Christmas Mix up

Trapped in an arranged union, a formidable man uses his bride as a tool for his father’s brutal vengeance. Conversely, the kindhearted woman accepts the marriage only to shield her relatives from total destruction. As their conflicting lives intertwine, a volatile tension ignites between the cold husband and his spouse. Eventually, their shared hatred evolves into an intense, urgent desire that risks destroying their initial motives and secrets.

For a decade, I devoted my entire life to David Foster, only to be met with his harsh public rejection. He claimed he could never love me, a promise he sealed by falling for a new transfer student right before my eyes. Left utterly devastated by their daily displays of affection, I resolved to escape the pain by leaving the country. But on the day of my departure, David chases me to the gate. In a sudden twist of despair, he begs me to stay, confessing the very feelings he once denied.

For years, I played the loyal devotee to Dean, enduring his public mockery and constant disrespect. But when he brings my childhood bully into his home, I finally walk away without a trace. My sudden disappearance shatters his arrogant facade. Desperate and trembling, Dean is forced to confront a devastating truth: my devotion was never about him. He was merely a physical stand-in for the one I truly loved, and now his cheap illusions are completely broken.

After sacrificing her wealth to build Diego Torres’s tech empire, she was murdered by him and his lover, Kiana. Reborn years earlier, she finds herself back in a cafe where Diego demands money for Kiana in exchange for an investment. Realizing Diego has also returned from the future, she must act fast. This second life is her chance to fix her past mistakes, protect her fortune, and survive the greed of the man who once destroyed her.

In this dark modern novel, Alan’s obsession with his delicate childhood friend, Sierra, drives him to commit the ultimate betrayal. Blaming his wife for leaving Sierra out in the cold, he locks her in a freezing basement in her underwear to teach her a lesson. Ignored despite her desperate cries that she is carrying their unborn child, she is left trapped in a sub-zero wine cellar. As she claws at the locked door with breaking nails, a terrifying struggle for survival begins.

After being reclaimed by her birth family, Eudora James is left in agonizing pain following a bone marrow donation for her younger sister, Aileen. On her birthday, Eudora buys cheap cake scraps, makes one last wish, and dies alone on the cold floor. When her mother returns with a lavish cake for Aileen, she mistakes Eudora's corpse for a lazy protest. Comforting Aileen while cursing the dead Eudora as petty, the family remains oblivious to the tragedy. But a week later, everything shatters.