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"Satisfy me, or suffer!" Since childhood, Carabella never received affection from her family. Her mother died of illness while her father gambled away everything until his debts piled up. When Carabella turned 18, her father sold her to a perfectionist CEO named Jefferson. He'd looked down on her since childhood, straining their relationship. But now that their fates are intertwined, Jefferson began to see Carabella in new light! He falls head over heels for her and wanted to make her his but can he protect her from his fiancée, Larissa. To keep her close, he employed her as his housekeeper and personal assistant. But can he really protect her from the world and win her love? Will he successfully break his engagement with Larissa and chase Carabella back before it's too late?

To have the ability to see into people's past has no real appeal for the teenager this story is about, letting him only use it as amusement and to show off when he was drunk. Never look into someone's past beyond a superficial level. Never try to find out more than you should. NEVER. EVER. LOOK. INTO. THE. FUTURE. But everything changed the moment he was forced to look into the future, was forced to investigate the circumstances of a murder, and was forced to make the acquaintance of the victim's twin brother('s fists). The more time passed, the more it appeared that the primary reason for this murder wasn't a local, but a global one. This single, marred corpse was the beginning of a threat that would shake the world. (MC loses a screw when he enters the prison.) BL, first-person view; MC is shorter than ML BUT we have a SWITCH-COUPLE! Love interest falls in love first; both MC and ML are straight, mutual bending, Enemies to Lovers) Many thanks to MelBri for helping so skillfully with any kind of grammar error! (*ˊᗜˋ*)/ᵗᑋᵃᐢᵏ ᵞᵒᵘ* WARNING: sexual content, excessive violence, graphic violence, torture https://discord.gg/FvX9PeWraY

[18+ | Mature Content | Dark Romance] After slaving away for years as Ares King's sole overworked secretary, Catherine has finally had enough of his domineering and heartless attitude. She wants to quit and use the severance pay to settle her family's debts, and spend more time with her long-term boyfriend. But soon after she hands her resignation letter, she finds out that her long-term boyfriend cheated on her. He claims she's a wreck with no future, and he's better off without her. Heartbroken and devastated, Catherine is grasping at the last straw when her boss, Ares King, proposes a contract out of the blue. "Become my wife for one year." "Why me, Mr. King?" "Because we work, Ms. Lane.” The last thing she wanted was to make a deal with the devil. But this offer is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Sell your soul to the devil for one year. How hard can that be? ********** "How many?" I froze. Did he expect me to count? "How. Many?" "I-I don't—Ah!" Ares spanked me again, continuously. My eyes stung, and sweet pain overtook me. I should feel sick from deriving pleasure from this, but strangely, I wasn't. "Two?" I teased, purposely getting the numbers wrong. "You shouldn't have done that." Just as I thought, he started again, but this time he drove each hit with more force until my ass was burning. "Fifteen!" I yelled, shaking. "Wrong." My heart momentarily stopped. "I got it right!" "You missed one." He pressed his hand on my searing bottom, and I moaned. I tried to squirm away, but he trapped my hands behind my back, his voice dark with warning. "Move again, and you'll regret it." ~ A/N: This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or real events is purely coincidental.

It all started when Baek Seungho rejected Shiro’s novel and told him to revise it. The next thing he knew, he woke up inside that very story, but as the villain’s brother, Baek Haemin. He wanted to ride on the novel’s hero’s coattails but there’s one huge problem: His new body belongs to a stalker obsessed with that same hero! Now, Baek Haemin, previously as Baek Seungho, has to survive a world filled with system, monsters, dungeons, and the hero’s utter disgust for him.

The Syndicate taught Brock Lawson and Harper Voss how to survive. It never prepared for what would happen if they turned that training against it. After choosing each other over the Syndicate, Brock, Harper, and a handful of loyal crew are forced underground, living on borrowed time and stolen intel while hits close in from every direction. The city they once patrolled now belongs to their hunters. Running isn’t enough. To keep breathing—and to keep the people they love from being dragged back into chains—they start chipping away at the Syndicate’s power, one calculated strike at a time. Allies come from places they were raised to hate. Deals are made in back rooms that used to belong to their enemies. As the balance of power shifts, Brock and Harper must decide how far they’re willing to go: vanish and survive, or risk everything to tear down the empire that made them.

