The Grandmaster Bodyguard

On the most crucial night of Isabelle's life—her official induction into the family—her partner Marcello Moretti is absent. While she faces the council alone, he is in Monaco with his childhood love, Serafina Vitale. Instead of his presence, she receives a cold bouquet and an envelope of cash. When she confronts him, his dismissive attitude seals his fate. After years of compromise, Isabelle draws the line. Under the midnight sky, she starts her thirty-day countdown to leave him forever.

Within a brutal criminal underworld, a deadly and enigmatic woman surfaces to defy tradition. While overlooked by her peers, she is a tactical genius. Her journey aligns with a powerful, ambitious leader who governs through terror. Their clandestine and perilous bond begins to undermine his iron rule. In a realm where treachery is constant, their shared passion becomes a lethal gamble that threatens to bring their entire world crashing down.

For three years, she secretly built her husband Cassio's weak mafia syndicate into the city's most powerful force, planning to reveal her true identity at his birthday dinner. Instead, he abandoned her, froze her accounts, and returned with his mistress Lola and armed men to publicly cast her aside. Given thirty minutes to produce three hundred thousand dollars or be stripped and thrown into the street, she watched his capos close in like predators. But Cassio never knew his worthless wife was Serena Falcone, heiress to the East Coast's deadliest mafia family. As his men reached for her dress, she calmly called her real family to destroy his empire.

After birthing an Ice Blue dragon instead of a Gold heir, a dragon noble is brutally executed by her husband, Crown Prince Drakon Vexis. Following years of torture in a frozen dungeon, she awakens on the day of her coming-of-age ceremony. As the dragon court gathers to select brides, Drakon unexpectedly rejects her for her younger half-sister. Realizing that her murderous former husband has also retained his memories of the future, she must survive the court's deadly politics.

After her fated mate, the powerful Alpha King, cruelly rejects her, a young werewolf's world shatters. Forced to navigate a life of exile and heartbreak, she must find the strength to survive without the protection of her pack or the man she was destined to love. As she struggles against her internal pain and external threats, a path toward self-discovery and unexpected power emerges, challenging the very laws of their supernatural society.

While her family prepares for a grand celebration, the protagonist of this horror novel faces a gruesome end. Bound and silenced, she is dismembered by an obsessive admirer of her family's favorite daughter. As her life ebbs away, she receives a barrage of vitriolic calls from her parents and brother, who berate her for missing the wedding. They demand she speak, oblivious to the fact that their daughter is no longer alive to answer their cruel ultimatums.