A woman’s spirit remains tethered to former fiancé Liam after the family’s exploitation of her pregnancy and body ends in presumed death. She watches the deception continue from a position they cannot see. What they believe to be a finished story becomes the beginning of her response.
Ethan uses forgotten rituals to help Sabrina win a governorship. Her new alliance with Andrew brings humiliation, the arrest of Ethan’s parents and their subsequent deaths. Dismissed from both marriage and office, he turns the loyalty that once supported her toward a response to what they have taken.
At an evacuation point in a war-torn city, Evie remembers how Ethan previously abandoned her and profited from her death. He again asks her to wait for Krystal rather than board the helicopter. Her second chance begins with refusing the sacrifice he expects and choosing her own survival.
An inheritance appears to promise a fresh start, but a woman’s previous life ended with the deaths of herself, her mother and daughter Lily. She witnessed Mark admit that he and his assistant arranged it for the money. Returned to the lawyer’s message, she prepares to protect the family he intended to destroy.
River Guardian Ava is betrayed after using her essence to empower Marcus. As a spirit, she watches their son Liam suffer for years. When Marcus threatens the child to obtain more power, the life force Ava passed to Liam begins challenging the control Marcus believed was absolute.
Elara heals Julian and has three children still living within eggs. Once recovered, he forces her to identify them among a hundred fakes, with the children’s lives at stake. Protecting the last surviving egg demands a sacrifice of her reputation, while its hatching reveals a powerful Thunderbird bloodline.
Ava uses a wish earned through her gold-making gift to advance husband Mark’s career. He responds by publicly presenting another woman as his fiancée and treating Ava as a controllable good-luck charm. Her humiliation and threats against her family turn the same supernatural gift toward retaliation.
Vivienne survives her pack’s slaughter only to be betrayed by mate Silas and sold into captivity. Awakening as a rare Silver Wolf makes her valuable to another exploiter. In a cursed forest she encounters true mate Cassius, an Alpha King, while remaining determined to seek revenge.