Have you ever had the worst first day at work? Ivy Morales has. Nothing compares to the sheer humiliation of being caught 'tits out' by the sinfully gorgeous Winn Kane, her new boss. Ivy’s got problems. Money problems, boyfriend problems and a desperate need to prove herself. But the more she pushes to show she’s more than just a girl with killer curves, incredible tits and a smart mouth, the deeper she gets tangled in his dangerous orbit. Winn Kane should have fired her. Instead, he keeps testing her, pushing her, wanting her. She found a job. He found an obsession. This is a scorching office romance and temptation is the job description.

After giving everything she had to her father—including her loyalty, her dignity, and the trust of a husband she betrayed—Olivia was cast aside in the most brutal of ways. Her father, the Duke, petitioned the Emperor not only to strip her of her title, but to have her head shaved, her body mutilated, and her reputation dragged through the dirt by parading her half-naked through the capital. In a final act of cruelty, he revealed that he had never seen her as a daughter, but merely a tool to rid himself of her husband. In an act of mercy defying imperial decree, her brother ended her torment with a swift stroke of his sword. But death was not the end. Olivia awakens to find herself months before her execution—alive, aware, and burning with the knowledge of what is to come. This time, she vows to be the wife her husband deserved... and to make every last one of them pay for what they did to her. ​She has returned from the ashes, and this time, her wings are made of steel. Will she find redemption in her husband's arms, or will the fire of revenge consume them both?"

Aria Thornfield, 22, has known nothing but cruelty her entire life. Born an omega—the lowest rank in the werewolf hierarchy—she's been treated as less than nothing by the Silvercrest Pack. She scrubs floors, endures beatings, and survives on scraps, all while clinging to the foolish hope that the Moon Goddess has something better planned for her. That hope shatters the night of her 18th birthday when the mate bond snaps into place with Damien Silvercrest, the pack's arrogant young Alpha. She expects salvation. Instead, she gets a nightmare. Damien rejects her publicly, humiliates her repeatedly, but refuses to sever the bond completely. He keeps her close enough to use—her omega healing abilities fix his warriors, her domestic skills serve his pack—while giving his heart and title to Celeste, the beautiful Beta's daughter. For four agonizing years, Aria exists in limbo: not rejected enough to be free, not accepted enough to matter. When Celeste announces her pregnancy with Damien's child, Aria finally understands: she was never meant to be Luna. She was just convenient. Broken and ready to die, she stumbles into the Forbidden Forest during a blood moon, prepared to let the rogues or worse claim her. Instead, she's claimed by something far more terrifying: Kaine Ashenheart, the Lycan King. The Lycans are ancient, powerful, and utterly ruthless. Kaine rules them all—a beast who hasn't taken a queen in 300 years, whose fortress of black stone sits at the edge of werewolf territory like a warning. Rumors say he collects the heads of alphas who challenge him. That he bathes in blood. That his heart died centuries ago. But when Kaine finds Aria bleeding in his forest, he doesn't kill her. He offers her a deal: become his contracted queen for one year. Help him navigate an upcoming alliance summit with the werewolf packs. In return, he'll give her protection, power, and revenge. Aria accepts. She has nothing left to lose. What she doesn't expect is for the monster king to be patient. Tender. To wait for her permission before touching her. To rage when he discovers the scars covering her body. To teach her that she was never weak—she was just surrounded by cowards who feared her potential. As Aria learns to command rooms full of alphas, as ancient magic awakens in her blood, as the rejected omega becomes the most feared queen in living memory, she realizes three impossible truths: First, she's not just an omega. She's something far older, far more powerful—the last of the Moon's Chosen, blessed bloodline everyone thought extinct. Second, Kaine isn't her fated mate. But the bond they're forging through choice, through trauma, through healing—it burns brighter than any the Moon Goddess could create. Third, Damien isn't going to let her go. And Celeste's child isn't his heir—it's part of a conspiracy to overthrow the Lycan King and plunge the supernatural world into war. Now Aria must choose: hide in the safety Kaine offers, or step into the queen she was always meant to be—even if it means facing the pack that broke her, the alpha who betrayed her, and a destiny that will require her to rewrite the very laws of the Moon Goddess herself. Because Aria Thornfield was forged in suffering. And queens forged in fire don't just survive. They reign.

