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I've always lived in the shadow of Sofia, my adopted sister.

Fifteen years ago, Sofia's parents died in a warehouse explosion, supposedly while protecting us from rivals. My guilt-ridden parents took in five-year-old Sofia out of some misguided sense of penance.

While I was being groomed to run this empire, my parents and brother Lorenzo showered Sofia with all the credit. She was their "orphane...

I lost my parents when I was seven and ended up living with my grandfather. Grandpa was a stubborn old guy who came over from Europe with nothing and somehow managed to build a hotel empire.

At some fancy charity event in college, I met William Ashford. The guy was drop-dead gorgeous, charming, and came from one of those old-money families with mansions and everything. What I didn't know? They we...

Have you ever wondered what happens to a werewolf cast out by her own pack? I used to believe it meant death—pure and simple.

"Evira, stop playing the victim. You're nothing but a burden to this family." My father's parting words sliced into me like shards of ice, freezing the wound that never healed.

On that storm-lashed night, I curled up in the dim corner of a cave, my tainted blood burning l...

How does fate weigh the value of a ten-year-old girl? To my father, I was just a debt waiting to be settled; to Marco Rossini, I was nothing more than the rare RH-negative blood pulsing in my veins.

"Elvira, you're special," he'd whisper, his slender fingers gliding along my veins, his eyes shining with a hunger I foolishly took for love.

For eight long years, I matured in that opulent prison, s...

I died three times.

The first time, at seven, when my father remarried. I learned to always be the second choice.

The second time, at twenty-eight, when my husband betrayed me. I discovered I had never existed in his heart.

The third time, when the doctor told me I had six months to live. That's when I finally came alive.

They called me the perfect wife, the understanding daughter, the strong ...

After being reborn, she was shocked by her mother’s identities. She felt that she had nothing to fear in this life as she had people backing her. With the confidence, she started her own companies, and she faceslapped her stepsister, her scumbag fiancée, and everyone who looked down on her.
She had only wanted to live a comfortable and luxurious life with her aunt without the fear of being bullied...

I only came to the Academy to survive. Love was never part of the plan.

But the moment my eyes met his-Darius Fenrir, heir to the most powerful Alpha line-my wolf whispered one word that shattered everything.

Mate.

He should have been my destiny. Instead, he rejected me in front of everyone.

Weak. Unworthy. Unwanted.

Now I walk the halls branded by his pride, whispers snapping at my heels, ev...

Amber Hargrove followed her heart and left her luxurious life behind as heiress for a struggling filmmaker, but for three years, she toiled and slaved away to win him and his family over, but all she got in return was him choosing another woman over her.

In his haste to defend his mistress, he hit her and that was when she realized there really was no future where this man would ever love her.
...

On her Eighteenth birthday, Laura discovers her fated mate is none other than her best friend- The Alpha's son. But instead of love, she finds betrayal; he rejects her, instead, claiming her perfect twin sister as his Luna.

Humiliated, heartbroken and tired of the repeated mocks and scorns from the pack, she runs away and is killed in an accident orchestrated by her sister.

Everyone believes s...

For seventeen years, Selena Duskbane lived as the cursed Omega—weak, wolfless, and blamed for every tragedy that befell her pack. Locked away, starved, beaten, and despised, she believed her miserable fate was sealed—until the night she was dragged to the black market to be sold as a slave.

But fate had other plans.

Alpha Kael Blackwood, ruthless leader of the Shadow Pack and sworn enemy of her ...

Emma Carter is desperate. Three jobs can’t cover her mother’s life saving surgery, and time is running out. Then billionaire CEO Adrian Wolfe makes her an outrageous offer of two million dollars to be his wife for one year.

Adrian isn’t looking for love. He’s fighting to keep custody of his five-year old daughter, and a wife will make his case stronger. The only reason he chose Emma? She’s the s...

Three years of passion between the sheets, three years of sweet promises—all just foreplay to the perfect betrayal.

When Felix publicly declared Scarlett Wilson as his "artistic partner," when he said dating someone "at my level" would be "professional suicide," I finally understood—I was nothing but his stepping stone to the Wilson family fortune, a used rag to be discarded.

Even more pathetic?...

My worthless husband murdered me in cold blood, along with our six-month-old unborn child.

Reborn at my own mating ceremony, I boldly rejected the weakling ex who couldn't even complete his wolf transformation, and shocked everyone by proposing to his powerful Alpha father!

