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Bound by paper  - Romance novels & stories
Honey
On the eve of her engagement, Jade Moretti thought the worst thing she would face was cold feet. She was wrong. When she walks into her fiancé’s penthouse, she finds him in bed with her step-sister. Humiliated and desperate, Jade runs to the only man who should protect her—her father. But he chooses business over blood. With her name dragged through scandal and her future destroyed overnight, Jade is forced into a world where power is the only currency that matters. That is where she meets Killian Montclair. Cold. Strategic. Untouchable. Killian doesn’t believe in love. He believes in control. And he offers Jade a deal that could save her… and ruin her. A contract marriage. No feelings. No attachment. No mistakes. But when Jade becomes a part of Killian’s life, she discovers he isn’t only fighting business rivals—he’s fighting ghosts, a ruthless ex, and a custody battle that could destroy everything he built. And the more Jade plays the role of wife… the more real it starts to feel. In a marriage built on lies and contracts, Jade must decide: Will she remain bound by an agreement… or risk her heart for a man who was never meant to love?
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Hiding the Hot Dangerous Billionaire’s Baby Twins - Romance novels & stories
Seraph1nx
After months of hoping, Camilla’s IVF journey finally succeeded—she was pregnant. But her joy shattered the moment she walked in on her husband with another woman. And the shock didn’t end there because the children growing inside her were not her husband’s. They belonged to Valerio Alcázar, a ruthless billionaire who would stop at nothing to protect his empire. “I can handle this on my own. I don’t need your protection!” Camilla snapped. “And yet you keep putting yourself in danger. Not with our twins inside you,” he replied. He wants control. She wants freedom. Neither will back down. But when danger closes in, Camilla realizes the man she fears may be the only one who can keep her and her unborn children safe. Will she outwit the dangerous billionaire or will he control everything she holds dear?
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The Wolfe's Deal : Married My Ex Fiance's Billionaire Enemy  - Romance novels & stories
Nikky Naths
He broke her world to build his empire. Now, he’s buying her silence with a wedding ring. Lena Carter was supposed to be a bride, until she walked in on her fiancé, Daniel, in a betrayal that shattered her life and her dignity. Left with nothing but the crushing weight of her father’s mysterious debts and the wolves of the Silvers Syndicate at her door, Lena has one choice: sink or sell her soul. Adrian Wolfe, the 30-year-old "Ice King of Manhattan," is the monster who offers her a lifeline. He is the man who turned her father’s legacy into dust, and now he wants Lena to play a role in his most dangerous game yet. The Contract: One year of marriage. Total submission to his rules. A public performance of a love that doesn't exist. In exchange, every debt is wiped clean, and Lena gets the power to watch Daniel and his new lover crawl in the dirt. But as the "fake" marriage turns into a war of white-hot passion and whispered secrets, Lena discovers the Black Ledger—a document proving Adrian didn't just find her by chance. He’s been waiting for her. She isn't just his wife; she’s the final payment on a debt signed in blood. With a vengeful ex-fiancé, a lethal criminal syndicate, and Adrian’s own mother, Martha Wolfe, circling like sharks, Lena must decide: Will she destroy the man she’s grown to love, or will she become the Queen of the very empire that broke her?
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owned By His Dark Commands - Romance novels & stories
Abraham Rechi
When Sienna Vance’s world collapses after catching her fiancé cheating, one reckless night with a mysterious stranger seems like the perfect escape. But the stranger is Andrea Voss— ruthless billionaire and the man who just acquired her father’s failing architecture firm. Now Andrea offers her a deal: one year as his personal assistant and companion in exchange for saving her family’s company. What begins as a business arrangement quickly becomes something far more dangerous as Andrea's possessive commands awaken desires Sienna never knew she had. In his penthouse and boardroom, Sienna must navigate the thin line between submission and surrender. But the more she fights him, the more she craves the man who owns her body… and threatens to steal her heart. Warning: This is a dark billionaire romance with intense power dynamics, explicit content, and possessive themes. Reader discretion advised.
