How Does Poisoning The Well End?

Claire Hart loved her husband, Fabian Arrow, for seven years with unwavering devotion. She believed their quiet marriage—free of passion but rich in stability—was built on mutual trust and unspoken understanding. Even when affection faded into routine, Claire convinced herself that love did not need to be loud to be real. She was wrong. On the day everything finally fractures, Claire discovers that Fabian has been secretly reconnecting with his first love, Maxine Wells. What begins as emotional distance soon reveals itself as betrayal—but the deepest wound comes from an innocent voice. Claire overhears her young daughter, Susie, wishing that Maxine were her real mother, and Maxine calmly promising to make that wish come true. In that moment, Claire reaches her breaking point. Without confrontation or drama, she walks away from a marriage she fought alone to save. What she leaves behind is not just a husband, but a life built on silent endurance and misplaced hope. As Fabian slowly realizes that love is not something that can be replaced or postponed, regret comes too late. Claire, determined to reclaim herself, crosses paths once more with Aaron White—a man from her past who once loved her deeply and never truly let her go. With Aaron, Claire begins to understand what love looks like when it is patient, present, and chosen every day. Torn between a past that broke her and a future that promises healing, Claire must decide whether love deserves a second chance—or whether the bravest choice is to let go and move forward. After the Breaking Point is a poignant story of betrayal, self-worth, and rediscovering love after loss, proving that sometimes the end of one love story is the beginning of a far greater one.

“I agreed to treat him before I knew I was meant to kill him.” Dr. Cecilia Vale is a therapist, who has spent years learning how to fix broken minds, not destroy them. But when a powerful socialite offers her a job that could rebuild her ruined career and drag her out of a life she can barely survive. She accepts without asking too many questions. Her newest patient is Jude Martinez. A man feared by many, understood by none. Cold, and dangerously perceptive, Jude is not the kind of man who trusts easily. Yet, within the quiet walls of their therapy sessions, he begins to reveal fragments of himself that no one else has ever seen. And Cecilia finds herself drawn in, despite every instinct warning her to stay away. Because behind the smiles, deep conversations, and chemistry-filled banter, they exchange, there is a truth she cannot escape. Jude’s wife did not hire her to help him. She hired her to kill him. With a poison that leaves no trace and a contract she cannot break, Cecilia is forced to choose between her survival and her conscience. But as the lines between duty and desire begin to blur, the man she was meant to destroy becomes the one person she cannot bear to lose. And in a world built on power, betrayal, and blood, love is not just dangerous. It is fatal.

After a venomous snake bites me, my husband, Daniel Dawson, injects the only antivenom into my adopted sister, Grace Winton. Before I black out, I see my parents, Daniel, and my son, Ethan Dawson, all gathered around Grace, while I lie alone on the grass, completely ignored. When I come to, my colleague shakes his head and tells me the toxin has already spread. Within 48 hours, my body will begin to rot from the inside, and I'll die in unbearable pain. I give up the conservative plan and swallow a potent painkiller instead. Over the next two days, I transfer the hospital my grandfather gave me and every asset in my name to Grace. I divorce Daniel and place both his and Ethan's hands into Grace's. When I put Grace's name on the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis treatment protocol I've spent five years developing, they finally smile, hold my hand, and tell me we're finally a real family. I stay silent and only smile at them. I wonder what their faces will look like two days later when they see my body.

BLURB For two years, Suzan Roland Sterling was nothing more than the unwanted wife of New York's most powerful billionaire. Forced into a marriage she never chose, she endured cold indifference, endless humiliation, and a husband who believed every lie told about her. The cruelest part? The only night he ever held her, he whispered another woman's name. So she walked away. Five years later, Suzan is no longer the broken bride he discarded. She is a celebrated pharmaceutical scientist, a devoted single mother, and the brilliant mind behind a medical breakthrough that could save the Sterling empire from the biggest scandal in its history. Draven Alexander Sterling never expected the woman holding the antidote to his family's ruin to be the ex-wife he never truly knew. As they are forced to work side by side, he discovers shocking truths one after another: the little girl who once saved his life... the mysterious woman he fell for behind a masquerade mask... the mother of his daughter... and the woman he has spent years searching for... ...have always been the same person. But some betrayals leave scars that love alone cannot heal. Now Draven must prove that the antidote to his collapsing empire may also be his only chance at redemption, if the woman he destroyed is willing to risk her heart one final time.

The only thing on Summers Hartley’s mind was revenge. Being a half-breed, she was born extremely weak and completely incapable of protecting herself or anyone, and that cost her. Her family was slaughtered, and her pack was reduced to ashes. As the Alpha heir to Silverguard pack, she swore to destroy the monsters responsible: the Bloodmoon pack. When the perfect chance for revenge arrives, she hides behind a new identity as the dying Alpha’s personal healer and enters the Bloodmoon pack. Every day she heals the pack, she has promised to destroy. Sworn to pay back the same hand, her mission is simple: poison the Alpha who murdered her people and, together with her uncle, destroy everything he built. Then comes Reid Hawthorne, a man she is supposed to hate. The Alpha’s heir. Her mate. Her enemy. Falling in love was not part of the plan. Summers finds herself trapped between the family she lost and the one she’s preparing to destroy. As passion and betrayal collide, secrets are unraveled. Now, the woman who came to destroy Bloodmoon may have to fight to save the man she loves… and herself

Rosalie Bianchi is forced to marry Roman Moretti for her family's betterment or that's what she's told to believe. Her family thrived on wealth and power, something the Moretti could give them. Rosalie finds her soul crushed when she finds out her sister sold her out for the power struggle she wanted nothing to do with. She didn't want to be the head of the Bianchi family and Elena knew that yet sold her to the highest bidder. Rosalie has been keeping a secret herself. She was the poison fairy. The woman Roman was looking to hire, the reason he agreed to marry her.