

Five years into my marriage, I was shopping with my husband, Theodore Sterling, when I suddenly heard his voice. [How much longer is she going to take? This is driving me crazy.] I froze. Theodore sat where he had been, head down, scrolling through his phone. His mouth never moved, yet I had clearly heard his voice. "Honey, does this look good on me?" Theodore looked up and gave me the briefest glance. "They all look good on you." [God, that's ugly. She spends all day at home cooking. What does she need so many clothes for?] The two voices rang out almost at the same time. I lowered my eyes and put the dress back. "We won't be taking it."

Four years ago, his father paid a terminally ill woman to disappear with his unborn child. Now, the grieving heir hires a maid he cannot take his eyes off—unaware that she is the very woman who vanished years ago. Living under a new identity, she has returned for one reason: to get close to the daughter she was never allowed to hold. Meanwhile, a deliberately falsified terminal diagnosis has convinced her that her days are numbered.

"After breaking up with her first love, Damian Rossi, Erin Ward accepts a $5 million contract to become rival mafia boss Victor Moretti’s kept woman. Three years later, pregnant with his child, she discovers he is using her to humiliate Damian. When Victor’s old flame Vivian returns, Erin loses his protection and eventually her baby. Having faked his death, Damian reappears at Victor and Vivian’s wedding. Both men fight over Vivian but abandon Erin in the mountains, where she is feared dead after a mudslide. Damian later trades Vivian for Moretti business interests and ledgers, seizing power as Victor’s allies turn against him. Rescued, Erin starts over as Mia Black and falls in love with Owen. Damian finds her and turns her dream home into a prison. As an old blood feud and a three-year scheme are exposed, Erin refuses to take him back despite his past love and belated regret."

Suzy crosses an ocean for love—only to be betrayed, humiliated, and left facing deportation. A mechanic offers a way out: marry him to save his dying son. What she doesn't know? He rules California's underworld. As real love grows beneath the disguise, a deadly secret about her missing sister threatens everything.

Jessie finds herself in a perilous situation where she has been drugged and raped, only to be rescued by Alpha Andrew, who discovers they are mates. However, when Andrew attempts to establish a relationship with Jessie, she claims her engagement to another man. On her wedding with Derek, it turns out Andrew is her fiance's dad.... Where will this "forbidden love" manipulated by fate ultimately lead?

Victor Walker—struggling mechanic by day, New York's long-vanished mafia king by night. For twenty years, he's hidden his empire to keep his son Ethan safe from the life. But when a spoiled rival humiliates and threatens Ethan, the legend returns—fierce, unstoppable, and ready to protect what's his.

After Queenie's parents reclaimed their biological daughter, they cast Queenie out of the house. Beckham's grandmother took her in, offering her a place to stay and arranging for her to work at Beckham's company. As Queenie and Beckham spent time together, they gradually fell in love, while the truth about Queenie's real identity slowly came to light.

Sherlyn is a traditional medicine prodigy who spent years raising her son alone, coming down the mountain with nothing but her child and her medicine kit and asking no one for anything. Then she walks straight into Lucas Taylor, her son's father and the head of one of the most powerful families in the city. A rare hereditary condition surfaces, tangled identities unravel, and rival healers with hidden agendas start circling. Through every scheme and confrontation, Sherlyn fights back on her own terms, with her son beside her and her instincts sharper than any prescription. Three lifetimes of unfinished feeling, it turns out, have a way of finishing themselves.

For years, Zoe Lane harbored a secret love for Yuri Sheen, longing to marry him. However, Vivi Jenkins, leveraging Yuri's debt of gratitude to her mother, deceived Yuri into marriage. Exploiting Yuri's protective instincts, Vivi succeeded in her scheme. Yuri trusted Vivi and unwittingly became an accomplice to Vivi's actions. As Zoe grapples with the news of her terminal illness, She proposed a divorce and is consequently driven out of her home.

After Wendy had the baby and left the hospital, she found out Harry had let Sarah, an intern who looked just like his first love, sit in her usual front seat. Sarah was even wearing her custom designer gown. Wendy told her to get out of the car right then. Harry said he was sorry, but nothing really changed. The five-million-dollar pearl necklace that was meant for Wendy ended up around Sarah's neck, and on their anniversary, Wendy got some throw-in freebie instead. While Wendy was stuck at home recovering after childbirth, Harry gave her office to Sarah. Sarah even smashed her trophies on purpose and ruined the things prepared for the baby's full moon celebration. Wendy and Harry kept fighting, but Harry always took Sarah's side. He even gave Wendy the silent treatment and moved out because of Sarah.