My name is Rowan Hale. For six years, the contract boards called me Nocturne. I ranked first often enough that men twice my age stopped using my name and started using prayers. Then I retired. Not from guilt. Guilt requires free time, and professional murder has terrible hours. I retired after finding a better job.

After drowning in her own world, Nerine wakes inside a fantasy novel as a silver-tailed siren destined to die—and drive three monsters mad with grief. There is Kael, the savage abyssal merman who hunts her across the sea. Morcant, the tentacled witch who locks her inside a house with no escape. And Aurelius, the cursed prince whose gentle smile hides a second, murderous soul. All three remember the woman who once wore Nerine’s face. All three believe she belongs to them. But Nerine refuses to become their dead lover, their captive, or another sacrifice to the story. If these monsters want her, they must learn the difference between possession and devotion—because this time, the doomed siren intends to survive. One siren. Three obsessed monsters. And a tragic ending she refuses to obey.

Seven years of silence. One chance encounter. Elena never thought she would see Liam again, especially not as the man who acquired her company. They were once inseparable, but a bitter heartbreak and a wall of pride tore them apart. Now, Liam is engaged to a woman who has tormented Elena for years. As old secrets surface and hidden pain is unmasked, Elena must decide: is this their chance to rewrite the ending, or are they forever destined to repeat the past?

Bella saved a life and ended up in a contract marriage with the powerful Mason Quinn. For three years, she played the perfect, devoted wife, helping him scale the corporate ladder while waiting for the day their agreement would end. But when Mason’s first love, Linda, returns, the facade crumbles. Cast aside, insulted, and nearly killed for the sake of his "one true love," Bella realizes that her kindness was her greatest weakness. With the help of Mason’s rival, she begins a ruthless descent into vengeance. The billionaire who thought she was replaceable is about to learn that she was the only thing holding his empire together.

On their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Vivian Hurst received two life-altering gifts. One was a medical diagnosis from her doctor: “Late-stage pancreatic cancer. Two months left, at most.” The other was from her husband, Sylvester: an invitation to his mistress's lavish beachside birthday party in Miami. For twenty-five years, Vivian had been the perfect, dutiful wife, enduring his coldness, his emotional absence, and his endless devotion to another woman. Broken and exhausted, she left a divorce paper, choosing to end her agonizing "lesson" of a marriage beneath the dark ocean waves. But when Vivian’s lifeless body was recovered, the devastating truth shattered Sylvester’s world. Paralyzed by profound regret and boundless grief, Sylvester wept until his heart broke—only to open his eyes and find himself thrown fifteen years back into the past. It is May 20, 2018. Vivian is still alive, and her cancer hasn't taken her yet. This time, the arrogant billionaire vows to tear up his contracts, burn down his old life, and spend every heartbeat begging for her forgiveness. But can a shattered soul truly learn how to love before the clock runs out?

For three years, Seraphina Cross poured her soul into a silent marriage with Ethan Vance, the ruthless heir of Vance Enterprises, knowing his vows were driven by a cutthroat inheritance clause rather than love. When the sudden death of the family patriarch shatters the last tie binding them, Ethan coldly demands a divorce. Driven to despair and silenced by a tragic accident that robs her of her voice, Seraphina vanishes into the rugged wilderness of the Scottish Highlands, leaving behind a tragic rumor of her death. Yet, just as Ethan realizes that the quiet warmth he so brutally pushed away was the only true anchor in his chaotic life, Seraphina returns—no longer the submissive wife, but a woman reborn. Swept into a storm of corporate betrayals, hidden wills, and a love that refuses to die, can a broken mermaid reclaim her voice, or will their second chance dissolve like foam in the open sea?

After twenty-six years of marriage, Sarah Mitchell thought she knew exactly how the rest of her life would look. She was wrong. When her husband walks away for what he calls true love, Sarah loses more than a marriage. She loses the future she spent decades building. Heartbroken and forced to start over in a small North Carolina town, Sarah begins to rediscover the dreams she abandoned long ago. Then she meets Daniel Brooks—a widowed former firefighter who sees her in a way no one has for years. As Sarah learns to build a life of her own, the man who left her begins to realize the truth: Some mistakes cost far more than you ever imagined. And sometimes the woman you took for granted is the one you'll never get back.

