KEEPING THE COWBOY'S BABY [She came for a job.] [She stayed for the man she should never have wanted.] Sloane Reed only needed two things when she drove onto the Hayes Ranch: work and enough money to climb out of the hole she was in. The last thing she expected was to walk in on her boyfriend buried inside another woman. She took the job anyway. Jax Hayes was everything her ex wasn’t—quiet, controlled, built from long days and hard work. He hired her with a look that saw too much and a voice that left no room for games. She didn’t know he was Cole’s older brother. Not yet. She told herself it was only work. He told himself the same. But the ranch is small. Temptation is closer than it should be. And some lines, once noticed, become impossible to ignore. Family doesn’t forgive easily. Exes don’t let go quietly. And one night is all it takes to turn a secret into something that can’t be undone. Now Sloane is carrying more than she planned… and standing between two brothers who both believe she belongs to them. One would burn the world down to keep her. The other would burn her just to watch her fall. Some fresh starts demand a price. This one might cost her everything.

Lila has spent three years surviving Legacy Prep the only way she knows how—keeping her head down, protecting her best friend, and never looking the popular kids in the eye. By day she is the school’s easiest target. By night she is just a waitress trying to pay the rest of her tuition. Then she witnesses a murder behind the diner. Suddenly the one person who has always ignored her decides she is worth his attention. Roman is the untouchable king of Legacy Prep and the heir to a powerful mafia empire. When his father orders him to get close to the quiet waitress who saw too much, Roman treats it like any other assignment: charm her, earn her trust, and make sure she never talks. Becoming a made man depends on it. What he does not expect is to fall for the girl he was sent to control. Lila cannot understand why the school’s most dangerous boy suddenly wants to protect her. One smile from him makes every other girl jealous. One touch makes her question everything she thought she knew about herself. But the closer she lets him get, the more she realizes she was never just a random girl he chose. She was always part of the mission. And Roman is starting to realize that finishing the job might cost him the only thing he never planned on wanting.

She needed a husband. He needed an escape. Neither expected to fall. Elena Harrington’s perfect engagement shatters in a single night when she discovers her fiancé in bed with her stepsister. Humiliated and shoved into a pool she cannot swim in, Elena is left gasping for air—until a stranger dives in and pulls her back to life. That stranger is Julian Croft. Desperate to claim the company her late mother left her—locked behind a marriage clause in the will—Elena makes Julian an offer he can’t refuse: a one-year contract marriage. No love. No complications. Just a legal arrangement that gives them both what they need. But Julian is hiding more than a quiet life. And Elena is hiding a heart that has already started to break its own rules. As enemies close in and old betrayals refuse to stay buried, the lines between duty and desire blur. What began as a cold transaction becomes something neither of them can control. Now they must decide: honor the contract that saved them… or risk everything for the one thing they never planned on— each other. A steamy, high-stakes romance of betrayal, secret billionaires, and the kind of love that turns a temporary yes into forever.

Years after her husband, Ethan, took the fall for a fatal corporate scandal and vanished behind bars, Maya Vance has painstakingly rebuilt a fragile life among elite society. But her carefully constructed safety shatters when Ethan suddenly re-emerges. He returns with lethal new scars, a dangerous criminal alias, and deep ties to the very syndicate that framed him. Drawn back into his perilous orbit while investigating the family conspiracy that tore them apart, Maya must confront a lingering passion, deadly blackmail, and ruthless enemies. To survive and reclaim the love she never truly buried, she must decide if she can trust the cold, dangerous protector Ethan has become, before his double life claims them both.