

At 20, single mom Holly Seth had to deliver food during her maternity confinement to support her son. A year earlier, Jack Blake had saved her from trouble at a school sodality. That accident brought them together. When Jack found out Holly had borne his son, he immediately took them both under his wing with utmost care, and the family of three lived happily ever after.

At the birthday party for my Mafia husband, Galvan, I touched one of his blood-stained cufflinks and suddenly gained the ability to read minds. I read Galvan's thoughts. He was thinking, "Tracy's body is so tempting. Much better than my cold wife." Tracy, his employee, was with her broke boyfriend, Reuben. Her thoughts dripped with contempt, "Reuben is useless. His gifts were cheap. Once I dump him, I’ll be with Galvan." Interestingly, Reuben, the supposedly worthless boyfriend, was actually thinking, "My father's test is almost done. How do I tell Tracy I'm the heir to the largest Mafia family?" Fascinating. Galvan, the man I stood by, appeared wealthy on the outside, but the true heir was treated poorly. I lifted my wine glass and elegantly approached the penniless Reuben.

Felix Turner bets his friends that he can win over poor student Jocelyn Stanton in just one week. But Jocelyn, seeing through his scheme, reveals that one of his friends already tipped her off. When Felix demands the traitor's name, she calmly tells him not to ruin a friendship over a woman and walks away. Suspicion spreads among Felix and his buddies—but this is only the first small move in a much larger game orchestrated by Jocelyn.

I plan a family trip at my mother Lucia Sweeney's request. While avoiding the danger zones, my sister Linda Harper and I are ambushed by rogues. To protect her, I throw myself in the path of their claws and get driven into a silver mine. As I fall, my back is slashed open to the bone, and shards of silver embed deep into my right leg. The searing silver poison spreads quickly, burning through me and my wolf. My wolf is whimpering—she's close to death. However, as the pack's chief healer, Mom gathers all the healers around Linda to give her a full check-up over a few minor scrapes. I sob and beg her to save me first. "Mom, the poison has almost reached my heart. I can't hold on anymore." She turns around impatiently and yells, "Are you seriously still fighting with Linda now? Do you have any idea how close she came to getting clawed in the face by a silver claw? Our pack doesn't have a wolf as heartless as you!" And in that moment, I hear my wolf's final whimper, saying goodbye. I finally fall asleep in the cold wind, never waking up again.

On Christmas Eve, a lowly maintenance worker is dumped by his fiancée after she steals his revolutionary patent. At the company’s holiday party, she and her new fiancé publicly mock and humiliate him. But when a powerful stranger crashes the event and reveals he’s the worker’s long-lost father, the two join forces to turn the tables — delivering a Christmas revenge no one will forget.

As Ann Sawyer lies on her deathbed, her final wish is to find a long-lost acquaintance. When Finn Jones arrives at her side, she entrusts him with a solemn request: marry her daughter, Rose, and protect Wellton Group. Finn agrees—but Rose, blinded by misplaced trust in Nigel Snow, turns against him. Only after losing Finn does she uncover the truth he had kept hidden, and the weight of her mistake crashes down upon her.