Novel Web & Cerita Ruthless Second Chance First-Person POV

BLURB “I’m sorry, Bellatrix. We couldn’t save the child.” ~ On the day Bellatrix had lost her child in the labor room, her mother’s response had been; “We’d all lost something because of this scandal, it’s only fair that you do too.” For so many years, she’d sought for her parent’s love and affection, but had gotten none of that. They’d reserved it all for Rosalia—their trophy daughter. All her life, she’d watched her sister take every single thing she’d cared about, including the man she’d had a crush on for as long as she could remember. Now, forced into a marriage to the ruthless, cruel, Alpha Clinton of Ironclan pack, Bellatrix can only hope to make it through each day alive. But she soon realizes that Clinton was no stranger, he was the same man she’d bawled her heart to during a drunk night at the club, and the same man who’d she’d recklessly given her virginity *** Clinton didn’t need a wife. But his daughter Esmee needed a mother, and for her sake he’d agreed to the marriage. He’d sworn on his late wife’s tombstone three years ago to never love again, but watching Bellatrix care for his daughter like she was her own had triggered strange feelings in him. Soon enough, he found himself at the edge of breaking the same promises he’d made. What happens when Bellatrix’s long-time crush comes running back, ready to right all his wrongs? Will she give him a second chance, or will she choose the man who still lived in the shadows of his late wife?

I was rejected by the man I sacrificed everything for. Now, the most feared Alpha in the werewolf world wants me to become his wife. For two years, I believed loving Cole was enough. I supported him when he had nothing, worked from home to help build his company. I thought that once he became successful, he would finally see me. Instead, success made him ashamed of me. When Cole's beautiful first love, Selena, returns, everything changes. He divorces me publicly and humiliates me for being a plus-size, wolfless Omega. Then I discover the cruelest truth of all. The three-year-old daughter I devoted my life to raising wasn't adopted because Cole and I couldn't have children. She was his daughter born from his affair with Selena. With nowhere to go, no money in my account, and my own family refusing to take me back, I find myself applying for a live-in nanny position I never imagined I'd need. My new employer is Alpha Lucian Steel. Powerful. Ruthless. Untouchable. And grieving the mysterious death of his mate. His five-year-old daughter, Mira, is even more terrifying. She has driven away every nanny who has entered the Steel mansion. But when I meet her, something impossible happens. The child who screams whenever anyone touches her reaches for my hand. And Lucian's wolf recognizes my scent. Mate. He knows I'm his fated mate. I don't. Lucian should reject me. Instead, he makes me an offer. A contract marriage with rules. I will become Mira's mother in name, while Lucian protects me from the world that discarded me. It sounds perfect. Until living under the same roof turns our carefully written rules into something neither of us can control. I was once the wife nobody wanted. Now, I'm the Luna everyone will bow to.

Benson Taylor lives a life built on precision, secrecy, and control. A former military sniper turned highly sought-after hitman, he operates in the shadows of New York City, leaving no witnesses, no evidence - and no room in his life for love. Andie is everything Benson is not. Warm, hopeful, and full of life, she spends most of her days running a small Williamsburg juice bar and dreaming of the one thing she doesn't yet have; someone to share her life with. When a chance encounter brings them together, the connection is instant... and impossible to ignore. But Benson carries a dangerous secret. The man Andie can't stop thinking about is the very man responsible for the murder that happened just outside her shop. A man who kills for a living. As their worlds collide and feels grow stronger, Benson faces a choice he never expected to make: continue the life he's always known... or risk everything for the woman who could change it all. Because love might be the one job he can't walk away from. And when the truth finally comes out, Andie will have to decide if the man she's falling for is worth the danger that follows him.

She spent all her life loving a man the world called the devil. Three years into a loveless marriage, she kept hoping, wishing one day he would love her back look at her like she wasn't just another piece of furniture. Her hope crumbles when she finds him in the arms of his supposed childhood friend. The night of betrayal drizzled away any hope of love. She doesn't scream, doesn't make herself known. She slips back, turns, and runs, ready to hide away and cry her heart out, but fate has another plan, she is thrust into an accident. She survives. He thinks she died. She runs away, hiding her pregnancy. Years later, their paths collide again. Only this time, the Devil who once couldn't bear to look at her is on his knees, begging her to come back. He is twisted but the truth becomes far more than she expected shadows lurk around, ready to unravel her reality. She finds herself entangled in a deadly game between the man who saved her life and the monster she was saved from.

After his sister Isabel’s death, Zander Stone returns to New York to take over Stone Holdings and uncover the truth behind the accident. He learns that Ivy Ellis, Isabel’s best friend, was driving that night. When Ellis Exchange faces bankruptcy, Zander exploits their desperation and coerces Ivy into a secret contract marriage. As they live together, resentment gives way to attraction and eventually genuine love. But after they spend the night together, Ivy discovers that Zander married her to punish her. Heartbroken, she distances herself. The public begins digging into the marriage, and the investigation reveals that Isabel’s brakes were sabotaged by an enemy from Zander’s past. Overcome with guilt, Zander spirals into depression. Ivy chooses to stay and help him heal. Zander apologizes and returns control of Ellis Exchange to her family. When Ivy learns she is pregnant, they decide to build a real future together. But Zander’s enemies return, placing Ivy and their unborn child in danger. After nearly losing her, Zander confronts his past once and for all. Ivy gives birth, and they finally find the peace they fought so hard to earn.

Five years ago, Tiffany Perkins believed her boyfriend would love her forever. Certain of their future, she abandoned the baby from a one-night stand on billionaire Oscar Vance’s doorstep and ran away with the man she trusted. Five years later, that trust is shattered. Her boyfriend cheats on her, throws her out, and leaves her burdened with a thirty-million-dollar loan she took to build his fashion brand. Homeless and desperate, Tiffany returns to her family home, only to face her grandfather’s harsh ultimatum. Obsessed with patriarchy and preserving the family business, he refuses to forgive her unless she brings home a wealthy husband. With no other choice, Tiffany turned to a fake partner agency to help find her match. She soon lands a mysterious “wife-for-hire” offer that said she must pretend to be the mother of a five-year-old child to ruin an exclusive event, and in return, the man will be her fake husband for a month. But when Tiffany arrives, she is stunned to discover that the man who hired her is the billionaire Oscar Vance… and the little boy she is meant to pretend as his mother is actually the son she abandoned five years ago. Worse still, the event she is meant to destroy is Oscar Vance's engagement to her own sister!