Checkmate

Checkmate is a dark and addictive romance about betrayal, forbidden love, and the price of revenge.

Maitê thought she had buried the past. Married to a good man, she forced herself to forget the only man she ever truly loved—his brother, Vicente. But when the prodigal son returns after nine years, her carefully built life collapses. To her husband's relief, Vicente is home. To her despair, the ghost of her first love now stands before her, flesh and blood, reigniting everything she tried to kill inside her.

Vicente comes back a different man. Hardened. Consumed by the betrayal that stole his girlfriend and handed her to his brother. He didn't return for forgiveness. He came for vengeance. And Maitê, once his love, now finds herself trapped between loyalty, desire, and destruction.

In a deadly game of love and hate, every move could cost them everything. Hearts will break, secrets will surface, and when the final piece falls, someone will be checkmated.