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In her past life, Serena Vale was the perfect daughter and sister. She sacrificed everything—her dreams, her university admission, and even her inheritance—so her stepsister could live the life she deserved. But kindness was repaid with betrayal. At twenty-eight, just hours after her billionaire fiancé finally proposed, Serena was poisoned by the very sister she had spent her life protecting. When she opens her eyes again, Serena is eighteen—back to the day before she is supposed to give up her university admission to her stepsister. This time, she refuses. She keeps her future. She takes back her inheritance. And the cold billionaire her sister desperately wanted? Serena decides to claim him first. Not because she loves him—but because she knows that in ten years, Adrian Kingsley will become one of the richest men in the world. But things start changing. The supposedly distant and emotionless billionaire is watching her closely… protecting her… and looking at her as if she belongs to him. And sometimes, when their eyes meet, Serena wonders— Does he remember their past life too? This time, Serena isn't the naive girl who died with regrets. This time, she’s here for revenge. And she’s taking everything.

Betrayed by my husband. Shattered by his mistress. Just when I thought my world had ended, a billionaire with secrets of his own offered me rescue… and maybe, a second chance at love.

Everly Chandler’s world shatters the moment her husband, Spencer Knox, files for divorce, declaring she’s no longer useful to elevate his status in the cutthroat business world. Cast aside and penniless, Everly is left to rebuild her life from nothing. But just when everything seems lost, fate gives her a second chance. Rising from despair, Everly transforms into one of the most powerful and respected women in the industry. Now, the man who once discarded her is back—begging for love, redemption, and another chance. But Everly’s success comes with a terrifying price... and this time, she’s the one holding all the power.

“Sign the contract, Lena. One year of pretending to be my wife, and I’ll restore every part of the empire your family lost.” Adrian Vale was once the man I thought I knew. At least, that’s what I believed. Now, he is a powerful billionaire with a brilliant legal mind, lethal charm, and secrets buried beneath everything he has built. When my family’s empire is put up for auction, Adrian offers me a deal I can’t refuse: one year as his wife in exchange for the inheritance that rightfully belongs to me. But I’m hiding a secret that could destroy our agreement before the year is over. I’m pregnant, but the father isn’t the man I just married. Keeping my pregnancy a secret should have been the hardest part of becoming Mrs. Adrian Vale. Yet the more time I spend within the cold walls of his mansion, the more I discover that the man behind his charming smile isn’t who I thought he was. Then there’s Jeffrey, Adrian’s stepbrother, whose presence awakens an unsettling familiarity I can’t explain and a fear I can’t escape. The golden mask of the Vale family begins to crack, revealing a hidden inheritance, a mind systematically destroyed, and a truth someone would kill to keep buried. Now, with my unborn child’s life at stake, I must uncover the truth. Because in this house, nothing is what it seems. I signed the contract to save my past. But I may have to reduce the Vale empire to ashes to save my future.

She was always ignored and called nerdy by her childhood crush and friend. Now, he can't take his eyes off her, and neither can his elder brother. Lydia Winters had a crush on her childhood friend, Julian Blade in Junior high school, and when she confessed her feelings to him, they started dating. But when she is ignored in the relationship and finally decides to study in another country, Julian breaks up with her coldly. He chooses a more pretty girl, Ava, over her. Having graduated college, Lydia returns to Ohio to attend her parents' anniversary and stay for a year. However, she is broken when she sees Julian with Ava, even after six years of being away. Their relationship is way stronger now, as they are engaged. Ezekiel Blade is everything Lydia chose to avoid. A mafia boss. An arrogant, wealthy playboy. He is undeniably charming, and at worst, Julian's elder brother. A bully to her during her teenage years, he now starts to see her differently. He offers her a way to make Julian jealous and come back to her: a simple kiss and little passion between them. It works. Julian gets jealous seeing them together and tries to get Lydia back. In the course of their reconnecting, Julian gets Lydia pregnant in a one night stand, but refuses to claim the child as his. He runs away with his real love, Ava. Ezekiel sees this and offers to care for her and her child willingly. Lydia has only ever wanted Julian's affection, but when she is faced with this crisis, will she move on and choose a big time playboy?

