The Don's Memorial Obsession

For ten years, she gave her loyalty to Caspian, the formidable Don of Chicago's Serrano family. But her planned Thanksgiving getaway on a private island is ruined when her husband and son vanish. Instead of a family vacation, she discovers the brutal truth online: Caspian is at a luxury ski resort, intimately parading their son and his late brother's widow, Miley, while claiming his Donna is home sick. Realizing her decade-long marriage was nothing but an elaborate scam, she decides it is finally time to bring their facade to a definitive, crushing end.

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"Mamma, why are you bringing that up again?" Adrian's voice pulled me back to the present. He glared at me with disgust. "Why are you always fighting with Papa? Aunt Miley never does. She's gentle and beautiful, and she even took me skiing. I don't like you."

A child's words, spoken without malice, are often the cruelest. Especially from the son I had raised with my own two hands.

I smiled, but my eyes swam with tears.

Adrian just pouted. "You're always controlling me, never letting me touch the weapons or join the family training. You're a disgrace to the family! I want Aunt Miley to be my mom!"

Hearing this, a triumphant smirk bloomed on Miley's face. She crouched down, hugging him with sickeningly sweet sincerity. "Adrian, sweetie. How can you talk to your Mamma like that? But... since you like me so much, you can call me 'Mom' from now on."

She shot me a provocative look, as if showing off a prize.

A wave of bone-deep exhaustion washed over me.

Ten years of my love, erased by a few sweet lies.

Suddenly, none of it mattered anymore.

I took out the dissolution papers I’d already had drawn up and threw them on the table in front of Caspian. "Sign them. Then we're even."

Caspian was stunned, still thinking I was just challenging his authority. "Aurelia, are you out of your mind? You're going to leave the Family over a canceled vacation? Can you stop being so childish?"

Adrian rushed over, pounding on my legs with his little fists. "Bad Mamma! You're betraying the Family! I hate you!"

Miley immediately stepped forward to pull Adrian away, playing the saint. "Aurelia, please don't be angry. This is all my fault. If you really can't stand the sight of me, I'll leave right now..."

Her sanctimonious act made my stomach churn.

I slapped her hard across the face. "The one thing I can't stand," I said coldly, "is a phony."

Miley shrieked, clutching her reddening cheek.

Caspian surged forward, shielding her behind him as he roared at me, "You crazy bitch!"

Just then, Adrian charged and gave me a hard shove. "You're a bad person! Don't you dare bully Aunt Miley!"

Caught off guard, my head slammed against the stone base of the fireplace. I hissed in pain as I slid to the floor, my vision blacking out for a second.

Caspian didn't even glance my way. "Stop faking it!" he shouted impatiently. "Don't be so dramatic. Adrian doesn't have the strength to hurt you."

Then, he helped Miley up, his voice softening. "Are you alright? Let's get you to your room. Ignore this madwoman."

I watched their retreating backs, and silent tears finally streamed down my cheeks.

So this is what it feels like for a heart to die.

Not long after, Caspian burst out of the memorial room, his eyes blazing. "Aurelia! You went into my memorial room? And you set a fire?"

I looked up, my expression as still as a stagnant pool. "Yes. I burned it. Why? Was there something in there that couldn't see the light of day?"

He froze. Then, his tone softened. "Fine. I won't hold it against you. You've had your tantrum, right? Miley isn't well and needs a peaceful environment. You can move to the side wing for a few days."

I let out a bitter laugh. His concession was just a tactic to make room for his mistress. "Caspian," I said, my voice flat. "Sign the papers."