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Owned By My Father's Rival - Romance novels & stories
Nancy Druski
He bought my father's company. Now he owns me. When my father's empire crumbles, ruthless billionaire Lucien Black acquires everything including the debt I inherited. His price for forgiveness? Me. Lucien is cold, demanding, and utterly without mercy. He calls me his now. His possession. His obsession. He forces me into his world of dark secrets, dangerous games, and a marriage I never wanted. But the closer I get, the more I see the monster behind the mask—and the darkness that binds us both. He thinks he can break me. He has no idea what I'm capable of. Owned By My Father's Rival is a dark billionaire romance with mature themes, a possessive anti-hero, and explicit content.
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Rebirth of the Tech Queen: Trapping the Ruthless Titan - Romance novels & stories
ShahiShukla
As one of the nation's rare female tech icons, Elena was a media darling who built a billion-dollar Unicorn startup from scratch. She thought she had it all—including a devoted fiancé, Julian, who publicly courted her. But it was a fatal trap. In a sickening plot orchestrated by Julian and her envious stepsister, Chloe, Elena was manipulated into signing over her Power of Attorney. Stripped of her empire and secretly drugged, she was framed in a nationwide, viral smear campaign accusing her of infidelity. Unable to withstand the brutal cyberbullying, the ruined Tech Queen took her own life. Instead of death, Elena gasps awake. She has been reborn six months before the nightmare begins. Her mind is clear, her company is thriving, and Julian is still just an ambitious man trying to chase her. This time, Elena refuses to be the victim. To build a flawless media and legal shield, she uses her brilliant engineering skills to exploit a critical, multi-billion-dollar security loophole in the system of Ethan Vance—the country’s most ruthless and terrifying tech titan. Walking into his office, she doesn't ask for love; she delivers a cold ultimatum: fix his fatal bug in exchange for his powerful surname in a one-year contract marriage. Ethan is cold, calculating, and intrigued by the dangerous woman who dared to blackmail him. As they enter a high-stakes alliance, Julian and Chloe have no idea that the "weak" girl they targeted now has the ultimate titan standing right behind her.
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The Girl He Wasn’t Supposed to Want  - Romance novels & stories
Agnes pen
They say sentiment is a liability. So why did the coldest billionaire in New York risk everything for the shyest girl in Columbia ? Alex Maradona was raised by a father who believed weakness deserved punishment. In his world, people existed to dominate or be destroyed. But Alex refused to become the monster his family wanted. With his best friend Joseph, he escaped that ruthless life and built SoundWave from nothing a sanctuary for hidden talent, broken dreamers, and people too afraid to be seen. Then Joseph died. One terrible night shattered everything Alex loved, leaving him with guilt, grief, and secrets stained with blood. he was forced to embrace the dangerous lifestyle he once rejected , Alex is no longer the abandoned son nobody believed in. He’s now a billionaire whose empire stretches from New York to Seoul. Cold. Powerful. Untouchable.but What happened when he meet Emma? A shy Columbia freshman hiding behind oversized hoodies and crippling self doubt. Emma has a voice powerful enough to move crowds, yet she’s terrified of being heard. Alex pushes her harder than anyone ever has. At first, he finds her weakness frustrating. But somewhere between protecting her, challenging her, and uncovering the pain behind her silence… He falls for her. And that’s dangerous. He knew ..but he tried anyways Yet love was not enough. Alex’s secrets, deeply tied to Emma’s past and to Joseph’s death, began to surface. The same incident that built SoundWave was connected to Emma’s grief. How can love survive when the foundation is built on buried blood? , Can they choose each other, when choosing love means confronting the day that destroyed them both ?
