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Warning: Reader's discretion is advised: This book contains 18+ graphic scenes. Ava didn't ask Santa for a Dom next door. But Christmas has a sense of humor. Between twinkling lights and cold winter nights, Ava enters an arrangement that's supposed to be simple. At thirty-two, Ava Sinclair has everything she worked for: a powerful career as a lawyer, independence, and complete control over her life. Except in one place. She's never had proper, penetrative sex. So when the moans and screams from the apartment next door become impossible to ignore, Ava makes a reckless decision. She'll ask her neighbor, Noah, who is the reason for all those moans and screams, and who is younger than her, to help her finally cross that line. He's deadly quiet, mysterious, and clearly experienced, being the perfect man for a discreet arrangement. But when Ava knocks on his door just days before Christmas, she doesn't find a proper bedroom. She finds a dark dungeon. Leather. Silence. Rules. With no input from her. Her boundaries won't be respected by this young man, who refuses intimacy but promises pleasure in other ways. Noah offers Ava a deal she never expected: twelve nights tied up, from Christmas to New Year's. No penetrative sex. No questions. No emotional attachments. Only her body and utmost surrender. Only sensations she never imagined. And once she steps inside his world, there is no leaving until January first. As the nights pass, Ava's body begins to crave what her mind can't understand. Noah remains distant and unreadable after each session, a man with no friends, no explanations, and too many secrets hidden behind his cold demeanor. But as Christmas fades and the countdown to New Year's begins, Ava starts to wonder: Did she walk into a fantasy...or into the hands of a dangerously broken man? And when desire turns into something deeper, will Noah finally touch her the way she's been hoping for, or will his secrets destroy them both? (A dark, seductive Christmas romance about control and surrender. Desire and Restraint. Grief and Love.) Have fun reading for the holidays. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

After a medical procedure, a woman refuses to yield her bus seat to a crying stranger. That stranger is influencer Bella Marsh, who livestreams the encounter to incite a viral hate campaign. The protagonist is harassed into suicide, only to learn her boyfriend orchestrated the scandal for his childhood crush, Bella. Now, she has regressed to the day it all began. In this action-packed mystery story, she must navigate a web of lies to expose the truth and reclaim her life.

I was only three and a half years old, living in a damp basement and beaten daily by Enoch Pruitt with a heavy leather whip. "Get up, you useless waste of space!" He always told me I was a stray he had picked out of the garbage. But during one brutal beating that nearly stopped my heart, time froze, and a glowing figure called The Chronicler appeared. "You are not an abandoned orphan, Clare. You carry the blood of the highest gods." He revealed that I was the stolen daughter of the ultra-wealthy Barrett family. Then, he showed me the horrific ending of my previous life. I had died right here on this bloody dirt floor. My real parents and three brothers went completely insane with grief, turning into ruthless monsters who destroyed themselves and the entire world to avenge me. Meanwhile, the Pruitt family kept torturing me, locking me in a woodshed and feeding me moldy bread. The memory of my bones breaking and my real mother's agonizing screams crushed my chest. Why did I have to suffer like an animal while my true family tore the world apart looking for me? This time, I refused to die in the mud. I accepted my divine blood, my eyes glowing gold as I summoned a bolt of purple lightning to strike my abuser. I just needed to survive the night. Because my real father's heavily armed convoy was already tearing up the mountain, ready to burn this hell to the ground.

I woke up to find that I had lost five years of my memory. I was told that I had been married to Caspian, the ruthless Godfather of the New York Mafia, for five years. I had harbored a crush on him for a long time, so marrying him should have been good news. But the terrible truth was, he didn't seem to love me. After losing my five years of memory, he felt like nothing more than a stranger to me. "Break the blood oath, Caspian," I said. "We're getting a divorce." Yet later, he would pace outside my door late at night, refusing to leave: "Darling, just look at me one more time, please?"

