THE BILLIONAIRE I USED TO KNOW When Elena Rossi's father loses everything, there's only one way to save the family company: marry Damian Cole, the billionaire who's been quietly buying up the Rossi debt for reasons he won't explain. She agrees, expecting a cold, transactional arrangement that ends the moment her father's company is safe. What she doesn't expect is the growing, unwelcome pull between them — or the fragments of a childhood memory that won't stay buried, of a boy she can't quite place, from a summer she can't quite remember. The truth arrives fast and hard: Damian is Danny, the boy her family's business decisions destroyed twenty years ago — the boy Elena loved before she was old enough to know what that meant. He rebuilt himself into someone powerful enough to walk back into her life, and the marriage he engineered was never fully about revenge, and never fully about rescue either. It was about her. Now Elena has to decide whether she can love the man Damian became without losing the boy she lost once already — while a rival with his own claim on the Rossi family's ruin is determined to make sure this marriage doesn't survive long enough to become real.

Here's a back-cover style synopsis for **Marked by Blood**: --- **She was rejected by her Alpha. She won't survive being wanted by a Don.** Wren Calloway spent her whole life waiting for her mate-bond to snap into place — and when it finally did, in front of her entire pack, Alpha Damon Voss looked her in the eye and rejected her anyway. *Weak,* he called her. *Not worth protecting.* Broken and exiled, Wren flees to the one place no wolf would ever think to look for her: the human city, where packs are just old stories and rejection means nothing. Until her brother's gambling debt drags her straight into the private office of Enzo Marchetti — the most feared don in the city, a man who runs his empire the way he runs everything else: with absolute, ruthless control. Enzo isn't supposed to want her. She isn't pack, isn't leverage, isn't anything he needs. But the moment he catches her scent, something ancient and starving wakes up inside him — something that has nothing to do with fate, and everything to do with claiming what a lesser man threw away. He doesn't need a bond to tell him she's his. He just needs her to survive being wanted by him. As rival families circle, an Alpha's regret comes calling, and Enzo's own bloody secrets surface, Wren has to decide what's more dangerous: the wolf who rejected her, or the man determined to make sure no one — human or wolf — ever gets the chance to reject her again.

She married a stranger to save her family. She just didn’t know the stranger already knew her. When Elena Rossi’s father loses everything, there’s only one way out: marry Damian Cole, the billionaire who’s been circling her family’s company for years like he’s waiting for something. She hates him on sight. She marries him anyway. Damian doesn’t need her company. He doesn’t need her money. What he needs, he’ll never admit — not the truth about who he used to be, not the decade he spent becoming someone powerful enough to come back for her, and not the fact that her father is the reason he had to disappear in the first place. Elena thinks she’s trapped in a marriage with a cold, calculating stranger. She has no idea she already loved him once. And when the truth comes out, it won’t just end the marriage — it’ll destroy the one thing neither of them ever expected to feel again.