There is a hidden academy where the children of the most powerful mafia empires in the world are trained to rule, negotiate, manipulate, and dominate. Only heirs of crime families are allowed. Except this year... One girl is admitted. She has no mafia blood. No protection. No power. Just intelligence sharp enough to threaten them all. And the four ruling mafia heirs - who control the academy like kings - want to know why she's there. Some want to use her. Some want to break her. One... can't stop watching her. Because she isn't just an outsider. She's connected to something that could collapse every empire inside the school.

Catherine Hale-Montclair survived the night she should have died. But when she woke up, something inside her had changed. She still loves Theodore Blackwood-the boy who was once her best friend, her fiancé, the one who told her to die. Yet love is no longer enough to make her chase him. Guarded and distant, Catherine learns how to stand without breaking. As Theodore watches the girl he pushed away become someone he can't control, desire turns into regret... and regret into love. But the girl he hurt remembers everything. And by the time he's ready to choose her, Catherine may no longer be sure she should choose him.

Copyright © 2025 by Bookish Dae After a year of enduring her husband Silas's constant, subtle comparisons to his impeccably ambitious and model-esque coworker, Dalia Jackson reaches her breaking point when he dismisses her homemaking as laziness and her voluptuous body as a lack of discipline.

Cheating romance - please beware, new H. When Stella discovers her fiancé is cheating just weeks before their wedding, she doesn't fall apart, she rises. With her closest friends by her side, she swaps heartbreak for strategy and turns betrayal into the perfect revenge. TROPES: Cheating Revenge - new life with new H Grovel

I will come back and update this description as the story unfolds but this is a story you should go in blind and without spoilers but for now. Some love stories don't begin with a choice. They begin with timing.

Emerald Sawyer has always been my home. She was the one who saw something in me when everyone else saw a hockey goon who couldn't even read properly. When the world called me stupid, she called me capable. When I had nothing, she sacrificed to give me everything. Now, I'm Hayden "Haymaker" Sawyer-the league's most feared enforcer. My violence goes viral. My fists pay the bills. Every fight, every brutal hit, every autograph, every picture, every deal-I do it all for her. But somewhere along the way, I lost sight of her. I missed the warning signs-the threats, the harassment, the shaming, the strangers who hate her simply for being mine. When she showed me, I told her it didn't matter. It was jealousy. It was nothing. I told her that she was safe. I was wrong. The losses started piling up. The fans raged. My anger grew. My fights became more reckless. My temper snapped, and I said careless words that pushed away my entire world. While I'm smiling for the cameras, my wife was brutally attacked by a fan. While I'm protecting my career, my Emerald was fighting for her life. Every moment I'd ignored her, every time I'd put hockey before her, every careless word I'd ever said-all of it hit me at once. Now I see everything. She's alive, but terrified. She doesn't trust me. She doesn't feel safe with me. She flinches when she sees my jersey. I will never forgive myself. But I cannot give up. I will prove to the only person who ever saw me-the only person who ever loved the real me-that I am still worthy of her. That I can put her first, that I can make things right, that I will fight with everything I am to keep her safe, to bring her back to me. I demand vengeance for my wife, against everyone who ever harmed her-and that includes me. Because Emerald Sawyer is my home, my heart, and my everything. This fight-for her-is the most important fight of my life. A Marriage In Trouble Second Chance Romance. No cheating, HEA always.

Wren falls in love before she understands what love can cost. Knox stays close enough to hurt her, never close enough to choose her, teaching her that longing can be cruel when it has no name. Years pass in avoidance and restraint, in almosts and maybes that rot into silence. By the time fate finally claims them, Wren has already learned how to live without him, and Knox has learned too late what it means to lose her without ever truly having her. The bond snaps into place like a sentence, not a gift. Love is no longer innocent. Forgiveness is not promised. But somewhere beneath the damage, something still aches to survive. This story is set in a universe where bonding and mating is commonplace. There is always a HEA ***this story explores mating bonds in humans as a cultural norm. There are no werewolves or supernatural beings in this world***

Marietta St James leaves because there is nothing left for her in the place where everything ended. She doesn't call it running. She calls it survival. She takes her daughter and the quiet weight of what she's done, and she goes somewhere no one knows her name. Time stretches. Cities change. Her body changes. She becomes a mother again. She learns how to wake up without bracing herself for bad news. When she finally stops moving, it's New York. Not because it's kind, but because it's honest. She opens a gallery. She builds a life that fits inside daylight. Her world becomes small and precious, school mornings, paint on her hands, bedtime stories, laughter she didn't think she deserved. She stops waiting for Isaiah. Not because she stops caring, but because caring without being chosen hurts too much. Years of silence teach her what absence really means. Until silence breaks. Not loudly. Not all at once. Just enough to remind her that the past doesn't always stay where you leave it. A name she thought was finished begins to circulate again. A man she trained herself not to look for is suddenly too close to ignore. The distance she trusted starts to collapse. This story lives in what happens after peace is found, and threatened. In the way old lives resurface without warning. In the truth that some people don't stay gone simply because they were supposed to. And some loves don't end just because they were left behind. Beyond Their Lies is about the lies we leave behind and how it catches up to us. And about the moment you realize the past didn't disappear. It was only waiting.

Evelyn Hart believed in fairytales - until the day she was left at the altar. Once a bright, hopeful law student, Evelyn's world crumbled when Nathaniel Blackwell - a powerful business heir she was arranged to marry - walked out on their wedding without a word. The scandal destroyed her family's name, shattered her dreams, and left her to bear the brunt of public humiliation. In a society that blamed her for everything, Evelyn did the only thing she could: she rose from the ashes. Years later, she's one of the most feared and respected lawyers in the country - until one case breaks her resolve and she disappears from the courtroom without warning. But fate has a cruel sense of irony. When Nathaniel's own sister is devastated by a similar betrayal and takes her life, he is desperate for justice. No lawyer is willing to fight for a case everyone believes is already lost - except for the one woman he wronged the most. Evelyn. Silent. Unforgiving. Brilliant. As she reluctantly steps back into the courtroom, the past simmers between them. Nathaniel is haunted by guilt and drawn to the woman he abandoned. Evelyn speaks only when required, avoids the past, and focuses on justice - but her silence screams louder than words. What begins as a legal battle turns into an emotional reckoning. Regret. Redemption. And a slow-burn connection that neither of them expected. Because sometimes, the most powerful verdicts aren't spoken in court - they're written in the heart.