Blurb: "I, Alpha Killian Vance, reject you, Evangeline Frost, as my mate." With those cold words, my destiny was shattered. Framed for a crime I didn't commit, rejected by the golden Alpha I had secretly loved for years, I was hunted like an animal by the very pack I called home. Forced to the edge of the border cliff, I chose freedom over a fake trial. I jumped. And the black ocean swallowed the weak, broken Omega whole. Two years later, Blackwood’s invincible Alpha falls into an ambush. He wakes up chained in silver, bleeding and broken, expecting a monster. Instead, I step out of the shadows. No longer a packless slave, but the supreme Sovereign of the Night, burning with lethal hybrid blood and wearing a crown of ruby and ice. I grip his golden hair, forcing his proud head back as my fangs slide out. “Now, Alpha Vance... who is the master, and who is the dog?” Killian is desperate to crawl back to me, his inner wolf begging for my venom, but a Scorpio never forgets. Will the Alpha’s lethal addiction be his salvation, or will my vengeance burn both our kingdoms to ash?

When Ivy Bennett’s father disappears overnight, he leaves behind only two things: crushing debt… and her name on a contract belonging to the most feared mafia king in New York. Lucien Moretti is cold, untouchable, and dangerously beautiful—the kind of man people lower their voices around. The kind of man who ruins lives without raising his own voice. Ivy was supposed to be temporary collateral. A debt to collect. A girl trapped inside a monster’s world. Instead, she becomes the one thing Lucien can’t control. Between midnight coffees, violent secrets, and a dangerous attraction neither of them can survive, Ivy slowly discovers the terrifying truth behind the rumors: The mafia king doesn’t just want to own her. He’s becoming addicted to her. But monsters don’t fall in love without destroying everything around them first. And Lucien Moretti has never been known for mercy.

She was the wolf everyone underestimated—a "weak" outsider rejected by the future Alpha of the Rimlock pack. But Phoebe held a secret that would shatter their world: she wasn't just a wolf; she was the reincarnation of the Moon Goddess, disguised in silver fur. Years later, while living in the shadows of her past, destiny intervenes. Jason, the powerful Alpha of the Blue Moon pack, has spent a decade searching for his fated mate. When he finally crosses paths with Phoebe, he knows instantly—she is his Moon Goddess. But winning her heart won't be easy. He must prove that he is worth the second chance she never thought she’d get, while protecting her from an ancient, royal threat that aims to destroy the very bond that could save their world.

Cass has known only rejection. Cast aside by her pack and humiliated by her fated mate, she is a soul forged in the fires of unfair judgment and endless pain. They think she is worthless—broken and unwanted. But they have no idea what is truly hidden beneath her skin. When Alexis, a man who knows nothing of "boys' games," steps into her life, everything changes. He is everything her former mate is not: dangerous, commanding, and obsessed with claiming her. He doesn’t see a burden; he sees a queen. As Cass grapples with her newfound power and the raw intensity of a bond she never expected, she realizes that being rejected was never her end—it was her awakening. The wolves who once cast her out are about to learn that when you break a girl who has nothing left to lose, you create a force that will tear their world apart.

Raven has spent her whole life loving a man who never truly saw her. To Ares Windsor, she was only his fiancée’s quiet younger sister — the invisible girl standing in the background while he loved someone else. But on the day of the wedding, everything changes. When her sister disappears without a trace, Raven is forced to walk down the aisle in her place… and marry the cold, ruthless billionaire she’s secretly loved for years. Ares never wanted her. He barely looks at her. And every night in their luxurious marriage feels like another cruel reminder that she was only the replacement bride. But Raven is done being invisible. If fate trapped her in this marriage, then she’ll fight for the only man she’s ever loved — even if it destroys her heart in the process. Because in the Windsor family, love was never gentle. It was war.

