I lost my girlfriend, my dignity, and my mother’s ring in the same night.Honestly? The universe could’ve stopped there.Instead, I drowned.Or maybe I was dragged into a nightmare.Because one minute I was chasing my mother’s ring into the ocean… and the next, I was standing in the middle of an underwater kingdom while a terrifyingly gorgeous merman king stared at me like I belonged to him.Then the ring landed on his finger.And before I could even breathe, some ancient shaman announced:“You may now kiss your partner.”Excuse me?Now King Fernando keeps calling me his wife, refuses to let me leave, and looks at me like I’m the answer to a prophecy I never asked for.The worst part?The deeper I fall into his world, the more it feels like I’ve been searching for it my entire life.Because the sea knows something about me.Something my mother kept hidden.And if the truth comes out, it could destroy both kingdoms… or bind me forever to the Sea King who was apparently fated to find me.

I died in the rain.At least, I think I did.One moment, I was lying in an alley bleeding beside my ruined graduation clothes, wondering who would take care of my little brother after I was gone.The next, I woke up in silk sheets inside a mansion that looked more expensive than my entire life.And beside my bed stood Lorenzo De Luca.Beautiful. Cold. Terrifying.The kind of man people fear without daring to say his name too loudly.He looked at me like I belonged to him.Like he had lost me once already and wouldn’t survive losing me again.The problem?I’m not the person he thinks I am.Apparently, the body I woke up in already belonged to someone else — Lorenzo’s lover. The real Felix De Luca. A spoiled mafia prince everyone feared, including the staff who tremble whenever I enter a room.But I don’t remember this life.I don’t remember Lorenzo.And judging by the way people stare at me, I’m nothing like the man who died.I say thank you too much.I hide leftovers instead of wasting food.I still panic over expensive things.And every time Lorenzo touches me, my heart reacts like he’s the first person who’s ever cared whether I live or die.I should leave.This life isn’t mine.This love doesn’t belong to me.But Lorenzo keeps looking at me like I’m something precious, and for the first time in my life… I want to stay.Even if it destroys us both.

My mother married an Alpha. That made his son my stepbrother.It did not make him mine."We're not going to be anything," he told me, the first time I offered him my hand.I believed him. For a while.Lucian Cross doesn't smile. Doesn't apologize. Doesn't so much as look at me twice unless he's ordering me out of a car, or telling me flat, cold, final that I don't deserve to exist in his world if I can't protect myself in it.He's right. I can't. I'm human. Or that's what everyone believes, including him.But I've survived worse than Lucian Cross. I've survived being invisible my whole life. So when he releases that aura just to watch me drop to my knees, I get back up. Every single time.And somewhere between the cruelty and the cold silences, something starts to crack.He doesn't comfort me. Doesn't ask if I'm okay. But he shows up in hallways I didn't know he'd noticed I was in. He bleeds for me and calls it an inconvenience. He hands me his notes without a word and slams the door before I can say thank you."Why don't you like me?" I ask him once."Why would I like you?" he says back, like the question itself is an insult.I don't have an answer. Not yet.But I'm not going anywhere. Not out of his house, not out of his life, and not out of whatever this is turning into something neither of us asked for, and neither of us can stop.He bullies me. He protects me. And God help me, I think he's starting to want me too.He's mine, even if he'll never admit it.

Dr. Asher Wiseman has perfected the art of pretending. By day, he’s Wiseman Memorial Hospital’s most brilliant and feared physician—cold, untouchable, and the favored heir to a medical empire. By night, hidden behind an anonymous profile, he allows himself one forbidden freedom: to be someone real. With his father preparing to choose the next Chairman and his siblings competing for the position, Asher cannot afford mistakes. Especially not the truth. Especially not love. Jack Harper never planned to get distracted. Becoming an intern at Wiseman Memorial was supposed to be simple: do his job, uncover the truth behind his parents’ deaths years ago, and finally put old rumors to rest. Then he meets “Ash.” What begins as anonymous late-night messages turns dangerous when Jack discovers the man behind the screen is none other than Dr. Asher Wiseman—the very person closest to the answers he came searching for. Cold. Impossible. Addictive. As walls begin to fall and stolen moments turn into something neither of them planned, Jack finds himself trapped between truth and love. Because if what happened years ago leads back to the Wiseman family— falling for Asher might be the worst mistake of his life. And for Asher— loving Jack might cost him everything. Forbidden attraction. Dangerous secrets. Hidden truths. Some hearts are worth losing everything for.