Three years into a cold, contract marriage, Evelyn Vance realizes her sacrifice was for nothing. Despite playing the part of the perfect, distant wife to the ruthless tycoon Rhysander Bert, her father secretly gambled away the bailout money Rhysander provided, destroying the very legacy Evelyn sold her freedom to save. The story flashes back to the day the deal was struck. Evelyn’s father had pathetically tried to force Rhysander into a marriage pact to save his failing shipping company, only to be met with cold mockery. Just as they were being ushered out, Evelyn stepped from the shadows and negotiated her own sale. Instead of a romance, she proposed a three-year "merger." She offered Rhysander a PR makeover and access to exclusive port permits in exchange for capital and protection for her family's business. Impressed by her calculated, business-like stoicism, Rhysander agreed, with the lethal warning that he would ruin her family if she ever embarrassed his name. Evelyn had sacrificed her freedom for help. Years later, she meets the woman who was Rhysander's first love and she knows that her time to leave has arrived. The first love tries to cause trouble, however, Evelyn is not one to take insults lying down. She immediately defends herself. Rhysander gets drugged and sleeps with Evelyn, then she leaves the next day. Seven years later, Evelyn comes back to the country with her children, who are also Rhysander's children and they bump into each other at the airport. Rhysander is shocked and surprised to see her at the airport.

That was the moment my marriage died. Not when I discovered my husband, Jason, with my sister, Lila. Not when she looked at me without shame in her eyes. Not even when Jason admitted he had fallen in love with her. It was when he told her that he loved only her, that I meant nothing compared to what they shared. Those words shattered everything I thought I knew about love, trust, and family. I walked away from my husband with nothing but a broken heart and a family that had already chosen his side. Then Alexander Steele entered my life. He offered me something I never expected: a marriage built on a deal, not love or romance. He was a cold, untouchable billionaire who needed a wife for his own reasons. I needed his power for mine. So I said yes. I would use his name to rebuild my life, protect myself, and make everyone who destroyed me regret the day they thought I was worthless. My reasons were simple: power, protection, and revenge. I thought that was all I needed. But as my old life kept finding its way into my new one, I began to realize that my marriage to Alexander was becoming more complicated than I had expected. Because somewhere along the way, I started wanting the one thing neither of us had ever agreed to give. His heart. And I had no idea if Alexander would ever feel the same way.

I woke up in a penthouse dressed up for Christmas, having no memory of how I got here. With a stranger sitted beside my hospital bed, his dark eyes watching me like I was something precious he was afraid to lose. He says his name is Damien Cross, my husband. He says we were in an accident two weeks before Christmas, and that I've forgotten everything about our perfect life together. But nothing felt right. The staff won't meet my eyes. My phone had no history. And when I found a journal hidden behind wrapped gifts in my dressing room, the handwriting is mine, but the words were a warning: Do not trust him. Leave before Christmas. You know what he did. Damien surrounded me with holiday magic, kisses under the mistletoe, and planned romantic surprises beneath twinkling lights. He's everything a husband should be: protective, tender, devoted. Yet his love felt like a cage decorated with ribbons and bows. The closer we got to Christmas Eve, the more I remember fragments of another life. Arguments,Fear,Betrayal. One night I tried to run from him in the snow and never made it out. Now I have until Christmas Day to uncover the truth about my past before Damien's version of our love story becomes the only one that matters. Because the man who saved me might be the same man I was trying to escape.

It was supposed to be our tenth wedding anniversary. Ten years of marriage. Ten years of love. Ten years of believing my husband and I would always find our way back to each other. So, I cooked his favorite meal, dressed up, and waited for Adrian to come home. But guess what? My husband came home with another woman. Mira. His assistant. His mistress. The woman he’d been sleeping with behind my back for years. I watched from the shadows as he kissed her and carried her into OUR home like I didn’t exist. Then I heard her ask, “When are you finally going to leave your wife?” His answer? “Soon.” He’d been promising her the same thing for years. Secret hotel meetings, stolen kisses, and lies while I foolishly tried to save our marriage. And the worst part? He never loved me. He only married me to secure his inheritance. Well, congratulations, Adrian. You finally got what you wanted. Because that night, the woman who spent ten years loving you died. I switched on the lights. Their heads snapped toward me. I smiled, even though my heart was breaking. “Nice to finally have your attention, darling.” But here’s the thing about broken wives. Sometimes, they don’t cry. They leave. And sometimes, they come back as the one woman their ex-husbands can never afford to lose. Adrian wanted his mistress. Now, he’ll have to live with losing his wife. He broke our vows. I’ll break his world.

