First-Person POV Urban Web Novels & Independent Betrayal Stories

Ruby Lovato built the only working cold store on the Castelmare docks, and she died outside its gate in the snow while her fiancé and her little sister watched her through the glass. Then she woke up on New Year's Eve, twelve weeks before the sun went dim, with a voice in her head that only she could hear. She knows the date the dust comes. She knows which banks will fail, which roads will close, which medicines will stop arriving, and what a tin of salt will be worth by September. What she does not know yet is that Cesare and Vittoria have been sleeping together for two years, and that everything they did to her at the end, they were already rehearsing at the beginning. This time she is going to keep her warnings to herself and buy the warehouse first.

Elise Delaney thought she had the perfect marriage until her fifth wedding anniversary became the night she discovered her husband was cheating on her. But the affair is only the beginning. Behind closed doors, Gideon Shaw and his mistress are plotting to steal Elise's controlling shares in the company her father left her. They believe she's too trusting to notice. They're wrong. Instead of confronting her husband, Elise pretends she knows nothing. While Gideon kisses her goodnight and lies to her face, she secretly investigates the missing money, forged documents, and suspicious transactions hiding inside his carefully built empire. Then his mistress approaches her with a secret of her own. She wasn't Gideon's only victim. As the two women reluctantly join forces, Elise uncovers evidence that reaches far beyond her husband's betrayal. Gideon knew her family long before he ever met her, and her marriage may have been part of a plan from the very beginning. Now Elise has one goal: expose the man she once loved before he destroys everything her father left behind. Because once you've been betrayed by the person you trusted most, you learn a painful lesson: Once bitten, twice shy.

A major romantic disappointment leads Lizandra to leave her hometown and accept a job offer in Rio de Janeiro, but her impulsive act leads her into a scam. Lizandra finds herself trapped in a big city where she knows absolutely no one. However, an accident introduces her to wonderful people, and perhaps she has found a true family. Now, she just needs to convince the handsome and arrogant Heitor Alves de Bragança that she's not a con artist willing to take advantage of people who have only helped her.