On their wedding anniversary, her husband surprised her with a woman in their bedroom. For Vivian Hale, it is the final straw after tolerating years of gaslighting, body-shaming, and manipulation. When Julian suggests an "open marriage" to legitimize his cheating, something inside her finally snaps. Desperate to feel something other than pain, she falls into a reckless night with a stranger, only to realize too late that he is Damien: her brother’s best friend and the dangerous President of the Midnight Vipers. When Julian’s abuse turns violent, she flees to rebuild her shattered life. But she soon realizes she didn't escape alone. She is pregnant, and now she faces a terrifying uncertainty: Does the baby belong to the monster she left behind, or the outlaw who gave her a taste of freedom?

Piper thought she was done with hockey players the day her rookie ex destroyed her life on and off the ice. Public humiliation, betrayal, and a career setback were supposed to be the final whistle on that chapter of her story.She was wrong.When an unexpected job forces her into the orbit of one of the league’s most feared hockey stars, Ryder Vance, she makes a reckless decision, one that ties her fate to his. A fake relationship. A calculated lie meant to survive the media, silence questions, and most importantly, get close enough to the man who ruined her.Because her ex isn’t just any player. He’s rising fast in the NHL, protected by fame, reputation, and a team that refuses to see the truth.And Ryder Vance is the perfect weapon.Cold on the ice. Controlled off it. Dangerous in every sense of the word, Ryder doesn’t agree to anything without a price. What begins as a contract built on convenience quickly turns into something neither of them can control. Lines blur between performance and reality, between strategy and something far more intimate than either of them planned.But revenge comes with consequences.

Lila Hart thought marrying the dependable, safe brother would finally silence the past that haunted her. She put on the diamond ring, took the Hart name, and stepped into the sprawling empire believing she had finally chosen peace over chaos. She was wrong. Because Damien came home. Two years of self-imposed exile didn’t cure Damien’s obsession with the one woman he was never supposed to want, it only sharpened it into something darker, hungrier, and far more dangerous. Now, forced under the same roof, their history doesn’t stay buried. It breathes. It watches. And it waits. Lila knows exactly how to provoke him. How to twist silence into pain. How to turn a single look into a slow unraveling. Damien, in turn, is toxic enough to destroy his own family just to make her feel what she once did to him. They say they hate each other. But in the suffocating silence of the estate, where loyalty is currency and desire is a sin, their hatred begins to blur into something far more destructive. Because some obsessions don’t fade. They escalate.