Hu bcmans are born to serve. Beastmen are born to rule. Bc Lyra Thorne, 22, has spent her life in the rural village of Ashveil, believing distance from the capital might spare her people from the cruelty of beastmen rule. She was wrong. When her village is razed for harboring "rebellious sentiment," Lyra is dragged in chains to the Grand Auction—where humans are sold like cattle to the beast elite. Beneath the blinding lights, she watches her friends disappear into the claws of wolf lords and lion generals. Then he appears. Cadeon Nightfang, the Shadow Panther—General of the Northern Legions, rumored kingslayer, and the beastman even other beasts fear. His golden eyes lock onto Lyra with an intensity that makes the auction hall fall silent. When he bids an obscene fortune for her, whispers erupt: Why would the Shadow Panther want a human slave? He's never taken one before. Lyra expects torture. Degradation. Death. Instead, she's taken to Nightfang Keep—a fortress of obsidian and thorns where no human has survived more than a year. Cadeon gives her an impossible offer: "Serve me for one year. If you survive, you'll have your freedom and enough gold to disappear forever. Refuse, and I'll return you to the auction." But nothing about her captivity makes sense. She's not locked in the dungeons with other slaves—she has a room in the east wing, where only Cadeon's most trusted advisors reside. She's not beaten—she's *trained* in combat by his second-in-command. And most confusing of all, Cadeon never touches her, never forces her into his bed, though the mate bond between them—forbidden, impossible, illegal—burns hotter with each passing day. Lyra soon discovers the horrifying truth: Cadeon didn't buy her to break her. He bought her to save her. She's the daughter of Elira Thorne, the legendary human rebel who nearly toppled the beast regime twenty years ago—before she was executed. The beast council believes Elira's bloodline died with her, but Cadeon recognized Lyra's eyes at the auction: the same silver-grey eyes that haunted him after he was *ordered* to kill Elira, the woman who showed him humans weren't animals. He's been searching for Lyra for two decades. Now she's here, and the mate bond—a bond that should be *impossible* between human and beast—is undeniable. But fate is a cruel master. As Lyra navigates assassination attempts from jealous beast nobles, political games in a court that wants her dead, and her growing, *forbidden* feelings for the monster who murdered her mother, she uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the throne itself: The Beast King is dying. His heir, Prince Theron Bloodclaw, plans to use the king's death to pass the Purge Laws—legalizing the systematic extermination of all humans, replacing them with "more obedient" slave races. Lyra has three choices: - Escape with her freedom and let millions of humans die - Stay silent and become Cadeon's willing prisoner, betraying her mother's legacy - Ignite the rebellion her mother died for—even if it means losing the one beast who sees her as an equal Because the heart doesn't recognize the difference between master and slave, human and beast, love and destruction. And Lyra is about to learn that some chains are forged not by collars and cages—but by choice. She came as his slave. She'll leave as his revolution.

Isabella "Bella" Romano, 24**, has spent three years working double shifts at a rundown diner, her fingers raw from scrubbing grease, her dreams buried under medical bills for her dying mother. She's invisible—just another exhausted girl in a city that chews up the desperate and spits out bones. Then one blood-soaked night, she witnesses a execution in the alley behind her workplace. The killer's cold eyes meet hers. She should run. She should scream. Instead, **Dante Salvatore**—the Ghost of Chicago, the most feared mafia boss in North America—makes her an offer: become his tool, his perfect weapon disguised as innocence, or watch her mother die without the experimental treatment that could save her. Bella has no choice. She becomes Dante's **"little bird"**—his spy in high society, his bait for enemies, his alibi when bodies drop. She wears the designer dresses he buys, attends galas on his arm, and learns that monsters don't always have fangs. Sometimes they have empty eyes and blood on their Armani suits. Dante Salvatore has never let a woman past his bed. Love is weakness. Attachment is a target painted on your back. His empire was built on ruthlessness, and he's survived by feeling nothing. Women are transactions—pleasure exchanged for jewelry, then forgotten by morning. But Bella is different. She doesn't flinch when he kills. She doesn't beg for mercy or luxury. When he barks orders, she obeys with fire in her green eyes. When he bleeds, she stitches him up with steady hands, asking nothing in return. The tool is becoming something else. Something dangerous. As Bella navigates assassination attempts, deadly rivals, and the twisted politics of five crime families, she discovers the truth: Dante isn't just a monster. He's a king haunted by the massacre that orphaned him at twelve, forced into power by his uncle's cruelty, and imprisoned by a legacy of violence he never wanted. Then **Nico Moretti**—Dante's childhood friend and underboss—betrays them. The experimental treatment for Bella's mother? Funded by the Bratva, who want Dante dead. Bella's mother's illness? Poisoned deliberately to recruit Bella as their inside agent. Bella was never supposed to be Dante's tool. She was meant to be his **assassin**. When Dante discovers the conspiracy, he's faced with an impossible choice: kill the woman who betrayed him, or trust the girl who taught him what it means to have a heart—even if it gets him killed. Because in the underworld, love isn't a weakness. **It's a loaded gun pointed at everything you care about.** And Isabella Romano—the girl who scrubbed floors—is about to prove that queens aren't born into power. They're forged in fire, crowned in blood, and built by the men who underestimated them.

