In my last life, my sister Serena Vega ran to Monaco the night before her wedding, and my family shoved me into her dress before dawn. Damian Lucchese, the young Godfather of New York, had been waiting at the altar for her. The moment he lifted my veil and saw me instead, the warmth in his eyes went cold. For five years, I was his hidden wife. The underworld knew he was married, but no one knew to whom. My parents blamed me for stealing Serena’s place and still failing to keep his heart. Then Serena came home. That Christmas, Damian took her and my parents to his mountain estate. When a blizzard hit, his men rushed everyone onto the helicopter. No one remembered me. I died in that frozen house, three months pregnant with Damian’s child. When I opened my eyes again, Serena had just returned to New York. This time, I would not beg for love. Only when I truly walked away, none of them had the right to regret it.
For three years, Hannah slept beside a stranger — her husband's twin, Ansel — in a marriage built on Aiden's revenge scheme for Ivy. After her mother's death and a miscarriage, Hannah gets her revenge, cuts both brothers out of her life, and starts a new life overseas.
When George Williams retired from military special ops, he is a hero but no one recognizes it. Even worse, his son has been mistreated in George’s absence. Now the two must work together to seek justice and show the world who they truly are.
Natalie was once the Parson family's cherished daughter, but her world was shattered when Monica was unmasked as the true heiress. Manipulated by Monica, she was framed for their grandmother's murder and cast out by her family to a hellish reform school. Two years later, she was released, only to be forced into a marriage with a notorious alcoholic playboy. As the truth about her past and the horrors of that "school" come to light, Natalie watches everyone with a cold stare. Her storm of revenge has just begun.
After seven years of sacrifice, Elinva returns from the border, only to find her Alpha husband Ralen and daughter Nerelle calling her evil sister Bellis "Mother." Heartbroken, Elinva severs their bond. But when the legendary "Red Moon" reveals her face, her family crawls back—too late.
Hearing cries for help from beneath the enclosed pool cover, Black Marcus was blocked bythe boy s father and grandmother, who mistook him for a trespasser-until he rescued their missing son.
Cecily, an Omega werewolf, never knew the mysterious man from her fateful night was Angus—the mighty Lycan King. Years later, she and her gifted wolf pup Xander suffer under a noble family’s cruelty. When Angus finds his lost mate and son, will those who hurt them survive his fury?
Human girl Selena is framed by Elf Queen Walda, causing her to lose her memory and voice. She is sent to the hunter Edmund, who torments her for three years. Elf Prince Lucian searches for his mother after seeing her in his dreams and meets Selena in the forest. When wolves attack, Selena risks her life to protect him, and mother and son recognize each other by the matching flower-shaped birthmarks on their collarbones.
Theodore, King of the Elves, brings them back to the palace. Seeing that Selena is still alive, Walda secretly orders the maids to abuse her and even brings in orc slaves to violate her. At a critical moment, Theodore learns the secret of the birthmark from Lucian and realizes that Selena is his beloved who disappeared years ago. Can the amnesiac, mute mother regain her memory? Will the evil Queen's schemes be exposed?
At the DeLuca Family banquet announcing its new advisor, Matteo said he was going to end nine years of secrecy and finally acknowledge our relationship in public. I stood in the back row of the banquet hall, so nervous I'd crumpled my prepared speech into a ball. Over nine years, I'd cleaned up the port books for him three times, negotiated two cross-border shipping routes, and taken a bullet for him. Everyone knew the DeLuca Family had a female advisor who never showed her face, but no one knew I was that woman. I thought that after tonight, I would finally stop being his shadow. Until the screen at the front of the banquet hall lit up. There was no photo of us. Instead, there was only a single line of gilded text: Welcome Cecilia Costa as the Deluca Family’s New Advisor. May the Black Serpent and the Silver Fox Share in Glory From this Day Forward. Cecilia was my sister. Our parents sat at the head table, beaming with pride as they led the applause. Matteo produced the black diamond ring that marked the matriarch of the DeLuca Family and slid it onto my sister's ring finger. I moved to confront him, but my mother, Viviana, seized my wrist. "Elena, don't you dare make a scene. Nine years, and if Matteo had ever really intended to marry you, you'd have been at the head table a long time ago." I stared at her in disbelief. "You all knew?" My mother's expression faltered for a split second before she looked away. "Matteo discussed it with us a long time ago. He needed a wife who could publicly represent the Costa Family. Your sister was the better choice." I looked down at the red marks the crumpled speech had pressed into my fingers, remembering what Matteo had said nine years ago when he'd hidden me away in that safe apartment in Brooklyn. "Bear with me for now. Once my position as Don is secure, I'll show every last one of them what it looks like when I favor someone." The favor I'd waited nine years for had already gone to my sister. And I was the last to know.
Betrayed and cast out by his ungrateful son, legendary fisherman Roger teams up with a penniless youth. Leveraging decades of ocean mastery, Roger braves frozen seas for rare catches—turning his life around, crushing his treacherous family, and finding new love with restaurant owner Gloria.
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