Destined Empress In This Life

For eight years, Nova believed Damien Cross would honor his promise and make her his mate on her eighteenth birthday. Instead, at the Harvest Moon Festival, he humiliates her by choosing another woman before the entire pack. Shattered but determined, Nova resolves to rebuild her life and leave the rejection behind. However, destiny has a cruel twist in store. On the day Damien marries someone else, Nova crosses paths with a powerful and terrifying Lycan King who immediately declares her his mate before the world. What should be a fresh start becomes a waking nightmare when she discovers the Lycan King is the very man who murdered her parents.

Elena Vance wakes up to a digital nightmare: her most intimate photos are trending across social media. The culprit is her ex-boyfriend from three years ago, who turned to public exposure after his blackmail schemes failed. Armed with secret videos recorded during their past relationship, he sought to destroy her. But Elena refuses to be a silent victim. She vows to hunt down the truth, expose his crimes, and ensure he faces justice behind bars.

Abandoned on her engagement day by Elric Solvain, Eloise is brutally tortured by thugs hired by her own adoptive mother—all to protect her foster sister Rosie's status as the Morven heiress. Instead of seeking justice, Elric condones the horror, offering Eloise a silent marriage and a villa as compensation for her ruined life. Refusing to remain a voiceless victim, Eloise contacts her elite Special Forces childhood friend to help her vanish from their lives forever.

Approaching her fifth anniversary, Ameera Meyer is devastated to learn her marriage certificate with Marlow Brunsfield is a total forgery. While she reels from this discovery, Marlow is in Anderia—a nation permitting only a single lifetime union—to marry a younger woman he raised himself. Though his affection for Ameera was genuine, his heart somehow holds space for two. This modern billionaire mystery follows the fallout of a man leading a double life and breaking his most sacred vows.

How much disrespect can one household endure? For a frustrated husband and father, the breaking point comes in the smallest, most repetitive way possible. Day after day, his wife and son leave exactly one grain of rice behind in their bowls. When this silent act of defiance occurs for the ninety-ninth time, his long-simmering resentment boils over. With a sudden slam of the table, he finally confronts his wife, unleashing a wave of domestic tension that changes everything.

Three days before their wedding, the protagonist stuns Gabriel Miller by calling off their marriage. Despite eighteen years together, from their humble beginnings to their current lives in Marise, she can no longer overlook his inappropriate closeness with Katherine. Gabriel dismisses her concerns as oversensitivity, claiming he only helped Katherine with a wardrobe malfunction. Refusing his hollow peace offerings, she chooses to finally break free from the cycle of his excuses.