Deplorable Schemes (Immoral Starts)

Some women marry for love. She married for security—and now that security is slipping through her fingers one heartbeat at a time.

Before thirty, she's already watching her carefully constructed life crumble. Her wealthy, elderly husband lies on his deathbed, and with him goes everything she's fought to maintain: the penthouse, the accounts, the effortless ease of never having to worry again. The inheritance should be hers, but the legal landscape is treacherous, and one man stands between her and everything she needs.

His disowned stepson.

He's dangerous, bitter, and far too perceptive—the kind of man who sees through every polished smile and rehearsed line. He despises what she represents, and the feeling is almost mutual. Almost. Because the most maddening thing about their explosive tension isn't the contempt; it's the undercurrent of something far more inconvenient running beneath every charged exchange.

When desperation forces them into a scandalous arrangement, the rules are simple: keep it transactional, keep it controlled, and under no circumstances mistake strategy for feeling. But locked into the same orbit of family secrets and billionaire power plays, they discover that schemes built on mutual disdain have a dangerous way of evolving into something neither of them planned.

*Deplorable Schemes* is a fast-burning, forbidden romance that proves the most reckless gamble isn't always the one made for money—sometimes it's the one made for the wrong person entirely.