Artist Contract Marriage Web Novels & Stories

They killed her after she lived like a dog for her adoptive family and always did as she was told for 15 years. Kara–the adopted daughter of the jones family, one that deals with arts and charity foundations was killed to take the fall for a major scam that was pulled without her knowing a thing about it and on her deathbed. Angrily, she muttered with pain, anger and despair as a tear escaped her eyes "if there's a god somewhere, I regret my life. All I ever did was good, I lived as I was told and this is the end I get? If I'm given another chance, I'd surely live differently...I promise" everything finally went dark as the high pitched tone of the heart rate monitor cut through the prickling silence. Kara awakens and she's back to exactly a year before her death. With the help of a stranger from her past life who promises undying loyalty and a burning flame in her heart, worse than pain, like a bomb ready to detonate and consume everything in its path. And she knows exactly where to direct the heat.

He leaned back confidently, the glow from the lights catching his grey eyes. “But if you ever want something simple,” he said, “something that won’t demand feelings or promises. Something free. Fun. Uncomplicated.” I swallowed. “Like what, exactly…” He leaned forward again, eyes never leaving mine. “Like being each other’s fuck partner,” he said calmly… like it was the most natural proposal in the world. *** Raised by a single mother abandoned by love, Annabelle Brown vowed to save sex for marriage. Until the night she caught her boyfriend cheating, and his reason—no relationship can last without sex. Heartbroken and furious, Anna walked into a bar… and into the most outrageous proposal of her life. *** Alessandro Miller wanted nothing complicated. Scarred by a loveless home, he swore off marriage and emotional attachments. All he wanted was simple: sex, no feelings, no future. *** Against everything she believed in, Anna said yes to Alessandro's proposal. Their rules were clear: No emotions, no personal questions, no strings. Until months later, when Anna walked into a conference room and saw him—the same man she'd been sharing her weekends with, now standing at the head of the company board as the CEO. Worse, Alessandro was the heir to a powerful family… and already promised to another woman. Bound by duty, divided by power, yet consumed by desire, neither of them could walk away. He was her partner in sin. Her boss. And the one man she was never supposed to fall for.

When rising film star Adrian Vale signs a contract to fake a relationship for publicity, he expects another performance — polished smiles, rehearsed chemistry, and a few months of pretending. What he doesn’t expect is Suzie Ellis, the childhood friend he left behind, now an artist struggling to make rent and rebuild her confidence. Their reunion is awkward, electric, and impossible to ignore. Suzie agrees to the arrangement out of necessity, not nostalgia. Adrian needs her authenticity; Suzie needs the money. Together, they step into a spotlight that blurs truth and illusion until neither can tell where the act ends. Behind the cameras, their old connection flickers back to life — quiet conversations, shared memories, and the kind of honesty Adrian hasn’t felt in years. But when the contract leaks, exposing every clause and every lie, their carefully constructed world collapses. Fame turns cruel. Trust shatters. Silence becomes the only language they share. Months later, Suzie’s art speaks what words never could — a gallery filled with paintings that capture heartbreak, longing, and the truth Adrian was too afraid to face. When he walks into that exhibition, he finds not a scandal, but a story written in colour and silence — and a chance to rewrite everything they lost. Signed in Silence is a slow‑burn romance about fame, forgiveness, and the quiet courage it takes to love someone when the world is watching.

Out of desperation to keep her cheating fiance, Samantha pretended to be terminally ill as she was the only one who was interested in their relationship. She thought it was effective since Brandon has been giving her attention. But her assistant's work proved her wrong, when she sent her photos of Brandon and a pregnant woman. Her world collapsed when she saw it with her two eyes. That moment, it felt like she was going to be ill for real. Until she accidentally bumped into Brandon’s uncle, Gavin Palma, when she left Brandon’s house. A mere physical contact that changed the trajectory of Gavin’s life, leading him to meet Samantha, his nephew’s ex. It was almost impossible for him to feel aroused, until that woman appeared before his eyes and their skin touched. As though the stars aligned, Samantha found a sweet vengeful idea when she learned who that man was when they crossed paths in the bar.

