A Love as Hot as Summer

On New Year's Eve, a woman's celebration turns into a nightmare when her brother physically assaults her in the very home she purchased for their mother. Despite funding her family's lifestyle, she is met with hostility from her sister-in-law and nieces. As her mother watches in silence, the protagonist realizes her generosity has been met with nothing but greed and resentment. In this modern novel, one final act of disrespect pushes her to a breaking point that will change their family dynamic forever.

After three years of preparation, an artist's exhibition is destroyed by her own mother, who publicly brands her a gold digger. While the mother claims to be saving her daughter from a cheating CEO husband, her true motive is to force a penniless divorce. Injured and humiliated, the protagonist realizes she is being pushed toward an abusive marriage with a destitute older man. Now, she must uncover the truth and protect her rights against her family's betrayal.

After nine years of marriage, Vivian Shaw knows her billionaire husband, Marcus Hale, values money over life. Now, Marcus stands in Vivian's morgue, falsely identifying a charred stranger as his missing wife to claim a forty-million-dollar trust by Friday. He has no idea the chief pathologist facing him is Vivian herself. Holding sole control of the funds, Vivian keeps quiet and lets him spin his web of lies, gathering the ultimate evidence to put her murderous spouse behind bars forever.

Detective Mark abandons his pregnant wife on a dark highway after she refuses to donate a kidney to his first love, Emma. Dismissing her pregnancy as a lie, he leaves her vulnerable to a vengeful criminal he once imprisoned. While Mark ignores her final distress calls to attend to Emma, his wife is brutally tortured and killed. When he eventually investigates the gruesome crime scene, he fails to realize the mutilated victim is the woman he vowed to protect.

Beside a fallen tree at the river’s edge, I discover her mangled form drifting in the water. My wolf howls in torment as I drag her to the shore, my mind reeling with physical sickness. I desperately whisper that she will survive, yet my palm against her ribs meets only a chilling lack of movement. As Harvey nears, my vision fails through tears. I am left gasping for air, crushed by the realization that my mate’s heart has stopped beating.

Elena’s perfect marriage shatters when she discovers her husband’s hidden life. What began as a fairytale romance quickly dissolves into a web of deceit and dangerous secrets. As she uncovers the truth about the man she loves, Elena must navigate a world of betrayal where nothing is as it seems. Forced to play a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, she fights to protect herself while unmasking a conspiracy that threatens her very existence.