I was never supposed to stand out. A poor scholarship girl at an elite college, my only goal was to graduate quietly and help my dad survive. But one clash with Slater King, the arrogant golden boy who ruled campus threw me into a world of power games, betrayal, and secrets I wasn’t ready to face. Now, I’m caught between two men. Slater, the rich, dangerous charmer who shattered my peace yet makes my heart race. And Oliver, my loyal best friend, who’s been waiting for years to prove his love. One brings chaos wrapped in luxury. The other offers steady arms and a safe future. But both are tangled in lies that could destroy me. As my past unravels and I discover the truth about who I really am, I have to decide: Will I keep being the timid girl everyone overlooked… or finally rise, take control of my destiny, and choose the love and life I deserve?

Thirty days. That was all Elodie needed to end six years of a marriage that never felt like a marriage. For six years, Elodie has been Kevin Curt’s perfect secret. The billionaire CEO is gentle with her, provides everything she could ever need, and never treats her cruelly. But he has never touched her, never introduced her as his wife, and never looked at her the way he looks at the woman he has loved since childhood. Iris is finally back. And on their sixth wedding anniversary, Elodie discovers just how much of Kevin’s heart still belongs to his first love. For years, Elodie convinced herself that patience would eventually turn obligation into love. She was wrong. So she makes a decision Kevin never expects. Thirty days. Then divorce. With a career she thought she lost forever waiting for her in Italy, Elodie walks away from the only life she has known and begins rebuilding the woman she buried beneath her scars. But Kevin doesn't understand what is happening until it's too late. The wife he thought would always wait for him is suddenly gone. The woman he barely noticed is becoming impossible to ignore. And when another man begins standing beside her, Kevin finally discovers the one thing he never expected to feel for his wife. Love. Now, the man who once believed Elodie would never leave has thirty days to realize that winning her back may be far harder than losing her.

"Sign it," he said. "Talia needs me in a way you never will." Five years of marriage ended with a folder on the kitchen counter, one day after Olivia caught her husband with his first love in an unfinished hotel suite—and heard him blame her for walking in on it. It wasn't the papers that broke her. It was that he said it like a fact, and didn't even flinch when the pen trembled in her hand. Olivia Winslow walked out with three suitcases and a phone that never rang. She'd given Damian Sterling five years of patience and silent devotion—traded for a woman who came back from Paris claiming to be dying, and never had to raise her voice to take it all. What Damian didn't know: she left pregnant. Twins. His twins. And she never told him. Five years later, he walks into a Milan exhibition hall as a favor to a friend—and finds his ex-wife standing beside two children with his exact eyes. He has a fortune, a name, and a company built to get him anything he wants. Only this time, there are two more heartbeats standing between them—and the second chance isn't his to ask for.

‎She begged for years. ‎On her knees, in tears, swallowing every insult just to keep him. Everyone knew it. Everyone laughed at her. And he? He thought she would never stop. ‎ ‎But the last betrayal was different. It didn’t break her, it burned everything she had left for him. This time she didn’t cry, didn’t argue, didn’t even look back. She signed the divorce papers with steady hands and walked away as if he were nothing. ‎ ‎Now the woman who once begged is gone. What’s left is colder, sharper, untouchable. And the man who threw her aside is the one who can’t sleep, can’t move on, can’t forgive himself. ‎ ‎He thought she’d never leave. ‎He was wrong. ‎ When obsession turns into desire, when regret collides with lust, how far will he go to taste the woman who no longer belongs to him? ‎

THEY ABANDONED ME, NOW THEY BEG FOR MY RETURN By Fireflies Arabella Rosewood was the daughter every parent dreamed of having—until another girl came along and took her place. When Vanessa entered their lives, Arabella lost everything. Her parents' affection, her brothers' protection, her inheritance, and even the fiancé who once promised to love her forever. Then Vanessa fell mysteriously ill, and Arabella was forced to donate blood until her body could no longer take it. Instead of protecting their dying daughter, the Rosewoods sent her to a reform school, where four years of hell awaited her. She returned covered in scars, only to discover that nobody had missed her. But the girl who left was not the woman who returned. With newfound strength, business knowledge, and a carefully calculated plan, Arabella approaches the most powerful and ruthless billionaire in the city with an unusual proposition. "Marry me, and I'll save your mother." He agrees, unaware that his new wife has no intention of being anyone's obedient little bride. When the Rosewoods finally discard her for the last time, Arabella smiles. They think they've gotten rid of their troublesome daughter. What they don't know is that the woman they've abandoned is about to become their greatest nightmare. And when the truth about Vanessa finally comes out, will their desperate apologies be enough? They wanted her gone. Now they'll beg for her back.

