For five years, she had indulged in a wild affair with Jameson, and everyone mocked her as a gold-digging tramp. Even he said, "She's just a rebound lover. Think I'd marry her? Dream on." Little did anyone know, she had overheard every word as she stood outside the door. After returning home, she wiped away her tears and dialed her mother's number. "Mom, I've decided to marry that delivery guy."
The story follows Iris Marino, a young woman born and raised to service the Valentino family. Upon meeting the boss, Victor Valentino, it becomes clear to her that her and her family aren't too liked by him. In order to please her father and restore their title she must subject herself to his every command, no matter how outrageous.
Four years ago, Jiang Ci vanished after a scandal that never should have existed. Mistaken for an escort and abandoned by the powerful heir who unknowingly shattered her life, she fled overseas—pregnant, nameless, determined to raise her child far from the man who left a check on the pillow and a storm in her soul. Now a rising star in the jewelry world, Jiang Ci returns as “JC,” a celebrated designer hiding behind mirrored sunglasses and tight-lipped professionalism. But fate isn’t done with her. Her biggest commission? A high-profile collaboration with Huanyu Group—and with Huo Yuchen, the cold, ruthless CEO who doesn’t remember her, yet can't forget a single detail of the night that changed everything. When their paths collide and a curious four-year-old slips through the cracks, secrets resurface—along with questions of paternity, betrayal, and redemption. As passion flares and reputations unravel, Jiang Ci must decide: Can love be rebuilt from the shards of the past, or are some fractures too deep to heal? *Shards of Us* is a heart-pounding, emotionally charged romance of second chances, hidden identities, and a little boy who just wants his family whole.
On my wedding day, Victor Russo crashed my arranged marriage ceremony and snatched me away. Overnight, I went from the daughter of a fallen mafia family to the wife of the Russo family's Underboss. For three years, he claimed me, night after night. Everyone thought he was madly in love with me. Until she came back. Isabella, my cousin. The woman he worshiped. And the mirror image of my face. That's when I understood. I was never the one he wanted. I was just a stand-in. "Isabella is pregnant," he told me, his hand on her stomach. "With my child." I called my father, desperate. His words were a death sentence. "You are both Angelo daughters. It doesn't matter which one of you he loves." I hung up the phone and threw his diamond ring out the window. Two weeks later, my husband was on his knees in the street. Begging me to stay. As I drove away in the car of his most hated enemy.
“What secret will you uncover from me, Lizzie?” He leaned closer, and she felt the lines blur between professionalism and feelings. She wanted to speak, to say something more, to come back with a sharp comment, but she was speechless, and he smiled in a wicked way, knowing well she wasn’t putting walls between them anymore. He closed the gap between them, and he kissed her, lips hot and hungry for her. She shivered, and found his arm already holding her to him, keeping her close to him. She was breaking her codes, her lines, her limits. But for Ethan, she thought, perhaps breaking rules were worth everything. A decade after high school humiliation by a heartthrob led Lizzie to distrust, she meets billionaire Ethan Snow, who seems to understand her completely. Their paths collide when she's hired to audit the company of the man who broke her heart, now seeking forgiveness.
Growing up in a small town, isolated from the world, all Freya Lancaster ever wanted to do was travel. This was something she never thought she would be able to do, thinking that there was no way she could make it out in the world as a young werewolf without her pack. After talking to her family, Freya decided to leave after she graduated from high school. Leaving the safety of home and past trouble behind her, Freya began to travel and explore the world, meeting new people and learning new things along the way. After a year of traveling and self exploration, Freya’s father calls to tell her it is time for her to enroll in college and begin working in the family business as promised. As she returns home, Freya is forced to leave behind people from her time away, only to be met with those she would rather not see again. This seems to be the least of her worries, however, as an outside threat begins murdering residents of the town. Tension rises in the community when members of the pack's hierarchy are attacked by the outside threat, causing the town to go into survival mode as their home and way of life is threatened. What will Freya do when her family is targeted by this threat? What will happen when she is forced to face someone who has hurt her in the past? How will the town overcome this threat to their home?
