Love's Substitute

For five years, she has lived as a ghost—a quiet medical student concealing the truth that she shattered her own father's skull. But when Killian O'Connor, New York's most merciless mafia Don, storms into her clinic on a rainy midnight, her forged identity crumbles beneath his grip. Her father murdered his little sister, and now Killian demands payment. Stripped of her lies and locked inside his golden cage, she surrenders her father's secret list of political puppets to keep her family alive. Yet in his subterranean world of cold steel and scalding touch, the line between enemy and obsession blurs. His cruel possession becomes the only safety she has ever known—and the most dangerous secret she carries may be the one that binds them forever.

When Eugene Sanchez’s business collapsed, Judith Pruitt paid a devastating price to save him from a fatal fall, losing her unborn baby while their dog, Biscuit, lost a leg. Back then, a tearful Eugene promised them a lifetime of devotion. Yet three years later, the successful billionaire dismisses Judith as a mere friend, claiming a young student taught him what real love actually means. Now, holding onto her shattered heart, Judith demands to know how he will explain his betrayal to their lost child.

Eight months pregnant, Sharon Fox is forced into 108-degree heat under the guise of prenatal care by Ivy, the housekeeper's daughter. After breaking a window to save her unborn child, Sharon faces the wrath of her cold husband, Bernard Farley. Blaming Sharon for Ivy’s heatstroke, Bernard locks his pregnant wife inside an iron roasting chamber to appease Ivy's family. Heartbroken and pushed past her limit, Sharon dials a trusted ally, Jacob, with a chilling command: eliminate them all.

Betrayed by her destined mate and her own sister, Elara is cast out from her pack in disgrace. After the unfaithful Alpha rejects her for another, she is forced to navigate a world of danger and heartbreak alone. However, a chance encounter with a powerful, mysterious stranger offers her a path to reclamation. As Elara discovers her hidden strength, she must decide if she will seek vengeance or find a love that is truly worthy of her soul.

Quentin Yale manipulates a young woman as a tool for vengeance against her mother. After revealing her pregnancy to shatter her mother’s spirit, the victim takes a desperate, violent stand by stabbing herself and plunging into the sea. This modern romance and action tale takes a dark turn as Quentin loses his sanity. Haunted by visions of her and their unborn child, he ends up in an asylum, begging for forgiveness from a ghost who refuses to let him find peace.

When a rival family abducts her daughter, Angela, Leo promises a rescue but saves his mistress's child instead, leaving Angela to perish. After dying in the blast, the protagonist miraculously wakes up in the past. Determined to rewrite destiny, she rejects her husband's false promises. This time, she takes matters into her own hands and calls her brother—the powerful Don of the Gallo family—to save her daughter.