Contemporary Romance Web Novels & Intelligent Contract Marriage Stories

Claire Whitman spent two years fighting to save her dying father’s company. Then billionaire investor Weston Cole takes it from her and offers her one brutal way to get it back. "Marry me for eight weeks, and your father’s legacy survives". With no other choice, Claire becomes the billionaire’s contract wife, determined to hate the man the media calls a predator. But Weston isn't the monster she expected. Behind his ruthless reputation is a man who becomes dangerously protective of her, while hidden records reveal his hostile takeover may have been a secret rescue—and Claire's trusted mentor may be the real enemy. Then Weston's ex-fiancée returns with a secret capable of destroying his empire and their marriage just days before the merger vote. When a leaked scandal threatens everything, Weston makes a shocking decision on live television: He publicly declares that his marriage to Claire was nothing but a business deal. Claire believes every word. But she doesn't know the truth. Weston lied to save her life—and the real enemy has just made his first move.

On discovering that his contract wife, Valkyrie, had leaked the documents that ruined his main energy company, the Australian billionaire investor Kaelen Vance throws her out into the rain in Melbourne, giving her only a single suitcase. However, Kaelen does not realise that Valkyrie was made to take the blame by his manipulative mother, Victoria, who had threatened to switch off the life support for Valkyrie's sister Chloe, who is bedridden. Four years later, Kaelen sets about tracking down the rogue trading company that has been quietly purchasing controlling shares in his empire and ends up tracing the IP address to a remote coastal town on the Great Ocean Road. There he finds Valkyrie with a sharp four-year-old boy who has his unmistakable silver eyes. Having discovered that she is innocent, Kaelen buys the entire town, makes himself her landlord, and then launches a fierce campaign to win her back. Yet Valkyrie has built an iron shield around her heart, compelling the arrogant tycoon to tear down his own family lineage to prove his devotion.

For three years, Zephyrine "Zephy" Vance has served as the indispensable executive assistant to Laurent Mercier, the cold, powerful CEO of London’s top corporate conglomerate. She knows every secret of his demanding life, keeping her own feelings deeply buried to support her brother Diggory's crippling medical debts. But their strictly professional world shatters after a single night of uninhibited passion—followed immediately by a life-altering shock: Zephyrine is pregnant. Before she can reveal the news, Laurent faces a corporate ultimatum. To inherit controlling shares of the Mercier Group, his tyrannical grandfather demands he marry for one full year. Seeking a partner he can trust over opportunistic socialites, Laurent offers Zephyrine a fake contract marriage with a multi-million-pound payout. Desperate to save Diggory, she accepts. When the secret pregnancy comes to light, Laurent’s protective instincts ignite. He insists on claiming the baby as the official Mercier heir to shield her from his predatory family. Forced into close quarters as husband and wife, fake intimacy burns into a genuine, explosive love. Yet, as corporate rivals attempt to destroy their union, a dark web of family secrets unspools. The master manipulator orchestrating Diggory’s debt traps, the pregnancy leaks, and the corporate sabotage is none other than Tabitha Vance—Zephyrine’s disarmingly gentle stepmother, a disgraced former Mercier officer seeking total control of the trust. Heartbroken that her life and unborn child were used as corporate weapons, Zephyrine walks away with her newborn. To win back the only woman he has ever loved, Laurent surrenders his multi-billion-pound empire, proving that true devotion cannot be bought with a contract.

Ellie never wanted this marriage. Jayden made it clear he never wanted her. A cold house. A colder husband. A family that looked her in the eye and made her wish she was invisible instead. Her dream awaits her. She told herself she could survive it. She had before. But surviving Jayden was a different thing entirely. She hated him. He couldn't stand her. So why couldn't either of them stop? Between the hatred, the challenges that kept coming and the conspiracies working against them from every direction they were never supposed to make it. Just when things start to shift between them, everything falls apart. The real reason she was chosen comes to light. The secret behind their marriage. The betrayal that had been there from the very beginning. The hidden secret of her family and her new home. She was signed to him with the vow. Love was never part of the deal. Or was it?

Sienna Brooks never imagined that the arrogant CEO who humiliated her would one day ask her to become his wife. When Dominic Kane needs a wife to secure his inheritance, he offers Sienna a one-year contract that could save her family and her mother’s life. But living together turns their hatred into dangerous attraction, and Dominic soon realizes he has fallen for the one woman he was never supposed to love. Sienna must decide whether his feelings are real or if she is simply another part of his perfect plan.

On the night of her engagement party, Lila found her fiancé with her best friend. He called her boring. Her own mother told her to swallow it. Three hundred people watched her fall apart. Then a cold voice said, "Apologize to her." Damien Ashford. Her ex's uncle. A billionaire the whole city was afraid of. He made her ex kneel in front of everyone. Then he pulled her aside and said two words: "Marry me." She said yes. To a contract. To a man who never smiles and never explains. Now she is Mrs. Ashford, and her ex has no idea. The day he finds out, he will beg for her back. But why did Damien choose her? And what is he hiding behind those cold eyes?

To save her dying father and pay off his astronomical medical bills, Evelyn Vance agrees to a loveless contract marriage with Lucian Blackwood—the ruthless, feared "Tyrant of the Capital." ​To the world, Evelyn is just a fragile, helpless blind bride brought into a dark empire as a pawn. Her greedy stepmother and treacherous stepbrother think she is easily manipulated, while Lucian's jealous inner circle views her as useless. ​But they all made one dangerous mistake. ​When Evelyn lost her sight two years ago, her hearing became hyper-acute. She can hear the faintest whispers through thick doors, track heartbeat fluctuations in a lie, and decode encrypted phone calls from across a room. ​While her enemies scheme in the dark, Evelyn hears every betrayal, every corporate plot, and every dirty secret before they even strike. And as her cold, dangerous husband plays a deadly game of chess with the underworld, he has no idea that his "helpless" bride is listening to his every command—and orchestrating her own brilliant revenge right beside him.