Lara thought she had finally escaped her past. Born into the oldest and wealthiest family in the country, she abandoned her identity years ago after a painful betrayal forced her to walk away from everything she knew. She never looked back. Until her husband, Kaivu, gave her a reason to. After years of marriage, Kaivu betrays Lara and chooses another woman, believing the quiet wife he married has nothing without him. He is wrong. Because the woman he discarded is the missing heir of the most powerful family in the country. Lara returns to the world she once abandoned—not as the frightened girl who ran away, but as a woman determined to reclaim her name and her power. At her side is Mark, a mysterious man who seems to know far too much about her past. He helps Lara rebuild herself and stands beside her when others try to bring her down. But Mark has never told her the real reason he searched for her. Now Lara is ready to take back everything she lost.Kaivu wants the woman he threw away back. Her family wants the heir they lost. And Mark knows a secret that could change everything. Lara has returned, this time, the queen isn't asking for her throne.She's taking it back.

Patricia never imagined that returning home after two years would turn her life upside down.When her father’s enormous debt to the feared mafia leader, Martis, becomes impossible to repay, Patricia is offered as the settlement.Taken to Martis’s mansion against her will, Patricia finds herself trapped in a world of power, danger, secrets, and betrayal.Martis is feared by everyone around him. Cold, ruthless, and accustomed to getting whatever he wants, he never expected the stubborn college student to challenge his authority—or become the one person capable of shaking his carefully controlled world.As Patricia struggles to find a way out, she begins uncovering secrets about her family and the dangerous organization surrounding Martis.But the closer Martis gets to Patricia, the harder it becomes for him to treat her as nothing more than a debt.She was supposed to be a settlement.Instead, she became his greatest weakness.