Novels by Crystal L.C

“I don’t want you. I hate you.” Those words from her only son slice deeper than any blade. Sarah returns from the hospital expecting love, only to find her place at the family table stolen. Her husband, James, stands arm in arm with Tiana — his late brother’s widow, while her son clings to the other woman’s waist, rejecting his own mother. The betrayal does not end there. After a confrontation with Tiana, she woke up in an abandoned building, her hands tied, and mouth taped. Beside her was Tiana too. Tied. James stood, his confused gaze darting from Tiana to Sarah. And then came the baritone voice from one of the kidnappers: “One life. One choice. You can only save one. Choose!” Sarah turned, seeing how Tiana was communicating with the kidnappers with her eyes. She struggled to let James see the truth; that this was all a setup. But she couldn’t. Her mouth was tapped. But then, like a match striking steel, James’ voice came brittle and final. “Tiana.” He chose his ex over his own wife. Over the mother of his child. Sarah was abandoned in the warehouse. Immediately they left, the warehouse exploded, covered in flames. And Sarah’s screams and cries inside, filled the night. Did Sarah survive the fire outbreak? If she did, can they stand her revenge when she finally returns?

「お前なんか要らない。嫌いだ」一人息子の言葉が、サラの心を深く抉った。病院から戻ったサラは、家族の食卓で自分の居場所が奪われているのを知る。夫ジェームズは亡き兄の未亡人ティアナと腕を組み、息子はティアナにすがりつき実の母を拒絶する。対峙の後、サラは廃ビルで目を覚ます。手足を縛られ、口をテープで塞がれた状態で。隣には同じく縛られたティアナ。ジェームズが困惑した表情で二人を見つめる。誘拐犯が低く告げる。「一つの命。一つの選択。救えるのは一人だけだ。選べ！」ティアナが犯人と目配せするのを見たサラは、これが芝居だと伝えようとするが、声が出ない。

Eva Cooper’s world fell apart the day her husband stopped seeing her as a wife and started treating her like a stranger. She gave him her heart, her trust, and even her kidney, yet all she got in return was rejection and pain. When she is diagnosed of terminal leukemia, and the doctor told her she had only a short time left to live, Eva’s only wish was to feel loved one more time. But Bradley, the man she sacrificed everything for, was too busy entertaining another woman. “I needed you, Brad,” she said with tears in her eyes. “But you chose her.” He looked at her coldly. “You left me first, Eva. You deserve whatever you’re facing now.” What neither of them knew was that fate had a twist waiting — one that would expose lies buried for years and bring Eva face-to-face with the truth of who she really is.

„Ich will dich nicht. Ich hasse dich.“ Diese Worte von ihrem einzigen Sohn schneiden tiefer als jede Klinge. Sarah kehrt aus dem Krankenhaus zurück und erwartet Liebe, nur um festzustellen, dass ihr Platz am Familientisch gestohlen wurde. Ihr Ehemann James steht Arm in Arm mit Tiana – der Witwe seines verstorbenen Bruders –, während ihr Sohn sich an die Taille der anderen Frau klammert und seine eigene Mutter zurückweist. Der Verrat endet dort nicht. Nach einer Konfrontation mit Tiana wacht sie in einem verlassenen Gebäude auf, die Hände gefesselt und der Mund zugeklebt. Neben ihr ist auch Tiana. Gefesselt. James steht da, sein verwirrter Blick huscht von Tiana zu Sarah. Und dann kommt die baritonartige Stimme eines der Entführer: „Ein Leben. Eine Wahl. Du kannst nur eine retten. Wähle!“ Sarah dreht sich um und sieht, wie Tiana mit den Entführern durch Blicke kommuniziert. Sie kämpft darum, James die Wahrheit sehen zu lassen – dass dies alles eine Inszenierung ist. Doch sie kann es nicht. Ihr Mund ist zugeklebt. Doch dann, wie ein Streichholz, das auf Stahl trifft, kommt James’ Stimme spröde und endgültig. „Tiana.“ Er wählt seine Ex statt seiner eigenen Frau. Statt der Mutter seines Kindes. Sarah wird im Lagerhaus zurückgelassen. Sobald sie fort sind, explodiert das Lagerhaus und steht in Flammen. Und Sarahs Schreie und Wehklagen im Inneren erfüllen die Nacht. Hat Sarah den Brand überlebt? Und wenn ja – können sie ihrer Rache standhalten, wenn sie endlich zurückkehrt?