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Title- A Name Without A Past Author- Abraham Tejiri Onojighofia Genre: Psychological Suspense Romance / Crime Thriller Tagline: Memory lies. Danger doesn't.. Larry awakens in an abandoned hospital with no name, no past, and no memories-except one. A woman's face. Her voice. Her presence. The single image floating in the hollow wreckage of his mind is so sharp, so undeniable, that he knows she matters. He doesn't know who he is, but he knows he must find her. Moments after he escapes the hospital, someone tries to kill him. Driven by instinct and the one memory he trusts, Larry follows the fragment of recognition until it leads him to Ella Morgan, a composed and fiercely intelligent homicide detective. But instead of relief, he's met with confusion. Ella has never seen him before. According to her, he is a stranger. But danger arrives before either of them can walk away. A sudden attack convinces Ella that Larry is not lying-someone wants him dead. And the attempt on his life mirrors the recent string of unsolved murders she is investigating. Against policy and against her better judgment, Ella takes him under temporary protection. Immediately, unsettling cracks begin to appear in her certainty. Larry recognizes places connected to the case. He reacts to threats with a trained instinct he can't explain. And his fragmented flashbacks seem tied to secrets Ella wasn't supposed to uncover. As they race to piece together his missing identity, a darker truth begins to emerge. Larry's amnesia is no accident. Evidence points to a covert operation, a covered-up crime, and powerful enemies determined to bury the truth permanently. His erased memory may hold the key to a conspiracy that reaches into the police force, the city's elite-and Ella's own past. With each step closer to the truth, the connection between them deepens. Larry feels drawn to her with an unshakable certainty that defies logic, while Ella fights the pull of a man who may be the missing link to her most dangerous case yet. But as Larry's memories begin to return, so does a chilling realization: Ella wasn't just a face in his mind. She was the last person he tried to protect before everything went dark. Now, the enemies hunting Larry have turned their sights on her. In a deadly race against a faceless adversary, Larry and Ella must unravel the past he's forgotten before it destroys them both. Because the silence Larry woke up with isn't empty-it's hiding a witness, a secret, and a truth someone is willing to kill to keep buried. And the closer the truth gets, the more dangerous remembering becomes.

Action Modern Mystery

7.8

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7.8

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8.6

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8.6

Danni's world shatters the day her father dies. Her mother has become a hollow shell of who she once was, and Danni is left to pick up the pieces alone. Every day feels like a battle just to breathe, to move, to find something resembling normal. Then her ex shows up - stirring old wounds and turning her already broken life into chaos. As if that weren't enough, the people she trusted most begin acting... strange. Secrets twist around her like shadows, and nothing feels real anymore. And that's when he appears - the mysterious stranger who keeps showing up just in time to save her. There's something familiar about him, something that tugs at her soul. But the more she dreams of the haunting white wolf that stalks her nights, the more she wonders if her mind is unraveling... or if something far darker is calling to her.

Action Mystery Werewolf

9.4

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9.4

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Action Adventure Fantasy Romance Young Adult

7.5

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7.5

For six years, I was the wife of a tech billionaire with crippling mysophobia. To my husband, Killian, I was a contaminant he was forced to tolerate for a business merger, a ghost in my own home. But for his mistress, the influencer Isabel, every rule was broken. He worshipped her, believing she was the angel who' d saved him from a near-fatal climbing accident two years ago. The truth was, I was the one who braved a blizzard to rescue him, suffering severe frostbite in the process. But he laughed in my face, calling me too fragile. He knelt on a filthy police station floor to touch her bare feet, yet he' d recoiled from my touch for years. He destroyed my grandmother' s priceless locket because she wanted it. He forced me to kneel and apologize for her lies, threatening my family's company if I refused. The final humiliation came when he publicly declared her the true mistress of the house and made me climb a dangerous, thorny hill on my injured ankle to pick roses for her. As I stumbled back, covered in mud and blood, I felt nothing. The love I had stubbornly held onto was finally, completely dead. I walked away that night with the signed divorce papers in my hand. My old life was over, and my fight for a new one had just begun.

Action Modern Romance

8.7

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8.7

Alessia’s devotion to Rafael Mancini was a weakness she finally outgrew. After enduring his public affairs, the ultimate insult arrives on their engagement night: Rafael demands she accept his mistress’s unborn child as her own heir to avoid the risks of labor. Trapped in a world of violence and stained by blood, Alessia realizes her fiancé’s cruelty has no limits. Instead of submitting to the Mancini family’s whims, she contacts a dangerous enemy to accept a forbidden alliance.

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