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The Billionaire’s Contract Wife: HE Fell First  - Romance novels & stories
The Mind Surgeon
When brilliant architectural restorer Maya Vance inherits a crippling $5 million underground syndicate debt after her father’s death, she is left with an impossible choice: pay the money she doesn't have, or let the ruthless collectors harvest her chronically ill younger sister’s organs. Enter Julian Sterling. Cold, calculating, and dangerously powerful, the billionaire CEO of Sterling Global needs a wife to fulfill a trust stipulation and inherit his grandfather’s empire before his thirtieth birthday. He offers Maya a lifeline: sign a two-year marriage contract, move into his fortress-like estate, and play the role of his compliant, invisible bride. In exchange, her debt is erased, and her sister receives world-class medical care. Maya signs, believing she is nothing more than a pawn in a billionaire’s corporate war. But Maya is wrong. Julian didn't choose her at random. Five years ago, during a brutal kidnapping that left him bleeding out in a rain-soaked alley, Maya unknowingly saved his life. He has spent years obsessively hunting the girl with the silver star necklace. He didn't buy her debt to use her; he bought her debt to trap her in his world, terrified that if she knew his true, dark obsession, she would run. But Julian’s dangerous stepmother has discovered his weakness. When a coordinated attack shatters their fragile arrangement and Maya’s sister is taken hostage, the icy billionaire must drop his corporate mask and unleash a terrifying, scorched-earth war to protect the woman he loves. He needed a contract to keep her. Now, he’ll burn the world down to save her.
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Father's  Obsession - Romance novels & stories
MrSeñiorito
Selene loved Adrian faithfully for two years, only to learn she was just a rebound he discarded when his first love returned. Heartbroken, she was attacked by a stranger in the dark, unaware of his identity. Days later, she realized the man who violated her was Adrian’s powerful father, Don Lorenzo. He kidnapped her again and locked her in his mansion, claiming she belonged to him since his son wasted her devotion. Trapped between the son who broke her heart and the father who ruined her life, Selene pretends to obey. But she vows to survive, plot her revenge, and one day bring the powerful King down.
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His Wedding Day Bride - Romance novels & stories
Blueesandy
My fiancé was sleeping with my maid of honor. I caught them the night before our wedding. I didn't make a sound. I closed the door, walked back to my bridal suite, and sat at the vanity until my hands stopped shaking. Then I grabbed my keys. At two in the morning I drove forty blocks across Manhattan and knocked on Atlas Marchetti's door. Two years ago I'd told my family I wouldn't marry him. He hadn't said a word about it since. He opened the door in pajama pants. "Marry me tomorrow," I said. He didn't say yes. He poured himself a drink first, listened to everything, and then handed me a piece of paper with terms I should have read more carefully. I signed at dawn. Six hours later I walked down the aisle Carter and I had planned. The Plaza ballroom. The dress I'd chosen in spring. Three hundred guests who came to watch me marry the wrong man. I married someone else instead. Carter watched it happen. He didn't understand yet what he'd lost, and he wouldn't understand for months. Not until he found out who owned the company he ran, and how long Atlas had been bleeding it. I went to Atlas for revenge. He'd been writing this for two years.
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Forbidden: Craving My Mother's Husband  - Romance novels & stories
DANIKA
⚠️ 18+ WARNING ⚠️ This novel is intended for mature readers (18+) only. "Look at you," Tristan murmurs, his voice dripping with lust. "You’re starving for it, aren’t you? Such a greedy little girl." He tugs on the belt, using it like a leash to urge me forward. "Be a good girl and suck me off." ***************** She entered her mother's mansion as an unwanted daughter, believing she'd only have to endure the cold stares and cruel words. She never expected to leave her heart in the hands of her stepfather—a man she could never have, yet the only one who ever made her feel like she belonged. But in a house built on secrets, betrayal, and forbidden desires, loving him may cost them everything. After years of watching her father battle cancer, Anastasia loses the only parent who ever truly loved her. Forced to abandon her education to help pay his overwhelming medical bills, she is left with nothing but grief, debt, and a home she can no longer afford. On the day of his funeral, the woman who abandoned them years ago returns. Dressed in luxury and now with a billionaire man, her mother acts as though she never walked away. With nowhere else to go, Anastasia reluctantly follows the woman she swore she'd never forgive, unaware that accepting her mother's offer will change her life forever.
