Cookie Lyons Empire Novels & Stories

She was born a bastard. They poured wine on her, laughed at her mother’s grave, and thought she’d stay broken. They were wrong. Ava Rosier took their scorn, their money, and their men, one ruthless billionaire, one mafia emperor, and one forbidden brother who shares her blood. Now the illegitimate daughter sits on the throne they built, crown forged from their tears, rose petals dipped in their blood. Three psychopaths kneel at her feet, obsessed, ruined, and willing to burn the world for her smile. She never chose between them. She chose everything. This is the rise of the Blackened Queen. And no one escapes her empire alive.

A young woman, Isla Quinn, at the lowest point in her life, finds herself tangled in a one-night stand with a man whose name she doesn’t even know, Ares Valtieri, a ruthless billionaire. When a scandal threatens everything he’s built, Ares offers Isla a lifeline: a one year marriage contract that could secure his empire and give her a second chance. But every rescue comes at a cost. As they are forced together by circumstance, their world becomes a collision of power, pain, and unwanted vulnerability. Isla must decide: does she fight for her identity, or surrender to a world that’s tried to break her before?

Betrayed by her husband and half-sister, stripped of everything she owned, and left to die in the streets—Susan’s life ended in tragedy. But fate wasn’t done with her yet. Waking up one year in the past, pregnant with the child she lost, she has a second chance. This time, she won’t beg. She won’t suffer. She will make them pay. With ruthless intelligence and a master plan, she builds an empire to destroy the man who destroyed her. But as secrets unravel and an unknown force watches from the shadows, one question remains— Was she the only one who came back?

Marissa thought the marriage was forever. Until one day, her husband Alaric's first love Stella came back, she was faced with the accusations of cheating while being pregnant with their second child. Alaric handed her divorce paper, he took their first child, daughter Nova and Marissa grandmother's house. Years later, fate brings them back together, Alaric's empire collapses, Nova is gravelly ill and the woman he once discarded is now untouchable. Broken by regret, Alaric begs for a second chance but Marissa holds the choice: forgive the man or finally make him taste the pain he gave her.

The day I found out I was pregnant with twins, Vincent Castellano celebrated like a man who had been handed heaven. Fireworks over Brooklyn. Vows whispered against my stomach. Promises that his empire, his loyalty, and his life were mine. That same day, I found out the hospital built in my name had been sheltering his affair. While I was throwing up and fighting to keep our babies safe, he was holding another woman in the next room. So I made my choice. I would keep the twins. But Vincent Castellano would lose all three of us.

Amani as simple as she has always been ,moved away from her old life in order to start afresh and build her career as a lawyer.But she also came chasing a dream she should have let go of, Avan Cole a rising celebrity actor she has watched from afar for years.When a high profile case pulls him into her world, and forces her into close proximity with powerful men who shape the city’s legal empire, her life takes a turn she never saw coming.What begins as obsession slowly turns into something far more complicated… and far more dangerous.

Lorenzo McLaren is an underground Mafia Lord who controls New York City. He does whatever he wants and gets away with it Mariana Martinez is a college student whose life is turned upside down when she is kidnapped and sold into a Mafia ring. She refuses to give up and accepts the life before her, fighting and looking for ways to escape. But her defiance is cut short when it grabs the attention of Lorenzo. Mariana falls first but Lorenzo falls harder. Will Mariana be able to ignore her morals and love Lorenzo even with his dark side? And will Lorenzo have to sacrifice his empire for the woman he loves?

Adam Harun Saguna was one of the heirs to the AS Corp, the business empire of the Saguna family. He was pressured by his mother to immediately bring to her a prospective daughter-in-law of equal standing with their aristocratic family. A tragedy made Adam meet Bianca Savitri. This young woman grew up in an orphanage. Intrigued by her personality, Adam secretly sent Bianca flowers each day and began to fall in love with her. Even under the dilemma, Adam wanted to pursue Bianca, which clearly did not meet her mother's requirements. Would Bianca receive Adam's love? And how was Adam's struggle to win his favour?

Salvatore. A name full of fortune, fame and power. Bearing this name, Travis Dominique became a famous and sought-after bachelor in New York. Armed with two majors, he was instantly branded as a business prodigy, building the largest empire in North America. But because of a problematic past, he enters Sapphire's small town. Little does the girl know, the man she met is not what she expects to be. Will the cunning, ruthless and dangerously handsome CEO of Alpha Corporation surrender his heart to a young and innocent town girl? Or will history repeat itself? After all, Sapphire is not just a town girl. And she doesn't even know that.

Elena Crane wakes up after a fire to discover the kidney she donated to save her husband wasn’t for him—it was for his mistress, Lydia. Worse, he’s plotting to kill her for two hundred million dollars in insurance money. What he doesn’t know: Elena is actually Roberta Alfred, the billionaire heiress who abandoned her empire for love. After surviving his murder attempts, Elena reclaims her identity and sets a trap. Six months later, when Leo and Lydia desperately seek help from the legendary Roberta Alfred, they come face-to-face with the woman they tried to destroy—and their downfall is swift and public.