Romans & Histoires Decisive Contemporary

Forced to marry the billionaire cousin brother of her boyfriend, Lila watches her life fall apart—and ends up tangled in a marriage she never wanted, with a man who refuses to let her go.

"Hey, lady, did you climb into our car to seduce my dad? Because if you want to, I can help you." The night the Whitfields humiliate her for the last time, Eleanor flees into the wrong car — a black Bentley belonging to a coldly beautiful stranger and his alarmingly forward six-year-old. She means to apologize and disappear. The little boy has other plans. He has decided she's going to be his new mother, and he is not a child who takes no for an answer. His father is a different problem. Sebastian Lockwood looks at her like he's seen a ghost, like he knows her and Eleanor can't shake the feeling she's met him somewhere a lifetime ago. She tells herself it's nothing. A wrong car. A strange night. A boy with a wild imagination. But Sebastian buried the only woman he ever loved six years ago. And he's starting to think they put the wrong name on the grave.

“Tell me the truth, Sophia.” Desmond’s voice was quiet, controlled, yet it still sent a chill down my spine. I forced myself to stay still, tightening my fingers “About what?” I asked carefully, pretending not to understand. A long silence followed. He stepped closer. “The part where you were sent to destroy me” he said softly. My heartbeat stumbled. “Or the part where I’m starting to fall for you anyway?” I swallowed hard, forcing myself to meet his gaze even though panic clawed at my chest. “You lied to me.” The hurt beneath his calm voice hit harder than anger ever could. And for the first time since this nightmare began, I realized something terrifying I never wanted to become the villain in his story. Sophia Ward’s life changed the moment her family became a target. Forced to infiltrate Blackwood Enterprises under orders she could never refuse, her mission is to gain the trust of the company’s untouchable CEO and secretly deliver whatever information is demanded of her. She's determined to remain emotionally detached, focused only on survival and protecting her family. Yet despite her careful plans, she slowly becomes part of a world she was never meant to care about and earns Desmond Blackwood’s attention, perhaps even his trust. Desmond Blackwood is a man of control, mystery, and silence. Blind yet observant, he built a global empire while shutting out the world. But Sophia unsettles him in ways he cannot explain. She is brave, intelligent, and easy to rely on. But he senses she hides something incomplete beneath her calm expression. With danger tightening around them and someone always watching from the shadows, Sophia and Desmond can't tell whether they are destroying each other… or becoming the only thing capable of saving one another.

I still find it hard to believe that my fiancé, David, abandoned me at the altar on our wedding day. When he finally answered my call, he announced without the slightest hesitation that he had fallen in love with another woman… who was none other than my best friend. My heart shattered into a thousand pieces. As I sank into despair, I accidentally overheard a conversation involving a man dressed in a suit. The woman who was supposed to marry him had just left him standing at the altar. Without thinking, I offered to take her place… for revenge. What will happen when two complete strangers impulsively say “I do”?

BLURB At twenty-two, Mara Kristoff was sacrificed. Her family forced her into marriage with Miguel Antonio, a man meant for her sister, as payment for their bankruptcy. On their wedding night, drunk and mistaking her identity, Miguel called out her sister's name. The humiliation was complete. The next morning, when he discovered the truth, he didn't believe it was a deception. No one did. For a month, she lived as an invisible ghost in his house while her sister twisted the narrative and poisoned his mind. Then she left with nothing. Nothing but the secret growing inside her. Five years later, Mara returns to London as a self-made CEO, powerful and untouchable. But when business forces her back into Miguel's world, the man who rejected her doesn't recognize the woman before him, a woman who built an empire from ashes. As Miguel begins to uncover the truth about what really happened, he realizes he's been in love with the woman he's been chasing away. But Mara has learnt that some betrayals are too deep to forgive. Some wounds don't heal. Some men don't deserve second chances. Or do they?

