The Rural Academic Star

Leon believed his wife Alice’s nightly ritual of serving him warm milk was an act of devotion, until a neighbor’s fire revealed he was being drugged into a stupor. After feigning a trip to investigate, Leon returns to find Alice locked in their room, behaving like an addict. She is obsessing over a pillowcase belonging to his father, claiming to crave his scent. This chilling horror story explores a husband's discovery of his wife's disturbing and lethal secrets.

After her cruel husband, Stefano Worthington, shoves her down the stairs, the protagonist loses her unborn child and is handed divorce papers. To make matters worse, Stefano’s mistress, Vexanna, moves into her home, flaunting her stolen life. When a tragic house fire claims her parents' lives, Stefano refuses to let her leave unless she kneels in submission. Pushed to her absolute limit, she contacts her brother with a desperate plea to help fake her death and escape his torment.

For a week, Mira Veyr posed as an unemployed mother to shield her five-year-old son Toby from pack politics, enrolling him in a human school where he mistook stolen lunches for sharing and red stickers for awards. But when the richest family's bullying shatters Toby's scent seal, exposing his trail to an unknown wolf, the school expects a poor mother to vanish. Instead, a board member kneels—calling her Luna. Yet Mira's rank hides deeper secrets about Toby's parents, and those who dared target her son are about to face the full fury of his true lineage.

For fifteen years, Kelsey served as Bennett Calloway’s loyal wife, only for the ruthless mogul to humiliate her at the Met Museum. Publicly choosing his pregnant mistress, Alya, Bennett attempts to crush Kelsey’s spirit and seize her assets. He expects her to crumble, but she chooses to burn their history instead. After vanishing to start anew in Paris, Bennett discovers that his cruelty didn't destroy Kelsey; it liberated the woman he once controlled.

For three long years, she worked tirelessly in the shadows to secure Julius Lander’s rise to Chancellor. Everyone believed her devotion was absolute, but when Julius publicly casts her aside for her half-sister on his day of triumph, she doesn't shed a single tear. Retreating to a quiet convent, she bides her time in prayer. When a desperate Julius eventually returns to beg for her mercy, he learns too late that his ascent was merely a setup. Her final move is written in blood.

Abandoned while seven months pregnant, I bled out as my husband prioritized his intern. After surviving, I was forced to kneel before his mistress to protect his political ambitions. He eventually labeled me insane and gave our newborn son her surname. Now, she wears my clothes and lives in my home while I am left with nothing. The illusion of my marriage is dead. To reclaim my justice, I will destroy his reputation and burn his entire world to ashes.