Jane Melody

Blurb Jae sends his stepbrother a shirtless photo by mistake. His manager steals his pay and hits him a lot. His girlfriend humiliates him by posting the photo to the school group chat. The same night, he agrees to strip at his stepfather's club for money he desperately needs. Then his stepbrother Sebastian pulls Jae out of traffic, drives him home, and admits he has been watching him for months. Jae should run. But instead he lets Sebastian clean his wounds. And when Sebastian leans close, Jae does not pull away. Jae did not know the stripping job would bring dangers. He did not know his stepfather might be the reason for his father's death. To survive, he must stop acting like a weak runt and navigate through all of this alone. But can he? Or will he fall for Sebastian, lose his own stand, and cause Sebastian pain as well?

I woke up in his bed after one confusing night, and suddenly I was married to Dylan Carter, the man I'd loved in silence for twelve years. The man who was supposed to marry my sister. Everyone thinks I'm a scheming gold-digger who trapped Riverside's most eligible bachelor. Even Dylan believes I drugged him and orchestrated everything. He looks at me with pure hatred, spending every night with my sister while I wait alone in our empty house. Then I discovered I'm pregnant. But before I could tell him, I overheard the truth: my "perfect" sister Sophie was the one who planned that night. She drugged Dylan, called the reporters, set the whole trap, she just walked into the wrong room. And my adoptive family? They only took me in because Sophie needed my bone marrow. Everything I believed was a lie. Now Sophie's faking suicide attempts to manipulate Dylan into divorcing me, and my so-called family has disowned me in front of everyone. I'm alone, pregnant, and everyone in Riverside thinks I'm the villain in this story. But I've decided something: I'm not giving up. Not my husband, not my baby, and definitely not my future. Sophie wants the life she thinks I stole? She'll have to go through me first.