Becoming Mercy Mercy Smith has never been anyone’s first choice. Chubby, diabetic, wearing thick glasses and a second-hand wardrobe, she has spent her entire 18 years learning how to make herself small. Her parents barely tolerated her, her boyfriend mocked her in secret, and with noone wanting to befriend her Mercy survives on crumbs of affection, convinced that this is all life will ever offer someone like her. But the illusion shatters the day she whispers she is pregnant. Cleopas her rich, handsome, and cruel boyfriend in the thoughtless way of privileged men laughs in her face. To him, Mercy was never a girlfriend, only a bet gone too far. He demands she abort, refuses responsibility, and humiliates her in front of his friends. When Mercy returns home seeking safety, she is instead thrown out, told she is adopted, and reminded that they “cannot raise a bastard child on top of a burden.” Alone in the rain with nowhere to go, Mercy curls beneath a bridge and waits for the dreary night to end. It doesn’t. It alters. Lyonel Forest, a silent and self-contained CEO, stops his car and makes a decision that will alter both their fates. He takes Mercy in—not out of pity, but out of recognition. In her, he sees grit, intelligence, and a hunger for life that no one else ever bothered to nurture. Under Lyonel’s roof, Mercy learns to exist, then to heal. He gets her proper medical care, teaches her to manage her diabetes, enrolls her in classes, and after her child’s birth, pushes her into the gym and into her own future. What begins as charity transforms into mentorship, and mentorship becomes something quieter, deeper, and entirely hers. Two year pass, and the girl who was once “Miss Nobody” becomes everything they swore she could never be educated, healthy, ambitious, and breathtaking in a way that has nothing to do with size or beauty and everything to do with power. When Mercy returns to the city the world takes notice. Cleopas comes crawling back, eager to claim the woman he once discarded. High school classmates want to befriend her. Even her parents attempt reconciliation when they learn what she has become. But Mercy is no longer the girl begging for acceptance. She is a woman choosing who is worthy of her time, her voice, and her heart. And her heart after all the storms already belongs to Lyonel Forest. Becoming Mercy is a story of transformation, quiet ferocity, and second chances. It is about the girl society overlooked, becoming the woman no one can ignore. ​

Whitney was never meant to belong in Delan’s world or to Delan himself her ex's older brother. For Delan love is a luxury a man like him can't afford. She came to him for protection, not desire. Yet the more danger coils around her, the deeper she sinks into his arms… and into the fire.Delan built an empire without weakness, but Whitney becomes the one vulnerability he can’t kill, cage, or let go. Their bond is intoxicating, reckless, and strictly against the rules.When past enemies resurface and new alliances demand sacrifice, Whitney’s old life crashes against Delan’s criminal kingdom. Everyone wants something from them—information, revenge, power.But in a war where everyone lies, the most forbidden thing of all might be the truth in their hearts. Then there is Dereck her ex and Clara Delans baby mama. Betrayal, love, greed,forbidden.​