"Alpha Dominic, make me your Luna! I'll give the Storm Pack the true Alpha heirs they deserve!"

The entire pack was stunne...

Centuries ago, the Kingdom of Drakmoor won a devastating war against the dragons—but victory came with a bloody price. To keep the dragon race imprisoned, humans must sacrifice one pure-blooded royal maiden to Dragon Valley each year, easing the searing curse that torments their enemies.

Rosalind, a lowly servant, never thought this brutal tradition would touch her life. She loved Sir Gareth, the...

Lyra was hopelessly in love with her stepfather Magnus—the handsome, powerful Alpha—but could only watch helplessly as he bedded other women.

When she tried to distance herself with a shattered heart, fate dealt her a devastating blow. An accident left Magnus out of control, and he brutally claimed her.

Though she was the victim of rape, she was branded as the whore who "seduced her stepfather"!...

Have you ever been yanked by your hair in the dead of night, at 3 a.m., forced to your knees on that freezing tile floor while your mother-in-law stands there clapping like it's some twisted game, barking, "Say it—say you're worthless trash!"? God, I have. I've felt the sickening thud of a baseball bat slamming into my swollen belly, the fragile kicks of my unborn baby fading to nothing... and the...

As a method actress, I believe in immersive research. But I took it too far at the wrap party. I got drunk and "studied" Ryan Herman—yes, the A-list producer—by tearing his shirt and coaching him through a kiss.
I was facing a lawsuit and career annihilation. His solution? A contract to be his fake girlfriend.
Now the world thinks I tamed Hollywood's untouchable bachelor. But I know the truth... u...

I spent a month planning our fifth anniversary trip—Yellowstone, camping under the stars, the kind of romance we hadn't had since before the company consumed our lives. I'd even bought baby shoes to give him by the campfire, ready to finally say: I want to start our family.

Then his mother called. Then his sister and her twin boys.

By the morning we were supposed to leave, the RV was packed—with...

My precognitive gift should have been a blessing. Instead, it became my curse.

At six, I could predict any sports outcome. My parents turned me into their money-printing machine—basement prison, electric torture, carved punishments for every mistake. They called me "princess" while salting my wounds.

When my gift earned them tens of millions, they showered me with the most expensive toys. When m...

Three years of a cold, indifferent marriage had nearly crushed Vanessa’s faith in love. Just when she thought her life had gone completely dark, an unexpected piece of news sparked a glimmer of hope—she was pregnant.

But fate had a cruel joke in store: she caught her husband in a passionate embrace with a trainee from his company, followed by the icy slap of divorce papers and the humiliation of ...

I was the mafia king's most treasured "little princess" - until the explosion that claimed my adoptive father and protector. Desperate, I clung to a man who wore his face, only to have him broadcast my desperate love confessions as a joke. The night I reached peak humiliation, the man who should have been buried in Sicily rose from hell.
Vincenzo Benedetti. My god, my ultimate sin. He shattered my...

I'm Veda, a designer getting crushed by my asshole boss Austin. Until I bought a mysterious vintage teddy bear at an antique market—and everything changed.

When I accidentally touched the bear, Austin lost it in front of our biggest client, blushing like a virgin! That's when I discovered this freaky telepathic connection—every touch I made, that cold bastard could feel it too.

The power dynamic...

My roommate's violent ex-boyfriend stormed our dorm with a knife. I rushed out to protect her and got stabbed, bleeding all over the floor.

I desperately pounded on her door for help: "Hestia! Save me! Open up!" Dead silence from inside. That BITCH stood right behind the door, listening to me take my last breath.

Even more disgusting, she cried to my boyfriend Brian:

"I don't know why this happ...

I just wanted to meet my little brother's new girlfriend at Thanksgiving dinner. I didn't expect Crystal to accuse me in front of our entire family: "Scarlett's been seducing Phoenix! She's 31 and single because she's obsessed with her brother!" Worse yet, Phoenix was actually considering believing her. When Crystal started demanding my mom wash her underwear, I knew it was time to fight back.

Eight times. That's how many boyfriends my best friend Sera has "tested" for me. Eight times she's proven they weren't good enough by stealing them away with her perfect smile and fake concern.
"I'm just looking out for you, Lia," she always says. "If he really loved you, he wouldn't be tempted by me."
But this time is different. This time, it's Ryan—my boss, my almost-something, the first man who...

