Dear Little One, Don't Cry

After losing her mother to save her husband, Luther Valdez, a pregnant wife expects grief—not utter betrayal. Instead, Luther moves her mother’s body to the roadside to celebrate his secretary Stella's birthday. When stray dogs desecrate the remains, Luther blocks his wife from intervening, causing a struggle that impales her pregnant belly. Left bleeding while Luther celebrates, she loses her unborn child. Now, she prepares a final, devastating package for Room 5118 of Hill.

Ada Patton’s life ends abruptly during a tragic Labor Day holiday. Right before her final breath, her brother Allan bursts into her room, unleashing a wave of fury over her alleged actions against Leigh. Weak and dying, Ada presents an agreement to permanently sever their sibling relationship. Misinterpreting her last physical effort as an empty threat, Allan demands she pack her things and leave their home before nightfall, entirely unaware that death has already claimed her.

Ava endures three exhausting jobs to afford her grandmother's care, finding comfort only in her wealthy boyfriend Spencer. Her world collapses when a delivery order takes her to his penthouse, where she overhears him mock their relationship as a heartless bet. After her furious retaliation, Spencer and his friends get her fired. That same night, her grandmother suffers acute heart failure and needs an impossible, costly surgery. Desperate and cornered, Ava retrieves a discarded contract: Spencer's billionaire grandfather offers two million dollars to marry his comatose heir. She signs, sacrificing her freedom to the Carlisle dynasty. But when her recovering grandmother demands to meet the fiancé, the family forces Spencer to pose as Ava's devoted partner—or lose his inheritance forever.

On her wedding anniversary, Lauren West is left alone in a dangerous typhoon while her billionaire husband, Michael Grant, claims to be on a business trip. The truth emerges when his intern, Nora Blake, posts a video of Michael laboring for her family. When Lauren leaves a sarcastic comment, Michael reacts with fury, accusing her of being a spoiled princess. Realizing her husband is fundamentally tainted by his deceit, Lauren decides she no longer wants him.

Dying from terminal cancer, I decided to donate my heart. My foster brother and secret love, Alpha Tobis, callously ignored my sacrifice, viewing it as a ploy for attention while he stayed by Olivia's side. He broke his past promises and deserted me on my last birthday. By the time Tobis realized the transplant was real, I had already passed away. My heart and my devotion are gone forever, leaving him to face a future of absolute misery and regret.

In this emotional young-adult modern novel, a daughter's dreams of a bright future are shattered by her own family's greed. To fund a new house for her newly eighteen-year-old brother, Jeremy Barton, her parents orchestrate a devastating betrayal. They destroy her path to independence and force her into an unwanted marriage with a wealthy elderly man from their village. Trapped by familial duty and desperate greed, she must navigate a harsh reality where her worth is traded for her brother's fortune.