In the quiet streets of Barcelona, a woman carries a secret no one knows. At twenty-four, Catalina has learned to hide her past behind a beautiful smile. Then two men enter her life. One feels like home. The other makes her heart skip a beat. Neither knows the darkness she keeps buried. Neither knows the truth that could change everything. Caught between comfort and desire, Catalina must decide which heart to follow before her past catches up with her. Two men. One heart. One secret. Who will she choose??

At four years old, Kang Ji An was abandoned in an empty warehouse by her own father, an influential politician who chose power over his child. She should have been forgotten. Instead, she was rescued by BLACK VEIL, a top-secret organization hidden deep within the shadows. Raised under training harsher than the military, Ji An grows into an elite operative feared across the intelligence world. Calm, fearless, and unmatched in combat, she becomes the first person in BLACK VEIL's history to earn the title of Legendary Operative. Her codename... Dark Empress. As the leader of the BLACK PHANTOMS, BLACK VEIL's most dangerous elite team, Ji An embarks on high-risk undercover missions across the globe-taking down criminal syndicates, rescuing hostages, exposing conspiracies, and protecting secrets the world can never know. But when a powerful political conspiracy begins to unfold in Seoul, every clue leads back to the man who abandoned her years ago. Standing on the opposite side of her world is Kwon Tae Hyun-the legendary CEO of Kwon Group, feared throughout the business world as The King of Korea. Cold, brilliant, and untouchable, his influence reaches from corporate boardrooms to the darkest corners of the underworld. As danger closes in, hidden enemies emerge, loyalties are tested, and betrayal threatens to destroy BLACK VEIL from within. Ji An must decide whether to be consumed by revenge... or fight for the future she never believed she deserved. In a world built on lies, disguises, and impossible choices... Only one name is whispered with equal parts fear and respect. Dark Empress. "Some are born into greatness. Others are forged in the shadows."

A𝑢r𝑒l𝑖a:Tℎe G𝑜l𝑑e𝑛 𝑜n𝑒. They say Aurelia killed her sister. The evidence is clean. The motive is obvious. Even her own family looks at her like she's guilty. But Amelia's been dead for a year, and she's still whispering in Aurelia's head. Every memory feels wrong. Every mirror looks back a second too late. As she navigates the treacherous landscape of her own memories and the tangled web of her sister's manipulations, Aurelia must confront the truth about her past and the truth is more sinister than you think. ~~~ To prove she's innocent, Aurelia has to untangle the web her sister spent a lifetime weaving-lies, secrets, and a game that never ended. The problem is, the deeper she digs, the more she wonders... What if Amelia never wanted her to escape? What if she's still playing? Can she escape the shadow of a sister who never wanted to let go? ~~~ "Am, come back! Where are you going?" I try to chase her, but the closer I get, the further she disappears. "Please come back! Come back. Where are you going?" I try so hard to catch up, but I end up falling face-flat onto the sand, which becomes my confidant. As I try to get up, what she says next sends shivers down my spine... "It's all your fault." TW *Strong language *SA *Violence *Mental health issues

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Power hides in shadows. Danger moves silently. One name commands fear, respect, and obsession. L No one knows who they are, what they want, or where they will strike next. And one person is determined to uncover the truth, even if it costs everything. Every whisper, every glance, every move... leads closer to the shadow no one can escape.

I never believed in MONSTERS until I met him. Men like him? Oh, they don't walk in the light. Nobody says their names out loud, their DEEDS aren't recorded, but you'll see their HANDIWORK everywhere if you know where to look. It all started that one night. At the time, it seemed like nothing, just another evening. Little did I know, that was the night everything would change. The first time I stumbled into his DOMAIN was purely by accident, I had no clue what I was walking into. But the second time? That was different. I went there on purpose, driven by a job. Nothing personal, just BUSSINESS, or so I thought. Something I could easily leave behind when it was all done. Oh, how naive I was! His world isn't one you can just wander in and out of without a scratch. It's a place built on unspoken agreements, lies that dig deep, and truths too dangerous for most to handle. Every moment spent there pulls me further into his gravity. I thought I could maintain my distance, but somehow, I found myself getting closer to him,much closer than I ever planned or wanted. Close enough to almost forget what he really is. And that's the trouble because deep down, I still know how it ends. If he ever figured out why I'm really here, he wouldn't hesitate to put a bullet through my head. Walk away now while I can? I wish! Somewhere along this twisted path, with fate and its cruel jokes about CONTROL and POWER over others' lives, an ILLUSION crept into my mind. That maybe, just maybe, I had control over everything. That I was PLAYING the game. But no, not once was I ever the PLAYER. Just a PAWN in this bloody game of BLOOD & THRONE !! ____________________ ⚠️ WARNING :- THIS BOOK CONTAINS MATURE THEMES AND STRONG LANGUAGE.

Lyra is a modern-day doctor who one day woke up inside the world of her favorite fantasy game. A world that shouldn't exist. There, she meets her bias, Valir, the Grandmaster of the Knights of Ventus and the man she once longed for behind a screen. But now, Valir is no longer just a character. He is real, dangerous, protective, and far harder to keep at a distance than she expected. The peaceful times, though, would soon come to an end. In their first mission, the Void, a corruptive darkness spreading through this world, finds her and begins hunting her, threatening not only her life but also the people who have taken her in. And the more she cares for them, especially Valir, the more she believes leaving may be the only way to protect them. As Lyra searches for a way back home, she discovers that her arrival may not have been an accident, and Valir is not willing to let her disappear so easily. Not when he learns how she really feels for him. Between two worlds, ancient secrets, and a darkness that knows her name, Lyra must decide whether home is truly where she came from... or the place where someone is willing to fight the laws of the world itself to keep her by his side.

He spent years waiting for revenge. Mustafa had only one goal-to destroy the man who ruined his family. And the perfect way to do it was through his enemy's daughter. But everything changes the moment he sees Nazli. Kind-hearted, innocent, and completely unaware of the danger surrounding her, she is the last person he expected to fall for. Now Mustafa is trapped between revenge and love. Will he choose the hatred that shaped his life, or the girl who stole his heart? A story of love, betrayal, family secrets, and a romance that was never meant to happen. ✨ Enemies to Lovers 💔 Betrayal & Heartbreak 🔥 Possessive Hero 🌹 Strong Heroine ⚔ Family Rivalry ❤️ Slow Burn Romance 🥀 Revenge, Secrets & Second Chances "Don't follow me again." And for the first time in his life, Mustafa Karasan was terrified... not of losing power, but of losing her.

Julia Pearson, wedding planner extraordinaire, never expected to be divorced at thirty-seven. In an effort to regain control over her life, she turns to the one thing she knows like the back of her hand: weddings. She figures the busier she is with work, the less time she'll have to think about everything that went wrong in her own marriage. When she meets single dad Logan McNeill-the kind, patient, and effortlessly charming brother of one of her new brides-an easy friendship slowly develops between them. As they work together to ensure that Samantha and Elijah's wedding goes off without a hitch, their feelings for each other grow. It isn't long before Julia realizes she's going to have to make a decision: face the ruins of her failed marriage or risk losing the man who holds the balm that can heal her broken heart.