Mystery Web Novels & CEO Second Chance Stories

Tavian Veyr owns a shipping empire, commands Bellacosta’s most feared crime family, and can buy almost anything except the feeling that he deserves to exist. Since witnessing his mother’s murder as a boy, he has lived by one conviction: everyone he loves becomes someone he fails. Then Ilyra Vale walks into his abandoned conservatory and tells him his roof is falling apart. A gifted art conservator with little patience for powerful men, Ilyra is hired to restore the last place Tavian remembers his mother alive. Their uneasy partnership becomes a refuge neither expected. Through arguments, quiet meals, and memories uncovered beneath damaged paint, Tavian begins imagining a life beyond the empire that raised him. But Ilyra carries a truth that could destroy that future. Her father killed his mother. She has known for years. What began as fear becomes something uglier when she falls in love: a desperate willingness to postpone the confession that might cost her the only man who has ever truly seen her. As an anonymous woman calling herself Moth sends fragments of the past, a stranger known as Peregrine begins dismantling the family’s protected history. Both have reasons to want the truth exposed. Neither intends to leave Tavian’s world intact. When the secret finally breaks, love cannot erase complicity, and revenge cannot restore the dead. With his empire turning against him and Ilyra forced to choose whom she will betray, Tavian must decide whether loving his enemy’s daughter is his greatest weakness or his first freedom.

Zoey Stantos married billionaire Zack Adams for one reason: revenge. Five years ago, Zoey found out Zach was responsible for her sister's death and the disappearance of her newborn baby so she spent years studying everything about him. Determined to destroy him, she enters their marriage under a false identity pretending to be his ideal perfect woman. But as Zoey uncovers Zack's secrets, she discovers a man who is nothing like the bad picture she painted him in her mind. With dark secrets of her own catching up with her, Zoey must decide whether to pursue vengeance or risk her heart for the man she was meant to destroy.