Romans & Histoires Star Betrayal

Kaia Bennett has spent years proving she belongs on the ice. As the star player of one of the league’s most successful hockey teams, she has the talent, the fame, and the determination to go further than anyone ever expected. Until her stepbrother buys her team. Roman has always believed he knows what is best for Kaia. Now, as the new owner of her team, he expects her to follow his rules, including a contract that could keep her tied to his organization for three years. Kaia refuses. She would rather walk away from everything she has built than let Roman control her career but leaving is easier than starting over. Sponsors turn their backs on her. Investors refuse to help. Players are too afraid to join her. With nothing but her talent and an old training facility, Kaia decides to build a new hockey team from the ground up. Roman thought buying her team would give him control over her future. He was wrong because Kaia is ready to fight for her place on the ice even if the person standing in her way is the stepbrother who has always had the power to take everything away from her.

Framed by her best friend and abandoned by everyone she loved, Bella lost everything—even her freedom. Five years later, she returns as a dazzling star, engaged to a billionaire, and ready to make her betrayers pay. But when danger strikes and her past comes crawling back, one thing becomes clear: they had their chance to love her, and now they must live with losing her.

After catching her boyfriend, Ian, kissing her younger sister, Ruby, Clara Jones walks away from her family and spends the next year trying to rebuild her life. But when her mother begs her to come home for Christmas because her father is sick, Clara knows exactly what she is walking back into: the family that chose her sister, the ex who betrayed her, and the perfect couple they have become. There is only one problem. Clara refuses to show up alone. With the help of her best friend Mandy, she finds Henry Silva, a gorgeous Brazilian chef and YouTube sensation with two million followers—and hires him to be her fake boyfriend for Christmas. Henry agrees, but he has three rules: Clara does exactly what he says, nobody can know their relationship is fake, and most importantly, she cannot fall in love with him. Clara thinks that last rule will be easy. Then Henry walks into her parents' house, charms her family, makes her jealous ex look insignificant, and proves that the shirtless chef everyone is obsessed with is much more than a pretty face. As the fake relationship becomes harder to fake, Clara finds herself caught between the revenge she came home for and the feelings she never expected. Because Henry was supposed to be her fake boyfriend. She just never expected him to become the man she might actually fall for.

I used to think the ending of my favorite historical romance novel was the worst ending an author could give a heroine. Then I woke up inside it. I became Lady Eveline Ashford, the treacherous duchess whose husband executes her after discovering her betrayal. I woke up on my wedding day and my new husband, Duke Adrian Blackwood, is the most feared man in the kingdom. I have no intention of dying for a story I didn’t write. Adrian enters our wedding chamber and places a dagger beside my wedding ring, I offer him a deal. I will help him discover who is plotting against him if he promises not to kill me. He agrees, but his answer is more terrifying than a threat. “I know what your family sent you here to do, Eveline. You have until tomorrow morning to decide whether you are my wife or my enemy.” I thought knowing the original story would be enough to save me but I was wrong. The royal family is hiding a secret. And my husband knows things about the original Eveline that should never have been possible. The more I uncover, the less certain I become about who deserves my trust. Adrian may be a ruthless man, but he is not the monster I expected. I came into this world determined to escape my husband’s blade. I never expected to become the one person he would burn the kingdom to protect. But if changing the story means destroying the man I am beginning to love, will I still have the courage to rewrite my ending?