Framed for a car accident by the fake heir Christopher, the protagonist is subjected to brutal torment by his sister, Eliza Parker. To cure Christopher's regression, Eliza sends her brother to an underground lab as a human test subject. Five years of agonizing medical experiments leave his body shattered and his spirit broken. When Eliza finally retrieves him, she expects repentance, unaware that the drugs have left him with only seven days to live.

On our seventh anniversary, the Capo dei Capi lit up the New York skyline with drones spelling my name, swearing on his life that I was his only Queen. Moments later, he abandoned me on the dock to rush to his mistress—my own sister, Sophia. Sophia sent me a photo of him kissing her belly with the caption: "He finally has a real woman. It's a boy." Lucien wanted an heir above all else. I was just the placeholder; she was the vessel. I didn't scream. I didn't confront him. I simply initiated Ghost Protocol. I left the wedding ring, signed the divorce papers, and erased Eleonora Marino from existence. By the time Lucien found the DNA test proving Sophia’s baby wasn't his—that he had betrayed his loyal wife for a lie—I was already gone. He executed my sister in a rage and spent his fortune burning down the world to find me. Six months later, he bought the high-security Swiss lab where I was hiding, forcing his way back into my life. He stood before me, gaunt and desperate. "I killed her, Nora. She paid for what she did to us. Come home." I looked at the man I had once worshipped. "Infidelity is a choice, Lucien. But murder? That is who you are." "We are enemies now."

Elodie was the Evans family's adopted daughter, living in a cold, isolated room while her sister Bristol enjoyed a life of luxury. Secretly, she was a top-tier freelance operative. Her adoptive family finally found a use for her. To secure a massive corporate merger, they decided to marry her off to Elwyn Lyons, a billionaire heir rumored to be a violent, dying psychopath. They did this just to spare their precious Bristol from the exact same arrangement. When Elodie hesitated, her adoptive father showed his true colors. He threatened to cut off the life-saving medical care for Gus, the poor man who had actually raised her. Her older brother even laughed about it with his friends in the dark. "If Lyons dies, she gets nothing. If he beats her, well... she's tough to break. Either way, she's a pawn." Hearing her brother casually discuss her potential death as a business strategy was the final blow. They didn't see her as a daughter, just a disposable shield. All those years of staying quiet to keep the peace turned to ash. She realized the people she called family were monsters who would eagerly trade her life for a few patents. Elodie threw an ironclad legal separation agreement on their coffee table and walked out forever. To secure Gus's medical funds, she accepted an eight-figure commission from a mysterious client. Her mission was to play a toxic lover and publicly destroy the Lyons engagement. Little did the Evans family know, the "sickly" heir was actually in peak physical condition, and he had just hired Elodie to ruin them all.

Carl Woode, a billionaire hardened by his mother's betrayal, has never believed in love. Pride, arrogance, and a guarded heart have always been his armor until he meets Marilyn Porter, a spirited and simple café worker whose kindness and courage challenge everything he thought he knew. Their first meeting sparks conflict, their arguments ignite passion, and slowly, Carl begins to see life and love through a new lens. But when his powerful father, Darius Woode, threatens to tear them apart, Carl must confront the man who shaped him and fight for the one woman who has captured his heart. As secrets unravel and emotions flare, Marilyn demands proof of Carl's love, and Carl must risk everything to show her that love is not weakness it is the most powerful force of all. In a story of transformation, trust, and undeniable chemistry, two hearts discover that love is worth every battle, every fight, and every leap of faith. Will Carl and Marilyn's love survive the weight of family, pride, and fear or will their hearts remain divided?

