Who Owns 'The Inn On Harmony Island' In The Novel?

In a country ruled by vampires, becoming a pet means losing everything—your dignity, your rights, your freedom. But Aria, with her golden eyes and warm brown skin, ends up as the only pet no one wants to buy. She’s an outsider, treated like a flaw in the system, pushed aside and looked down on her whole life. Until fate twists. The vampire prince, Dorian, chooses her—the one girl everyone else rejected. And from that moment on, Aria’s world turns upside down.

They say fate cannot be changed. For Emily Wilburn, those words become a nightmare. A hardworking young woman struggling to support her family, Emily never imagined crossing paths with Cade Callaghan — a ruthless, devastatingly handsome billionaire who doesn’t believe in love, only in control. When her world collapses under debt, medical bills, and threats, Cade offers her a bargain she cannot refuse: pretend to be his fiancée and accompany him to his private family island. In return, he will erase all her problems. Desperate to save her parents, Emily agrees. But stepping onto the island is the biggest mistake of her life. Surrounded by secrets, lies, and dangerous mysteries, Emily finds herself falling for the very man she should fear. As dark truths about Cade’s past — and his connection to her own trauma — begin to surface, she realizes the bargain may cost her far more than she ever imagined. On an island of forbidden desire and deadly secrets, how long can she pretend… before the lines between fake and real completely disappear?

In the first year I was brought home, the phony heiress Viola Baker suggested a trip to Gold Island to build a sisterly connection with me. My fiancé, Jeremy Abbott, had joined us to ensure our safety. However, they ended up amassing significant gambling debts at the island's casinos. In a bid to flee, he abandoned me on the island as a hostage, vanishing without a trace alongside Viola. The casino staff restrained me, poised to unleash their wrath upon me. In my frantic struggle, I glimpsed a phone number labeled "Island Owner" on the leader's phone screen. "Could that be the number of my brother, who had cared for me for more than a decade?"

I move into Emerald Bay to restore the plant specimens my mother leaves behind. No one knows that the most exclusive lakefront community in the city is actually mine. That changes when Monica Sullivan, the wife of the property management company's CEO, sets her sights on Lakeview Isle, the private island I built. She wants to host her daughter's influencer-style wedding there, insisting that the island's glass greenhouse makes the perfect backdrop for their photos. Desperate to curry favor with Edward Prescott, the CEO of the property management company, Victor Hayes, the property manager, shows up at my door with a forged resolution and demands that I hand over the keys. Soon, the neighbors are calling me a kept woman in the group chat, claiming someone as young as me has no business owning a property that valuable. I ignore them until they break into my house. They destroy the plant specimens my mother leaves behind and pour red wine over her portrait. Monica grabs my chin and sneers, "Here at the Emerald Bay, I decide who gets to live here." I wipe the blood from my face and dial the number I haven't called in three years. "Get the board online. You have ten minutes." Then I look at Monice and smile. "I'd like to know exactly when this property management company became the Prescott family's personal business."

When Sarah takes a job at an upscale hotel, she expects to deal with difficult guests, but nothing could have prepared her for the anger and aggression of one particular guest. Just as she's about to break down under the pressure, a mysterious and strikingly handsome man steps in and comes to her rescue. As the owner of the hotel, the man is used to dealing with difficult guests, but there's something different about Sarah that draws him to her. Despite his wealth and power, he finds himself captivated by her beauty and vulnerability. As they navigate their growing attraction, Sarah begins to uncover secrets about the hotel and its owner that make her question everything she thought she knew. Will their connection survive the secrets and danger that lurk in the shadows of the hotel? Or will their encounter be nothing more than a fleeting memory?

To make my wife Chloe Bennett's dream of owning a hot-spring lodge in the snowy mountains come true, I moved in with her family and borrowed a fortune to build it. Instead, it became a free private club for her childhood sweetheart Lucas Reed, who burned through more than $1.4 million in premium ingredients over three years. Then yesterday, the suppliers showed up at our door demanding payment, and I swallowed my pride and asked Lucas to settle his tab. He grabbed the red wine bottle off the table and smashed it against me. "You freeloading piece of trash. I bring my friends here to class up this dump, and you have the nerve to bill me?" Blood slid down my cheek. My wife rushed in and went straight to check his hand. "He doesn't know any better. Why waste your temper on him? What if you'd hurt your hand? I'd have been heartbroken." I wiped the blood off my face and left the lodge without a word. Just now, Lucas sent me a voice memo: "I'm throwing an extravagant banquet at your mountain lodge. Clear out all three floors of the main cabin and make sure my friends are impressed. Do that, and I'll let bygones be bygones." Holding the bankruptcy liquidation and receivership agreement I'd just picked up from the law firm, I smiled at my phone and replied, "Sure. Just be there on time."