Romans First-Person POV & Histoires Brave Contract Marriage

Ryan is filthy, possessive, and claims me like he owns me. But what started as “no feelings, just sin” is now dangerously real, especially when my scars run deeper than he knows. One year. One rule. Break it… and I’m ruined.

Love at first sight is not known here—marriage at first sight is what we do I“I don’t even know your name.” “You don’t have to. You just have to say ‘I do.’” Struggling waitress Sage Moreno never expected her worst day to end in a chapel. But after losing her job, her apartment, and her pride in a single afternoon, she agrees to a spontaneous dare: marry a stranger for one million dollars. No strings. No questions. Just a signature. Her new husband? Cold, dangerously attractive billionaire Andrew Thorne, who needs a wife to secure a merger—and fast. What was supposed to be a quick fix turns into something tangled and twisted when sparks fly, jealousy ignites, and Andrew starts acting like she belongs to him. She was just supposed to play the role. But the possessive billionaire has other plans. “You’re not going anywhere, wife. You're mine now.”

After his sister Isabel’s death, Zander Stone returns to New York to take over Stone Holdings and uncover the truth behind the accident. He learns that Ivy Ellis, Isabel’s best friend, was driving that night. When Ellis Exchange faces bankruptcy, Zander exploits their desperation and coerces Ivy into a secret contract marriage. As they live together, resentment gives way to attraction and eventually genuine love. But after they spend the night together, Ivy discovers that Zander married her to punish her. Heartbroken, she distances herself. The public begins digging into the marriage, and the investigation reveals that Isabel’s brakes were sabotaged by an enemy from Zander’s past. Overcome with guilt, Zander spirals into depression. Ivy chooses to stay and help him heal. Zander apologizes and returns control of Ellis Exchange to her family. When Ivy learns she is pregnant, they decide to build a real future together. But Zander’s enemies return, placing Ivy and their unborn child in danger. After nearly losing her, Zander confronts his past once and for all. Ivy gives birth, and they finally find the peace they fought so hard to earn.

A Steamy billionaire Romance! Readers discretion is advised. Alexander MaCarro, a name that every lady knew. He was the city's wealthiest playboy. A new woman on his arm every time he stepped out, he was never far from the gossip in the city. But Valda knew him as something else. He was the man she had a one night stand with five years ago. Just like others before her, she was branded one of his latest conquests. Out of shame, she fled the city carrying a secret along with her; she was with child, his own child. Five years later, she returns to rebuild her life but fate had a way of its own and their paths crossed. This time around, Alexander presented her with the offer of being his contract wife. VALDA accepts, with a solemn promise to make him pay for the humiliation she faced in the hand of the public. As the lines between revenge and desire start to blur, VALDA realizes that there's more to this playboy than what he lets on.

Three years of marriage, three years of failed IVF. And one afternoon showed her everything she believed in was all a lie. The day Isabelle Hart finally became pregnant, she walked in on her husband with his male best friend, right on the couch she bought on their anniversary. With nothing left to hold on to, she filed for divorce and decided to end the pregnancy. Her husband, Ryan, refused to sign and also made it impossible for any hospital to take her in for an abortion. Aside from that, she found out that if she ended up aborting her child, she might never have the ability to become a mother for the rest of her life. Then the hospital called, saying there was a huge mistake. The sperm used during her IVF wasn't her husband's. It belonged to Donavin Prescott, a ruthless billionaire searching for a surrogate to give him an heir. The same man who believed she was nothing but vile due to a misunderstanding. Now she's carrying his child, her husband is fighting for custody. And at the same time, someone extremely powerful actually wants this baby gone. Because it should never have existed in the first place. Donavin wants answers. Isabelle wants freedom. But the deeper they dig, the harder it became to stay apart. In the end, they both have to question whether they can actually stand the real truth behind her pregnancy.

Born into a powerful royal family, Lisa has always lived by duty rather than choice. Her life changes when fate brings her face-to-face with Damon, a man feared by everyone. Rumored to be a ruthless killer and the embodiment of evil, Damon is the last person anyone would dare approach. Yet while the world runs from him, Lisa chooses to stay. As love blossoms between them, betrayal, dark secrets, and unexpected twists threaten to tear them apart. Can their love survive a destiny written in blood, or will fate destroy them before they can find happiness?

After recovering from the death of her mother, Aria and her Dad find themselves struggling financially because the family’s company started falling apart. Her Father then gets in a deal with Aria getting married to a Billionaire Heir, Adrian Blackwood, to save his company from falling completely. *** Adrian is the Billionaire’s Son who grew up with wealth but never knew a Father's love. Raised in a home where affection was replaced with cold expectations, he became distant, guarded, and emotionally untouchable. When his powerful father suddenly forces him into an arranged marriage with Aria Cole, Adrian has only one goal - to uncover the reason behind a decision that makes no sense. But some family secrets were never meant to be exposed, and the truth waiting for him could destroy everything he believes about his family and himself. Will Aria endure a marriage filled with unanswered questions? Will Adrian uncover the secrets his father fought hard to bury? And when the truth is finally revealed, will it bring them together or tear them apart forever? Read on to Enjoy Love, Slow burn Romance, Betrayal, Family Drama and Unforgettable Revelations.