For three years, I was Keagan Steele's passionate secret, the "Wild Rose of Beverly Hills" who finally tamed the city's coldest billionaire. I thought our love was real, a quiet world built away from the glitz. Then I overheard him call me a "placeholder," a three-year experiment until his true love returned. That true love? My vicious stepsister, Alba. He abandoned me after a car crash, choosing to save her while I bled in the wreckage. He watched as my stepmother beat me with a horsewhip, even suggesting she use it to break my spirit. He even broke my wrist to give Alba a locket that belonged to my dead mother. When a falling light fixture threatened Alba, he dove to save her, taking the hit himself. His body, shielding hers, was the final, brutal proof: I was nothing. But as I lay broken, a chilling thought took root. If I was going to be the villain of their story, I might as well play the part. And this time, I would burn their world to the ground.

After losing her unborn child in a tragic confrontation with her husband’s mistress, a devastated woman finds her world shattered. The betrayal is unbearable, yet as she navigates the wreckage of her marriage, she begins to reclaim her strength. This billionaire romance explores the raw pain of loss and the pursuit of justice against those who destroyed her future. Can she find a way to heal and move on, or will the shadows of the past consume her?

During a VIP bridal fitting on Fifth Avenue, a woman's dream is violently shattered. An enraged stranger crashes the suite, destroying her couture gown and attacking her with a broken bottle. Bleeding on the floor, she hears the devastating truth: Julian, her partner of seven years, has been deceiving her. Refusing to play the victim after this brutal betrayal, she calls her brother Wyatt to rescue her and immediately calls off her upcoming wedding to the Monroe family.

Special Interviews With Flight Attendants follows an interviewer who uses a hidden vibrator installed in a chair to torment job candidates. As he activates the device, he watches with satisfaction as the women struggle to maintain their composure. The situation takes a surprising turn when one flight attendant, pushed to her limit by the sensations, reacts by lifting her skirt and demanding that he personally satisfy her needs right there in the middle of the interview.

Trapped beneath the ruins of her Miami apartment after a devastating hurricane, a severely injured woman clings to life. Impaled and bleeding out, she desperately needs immediate rescue—and carries a secret pregnancy. But when help arrives, her billionaire husband, Julian Sterling, makes a shocking choice. Ignoring his wife's critical state, he demands paramedics save another woman, Sloane, claiming to be her fiancé to force their hand. Abandoned in the debris, she must face his ultimate betrayal.

Framed for corporate spying, Liana Bennett was arrested and murdered in a prison cell. Now she wakes in her old life, exactly one month before the set up. She has one month to identify the traitor inside her company who orchestrated her death before they do it again. The enemy is already watching, already moving. Every change she makes to rewrite comes at a price: a core memory erased. One wrong step, and she loses the very truth she needs to survive. Then there's Raphael Blackthorne, The ruthless CEO of her rival company, the man she spent a reckless night with, and now the person offering her flowers, dinners, and sincerity. Liana has a plan. She can't afford the distraction. But as her memories unravel and the enemy closes in, she faces the truth she can't outrun: to survive, she may have to become someone who no longer remembers why she fought at all.

After being murdered by her family and husband on a cruise, the protagonist wakes up on the day her life fell apart. In her past life, she was blamed for her sister Andrea’s drowning, leading to years of abuse and an eventual betrayal. Now reborn, she avoids her toxic relatives and rejects her boyfriend’s proposal to marry a mysterious stranger instead. This modern mystery follows her journey to reclaim her happiness and outrun the shadows of her former life.

After purchasing an expensive gold necklace, a woman's life takes a bizarre turn when a stranger claims to be her future in-law on social media. This woman flaunts a two-million-dollar diamond ring, claiming it was a gift. When the jewelry store demands payment and claims their security cameras are conveniently broken, the protagonist realizes she is being framed. Refusing to be a victim of this billionaire-scale scam, she contacts the police to uncover the truth behind the fraudulent charge.

When Stephanie Edwards returns home to find her husband's mistress wearing her clothes and her late father's legacy erased, she realizes her life has been systematically stolen. Her husband, corrupt attorney Kenneth Hamilton, wants a divorce that will leave her penniless. He thinks she’s a helpless, grieving victim. He has no idea who she really is. Behind her quiet facade, Stephanie is a powerful force in the legal world. Aligning with the enigmatic billionaire Alexander Sterling, she launches a ruthless campaign of revenge. As dark secrets of corporate sabotage and murder by proxy come to light, Kenneth’s empire begins to crumble. How far will Stephanie go to make them pay?