At twenty-three, Aria Morales has nothing left to lose. After donating rare blood to save a stranger’s mother, she finds herself working as a live-in maid in the ruthless Vance mansion. But Evelyn Vance and her adopted daughter, Sienna, make her life unbearable. When Julian Vance, the cold and powerful heir, returns home, he recognizes the girl who once saved his mother. As he begins to protect Aria, family secrets, cruel ambitions, and a carefully chosen bride threaten to destroy them both. In the Vance mansion, love comes at a dangerous price.

Serena Vale built her empire with her own hands. She survived betrayal, raised her son alone, and learned the hard way that powerful men rarely give without expecting something in return. Now, someone is trying to destroy everything she's worked for. Her biggest obstacle is Damien Blackthorne, the ruthless High Alpha whose business empire is as dangerous as his wolf. Five years ago, Serena shared one unforgettable night with him before disappearing without a word. She never expected to see him again. She certainly never expected him to be her mate. Damien wants answers. He wants Serena back. And when he discovers she has a six-year-old son who treats him like an incompetent job applicant, he begins to suspect that her disappearance cost him far more than he ever imagined. Unfortunately for Damien, Serena isn't interested in being claimed, controlled, or rescued. She has a company to save, enemies to expose, and a past that refuses to stay buried. As threats close in and a dangerous conspiracy begins to unravel, Serena discovers that her business holds secrets powerful enough to shake the werewolf world. Even worse, her son's strange ability to resist Alpha commands has attracted the attention of people who will stop at nothing to possess it. While Damien fights to protect the woman fate chose for him, Serena must decide whether he is an ally she can trust or another powerful man determined to own her. And Milo? He's busy deciding whether the terrifying Alpha deserves a second interview. But someone is watching them all. Someone who knows why Serena ran. Someone who understands what her son is becoming. And someone who would rather see Serena lose everything than let her uncover the truth. Fate may have chosen her mate. But Serena Vale will decide her own future.

Serena Voss walked into Nate Calloway's office to beg for more time on a loan. She walked out as his fiancée. The deal was simple. Sixty days, one role to play, and every debt her family owed would disappear. No feelings. No complications. Just business. But Nate had been looking for her for ten years. And Serena had no idea why. The more time they spend together the harder it becomes to pretend. But when secrets buried between their families long before either of them were born come tearing into the open, Serena starts to wonder if any of it was ever really her choice — or if she was always just the last piece of a plan someone else made decades ago.

Lilian Williams has spent years trying to become someone worth loving. Behind her family's wealth and perfect surname is a girl who hates looking in the mirror, hides the scars on her face, and keeps giving everything she has to a boyfriend who makes her feel like she's never enough. Then Michael humiliates her in front of everyone. Desperate to save face, Lilian makes one reckless claim. Alex —the university's hockey captain and Michael's cousin—is chasing her. He isn't. But instead of exposing her lie, Alex agrees to play along. One week. One fake relationship. One chance to make Michael regret humiliating her. For Lilian, pretending to be Alex's girlfriend should be easy. Except Alex has his own problems. Between the pressure of being hockey captain, his rivalry with the Westbrook Ravens, and the expectations placed on him by the people who control his future, he has no time for a fake relationship. Yet somehow, Lilian becomes the one distraction he doesn't want to escape. As their staged romance pulls them deeper into university drama, hockey rivalries, and Fiona's growing interest in Alex, the line between pretending and falling becomes dangerously thin. Lilian only wanted to prove she could be wanted. Alex never expected to want her for real.

La' Frost institute is a premium skating academy known for its peak skaters from high standard backgrounds, Arianne Johnsons who has envied the La' Frost skaters since she came second place in the nationals skating competition, here is sacrifices and money but yet she couldn't make it to the international competitions, then one day on her way to watch the competition live in her best friend house, something terrible happens she meets the almighty Valerie Stones, all time champion on the ice and most of all her lookalike, crying, hurt on her legs and looking like she just escaped something or someone she refuses to go back and Arianna takes her home with her, tomorrow morning she goes to check on her and finds Valerie dead after overdosing herself, she's shocked, scared but quickly a decision is made in minutes as she dials 911 and a decision is made that day Arianna dies and Valerie returns to the academy healthy, and once again she becomes a star dominating the season and being untouchable in all categories the years pass and then there's a twist she gets a text from an unknown number saying "I KNOW YOUR SECRET, ARIANNA"