She agreed to marry a stranger to keep her mother alive. She didn't know he'd been waiting for her specifically. Elena Vance has spent her whole life being the daughter nobody watches, which is exactly how she's survived a father who treats her mother's failing health like a bargaining chip. When her sister flees their wedding and Elena is shoved down the aisle in her place, she doesn't fight it. She negotiates. One whispered trade at the altar, and her new husband gets the evidence to destroy her father and her mother finally gets the care she's been denied for seventeen years. Julian Sterling isn't the reluctant groom he's playing. He's spent two years engineering this exact marriage, and the woman standing across from him wasn't a consolation prize — she was always the plan. Now Elena is inside the one house she needed access to, armed with a husband who protects her like she matters and lies to her like it costs him nothing. Every answer he gives her hides two more questions. Every time he pulls her out of danger, she has to wonder what he already knew was coming. And the closer she gets to the truth about her father's empire, the more she starts to suspect the empire was never her father's to lose. She married him to survive her father. She's starting to fall for the one person still lying to her. And the truth neither of them is saying out loud might cost them both everything they've built.

She came to destroy his empire. Now she has to trust him with her life. Aurora Montclair doesn't bow. The billionaire CEO built her empire from the ashes of her father’s betrayal, and she’ll burn anyone who threatens it. So when she uncovers evidence linking the elusive Aldridge Corporation to three cold-blooded murders, she sees her chance to expose the killer and seal her freedom. But Kieran Aldridge isn't just a corporate titan. He’s a ruthless mafia Don who rules the underworld with an iron fist and he’s been expecting her. Their first meeting is a declaration of war. But when a shared enemy puts a hit on both their heads, vengeance morphs into survival. Forced into a deadly alliance, Aurora brings the financial genius; Kieran brings the firepower. Every move is a power play. Every glance is a threat. And every touch is a promise neither can afford to keep. Falling for the enemy is dangerous. Trusting him is lethal. But walking away? That will kill them both.

Five years ago, Mia Bennett married the boy who was about to become hockey's next legend and disappeared before he ever knew what she was carrying. Now she's the Ironhawks' newest performance psychologist, assigned to fix the one player she swore she'd never face again: team captain Liam Calloway, the husband who still doesn't know he's a husband at all. She has one rule: keep her family exactly as hidden as it's been for four years. He has one goal: figure out why the woman treating his mind feels like someone he's already lost. Every session peels back a little more of the wall she's built, and every question he asks edges closer to the truth she can't afford him finding , not yet, not like this. How long can a secret survive in a room built for confession?