His thumb pressed against my lower lip and I forgot every reason this was wrong. "You keep looking at me like that in my classroom, Miss Alexander." His voice was low, meant only for me, and it made me ache, I was soaked, embarrassingly so. His other hand was flat against the desk behind me, caging me in, and I could feel the heat of him from inches away. "Like what?" I whispered. "Like you want me to ruin you." His deep rasp caressed my skin like a candle flame. God help me. I did. "Professor O'Brien." My voice came out smaller than I wanted it to. "We really shouldn't—" Not here. Not when class was due in the next minute. Yet… "No." His eyes dropped to my mouth. "We really shouldn't." Neither of us moved. .... Moon Alexander was handed a marriage contract at nineteen by her uncle who raised and ruined her and was told to sign in his daughter's place, have a child for a stranger and get her freedom. Her husband is her art professor and he is the most dangerous man she has ever been in a room with. Their marriage was meant to be a secret, hidden, forgotten. But then everything changes when secrets, yearning and desire threaten to ruin their carefully constructed roles. It all starts with one kiss. One touch. And soon the Muse will become the Artist's damnation.

Struggling artist Sofia Leonie has one shot at saving her father's life: sixty thousand dollars to impersonate Isabelle Ashworth, a missing heiress whose face she shares by an unsettling coincidence no one will explain. All she has to do is play the perfect fiancée for three weeks, seal a merger disguised as a marriage between the Ashworth and Alfie empires, and disappear with the money before anyone notices the difference. The role should be simple. It isn't. From the moment she signs the contract, Sofia is buried in a stranger's life — a childhood she never lived, a dead horse she never owned, a signature she has to make her own. But the closer she gets to becoming Isabelle, the more she realizes someone played this role before her, and vanished for asking the wrong questions. Her handler, Mia Stilio, knows details about Sofia's own life she should have no way of knowing. Her own father goes quiet every time she asks about the mother she never got to know. Then there's Arlo Alfie — cold, controlling, and far too perceptive for a marriage that was supposed to be strictly business. He notices what shouldn't be noticeable. He collects secrets like other men collect watches. And the more he unravels of Sofia's performance, the more she starts to wonder if he already knows exactly who she isn't — and is choosing, for reasons of his own, to let her keep pretending. Just as the lines between performance and truth begin to blur, a woman appears out of nowhere at the engagement gala, calling Sofia by Isabelle's name — and claiming to be a sister no file ever mentioned. Sofia came here to disappear into someone else's life long enough to save her father.

Alice Vance doesn’t do handouts, and she certainly doesn’t do billionaires. A fiercely independent art curator struggling to open her own gallery, she lives by a simple rule: rely on no one. But when a mechanical error traps her in the private penthouse of Manhattan’s most ruthless tycoon, her carefully ordered life shatters in an instant. Sylvester Arlington, the formidable CEO of Arlington Global, doesn't believe in romance. Burned by his mother’s ruthless betrayal as a child, he views every human relationship as a transaction. Facing an emergency ultimatum from his late grandfather’s will—marry within three days or forfeit his multi-billion-dollar empire to a hostile board—Sylvester sees Alice not as a woman, but as the perfect solution. She has no corporate ties, no leverage, and no place in his world. The deal is straightforward: a one-year fake marriage, a five-million-dollar buyout to fund her gallery, and zero personal involvement. To protect her heart, Alice signs under one non-negotiable condition added in her own hand: You never touch me. Forced into a world of high-society galas, ruthless corporate warfare, and intense domestic proximity, their cold arrangement quickly turns volatile. Beneath Sylvester’s icy control lies a possessive, fiercely protective man who makes Alice’s pulse race—and behind Alice’s fiery sarcasm is a vulnerability that slowly cracks Sylvester’s formidable defenses. When high-stakes corporate sabotage threatens Arlington Global, a surprise medical diagnosis flips the dynamic entirely: Alice is carrying Sylvester's high-risk triplets. Suddenly, the fake marriage becomes a deadly serious battleground. As an obsessed rival stops at nothing to destroy Sylvester’s empire—including targeting Alice—Sylvester must confront the one truth his fortune can't buy: The ultimate empire isn't built in a boardroom, and the only term that matters is total surrender.

