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…

Three years ago, Adrian Blackwell believed another woman's tears—and destroyed Claire Bennett's career. He never knew she was raising his son. Now Claire has returned to television with five-year-old Noah, a boy who can negotiate a bargain, solve a puzzle, and spot a fake smile before the cameras do. One viral clip brings them everything Claire needs: paid work, a fresh start, and a chance to stop running. It also brings Adrian. The resemblance is impossible to ignore. So is his demand to know why she kept Noah from him. But while Adrian wants answers, the woman he once protected wants Claire gone again. This time, she's willing to use Claire's child to make it happen. Claire has already lost her name, her career, and years of her life. She won't let them take her son's voice too.

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.

Luca Mancini went to the hospital looking for news of his wounded best friend. Instead, he helped save a seventeen-year-old girl whose face reminded him of the woman he had never stopped loving. He never knew Sofia had been pregnant. He never received her letters. But discovering who kept them apart cannot erase the night she asked for his help—and he failed to listen. Now his daughter wants to know whether he will stay. Sofia wants him to understand that being allowed into their lives does not mean being forgiven. Luca can offer protection, money, and everything his power can buy. Winning back the woman he lost will demand something he has never learned to give: a choice.

Sloane Sterling thought her fiancé would protect her. Instead, he watched while his best friend pinned her in the mud, tore her clothes, and turned her humiliation into a joke. When Grant fired a paintball round into her injured wrist, Sloane stopped waiting for an apology. She called Dante. Now Grant and Riley are about to learn what it feels like to be trapped, exposed, and powerless while everyone watches. Sloane doesn’t want their excuses or their promises. She wants them to remember every second—and she plans to take back the future they thought they could control.

Vivian Blake spent three years building the career of the man she loved. Then he announced his new girlfriend—the woman who had blackmailed Vivian into paying two million dollars to protect him. That night, Vivian offered a handsome twenty-three-year-old bartender a better deal: cars, a house, a career. All he had to do was come home with her. Jamie Cole wanted something else. Her attention. Her affection. A place in her bed—and her life. He blushes when she touches him, begs her to keep him, and refuses to let their relationship stay secret. But when someone tries to buy him away from her, the sweet younger man suddenly knows how to silence an entire room. Vivian thought she was spoiling an ambitious little actor. Now she needs to discover who she actually brought home—and how long he’s been waiting for her.

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.

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.

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.

Claire Bennett gave Ethan Cole eleven years of love, trust, and ambition. Together, they built a marriage and one of Chicago’s most promising law firms. Then Ethan walked away from their firm, removed his wedding ring, and appeared to file for divorce while another woman gained access to their home. But the evidence was designed to deceive them both. By the time Claire uncovered the truth, Ethan’s silence and misplaced loyalty had already cost them something no apology could restore. She divorced him and rebuilt her life an ocean away.

Lena Hart built a respected crisis-management firm by recognizing danger before it could destroy a company. But for six years, she refused to recognize the danger inside her own marriage. That changes during a family weekend in the Berkshires, when her husband, Grant, pushes her into an ice-cold pool because she refuses to apologize to his mother. His relatives laugh. His cousin blocks the ladder. Grant takes her phone and tells her she can have it back when she learns some respect. They expect Lena to climb out humiliated and return to being the accommodating wife who pays the bills, excuses the insults, and never asks too many questions. Instead, she quietly saves the security footage. Hours later, she discovers a board document carrying her electronic signature—one she never signed. By Monday morning, Grant plans to take control of her company, install his family's business as an exclusive vendor, and unlock a $750,000 credit line. But Grant has made one fatal mistake. He thinks Lena is fighting to save their marriage. She is already following the money.

Five years ago, Mara Bennett survived a mountain crash and buried her husband, Evan Cole, in an empty coffin. Grieving and newly pregnant, she built a life around their daughter, Lily—working through sleepless nights and crushing medical debt after Lily's leukemia returned. Then a Facebook Marketplace listing leads Mara to a mansion on Mercer Island. The woman selling Lily's birthday gift is kind, wealthy, and married to Adrian Vale, the celebrated CEO of Vale Meridian Group. The moment Mara sees Adrian's photograph, her world breaks open. Adrian is Evan.

In three lifetimes, Lady Evelyn gave the Crown Prince everything. He repaid her with betrayal. Then imprisonment. Then death. On the night her fourth life begins, Adrian steals the royal token meant for her and chooses another woman before the entire court. This time, Evelyn doesn’t beg. She crosses the ballroom, lifts the blackthorn brooch of the kingdom’s most infamous rogue prince, and chooses him instead. Everyone thinks she has ruined herself. They have no idea Prince Julian’s drunken reputation is a disguise—or that Evelyn remembers the conspiracy that will soon tear the royal family apart. She has one life left to expose the poison, follow the stolen gold, and stop a future king from taking the throne. And this time, she intends to win.

For eight years, Evelyn Hart gave Julian Cross everything—her savings, her talent, and the future she could have claimed without him. Together, they built Crosswell Technologies from a basement apartment into a company worth millions. But after ten wedding ceremonies ruined by Julian's childhood friend, Serena Vale, Evelyn finally asks the only question that matters: will he choose his bride, or the woman who has spent years tearing them apart? Julian cancels the wedding again. Then Evelyn discovers that Serena has a four-year-old son—and Julian has been hiding the boy from her. Worse, Julian and his mother are secretly preparing to take Evelyn's voting shares and hand them to Serena. When Evelyn becomes pregnant, Serena creates a cruel test designed to prove which child Julian values more. His choice costs Evelyn something she can never recover. That is the moment her love dies. Julian believes Evelyn has no family, no money, and nowhere to go without him. He has no idea that the quiet woman he treated like a dependent once walked away from one of America's most powerful families—or that she still owns nearly half of the empire he calls his. Now Evelyn is done asking to be chosen. She is taking back her name, her power, and every piece of the company she helped build. By the time Julian realizes who she truly is, losing her may be the smallest consequence he faces.

“You will lose,” Balian Draven said lightly, as if discussing weather instead of fate.“Humans do not fall in love with monsters on command.” Rothgar did not answer immediately. Because monsters, in his experience, always fell in love first. With power. With fear. With inevitability. And humans? Humans always followed. “Define loss,” Rothgar finally said. Balian smiled. “A hundred women,” he said. “Six months. One proposal each. They must say yes willingly.” A pause. Then, amused: “No possession. No coercion. No tricks from the Abyss.” That last part made something in Rothgar’s expression sharpen—barely. “I do not need tricks,” he said. Balian leaned forward slightly. “Good. Then we have a wager.”

For three years, Clara has lived in a marriage defined by rigid, suffocating rules. As a mortician, she is constantly surrounded by death, but her husband, Julian, a celebrated heart surgeon, treats her presence like a source of contamination. He forces her to disinfect herself repeatedly until she is invisible in her own home. When she discovers Julian’s double standards—welcoming his colleague, Stephanie, into his personal space without a hint of the fastidiousness he forces upon his wife—Clara finally realizes that her only sin in his eyes is simply existing. It is time for her to walk away from the cold, sterile cage and start a new life, three thousand miles away, where she can finally breathe under clear skies.

In a lifetime where love is bought with life itself, Claire and Julian were each other’s light. But after a tragic miracle grants them a second chance at life, the man who once adored her becomes her greatest tormentor. Driven by a secret burden and the cruelty of fate, Julian pushes Claire away, forcing her to bear the humiliation of his public affair with Sylvia. Unknown to the world, Claire is living on borrowed time, desperate to shield Julian from a destiny worse than death. How much pain can a heart endure before it truly breaks?