Rising From Ashes: The Don's Lost Queen
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I gave up the peace of a civilian life to marry Dante, the most cold-blooded Don this city has ever known.
For years, I managed the chaos of his life and respected his lethal secrets.
But everything changed the moment he took a young soldier named Tess as his private secretary.
He let her sit in the passenger seat of his armored SUV—a spot strictly reserved for me—and even allowed her to answer his encrypted burner phones.
When I found her lipstick in his car, he simply said, "Don't be so paranoid."
I knew then that we were over.
So, on our fifth wedding anniversary, I left my wedding ring on his desk alongside a signed set of divorce papers.
I packed a single bag and walked out of his gilded cage, finally choosing to live for myself.
Rising From Ashes: The Don's Lost Queen Chapter 1
I gave up the peace of a civilian life to marry Dante, the most cold-blooded Don this city has ever known.
For years, I managed the chaos of his life and respected his lethal secrets.
But everything changed the moment he took a young soldier named Tess as his private secretary.
He let her sit in the passenger seat of his armored SUV—a spot strictly reserved for me—and even allowed her to answer his encrypted burner phones.
When I found her lipstick in his car, he simply said, "Don't be so paranoid."
I knew then that we were over.
So, on our fifth wedding anniversary, I left my wedding ring on his desk alongside a signed set of divorce papers.
I packed a single bag and walked out of his gilded cage, finally choosing to live for myself.
Chapter 1
I stared at the sapphire-encrusted earring lodged in the crevice of the passenger seat.
I understood the owner’s ambition instantly. I also understood that if I didn't sever ties with the city’s most powerful mob boss tonight, his unwritten rules would seal me away like a tomb.
Dante sat in the driver’s seat. He was the youngest Don in the history of the Syndicate, having wiped out three rival families before the age of thirty. He was my husband, and right now, he was watching me observe that earring.
I recognized the jewelry at a glance.
Tess wore them constantly. She was the only female soldier in the family, and Dante had taken her under his wing as his personal secretary.
And this seat, the passenger side of this car, was our unspoken pact—it belonged to me alone.
I reached out, plucking the earring from the leather fold, the metal feeling icy against my fingertips.
Dante shifted slightly. "I dropped Tess off at a safe house. It was snowing hard after the meeting, and she didn't have a car."
In the past, my hands would have trembled. My throat would have tightened, and I would have interrogated him on why he broke his promise. But tonight, a strange sense of relief flooded my chest, as if a vital organ had been cleanly excised.
I placed the earring on the center console. "It doesn't matter."
Dante braked in the middle of the driveway and turned to look at me, searching for the familiar storm. "That’s all you have to say? You don’t care?"
He expected me to scream, to fight him as I always had.
Instead, I simply turned my head to meet his gaze, pulled the door handle, and stepped out into the biting snow.
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I was born under the red full moon, something rare and marked as a curse in the werewolf world.
My pack hated me. They wanted me gone, saying I would bring nothing but destruction. My wolf was sealed before I could reach the awakening age, leaving me worthless. Helpless. Vulnerable.
Then came the night that changed my life, dragging me into the worst world possible.
I was married off to the cruel rogue Alpha, Drogo. A male bound by the curse of the Moon Goddess after committing an eternal sin. He was defined as the most ruthless male in the country. Behind the shadow. Never to be dared.
But what happened when I realized I bore the face of a ghost that haunted him from his past?
The face of the very woman who doomed him.
7.7
Deidre went to the clinic and learned she was finally pregnant, but her failing heart meant carrying the baby would kill her.
Before she could process the grief, she received an anonymous photo of her husband, Danial, tenderly escorting a heavily pregnant woman into a VIP hospital.
The woman was his cousin, Daria.
Following them, Deidre overheard Danial call her a "sterile decoration," promising to get rid of her while securing a Cayman trust fund for his illegitimate child.
The nightmare only worsened when Daria gloatingly confessed to a horrifying truth.
Daria had stolen the credit for saving Danial in a fire—a heroic act that had actually destroyed Deidre's heart.
Even more sickening, Daria had bribed a doctor two years ago to fake Deidre's ectopic pregnancy, tricking Danial into authorizing the surgery that murdered their perfectly healthy baby daughter.
When a grief-stricken Deidre attacked the murderer, Danial furiously shoved his wife to the ground.
Ignoring her heart spasms and gasps for air, he threw her out into a freezing New York blizzard to die.
