Almost Lovers

After my fiancée abandoned me at the altar for another man, her aunt Adriana rescued me from public disgrace with a grand proposal. For three years of marriage, I loved her deeply, enduring the heartbreak of her seven miscarriages. But when she gets pregnant again, I overhear a shocking truth: Adriana has been secretly aborting our children to secure an inheritance for her true love. Realizing her devotion was a calculated lie, I decide to end our marriage for good.

Sponsored by the powerful Dante Rossi through the manipulation of mafia princess Lila Monroe, Quinn Avery spent years playing their obedient shadow. Despite Lila's hidden abuse, Quinn worked hard to become an executive at the Rossi firm. When Lila wed another, Dante made Quinn his girlfriend. Yet, the moment a divorced Lila returns, Dante demands an immediate breakup. Instead of devastation, Quinn feels only an overwhelming sense of relief as she finally agrees to let him go.

Nathaniel Sterling coldly informs Avery Monroe she was never truly his wife, just a placeholder. She asks for a single final night, then signs the divorce papers and leaves with her pride—and an unborn child he never learns about. That year nearly destroys her. Years later, Avery has erased her former self, becoming a powerful force in the design world with no claimed memory of her past. Then Wyatt Kane appears: magnetic, protective, everything Nathaniel wasn’t. Unbeknownst to Avery, Wyatt was sent by the very family she should avoid. As their connection deepens, he questions whether the woman he’s falling for is truthful, and she unknowingly risks her rebuilt empire on a man tied to her ruin.

Kinsley survives on a low-paying ad agency job, drowning in her late father's medical debt. Her fragile peace ends when billionaire heir Julian Montgomery appears at a corporate dinner, still convinced she once used him for money. Using his influence, he traps her in a direct liaison role for his campaign, placing her under his complete control. Her coworkers mock her background and spread cruel rumors, but Kinsley endures, terrified Julian will learn why she abandoned a promising Wall Street career to care for her dying father. As his torment intensifies, she finally reveals her summa cum laude Wharton finance degree, shattering his illusion and sparking a dark, dangerous obsession to expose every hidden truth about her.

After five years in exile, Sienna returns to New York transformed. Once a substitute bride married out of pity and discarded by the heartless Sebastian Frost, she is now a mother to five-year-old twins with a new man by her side. Sebastian has resurfaced, more captivating than before and determined to reclaim her. However, their reconciliation is threatened by a vengeful nemesis and buried secrets. Sienna must face her painful past to decide if her ex-husband deserves a second chance.

After five years with Don Massimo, the protagonist realizes she will always come second to Cara, the woman Massimo claims to support out of debt. When he moves their wedding to Cara’s private island, she abandons the ceremony, leaving the Don humiliated. Instead of becoming a mafia bride to a man who ignores her, she marries his ultimate rival, Nikolai Volkov of the Russian Bratva. Now, a desperate Massimo abandons Cara to beg for a second chance that may never come.