Pregnant and desperate to hold onto the future she was promised, Mylar runs to the man she loves—only to catch him with another woman. Heartbroken, she flees and nearly gets hit by a car owned by the last man she would ever want in her life: Zayn Delle. Cold, wealthy, and impossible to please. Trying to start over, Mylar leaves for the neighboring city and takes a job in a powerful company, only to discover Zayn is her new boss. When family pressure forces him to find a wife, Zayn offers her a contract marriage that could solve both their problems. But living as husband and wife soon becomes more complicated than either of them expected. With jealous rivals, family secrets, hidden truths, and a past that refuses to stay buried, Mylar is drawn deeper into a world she never belonged to—and into the arms of a man she was never meant to love. When betrayal returns in the most shocking way, Mylar must decide if love is worth risking everything for.

My husband took everything away from me. I trusted him completely — until I learned he was sleeping with my worst enemy, Vivian, and draining my fortune into her hands. I filed for divorce, but he fought to keep me trapped. The day it was finally finalized, I was nearly killed in a staged accident. Everyone believed I died. I didn't. With my best friend's help, my death was faked and I vanished to heal in secret. Weeks later, I woke up to discover my husband had married Vivian on the day of my funeral — moving her and their child into my home. He have taken all that I worked hard to get. I can't come back as myself. So I changed my face, became a maid, and returned to the house that was once mine — to reclaim everything he stole. Posing as nothing more than hired help, I start uncovering secrets no one meant for me to find — hidden conversations, buried lies, and proof that my "accident" was no accident at all. Someone helped my husband try to kill me, and I intend to find out who. Now, invisible in my own home, I have to expose every secret before they realize the maid they walk past every day is the wife they thought was dead.

Thirty days before the world freezes, I get a second chance at life. In my previous life, I trusted the wrong man. I gave him my wealth, endured his betrayal, and watched helplessly as he and his vicious stepsister threw my five-year-old daughter and me into a deadly blizzard. We died in the snow, but fate gave me another chance. Now, I’m back thirty days before the Ice Age Apocalypse, and this time, I refuse to be anyone’s fool. With my memories intact, I reclaim my fortune, build an impenetrable fortress, and stockpile enough food and supplies to survive the coming catastrophe. My daughter will never go hungry or feel the bite of the freezing wind again. As the world descends into chaos, my enemies come crawling back, begging for the mercy they never showed me. But I have no mercy left to give. In this frozen world, trust is dangerous, survival is everything, and revenge is best served ice-cold. This time, I’ll survive the apocalypse—and make everyone who betrayed me regret it.

Four years ago, football captain Gabriel Davenport broke Joey Michaels' heart by disappearing without a goodbye. Now fate has thrown them onto the same university campus, where old feelings threaten Gabriel's focus just as professional scouts begin watching his every move. Joey wants nothing to do with the boy who abandoned her. Between raising her little brother, juggling multiple jobs, and working for the same dangerous man who once preyed on her as a teenager, she barely has room to breathe. But Gabriel is determined to earn a second chance. As championship dreams, family pressure, and a predator obsessed with claiming Joey collide, Gabriel must fight the toughest match of his life, proving that this time, he won't walk away from the woman he loves.

I thought Ronald wanted to marry me. Then I overheard him say he planned to give me a miserable marriage as punishment for a betrayal I never committed. So I broke off our engagement and walked away. When the truth finally came out, Ronald regretted everything and begged for another chance. But the woman who once loved him was already gone.

I never knew that one day I would be begging to be fucked by Damian Steels— my best friend’s father. But I also did not know how huge his cock was, when I found out, I couldn't help but spread myself on his table, and moan when he spanks my ass. He is cold and strict, but also fucking sexy at the same time. To the world he was my best friend's dad, but to me, he was the man who made me wet without touching me, who made me squirt just by seeing his cock, and who made my pussy walls clench hard just by calling my name. What are the odds? My best friend finding out about my escapade with her dad? Or me having the best fuck of my life?

