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The Woman I Became After You - undefined novels & stories
Utunestrokes
Elena Marlowe once believed she had everything a woman could ask for. She had a powerful family, a successful future, and a man she thought she would love forever. But when the man she trusted betrays her and the secrets surrounding her family begin to surface, Elena’s carefully built life falls apart. Instead of allowing heartbreak to destroy her, Elena decides to rebuild herself. She returns to her career, takes control of her life, and slowly discovers a strength she never knew she possessed. She no longer wants to be defined by the man who hurt her or by the family secrets that followed her for years. Then Adrian enters her life. He is powerful, successful, protective, and completely different from the man she once loved. Adrian sees Elena as a woman who does not need to be rescued, and he respects the independence she fought so hard to regain. Their attraction becomes impossible to ignore, but falling in love again means risking the very heart Elena has spent years protecting. Just when she begins to believe that she has finally found the love she deserves, a shocking truth about her family threatens to destroy everything. Elena must face betrayal, hidden enemies, painful memories, and the secrets of her past while deciding what kind of future she truly wants. This time, she is not fighting to be chosen. She is choosing herself, choosing the life she wants, and choosing a love that allows her to remain completely herself.
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The Cursed Alpha’s Debt Contract - undefined novels & stories
Ibukun James
In the glittering, cutthroat world of the Lycan elite, power is bought with blood and secured with contracts. For Lyra, an eighteen-year-old "wolf-less" human from the slums, survival means blending into the background as a night-shift maid at Vance Global's high-rise headquarters. She has one goal: keep her head down, earn enough to buy her brother’s freedom, and hide the terrifying, ancient power sleeping in her veins. But her quiet life shatters when an assassination attempt targets the pack's ruthless billionaire CEO, Alpha Xavier Vance. To save her own skin, Lyra unleashes a burst of raw, untamable magic to shield him—exposing her deadly secret. Xavier is powerful, cursed, and desperate. To secure his position against a hostile board takeover, he needs a docile, human wife who won't trigger his unstable wolf. Seeing the perfect pawn, he forces Lyra into a thirty-day fake marriage contract. He offers her family absolute freedom; she offers him her compliance. The terms are clear: no feelings, no touch, separate rooms. But when the ink dries, and they are forced behind closed doors, the fated mate bond snaps alive with a terrifying, suffocating force. Xavier's feral wolf wants to possess her, but his cold, corporate mind refuses to bow. When the billionaire Alpha chooses his empire over the bond and issues a cruel rejection, Lyra doesn't cry. She takes his money, unlocks her true Alpha heritage, and prepares to tear his corporate kingdom down to the ground.
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Reborn in Crimson  - undefined novels & stories
Ethel Jane
On her wedding night, Victoria Sterling drank from a goblet of poisoned champagne, watching her sweet half-sister Penelope smile as her fiancé, Dominic Thorne, signed away her father’s multi-billion-dollar empire. Victoria died gasping for air on the cold marble floor. Then she opened her eyes and woke up one year in the past. Given a second chance at life, Victoria trades her timid past for sharp ambition. Stepping onto the stage of her corporate engagement gala in a dress of blood red, she does the unthinkable: she rejects Dominic live on national TV, cuts her family off, and publicly crushes the merger meant to ruin her. To tear down the enemy completely, Victoria enters a dangerous alliance with Alexander Vance the cold, untouchable king of Vance Enterprise. He holds her father’s secret debts; she holds the mind of an executioner. Together, they turn high society into a battlefield. Dominic wants her empire. Penelope wants her life. But this time, Victoria isn't playing defense. With Alexander at her back, she will burn down every trap set for her and take back her crown.
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Married to Mr. Hayes… Again - undefined novels & stories
Jessika M
After a drunken one-night stand with a mysterious stranger, brilliant young researcher Julia Reid returns home only to discover that her family has arranged to marry her off to an elderly billionaire in exchange for financial salvation. Refusing to become a bargaining chip, Julia comes up with a desperate plan: find a stranger willing to marry her first. When fate reunites her with the handsome man from that unforgettable night, what begins as a marriage of convenience soon entangles them in secrets, family betrayal, ambition, and an unexpected love neither of them saw coming.
