Everyone in Milan knows Bianca Moretti.She's beautiful.She's wealthy.She's adored.And then there's Elena.The daughter her family hides whenever important people come to dinner. The girl they dress in hand-me-downs and send carrying champagne. The girl her own father calls an embarrassment.So when Bianca's engagement party ends with champagne splashed across her designer dress and Elena being slapped in front of everyone, nobody expects the most feared man in Italy to notice.Matteo De Luca doesn't rescue women.He doesn't marry for love.And he certainly doesn't need a wife who looks like Elena.But three days after watching her family tear her apart, Matteo offers her a marriage contract.One year.No love.No expectations.No questions.It should have been the safest deal Elena ever made.Instead, marrying Matteo drags her into a world where men kneel when he enters a room, women want what belongs to her, and her own family suddenly remembers she exists.Then Elena discovers something her family has spent twenty-four years hiding.She was never the worthless daughter.She was the daughter they were afraid of.And the more powerful Elena becomes, the more Matteo realizes he has made one fatal mistake.He didn't marry a woman he could protect.He married a woman who could destroy him.And when the woman everyone once called ugly finally learns exactly how much she is worth, Matteo may discover that being the most feared man in Italy means absolutely nothing when the woman he loves no longer needs him.

Avery Bennett thought the hardest part of losing six years of her life would be forgetting the man who left her.She was wrong.The hardest part is watching him move on while everyone assumes she was the woman who couldn't keep him.Then Nate Callahan walks into her life.He's arrogant, impossible, devastatingly attractive, and, unfortunately, the one hockey player her ex hates most.When Nate needs a girlfriend for six weeks, Avery agrees to play the part.There are rules.No real feelings.No jealousy.No sleeping together.And absolutely no falling in love.Easy enough.Until Nate starts looking at her like this isn't pretend.Until he knows things about her he shouldn't know.Until her ex starts warning her that Nate isn't telling her everything.And until Avery discovers that the fake relationship may not have started when she signed the contract.Because Nate has been keeping one photograph for six years.A photograph Avery doesn't remember giving him.And suddenly, the question isn't whether their fake relationship will become real.It's why Nate wanted her in the first place.

The bride disappeared forty-seven minutes before her wedding.When Emma finally escaped the place where she'd been imprisoned, she arrived just in time to watch her younger sister kiss the man who was supposed to become her husband. One lie shattered her future, and the people who should have defended her were the first to condemn her. Branded a disgrace and blamed for a scandal that could ignite a mafia war, Emma expects a bullet between her eyes. Instead, the most feared Mafia King in Italy offers her something far more terrifying. Marriage.Everyone believes the cold, ruthless Dante De Luca is punishing the woman who ruined his son's wedding. No one notices the way his gaze lingers on the silver cross around her neck. No one knows that he has spent twenty years searching for the little girl who once saved his life in the middle of a bloody massacre. Least of all Emma.As old secrets claw their way out of the past, a stolen identity, a family built on lies, and a sister willing to destroy everything for power threaten to ignite another war. But the greatest danger isn't the enemies waiting in the shadows.It's what happens when a marriage born from duty becomes impossible to walk away from.Because sometimes the bride who loses everything is the one fate was protecting all along.

Nina Vale was fired for stealing money she didn’t take.By nightfall, she’s told she owns one of the largest conglomerates in the country.There’s only one problem.She doesn’t get to inherit it unless he approves.Ezra Galen built his empire on precision, loyalty, and control. He doesn’t believe in coincidences. He doesn’t believe in redemption. And he definitely doesn’t believe the daughter of the woman who nearly destroyed his company deserves power.So he offers her a choice that isn’t a choice at all.One year under his supervision. One year of humiliation, scrutiny, and survival. Fail, and she walks away with nothing. Succeed, and she inherits a throne built on secrets.But the deeper Nina digs, the more she realizes her mother didn’t fail.She was erased.And Ezra might have known.Now the board wants her gone. His family wants her silenced. The man she’s starting to want might have profited from her mother’s downfall.This was never an inheritance.It was a trap.And this time, Nina refuses to be collateral damage.