Elara Ashford, 23, has been living a lie her entire life. She was brought up as Princess of Veridia, wearing silk and jewels, and she believes she has royal blood in her veins. However, when a marriage alliance insists that she marry the dreaded Dragon King of the North in order to stop war, her adopted family reveals the terrible truth: she was born with the real princess. She is merely the daughter of a commoner, a stand-in for the legitimate heir who was concealed for her "protection." Elara is now being sent to her death with a single, unachievable task: either make the monster fall in love with her or her real family, the commoners who abandoned her, will be put to death for treason. The Northern Kingdom is a real-life nightmare. Towers of obsidian are circled by dragons. In courtyards, Fae warriors hone their blades. In dimly lit hallways, witches murmur. And in charge of it all is Kael Draven, the ancient and deadly Dragon King, whose touch burns like dragonfire, whose amber eyes see through every lie, and whose court keeps a watchful eye on the frail human bride like wolves circling wounded prey. Elara anticipated a monster. She discovers a king who is plagued by centuries-old curses, haunted by betrayal, and frantically searching for his fated mate, whom he believes will break the curse that is slowly killing his people. He believes that *she* is a bond. She's not his mate, though. Wearing a stolen crown, she is a fraud. Elara learns that people have been lying about the North for generations as she makes her way through assassination attempts, lethal court politics, and a developing fascination with the dragon who could burn her with a single breath. Humans have betrayed the "monsters." And centuries ago, a human princess betrayed Kael himself, bringing a curse upon his entire kingdom. Elara's world falls apart when the real Princess Seraphine is found—beautiful, gifted with magic, and Kael's *actual* fated mate. Kael and Seraphine's mate bond is unquestionably ancient and ignites instantly. Elara ought to move aside. Let fate do its thing. However, Seraphine didn't have to spend months gaining the dragon warriors' trust. didn't put her life in danger to lift old curses. didn't fall in love with a monarch who taught her that monsters are created, not born. Elara is faced with an impossible decision after learning that Seraphine is a part of a plot to overthrow the Northern Kingdom from within and that the "true princess" is the real danger to the precarious peace: – Lose Kael to his true love and expose Seraphine. – Keep quiet and watch the kingdom she has come to love burn. – Fight for a love that wasn't supposed to be hers. Because bloodlines aren't always important to the heart. Sometimes love is forged in dragonfire rather than in the stars. Furthermore, the girl who wore a stolen crown, Elara Ashford, is set to demonstrate that fate isn't the most potent form of magic. It's a decision.

I'm going to updating five chapters a day ,If you enjoyed this chapter, please drop a Power Stone or add the book to your library. Your support really helps Synopsis Emily and Nathan are the kind of wealthy power couple everyone envies—successful, beautiful, and completely unavailable. To their children, Ava and Prim, their parents’ marriage looks less like love and more like a corporate merger. Things get worse when a suspiciously attractive woman starts hovering around their father, smiling a little too comfortably. Determined to protect their family, the siblings set out on a luxury mountain trip meant to “fix things.” Instead, something goes terribly wrong—and they wake up in the past, back when their parents were still in high school. Bored, curious, and slightly panicked, Ava and Prim decide to play matchmaker for fun. If they can make their parents fall in love early, everything in the present should be solved… right? Except teenage Emily and Nathan are sworn enemies—ruthless rivals from powerful families, more likely to destroy each other than date. After barely surviving the chaos, the siblings return to the present, convinced they’ve fixed the timeline. Until they see their parents again. Younger. Unchanged. And fully aware of everything that happened. Now, with time unraveling and their existence at risk, Ava and Prim must fix it and stop their parents from dating different people and also from getting punished by their parents sigh being their children is stressful And they also have their love life to handle --- So you guys know the book cover is not mine from Pinterest thank you