Imagine being murdered by the very woman meant to protect you, your own grandmother, consumed by her lust for power. It sounds unreal, doesn’t it? But that has been my reality. This is my seventh life, seven times I have been reborn, and seven times I have died before the age of eighteen. At only five years old, I hid in a cupboard and watched through a crack as my grandmother, Lunice, gave the order that slaughtered my brothers, the royal princes of Ahenil, after news came that my father, King Ahenos, had been killed in battle. To secure her throne, she commanded the execution of every male in the royal bloodline. My mother’s maid, Martha, risked everything to smuggle me away. She raised me like her own, alongside her daughter Jane, the girl who became my light, and later, the love of my last life. But no matter where I ran or how I lived, fate found me. In each of my six past lives, my grandmother’s shadow hunted me down, ending me at eighteen. Sometimes she killed Jane too. Sometimes even Martha. Each death left me broken, yet each rebirth filled me with memories, scars, and a growing resolve. Now, in this seventh, I am no longer the helpless boy cowering behind a cupboard’s door. I carry the wisdom of six lives, the pain of countless betrayals, and the fire of vengeance that will not be quenched. This time, I will reclaim my throne. This time, I will protect those I love. And when October comes, the cursed month of my death, the world will remember my name. I am the rightful heir, the cursed prince reborn. And this time… I will defy fate itself.

One lie from her best friend led Quinn straight into an orchestrated car crash. When she miraculously survives, she wakes up with her memories completely wiped and no idea that her "devoted" best friend, Kira, was the person who set her up to drown. Brought back to recover in Vandal’s Haven, Quinn is completely dependent on Kira for answers. Taking advantage of her fragile state, Kira turns Quinn's daily existence into a nightmare while actively pushing her contract husband, Cole Vandal, to hate her. "I took your memories, Quinn. Soon, I’ll take your husband, your life, and everything else you own." With a husband who believes she betrayed him and a fake friend executing her downfall, can Quinn regain her memories before Kira destroys what's left of her life?

Adrian‌ Vaughn thought I was a joke, t‍he target of a‌ bet that l‍eft m‍y pride in tatters. But when his fath‌er‌ threatens his inheritan‌ce, Ad‍rian needs a fake fiancée‌ to save his empire. He buys my complia‍nce with a six-fig​ure contract, believing m‍y poverty makes me weak, predictab‌le, and easily‍ control‍led. ‌He has no idea I’ve writ​ten my own‌ rules for⁠ this engagement. As I conq⁠uer his boardro⁠om a‌nd capture his fam‍ily'​s trust, Adrian’s arrogance turns to genui⁠ne desire. He thinks I’m‍ his savior. He doesn’t r‌ealize‍ that on our wedding day, I’m saying no.

Life for Selene Stormborne was near perfect. Only child of her Alpha father, next in line to head the pack, a boyfriend that would go to war for her, and a pack that adored her. All that changes when her boyfriend Kael not only publicly rejects her, but lays claim to her pack. While dealing with the rejection, an enemy pack attacks and she is offered by her pack that once adored her as compensation. An unwelcome attraction grows between Selene and the enemy Alpha Darius. She has to decide if this forbidden love affair is worth betraying her pack for.

Elena Brooks never expected to become a substitute bride. When her beautiful half-sister Vanessa flees the arranged marriage to Damian Sterling—the cold, wheelchair-bound heir of a powerful empire—Elena is forced to take her place. The contract is simple and ruthless: one year of marriage, public perfection, and the immediate production of an heir. In exchange, her family’s crushing debts will be erased and her sister’s medical care will be secured. Damian Sterling is not the broken man the world believes him to be. Controlled, commanding, and haunted by the assassination attempt that left him paralyzed, he accepts the marriage as a strategic necessity. A wife makes him harder to kill. An heir makes him untouchable. Feelings were never part of the agreement. From the wedding night, the contract turns physical. What begins as obligation becomes something far more dangerous—possession, hunger, and a growing attachment neither of them can afford. But while Elena learns the weight of Damian’s silence and the heat of his carefully guarded desire, enemies move in the shadows. Someone still wants the Sterling heir removed. And the closer Elena gets to Damian’s heart, the more she becomes a target herself. As secrets about the accident, residual sensation Damian has hidden, and the true motives of his controlling father begin to surface, Elena must decide how much of herself she is willing to give—and whether love can survive a marriage built on lies, duty, and the demand for an heir. In a world where power is currency and vulnerability is a weapon, one year may not be long enough… or it may be long enough to ruin them both.