My husband and I had an arrangement.

Ten years of marriage, him keeping mistresses while I pretended not to see. He called it a "modern open relationship." I called it "dignified mutual betrayal."

I thought we'd live like this forever, cold and calculated.

Until that night when his little lover brought him home, declaring her territory right in front of me.

In that moment, I suddenly smiled.

...

I heard the recording. My six-year-old son Jerry had been helping my husband cover up his affair, for an entire year.

Later, at his birthday party, I overheard his friends: "That's Jerry's nanny. His real mom works overseas."

My son told everyone I was just the nanny.

That day, standing in the hotel hallway, Jerry looked at me and said: "Can you promise to never come find me again? So Michelle ...

Five years ago, a devastating fire took her loved ones and burned away her past.
Now, she returns with her twin children, no longer powerless, but a secret venture capital mogul and world-class designer, ready to strike back, humiliate her enemies, protect her children, and reclaim everything that was stolen from her.
By a twist of fate, she becomes the bride of Sebastian Vanderbilt.
He is the mos...

"You have no idea what you've done to me. I've been replaying every sound you made, every way you came apart for me." His grip tightened. "I'm not letting that go. I'm not letting you go. Fuck the friendship. I want you."
I let out a little gasp. His thumb rubbed across my lower lip.
"I don't just want to f**k you—I want to keep you. You're my favorite sin, and I'll commit it again and again unt...

I'm the Santos family heiress—born into the kind of wealth and power that people kill for. For eighteen years, I've adored my "brother" Diego with all my heart—that golden, gorgeous surfing champion who's the pride of our family.

Then came that shark attack. A mysterious lifeguard nearly died saving us. When that DNA report landed on my desk, my world shattered completely: this beaten-up kid Luca...

My daughter was taken by rogues, and my husband didn't care.

But when his childhood friend went missing in another attack, he spared no expense searching for her.

I searched for our daughter alone. When I died in the wilderness, I'd been looking for fifty years.

As I bled out that day, I had only one thought—I'm sorry, Lily. I'm so sorry I couldn't find you.

Then I opened my eyes and found mys...

On my twentieth birthday, I walked out of Boston Medical Center with a piece of paper that might as well have been my death certificate. "Stage IV pancreatic cancer. Three to six months, maybe less." The doctor's words were still ringing in my head.

You know what it's like to come home with news that's going to destroy everything, holding onto some stupid hope that maybe, just maybe, your family ...

My marriage to sports management CEO Kieran Vale was supposed to be simple.
Two years. Two million dollars. Stay out of each other's way.
For eighteen months, we barely spoke. He was the ice-cold businessman, I was the broke boxing coach who needed the money.
Then something changed.
Suddenly, Kieran started caring about what I ate, where I went, how I felt. He hired nutritionists, canceled meeting...

"The night I miscarried our baby, my husband was toasting his mistress's award win."

Five years of secret marriage. I was Broadway producer Maximilian Cross's hidden wife while the world thought he was a golden bachelor. Only I knew who he was really fucking every night.

Until that bitch Vivienne Sterling showed up.

She became his "artistic muse." I became his live-in booty call. He took her to...

I was married to Finn Murphy for five years, listening to him drunkenly cry my half-sister Isabella's name every single night. She had been sent to the Moretti family in my place and died in a shootout. Finn blamed me for her death every day, believing I had stolen Isabella's life and destroyed their love.

Then Finn died in a gunfight protecting me. With his last breath, he begged me to stop clin...

I was in love with Ethan Black, a brilliant man with big dreams. I gave him my twenties, my body, my loyalty. I worked three jobs while he chased his startup dreams. And when he finally made it, he became a stranger.
Then I found out he got another woman pregnant, the same woman who dumped him in college when his family lost everything. That nearly destroyed me. But I stayed. I told myself love w...

I almost gave up admission to a top-15 university for my childhood sweetheart Brent, fantasizing he would finally confess his love.

Until that afternoon when I overheard him telling his friend dismissively: "Without me, she's nothing."

Turns out I could never compete with Sienna, the blonde beauty who transferred here three months ago. Turns out he chose Michigan State because the pretty girl ne...

To avenge my father, I married Philadelphia mafia don Salvatore and poisoned him with my own hands on our wedding night. I thought my revenge was complete, until I met his son Matteo at the funeral—a cold, handsome,dangerous man.

