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Zara Adigun never believed in fairy tales especially not the kind that involved arrogant billionaires and cold, calculated marriages. But when her father fell ill and her family is drowning in debt, she agrees to a one-year marriage contract with the most powerful and emotionally detached bachelor in Lagos (Dami Adeyemi). The deal is to pretend to be the perfect couple in public, live together under strict conditions that she must comply with, and leave when the contract ends with no strings and no emotions attached. But Dami’s icy rules begin to melt as Zara’s fire draws out the man he’s buried deep beneath his grief and guilt. The closer they get, the harder it becomes to stick to the rules, until secrets from the past threaten to destroy everything they were nurturing. Jide Adeyemi—Dami’s estranged brother and Zara’s first love came into the picture to reignite old flames and dark family secrets, Zara finds herself caught in a dangerous love triangle where trust is fragile, and the truth is a weapon. Now, she must decide: 1. To follow the terms of the contract. 2. Run back to the man who once broke her heart, or 3. Fight for a love that was never meant to happen. When hearts are bound by fate, will love survive the truth?

Ingrid, the biological daughter of a high-class Las Vegas prostitute and an unidentified felon, was taken in by the esteemed and politically powerful Bishop family, despite the infamy surrounding her lineage. While her adoption provided her with stability and privilege, she grappled with assimilation, as the truth of her origins lingered as a whispered scandal within elite circles. For months, she was held in captivity—a pawn leveraged in the hopes of reviving the dwindling influence of her father’s political faction. Unbeknownst to her, the very syndicate responsible for her imprisonment was, in fact, her relatively same kin—a Grey. Among them was Jace—her known brother—whom she inadvertently fell in love with. Their relationship ignited public outrage, condemned as a textbook manifestation of Stockholm Syndrome. Yet the public remained blind to the deeper reality: a chilling embodiment of a morally ambiguous entanglement.

Brooklyn Carson never planned to marry especially not to a cold, calculating billionaire who treats love like a business transaction. But when her brother’s future is on the line, she signs a one-year marriage contract with Dominic Blackwell, the arrogant CEO who sees emotions as liabilities and appearances as currency. The rules are simple: move into his mansion, play the doting wife in public, and don’t ask questions. But nothing about Dominic or this arrangement is simple. Thrown into a world of luxury, secrets, and ruthless expectations, Brooklyn must survive elite family dinners, designer makeovers, and a fabricated love story she’s expected to memorize. Yet as their chemistry turns dangerously real, so does the risk of falling for the man she swore to hate. And just when she starts to play her role a little too well, Dominic’s ex returns with one goal: to burn everything to the ground. Lies. Power. Passion. In a house where nothing is what it seems, love might be the most dangerous game of all.

Twenty-year-old Lyra Moreno appears to be nothing more than a cold, sleepy noble girl porcelain-doll beautiful, always wrapped in blankets, and seemingly uninterested in anything beyond her next nap. To her father, stepmother, and scheming stepsister, she's a burden. But beneath her drowsy charm lies a dangerous secret. Lyra is the anonymous founder of GALAXY, a covert hacker syndicate responsible for dismantling criminal empires from behind glowing screens. Living quietly under the doting care of her powerful grandparents, Lyra is named heir to their fortune but on one condition....she must marry Elias Vale, the ruthless, cold CEO of Vale Corp, who just so happens to be investigating Virgo.exe, her old hacker alias. Seven years older, Elias is brilliant, powerful, and emotionally walled off until fate throws him into the path of the sleepy girl he's been unknowingly watching. When her scheming stepmother and stepsister pay a criminal to ruin her, the two are dragged into a public relationship... and a private war they can't avoid. And even, secretly..... marriage. As they work together to uncover a traitor within Vale Corp, Elias begins to see the fierce strategist behind Lyra's sleepy façade. And Lyra, used to keeping the world at a distance, starts to wonder if she's finally found someone who sees all of her and wants her anyway. But with enemies in her own home and shadows from her past returning, Lyra must decide: can she let someone into her world, or is silence the only way to survive?

