Frozen Retribution

Frozen Retribution follows a terrifying act of vengeance when Ean drags the protagonist into a warehouse and locks them inside a rusted freezer to avenge Helen. Though Ean believes the unit is broken, it functions perfectly, trapping his victim in a plummeting sub-zero environment. After a week of desperate screaming and clawing at the icy walls, the protagonist perishes. When Ean finally returns to witness the results of his cruelty, he discovers only a frozen corpse and the bloody evidence of a slow, agonizing death.

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I watched coldly as Ean led Helen to the guest room. Just as she was about to enter, a flash of lightning lit up the sky.

A loud crack of thunder followed, and she shrieked, throwing herself into Ean's arms.

Ean stiffened, but Helen clung to him. "Ean, I'm so scared. Can you stay with me tonight?"

His hand lingered on her back before he gave a reassuring pat. "Alright."

At that moment, I felt like a fool, because I, too, was terrified of thunder.

I remembered that stormy night I spent alone. Thunder crashed, lightning flashed, and then the power went out. I was so scared that I nearly cried. Desperate for comfort, I called Ean.

"Ean, the power is out and the thunder… I'm really scared," I had said, my voice shaking.

"Madeline, you need to learn to handle these things on your own. Seriously? You're still scared of thunder at your age?" Ean's voice was cold as it cut through the phone. "Stop using this to get my attention. Grow up. You're an adult now. Deal with it."

The call ended abruptly. That night, I cocooned myself in my blanket, the phone's flashlight my only comfort. Sleep was elusive, and dawn brought no relief.

It had been years now. When I looked back at that memory, I felt only bitterness. Ean never cared. There was always an unbreachable wall between us.

I let out a hollow laugh. Even in death, thunder still terrified me. Hugging myself, I watched Ean console Helen. She nestled into his arms, her eyes glinting with triumph.

To Ean, Helen was always the special one. What was I to him? I shook my head and stared out the window. Even now, the rumble of thunder made me shiver.

Thankfully, the storm passed quickly. An hour later, the thunder ceased, and Ean left the room. Helen's gaze followed him, her smile smug. "Ean, you'll always be mine. No one can take you away from me."

Her words stunned me. She was still hung up on him. Why did she leave in the first place? And Ean—if he couldn't get over her, why did he marry me?

When Ean returned to his room, he did something uncharacteristic. He looked at my photo on his phone and muttered, "Madeline, I hope you've learned your lesson. Apologize, and maybe I'll let you out."

I could not help but laugh. Apologize? For what? I wasn't the one who locked Helen in the office.

However, Ean would never have believed me. Helen, with her innocent act, said she did not blame me, so Ean was convinced it was all my fault.

He locked me in an abandoned freezer, and now, he expected me to admit to something I did not do? It was absurd.

Ean was sharp—he did not become the president of a company by being an idiot. However, when it came to Helen, he was blind.

The next morning, the guard at the cold storage felt uneasy and nervously approached Ean. "Mr. Smith, should we let Mrs. Smith out? There's no noise from inside, and that bowl of water won't last five days."

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Ean hesitated before replying coldly, "A bowl of water can last a person ten days. If she's so stubborn, let's see how long she can hold out."

"But... there's no sound from inside at all. We're really worried about Mrs. Smith..."

"Don't worry, Madeline's just pretending."

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During a celebration for billionaire Ethan Cross, his childhood friend Charlotte sabotages his fiancée by spiking her drink to trigger a heart condition. As the protagonist collapses in agony, Charlotte mocks her, dismissing the life-threatening reaction as a dramatic performance. Despite her pleas for an ambulance, Ethan chooses to trust Charlotte’s medical expertise over his partner's pain. Abandoned by her fiancé and ridiculed by the guests, she must find a way to save herself.

