The Housewife They Scorned

Celeste gave up everything for love.

A thriving career. A fortune most people couldn't imagine. Her place at the helm of one of the country's largest corporations. She walked away from all of it without a second thought — because Derek asked her to stay home and raise their children, and she believed him when he said her sacrifice would be honored.

It wasn't.

For five years, Celeste has cooked, cleaned, and held the household together on a shrinking budget while her husband hands the bulk of his paycheck to his mother, his divorced sister, and his college-age brother. His family calls her a freeloader. They say she sits around the house doing nothing. They tell her to get a job.

None of them know that the "unemployed housewife" they mock is secretly the largest shareholder of the very company where Derek works.

When Celeste finally snaps, she doesn't scream. She doesn't cry. She puts a price tag on every meal she cooks, every floor she scrubs, every diaper she changes — and watches the people who called her worthless realize they can't survive a single day without her.

Then she takes her children and walks out the door. Not into poverty. Into the mansion she grew up in, where the servants are already waiting.

What follows is a reckoning — for the husband who chose his family over his wife, for the mother-in-law who slammed tables and demanded obedience, for the sister-in-law who sneered while wearing jewelry bought with Celeste's household budget. One by one, the people who scorned her are forced to confront what they've lost, what they've done, and who they really are without the woman they took for granted.

But this isn't just a story about revenge. It's about whether a broken family can learn to become whole — and whether the man who failed the woman he loved can earn a second chance he doesn't deserve.

Proposed to by a Mafia Boss

Malik's life has never been easy. Besides being a gay and poor man, he has suffered since childhood, and school was even worse. Until one day, when he fell in love and had his love reciprocated, dating and marriage plans were underway in the lives of the two young men... But a blatant betrayal by his fiancé shattered his heart into pieces.
Dimitri Romanov's life was even more tragic. As a mafia leader, his wife was kidnapped, tortured, and abused by another mafia group. His thirst for revenge grew each day until he killed his last target. After his wife's death, he didn't want to get romantically involved ever again, but his father thinks he should remarry to instill fear in the other leaders.
An unexpected encounter leads Malik to solve a problem for one of his students, bringing him face to face with Dimitri Romanov. What kind of payment proposal would Dimitri offer Malik? How about a contract marriage just to mock the other mafiosos? The incredible and unlikely thing would be for the two to fall in love.

No Ordinary Husband

Adrian Arcadia controls one of the country's largest real estate empires, but power has taught him one bitter lesson: most people only bow to his name, his money, and the empire behind him.
To test the world one last time, Adrian strips away everything. No luxury car. No bodyguards in sight. No Arcadia name. Disguised as Ian, a broke drifter with nothing to offer, he waits to see who will treat him like a human being when he looks worthless.
Then Amelia gives him her only breakfast.
She is a woman crushed by her own family, nearly sold into marriage to pay a debt she never made. To escape, she asks the penniless stranger to marry her. Adrian accepts, hiding the truth while watching every insult, every scheme, and every enemy who thinks they can trample his wife.
They think Amelia married a nobody. They think Ian has no power, no money, and no way to fight back.
They are about to learn that the poorest man in the alley is the one man who can bring an empire to its knees.