Guarding A Lie

Once the cherished daughter of the Moretti mafia family, everything changes for the protagonist when her father adopts an orphan named Carina. Suddenly, her brother turns cold, her fiancé Vincent regrets their engagement, and her father disowns her in a fit of rage. Cast out and labeled a shame to her bloodline, she quietly renounces her inheritance and returns her ring. As she faces her final days of life, her family remains unaware of the tragedy she hides or the desperate regret that will eventually bring them to their knees.

Alaia Dawson lies in a hospital bed after losing her baby, only to learn her husband, Archon Barron Montgomery, is too busy hosting a lavish party for his first love to offer comfort. For two years, she sacrificed her brilliant career as a runic tech prodigy to manage his life, yet he treats her as a replaceable servant. Shattered by his cold betrayal and the devastating miscarriage, Alaia's grief hardens into fury. She signs the divorce papers, gathers her secret research, and slices her enchanted wedding ring in half. Now the obedient wife is gone, and Alaia is ready to reclaim her power and her throne.

At their engagement party, Luke is blindsided when Oliver Gibson, his fiancée's sworn brother, demands he sign a surrogacy contract. Oliver claims Shannon Hoffman promised him a child years ago, making the contract a condition for the marriage. When Luke confronts Shannon, she carelessly dismisses it as a childhood joke, telling Luke to just sign it to avoid trouble. Heartbroken by her cold indifference, Luke realizes there is no reason to hold on to this relationship and decides to walk away.

When Joseph's wife, Polly, brings home a foreign trade employee named Caleb, she expects her husband to remain completely in the dark. Right at the dinner table, the two conspire in French about Caleb's secret pregnancy and their plans to hide it. What Polly doesn't realize is that Joseph secretly speaks eight languages. Having overheard their entire brazen plot to deceive him under his own roof, the hidden billionaire decides it is finally time to drop his polite facade and retaliate.

When Josette Sunray uses a blank check to snatch a limited-edition watch meant for her partner, chairman Ronan Cruz, and gifts it to her assistant, Steven Palmer, she expects a reaction. Instead of making a scene, Ronan buys out every luxury watch in the city, dumping them at her feet. As one of the capital's most eligible and sought-after elites with women lining up worldwide, Ronan realizes he has no reason to cling to a woman who disrespects him. It is time to walk away.

Returning from service with a Distinguished Service Medal, a soldier finds his ancestral home in ruins. His family's graves are razed, his grandmother’s remains are desecrated, and his autistic sister is enslaved as a laborer. The culprit is Melissa Abbott, acting on orders from the man's own wife, Eva Fuller, to convert the cemetery into a private ranch. Furious at this cold-blooded betrayal, he confronts the woman who claims to rule Joverton City, sparking a lethal conflict.