Hydra’s founder Wanda gave up everything to save her dying husband. Ten years later, she returns—only to be humiliated by her son’s ruthless fiancée. With her family under attack, the true mafia queen awakens. She reclaims Hydra, crushes the Blood Hand, and shows the underworld who rules the night.
"I'm Isa Borgia, the only daughter of the most powerful Don in Corvina.
A marriage of convenience isn't something I can escape — every family in our world is bound by alliance, not love. But if I can't choose my husband, the least I can do is choose my own engagement ring.
At the mafia auction, the moment I raise my paddle for the final lot — a flawless diamond ring — an arrogant voice cuts in from behind me.
""A country bumpkin like you thinks you can compete with me? Do yourself a favor and leave.""
The woman who steals my ring is Sofia Lopez, the spoiled godsister of my own fiancé, Luca Marino. She humiliates me in front of the entire hall, orders her men to crush my fingers — and Luca, the man meant to protect me, just watches. Worse, he lets her go further.
They think I'm a nobody from nowhere, someone with no name and no power behind her.
Then my father walks through those doors.
In one single night, the balance of power in Norham City flips completely. The once-untouchable Marino family falls to its knees. The ""beloved godsister"" who tortured me ends up caged like the animal she always was.
But I'm not interested in simple forgiveness.
I want them exposed in front of all Five Families — stripped of every lie, every illusion of power — and I want to watch, with my own eyes, as they walk straight into the ending I've already written for them.
I'm a Don's daughter. I don't beg for love, and I never settle for losing.
This time, I'm the one who makes the rules."
"For seven years, Nora put her own plans on hold while helping Elliot become one of New York’s most sought-after lawyers. She thought their wedding would finally be the day he put her first. Then one desperate text from his young assistant sends him running—leaving Nora behind in her wedding dress.
He tells her to wait. Instead, she cancels the wedding in front of two hundred guests.
Elliot doesn’t know she was going to tell him they’re having a baby. He doesn’t know that this time, she won’t forgive him and come home. Leaving New York to reclaim the career she put aside, Nora starts building a life that no longer revolves around his needs. And the lawyer who always has an answer discovers that some losses cannot be argued away."
When a special forces hero and his brilliant surgeon brother rescue two country sisters, one wild night changes everything. The surgeon falls hard for a married mother, while his marriage-averse brother accidentally gets her younger sister pregnant with quadruplets. Suddenly, love, family, and chaos come as a package deal.
Secretly in love with her guardian and Alpha King, Calvin, Nora confesses on her 22st birthday, only to be cold-heartedly rejected. Heartbroken, she joins a lethal mission and takes a fatal hit. Facing her near-death, Calvin finally breaks his restraint—disowning her as guardian to claim her as his soulmate.
Ten years ago, Alexander, heir to the Walker Group, became convinced that his high school sweetheart, Elena, had pushed his mother, Evelyn, down the stairs and left her in a vegetative state. From that moment on, he personally destroyed Elena’s life: her father died under false accusations, her education was ruined, she spent three years in prison, and she even lost the hearing in her left ear. No one knew that Elena had already been diagnosed with stomach cancer. She endured everything for one reason—to see her younger sister, Amy, one last time before she died. But in the end, she learned that Amy had also died because of Sophia’s schemes. Devastated, Elena was abandoned by Alexander in an impoverished neighborhood and disappeared from his life.
Three years later, Evelyn suddenly wakes up and personally confirms that Elena never harmed her. Following the truth, Alexander begins investigating and discovers that the surveillance footage had been tampered with by his father, Richard, and that the tragedies suffered by Elena’s family over the years were all connected to the Walker family. Overwhelmed by guilt, Alexander desperately searches for Elena, only to discover that she is still alive—and has already married Noah, the man who once saved her.
But Elena’s cancer worsens again, leaving her only three months to live. Alexander begins clearing the names of Elena and her family, investigates the truth behind Amy’s death, and completely turns against his father, yet Elena still refuses to forgive him. In the end, he finally learns to respect Elena’s choice and lets her return to Noah. Elena spends her final days peacefully beside the man she loves, while Alexander is left to live the rest of his life with regret that can never be undone.
Inheriting the title of Grand Sage, Matthew journeys to break his betrothal to Lillian. En route, he cures Dragon Emperor Caus, ending a thousand-year curse. But when arrogance leads Lillian to humiliate him and rip their pact, Matthew’s divine wrath shatters the White family forever.
It’s been five years since my mother married into the Sterling crime family, and my relationship with my stepbrother, Louis, is still ice-cold. He’s arrogant, aloof, and wouldn’t give me the time of day. I know better than to even try. Until I saw it: a birthmark on Louis’s body, identical to the one on my online boyfriend, Rowan. I thought about the messages Rowan had sent me every night for the past two years, the ones that made my face flush and my heart race: Baby, I can only fall asleep thinking of you. I need to see you. I’ll show you how much I want you. I’m going crazy thinking about you… I just couldn’t square the man in those messages with the cold-as-ice Louis. To make matters worse, I had just lied to Rowan, telling him I’d failed to get into Harvard and wasn't good enough for him, before breaking up with him. If he finds out it was me who dumped him, I’m pretty sure he’ll tear me to pieces. I was already packing my bags, ready to bolt. But then Louis appeared, blocking my path. He leaned in, his low laugh a menacing rumble in my ear. "Think you can play me and just walk away? Who gave you the balls?"
Brenda has been with Grady for five years, but the Cabrera family has constantly tormented her over tarot readings. Every year, she draws an “unlucky” card and is publicly humiliated for being unworthy of Grady.
In the fifth year, the family finally approves their engagement. But right before the engagement party, Brenda discovers that Grady has been having an affair with the tarot reader, Mallory. The two of them have been using fake cards to sabotage her relationship with Grady.
Heartbroken, Brenda quietly accepts a high-paying job in New York and flies out on the day of her engagement party. When Grady realizes she’s gone, he panics and tries to win her back—but it’s too late.
At the party, Brenda’s best friend, Eden, plays a video exposing Mallory’s fake tarot readings. Mallory and Linda’s scheme is finally revealed, and the family matriarch, Elena, furiously condemns everyone involved.
Meanwhile, Brenda builds a successful career in New York and buys a home of her own. Six months later, Grady comes to beg for forgiveness. Brenda tells him she forgives him—but she will never take him back.
In the end, Brenda steps into the sunlight, leaving her past behind for good.
I married Eleanor Vance on the very same day her true love was getting married next door. Just as we were about to exchange rings, the man himself stormed into our ceremony. Red-eyed and shaking, he announced that the only woman he'd ever loved was Eleanor and that he couldn't go through with marrying the fiancee waiting for him, the one battling a terminal illness. Eleanor didn't even look at me. She pulled her hand from mine and ran after him. I was left standing there, humiliated, while my mother was so angry she ended up in the hospital. Later, the abandoned bride and I caught each other's eyes for a moment. I asked quietly, "Do you want to switch grooms?" Three years passed before Eleanor came back. She was crying, saying she regretted everything. But I scooped up both kids from the backseat, one in each arm. I stepped aside and said, "Excuse me. I'm in a hurry to pick up my wife from work."