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Six years ago, Venice nearly died saving Soren Malcolm from a fire. She lost half her face, her promising career, and the future she had dreamed of. Soren repaid her by making her Mrs. Malcolm. But in six years of marriage, he has never touched her. Never introduced her as his wife or taken her out in public because her scars embarrass him. Never looked at her the way he still looks at Elizabeth, the woman he has never stopped loving. On their sixth wedding anniversary, Elizabeth returns and Venice finally sees the truth. He would never truly love her. Then an opportunity arrives to reclaim the career she abandoned years ago, and Venice makes a decision. Thirty days. Thirty days to quietly rebuild her life. Thirty days until she leaves Soren Malcolm behind forever. He doesn't believe she'll actually go. After all, Venice has always loved him. But when Day Thirty arrives and his obedient wife disappears, Soren finally discovers the one thing he never expected. He can't live without her. And now he'll do anything to get her back.

Maren Vass runs the world's most ruthless reputation-and-crisis empire. The firm billionaires, politicians, and dynasties call when a scandal could vaporize their fortune or destroy them. She doesn't do PR or fix reputations, She manufactures consent: buries stories, rebuilds images, rewrites reality, decides who the public gets to forgive. She is the most powerful person almost no one has heard of, by design. So when disgraced tech billionaire Theo Kashner is forced to hand over control of his collapsing public image to Vass & Cole, the most feared crisis management firm in Manhattan, Maren expects another damaged rich man begging to be saved. Instead, she finds a man whose ruin feels disturbingly familiar. Theo lost everything three years ago after a scandal destroyed his company, his marriage, and his name. Now he’s desperate for one last chance to rebuild. The board funding his comeback imposes one condition: submit completely to Maren’s control for 18 months. This includes total control of his public life, his words, his appearances, his entire constructed self. But while rebuilding his life, Maren discovers something horrifying. The scandal that destroyed Theo… was created by her own firm. And she was the one who signed off on it. Now every moment between them becomes poisoned by the truth she cannot confess. Every touch feels like theft. Every act of repair becomes an apology he cannot hear. Because if Theo ever discovers that the woman he’s falling for is the architect of his destruction, it won’t just destroy their love, It will destroy her entire empire. And this time, there will be no narrative left to hide behind. Read on to see what happens next.

Chloe has read The Villainess's Ruin a dozen times. She knows exactly how it ends: the spoiled heiress Amber loses her fiancé, her family, and her reputation, while her sweet stepsister Sophia gets the happy ending she deserves. It's a satisfying story — right up until the night Chloe misses her own life's biggest opportunity to help a stranger, falls asleep furious and heartbroken over a book, and wakes up in Amber's bed, wearing Amber's face, three months before the engagement that ruins everything. She knows what's coming. She knows who to avoid, who to trust, and exactly which choice destroys Amber's life. So she'll simply choose differently — save the villainess by refusing to be one. It should be easy. It isn't. Amber wasn't innocent, and the world Chloe's living in doesn't match the book chapter for chapter. People she remembers as harmless start making choices no one wrote for them. A stepsister who was supposed to be a saint has secrets of her own. And the deeper Chloe digs into the mother Amber lost too young, the more she suspects the novel she memorized left out the one story that actually matters — including why a coldly brilliant CEO named Williams keeps looking at her like he already knows the answer. Chloe came here to rewrite a villainess's fate. She's starting to wonder if she was ever told the real one.

The Billionaire’s Unwanted Wife Elara Vale has spent years fighting to save her family’s failing business after her father’s mysterious disappearance leaves behind debts, secrets and unanswered questions. When the company finally reaches the brink of collapse, she accepts an offer she never imagined she would consider: a contract marriage to Alaric Thorne, the cold and ruthless billionaire CEO of Thorne International. For Alaric, the marriage is supposed to be nothing more than a strategic arrangement. For Elara, it is a chance to protect her family’s future without surrendering her independence. They agree to rules, boundaries and an expiration date. But living together makes those rules increasingly difficult to follow. Their constant clashes soon give way to undeniable attraction, while the arrival of Silas Thorne threatens Alaric’s position and exposes dangerous secrets buried within the Thorne family. When Elara discovers a mysterious Black Ledger linking her missing father to Alaric’s family, she realises her marriage may be part of something far more complicated than she ever imagined. As Elara and Alaric join forces to uncover the truth, their contractual relationship slowly becomes genuine love. When they believe they have finally defeated their enemies, a devastating revelation makes Elara question everything. Evidence emerges suggesting that Alaric married her only to use her to reach her father. Heartbroken, Elara walks away and builds an empire of her own. But when Alaric is framed for a crime he did not commit, Elara must decide whether the man who broke her heart is truly her enemy or the one person she can still trust. Because some contracts are meant to be broken. And some loves are impossible to escape.

Five years ago, Aria Vance was the quiet, devoted wife standing in the shadows of her cold billionaire husband, Julian. But on the night he publicly gave away her life's work to his ex-girlfriend, Aria reached her breaking point. Holding a positive pregnancy test and a heart full of betrayal, she staged her own death, plunging her car off the Blackwood River bridge and leaving behind only her wedding ring and a signed divorce decree. Now, Aria has returned to the city as "Nyx" an internationally acclaimed, independent artist who owes nothing to the Vance empire. She isn't the fragile girl Julian once dismissed; she is a powerful mother protecting her four-year-old twins, Leo and Maya. When a chance encounter at an art gallery brings Julian face to face with the wife he spent five agonizing years mourning, his world shatters. The sight of two children carrying his exact gray-blue eyes sends the ruthlessly powerful CEO into a spiral of desperate regret and dangerous obsession. But Aria isn't looking for an apology, she's here to take back her life, piece by piece. Can Julian earn the forgiveness of the woman he destroyed, or will Aria’s newfound independence ruin him forever?