All Brielle Taylor wanted was to deliver a late-night cake and keep her dying bakery afloat. What she got was public humiliation at the hands of Damian Sterling, New York’s most powerful billionaire and her worst nightmare. But one reckless night later, her life changes forever. She disappears. He forgets her. Or so she thought... Until he shows up weeks later, demanding answers. Demanding ownership. Now she’s pregnant. He’s offering a contract. Live in his mansion. Carry his child. Obey his rules. She should say no. But someone just burned her bakery to the ground... and Damian may be the only man powerful enough to protect her. Only, his reasons for keeping her close aren’t as noble as they seem. He doesn’t want her heart. Just the baby. But what happens when the coldest man on Wall Street falls for the woman he tried to tame?

“I want to hold his dick just like he did perfectly leading so massive to my little pussy……” Hephzibah Thomas has admired, lusts over her stepbrother, Thomas Newton, since high school to college after her mother remarried. Her worst enemy in the hockey game, Zed Nate, finds out her dirty fantasies about him through her MACBOOK and demands compensation to keep the secret within. Newton’s new girlfriend turns out to be Kate Wells- Hephzibah’s high school nemesis, as she plans for a public humiliation after she discovers the deep secret too. But Zed saves her in front of the whole campus as his girlfriend in exchange for his academic success, while he helps her to expose Kate's manipulation, which Hephzibah dives into. As their fake relationship began, Hephzibah began to see the other side of Zed, a warm, gentle heart despite being a playboy, one that's willing to help her and acknowledge her true self to the world. But will Newton ever discover the truth behind the relationship? And when Hephzibah discovers Zed's deepest secret, will she walk away from him... to chase after her dream? or love him still?

MONTREAL SERIES #1 (TAGALOG) A deadly, high-ranking assassin, forced to live as an ordinary student, enrolls at a prestigious university and crosses paths with the "Four Kings," the academy's most popular and untouchable group. As their worlds collide, tensions ignite, and the question arises: will the predator become the prey, or will the kings fall to her hidden power? M.H UPDATE 2025 : I'm currently uploading the edited version of this novel. Ps: If you added this book a long time ago and going to re-read it again, please remove and add it to your library again to refresh the book.

Celeste San Pedro, a typical senior-high school student of Hirokoshi High tends to live a normal life in Tokyo City, Japan with his older brother. Her life as a student was quite okay until she started to experience weird dreams with voices calling her in an unfamiliar name. She knew that the school library she used to visit every afternoon has something to do with this paranoia. And that she came across with an old and antique book which soon became a portal to an unexisting world. She lost herself in the city and woke up as a new being living in an old town of Gokayama. Growing with strange romantic feelings for each of the four main book characters, she almost forgot that she has her own real life too outside the book. Will she be able to return or will be forever miss her home?

Azalea Aprilia Chou, seperti bunga yang melambangkan keanggunan dan kelembutan tapi mudah jatuh tertiup angin. Wanita Asia sekelas public figure dan desainer gaun pengantin kenamaan telah lama mengeraskan hati karena kisah masa lalu yang pahit. Hingga seorang Valen Ackerman datang menyeretnya terlampau jauh dalam sebuah skandal. Drummer band "The Hasky" yang terkesan sombong dengan tatapan mata tajam mempesona tapi jauh lebih muda darinya. Valen Ackerman datang berembus bagai angin musim semi, hingga dia berusaha keras untuk tidak terjatuh seperti kelopak bungan Azalea. Akankah Azalea siap jatuh ke dalam pelukan Valen atau menerima lamaran Keenan Smith, Sang CEO yang begitu berambisi memilikinya?

Vanna Shaw is a woman who build the Secret Territorial Group in Spain, she own all of the contraband units who handle carriers, securities and public dispatchers of their assets. She is one of the five women who runs the group, thus, she knew that eventually her position is about to end. Nang umuwi siya sa kaniyang pamilya, nalaman niyang malapit na pala siyang ikasal, yep! A big clown to her plan. First, she doesn't like Magnus Daviro to be her husband. He is same as her, he is an arrogant, cold, and dominant man she knew she can't handle. Tagapagmana din ito ng isang kompanya, at ang kanilang kasal ay ang magiging matibay na ugnayan ng pamilyang Shaw at Daviro para sa kanilang negosyo. She believes that he is a lousy, useless, not attractive man, pero nagkamali yata siya, because all she can see is a grown up man who can take her breath away. Can they have a spark together? or will they end up battling who is the boss? Paano kung sa kabila ng sitwasyon nila ay malalaman niya ang sekreto nito. Mamahalin kaya niya ang ibang pagkatao nito?