Five million dollars. One contract. A fake marriage built on secrets—and survival. Serena never asked for life to be cruel. But after losing her parents, she’s left raising three siblings and drowning in debt that honest work can’t fix. Waitressing by day and bartending by night, she’s barely staying afloat… until a powerful stranger offers her a way out. He’s cold, commanding, and dangerously persuasive. In public, he’s a brilliant businessman. Behind closed doors, he controls far more than just boardrooms. His dying mother has one final wish: to see her son married before it’s too late. The arrangement? A signed contract. A staged wedding. No love, no complications. All Serena has to do is play the perfect wife and keep her heart out of it. But as passion ignites and carefully guarded truths begin to unravel, Serena finds herself caught between the man she thought she knew—and the dark world he never meant her to see. What begins as a lifeline could become her greatest risk. In a marriage built on lies, can love survive—or will it destroy them both?

Kane was never meant to live. Born half-human to a royal werewolf bloodline, he was hunted by his own clan. On his twenty-second birthday, his uncle—the king who murdered his parents—ordered his execution.But Kane survived.Bleeding and alone, he escaped into the night and was saved by Maria—a secretive girl who’s also half-vampire, another outcast with nowhere to belong.As their bond grows, Kane’s thirst for revenge burns hotter. No more hiding, no more begging for mercy.He’s going back to the kingdom that cast him out to make them pay—but will his hunger for revenge destroy them all, or will it cost him the only one who ever truly cared?

After years of loss and silence, Jace’s world is shattered by his father’s sudden announcement: he’s marrying Serena—a fierce, fearless woman nearly his age, determined to stake her claim in their mafia empire. To Jace, she’s an intruder—threatening his mother’s memory and everything he’s sworn to protect. But as danger tightens its grip and long-buried secrets come to light, Jace realizes Serena may be the one person he can’t afford to lose.In a ruthless world ruled by power and betrayal, can love survive—or will it become the ultimate gamble?