Cassian Vale was built to survive. Former black-ops weapon. Mercenary commander. The kind of man people whispered about long after the blood dried. He doesn’t sleep much. Doesn’t speak unless necessary. And absolutely does not let people touch him. Then he meets Evelyn Mercer. A reckless underground mechanic with grease on her cheeks, unpaid parking tickets stuffed in her pockets, and a terrifying lack of survival instincts. The first time Cassian sees her, she crashes an ice cream truck into the middle of his assassination. The second time, she insults his armored vehicle to his face. The third time? She stitches a bullet wound into his shoulder while threatening to poison his coffee if he twitches again. Evie thinks Cassian is emotionally constipated, vaguely homicidal, and incapable of acting like a normal human being. Unfortunately, she might be falling for him anyway. And Cassian— Cassian is beginning to realize that Evelyn Mercer is far more dangerous than any weapon he’s ever faced. Because for the first time in years… The monster is hesitating.

They called her cursed long before she ever touched a dragon. At Dragon Rite Citadel — where riders are forged for war and nearly half the students die before graduation — dragons are everything. Your worth. Your future. Your right to exist. And Lyra Vale has none. Since birth, dragons have snarled at her, recoiled from her, even tried to kill her. Students whisper when she passes. Priests call her blighted. The academy waits for her to fail. Only her father believes the truth hidden inside her blood may be tied to an ancient legend buried beneath the Citadel itself. The Crowned Dragon. A creature older than kingdoms. Older than empires. A dragon so powerful that even other dragons bow in fear. When the sacred Dragon Bridge Rite begins, everyone expects Lyra to die in the caverns below the mountain. Instead, every dragon erupts into chaos. And then— Silence. From the darkness, the last Crowned Dragon awakens. Before the entire kingdom, the ancient beast lowers its massive crowned head before the girl the world called cursed. Now the academy fears her more than death itself. As kingdoms prepare for war and forbidden truths rise from the ashes of history, Lyra discovers the terrifying secret hidden at the heart of the Rider Order: Humans were never chosen by dragons. They enslaved them. And the dragons have been waiting centuries for someone to set them free.

"If you're still single by thirty, I'll marry you." That was the promise Julian made a decade ago. Clara clung to those words, treating them as her only reason to survive. But at twenty-nine, instead of a wedding gown, she found herself draped in a patient's robe, staring at a terminal diagnosis. As she struggles to let go, she watches the man she’s loved for ten years—a brilliant, cold-hearted cardiac surgeon—lavish his tenderness on another woman. With time running out, Clara must decide: will she confess the truth of her broken heart, or will she quietly fade away, leaving her love as a secret buried in the snow?

Clara Gu once believed that ten years of devotion could build a lifetime of love. But when Julian Lin, her fiancé, abandoned their wedding at the eleventh hour for his former flame, Eva, Clara realized her entire world was built on illusions. Now, bound by a forced marriage of convenience and carrying a secret that could change everything, Clara finds herself trapped in a cycle of cruelty and obsession. As dark secrets from Eva’s past begin to surface, Clara must fight to protect the only thing that matters—her unborn child—while Julian is blinded by a vendetta fueled by lies. In a world of power, betrayal, and broken promises, will Clara find her way to the light, or will the weight of the past bury them all?

He was supposed to watch her, not fall for her. Valentina Moretti is the beautiful mafia wife everyone envies and nobody saves. Trapped in a violent marriage, she survives by staying quiet, sharp, and one step ahead of dangerous men, until Adrian Volkov enters her life. Her new bodyguard is all scars, cold stares, and controlled violence. The kind of man who looks born to ruin people. The kind of man she should fear. Instead—she starts craving the way he watches her. But Adrian is hiding secrets dark enough to destroy them both., because the man protecting her…might be the same man sent to betray her. And in a world ruled by blood, guns, and loyalty—falling in love with the enemy may be the deadliest mistake of all.