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RISING FROM THE ASHES: The CEO’s Regret - Romance novels & stories
Ruthie B
Five years ago, Jessica made the ultimate sacrifice for the love of her life, Davis. When a horrific car accident left him on the brink of death, she didn't hesitate to donate her own kidney to save him. She worked herself to the bone, juggling multiple grueling jobs to fund his dream of studying overseas, believing they were building a future together. But when she discovered she was pregnant, she kept it a secret, refusing to let anything hold him back. She waited. Months turned into agonizing years of dead silence. Her texts went unanswered, her phone calls ignored, and his ruthless family eventually threw her out onto the streets with her beautiful daughter, Catherine. Now, Davis has returned—not as the loving man she saved, but as a cold-blooded billionaire CEO celebrating his grand opening and his engagement to a wealthy heiress, Valerie. Hired as a desperate waitress at his event just to afford her daughter’s medicine, Jessica accidentally crosses his path. Instead of a warm embrace, she is met with absolute ice. To protect his pristine status, Davis shoves her away, pretending she is a lunatic stranger while Valerie publicly humiliates her, shattering a glass over her bleeding head. As the elite crowd laughs, Marcus—the untouchable son of the richest man in the city—steps in. Wrapping her in his jacket, he vows to make Davis pay. Davis threw away a diamond, but Marcus is ready to claim his queen—and when the truth of the kidney and the secret baby comes to light, the billionaire's regret will be absolute.
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THE PRICE OF BEING HIS  - Romance novels & stories
Penumbra
Reader discretion is strongly advised. Blurb When the devil disguised as Tristan Hale offers desperate Andrea a one-year contract to be his, under his rules, in his bed, with no love, no promises, and no future... she accepts, hoping to clear her family’s crushing debt and save her brother’s life. But what happens when pretending starts to feel real, when survival turns into burning desire, and when the man who was never meant to keep her becomes the one she cannot walk away from?
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THE RELUCTANT MRS. ROWE - Romance novels & stories
P.W.Knight
She negotiated the terms of their marriage like a contract. He agreed to every condition without argument. That should have been her first warning. Sloane Mercer is a corporate attorney who built everything herself and trusts no one. When her father reappears after eighteen years with a debt that threatens her mother's home she does the only thing she can. She agrees to an arranged marriage with Beckett Rowe and walks into his world on her own terms. Beckett chose her deliberately. From a list of twelve names he chose hers. Not because of the arrangement. Because someone was already coming for her and he got there first. But the closer they get to each other the closer they get to a truth that will break everything open. Her father was sent to her door by design. The career she sacrificed everything to build was quietly poisoned before she ever walked through its doors. And the man behind all of it has been watching them both the entire time. The arrangement was never about a marriage. And falling in love was never part of the plan. But what happens when the only person who ever really saw you is the one person you were never supposed to trust?
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The Billionaire’s Forbidden Janitress - Romance novels & stories
cargooooo
"She was never meant to touch his world, yet he couldn't stop reaching for her." Valerie Marie Chavez was born to survive, not to dream. Working nights as a janitress in a high-end bar just to keep her family alive, she never expected her fate to collide with Drugo Luero Hawthorne-the cold, immaculate billionaire feared across the business world. A single night. A forbidden mistake. And five years later, Valerie carries a secret that could destroy them both. When destiny draws them together again inside his empire, Drugo's obsession rekindles. He wants to own her, protect her... and punish her. But in a world ruled by lies, greed, and desire, love is the most dangerous sin. She was just the janitress who swept his floor... but now, she's the only one who can shatter his walls.