Lying in the snow, Deidre's love turned to pure ash as she realized she had sacrificed her body and her child for a blind monster.
But she didn't die that night.
Rescued by Danial's biggest Wall Street rival, Deidre marched into her husband's office the next morning alongside New York's most ruthless divorce lawyer.
"Sign it, or I'll freeze your offshore trust and burn your empire to the ground."
8.4
Aiden Armstrong, CEO of skylight group and boss of the Dark Flood mafia, has a dark fetish for virgins-an obsession that leads him to Avery Kingston.
He was in need of a wife in order to get control of his grandfather's legacy. The Kingston's offered him a proposal, one where both sides benefits. He gets a wife to keep his inheritance and a virgin who was just his type in exchange for a huge sum to aid the Kingston's escape bankruptcy.
Avery, forced into marriage with Aiden, an unknown dangerous looking handsome fellow by her family, soon discovers the journal of her husband's fetish and catches him cheating. She becomes a different and better version of herself vowing to get back at all who had wronged her.
As she builds herself and takes revenge, she finds more secrets about her family, her mom's death and Aiden's past.
Amidst disappointments, plots for revenge and abduction of Avery, Aiden discovers he had fallen in love with her but is it seemed to be a little too late until they were both placed in a situation that was to end both their lives but turned out to be a moment for truth, reconciliation, love and fresh start.
8.6
Today was my father's grand second wedding, but for me, it was the anniversary of my mother's death.
My new stepmother, Marley, who was only four years older than me, cornered me. To establish her dominance as the new Luna, she ordered her servants to force me to my knees and violently ripped my late mother's necklace from my neck.
It was the only memento my mother had left me. Marley sneered, threw it to the ground, and shattered the gems. When I scrambled to pick up the broken pieces, she dug her high-heeled shoe into the back of my hand, mocking me as dirty trash. No one stepped in to help. My father was too busy celebrating his new marriage under the dazzling lights, completely erasing my mother's memory and leaving me to be abused in my own pack.
My heart was full of grievance and despair. Why did my mother's lifelong devotion end with her grave desolate and her daughter humiliated? I swore I would never become a weak, discarded she-wolf whose life depended on a man.
Desperate to escape the suffocating wedding, I ran outside and stumbled right into the chest of a terrifying stranger.
"No one should ever touch what is precious to you."
His golden eyes blazed with fury as sparks instantly shot through my veins. He was Kade Blackwood, the ruthless Alpha of the feared Blood Moon Pack—and my fated mate.
9.3
Fallon Bayliss, a young, successful painter from New York, has nightmares, and some parts of her memory are missing. One night, she gets abducted by Sean, a vampire. And that brings her to the very beginning, first to London where she worked as a waitress, and then back to Rome.
Remembering she spent the last year and a half there as that vampire's pet, his sex slave, under the false identity. And all the things he has done to her recall the awful pain, realizing she both hates and desires him.
Her doom started at her 19th birthday party when she met Hope Douglas, looking identical to her. Fallon has no clue vampires exist. And that Hope is a vampire hunter when she offers her a lucrative deal. Fallon takes it, falling into the trap and committing the biggest mistake of her life.
Now Sean wants to turn her into a vampire and keep her forever. Fallon carries a secret of her own, but so does Sean. And the plot slowly unfolds from the moment of her abduction.
8.7
She was his enemy. Then she was his prisoner. Now, she is his soul-bound prey.
Arielle Monet was raised to be a queen of the French Syndicate-loyal, lethal, and silent. When she is captured by the ruthless "Devil of Marseille," Girard Roux, she prepares to endure hell for her family. She waits for the rescue that will never come.
Then comes the shattering truth: Her father didn't lose her. He sold her.
Marcel Monet used his own daughter as a sacrificial lamb, a distraction to buy his escape while the wolf tore her apart.
But Girard Roux doesn't want her blood. He wants her name, her spirit, and her life. In a move that shocks the underworld, he forces a ring onto her finger and a vow onto her lips. Trapped in his ancestral estate, Arielle expects a marriage of cold revenge. Instead, she finds a world of dark, carnal hunger and a terrifying secret hidden behind Girard's golden eyes.
He isn't just a Don. He isn't even human.
As the moon rises and the beast within her husband begins to howl, Arielle faces a choice that will stain her soul: Run from the monster who bought her, or surrender to the Alpha who promises to burn the whole world down for her.
One vow will bind them. One truth will break them. One taste will change everything.
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