Checkmate, Stepmother

Bound to Alpha Levi Thorne, my world shattered as he chose his intern, Violet, over our marriage. Despite raising our son Logan together, Levi’s indifference grew until he deserted me during a pregnancy. Heartbroken, I terminated the pregnancy and sought to break our bond. After fighting past my mother’s meddling and Levi’s resistance, I escaped. Now, three years later, I have returned to finish our legal separation and secure the independent life I deserve.

Standing in the back of a crowded banquet hall, Sylvie's life is destroyed in an instant. Right after concluding his speech, Alpha Chase Edwards delivers a cold, public rejection. The sudden severing of their sacred bond leaves Sylvie with a freezing, agonizing pain as her mark tears apart. Inside her, her wolf screams once before falling completely silent—leaving her to face the devastating aftermath of a broken bond and a dead connection.

After the Porter family's bankruptcy, one sister flees while the other stays to marry Calvin Porter. Despite years of devotion and enduring social ridicule to soften his cold heart, the truth emerges during a tragic wedding day car crash. Calvin instinctively protects his former flame, leaving his bride to die from a fatal wound. Awakening on the day of their engagement, she realizes his coldness was only for her and vows to change her fate in this gripping modern fantasy novel.

For two years, she lived as billionaire Dorman Cannon’s hidden wife to protect her family. However, her sister’s return reveals his deception, prompting her to seek a divorce. Dorman responds with cruelty, freezing her father’s credit to ensure her obedience. He tries to buy her silence with a diamond necklace, but she destroys the jewelry in defiance. Though trapped by his dark obsession, she resolves to stay for one purpose: destroying his empire from the inside.

Winning a ten-million-dollar lottery should have secured my future. Instead, it drew my neglectful mother, Della Barker, back into my life. Begging on her knees, she convinced me to clear my brother Caleb’s massive gambling debts and even buy him a house. But my compliance met a dark end. During the New Year celebrations, my family hosted my grand funeral. With my sudden demise, Caleb inherited the remaining four million dollars left in my bank account.

For five years, an Underboss controlled the city's underworld from the shadows, concealing his relationship with Serena because his violent life shamed her. A family-ordered blood oath of marriage gave him hope she would finally accept his name. Instead, he discovered she had commissioned a gold signet ring for Leo, a twenty-two-year-old rookie associate. On their fifth anniversary, she flaunted her bond with Leo in Vegas, introduced him as her brother's low-level lackey, and crushed his wedding invitation. Her mocking claim that he would never be a true Boss shattered his devotion. Grief turned to cold clarity as he burned every memento, blocked her number, and publicly announced his marriage to Elena Romano, the Consigliere's lethal daughter.