Ava Harris has already been ruined b‌y love once. Six years ago, sh‍e was left‍ pregnant‌ and alo⁠ne, fo⁠rced to rebuild her life for‌ the sake of‍ her s‌on. Now, she’s str‌ong, indepe‍nde‍nt—and d‌etermined nev⁠er to trust a man aga⁠in. Until L‌iam Blackwell. Cold, p⁠owerful, and her billionaire boss, Liam offers her a marriage of convenience to secure his position a⁠s CEO. It’s just a contract. No feeli‍ngs invo‍lved. But l‍iving together ch‍anges everything‍. As li‍nes blur and⁠ emotions gro‍w,‌ Ava begins to believe in love again—unt‍il the man who on⁠ce ab⁠andoned her returns, demanding a p⁠lace in their son’s life. With the past resu‌rfacing and d‍anger c‌losing in, Ava must decide: Will she risk her heart‌ a‌g‍ain… or‌ walk away before love‍ ruins her twice?

When Alex Kincaid first sees Melody Jansen, he knew he was going to have her but what happens when the next time he sees her, she’s roaming the streets of Vegas in a wedding dress?

Celine thought she was the luckiest woman alive. She had a fiancé who had promised to marry her, a company inherited from her late mother, and a future she had spent ten years dreaming about. Then she discovered the truth. Her fiancé, Jasper, had only been using her to steal her inheritance. Worse, he was secretly involved with her stepsister, Vanessa, whose family might have been responsible for her mother’s death. Before Celine could confront them, the world descended into hell. The Red Moon appeared, the earth shook, and terrifying monsters began hunting humans. As buildings collapsed and people fought desperately to survive, Jasper made his choice. He abandoned Celine to save Vanessa. Left alone in a world where humanity was no longer at the top of the food chain, Celine struggled to survive. But something inside her was changing. No matter how much ordinary food she ate, her hunger refused to disappear. Until she consumed the heart of a monster. [UNIQUE ABILITY AWAKENED: DEVOUR.] [EVOLUTION PATH UNLOCKED.] Celine had discovered a terrifying secret. She could consume monster cores to satisfy her hunger and evolve into something far more powerful than an ordinary human. But power comes at a price. As stronger monsters emerge and humanity fights for survival, Celine must master her mysterious ability, uncover the truth about her mother’s death, and discover why the monsters seem drawn to her. And when she finally becomes powerful enough to return to the people who betrayed her, Jasper and Vanessa will learn that the woman they abandoned is no longer someone they can destroy. They created their own worst enemy. In a world where the weak become prey, Celine will devour everything standing in her way.

BLURB Emma Whitfield lost everything in one night… Betrayed by the two people she trusted most and pushed toward the edge, she has nothing left to lose. Until a hand pulls her back from the ledge. Daniel Stanford, the coldest, most feared heir in the country, a man she's exchanged maybe ten words with in her life. Offers her a deal instead of pity: marry him for one year, give the Stanford family the legitimate heir they're demanding, and he'll hand her the leverage to tear her company back from the people who stole it. It's not a marriage. It's a transaction between two people with nothing left to feel. But the more Emma fights to reclaim what's hers, outmaneuvering the ex-husband who used her, the best friend who replaced her, and a mother-in-law who never wanted her, the more she notices the cracks in Daniel's ice. And the more he watches her refuse to stay broken, the more the contract between them starts to feel like something neither of them signed up for. Revenge was supposed to be enough. Falling for the one man she was never supposed to trust was not part of the deal.

Lucy Bennett is about to marry Adrian Vale as church doors close. The groom at the altar isn’t Adrian. It’s his estranged twin brother, Alexander. The Vale family reveals Adrian vanished after uncovering a conspiracy buried within their empire. If his disappearance becomes public before the wedding, the inheritance controlling the company will fall into the hands of those Adrian was trying to expose. Walking away would destroy Lucy’s father’s company, cost employees their jobs, and erase the evidence Adrian risked everything to uncover. So Lucy makes the choice. She marries the wrong brother. But Lucy refuses to become a bride. While the world celebrates their marriage, she investigates Adrian’s disappearance. Every clue leads into the Vale empire and closer to Alexander. Guarded and impossible to read, Alexander protects Lucy from dangers he refuses to explain. As they uncover the truth together, an attraction neither wanted begins to grow. Then Lucy discovers the truth. Alexander found Adrian after his disappearance. Adrian wasn’t hiding from Lucy. He was hiding from people enough to kill anyone who knew where he was including her. Before disappearing to gather evidence, Adrian forced Alexander to promise: keep Lucy alive, even if she hates him. Alexander kept his promise. Until protection became love. Now Adrian is back with proof that someone inside the Vale empire orchestrated his disappearance and is hunting Lucy for something she unknowingly possesses. Lucy isn’t choosing between two brothers. She’s choosing who to trust before the conspiracy claims another life. Because in the Vale family, every promise has a price and the lie Lucy ever believed was that she was the bride.