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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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

Camilla Sterling catches her fiancé cheating with his best friend and escapes to a bar, where she spends one reckless night with a mysterious older man. The next morning, she discovers he's Damien Blackwell—her fiancé's father. Before they can bury their secret, footage of them entering a hotel leaks, threatening Damien's billion-dollar deal and Camilla's reputation. His solution? A contract marriage. Now she's living under the same roof as the man she should never have touched, pretending their marriage is fake while fighting an attraction that was never part of the contract.

For twenty-two years, Ava Bennett has known nothing but pain. With a mother long gone and an abusive father who sees her as nothing more than a burden, she has spent her life dreaming of escape. But when her father's crushing debts catch up with him, he makes the ultimate betrayal—he trades Ava to a ruthless crime syndicate. Just when all hope seems lost, the most feared man in the underworld steps in. Lucian Ashford. A cold, untouchable mafia king whose name alone makes powerful men tremble. He saves Ava... only to claim her as his wife. The marriage isn't built on love. It's built on power, protection, and a promise she never agreed to. Trapped in Lucian's dangerous world, Ava struggles to understand the man behind the terrifying reputation. The ruthless king who shows no mercy to his enemies is strangely gentle with her. As their forced marriage slowly turns into something neither of them expected, a new danger emerges. Lucian's own brother becomes captivated by Ava, threatening to tear the Ashford family apart. And when a rival mafia organization kidnaps her to destroy Lucian, he'll have to decide just how much blood he's willing to spill for the woman he swore was only his responsibility. In a world ruled by loyalty, betrayal, and violence, can love survive... or will it become the deadliest weakness of all? He claimed her to protect her. He never expected to lose his heart.

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.

Ava Bennett has spent her entire life living in the shadow of her perfect older sister, Elena. She never imagined that one morning, Elena would disappear—and Ava would be forced to take her place at the altar of the most feared man in the city. Luca De Luca is a ruthless billionaire with a dangerous reputation and a family legacy built on secrets. He was supposed to marry Elena for reasons that have nothing to do with love. But when Ava walks down the aisle wearing Elena’s wedding dress, Luca immediately knows the truth. She is not his intended bride. Yet instead of calling off the wedding, Luca makes Ava an impossible offer: one year of marriage. In exchange, he will erase her family’s crushing debt and protect them from the enemies closing in. Ava agrees, believing she can survive twelve months beside a man she neither trusts nor understands. But Luca has secrets of his own. Elena didn’t simply run away. She stole something powerful, uncovered a conspiracy, and left behind clues connecting both families to a series of murders that began fifteen years ago—including the suspicious death of Ava’s mother and Luca’s father. As Ava and Luca are drawn into a dangerous game of betrayal, attraction, and buried truths, they discover that their forced marriage may have been planned long before either of them knew the other existed. Someone wanted Ava beside Luca. Someone is willing to destroy everything to keep them together. And when Ava finally discovers the truth about Elena, she must decide whether to trust the husband she never chose—or become his greatest enemy.

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?