Bound by Duty

Based on the novel by Cora Reilly. 8 years after Dante took a bullet for Valentina, a mafia war rages between Chicago and Las Vegas. With a world of bloodshed knocking on their door, they must decide how to protect their daughter, and their marriage.

Karol Sowle was born into a rural family. At 18, she married Joseph Lee, a young intellectual, and followed him to the city. However, Joseph's family scorned her humble origins and subjected her to constant mistreatment. Unable to endure it any longer, Karol left and met Theo Lipsey, a disabled veteran. With Theo's support, Karol pursued education, honed her sewing skills, and eventually founded her own clothing factory. Meanwhile, under her devoted care, Theo's legs gradually healed.

Based on the bestselling novel by Cora Reilly! Trapped in an arranged marriage to the cold and dangerously seductive heir of the New York mafia, LUCA, 18yo sheltered mafia princess from Chicago, ARIA must decide if surrendering her body—and maybe her heart—to a man born of violence is her greatest betrayal or her only chance at survival.

Everyone's always told Nora to keep her head down and stay silent, but there's one exception — Vince Grant, her husband. As their contract marriage comes to an end after the best year of her life, Nora is faced with returning to her abusive family, who are already plotting to marry her off again. Always the calm, collected CEO, Vince finds himself desperate for a chance to win Nora over, even though she left him without looking back. He watches Nora shrink back into the shell he spent a year coaxing her out of, and decides enough is enough. Whether it's as the best "ex-husband" the world's ever seen, or Nora's real husband, with no contract between them, he'll protect her with everything he has.

Trapped in an arranged marriage with Luca, the cold and dangerously seductive heir to the New York mafia, Aria, the innocent little princess of the Chicago mafia, must decide whether giving her body—and perhaps her heart—to a man born of violence is her greatest betrayal or her only chance of survival.

Five years ago, Sarah was drugged by her stepsister and unknowingly spent the night with Jackson, CEO of the Ford Group. Abandoned while pregnant, she later gave birth to quadruplets, two of whom were secretly taken from her. Now raising the remaining children alone, Sarah joins the Ford Group for a better life, only to reunite with Jackson. Separated by lies, they grow closer as buried secrets begin to surface.

Vera Marchesa just wants one thing: freedom from the dangerous mafia world she grew up in, and her overprotective bodyguard Dante, who refuses to love her. Determined to prove she's not a helpless princess, Vera pushes the one line Dante swore never to cross… even if that means they will crash and burn together.

1994 Chicago. Lucy bandages a stranger, not knowing he is Ace Cavallo, a feared mafia boss who claims her as his wife. When her fiancé and uncle sell her at her wedding, Ace saves her, offering 30 days as his wife for her mother's surgery. She accepts, learns he already paid. Through betrayals and attacks, Lucy finds devotion beneath his violence and confesses love. The Carters kidnap her. Ace wins a deadly blackjack gamble but takes a bullet. They wed in an empty church and ride into the night.

At 8, Samuel meets Sage, a girl who heals his heart and his legs at a sanatorium. Sixteen years later, as the head of the Grant family, Samuel vows to find her. But after years of searching, she's nowhere to be found until the Smith family's second daughter, forced into marriage, unexpectedly enters his life. A journey of lost love, unexpected marriage, and a touch of humor awaits.

Sammi learns she's pregnant the same day she's told her firefighter husband Fred has died. A diary of his secret, years-long love triggers her rebirth back to 2007, still expecting their child. But the man she returns to isn't her calm, heroic husband, but a rebellious, white-haired teenager who doesn't know her at all. Now Sammi must win his heart from the very beginning and rewrite the fate that once stole him away.

A marriage built on deception ignites a dangerous obsession. Trapped in misplaced devotion and tender lies that cut like knives, she finally walks away, only then does he realize the truth. When the love of his life is still within reach, can shattered trust ever be restored?

When Reese unexpectedly reunites with her ex-best friend and first love Grayson four years after he broke her heart, she agrees to pose as his fake girlfriend for his sister's wedding. But as old feelings threaten to bubble out, Reese must decide if a chance at true love is worth the risk of repeating history.