

My parents once treated me like a princess, buying me a lavish home, braving the rain to get me cake, and filling albums with my smiles before I turned five.After my sister was born, I lowered the air conditioner by just one degree to keep her cool, only for my mother to slap me and lock me in the refrigerator, saying, "Stay in there until you've learned your lesson." They forgot to unlock the lock, but at five years old, I couldn't escape, just as I couldn't escape being forgotten. It was our neighbor who broke down the door to save me. My parents thought I had died, and when they saw me return, they broke down in tears, begging for forgiveness.

Finn Kennedy carries a blood curse that drives him mad every 13th of the month, making him violently dangerous. Only the blood or intimacy of a "Maiden of Pure Soul" can ease his suffering and break the curse. Without finding her, Finn faces death by age 30 or falls victim to his half brother Jax's schemes. When Finn meets Lucia Owens, the curse transfers to her. Though this should have been fatal for Lucia, the combination of Finn's daily acts of kindness, their true love, and the birth of their second child finally breaks the curse completely.

Landy Taylor quit school as a teenager to put her siblings through theirs.She built Reverie Hotel from nothing and runs it quietly, without fanfare. At her father's seventieth birthday, she shows up simply dressed, and her siblings make sure everyone knows what they think of her. What they don't know is that three of the most formidable people in the country are on their way and happen to call her Mom. The reckoning is public and thorough. Later, a chance encounter on a flight with her son's fiancee, who doesn't know who she's insulting, sets up a second one. Landy has never needed to announce herself. She just waits.

Breanna spent eighteen bleak years in an orphanage, struggling daily just to survive while facing constant scorn and abuse. That is, until the day the Chase family sent for her, revealing that she was their long-lost daughter. Overjoyed, she imagined finally finding warmth and a true home. But returning to the Chase household, she discovered that family wasn't what she expected. Her stepsister Luciana appeared gentle and kind, but hid a cunning heart. With unwavering eyes and a single belief,Breanna vowed to clear her name and reclaim everything that was rightfully hers.

A widowed countrywoman, Tina, is sent by her mother-in-law to bear a child for another family, but she enters the wrong room and ends up pregnant with quadruplets by Ian, a capable hunter. As they grow closer, Ian falls for her. He teaches her to defy fate while repeatedly asking who the real father of her children is.

They called Felix powerless and cast him out. But the abandoned child was raised by a divine king—and awakened the power of thunder. When an ancient feud drags him back to the divine realm, he is mocked as a worthless mortal. But when his mother risks her life to protect him, Felix finally raises his hammer—and makes the gods tremble.