Novels by Crystal L.C

“I don’t want you. I hate you.” Those words from her only son slice deeper than any blade. Sarah returns from the hospital expecting love, only to find her place at the family table stolen. Her husband, James, stands arm in arm with Tiana — his late brother’s widow, while her son clings to the other woman’s waist, rejecting his own mother. The betrayal does not end there. After a confrontation with Tiana, she woke up in an abandoned building, her hands tied, and mouth taped. Beside her was Tiana too. Tied. James stood, his confused gaze darting from Tiana to Sarah. And then came the baritone voice from one of the kidnappers: “One life. One choice. You can only save one. Choose!” Sarah turned, seeing how Tiana was communicating with the kidnappers with her eyes. She struggled to let James see the truth; that this was all a setup. But she couldn’t. Her mouth was tapped. But then, like a match striking steel, James’ voice came brittle and final. “Tiana.” He chose his ex over his own wife. Over the mother of his child. Sarah was abandoned in the warehouse. Immediately they left, the warehouse exploded, covered in flames. And Sarah’s screams and cries inside, filled the night. Did Sarah survive the fire outbreak? If she did, can they stand her revenge when she finally returns?

Caught in a web of betrayal, Nicole’s life shatters in a single evening when her mother-in-law, Veronica, sets her up in an elaborate scheme. Blindsided, Nicole faces her husband Taylor’s cold rage as he casts her out of his life and home, accusing her of infidelity and theft. As she tries to defend herself, her best friend, Sarah, adds another blow by denying their loyalty. “Please, Taylor, you have to believe me!” Nicole pleads, her voice breaking, but his icy response is a dagger to her heart. “I don’t hate you, Nicole,” he sneers. “I despise you.” When Nicole reveals she’s pregnant, she hopes for compassion, but it only fuels Veronica’s determination to rid the family of her. After signing the divorce papers, a dejected Nicole wanders alone, where a brutal attack leaves her bleeding, helpless, and desperate to protect her unborn child. Six years later, Nicole returns from the ashes to inflict seven times the pains upon those who humiliated her and left her to die. “I’ll make them pay so dearly that they’d regret ever been born!” She declares. This is a story of romance and revenge you don’t want to miss!

Eva Cooper’s world fell apart the day her husband stopped seeing her as a wife and started treating her like a stranger. She gave him her heart, her trust, and even her kidney, yet all she got in return was rejection and pain. When she is diagnosed of terminal leukemia, and the doctor told her she had only a short time left to live, Eva’s only wish was to feel loved one more time. But Bradley, the man she sacrificed everything for, was too busy entertaining another woman. “I needed you, Brad,” she said with tears in her eyes. “But you chose her.” He looked at her coldly. “You left me first, Eva. You deserve whatever you’re facing now.” What neither of them knew was that fate had a twist waiting — one that would expose lies buried for years and bring Eva face-to-face with the truth of who she really is.

“Sign the papers, you devil!” Elena snarled with a curse. “Are you blind to see that you’re no longer needed here?” Kendra had it all—money, power, a loving family, until she threw it all away for a man who would give her the world. After being married to him for four years of abuse and exploitation, Kendra finds herself divorced, broken, and penniless. Left with nothing, she returned to her father’s house and began the race to win back her birthright as the heiress to Winchester Enterprises. Kendra was welcomed home and given a condition to assume the new CEO of the family company – only if she accepted to marry Douglas Brooks – the youngest and wealthiest billionaire in the city. She hesitantly accepted the proposal, taking it as ‘just business.’ But with time, the arranged marriage turned into what she’d always wanted in a relationship. At the company’s night event to usher her in as the Heiress and the new CEO of Winchester Enterprises, and as expected she met the presence of her ex-husband and his new girlfriend. They were shocked to their bones when Kendra was announced the Heiress and the new CEO of the leading company in the city. Kendra was no longer the naïve lady they tossed around like a piece of trash. Now it was time to make them pay for all they did to her!

Their lips collided in a desperate kiss, ignoring the presence of his wife, whose eyes shut out wide, shocked to her bones. Her own husband, kissing another woman right in front of her? For four years Petra endured every insult, every humiliation, every time Pete chose Zoe over his own wife. She believed patience would save her marriage. She was wrong. When Pete demands that she apologize to Zoe because she challenged their flirtatious relationship, something inside Petra finally breaks. “I want a divorce.” Pete laughs it off. To him, Petra is just an orphan with nowhere to go. But the world is about to turn upside down. Because the woman he discarded… is the long-lost daughter of the Chapman empire. And when Petra returns, the husband who betrayed her and the woman who stole her place will learn a painful truth— they just made the biggest mistake of their lives.