Copyright © 2025 by Bookish Dae Caspian Stone, a grumpy mafia king, finds his world irrevocably brightened by Ayla Evans, a sweet and sunny bookseller. In a devastating strategic move to protect her from a rival, he betrays her, shattering her heart and trust. His plan spirals into chaos when someone he trusted the most betrays them,.

𝗛𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵-𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀. DELANEY WHITMORE has spent her entire life coming in second. Second to a mother who chose addiction. Second to a father who moved on without her. And always, always second to her perfect half-sister, Siena. So she walked away from it all. And for the first time, someone chose her first. LACHLAN ROWE was everything Delaney had never dared dream of-intense, passionate, hers. Together, they built a world where they were the only ones that mattered. Until the real world bled in. When Lachlan lost his job, desperation led him to a new identity: Rafe Wilde, a masked cam boy with a body the internet couldn't get enough of. The money rolled in. The secrets piled up. And the man Delaney loved began to disappear behind a screen. She believed in him. She chose him. But now, he chooses them. And Delaney is back where she started-second best. 𝐀 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧, 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞. For fans of morally gray men, soft-hearted girls turned steel, and second chances tangled in secrets.

Finding out we were going to be parents was supposed to be the happiest time of our lives. Instead, I feel my husband, Ethan, drifting away from me a little more every day. He's late coming home from work, he disappears for long periods of time, he's irritable and closed off, and nothing I say or do seems to reach him. As tensions between us mount, I'm discovering parts of my husband's past that I never knew existed. And when everything comes tumbling down, I'm forced to ask myself: how well do I really know the man I love?

To most people, my husband is Viper. VP of the Devil's Rejects MC, hard, uncompromising, and completely committed to the club and his brothers. But the man I fell in love with was simply Roman, a man who called me Sunshine, and treated me like I was his treasure. By the time I realized the club would always come first, I was in too deep. And when his enemies came for me? He wasn't there to protect me because he was busy protecting her. And that I don't know how to forgive. Now I'm building a new life for myself without Roman. He promises he will give up everything to win me back, but promises are cheap and his aren't worth much. When we discover our enemies are still alive and planning to strike out again, however, I might not have any choice but to put my life in the hands of the man who's already let me down once.

BOOK TWO Chapters for Encrypted Vows will start going up at the end of September. I'll be updating regularly, so you can follow along as the story unfolds. Five years ago, Dawn Ramsey let the wrong man in. Alessandro Ruiz charmed his way into her bed to access an encrypted file that should have stayed buried. He got what he came for, but she caught on and walked away before he could take anything more. Now he is back, acting as if the past holds no weight. He offers her a position at his firm. A chance to refine her skills. She agrees, with one condition. Everything between them must remain strictly professional. But her reasons for accepting run deeper. Someone has been taunting her, leaving coded messages only another hacker would understand. Each message feels more deliberate. Each one cuts closer to the people she loves. She knows she must uncover the truth before the threats become something irreversible. And that includes protecting the man she has tried so hard to stop loving.

When Olivia's young mother faced an impossible choice-keep her child or lose her inheritance-she made the heartbreaking decision to abandon the newborn Olivia at an orphanage. Growing up, Olivia never stopped hoping that one day she'd find a family of her own. That chance came when she turned 14 and the wealthy Hilton family adopted her. But reality hit her hard as soon as she realized she was merely a replacement for the Hiltons' missing daughter, Caroline. On Olivia's 24th birthday, the Hilton family announced her marriage to General Clayton Bradford, four years her senior, the most sought-after bachelor in town, and the man she had secretly loved from afar. She thought he could learn to love her too. But four years later, he still couldn't forget Caroline. Just as Olivia discovered she was pregnant, Caroline returned, shattering any chance she had of Clayton truly loving her. Faced with the painful reality that she could never compete with his first love, Olivia asked for a divorce and left her husband.

He made me his ol' lady. I thought it was because he'd finally seen me as more than my brother's little sister. Until I heard him talking with his ex, I didn't realize he was with me out of guilt, that he'd promised to protect me. So I ran and didn't look back...until I had to go back to find him waiting for me.

I knew my best friend since childhood loved me. I knew it. And when I got back from my business trip, I was going to tell him how I felt, especially when he told me he had something exciting to tell me. But it wasn't that he loved me. He'd gotten married while I was on an overseas business trip to my worst enemy.

Ongoing! ---- Eliana had dedicated her life to her family. To her spunky twin daughters who brought her both endless grief and honest joy; and to her husband Jesse, her high school sweetheart and the love of her life. She'd happily sacrificed her dreams for what she'd thought was a better future. Until suddenly... it wasn't. When late nights and unexplainable purchases and guilty excuses became their new normal, Eliana began to take note. To document. To investigate. Her husband may think otherwise, but this housewife was no fool. And this time - when the truth came to light, as it always does - Eliana would be the one pulling the strings. ---- HEA; dual-POV Content Warning: Cheating spouse, language

She was his forever, until he let her shatter. Seren gave Rhett Hale everything - her loyalty, her heart, and the quiet strength that held them together. But in a world built on whispers and manipulation, even love can cut deeper than betrayal. Cass - his best friend - wanted Seren gone. And Rhett? He let her. Gaslighted. Humiliated. Stolen. Abducted. Silenced. Erased. But when she returned, she wasn't the woman who once begged for his love. She was vengeance wrapped in scars. The storm that remembered everything. Now Rhett will learn what it means to lose everything And just how impossible it is to reclaim a woman who rebuilt herself from ruin. He Changed My Story is a raw, heart-wrenching saga of emotional betrayal, twisted loyalties, and one woman's ferocious rise from the ruins of a life she never chose to burn. 💔 Would you stand by and watch her break? ⚡ Or would you burn the world to bring her home? (A dark, emotionally charged romance about love, betrayal, and the unbreakable strength of a woman who refused to stay broken.) 🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂 🎖️ Highest Rankings: #1 in angst #1 in healing #1 in angstwithhappyending #1 in cheating #1 in betrayal #1 in grovel #1 in redemption #1 in betray #1 in sorrow #1 in owoman #1 in otherwoman #2 in sad #12 in heartbreak #12 in struggle #20 in emotional #40 in revenge