Elena Thorn never expected to cross paths with the ruthless and cold CEO, Ryan Redland who got rid of her like some nuisance. She never imagined that her fate would be sealed with him by a contract marriage, forced on them both. She is spoiled, free spirited, and daring. While, he is a man of control, order and silence. Despite the consistent tension, a costly romance simmers. What starts as a reluctant union quickly spirals to something sinister. With a dangerous love triangle, a vengeful, greedy and power-hungry secret rival in play, their union is one filled with love and betrayal. Can their bond survive the endless twists of deceit, pride, lust and betrayal? Will this contract be much more costly than they both bargained for?

They killed her twin. They should’ve killed her too. When seventeen year old Aldo Carvalho is murdered, his last frantic phone call to his sister threatens the century old peaceful treaty between werewolves and humans in Sao Paulo. The suspects? The untouchable sons of the city’s elite–the most powerful boys at Souza High. Reina Carvalho knows justice won’t come from a system built to protect the wealthy. It will come from her. Armed with rage and a disguise, she infiltrates their world–but her first attempt at vengeance fails spectacularly. As she gets closer to the heart of the conspiracy, alliances fracture, loyalties blur, and an unexpected connection forces her to question everything—including her own humanity. To avenge her brother, Reina must navigate a web of human corruption and ancient pack treaties, where every ally could be an enemy, and the boy she’s sworn to destroy might be the only one who knows what really happened that night. * “I’ll repeat myself, since you’ve suddenly gone deaf.” Reina stepped closer, her voice steady. “Fernando and I will be sweethearts if that's what it takes to get his confession. You don't get to decide who I spend time with.” “Continue this,” Ruiz’s eyes darkened, “and I’ll have you expelled. Your scholarship would be thrown in the trash along with your fine academic records. You’ll be gone before the first date.” The threat hung heavy between them. Reina knew he could do it–his family owned the school. But she refused to show weakness. Another daring step forward brought her close enough to catch the gold flecks in his eyes, the faint scent of his cologne. “You want to know something funny? I would've seduced you instead. But I already tried to kill you. You’d never believe I’d fallen for you.” Her gaze was ice. “So if you have me expelled, I’ll find Fernando. I’ll cry, act the victim, even endure his touch till he's helplessly, hopelessly, in love with me. And when he's mine, he’ll willingly confess every lie, every cover-up, every detail of what you all did to my brother.”

{WARNING: MATURE CONTENT} In a mortal kingdom where magic means death, Arwen Hawthorne is powerless—an adopted daughter with nothing but a frail healing gift. When her sisters are sentenced to execution for practicing forbidden arts, Arwen swears to save them, even if it costs her life. But destiny has sharper plans. Rescued by rebels who believe she is the prophesied mage, Arwen learns the truth—she is the reincarnation of Seraphina Nxymoor, the Goddess of Magic, reborn in mortal flesh. And only she can reforge the shattered Cube of Nytherion, a relic powerful enough to topple kings, break gods, and drown the world in blood. To save her sisters, she must infiltrate the dark castle of the ruthless King Eric Ishtara. Yet in disguise as a maid, Arwen crosses paths with Crown Prince Kai Ishtara—the heir of the monster who hunts her kind. He is arrogant, relentless, and dangerously captivating. He makes her mission hell… and her heart betray her. But when Kai discovers his life has been built on lies, and his father commands him to execute the Hawthorne sisters, Arwen’s power awakens in desperation—summoning the wrath of a goddess. Now, every kingdom wants her captured. Every fae court, dragon, and demon wants her dead. The cube whispers for her blood. And the boy she should hate may be the only one willing to die for her. Betrayal stains every alliance. Love is a weapon. Power is poison. Arwen, the girl who once had none, has become the spark that could burn kingdoms to ash. But will she save the world… or destroy it?