“I’m coming back anyway,” she muttered under her breath. “To take back what’s mine and avenge my mom’s death.” Sixteen years ago, Amber Shaw lost everything. After her mother's death, her father handed her inheritance to his mistress, abandoned her, and erased her existence from the family that should have protected her. Raised far from the glittering world of New York's elite, Amber grew up believing she would never return. Until a single letter changed everything. Now she's back and the family that cast her out wants her gone again. Their solution? Cancel her engagement to Oliver Winchester, heir to the most powerful dynasty in New York. But Amber has no intention of walking away. Especially after a chance encounter with a dangerously handsome stranger fleeing assassins—a stranger who turns out to be Oliver himself. As secrets buried for decades begin to surface, Amber discovers that her mother's death, her stolen inheritance, and the Winchester engagement are connected by a truth powerful enough to destroy empires. And this time, she's not the girl they abandoned. She's the woman coming to take everything back.

“Sign the papers, you devil!” Elena snarled with a curse. “Are you blind to see that you’re no longer needed here?” Kendra had it all—money, power, a loving family, until she threw it all away for a man who would give her the world. After being married to him for four years of abuse and exploitation, Kendra finds herself divorced, broken, and penniless. Left with nothing, she returned to her father’s house and began the race to win back her birthright as the heiress to Winchester Enterprises. Kendra was welcomed home and given a condition to assume the new CEO of the family company – only if she accepted to marry Douglas Brooks – the youngest and wealthiest billionaire in the city. She hesitantly accepted the proposal, taking it as ‘just business.’ But with time, the arranged marriage turned into what she’d always wanted in a relationship. At the company’s night event to usher her in as the Heiress and the new CEO of Winchester Enterprises, and as expected she met the presence of her ex-husband and his new girlfriend. They were shocked to their bones when Kendra was announced the Heiress and the new CEO of the leading company in the city. Kendra was no longer the naïve lady they tossed around like a piece of trash. Now it was time to make them pay for all they did to her!

Their lips collided in a desperate kiss, ignoring the presence of his wife, whose eyes shut out wide, shocked to her bones. Her own husband, kissing another woman right in front of her? For four years Petra endured every insult, every humiliation, every time Pete chose Zoe over his own wife. She believed patience would save her marriage. She was wrong. When Pete demands that she apologize to Zoe because she challenged their flirtatious relationship, something inside Petra finally breaks. “I want a divorce.” Pete laughs it off. To him, Petra is just an orphan with nowhere to go. But the world is about to turn upside down. Because the woman he discarded… is the long-lost daughter of the Chapman empire. And when Petra returns, the husband who betrayed her and the woman who stole her place will learn a painful truth— they just made the biggest mistake of their lives.

Caught in a web of betrayal, Nicole’s life shatters in a single evening when her mother-in-law, Veronica, sets her up in an elaborate scheme. Blindsided, Nicole faces her husband Taylor’s cold rage as he casts her out of his life and home, accusing her of infidelity and theft. As she tries to defend herself, her best friend, Sarah, adds another blow by denying their loyalty. “Please, Taylor, you have to believe me!” Nicole pleads, her voice breaking, but his icy response is a dagger to her heart. “I don’t hate you, Nicole,” he sneers. “I despise you.” When Nicole reveals she’s pregnant, she hopes for compassion, but it only fuels Veronica’s determination to rid the family of her. After signing the divorce papers, a dejected Nicole wanders alone, where a brutal attack leaves her bleeding, helpless, and desperate to protect her unborn child. Six years later, Nicole returns from the ashes to inflict seven times the pains upon those who humiliated her and left her to die. “I’ll make them pay so dearly that they’d regret ever been born!” She declares. This is a story of romance and revenge you don’t want to miss!

Überrumpelt steht Nicole dem kalten Zorn ihres Ehemanns gegenüber, als er sie aus seinem Leben und Zuhause wirft und sie der Untreue und des Diebstahls beschuldigt. Während sie versucht, sich zu verteidigen, versetzt ihre beste Freundin Sarah ihr einen weiteren Schlag, indem sie ihre Loyalität leugnet. „Bitte, Taylor, du musst mir glauben!“ fleht Nicole, ihre Stimme bricht, aber seine eisige Antwort ist ein Dolchstoß in ihr Herz. „Ich hasse dich nicht, Nicole“, höhnt er. „Ich verachte dich.“ Als Nicole enthüllt, dass sie schwanger ist, hofft sie auf Mitgefühl, doch das spornt Veronica nur an, die Familie von ihr zu befreien. Nachdem sie die Scheidungspapiere unterschrieben hat, wandert die niedergeschlagene Nicole allein umher, wo ein brutaler Angriff sie blutend, hilflos und verzweifelt zurücklässt, ihr ungeborenes Kind zu schützen. Sechs Jahre später kehrt Nicole aus der Asche zurück, um jenen, die sie gedemütigt und dem Tod überlassen haben, siebenfach den Schmerz zuzufügen. „Ich werde sie so teuer bezahlen lassen, dass sie bereuen, jemals geboren worden zu sein!“ erklärt sie. Dies ist eine Geschichte von Romanze und Rache, die man nicht verpassen will!