I died on my fourth wedding anniversary. Then I woke up two years earlier—and my husband remembers too. Claire Bennett spent four years loving billionaire hotel CEO Damian Cross while slowly giving up the career she once dreamed of. He never ordered her to stop working. He simply let her sacrifices become the price of being his wife—and kept making room for Cass Rowe, the first love he could never quite leave behind. Now Claire has a second chance. She refuses to play the perfect hostess, reclaims her creative career, and begins building a life that does not depend on Damian's name, money, or permission. But Damian remembers their first life as clearly as she does. He remembers every choice that hurt her—and the moment he lost her forever. His regret is real. So is the damage. And when someone new sees the woman Claire is becoming, Damian discovers that a second chance at life is not a second claim on her heart. Claire once loved him enough to lose herself. This time, who will she choose to become—and will Damian ever earn the right to stand beside her?

Desperate to save her dying brother, Lina Vale signs a one-year marriage contract with cold billionaire Adrian Korr, who needs a stable wife to claim his inheritance. Strict rules. No emotions. No future. But as they live together, boundaries blur and real feelings emerge. When her ex Ethan returns, Lina is torn between past and present. On the final day, Adrian lets her walk away in silence. Until she discovers the truth: the contract was never terminated. Adrian secretly renewed it. She thought she was free. She was never free to begin with.

Ava Collins believes she has the perfect life in New York—a loving marriage and a successful husband, Ethan Walker, a polished corporate strategist. But everything shatters when she receives a message: “Ask him about the Brooklyn apartment.” What begins as suspicion quickly unravels into a web of secrets. Ava discovers Ethan is not who he claims to be. Behind his calm exterior lies a double life filled with hidden financial dealings, a secret apartment, and a second phone he never meant her to find. With the help of Daniel, a man tied to Ethan’s hidden world, Ava is pulled deeper into a dangerous truth. Each answer raises more questions, blurring the line between protection and betrayal. The final blow comes when Ava realizes Ethan isn’t only a fraudster—he is also cheating on her with another woman, proving their marriage was never what she believed.

My husband always said I was the perfect wife. Quiet. Loyal. Predictable. The kind of woman who would never betray him. Then I discovered he had another woman. While he was busy cheating on me, he laughed behind my back, convinced I’d never have the courage to leave. So I did the one thing no one expected. I hired a man. But before I could walk away with the handsome escort, another man stepped between us. Cassian Ashford. My husband’s infamous playboy brother—the man every woman wanted and every family gathering warned me to avoid. “I’ll do it for free,” he said with a dangerous smile. “And trust me… it’ll hurt him a lot more.” What began as a revenge affair quickly became a deadly game of lies, stolen kisses, and dangerous secrets. Cassian promised to help me expose my husband’s betrayals, while I unknowingly became the one woman capable of bringing the untouchable playboy to his knees. Now my husband wants to keep me. My family wants to control me. And the man I swore I’d never fall for refuses to let me walk away. They say two wrongs don’t make a right. But when one spouse cheats…Maybe two can cheat.

For three years, Ava Sinclair hid who she really is to win her husband's love. To the world, she was the poor, obedient, unwanted Mrs. Blackwood — mocked, ignored, and humiliated while her billionaire CEO husband Damian Blackwood kept his first love Chloe Hart by his side. On their third anniversary, Damian throws divorce papers onto her cold steak. "Sign it. Two million and get out. Chloe is pregnant." Ava signs with a smile. She leaves with one cheap suitcase. Outside, a Maybach with plate SINCLAIR 1 is waiting. She is not an orphan nobody. She is the lost heiress of Sinclair Global — fifty billion dollars, fifty-eight floors, owner of the bank that holds Damian's $200M loan, owner of 30% of his company, owner of the Plaza Hotel and the building where Chloe's fake gallery lives. Three days later, she returns in revenge black to Chloe's coronation gala — a hotel she now owns — and exposes herself as CEO and Chairwoman. She catches Chloe's slap mid-air, drops the mic, and gets a standing ovation while Chloe falls in her dirty white dress. But power has a price. Now Damian is groveling in her lobby for seven hours with her bracelet, and a sealed letter reveals the mansion she was thrown out of was always hers. Her core struggle: If love cannot survive without respect, and respect cannot survive without power, what kind of billionaire will she become? And if Damian begs now that she's rich, is he begging for her or for his loan? The Billionaire's Ex-Wife Is A Secret Billionaire — fast-paced revenge romance with savage female lead, groveling ex, and satisfying face-slaps.