My sister and I were kidnapped by our enemies at the same time. When Edward arrived, I was barely clinging to life, having been tortured, while my sister, who had pushed me into the hands of the kidnappers, was unscathed. The kidnapper held one of us in each hand, forcing him to choose who would live. He looked at me with concern, but called out my sister's name. The bullet missed my sister and went through my left arm, hitting the kidnapper. I fell into a pool of blood, watching my husband hold my sister tightly.
Three months into my pregnancy, I was overjoyed to tell Chen Jiahe: we'd finally welcomed our long-awaited little treasure. Yet while waiting, I saw him in the car park with his arm around the shoulder of my company's arch-rival, the two of them looking very intimate. "Congratulations, you've finally secured the director's position." "Congratulations, you're finally about to be rid of Song Songqing." Standing behind them with bouquets in hand, I listened as they carried on with their indiscretions, uttering words designed to wound me. When I emerged from the car, Chen Jiahe visibly froze. Yet moments later, he brazenly wrapped his arm around Zhang Qianqian's waist. "Since you know already, I'll stop pretending. The one I've always loved is Qianqian." I turned to leave, but Zhang Qianqian tried to stop me. "What if she tells my husband?" Chen Jiahe sneered, "She loves me enough to quit her job. If we split now, she'll have nothing." I said nothing, just walked away. At the hospital, I terminated the pregnancy and accepted my former boss's job offer. I finally understood: a man like this was utterly unworthy of my love.
My fated mate, Robin Blackwood, the Alpha of the Black Moon Pack, announced his intentions a month before our bonding ceremony. He was to perform a blood-oath ritual with Stella Vance of the Laurel Pack to sire a child—an arrangement to repay a debt and secure an alliance. I refused. But he raised the subject daily, his Alpha authority a constant pressure meant to bend me to his will. Two weeks before we were to be bonded, a list of ritual artifacts from an anonymous source appeared at my door. I discovered the blood-oath ceremony for Stella had been secretly in the works for weeks. My permission had never been a factor. It was then I realized just how fragile our sacred mate bond truly was. I canceled our bonding ceremony and purged every token he had ever given me of my essence. On the day of our originally scheduled ceremony, I left for advanced studies at the Rune Heart in Laran. I joined an ancient healing sanctuary, severing all ties with him. The bond witnessed by the Moon Goddess was shattered. There was nothing left between us.
A housekeeper with a hidden past. A mission that changes everything. A love triangle that turns deadly. Sidney, trained in martial arts since childhood, never imagined stepping onto a battlefield, until the day she joins an elite military team on a high-risk mission to rescue the President’s kidnapped daughter from the Russians. What starts as a fight for survival becomes a war of the heart when she finds herself caught between two soldiers: Jake, the man she once obsessed over, and Carl, the man she never expected to fall for. But betrayal lurks in the shadows. Jake’s jealousy spirals into reckless destruction, and Carl’s powerful mother will do anything to keep Sidney out of his life, even arrange his marriage to another woman. As Sidney fights enemies both on and off the battlefield, she uncovers a shocking truth about her past, a secret that ties her to the very mission she’s risking her life for. In love and war, only the strongest survive. And Sidney is ready to fight.
The night before my engagement party, my sister Victoria appears at my door, tears streaming down her face. "I have leukemia, Emily. Six months to live." My parents stand behind her, nodding gravely. "Daniel already agreed to switch brides. It's her dying wish." I stare at my fiancé Daniel Matthews in shock. He won't even look at me. "It's just temporary, Emmy. Once she's… gone, we'll have our real wedding." When I refuse to surrender my engagement ring, my parents haul me to our family cabin. They shove me into the basement. "We'll let you out after the party." But they never return. Instead, a stranger breaks in and murders me. By the time anyone bothers to remember I exist, I’m already decomposing.
My best friend sent me a wedding invitation, coincidentally for the same day as mine. Upon closer inspection, I realized we were marrying into the same family. However... I was marrying the older one, and she was marrying the younger one. "Your taste is awful, how could you go for an old geezer?" "Your taste isn't any better. At least the old man is healthy. The sickly one you're marrying might kick the bucket any day now." After marrying in, we discovered that this family's harmonious facade masked a cesspool of filth. It wasn't until we found hundreds of women's corpses in the basement that we realized this was all just a plot against us.