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Reborn to Rule: Her Dark Vengeance  - undefined novels & stories
Gretchen Velmonte
"Sign the papers, Aurelia. Don't be stubborn." In her past life, Aurelia lived as a timid, obedient heiress. Desperate for her cold father's approval, she handed over her late mother's massive estate—only to be betrayed, stripped of everything, and brutally assassinated on their orders. But fate gives her a second chance. Reborn five years in the past, Aurelia wakes up on the exact day her calculating stepmother and step-sister scheme to steal her inheritance. Standing before the man who ordered her murder, the desperate craving for family love dies—replaced by cold, unyielding vengeance. She won't play the dutiful daughter anymore. She won't yield her mother's legacy. This time, Aurelia isn't here for reconciliation—she is here to be their executioner.
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USURPED - undefined novels & stories
K. Divine
Jade Carter has spent nineteen years surviving the slums of Eldoria through theft, fighting, and sheer stubbornness. But when a stolen pouch of royal gold leads to her arrest, she expects to lose her hand. Instead, King Adrian stops her punishment after discovering that Jade is the exact double of his dead daughter, Princess Aurelia. Aurelia has been secretly dead for months, and the kingdom cannot know. To protect the throne and a fragile political alliance, Adrian forces Jade to assume his daughter's identity. Torn away from Vivian, the only family she has ever known, Jade enters the palace where wealth cannot protect her from danger. The Queen sees Jade as a cruel imitation of her daughter, while the court watches for every mistake. As Jade struggles to survive her new identity, Aurelia's diary reveals secrets surrounding her final days, including a life and death the royal family has desperately tried to conceal. Meanwhile, Prince Lucien becomes increasingly fixated on Jade's resemblance to Aurelia, forcing her closer to a danger she doesn't understand. With enemies surrounding her and the truth threatening the kingdom, Jade must uncover what happened to Aurelia, and decide whether to escape the crown or claim the power it represents.
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His father’s touch - undefined novels & stories
Andrea
We shouldn't be doing this." "Then why aren't you stopping me?" I didn't have an answer. I was supposed to marry the perfect man. I was supposed to wear white and smile and say "I do" to a future I'd spent years building. But the future I built was a lie. And I only realized it the night I met a stranger. His name was Elias. His hands felt like salvation. His lips felt like sin. His body made me feel alive for the first time in years. One night. That's all it was supposed to be. I didn't know who he really was. I didn't know what I was walking into. I only knew that when I woke up the next morning, I wasn't the same woman who'd walked through his door. One night. One mistake. One choice that could destroy everything. What if that one night changes everything? What if it already has?
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THE BILLIONAIRE'S SURROGATE: HIS HOUND CHOOSES ME  - undefined novels & stories
Deborah.E ✍️
Ethan Vance, the sole heir to the Vance Empire, had been in a coma for months following an accident that nearly took his life. In order to preserve their bloodline, the Vances had come up with a desperate backup plan: a surrogate who could carry a new heir. But finding a volunteer wasn't the issue. The real problem lay in the chamber itself... the billionaire's monstrous guard dog beside his unconscious body, viciously attacking anyone who dared to step near the bed. Consequently, the Vances sent a ruthless mandate to every prominent family in the state: provide an eligible female candidate who could tame the beast and carry the heir, or face complete financial ruin. My father, eager to please them and rid himself of an unwanted daughter, threw my name straight into the candidate box. But Ken, my boyfriend, was supposed to save me from becoming a surrogate candidate. The plan was simple:“ELENA STEWART, wait for me in your late mother’s old cupboard. I’ll knock, and we’ll be out before anyone notices.” I waited for him with hope, only to find him in my stepsister’s arms...with one shocking revelation: he was the very monster who had submitted my name to the Vances. Worn down by the betrayal, I couldn't fight back. I was dragged away with the expectation that I would be devoured by the beast. Now, my fate is sealed inside the Vance mansion, where a bloodthirsty dog has sent every other woman running in fear—or carried out in a stretcher. But somehow, I'm the only one it chooses. I thought surviving the trial was my happy ending. Until I discovered the secret that could either consume me… or make me
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THE LIABILITY CLAUSE - undefined novels & stories
Sarah Kim
Maren Vass runs the world's most ruthless reputation-and-crisis empire. The firm billionaires, politicians, and dynasties call when a scandal could vaporize their fortune or destroy them. She doesn't do PR or fix reputations, She manufactures consent: buries stories, rebuilds images, rewrites reality, decides who the public gets to forgive. She is the most powerful person almost no one has heard of, by design. So when disgraced tech billionaire Theo Kashner is forced to hand over control of his collapsing public image to Vass & Cole, the most feared crisis management firm in Manhattan, Maren expects another damaged rich man begging to be saved. Instead, she finds a man whose ruin feels disturbingly familiar. Theo lost everything three years ago after a scandal destroyed his company, his marriage, and his name. Now he’s desperate for one last chance to rebuild. The board funding his comeback imposes one condition: submit completely to Maren’s control for 18 months. This includes total control of his public life, his words, his appearances, his entire constructed self. But while rebuilding his life, Maren discovers something horrifying. The scandal that destroyed Theo… was created by her own firm. And she was the one who signed off on it. Now every moment between them becomes poisoned by the truth she cannot confess. Every touch feels like theft. Every act of repair becomes an apology he cannot hear. Because if Theo ever discovers that the woman he’s falling for is the architect of his destruction, it won’t just destroy their love, It will destroy her entire empire. And this time, there will be no narrative left to hide behind. Read on to see what happens next.
