What Books Are Similar To Mistakes We Never Made?

She married him knowing one thing clearly: love was never part of the agreement. Their marriage was built on terms, not promises. A shared home. A shared bed. A public image to maintain. Nothing more. He was distant, controlled, and never cruel — but never warm either. To him, she was a wife in name, a solution to a problem, a role that needed to be filled. What neither of them expected was how silence could become dangerous. How intimacy without love could still leave marks. How wanting someone could come long before admitting it. As the line between obligation and desire begins to blur, she must decide how long she can stay where she isn’t truly chosen — and he must face the truth he never planned for. Because sometimes, the most dangerous thing isn’t loving someone too much… It’s realizing you never meant to love them at all.

As if my life wasn’t already complicated as a plus size woman who has always found it hard to find love, I go and fall in love with the wrong man. Stanley Pearson is my father's best friend. A billionaire. Twenty-nine years older than me. Engaged to my high school bully. And.. the only man I've ever truly loved. For years, my feelings were nothing more than a secret crush I swore I'd outgrow. Then my parents left for a three-year overseas assignment and asked Stanley to let me stay at his estate until I finish college. Now, I'm living under the same roof as the man I can't stop thinking about. Every day, I tell myself to keep my distance. Every day, I fail. Behind his cold, untouchable exterior is a man carrying dangerous secrets. The closer we become, the harder it is to deny the undeniable pull between us. Soon, we're risking everything for a love that should never exist. But love isn't the only thing lurking in the shadows. Someone is determined to destroy Stanley's empire. The people he trusts are hiding devastating betrayals. And the only way to save everything he's built may be to sacrifice the woman he loves. Heartbroken, I find an unlikely ally in Stanley's greatest rival... only to discover that everyone has secrets, everyone has an agenda, and some betrayals cut deeper than love itself. Now I'm caught between two powerful men, a web of lies, and a love that refuses to die. They say forbidden love is dangerous. No one warned me it could destroy us all.

Esme was compelled to marry Jasper by her parents. It had been two years. Her husband never paid attention to her as he should give to her as his wife. He was a good person but a worse husband. She knew. He was seeing someone. She never tried to find it out. Her parents died. So she was trying to fulfill her parents' last wish. Livia! Her best friend, one day forced her to go to the club with her. There she met him, Carlos King. He stole her innocence, her heart……. That night, she cheated on her husband. Esme was a good woman, trapped in an unwanted marriage. To escape, the daily torture of her husband negligence. She shouldn't have spent the most passionate night with a stranger in the club. But she wasn't ashamed of cheating on her husband.

“I reject you as my mate!” My voice echoed in the hall. Then everything went quiet. Eugene dropped to his knees. He grabbed his chest. His face twisted in pain. The bond broke. He thought I would beg. He thought I would accept his pregnant mistress. He was wrong. I watched him suffer. I felt nothing. Then pain hit me too. My body gave out. I was about to fall, When strong arms caught me. Dark. Cold. Dangerous. Alpha Arnold. The Lycan King. “Put her down! She is mine!” Eugene shouted. Arnold smiled. Slow. Cruel. “Yours?” he said. “She rejected you.” His eyes glowed. “She is mine now.” And just like that… My life changed. Eugene betrayed her. Humiliated her. Left her for another woman. But he never thought she would be taken by the most feared Lycan alive. Now Irene has to choose. Go back to the man who broke her, Or stay with the man who could destroy her. Because Arnold does not give love. He makes deals. And once she says yes… She can never escape him.

I buried my baby. Then, my husband got his mistress pregnant. Before I could even grieve, my father-in-law came to me with an offer. "Pretend the child is yours." Raise my husband's illegitimate baby. Smile for the public. Protect the Ashbourne name. And when the time came... dispose of the mistress. They thought I was still the obedient Lady Ashbourne. They were wrong. I froze every asset under my name. And I declared war on the most powerful noble house in Valerion. Now my husband wants forgiveness. His mistress wants my life. His father wants to break me. Too bad they forgot one thing. I wasn't born an Ashbourne. I am Seraphina Vermont. And the Vermonts don't lose wars. Especially not the ones they didn't start.

My family is on the brink of bankruptcy, and I beg my fiancé to help us with emergency funding. He turns me down cold, then gets engaged to Nellie White without hesitation. Just when I'm out of options, my childhood friend shows up with an investment contract and a marriage proposal. I say yes without thinking twice. But even with his help, our company can't escape ruin. My father, unable to bear the blow, suffers a heart attack and dies. At the funeral, overwhelmed by grief, I faint. In my haze, I overhear a conversation between my childhood friend and his friend. "You've already crushed Talitha’s family. When are you going to take her uterus for Nellie?" "On the wedding day," he replies casually. "I'll stage an accident, then operate on her myself. Her uterus will be Nell's. I can't give Nell happiness in this life, so I'll give her a wedding gift. I hope it makes her happy." Turns out his so-called devotion was just so he could take my womb. Even his proposal to me was just a way to remove all obstacles for the woman he loved.