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The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle - Romance novels & stories
Zammie
On the night of their second wedding anniversary, Adrian Cole publicly declared his love for his wife, Ava, gifting her a rare sapphire pendant that became the talk of the city. To the world, they were the perfect couple envied and admired but behind closed doors, Ava’s reality shattered. A single anonymous message exposed everything, Adrian’s personal assistant, Livia, wearing the same pendant, wrapped in his embrace. While society praised his devotion, Ava sat alone in a house that no longer felt like home, choking on betrayal she had unknowingly endured for years. For too long, she had played the obedient wife, enduring the scorn of her in-laws and Adrian’s cold excuses that his affair meant nothing, just a “momentary indulgence.” Confident she was bound to him by her family’s financial struggles, he believed she would never leave… even if it meant raising another woman’s child. But he was wrong. Quietly, Ava began to dismantle everything. She gathered evidence, secured her freedom, and walked away without a trace of the fragile woman he once knew. The woman who returned was no longer soft or submissive, but a brilliant and popular figure in the world of medical innovation, one whose name commanded respect. By the time Adrian realized what he had lost, it was already too late. Because the woman he once discarded now stood beside a far more powerful man, not just any man but his own UNCLE who looked at him with cold amusement and said, “Be careful with your words… That woman you call your wife now belongs to a world you can’t reach.”
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The Devil's Forbidden Obsession - Romance novels & stories
MsJayella
"It’s too late for begging now, darling. You are part of my world whether you like it or not. And I never let go of things that belong to me." Selene loved Adrian with everything she had—stood by him through his lowest days, gave him two years of pure devotion, and dreamed of a future together. But on the night of his birthday, her world shattered. Adrian chose Elara, his first love, and told Selene the cruel truth: she was never loved. She was only used. Heartbroken and running away into the dark night, Selene was pulled into a waiting black car. A stranger took everything from her—her innocence, her dignity—before vanishing into the shadows. She woke up alone on the roadside, broken and ashamed. But fate had a far crueler twist. Days later, she came face to face with the man from that night. He was no stranger. He was Adrian’s father. Don Lorenzo Moretti. Wealthy, powerful, feared by all—and far more dangerous than his son. He knew what he had done, and instead of letting her go, he decided to keep her. Locked away in his isolated estate, Selene becomes his prisoner, his possession, his obsession. Adrian broke her heart. But Don Lorenzo… he claimed her soul. Trapped between the son who threw her away and the father who refuses to let her go, Selene makes a vow. She will not break. She will rise. And one day, she will burn down the entire empire the Moretti family built. They thought she was nothing. But the girl they broke… is the one who will destroy them all.
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Beautiful Torture - Romance novels & stories
SOLO DE KING
Lucas Bennett is perfection. He is silent, elegant and untouchable. The world thinks he’s the most beloved person at Adrian Chase’s side: the CEO’s obsession, his treasure, his pride and his everything. Nevertheless, love doesn’t feel like this, not when your body isn’t yours and not when your past has been erased. Not when the man who touches you is the same one who destroyed your life. Adrian gave Lucas everything: beauty, luxury, and a place beside him, but Lucas wants only one thing in return: his life back. Therefore, he’s willing to burn Adrian’s world to ashes to get it.
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Cheated on, Claimed by a Billionaire  - Romance novels & stories
Luna Avery
After catching her fiancé with her stepsister, Nina runs straight into the arms of a stranger. She never expected one night to change her life forever. Five years later, she's forced to work for the city's most feared billionaire, a man who can't stop being obsessed with her... and who is searching for a woman from his past. Nina is looking for the Father of her triplets, especially for her sick child. The question is, which of them will uncover it first?
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The Billionaire Replace Bride  - Romance novels & stories
Debbie's ink
*Blurb* When the Vale Corporation collapses overnight, Elena Cross is handed to billionaire CEO Damien Wolfe like a debt payment. Her parents tell everyone it’s her sister Sophia getting married. Sophia is “too young,” “too fragile.” Elena is just the expendable one. On the wedding night, drunk and cold, Damien drags her to bed calling her “Sophia.” When he sobers up and realizes he married the wrong sister, he declares war. He won’t annul it. That would ruin the family. Instead, he traps her in his mansion as an invisible wife. Ignored, mocked, erased. For Elena lives like a ghost in her own marriage. Then she leaves. Alone. With nothing. And she comes back with a new name, and a company worth more than his. He thought she was replaceable. He’s about to learn she’s irreplaceable.
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