Elena’s life is shattered when her best friend, Sarah, is found dead. While the police rule it a suicide, Elena is convinced that Sarah was murdered. Her investigation leads her to Julian, a cold and secretive man who was the last person to see Sarah alive. As Elena digs deeper, she uncovers a web of lies and betrayal that threatens her own life. She must find the killer before she becomes the next victim in this dangerous game.

On the night she discovers her pregnancy, a woman’s villa is engulfed in flames. Risking everything to save her son, she finds his room empty, only to hear him outside cheering for Monica Sloan. As a wall collapses on her, she realizes her stoic husband and child started the fire to help Monica practice for a competition. Trapped and dying of asphyxiation, she sends one final text while her family praises another woman's bravery.

On her wedding day, a bride is abandoned when her groom chooses her sister, shattering her world. This betrayal triggers a journey into a web of secrets and unexpected romance. As she navigates her heartbreak, she uncovers hidden truths about her family and the man she thought she loved. The sudden rejection leads to a mystery that challenges everything she knew, forcing her to redefine her future while searching for the real reason behind the choice.

When my nearly fifty-year-old mother-in-law introduces her new boyfriend, he seems like the perfect catch. Young, attractive, and physically fit, he appears to be her long-awaited true love. However, the facade of a happy relationship quickly crumbles. My initial relief for her happiness turns into a disturbing mystery when he unexpectedly climbs into my bed in the middle of the night. This betrayal forces me to question his true motives.

This book is dedicated to all the underestimated ones, the ones who live in the shadows, whose strength is mistaken for fragility. To those who have learned to navigate worlds that were never built for them, finding their power not in the spotlight, but in the quiet resilience of their own spirit. It is for the young women who find themselves in circumstances that demand more than they were ever prepared for, yet who rise to meet those challenges with a ferocity born of necessity. May you always remember that the world often misjudges the depth of a person's will, the sharpness of their intellect, and the unyielding nature of their resolve. To the fighters, the survivors, and the strategists who operate unseen, crafting their own destinies in the face of overwhelming odds. This is for you, and for the truth that vulnerability is often a carefully constructed mask, hiding a strength that can shatter the most powerful of illusions. To my own personal sources of strength, whose unwavering support has been the quiet foundation upon which all my creative endeavors are built, thank you.

After her sister Elena fled her wedding, Sienna Vance was forced to marry the terrifying mafia Don, Dominic Cross, to save her family from his lethal rage. For seven years, Sienna served as the perfect Donna, risking her life to protect him from poison and bullets. However, when Elena suddenly returns to reclaim her position, a deadly game of betrayal begins. Sienna must face the chilling possibility that Dominic will destroy everything for his original bride, leaving her role and life in absolute jeopardy.

My husband, Ethan Vance, made me his trophy wife. My best friend, Susanna Thorne, helped me pick out my wedding dress. Together, they made me a fool. For three years, I was Mrs. Ethan Vance, a decorative silence in his billion-dollar world, living a quiet routine until a forgotten phone charger led me to his office. The low, feminine laugh from behind his door was a gut-punch; inside, I found Ethan and Susanna, my "best friend" and his CMO, tangled on his sofa, his only reaction irritation. My divorce declaration brought immediate scorn and threats. I was fired, my accounts frozen, and publicly smeared as an unstable gold-digger. Even my own family disowned me for my last cent, only for me to be framed for assault and served a restraining order. Broke, injured, and utterly demonized, they believed I was broken, too ashamed to fight. But their audacious betrayal and relentless cruelty only forged a cold, unyielding resolve. Slumped alone, a restraining order in hand, I remembered my hidden journal: a log of Ethan's insider trading secrets. They wanted a monster? I would show them one.