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Once an unshakeable godfather of the underworld, he abandoned his empire and lived a quiet life in the city, only wishing for his beloved daughter to live a peaceful life away from violence. When ruthless enemies turned against her, driving her to the brink of despair, the man who buried her past returned. He unleashed all his dormant dark power to avenge her, making all the perpetrators pay a bloody price.

One year into her marriage, Eileen’s husband Thomas is cheating on her with Vanessa, the Godfather’s niece. To prove his devotion, he even locks himself in a chastity cage, determined to throw Eileen out with nothing. But the Carter family matriarch gives her only two options: save the marriage, or “die for him” before the divorce goes through. Three years ago, that’s exactly how the second sister “fell” from the balcony. Desperate to climb the ladder, Thomas kneels in public to kiss the shoes of Victor Hale, King of the Underworld, calling him “Father” at every turn.

Victor Hale built the machines that changed modern warfare. His company, Hale Dynamics, put powered armor on soldiers and powered braces on injured workers, and the press crowned him the Iron King. At the height of his fame, two things happen on the same afternoon. He and his wife Grace finalize the adoption of three orphaned children. And he stops for a ten-year-old boy washing cars for change, saving for a robot kit — a kid who wants to build a suit a man can wear, strong enough to lift a car. Victor covers what the boy is short, but not as charity. He calls it an investment, jokes that his three hundred dollars buys one percent of the boy's future company, and seals the partnership with a keychain: a miniature of the TITAN, the first armor suit Hale ever shipped. He promises to come back in a week for a demonstration. He never does. The adoption swallows his life, and the boy, Theo Ryder, waits on a street corner wearing a robot arm built from salvage, watching his hero's new family on a giant screen, promising himself that one day he will find Victor Hale and repay every cent. With interest. Fifteen years later, Victor's world collapses in a single day. The three children he raised drain the company's accounts, and Aiden, the acting CFO, tells him to his face that the transfer was legal and Hale Dynamics is now an empty shell — sign it over, old man, or we take it. The same hour, a doctor calls: Grace has late-stage liver cancer, and the cultured liver that can save her costs at least one million dollars. Unpaid workers riot in the lobby. A brick opens Victor's forehead, and the man who was paralyzed years ago pulling a test pilot from a burning prototype hauls himself out of his wheelchair on failing leg braces, climbs a table, and kneels to his own workers, promising to sell everything he owns to cover their wages. They give him one day. He liquidates his life and is still six million short. Grace presses her surgery savings into his hands and makes the shortfall five. So Victor goes to Douglas Vance — the bitter old friend whose casino debt he once paid with his own scholarship check, and whose company he once secretly saved from bankruptcy. Vance has waited twenty-five years for this night. In front of the military buyers he is entertaining, he invites Victor into a hug and lets him fall face-first on the club carpet. He flings a case of cash across the wheelchair and names the price of a five-million-dollar loan: get out of the chair and crawl. For his workers, Victor crawls. Vance moves the goalposts — now his shoes need polishing — and when Victor tries to rise, Vance presses a fob and Victor's braces go dead. Vance's company bought the Hale service network in the fire sale; every suit and brace Hale ever sold answers to him now, including the hardware strapped to Victor's legs. As Vance grinds Victor's face against his polished shoe, a Maybach glides to the curb outside. Theo Ryder — the car-wash kid, now the founder of Ryder Robotics, the company Vance and the children have schemed all along to reach — steps out with the worn TITAN keychain in his fist and one instruction for his people: take me to my partner. What follows is the repayment. Theo walks in on the humiliation, and the keychain tells the room everything: the beggar on the carpet owns one percent of the most valuable robotics founder alive, bought fifteen years ago for three hundred dollars — a stake Theo has protected and grown ever since. The partner search that justified every crime collapses in the conspirators' faces, because the only partner Ryder Robotics will ever accept is Victor Hale. Theo's engineers rebuild Victor's braces on Ryder's own network, beyond Vance's reach. Grace gets her surgery, funded before the workers' collection jar is even counted, and every worker is repaid in full. Then the reckoning: the children's legal theft comes apart clause by clause, the godfather who used them lets them fall, and Vance's secret history — the scholarship check, the hidden bailout — is dragged into the daylight until the man who demanded a crawl loses his buyers, his network, and his name. Victor ends where he began: standing, this time in a suit built by the boy he believed in, with Grace beside him and a partner who kept his word. Every cent came back. With interest.