Claimed as the Wrong Bride: Tripicity Book One Octavia Maddox is a grey zone artist living rough in Tripicity, selling her work to survive. When mob boss Bastien Leclair arranges a contract marriage with Olivia Maddox to secure a political alliance against his rival Corporal, Olivia refuses and doesn't show up. A gallery mix-up, possibly deliberate, puts Occy in the wrong room at the right moment. She signs a contract she doesn't fully understand in exchange for a number that covers the warehouse she's been saving for. Bastien comes to collect. What follows is a chase through the grey zone, a count system of punishments for running, a fever that lands her in hospital, and a slow negotiation of trust between two people who don't trust easily. He moves her to the Alderton, his building, his world, and builds her a studio with north-facing light. She migrates to his bed without deciding to. They fall into something neither of them names. Meanwhile Corporal, operating as Mrs. Santoro, has been watching Occy through a hacked security feed and commissions a painting from her. The three-way power structure of the city tightens around Occy without her knowing it. The Meridian overstep begins destabilising the grey zone she built her life in. Bastien's attempt to secure her position legally through a Maddox family adoption explodes when he tells her without asking her first. She walks out. He sits in the room she left. Coming: the grey zone war, the Maddox meeting with Occy, Corporal's escalation, the truth about who engineered the signing, and whether Occy chooses to stay. Not because she has to, but because she wants to.

Chloe Bennett is standing at the altar in a small Brooklyn church ready to marry a stranger to save her family gallery. She believes the groom is a seventy year old investor. She is wrong. When the veil is lifted it is Alexander Knight. The coldest billionaire in Manhattan. The same man who destroyed her father five years ago and vanished. The contract is simple. One year as his wife. Live in his penthouse. Wear his ring. Pretend to love him in public. In return he clears every debt her family owes. But Alexander does not want a pretend wife. He wants obedience. He wants possession. He wants revenge for a secret Chloe knows nothing about. Chloe despises him and he knows it. That only makes him chase her harder. The more she resists the tighter his grip becomes. The more he tries to control her the more she fights. She must survive twelve months in his world without falling for him. He must survive twelve months without telling her why he really chose her. One year. One contract. One kiss that will ruin everything.

After a tragic accident killed her father and made her mother unconscious, Anna was thinking about how to raise money for her mother's treatment when she met Lewis Cole, an intelligent billionaire who needs a wife to secure his inheritance before his thirty-second birthday. Anna seems to be a perfect candidate, but she was not interested in Lewis because she has a crush on Lewis’s brother, Stefan. Desperate, Anna takes Lewis’s one-year contract marriage offer. She soon finds out that living with a traumatized man is not easy, especially when his presence awakens feelings she never knew she had. Lewis shows her affection in public but is cold in private. He tries to keep their relationship professional, but the woman he once kissed in a drunken state turns out to be more than a convenient bride. Their budding relationship was ruined when Annabelle was discovered pregnant... and Lewis is not the one responsible. An anonymous envelope of unexpected truths and plots of manipulation and betrayal comes to further shake the foundation of their trust. Can a marriage built on contract survive the truth, or will their pasts destroy their chance at a real future? Will they find love after marriage or separate and become strangers?

When a leaked single threatens to end her career, pop star Rhea Santiago is forced into a PR-engineered relationship with Cole, a guarded ghostwriter secretly paying off a debt he refuses to explain. Their contract has strict rules, no real feelings, cameras only, an end date, but forced proximity turns performance into something neither of them planned for. Behind it all is Evelyn Cross, the label president’s wife, who discovered Rhea years ago and believes she still owns her success; Cole’s carefully buried past turns out to be tangled in Evelyn’s control too, and unraveling it costs both of them dearly before they can trust each other for real. What follows is decades, not months: marriage, children shaped by the wounds Rhea and Cole carry from their own childhoods, the identity crisis of loving someone whose fame or usefulness threatens to swallow you whole, and the slow work of becoming parents neither of them had. When Cole is finally diagnosed with a terminal illness, the book’s real question comes due, not whether love can defeat death, but whether Rhea can survive losing him and still call her own life whole. She does. Not because he saved her, but because he helped her discover she could save herself.

Audrey Scales is thrown to despair when her sister is murdered in cold blood on the night of her engagement. Fate however wasn't done with her as her mom forces her to take her sister's place and marry her husband Alexander De-Royales, an enigmatic, ruthless and obnoxious billionaire with a high stake of being her sister's killer. She agrees to her mother’s bid, not to please her but, with revenge in mind. However, her plan comes crumbling down when she starts to develop feelings for him. As her heart begins to backslide her purpose, Audrey's moral compass is tested. Who really killed Jimmie? Is Alexander really innocent? And when the truth finally surfaces, will love be enough to survive the damage betrayal has already done?