The Betrayed Mother is the Divine Heiress

Lena Sinclair was High Strategos of the Order of Aegis, and heir to the divine legacy of Athena, when a fire took her son Lucas. She watched it happen and could not reach him. Not long afterward a hospital burned, and Lena went into the building herself and carried seven infants out of the intensive care unit. She raised all seven as her own and left public power behind, hiding what she had been for twenty-five years while she quietly cleared the way for each of them. They grew into men at the very top of their fields, none of them aware how much of that was her doing. Then their birth parents surfaced and told them Lena had stolen them as babies. The seven believed it. They called her a trafficker, and at the banquet for her fiftieth birthday they presented her with a coffin and told her to end her own life in front of them. Lena cut every tie that day. She took back everything she had given them, piece by piece, so that they stood as ordinary men with nothing behind them, and she spared them anyway. The seven blamed her for their collapse and decided she had conspired with Collin Cruz, her old second in command, to ruin them.