My abdomen was stabbed three times, but my boyfriend protected his ex-girlfriend. Later, I found someone who was all for me, yet he knelt on the ground saying he wasn’t wrong. I could only give him the middle finger, 'You’re not wrong, you and your trashy ex-girlfriend can sneak around until you die, damn you!'
Flora, the pampered heiress, once chased Jonathan, the ruthless CEO and mafia heir, until a nightmare showed her their future: a loveless marriage, his obsession with another woman, and her tragic death. Waking up, she vows to avoid him and chooses Ellis, her devoted bodyguard. But when she rejects Jonathan, he shockingly proposes their arranged marriage himself, turning relentless. Trapped in his obsession, Flora discovers Jonathan also dreamed of their past life… and his regrets. Now he’ll do anything to win her, but can love bloom from ashes of betrayal? Or is Ellis her true fate?
One thing is certain that Emily could not tell the difference between love and feelings. Emily struggled in a confusing love triangle between Devin, the bad boy bully in school, and her stepbrother Xavier who bullies her at home. "You are mine, Emily!" Xavier groaned in raw frustration. He looked over Emily's shoulders and noticed Devin staring at them. Since his stepsister started dating the bad boy, his love and obsession for her increased as his hatred for Devin increased as well. It hurts him to see the girl he loves so much getting comfortable with the bad Boy he has an unspeakable history with. "I love you, Emily" Xavier smirked as he moved closer to her "You belong to me sister or not!" He pulled her closer and smashed her lips in a forbidden kiss while Devin watched!
The year I turned twenty-eight, my husband, Vincent Falcone, became the Don of the Falcone family. And I, Elara Falcone, was finally pregnant with the child we had longed for. Power, family, love—everything was perfect. But before I could share the news, everything shattered. He was accused of rape by the daughter of our family's Consigliere. I rushed to the scene, convinced it was a plot by a rival family. Instead, I found a smug young girl wearing a custom wedding ring identical to mine, grinding the memorial photo of our dead daughter, Lily, under her heel.
After waking from a coma and learning she lost an eye in a car accident, Mia discovers her husband Liam may have stolen her cornea for his childhood friend Susan. Though he plays the caring husband, Mia uncovers the affair and flees to restart her life. Three years later, she returns as a successful designer—only to face Liam and Susan again. Trapped in a dangerous obsession, Mia must fight to break free from his control for good.
ONE act of mercy bound her to the Dark Alpha—and His enemy—as their captive bride. Nineteen-year-old Gabrielle Moonshadow was born to rule. Hybrid blood. Beauty. Power. She was the pride of her pack, until the night everything shattered. At her long-awaited shifting ceremony, Gabrielle fails to transform into the goddess’s chosen and becomes a crippled wolf Before the entire pack, her mate rejects her. Moments later, her father, the Alpha, falls dead, leaving her unprotected. By pack law, no she-wolf can rule. Her ruthless stepbrother seizes the pack throne and breaks his dying promise to their father. To secure his power, he condemns Gabrielle to marry a cruel Alpha old enough to be her great grandfather… or watch her nine-year-old sister suffer the same fate. On her wedding night, out of mercy, Gabrielle frees a prisoner from the fighting pits. But the man she releases is no ordinary wolf. He is the Dark Alpha. Cyan. Hunted. Hated. Feared. And now—free. He burns her husband’s pack to ash and steals Gabrielle across enemy borders, swearing she is his to claim, his to mark, his to keep alone. But then there is Elijah, Cyan’s sworn enemy. A dangerous Alpha who should hate her… yet cannot stay away. Unlike Cyan, he doesn’t beg for her love. He fights it. Until hatred turns to hunger. And hunger becomes something he can’t name. Caught between two Alphas, a war of wolves and Lycans, and a bond she cannot escape… Gabrielle must choose: her freedom, her sister’s life, or the men who could destroy her heart. Who will she choose? And who will survive the Captive Bride? READ ON! (BOOK 2 OF THE BRIDAL LUNA SERIES)