Ava Maldita

A scarred wife. A hidden legacy. A love too costly to deny. To the world, Adrian Voss is untouchable—cold, ruthless, and devastatingly powerful. The billionaire CEO of Voss Enterprises has everything… except the one thing he hides behind locked doors. His wife. Scarred and scorned, Ava Voss lives in the shadows of her marriage. To society, she doesn’t exist. To Adrian’s glamorous mistress, Selene Monroe, she’s nothing but an obstacle waiting to be erased. And to Adrian’s cruel family, she’s a curse. But Ava carries two secrets no one expects— One that ties Adrian’s fragile empire to her name. And another growing inside her that will change everything. When betrayal rips her from Adrian’s house, Ava vanishes into silence—until the night she returns. Stronger. Radiant. Revealed as the hidden heiress of Sinclair Global, the very empire Adrian is desperate to claim. Now the man who once denied her will have to fight for her. For her heart. For their child. And for the love he was too proud to show. She was meant to be his shame. Instead, she will be his reckoning.

I am in such a rush to pick up my daughter, Ava Pennington, from school that I don't have time to change out of my work attire. At the kindergarten gates, I run into the mother of one of her classmates, Candice Austin. She sizes me up from head to toe and says, "You must be Ava Pennington's mom." I politely nod. Just as I am about to say hello, her expression suddenly sours. "It's no wonder your daughter dresses so skimpily at school. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?" I am so mad that I nearly forgot to respond. "What nonsense are you talking about?" Candice clicks her tongue and grows even more aggressive. "Nonsense? Your daughter wears skirts to school every day. She's distracting my son so much that his grades have slipped." Her words leave me utterly speechless. How is her son's failing grades somehow Ava's fault? When I don't respond, she gets bolder. "Look at you dressed from head to toe in cheap junk; how can you afford to send your daughter to this elite kindergarten? You must have pulled some shady strings to sneak her in through the back door, didn't you?" Has she lost her mind? Since when does Ava need strings to attend the school I built?

When billionaire Liam Vance is found barely alive after a mysterious yacht explosion, the headlines explode with an even bigger shock: He has a secret wife. Her name is Ava Quinn, a quiet waitress from a nowhere town who claims they married in private months before. There’s just one problem, she is lying. Ava has every reason to hate the man unconscious in that hospital bed. Before the accident, Liam Vance destroyed her family’s livelihood without a second glance. He ruined everything. Now, he’s vulnerable. And she’s the only one close enough to find the truth and make him pay. She told herself it was just a plan. Get revenge. Uncover the truth. Break his empire from the inside. But as Liam slowly recovers and finds himself drawn to the beautiful woman he supposedly married, something shifts. The chemistry is real. The danger is closer than they realize. And Ava’s plan begins to crack under the weight of a truth she never expected… What happens when the man she came to destroy becomes the one she can’t let go of?