This Heart Belongs Elsewhere Now

Maxwell Swanson's life shattered after saving his unfaithful wife, leaving him permanently injured. When she and his brother faked their suicide, Maxwell spent five agonizing years blamed by everyone and drowned in regret. But his world spins again when he discovers they are alive, and his own parents helped stage the lie to teach him a lesson. Now, they expect him to return. But Maxwell, harboring a terminal illness from his emergency surgery, has only ten days left to live and wants a quiet exit.

Betrayed by her fiancé, Vivian awakens in the residence of Julian Blackwood, a man she previously humiliated. While her father lies helpless, her brother Conrad and greedy kin plot to steal her inheritance. Threatened by poverty and a deadly assassin, Vivian seeks refuge with her rival. Despite Julian's mysterious intentions, he saves her life. To survive her family's treachery, Vivian ignites a scandal by feigning that the elite lawyer is obsessed with her.

For years, my boyfriend Greg Mann relegated me to the budget version of his affection, reserving luxury gifts for his sponsored student, Yolanda. He claimed my maturity meant I didn't need the flashy spoiling he showered on her. But on our wedding day, Greg vanishes. When I finally locate him, he is in his tuxedo, hosting an extravagant parallel wedding for Yolanda because she envied mine. Refusing to ever be second best again, I decide to walk away from this toxic billionaire romance novel.

After discovering her boyfriend's betrayal with her own cousin, a young woman is callously thrown into a deadly horror game. But her ex's plan backfires completely. The moment she enters the dungeon, the game's terrifying final boss claims her as his own. Recognizing her from a forgotten past, the powerful entity holds her close, leaving her traitorous ex and cousin frozen in shock. Now, she must navigate a dangerous new reality where the ultimate monster refuses to let her go again.

Just a week after childbirth, Kyla discovers a viral online thread where her own mother is plotting to dismantle her marriage. Labeling Kyla unworthy of her billionaire husband, her mother intends to force a divorce and marry off her younger daughter to the same man instead. Following a stranger's cold advice, her mother sends fabricated evidence of infidelity to trigger a breakdown. Kyla must now navigate this web of lies and betrayal to protect her future and her new family.

Clara thought she was building a future with Jairo, until she discovered him with her best friend—and learned they'd planned to sell her to an investor. After a fateful night with a stranger, she calls off the wedding, only to have Jairo destroy her life: freezing accounts, canceling her lease, and throwing her children to the curb. Desperate to save her sick mother's treatment, Clara accepts a marriage of convenience from the same stranger, who claims to be a broke assistant. But when she overhears him ordering Jairo's financial ruin from a luxury penthouse, she realizes her fake husband is far more dangerous than she ever imagined.