Aria Bennett has spent her entire life believing that hard work would eventually pay off. At twenty-four, she is struggling to build a name for herself as a fashion designer while helping her mother with medical bills and doing everything she can to give her younger sister, Lily, a chance at the future she deserves. Then Vivienne Laurent walks into her life. Vivienne offers Aria everything she has ever dreamed of, a luxury studio, a six-figure salary, influential clients, Fashion Week opportunities, and a chance to finally build the fashion career she thought was impossible. There is only one person who tells her not to take it. Leo Cross. The head of security at Laurent Elite Events is cold, secretive, and frustratingly unwilling to explain why he thinks Aria is making the biggest mistake of her life. Aria ignores him. At first, Laurent's world feels like a dream. Designer gowns. Private islands. Celebrity clients. Luxury apartments. Exclusive parties. A locked floor hides something Aria was never meant to hear. Names vanish from company records. Guests are assigned numbers instead of names. And the woman who seems determined to make Aria her protégé may be hiding a darkness far more dangerous than anyone realizes. Leo knows the truth. He is undercover, investigating Vivienne Laurent and the criminal empire she has spent years building behind her glamorous reputation. But before he can expose her, Aria's sister disappears. Suddenly, Aria is no longer trying to save her career. She's trying to save Lily with nowhere else to turn, she must enter Vivienne's world once again, this time pretending to be loyal while secretly working with Leo and the FBI. Every smile becomes an act, conversation becomes a test and every mistake could cost her sister's life. Because Vivienne Laurent didn't choose Aria by accident. She sees something in her, something that reminds her of herself and she intends to find out whether Aria can be broken or whether she will become the woman who finally brings her empire down.

Doris never wanted much, just a life she chose for herself. When her mother tries to force her into marriage with a man old enough to be her father, she escapes through a window on her wedding day and runs straight into the heart of Lagos, armed with nothing but a small bag, a notebook full of fashion sketches, and a stubborn belief that she's meant for more. The city doesn't hand out dreams for free. What starts as small hustles, laundry, errands, an ushering job, pulls her into the orbit of Mrs. Ugochi: wealthy, magnetic, and known in darker circles by another name. A woman who opens doors Doris never knew existed, and closes others Doris never sees coming. Money, power, men who think they own everything they touch. And Leo, the one person in this new world who makes Doris feel safe, even as the ground beneath her keeps shifting. But every gift from Mrs. Ugochi comes with a debt nobody mentions until it's too late. When the people Doris loves most start disappearing, she realizes the city didn't just change her. It made her dangerous. Escaped on my wedding day is a gripping tale of ambition, betrayal, and a woman who refuses to be anyone's victim, even when the cost of her freedom is everything she has left. This is a story of betrayal… A runaway bride escapes a life she never wanted, only to be drawn into a glamorous world hiding deadly secrets. In the heart of Lagos, betrayal, trafficking, and murder lurk beneath luxury and wealth. But Doris isn't a victim, she's a survivor, and when the truth destroys everything she loves, she sets out to deliver a chilling revenge of her own.