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Who was I to resist the temptation of a star hockey captain who wanted my body… and my cooking? For two years, I was Marco Marten’s secret lover. A midnight craving he satisfied behind locked doors. I gave him every piece of my soul in the dark, while he gave me nothing but his silence in the light. While he was still warm from my bed, he was busy planning the wedding of the century with the woman who had already stolen my past. To him, I was just a reasonable convenience. To me, he was my entire world. But I am done being the shadow. "We’re done, Marco. I’m getting married, too." His grip tightened on my wrist, his eyes darkening with a dangerous, suffocating possessiveness. "You? Married? Who allowed it?" He thinks he can keep me as his secret while he stands at the altar with her. He’s wrong.

After sacrificing her billionaire heiress identity to become a devoted housewife, Ophelia Sterling risks her own life undergoing experimental medical procedures to save her hockey star husband's career, only to watch him choose the manipulative doctor who stole credit for her sacrifice. When a devastating miscarriage shatters her world and her marriage crumbles under a web of lies orchestrated by her husband's rival, Ophelia discovers the brutal truth: everything she gave up, every pain she endured, was destroyed by the very people she trusted most. Rising from the ashes of betrayal, she reclaims her powerful heritage and builds an empire that will make those who destroyed her life pay the ultimate price. But when her ex-husband finally learns the shocking truth about who she really is and what he lost, will his desperate attempts at redemption be enough, or has he awakened a force that will stop at nothing to ensure he suffers as she once did?

"Your marriage is a $50 souvenir, Ms. Vance. And your husband's already married to someone else." In a single moment at the immigration office, my life as the wife of NHL superstar Liam Sterling evaporated. Our secret Vegas wedding was a fraud, and Liam was already legally married to his "manager," Sophia. But the cruelty didn't end there. Liam expected me to adopt a "war hero's orphan", a child that was actually his and Sophia's secret son. He didn't want a wife. He wanted a world-class doctor to fix his career and a free nanny to raise his real wife's child. Liam made one fatal mistake: he forgot that I'm the only one who can keep him on the ice. I signed a record-breaking contract with the Titans, his bitterest rivals. Now, while Liam's knee shatters during the playoffs, I'm on the enemy's bench, healing the only man who can destroy him. He want a nanny? I'm sure he'll get his worst nightmare.

Ann became a widow at thirty-four. To the world, she had everything. A rich husband, a beautiful life, and a name that opened doors. But the truth: she was never a wife; she was owned. On the night she was about to be handed over to another man like property, Ann ran with no plan or safety. Just fear pushing her forward. Then she crashed into him, Duke Carter, twenty-seven, Hockey superstar. The kind of man who doesn’t stop for strangers. But he stopped for her. What started as one night of help turns into something neither of them expected. Because Ann isn’t just running from her past… she’s carrying it. And Duke isn’t supposed to fall for a woman like her. She is older and a widow, bringing secrets that could destroy everything. When Duke’s family turns against her, and the man she escaped comes back with a vengeance, Ann is forced to fight again… this time not just for her freedom, but for the only love she’s ever known. Duke was never meant to choose her. But he did, and this time… he’s not letting her go.

Everyone on campus thinks they know the story. Quiet girl gets pregnant by the hockey star. Scandal explodes. Reputations burn. They have the headline right. They have everything else wrong. Elara Vale has spent four years being invisible the girl who blends into walls, who never causes trouble, who is always two steps behind her best friend Ronan Hale and his blinding, consuming orbit. When a pregnancy rumor tears through campus and lands squarely on her name, she becomes the most talked-about person in a school that never once noticed her before. The rumor says Ronan is the father. The rumor is wrong. Because the night everyone is speculating about, the night Elara can barely remember, the night that comes back to her in fragments she doesn't know how to hold wasn't with Ronan at all. It was with Dominic Hale. His father. The most controlled, most dangerous, most quietly devastating man she has ever been in a room with. Ronan wants to claim her. Kieran wants to protect her. Eleanor wants to destroy her. And Dominic, patient, certain, devastating Dominic wants nothing except the one thing no one else in this story has ever offered her. To choose her. Openly. Completely. Whatever it costs him. But Elara has spent her entire life being other people's story. It's time she became her own.

Tabitha Norwood married a hockey god to save his inheritance. He called her family, not love. After a car crash, a lost pregnancy that isn’t lost, and divorce papers shoved in her hands, Tabitha plans to take his money and disappear. She didn’t plan on Bradley Norwood finding the one medical file that changes everything.