Novel-novel oleh The Mind Surgeon

When brilliant architectural restorer Maya Vance inherits a crippling $5 million underground syndicate debt after her father’s death, she is left with an impossible choice: pay the money she doesn't have, or let the ruthless collectors harvest her chronically ill younger sister’s organs. Enter Julian Sterling. Cold, calculating, and dangerously powerful, the billionaire CEO of Sterling Global needs a wife to fulfill a trust stipulation and inherit his grandfather’s empire before his thirtieth birthday. He offers Maya a lifeline: sign a two-year marriage contract, move into his fortress-like estate, and play the role of his compliant, invisible bride. In exchange, her debt is erased, and her sister receives world-class medical care. Maya signs, believing she is nothing more than a pawn in a billionaire’s corporate war. But Maya is wrong. Julian didn't choose her at random. Five years ago, during a brutal kidnapping that left him bleeding out in a rain-soaked alley, Maya unknowingly saved his life. He has spent years obsessively hunting the girl with the silver star necklace. He didn't buy her debt to use her; he bought her debt to trap her in his world, terrified that if she knew his true, dark obsession, she would run. But Julian’s dangerous stepmother has discovered his weakness. When a coordinated attack shatters their fragile arrangement and Maya’s sister is taken hostage, the icy billionaire must drop his corporate mask and unleash a terrifying, scorched-earth war to protect the woman he loves. He needed a contract to keep her. Now, he’ll burn the world down to save her.

Five years ago, Zara Sterling stood in a hospital corridor in a seven-thousand-dollar wedding gown and watched her future dissolve. Her billionaire fiancé, Ethan Cole, had survived a horrific car crash on their wedding day, but he woke up with no memory of her. Instead, her manipulative stepsister was holding his hand, claiming to be his bride-to-be. Penniless, heartbroken, and carrying a secret she had yet to discover, Zara took a payoff and vanished. They thought that was the end of her. They were wrong. Fast forward five years. Zara isn’t the soft, trusting girl they broke. She is Zara Frost, the ruthless, untouchable CEO of a rival multinational conglomerate, and she has just stepped off a private jet with two goals: dominate the city's tech industry, and protect her four-year-old son, Leo—a boy with Ethan's steel-gray eyes and terrifying intelligence. Her first corporate target puts her directly in the path of Ethan Cole. He is still engaged to her stepsister. He still doesn't remember her. But as they clash in the boardroom, Ethan finds himself inexplicably, magnetically drawn to his fierce new rival and her child. What neither of them knows is that Ethan’s amnesia was never a medical tragedy. It was a conspiracy, maintained by daily memory-suppressing drugs fed to him by the woman sharing his bed. But the suppressants are failing. The memories are bleeding through. And when the glacier of the tech world finally remembers the woman he left behind, he will burn his own empire to the ground just to fall to his knees at her feet. Unfortunately for Ethan, Zara Frost didn't build an empire just to be a billionaire's forgotten bride. If he wants his family back, he's going to have to bleed for it.

"Sign the marriage contract, Elara, or your little brother's surgery gets canceled today." I stared at the ruthless billionaire who had just bankrupted my family. "You already took everything from me." Julian Vance smiled, his icy blue eyes merciless. "Not everything. I haven't broken your pride yet." Julian Vance is the untouchable king of the city, driven by a decade-old thirst for revenge. Believing Elara’s father murdered his parents, he orchestrates her family’s total ruin and forces the desperate heiress into a toxic contract marriage. His plan is simple: make her life a living hell. But Elara isn't the fragile girl he expected. Her quiet resilience and fierce compassion slowly chip away at his frozen heart. Every time Julian tries to punish her, he finds himself violently, obsessively protecting her instead. Without realizing it, the devil falls hopelessly in love. Just as Julian secretly tears up their divorce papers, a devastating conspiracy comes to light. The true murderers are hiding in Julian's inner circle, and they frame Elara for the ultimate betrayal. Heartbroken, terrified, and secretly pregnant, Elara vanishes without a trace. Julian realizes his revenge was a lie a day too late. Now, the ruthless CEO who forced her to the altar must tear the world apart to find his runaway wife. But when he finally tracks her down five years later, she isn't alone and she wants nothing to do with him. Let the ultimate groveling begin.

"You want to ruin me, Elara? You can try. But if my empire burns, I’m dragging you into the fire with me." Elara Vance is drowning. After her father’s tragic suicide leaves her with crippling debts and a disabled younger sister to protect, she makes a desperate deal with a shadow syndicate: infiltrate Thorne Industries, become the personal assistant to the ruthless CEO, Julian Thorne, and plant a virus that will bankrupt him entirely. Julian is a man carved from ice and paranoia. Known as the Devil of Wall Street, he trusts no one. Yet, he finds himself dangerously captivated by his brilliant, defiant new assistant. The chemistry between them is a ticking time bomb intoxicating, explosive, and completely forbidden. But a deal is a deal. After one reckless, passionate night in her boss’s bed, Elara pulls the trigger on his company and flees into the night. She thinks she’s escaped. She thinks she’s won. Until she finds out the syndicate lied, and a car bomb nearly takes Julian's life. Until the men who hired her turn their guns on her sister. Julian Thorne isn't dead. He is standing in her cheap motel room bleeding, furious, and holding the positive test. Now, Elara is a prisoner in a golden cage. To save his plummeting stock and protect his unborn heir from the assassins hunting them, Julian forces Elara into a fake marriage. She must play the perfect, adoring wife to the man who now despises her. But in a world of mafia blood debts, corporate warfare, and lethal family secrets, the line between hatred and a dark, consuming love is razor-thin. And Julian is about to show the world exactly what happens when someone threatens his wife.