Action Billionaire Modern Mystery Romance

8.4

Flash Marriage To My Ruthless Professor

8.4

I signed a prenuptial agreement with a cold-blooded Wall Street predator just to unlock my trust fund and fight my greedy stepmother. We were nothing more than legal roommates bound by a strict three-year contract. But to survive the corporate war at my family's company, I skipped my mandatory university finance class and paid a guy to answer the roll call for me. The stand-in was immediately caught and kicked out by the notoriously ruthless new professor. That night at dinner, I complained to my contract husband about the professor. "He's an unreasonable, arrogant dictator who gets off on torturing his students," I complained bitterly. My husband just calmly cut my steak and listened as I bragged about how I was going to fake-cry and manipulate the professor the next morning. I even rushed to the faculty office the next day and performed a desperate, tearful apology to an elderly man I assumed was the tyrant. I thought I had perfectly balanced my corporate war and my academic life. I thought I had fooled everyone. But when I confidently sat in the front row of the massive lecture hall, the heavy wooden doors pushed open. The terrifying new professor walked onto the podium and aggressively wrote his name on the chalkboard: Elliot Dillard. It was my contract husband. He looked down at me with cold, merciless authority, knowing every single lie I had told, and slowly called my name.

Action Modern Romance

7.3

My Stepbrother's Deadly Game of Love

7.3

I started a dangerous game to break my perfect, cold stepbrother, Hunter. Our forbidden affair became a secret inferno, and I thought I was the one in control, the one teaching him how to feel. Then an anonymous video arrived on my phone. It showed Hunter with a young intern, repeating our most intimate lines, my words, my lessons, verbatim. "Does this need to be taught, too?" he asked her, his voice a chilling echo of our past. He confessed it was all a calculated revenge plot against my mother. He left me to collapse in the street, sick and alone, and the car crash that followed shattered my legs, ending my ballet career forever. My love was a weapon he used to burn my world to the ground. My body was broken, my dreams turned to ash. I had lost everything to a man I thought I had broken, but who had instead destroyed me. But from the ashes, a new dream was born. I became a choreographer, my pain fueling my art. Now, years later, as I stand on the world stage, he watches from the shadows, a ghost consumed by a regret he can never atone for.

Action Mystery Romance

8.4

Once The Bride He Discarded, Now The Love He Can't Forget

8.4

Five years of devotion ended when Brynn was left at the altar, watching Richard rush to his true love. Knowing she could never thaw his cold heart, Brynn walked away, ready to start over. After a night of drinking, she woke beside the last man she should ever cross-Nolan, her brother's arch-enemy. As she tried to escape, he caught her, murmuring, "You kissed me all night. Leaving isn't an option." The world saw Nolan as cold and distant, but with Brynn, he indulged her every desire. He even bought her a whole village and held her close, his voice low, deep, and endlessly tempting, his robe falling open to reveal his toned abs. "Want to feel it?"

Action Modern Romance

8.7

Scars Deeper Than Fire

8.7

Fire captain Elara responds to a residential blaze only to find her husband, Axel, fused by the heat to another woman. As Axel begs for his lover's life while wearing his wedding ring, Elara discovers the woman is pregnant with his child. The shock and physical toll of the scene lead to Elara losing her own unborn baby. This emotional romance and mystery explores the aftermath of a double life exposed by fire, where betrayal runs deeper than physical burns.

Action Modern Mystery Romance

8.3

The Broken Wolfless Luna

8.3

He was never meant to touch her... but he's the only one who makes her feel alive. ****** They thought she was dead. Five years ago, Rael Talon was dragged from her home in blood and betrayal. She lost her pack. She lost her mate. And she lost the child growing inside her-taken before she ever had the chance to feel a heartbeat or hear a cry. The world buried her and moved on. Now she's back. Her wolf is silent. Her arms are empty. And the man who once promised her forever stands beside another woman, living the life that should have been hers. As enemies hunt her, Rael is saved by Eryx Blackthorne, a dangerous man with dark eyes and darker secrets. She should fear him. She should stay away. But Eryx is not the only one watching her. From the shadows emerges Orion-powerful, possessive, and ruthless. He claims her in ways that make her blood run cold, seeing her not as broken, but as something he intends to own. Torn between a man who ignites her soul and another who seeks to claim her, Rael must fight not just for survival... but for her heart, her power, and the life that was stolen from her. Because a woman who has lost everything will not be broken again.

Action Romance Werewolf

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