How Much Love: Half a Lifelong Romance

Zara, facing a fatal diagnosis and buried under her father's gambling debts, resolves to seize control of her final days. Her plans shatter when she is sold at an underground auction to Damien Voss, a cold mafia heir ordered to marry or lose his shipping empire. He expects a controllable, docile wife, but instead acquires a fearless woman with no fear of death. As their arrangement shifts from strategic to intimate, Damien discovers the devastating truth: he purchased a dying bride, yet he has already surrendered his heart.

Eight years after Corinne Lockwood passed away, her billionaire ex, Leander Kingsmere, stumbles upon their freezing son, Cassian, working on the snowy streets. Furious and assuming Corinne abandoned the boy just to punish him, Leander demands the child return home with him. But Cassian doesn't recognize his father and fiercely defends his mother's memory. Watching helplessly as a spirit, Corinne tries to intervene, wishing she could tell Leander that she isn't hiding—she is simply dead.

After demanding the nanny abort her husband Mick’s child, Desiree believed her marriage was saved. Instead, a sudden bankruptcy and prison sentence dragged her into a living nightmare of debt, grueling labor, and terminal illness. But her suffering was no accident. Spotting Mick alive, well, and playing house with the nanny and their toddler, Desiree realizes his ruin was a calculated hoax. Punished for her ultimatum, she is left with nothing but a vow to ensure he never sees her beg.

After enduring five years of emotional neglect, the ultimate betrayal arrives when my fiancé, Ethan, publicly announces his engagement to my professional rival, Sophie. When he demands I return an eight-million-dollar bride price advance with interest, I shock him by paying every cent to secure my freedom. Later, at a major event, Ethan is forced to watch as a highly successful businessman claims me with an intimate kiss, completely shattering his pride.

Cast out by her own family and stripped of her birthright, she was exiled into the wilderness for being paired with an omega. With her strength failing and enemies closing in, survival depends entirely on Killian—the very mate she never wanted. Though Killian displays unexpected loyalty, trust does not come easily after such deep betrayal. Now, as a dangerous new threat looms over her former home, she must rise to reclaim her stolen destiny or watch her pack destroy itself.

After surviving a grueling mental simulation as a subservient wife to hone her intellect, Avery Woods dismantled her father's legacy and vanished. Her peace is shattered by the Chorus, a biological Hive Mind threatening to rewrite reality through neural networks. Joined by her guardian Julian Vane, Avery must track down a digital entity known as Mila. Together, they face a decentralized terror to prevent a haunting silence from devouring the entire world.