She gave the Pemberton family eight years, one daughter, and a body that was already dying. They gave her a stranger's forgiveness and a stranger's face at her own funeral Beth Hartley has six months to live. She finds out the same afternoon her husband skips her doctor's appointment to take his first love to hers. Eight years of marriage. One daughter who no longer looks at her. A mother-in-law who never once said her name without flinching. And a husband, Gabriel Pemberton, who has already chosen who will raise his son, because Beth could only give him a daughter, and apparently that was the one thing she was never going to be forgiven for. So she disappeared, without asking for anything. She doesn't even tell them why. She walks out the door — and into the path of a car driven by a man who has her exact eyes. When Beth wakes up, the life she's about to lose isn't the one she thought it was. She was never an orphan. She was taken, and the family that never stopped looking for her happens to be one of the wealthiest in England, with three older brothers who would burn it all down for the sister they finally found. Her illness has a cure. Her name isn't the one she's used for twenty-five years. And the husband who couldn't be bothered to notice she was dying is about to spend the rest of his life wishing he had. Three years later, Eleanor Kennedy comes home. Not to beg. Not to forgive Just to let them watch what they threw away become something they can never touch again. A story about the family you're born into, the family you find, and the peace of finally not needing either one to survive.

Seven years ago, Selene Ocean was framed and forced out of the world of elite marine research. She lost her career, her future, and the man she once loved—Ethan North, the proud corporate heir who believed the lie that broke her. Now she returns, not as a victim, but as the brilliant founder of the global marine conservation initiative, Heart of the Deep. Armed with unmatched intuition and a mind sharp enough to read the ocean itself, Selene rebuilds reefs, exposes corruption, and rises to international recognition. When the truth is revealed, Ethan collapses under the weight of his regret—but Selene’s heart is no longer his to claim. With the dangerous and manipulative Veronica Shaw closing in, the storm around Selene only grows stronger. In this story of betrayal, resilience, and redemption, one truth stands firm: The past cannot drown a woman who has learned to rise from the depths.

Sophie Ashford and her identical twin Charlotte have spent their lives being compared, confused, and quietly resented by each other. When Charlotte vanishes four days before her arranged wedding to Julian Calloway — heir to a shipping empire and the man their families have spent a decade maneuvering to unite — Sophie steps in to save face, planning to stall just long enough for Charlotte to be found. She tells herself it's temporary. She tells herself Julian won't notice.He notices immediately. Julian has known something was wrong with Charlotte for months — the woman he was engaged to felt like a stranger long before her twin took her place. He doesn't expose Sophie. Instead, he watches her, testing her, drawn to her in a way he never was to her sister, and slowly Sophie realizes he's not trying to catch her in a lie. He's trying to find out why she's telling it and the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to remember which parts of herself she's still pretending.

She gave him her beauty. She gave him her dreams. She even gave him six years of her life. In return, Michael Sterling gave Meritt a mansion, a black card, and a marriage built entirely on pity. He never loved her. While she hid her scars and waited for her husband to see her as a woman, his heart remained with his first love, Stella. Then, on their sixth wedding anniversary, Meritt finally sees the truth—and something inside her breaks. A forgotten dream offers her a way back into the singing career she lost in the fire. Her flight to Italy is in thirty days. So Meritt makes a decision. Thirty days to reclaim her voice. Thirty days to rebuild her life. Thirty days to divorce the man who never loved her. But when she finally asks Michael for a divorce, he refuses He believes his wife will never survive without him. He doesn't know that the woman he pitied for six years is already learning how to live without him. And by the time Michael realizes what he's losing, Meritt may already be gone.