My Christmas wish list is short:(1) Go on the work trip with my crush(2) Make our relationship officialSanta, it turns out, is a cruel, cruel man. I should know better than to trust a myth in a red suit.Heartbroken and stranded, I watch my holiday cheer evaporate... until a force of nature walks into my life and offers a distraction so potent it feels like fate. This scorching-hot stranger promises to make me forget—and by heavens, he delivers.But the afterglow chills fast. The tantalizing illusion shatters when I realize our meeting wasn’t fate, and my anonymous savior is none other than ...

Hot. Protective. All in. This mafia prince doesn’t just fall—he spirals, hard and fast, and baby, he’s not getting up.I’ve spent my whole life feeling invisible.The forgotten daughter. The curvy girl no one ever chose. The extra piece that never quite fit. For years, I’ve been building my escape plan.One more year of law school, and I’d finally be free. One step away from proving I’m more than the leftover of a marriage everyone wants to forget. Then everything shatters. My stepmother drops the bomb: an arranged marriage to save my mother’s sinking company. And n...