Your Absence, My Heart's Lesson

Enzo Romano buried his heart with his late wife, becoming a cold and untouchable mafia leader. Forced into a contract marriage with Arianna, a young woman who has secretly adored him, he offers her only duty and distance. Arianna falls deeper for a man who cannot love her back. Even when Enzo's body responds to her with raw desire, his past still holds him captive. One heated moment ends in sudden rejection, leaving Arianna naked, confused, and heartbroken on the kitchen island as Enzo retreats behind a slammed door. She is trapped in a marriage where passion and pain are inseparable, and her husband remains devoted to a ghost.

After objecting to her boyfriend's dangerous driving, she forced a detour that saved their lives but caused his childhood friend, Kathryn, to miss a festival. Furious, Kathryn walked off and was devoured by wolves. Seeking a sick revenge, her devastated fiancé married her only to drug her, drive her to the same wilderness, and feed her to the pack. Eaten alive, she suddenly opens her eyes back on the day of the fateful road trip. This time, she will not stop them.

Winifred Gardner, the secret bride of mafia boss Zachary Hood, is trapped in a web of deceit. Her sister, Stella, has systematically poisoned her with muscle relaxants to make her appear weak and mentally unstable. While Stella steals her family's affection and her husband's trust, Winifred is mocked as a failure. After signing her final consent form, Winifred prepares to unveil the recorded evidence of Stella's crimes, ensuring her betrayers face a lifetime of regret.

For seventeen years, I was the Kensington heir until a DNA test proved I wasn't their own. Replaced by Alleen to save the family's stock value, I was exiled to a small Queens apartment with a working-class father. My biological relatives view me as a failure, unaware of my true power. As the hidden leader of a massive media empire, I’ve launched a digital offensive. My former family will soon pay a multimillion-dollar price for their betrayal.

Joanna’s first death came at the hands of the infected—after being sold out, abandoned, and left to die by the people she trusted. Then she wakes up twenty-two again, two months before the apocalypse, with a wooden bracelet from her mother and a strange system that consumes gold to unlock infinite storage for survival essentials. Armed with knowledge of the coming super-hurricane, floods, plagues, and volcanic winter, she empties bank accounts and buys out half the city. When chaos hits and her betrayers beg for food and mercy, Joanna has only one question: who dies first?

A scientist mother controls her twins using neural chips that punish lies with electrical shocks. While Ryan manipulates his "smiley" status, the protagonist suffers for every perceived mistake. Conditioned to believe she is a born liar, she endures years of torture. During Christmas Eve, a severe asthma attack triggers a "devil signal" on her mother's phone. Convinced it is a ploy, the mother ignores her daughter's pleas and increases the shock to maximum, leaving her child to die alone in the attic.