Kael Vanth survived black sites, covert wars, psychological conditioning, and years of being turned into something more useful than human. Tier-One mercenary. BLACK VEIL operative. A masked ghost people whispered about in locked rooms. The kind of man governments denied existing while secretly pointing toward impossible problems and saying: > “Send him.” He was silent, lethal, emotionally unreadable. A man who wore tactical gloves like skin and violence like breathing. Even other mercenaries kept their distance. As for someone like that— Eliana Vale, civilian translator, professional liar, and deeply unqualified emotional disaster, had one immediate thought: > “He looks like he hasn’t slept since the fall of Rome.” Then one night, Kael watched her calmly steal classified intel from beneath the nose of an armed contractor while pretending to flirt over champagne. He was monitoring the room from a rooftop sniper position. One second he was calculating bullet trajectory. The next? Eliana smiled at the target, slipped a data drive into her sleeve, shattered a wine glass into a guard’s throat, and walked out before the body even hit the floor. Kael forgot to pull the trigger. For exactly four seconds. The longest distraction he’d had in years. ... Later, Eliana sat cross-legged on the floor of a freezing safehouse, translating encrypted files while six armed operatives cleaned blood off their gear nearby. No one spoke. Mostly because Ghost was standing behind her. Watching. Eliana didn’t look up. > “Does your organization offer therapy, or is unresolved trauma part of the uniform?” The room went dead silent. Kane slowly stopped breathing. Because nobody joked with Ghost. Nobody. Kael stood motionless beside the table, skull-black mask tilted slightly toward her. Then finally: > “Eliana.” She glanced up lazily. > “That’s my name, yes. Excellent observational skills.” His grey eyes lowered briefly to the bruise on her wrist. Then to the knife hidden in her boot. Then back to her face. > “You’re hiding something.” Eliana smiled too quickly. > “So are you.” Another long silence. Heavy. Dangerous. Then Kael stepped closer. Close enough for her to hear the roughness in his breathing beneath the mask. > “You should be afraid of me.” Eliana looked directly into his eyes. > “You keep saying that like it’s a warning instead of a confession.” ① Emotionally repressed masked mercenary × emotionally guarded civilian liar ② He was trained to kill without hesitation. She’s the first thing that ever made him hesitate. ③ Slow burn / masked antihero / mutual obsession / black humor / PTSD mercenary / dangerous emotional dependency / “she makes the weapon want to become human.”

Four years ago, Alpha Dominic Vance rejected Clara and exiled her from the pack based on a misunderstanding. Now, Clara returns as a powerful Rogue Healer, guarded and cold. She vows never to let Dominic near her heart again. But she has one major fatal flaw—her four-year-old pup, Leo. Leo is a telepathic prodigy who can only read Clara's inner thoughts. When Dominic corners Clara, trying to beg for a second chance, Clara snarls coldly, "I feel nothing but disgust for you, Alpha." Yet, her inner voice is panicking: “Oh my god, his new custom suit looks so hot, and his chocolate scent is making my knees weak! Stand firm, Clara, don't let him know!” Before she can finish her thought, Leo happily mind-links Dominic: "Dad! Mommy says you look super hot in that suit and your scent is making her weak! She's just pretending. Keep begging, you're winning!"

Hilda’s life was perfect. She had her hamster shop, a gentle fiancé, and a dream of a simple home. But a sudden gust of wind and a shimmering portal shattered everything, flinging her into Tixia—a brutal, hyper-masculine world where women are nothing but myths. To survive the starving streets, she disguises herself as a boy and stumbles into the city’s most elite establishment. There, she catches the eye of Duke Talon, a man as ruthless as he is powerful, currently suffering through a volatile heat cycle. Talon wanted a toy to soothe his rage; he didn't expect a "boy" who smelled like sweet oranges and felt like soft silk. He thought he hated men—but he’s about to discover that the "lad" in his bed is the one thing he never knew he craved.