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The Billionaire’s Dead Wife Returned - undefined novels & stories
E_Mar
She came back from the dead to destroy her husband. He never stopped searching for the woman he thought he lost. But if neither of them caused the accident… who did? Three years ago, Sara Hart died in a fiery car explosion. At least, that’s what billionaire CEO Damien Blackwood—and the rest of the world—believed. Their marriage had begun as a business arrangement, but just as Damien began lowering the walls around his heart, tragedy stole his wife forever. Or so he thought. On the day Damien is forced into another marriage for the sake of his family’s empire, the impossible happens. Sara walks into the cathedral. Alive. More beautiful than ever. And determined to destroy the man she believes ordered her murder. Haunted by betrayal, fueled by revenge, Sara has spent three years waiting for the perfect moment to make Damien lose everything he holds dear. But Damien insists he never wanted her dead—and he has spent those same three years secretly searching for the truth behind the accident that changed both their lives. As buried secrets begin to surface, old enemies return, and dangerous feelings neither of them can deny refuse to stay buried. Someone cut Sara’s brakes. Someone wanted her dead. And that someone is still watching. Can love survive when trust has already died? Or will revenge claim them both before the truth finally comes to light?
451
Reborn as the CEO’s Contract Wife - undefined novels & stories
Arelon Sage
After being framed, betrayed, and sentenced to life imprisonment by the man she loved and the sister she trusted, Ava Reed dies alone in a prison cell. But fate grants her an impossible second chance. She awakens three days before her wedding—the very event that once marked the beginning of her destruction. This time, Ava refuses to be a victim. Instead of escaping her doomed fate, she walks straight into it… and changes the ending. Ava enters a contract marriage with Lucas Kane, a cold and ruthless billionaire CEO who needs a wife to secure his inheritance. Their union is purely transactional—no love, no emotions, no interference. Or so they believe. Behind her calm smile, Ava secretly begins weaving a deadly web of revenge. Every lie will be exposed. Every betrayal will be repaid. As her enemies fall one by one, Ava transforms from a discarded heiress into a powerful woman feared by all. But when a fake marriage starts turning real, Ava must face a new danger—falling in love with the one man she never planned for. In a world of lies, power, and hidden intentions, Ava must decide: Is revenge her only destiny… or can she fight for love too?
416
Five Months With Five Hot Billionaire Brothers  - undefined novels & stories
inquisitivejella
Valerie Carter has always admired the Kosarin brothers from a distance. Five powerful, untouchable men who ruled both the business world and every room they walked into. But admiration turns into something far more dangerous when her father trades her freedom to them as collateral for a contract. Now trapped in their mansion, Valerie is forced to navigate a world she was never meant to belong to. Secrets linger behind every door, tension simmers between the brothers, and the line between protection and possession begins to blur. One brother watches too closely. Another keeps his distance. And one… might ruin her completely. As betrayal, desire, and power collide, Valerie must decide whether she is just a pawn in their game, or the one who will change it forever.
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The plus size girl: The mafia secret  - undefined novels & stories
Sapphire
Sheba has spent her entire life being told she is too much. Too fat. Too ordinary. Too difficult to love. Bullied for her body since childhood and constantly compared to slimmer, prettier women, Sheba learned to hide behind her intelligence. Even her own family only valued her when they needed her brilliant mind to keep their business alive. Then she catches the man she planned to marry betraying her with the one woman she trusted most. Her fiancé chooses her beautiful, slender best friend, while Sheba's own family takes his side and makes her believe that maybe she really was the problem. Broken and humiliated, Sheba walks away from everyone. But leaving her old life behind leads her somewhere she never expected. Straight into the dangerous world of the mafia. There, she catches the attention of Luca Verrati, the ruthless heir to one of the most powerful criminal families in the city. Unlike everyone else, Luca doesn't see Sheba as the girl who was bullied, rejected, or underestimated. He sees her intelligence. Her strength. Her secrets. And he wants to know why a woman who has spent her entire life trying to disappear is suddenly becoming impossible to ignore. But Luca has secrets of his own—and Sheba's connection to the Verrati family may be far more dangerous than she realizes. As her past begins colliding with the mafia's dark world, Sheba discovers that the betrayal that broke her may have been the very thing that set her free. Because the girl everyone laughed at is no longer asking to be chosen. She's building her own empire. And the mafia may be the only people powerful enough to protect the secret that could destroy them all.
