years fighting for. Three weeks later, Elias is arrested, exposed, and told he is pregnant. Rowan claims no rights over him. But when Elias’s uncle uses the scandal to steal his company and his future, the two enemies must follow a trail of forged records, buried money, and a secret that ties their families together. Elias refuses to be saved, claimed, or silenced. Rowan has to prove that regret is not the same as repair.