Vignette, an orca demi-human, is raised to be the perfect heiress to her father's media agency. Vinny must stave off feelings for her suave rival, a shark that seems to know her better than she knows herself.

Jasmine is the first daughter of the great Alpha Bale. Because of her status as a bastard child, she lives a life maltreated scrubbing floors and attending to the needs of her father, step mother, step siblings and the entire pack. But her life makes a drastic turn when she is switched in place for her father’s legitimate daughter to be married off to the Handsome and Cold hearted Alpha Xaden. Xaden is determined to punish Jasmine for the sins of her father who had massacred his entire family, even though she is nothing like her father. Hate slowly turns to desire, fierce passion and finally love. But what happens when Xaden discovers that Jasmine, was planted as a spy to bring his downfall and was not in fact the original princess he was promised to? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Let this be a lesson to everyone. Royal or not, Alpha or Omega," He declares. "You will steer clear of what is mine. In my own territory. In my pack." With that, he tosses the bloodied arm aside and takes Jasmine away from their shocked gaze.

Ava and Aria; Two girls living completely different lives, yet sharing the same face. What would you do if your life was falling apart… and you met someone who looked exactly like you? You switch. Ava is an ordinary eighteen-year-old who values comfort over appearances. Hoodies over dresses. Sneakers over heels. She’s loud, carefree, and assumed to have a perfect life. Well, until her best friend of five years confesses his feelings for her. She feels nothing. And suddenly, her simple world becomes complicated. Aria lives a life Ava could never imagine. Polished posture. Perfect etiquette. Designer dresses. Crushing expectations. At eighteen, she moves like someone twice her age. Her future has already been decided for her, including an engagement to a man who openly admits he feels nothing for her. So when fate offers her an escape, she takes it. Separated at the age of four, Ava and Aria grew up in different countries, different families, and completely different worlds. They share no memories… no habits… and no personalities. Only the same face. Switching places was easy. Living each other’s lives is not. Because posture can be learned, but instincts can’t. Love can’t be faked forever. And secrets always surface. Will they end up fixing each other’s lives… or destroying them beyond repair?

Katherine Blaire has worked six grueling years to rise to the top of the banking world of Manhattan. Confident, voluptuous, and ambitious, she's nearly within reach of the promotion that will help to finance the college education of her autistic brother. She needs but one account- the account of Anthony Marvin, arguably the most influential and dangerous man in New York. Anthony "Tony" Marvin doesn't just own hotels and nightclubs. He controls both legitimate and underground empires as the heir of the most notorious mafia family in the city. Tony is ruthless, heartbreakingly handsome, and untouchable until Katherine enters his club with the business plan and with an unwavering refusal to back away from him. When Tony offers Katherine something she cannot refuse —a night with him in exchange for the contract —she storms out, humiliated and outraged. But Tony is interested in the woman who had the strength to say no to him, and Katherine finds herself drawn into a dangerous game of power struggle, desire, and growing love. As their relationship grows stronger, Tony's father, the ruthless mafia kingpin Thomas Marvin, will do whatever it takes to eliminate what he sees as his son's greatest weakness. Surrounded by enemies and with Katherine's entire family in danger, she and Tony must decide if their love is worth risking everything — including their lives. In a world in which love is the ultimate vulnerability, can a banker and a mafia prince redefine the rules of power?

Love was never meant to be part of the contract. Lady Seraphina was born to obey—polished into perfection, promised to a man known as the Empire’s Beast. Their arranged marriage was a transaction of power, not affection. Somewhere between cold vows and burning glances, duty turned to desire and desire to ruin. Beneath the glitter of chandeliers and the weight of swords, their duty ignites into something dangerously alive—until betrayal turns that love to ash. Branded a traitor and executed by the rebels she tried to control, Seraphina dies whispering in her heart the name of the man she destroyed only to wake five years before her downfall. This time, she won’t be anyone’s pawn. Not her mother's. Not the Crown’s. And certainly not her husband’s. In this life, Seraphina will wield the one advantage she was never meant to have: foresight. But when the man who once condemned her returns to claim her hand again, the game resets—only the board has changed, and Seraphina holds the pieces while facing a cruel truth: love and power are the most foolish bedfellows of all. Equal parts courtly intrigue and battlefield grit, Duty Bound: The Second Marriage Vow asks: can one second chance rewrite a lifetime of betrayal?