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The Billionaire's Forgotten Wife  - undefined novels & stories
Irene
They called her barren. They called it kindness, dressing up a lie so the city wouldn’t ask who Marcus Cole was really leaving her for. Three years, Elena Voss built his empire in the dark — his hospitals, his father’s memoir, his mother’s secrets — and got a signed annulment for her trouble. So she let them believe it. Six months later she walks back into Aldermere on the arm of the one man who can dismantle everything Marcus built — his name on her hand, his ring on her finger, and a secret underneath both that will burn the Cole family to the ground.
324
The CEO’s Signed Bride - undefined novels & stories
juanamaea
Mira De Vera only wants one thing: to get her eight-year-old sister into a hospital bed before it’s too late. But in a world of “no cash, no admit,” mercy comes with strings. When Mira crosses paths with Adrian Valezco—the cold, untouchable heir behind the foundation banners—he offers a way out: he’ll cover Eli’s admission and move her to the front of the line. The price? A one-year marriage contract. Quiet. Legal. Controlled. Now Mira faces an impossible choice: sign a deal that could save her sister… or protect her freedom and scholarship as rumors explode, an investigation closes in, and anonymous warnings hit her phone: Bianca doesn’t lose. Neither does Darius. Because if Mira steps into Adrian’s world, she won’t just become his wife in public. She’ll become a target.
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Marked by blood, bound by fate.  - undefined novels & stories
Shakirah
Maxine was never meant to survive the night she was born. Raised on secrets and half-truths, she becomes the new Luna unaware that her fate is tied to an ancient prophecy, a deadly betrayal, and a mate destined to fear her. Draven, the powerful High Alpha, has long lived under a curse: he will mate with the bloodline responsible for his family’s downfall. So when Maxine is revealed as his destined mate, he sees not only desire, but danger. As hidden powers awaken and long-buried truths unravel, Maxine and Draven are drawn into a bond that could either save their kingdom or destroy it. In a world built on lies, falling in love may be the deadliest betrayal of all.
419
Chasing Back My Neglected Ex Wife  - undefined novels & stories
Jozh
She thought her marriage was built on love until illness stripped away the illusion. After being diagnosed with a terminal illness that left her only three months to live, all Sarah could think about was how to inform her loving husband, Andrew, about it and the pain and sorrow he was going to go through after hearing about it. But upon getting back home, Sarah got the shock of her life when she caught Andrew making out with her stepsister Tessa, the same woman who abandoned him three years ago on their wedding day. What happens when Sarah discovers that Tessa never abandoned Andrew on their wedding day? Instead, she and Andrew had both planned for her to disappear so that Andrew would get married to Sarah, and by so doing, he would be able to drain Sarah of everything she has inherited from her mother. What happens when Sarah reverses the table on both Andrew and Tessa, taking back every penny they have gained from her? What happens when Andrew regrets his actions and starts trying to win back the woman he has made a fool out of for the past three years they were together? Would Sarah give him a second chance, or would she discard him completely from her life and stick to her new boyfriend?
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The Last Anniversary  - undefined novels & stories
Zoey
On our seventh wedding anniversary, I waited with a candlelit dinner, believing my husband would finally choose me over his work. Instead, I watched him on live television holding another woman’s hand while the world celebrated them as the perfect couple. That night, I stopped being a wife. I signed the divorce papers, walked away with nothing, and disappeared from the life I had sacrificed everything to build. Three years later, I return as a powerful CEO with a new name, a fortune of my own, and no intention of looking back. Now the man who shattered my heart wants another chance. But he isn’t the only one hiding secrets. As old lies unravel and shocking truths come to light, he realizes too late that losing me was the biggest mistake of his life. Some betrayals deserve forgiveness. Others deserve regret. And this time, I’m choosing myself.
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