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Ice-cold CEO Maddison Perkins adopts a gifted little boy named Arthur to safeguard her family's company. At just six years old, Arthur is not only a child prodigy with incredible strength, but also fiercely protective of his mom. Time and again, he steps in to defuse crises—and in doing so, chips away at Maddison's guarded heart with his boundless love and warmth. When Uncle Brendon makes move after move to bring them down, Maddison and Arthur team up,outsmarting him at every turn to protect what's rightfully theirs.

Adeline and her sister Noelle are two separate souls sharing one body, each awake for only half the year. Adeline believes her fiancé, Caleb, loves her—until she discovers that he has been secretly drugging her to force Noelle awake. Caleb needs Adeline’s qualifications to become Alpha, but Noelle is the woman he truly wants to marry.When Adeline tries to stop the wedding, Caleb gives her one final dose, trapping her inside her own body as her consciousness slowly fades. Faced with an impossible choice between saving herself and erasing her sister, Adeline refuses to let anyone decide who should be sacrificed. She asks for only one thing before she disappears: the chance to wake once in spring, a season she has never seen through her own eyes.

When Lily and her doctor meet in private to discuss a the results of a cancer screening, her husband Mason accidentally overhears. Believing that Lily has cancer, he divorces her, kicks her out of their house, and shacks up with her best friend—all so he can cut her loose before she can drag him down. Just as Lily is left with nothing, she meets Adam: a billionaire CEO who needs a fake relationship to appease his nagging grandfather. Lily and Adam move in together, even as Mason mocks Lily for being on death's door. But what Mason doesn't know is that Lily isn't the one with late-stage cancer—he is!

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