Matteo suspected from the start that I'd killed his father. According to plan, I was supposed to get close to him, seduce him, then kill the last Rossi heir when he trus...

The champagne in my glass had gone flat, but I barely noticed. From our VIP box at the Vienna State Opera House, I watched my husband lean close to the pianist Lucia—close enough that she was practically sitting in my lap.

Five years of marriage. Five years of playing the perfect Habsburg wife, smiling through charity galas and dinner parties, pretending I didn't see the way other women looked at...

I woke up in his tent thinking I'd finally gotten everything I'd ever dreamed of.

Six years. Six entire years of making myself into whoever Noah wanted me to be, giving up my UCLA full-ride scholarship, planning to follow him to Boston, convincing myself this was what "love" looked like.

Until I accidentally saw the messages on the iPad.

"Had to get it done before school starts."
"Jade's my tra...

Valentina Roseheart has been making my life hell since the day I won the scholarship she thought was hers. Cornering me in parking garages, leaving scars, making sure foster trash like me knows exactly where I belong.
Then she sent Tyler Brooks to finish what she started.
Her ex-boyfriend showed up with that devastating smile and an offer I couldn't refuse.
"Come to my world," he said, blue eyes s...

They say unrequited love hurts the most.

They have no idea.

Ten years. Ten years of stealing glances at Caspian Brooks across training pools, memorizing the way his eyes crinkled when he laughed, treasuring every casual touch like it was made of gold. Ten years of pretending friendship was enough while my heart bled every time he looked through me like I was invisible.

I thought if I was good e...

For nine years, I loved Jake, heir to the Steel Knights MC, like a fool—until I saw him tangled up with my own cousin in the garage… while she was carrying his child. They laughed at me, called me "just a mechanic," treated me like their loyal dog. But I'll show them—the most underestimated roses grow the sharpest thorns. From Texas to California, from a cast-out nobody to the underground racing q...

Pain shot through my body as I woke up. Every muscle ached in ways I'd never felt before. My face burned as memories flooded back: his body pressed against mine, his deep voice commanding "Engrave this name into your soul. From this night forward, you're mine—for a lifetime, for eternity." But now? He was gone. Just a card left behind like I was some transaction. My fingers trembled as I crumpled ...

My name is Serena, and I've always lived in my sister Stella's shadow.

In the werewolf world, only she-wolves with Moonlight bloodline can bear the strongest heirs for Alphas. When my sister Stella refuses to marry the car-accident-disabled Alpha Adrian, I'm pushed forward as her substitute bride.

Everyone believes I'm Stella with the precious Moonlight bloodline, including my gentle "crippled" ...

I saved Frank from an avalanche. He paid me back by locking me at home with a pregnancy monitor and a salt-free diet. When he announced to the world on television that he was single, causing me to miscarry in a blizzard that very night, I knew this man was beyond saving.
So, I made him drink a potion that erases memory. Now, he has completely forgotten me, his wife, and our dead child.
And my grea...

I am Scarlett King, heiress to a Texas oil empire and a woman who has died once before.

In my past life, I thought my marriage to cowboy Colt was nothing more than mutual respect and distant politeness. It wasn't until I was sorting through his belongings after his death that I discovered the truth—those yellowed photographs, handwritten love poems, a decade's worth of secret devotion...

"She is...

Three months after I died, he used his Grammy acceptance speech to shame me before thirty million people. He accused me of ethical violations, of seducing him, then running off with his money and our dog, leaving him with massive medical debt.
Little did he know, our dog Max and I were both gone, taken by the same cancer.
At the stroke of midnight, as his words still hung in the air, my Instagram ...

The sunset over Portland looks like something out of a postcard tonight. Too bad I won't be around to see many more of them.

Six months. That's what Dr. Martinez gave me this afternoon. Stage four stomach cancer, spreading fast. I sat in my car in the hospital parking lot for an hour afterward, trying to figure out who I'm supposed to call with news like this.

My phone buzzes—my brother, right o...

At eleven p.m., I'm staring at the charity foundation's financial report, barely able to focus on the numbers—Theron is "networking" again, but for three years now, his "networking" has always involved another woman. Then my phone rings. It's Tommy, the paparazzo: "Mrs. Sterling, your husband's on his private yacht, all over some 22-year-old blonde intern!"

Thirty-seven times. Have you ever tried...