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Sean and I were almost breaking up. Again. The day I planned to apologize, I drew a dare at a party: steal food from the top student’s plate. Everyone expected Sean to stop me. Sean, always ranked second, just scoffed. "Go ahead. Why…
Start readingThe night before my wedding to the Crown Prince, my father brought home the daughter he’d had with his mistress. “Your sister is a celestial beauty, far more striking than you. With her by your side in the Prince’s household, she will…
Start readingEveryone in the palace knew that for a scrap of food, you could make the slow-witted princess do anything. The Grand Tutor, a man as radiant and pure as the moon, once gave me a small cake. For that single kindness, I trailed after him…
Start readingIn my past life, I snatched up the guaranteed early admission to Harvard that a high-society heiress had thrown away. After graduation, I married into a dynasty of wealth, transforming from a small-town girl into the wife of the city’s…
Start readingI woke up as a lioness, pregnant with cubs I didn’t remember conceiving. To raise them, to keep them alive, I had to lie. I hid my status as a mother and joined a new pride. The pride was in the middle of the great migration, and I…
Start readingI’m five years older than Liam. So, when he turned twenty-eight, I was already thirty-three. He was the one who once swore to me that age would never be a barrier between us. But later, he told his best friend, “I don’t know why, but…
Start readingThe phone call came while Leo was fast asleep beside me. It was my parents, telling me it was time to go over to his house and meet his blind date. I thought they were joking. I leaned over and whispered, "Leo, they said they found a…
Start readingThe summer after senior year, I was hit with a triple whammy of bad news: 1. My family went bankrupt. 2. Adrian Anderson, the boy I’d been chasing for three years, was officially with his childhood friend. 3. I failed to get into…
Start readingIn the year we were at our absolute poorest, my mom was welcomed back into a billionaire family. I’ve always been obsessed with novels, especially the "switched at birth" kind. I used to lose myself in fantasies about the stories I…
Start readingIt was our third year crammed together in a shoebox apartment in the city when the storm hit and flooded the place. I buried my face in Jasper’s shoulder, the misery a cold weight in my chest. He murmured that his heart ached for me,…
Start readingAt eighteen, I stumbled upon Vaughn Vance helping a scholarship student with her torn blouse. His expression was grave, his movements clumsy and hesitant. At twenty-six, I married Vaughn Vance in a match arranged by our families. But…
Start readingFor three years, I was Damian Hawthorne's pretty bird in a gilded cage. The day I discovered I was pregnant, I overheard him talking to his twin brother. "Damian," his brother said, "I've been pretending to be you, playing with your…
Start readingWhen my wife’s chartered fishing boat sank, it left us buried under a mountain of debt. I sold my ancestral home and spent my days and nights diving in the deep, dangerous waters. It took me five grueling years, but I finally paid it…
Start readingI was painfully average. Gervase, the boy next door, was the kind of genius that comes along once in a generation. My entire life, I had struggled to breathe in the thin air left in the wake of his brilliance. To claw my way into a…
Start readingMax Croft’s secretary was pregnant. At our ninth-anniversary dinner party, he brought her home. His tone was casual, almost breezy, as he gave me my instructions. “The young lady is a bit particular about her food. From now on, her…
Start readingDuring the third month of my cold war with the award-winning actress Evelyn Shaw, we were invited onto a variety show. The segment required us to call the person we loved most, live on air. Spitefully, she dialed her male assistant,…
Start readingMy mother was a Spirit Binder. For decades, she performed the Soul-Binding Ritual—a sacred duty of our bloodline to guide the restless dead to the afterlife. The more souls she bound, the more her power grew. But on my twenty-first…
Start readingA month ago, King Antonio brought a woman back from outside the palace walls and named her Duchess. The entire court was in an uproar. It was because Antonio had once declared, before all the ladies of the court, that his heart was mine…
Start readingOn our anniversary, my wife—who never cooked—made a feast. With each bite, Lydia took notes, asking detailed questions. She left to take a call. I recognized Mark’s ringtone. Flipping through her notebook, I found: "Green beans…
Start readingOn the day of my son Murphy’s engagement party, I was the one paying for everything, the one who had organized every last detail. Yet when the time came for speeches, Murphy stood before the guests, beaming, with his arm around his…
Start readingIt was New Year’s Eve. Maxwell Kane came downstairs, dressed impeccably. I was putting up festive decorations on the windows. He walked over to me. “I won’t be home for the New Year. Will you be alright on your own?” Before I could ask…
Start readingThe day I went into labor, the pain was unbearable, but I stopped the handmaiden from fetching my mother. “Don’t call her… Get the physician…” In my past life, my husband was at war, and my mother stayed with me during the difficult…
Start readingThe holiday rush was about to begin. Across the city, businesses were shutting down, sending their employees home for a well-deserved break. Not me. I wasn’t giving my crew a single day off. And I sure as hell wasn’t paying them. The…
Start readingMy sister-in-law has terrible eyesight. Before she and my brother were married, she saw us walking together and, assuming I was his mistress, punched me in the face. My eyeball ruptured. I lost sight in one eye. But she just stuck out…
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