The autumn wind whipped down Fifth Avenue, carrying with it the scent of roasted chestnuts and the exhaust of a thousand yellow…

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    My name is Cassie. I am thirty-one years old, and my life is a delicate ecosystem of chaos and love. I…

  I never imagined that the sound that would save my life would be a desperate banging at 3:00 AM, or that my…

  He was Jack “Zero” Miller, a former scholar beaten by Victor Sterling, the casino mogul’s heir who stole his fiancée, then tossed…

PART 1: THE TUNER OF THE BRONX The winter wind in the Bronx cut through Leo’s thin jacket like a knife, but his…

PART 1: THE RAGS The air inside AURORA, the most exclusive department store on Fifth Avenue, smelled of white orchids and old money.…

PART 1: THE PROPOSAL The rain in Seattle was relentless, hammering against the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the King Tower penthouse. Maya Lin…

PART 1: THE COLD GRAVE The rain in New York didn’t wash away the sins of the city; it just made the gutters…

  For three years, Gabriel Stone endured brutal humiliation, mocked as a “janitor” and “parasite” by his in-laws while his wife Elena was…