Beauty's Scheme for the Throne

Reborn on her twenty-first birthday, heiress Paige Ashworth is determined to rewrite her tragic destiny. In her past life, her marriage to Jasper Sterling led to betrayal, captivity, and a fatal staged car crash orchestrated by him and her stepsister. Now, given a second chance to choose a strategic partner, Paige shocks New York high society by rejecting Jasper and choosing his brother, Rhys. But as she tries to escape her past, a panicked Jasper publicly opposes the new engagement.

Gifted with the ability to hear the thoughts of anyone who lacks genuine affection for her, the protagonist of this modern fantasy romance discovers a devastating truth. On the eve of her marriage, she hears her fiancé plotting his own escape from the altar. Rather than confront him, she quietly boards a plane and vanishes from Chilia. When neither the bride nor the groom appears for the ceremony, their failed union becomes the most scandalous mystery story in the city’s history.

After five years of devotion, Caroline discovers her marriage to Keith was a complete sham. Cruelly discarded, she watches as he weds her treacherous sister Cara, the woman responsible for their father's death. Worse, her own brothers are conspiring to steal her inheritance and dispose of her. Refusing to play the victim, Caroline strikes a strategic marriage alliance with her ultimate rival, launching a ruthless campaign to make her betrayers beg for mercy on bended knees.

For three agonizing years, she tolerated her billionaire husband's infidelity, cruelty, and public humiliation with a complacent smile. The servants pitied her lack of pride, unaware of the secret countdown hovering over his head. Once it hit zero, his entire estate would be hers. On the final day, she eagerly anticipated her impending freedom and vast wealth. However, the morning of his supposed demise brings a terrifying twist: his timer has vanished, and a red countdown now ticks above her own reflection.

After drowning while Julian rescued his first love, a violinist wakes up three years in the past. To her horror, Julian has also regressed, yet he still chooses to abandon her during a devastating earthquake. With her hands crushed and her musical career destroyed, she demands a divorce. Julian dismisses her pain as a tantrum, even forcing her to surrender her instrument. Little does he know, she is orchestrating a permanent disappearance.

After her uncle died saving her, the narrator’s family centered their lives around his daughter, Alice. This devotion turns fatal during a car crash when the protagonist, pregnant with twins, is left to bleed out. Her husband and mother abandon her to ensure Alice’s minor injuries are treated first. Left alone without medical aid, she and her children perish. This modern romance novel and mystery story follows the haunting aftermath as those who despised her are consumed by grief and guilt.