In Stella's house water, food and even sleep cost money — her parents call it elite independence training — while her adopted sister gets everything free. On her birthday, the dollar she earned collecting bottles can't buy a slice of cake.
Damon has killed her nine times, each time with a blade at her throat. The tenth time he offers a bet: three minutes to run to the Silver Pack's gates and see whether the man she'd die for opens them.
Colleagues post their $50,000 and $200,000 bonuses on Instagram; Reggie, who personally manages the partners behind 99% of the company's revenue, gets $1,000. Seven days later he walks away, and his boss screams: why did every partner pull out?
Clara speaks eight languages — her father was a diplomat, her mother a simultaneous interpreter, both killed in a crash five years ago. She only wants to be a small, unassuming translator, until the annual meeting announces a 70% raise for everyone who speaks German.
Claire has no wolf and a heart that could stop any second. Her mother married a pack alpha to keep her alive, and the alpha's son swore to throw them out — until Claire walks in on the one thing he can't let anyone see.
As Kale goes into surgery, his mother forces Simone to leave: walk away and he gets the best treatment. She disappears with the baby and tells him to his face that she doesn't want him anymore.
Briar kept his flight sober the night before a trial, and they won everything because of it. When a teammate who slipped out alone is attacked and maimed, the others turn on Briar instead, blaming him and vowing he'll lose his legs too. The story opens on the night his life is about to end.
Emma and her husband Jack are honeymooning in Hawaii, and she is looking forward to a surfing lesson for two. Instead, Jack hands her over to his father Victor — a stern man who has never approved of his daughter-in-law. Between the waves, the two end up stuck on the same narrow board, her father-in-law pressing closer and closer from behind as she looks back again and again for her husband's eyes. Long-buried, unspoken feelings quietly slip out of control in the surf, laying the first thread of a forbidden relationship.
Gold-rank werewolves are hunted down and mocked as worthless by a low-level vampire who has already killed three of their kind. Called a disgrace to their race, they are ordered to fight or die. This is where the fallen wolf begins his climb back to power.
A watch shop clerk can see flaws no one else can, spotting a half-millimeter defect in a five-hundred-thousand-dollar timepiece. The luxury empire's mysterious new owner walks in unannounced, then armed robbers storm the store, and the clerk answers their threats with a calm five-second countdown.
On her wedding day, she finds her groom with his cousin and calls off the marriage on the spot. Set on revenge, she sends an escort after his powerful brother Damien, hoping to bring the family down. But the plan starts to unravel when she gets too close herself.
She arrives at her husband's house as a beggar bride, given nothing and expected to be nothing. No one guesses that she once ruled the kitchens of heaven as the god of cooking. When the fire is lit again, the household's fate begins to turn.
On the day she moves to a new city, the apocalypse hits and Anya turns into a zombie—yet she can still think and talk. Too anxious to ask a neighbor for help, she sets out to walk home alone. Then a stranger with superhuman power starts clearing zombies block by block, and Anya realizes she looks like easy prey.
For three years she has scrubbed floors as a wolfless servant, forbidden to speak unless spoken to. When her alpha family finally arrives to take her home, she believes her exile is over. Instead she is accused of harming her grandmother and shipped off to the wolf military academy before she can say a word in her defense.
A security guard on a barely-livable salary is called in and berated for taking leave three times, accused of abandoning his post for a five-minute bank errand. Someone else is also demanding money from him he doesn't have. Under the humiliation, something dormant in him starts to stir.
On her wedding night, a wife learns that her husband Ethan poisoned her and their twin daughters to avenge the death of his true love, Rosalie. She begs for her children's lives as the poison takes hold, but no one answers her pleas. Reborn afterward, she walks away from Ethan and finds herself pregnant with five children by his powerful Alpha father instead.
A year into their marriage, Clara's husband Julian has never touched her. Driven to the edge by an intimate problem she can hardly bring herself to name, she goes alone to a gynecologist — only to meet Killian, a cold, domineering doctor whose exam leaves her utterly humiliated, and who flatly refuses her request for someone else. That night, she discovers her husband's heart actually belongs to her sister Vivian. The next day, the company's new president walks into the office: the very same doctor, now holding her most private secret.
Betrayed by her husband, she has only just walked out of her marriage when she pulls a young girl, Emma, away from a car's wheels — and runs straight into the girl's hands-off father, billionaire Adrian Vance. A doctor privately reveals that his body reacts uncontrollably to women, and only long-term closeness with one person can keep it in check. He throws five million at her to call it even, and she refuses outright. But a contract marriage soon binds them together: their bodies draw close first, while their hearts stay on guard.
Surgeon Mia is brilliant at her work and keeps a flawless home, yet in two years of marriage she has never shared her husband's bed. Her cheating husband calls her cold and dull and threatens divorce. Out of options, she walks into a hidden club with eight hundred thousand in cash, hoping to pay someone to teach her to let go. The man who agrees, Nick, is the mafia boss who runs the place — and the traders upstairs who crossed him have just seen what he can do. A very particular kind of lesson begins, with danger and desire closing in together.
Branded the cursed child of the Patriarch's house, she trains in forbidden magic in secret while her siblings are groomed as heirs. When her power is exposed, her father calls it stolen and refuses to let her join the Astral Sanctuary's recruitment. Carrying her mother's long grief and a family crest, she sets out to bring home the kin they lost.
At her brother's engagement party, Chloe arrives pregnant and married to Ryan, a mechanic her father calls filth. Robert Sterling disowns her on the spot and cuts off her trust fund in front of the crowd. She walks away without regret, not knowing Ryan's research hides a secret that could change everything.
A creator grants his daughters a halo that reveals truth from lies, gold for honesty, red for deceit. Alice's halo keeps flashing red, and she is branded cruel and untrustworthy by her own family. What begins as a test of truth turns into a trial with divine consequences.
After a thousand years of marriage, she declares she is leaving him, and a ritual is set in motion. It erases her memory, leaving only a farewell message behind. When a man claiming to be her fiancé arrives from the underworld, she cannot recognize the person standing before her.
Every year the tribe surrenders a bride to the Beast King, who is said to kill his wife on the wedding night. Sylvine is chosen to die, and Axel, the man who loves her, says nothing to stop it. When the Beast King finally sees her, he calls her more interesting than he expected and claims her as his own.