

To save her grandmother from prison and their Iowa farm from foreclosure, Alison accepts a contract marriage to billionaire Preston. Determined to earn her own way, she battles brutal hazing, stolen recipes, and Renee’s deadly schemes. Can Alison conquer Manhattan’s pastry world—and turn a loveless deal into true love?

Ava Dean grows up cherished by her family but gives up her education after an unexpected pregnancy. Just before her due date, she discovers the devastating truth: her pregnancy was part of a scheme orchestrated by her husband, Logan Reed, and her father, Bruce Dean. They only wanted her baby's cord blood to save Bruce's illegitimate daughter. Heartbroken and betrayed, Ava stages her own death and disappears.

After three years of secretly safeguarding his wife, James Wilson is stunned when she returns from war carrying another man's child, and the truth he reveals at her ceremony leaves Julia with a regret she can never undo.
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Sophia, the sole heiress of Porthaven's powerful Jason family, spent five years honoring her promise. Five years ago, to save Justin, the man she loved, she struck a deal with Director Cloud.While he worked to develop the cure, she took responsibility for caring for his grandson, Warren, and Warren's young son, Joey, and supporting the declining Cloud Group.Under her protection, the father, the child, and the company all thrived. Yet Sophia's sacrifices were erased. She was treated as nothing more than a nanny. When Warren's ex-wife Quinn returned, they hurt Sophia time and again. When the five-year promise ends, Sophia walks away without hesitation, taking back everything she gave. As Warren loses it all, the truth finally comes to light.

On the first day of my rebirth, I turn straight into the bedroom of Don Raffaele Caruso and begin undoing my clothes. In my previous life, I was in a marriage of convenience with his son, Matteo Caruso, but there was no love between us. We were notorious in Liberty City's mafia circle. Matteo believed I was the reason he lost his first love. He thought I had deliberately gone into his room the night he was drugged with an aphrodisiac, trapping him in a marriage. Hence, for eight years after our wedding, he stayed out drunk every night and refused to come home. Even when I went into obstructed labor and was on the brink of death, he never asked about me even once. Then, the hurricane came. A storm surge swallowed Liberty City. The harbor collapsed under the waves, and there was only one seat left on the evacuation boat. Everyone thought Matteo would keep it for himself. Instead, he shoved me hard onto the boat. "Go! I'm giving you my chance to live, Chiara. If there's a next life, don't come saving me again. I just want to be with Lucia." The next second, his body was dragged into the pitch-black sea. I survived, only to be hacked to death by a rival family afterward. What Matteo never knew was that he wasn't the only one who was drugged that night. His father was too. This time around, I step into the room just as the effects of the aphrodisiac take hold. Raffaele is currently forcing himself to endure it, his control stretched to the limit. I walk over and say softly, "Let me be your antidote, Don Caruso."

On the first day of my rebirth, I turn straight into the bedroom of Don Raffaele Caruso and begin undoing my clothes. In my previous life, I was in a marriage of convenience with his son, Matteo Caruso, but there was no love between us. We were notorious in Liberty City's mafia circle. Matteo believed I was the reason he lost his first love. He thought I had deliberately gone into his room the night he was drugged with an aphrodisiac, trapping him in a marriage. Hence, for eight years after our wedding, he stayed out drunk every night and refused to come home. Even when I went into obstructed labor and was on the brink of death, he never asked about me even once. Then, the hurricane came. A storm surge swallowed Liberty City. The harbor collapsed under the waves, and there was only one seat left on the evacuation boat. Everyone thought Matteo would keep it for himself. Instead, he shoved me hard onto the boat. "Go! I'm giving you my chance to live, Chiara. If there's a next life, don't come saving me again. I just want to be with Lucia." The next second, his body was dragged into the pitch-black sea. I survived, only to be hacked to death by a rival family afterward. What Matteo never knew was that he wasn't the only one who was drugged that night. His father was too. This time around, I step into the room just as the effects of the aphrodisiac take hold. Raffaele is currently forcing himself to endure it, his control stretched to the limit. I walk over and say softly, "Let me be your antidote, Don Caruso."

Sam Lloyd, heir of the Lloyd family, is forced by his grandfather to honor a childhood engagement with Kate Clark, CEO of Clark Corp. He joins her company for six months, quietly helping her rise to become Havora’s new business queen. Yet she meets him with cold disdain. Heartbroken, he leaves and ends the engagement. After his departure, Clark Corp declines sharply, and Kate is left drowning in regret—only realizing too late who truly built her empire.

The day his mother dies, Evan Brooks learns his wife Elise Hayes is out meeting her first love — and reading her diary, discovers she's only ever seen him as a stand-in. Five years of marriage, and she never let go of the other man. Heartbroken, Evan walks away. Too late, Elise regrets everything.

Eight months pregnant, Lily is pushed down the stairs by a hitman hired by her own husband, Tim. Her baby miraculously survives, only to be suffocated to death by Tim himself—so his mistress Xena’s son can become the Spencer family’s sole heir.As if that were not cruel enough, Tim secretly forces Lily to take an untested drug that destroys her ability to ever become a mother again.Broken but determined, Lily hides her pain and secretly gathers recordings, videos, and other evidence of their crimes. At a lavish family banquet, she finally exposes the truth in front of everyone.Tim realizes too late that he has destroyed the woman who loved him most. With no way to undo what he has done, he turns himself in and accepts his fate. But before the final verdict, he takes his own life.Xena is sent back to her abusive husband, doomed to spend the rest of her life trapped by the choices she made.After divorcing Tim, Lily walks away with a massive settlement and leaves the past behind. She uses her fortune to build orphanages across the world, turning the pain of losing her child into a mission to save other children.She lost her baby—but she refuses to let that loss destroy her.Lily finally walks free, reclaiming her life and finding a new kind of love: a life dedicated to giving abandoned children the family she could never give her own.

Ryan Cole hid his identity and crushed his enemies, only to be brutally betrayed by his own wife. Left in a vegetative state, he was abandoned alongside his daughter, Mia Cole. For ten grueling years, young Mia sacrificed everything to nurse her father. Now, the heartless mother returns—not for redemption, but to violently force Mia into a bone marrow donation. At the absolute precipice, Ryan’s eyes snap open...