Crown of Vengeance

Silvana never hesitates to admit her craving: her professor, the man she glimpsed in a breathtakingly intimate moment beneath the stars. What began as admiration twists into a consuming fixation, driving her to scheme daring ways to tempt the one man she's forbidden to want. Yet she refuses to fall alone—pulling her best friend Jiyya into a plan to spark a romance with another desirable professor. If Silvana risks everything, Jiyya will be beside her, and perhaps a new love can heal old wounds.

During an agonizing, day-long labor, a young mother is pushed to her absolute limits. When her doctor recommends an epidural, her mother-in-law, Lydia, blocks the treatment out of fear for the infant's health. Worse still, her husband refuses to authorize the consent forms simply to avoid the medical fees. Forced to survive a grueling day and night of unmedicated pain, she finally delivers her baby daughter.

On her dream concert night, solo violinist Elowen catches billionaire husband Ethan with Laney, the bully who tormented her in high school. Laney wants her career, and in a brutal fight Ethan smashes Elowen's irreplaceable antique violin, then lets her be publicly smeared and throws their marriage away. With quiet help from Felix, a high school acquaintance, Elowen fights to clear her name and reclaim her stage. But Ethan, crushed by guilt, begs for a second chance, trying to buy back everything he destroyed. Some broken things can never be fixed.

For three months, Summer guarded Julian's ICU bed, praying for his recovery. The miracle came, but at his yacht she overheard him tell Scarlett the baby was a mistake and she would be discarded after birth. Scarlett's men seized her, and Julian coldly ordered her thrown into the freezing Atlantic. She survived, enduring premature labor in a desolate shack. Her triplets included Leo, born with a fatal heart defect. To save him, she anonymously sent the dying newborn back to Julian and faked her own death, hiding for five years with her healthy twins. Now she returns as Dr. Matilda Sterling, a world-renowned cardiologist, and her first patient at Astor Medical Center is Leo. The naive Summer Hayes is gone, replaced by a woman determined to reclaim her child and destroy Julian's world.

To save Xavier Wensley from despair after an accident left him deaf, Stella Lewis faked her own hearing loss to support him. For six years, they built a life together, and Xavier swore his eternal love in sign language. But after a miracle cure propels him to billionaire status in the business world, his gratitude turns to resentment. At his birthday party, Stella overhears him confessing that he cannot spend his life with a disabled woman. Now, her long-hidden secret is her ultimate weapon.

Renee's kidnapping was a lie. Her billionaire husband, Val Gilbert, staged the abduction and forged nine paternity tests to brand her pregnancy a sham, all to shield another woman from a media scandal. Driven to suicide by manufactured guilt, Renee overhears the sickening truth: Val sacrificed her sanity as a lesson for her pride. He expects her to endure the whispers, but Renee is finished. Val wants his heir, but this baby will never see the light of day.