On Mars, we don't ranch cattle or harvest corn. We mine subsurface ice veins. And there's no bigger rancher on planet than Wyatt Andros. But when Wyatt's brother Kane double crosses him, and leaves him for dead, everything is taken from him. It's only because of the kindness of fellow rancher Emma that Wyatt survives, thinking she's taking in a lowly miner. Years later, keeping his identity a secret and protecting his wife and daughter becomes the only way for Wyatt to plot revenge against the brother who wronged him... and get his ranching empire back on the dusty red planet.

Sindra, a human thief falsely imprisoned by a jealous employer, is given an ultimatum by the Dragon King's father: bed his son Draven — rumored to be a beast who leaves his lovers dead— and give him an heir, or die. Unknown to his father, Sindra and Draven already share a history: years earlier he rescued her from the cold and courted her in secret before her employer had her arrested. When Draven is pressured into an arranged engagement, Sindra flees while pregnant with his twins rather than risk being discarded or having her children taken from her.

When Maya's billionaire online boyfriend asks for a photo, campus queen Sloane sends him her selfie, planning to steal him before they meet. Maya discovers she is only a doomed supporting character in Sloane's romance story, but refuses to surrender her boyfriend or future. Once the prettiest girl at school, Maya trains for three brutal months and loses ninety pounds. On their first meeting day, Sloane arrives early, shows him Maya's old photos, and brands her a catfish. Then Maya steps behind him, unrecognizable, raises the bracelet engraved with their initials, and smiles.

Elara was chained in a red wedding dress and dragged through the snow, sacrificed by her husband to save his pregnant mistress. He thought the Wolf King would destroy her. He thought she would die forgotten in the North. But seven years ago, Elara saved a starving wolf boy from a fighting pit and gave him a name. Now that boy is Kael, the ruthless Wolf King. When he returns to camp and sees Elara bleeding, burned, and whipped, the entire wolf army watches their king fall to his knees. The bride they mocked is the one woman he would burn the world for.

Born into an ancient succubus bloodline, Elena hides her deadly charm to live as a normal human. But campus bullying drives her into the arms of Adrian, the school’s golden boy who heroically saves her. Believing he is her savior, Elena gives him her heart—only to discover that he drugged her and offered her to his friends. Her heartbreak turns the last shred of her human empathy to ash. Embracing her true nature, Elena lures her toxic lover back to her clan, where he becomes nothing more than helpless breeding stock ...

“I reject you, Maya Carter.” My Alpha tied me to a post, mocked my scars, and banished me with forty dollars. That night, I made the Lycan King’s pup eat when every nanny had failed. “You’re hired,” Logan said—then offered me $100,000 a month to become his contract mate. But when my dress exposed the crescent birthmark on my shoulder, the feared king crushed a glass. “Where did you get that mark?” Everyone swore I was wolfless. So why is a sacred white wolf waking inside me—and why has Logan searched for me for thirteen years?

Mira's betrothed spent three years taming a wild dragon for their wedding—but he trained it to obey Lia, her family's adopted daughter. They took everything from her: her place in the clan, her inheritance, even her mother's dragon. When they demanded she kneel and wipe Lia's boots, Mira walked barefoot across burning coals instead. She broke the betrothal. Then a column of black war-dragons descended, and their lord claimed her—with a bloodwing dragon and three thousand acres of dragonland. He was the man who had waited eight years for her answer. On her wedding day, her old betrothed watched from the crowd as Mira married another man. And the dragon he had stolen finally threw Lia to the ground and flew home—to Mira.