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Heir Of My Heart: When Power Demands Loyalty

Grace Sterling's fiancé was supposed to be the future. Instead, he became the past in a single moment of gunfire. When James Colton dies in a mafia ambush meant for someone else, Grace loses her future and gains a new cage. Vincent Moretti, the aging godfather, publicly claims her as his protected ward. It's supposed to be honor. It's supposed to be safety. But Grace quickly realizes it's a chains made of silk and threats. She's expected to grieve quietly, stand beautiful at Moretti family events, and ask no questions about the business that killed her fiancé. Then she meets Marcus Kane. Marcus is Vincent's oldest son. The silent one. The strategist everyone whispers about when they think no one is listening. While his younger brother Dominic plays the role of heir, Marcus watches from the shadows, seeing everything, controlling more than anyone realizes. He should be dangerous to her. Instead, he becomes the only person in this world who looks at her and sees something other than a grieving widow to be managed. But Marcus has spent years buried in the family business, moving pieces on a chess board that includes crime lords, corrupt officials, and his own ambitious family. He doesn't do feelings. He doesn't do weakness. He certainly doesn't do love with women he's supposed to protect. Except Grace isn't looking for protection. She's looking for power. Using negotiation, psychology, and legal knowledge from her paralegal job, Grace begins to move through the underworld's shadow politics. She becomes essential to family decisions. She learns to read men who kill as easily as breathing. She develops a strategy that puts her at the center of power while keeping her hands clean. But she can't manipulate her own heart. Every conversation with Marcus becomes loaded. Every accidental touch burns. Every time he protects her, she wants him more. Every time he pulls away, she understands why he does it and it breaks her anyway. When Dominic Moretti discovers what's really happening, when federal investigators close in, when the family's enemies decide Grace is the perfect target, everything changes. Grace must choose between the power she's building, the loyalty demanded by a godfather who raised her from nothing, and the dangerous love she feels for a man who can never truly be hers. Because in this world, love is leverage. And leverage always gets you killed.
katrinaaraaez · 5.9k Views

Empire of Ash: When the World Ended, She Built a Kingdom on the Ruins

"Rule One: Trust no one. Rule Two: Survive at any cost. Rule Three: Never fall for the enemy king." Maya Chen was nobody special—a 26-year-old marketing coordinator drowning in student debt, living paycheck to paycheck in Seattle. Her biggest concern was making rent. Then she died. Or at least, she thought she did. One moment she's walking home from another soul-crushing day at work. The next, she's ripped through reality itself and wakes up in a wasteland of crumbling skyscrapers beneath a crimson sky that pulses like a living wound. [SURVIVOR 1038, IDENTITY CONFIRMED. NEW KINGDOM MISSION ACTIVATED.] The voice in her head is merciless. The typhoon on the horizon is worse. And the only familiar face in this nightmare? Her younger brother Derek, equally confused and terrified beside her. Mission One: Survive the next 48 hours. Secure a base. Start building your kingdom. Maya has no weapons, no food, no shelter—and a Category 5 supernatural typhoon bearing down on them. But she has something else: a brilliant strategic mind she'd buried under years of playing it safe, and a rage she didn't know she was carrying. She's not just going to survive. She's going to conquer. Except the Crimson Wastes already has a king. Kaden Cross rules the Northern Territories with absolute power—a ruthless warlord who survived the first wave alone and built his empire on the bones of those who challenged him. He's lethal, calculating, devastatingly attractive, and has one rule: never show mercy. When Maya's desperate shelter-seeking brings her into his domain, Kaden should kill her. Survivors who enter his territory uninvited don't leave alive. But something about the fierce woman who glares at him with equal parts hatred and defiance makes him pause. He offers her a deal: serve his kingdom for 30 days, help him win the upcoming Territory War, and he'll let her and her brother go free with enough resources to start their own settlement. Maya has no choice. She agrees. But Kaden didn't count on Maya's strategic brilliance transforming his brutal kingdom into an actual empire. He didn't expect her strength to challenge his authority. And he certainly didn't plan to become obsessed with the one woman who sees him not as a king, but as a man desperately pretending he doesn't have a heart. Maya is playing a longer game. She's learning his weaknesses, gathering loyal followers, and preparing to take everything he's built. Because she just discovered the truth: her brother Derek isn't who she thought he was. He's working with the game's architects, the Sovereigns—the mysterious players who control this world from the shadows. And Derek's mission? Ensure Maya never gains enough power to threaten their control. The brother she'd die for has been sabotaging her from the start. Now Maya must choose: trust the enemy king who's falling for her, or the family who betrayed her. Win the kingdom, or save her heart. In the Crimson Wastes, only one rule matters: the ruthless survive, but the strategic conquer everything.
vivicandanlami · 6.5k Views

To Kill The Alpha King

Once upon a time, Eclipse lived a quiet life—until the Moon Goddess bound her to Malric NorthSteed, Alpha Prince of the North. A man who was Cold, Ruthless and Ambitious beyond mercy. On the night she was rejected as his mate, Malric slaughtered her entire pack… and then crowned another woman his bride. Buried under the burning betrayal, Eclipse dies with her family, but five years later, she is reborn as Arrow—an assassin feared by wicked nobles and criminals alike; a ghost whispered through the underworld. Every life she takes is training that sharpens her resolve toward a single purpose: Kill Malric NorthSteed. Then burn his entire empire to the ground. But Malric is no longer just an Alpha Prince. He is now the Alpha King of the North—untouchable behind towering palace walls and absolute power. So to reach him, Eclipse must do the unthinkable. She enters the grand Bridal Selection, a ruthless competition of fifty women vying to become his next Luna Queen—each bride hiding secrets, ambitions, and bloodstained desires of their own. Disguised, surrounded by spies and trapped among obsessed rivals and lethal politics, Eclipse plays the role of the demure woman seeking Malric’s heart… while plotting to rip it from his chest. Yet as the competition turns deadly, a terrifying truth emerges. In this game of hearts and death, she is far from the only pawn on the board; Her family’s massacre was no simple act of cruelty; The bond she once shared with Malric NorthSteed had been anything but an accident; Not to mention that Malric has been playing this game long before she even drew her bow, Eclipse tows the line of danger while donning on a fake mask before him. Because if Malric discovers who she truly is— If he realizes she is the mate he once rejected— If the embers between them ignite into something dangerously real— Then Eclipse will face a fate far worse than death. For when he catches her, no arrow, no mask, no hatred will save her. Not from his vengeance. Not from his power. Not from the forbidden love that could destroy them both.
JaneSmitten · 27.2k Views