Substituent Bride Novels & Stories

When Emily attended her half sister Chloe's engagement party, she had to listen to Chloe bragging about her fiancé, saying he was the most powerful Alpha in this region. However, when the groom arrived, he walked not to Chloe, but to Emily.... “Hello, my fiancée. The party is about to start, why aren’t you dressed yet?”

I never thought, the life I have been living is a lie. The people I called parents were never really mine. The best friend I trusted never truly saw me as a person. And the man I loved for seven years, the one I believed would stay by my side no matter what was sharing my bed with her behind my back. They laughed, mocked, and enjoyed the life I built with my hard work. And the final blow is my boss someone whom I respected cornered me. His hands, his breath. All made my skin crawl. I fought and struggled when his wife walked in. I was thrown out, my job gone and my dignity shattered. "We should have left where we found her" my mother said. "She was just lying there in the forest. No one would have known" my father replied. The truth shattered me completely so I turned and ran. I don't know where I was going. I didn't care. My legs moved on their own as tears blurred my vision. Until there was nothing left. No strength, no breath, and no will. And then I fell. My body hit the cold ground and everything went silent. For a moment I thought this was the end but then something changed. A strange sensation spread through my body, slow at first then overwhelming. My weakness disappeared and my pain faded. At a distance, between the shadows of the trees, stood a figure. It's tall, still and watching. I couldn't see his face clearly. His eyes opened and it is glowing red. It's locked on me. And a deep, rambling voice low and calm cut through the silence, "Finally, I found you" That's when I realized this wasn't the end of my life. It was something far worse.

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.

Jessica Franklin is at her wit's ends, literally. With two sisters depending on her and a mountain of debts on her neck, she needs a way out before she breaks down. So when she sees an online post of a Billionaire requesting a bride, she immediately takes it. Devon Reeves just wants to get rid of his clingy ex who's snuck her way back into his life and is disrupting it. Unwilling to go on dozens of blind dates, he puts up a post requesting a bride and receives numerous responses. Out of the many proposals, Only one sticks out to him. Without thinking too much about it, he accepts it and goes on a date. One look is all it takes to get Devon to decide that Jessica is his bride. A contract is signed and the two begin to live like husband and wife. There's just one problem, nobody is accepting of this new arrangement. Plus, the more he gets to know his wife, the more he realizes that she has secrets... Secrets she's running away from and will soon catch up to her. Book 1 in the Franklin Sisters series.

Olivia Morgan was the daughter her parents sacrificed to save their tech company. Forced to marry Nathan Hayes in her sister's place, humiliated on her wedding night, blamed for a crime she didn't commit—she left with nothing. Seven years later, she returns as a successful CEO with twin children. She wants one thing: a divorce. Nathan Hayes spent seven years watching Jessica's mask slip. Piece by piece, he realized Olivia was never the liar. He started remembering her cooking. Her silence. The way she never begged. When Olivia asks for a divorce, he refuses. He wants redemption. She wants freedom. Jessica wants Olivia destroyed. And the twins have Nathan's eyes. She won't let her children near people who don't understand love. He spent seven years learning what it means. Is that enough to soften her heart or she will embrace the future without him in it?

Audrey Scales is thrown to despair when her sister is murdered in cold blood on the night of her engagement. Fate however wasn't done with her as her mom forces her to take her sister's place and marry her husband Alexander De-Royales, an enigmatic, ruthless and obnoxious billionaire with a high stake of being her sister's killer. She agrees to her mother’s bid, not to please her but, with revenge in mind. However, her plan comes crumbling down when she starts to develop feelings for him. As her heart begins to backslide her purpose, Audrey's moral compass is tested. Who really killed Jimmie? Is Alexander really innocent? And when the truth finally surfaces, will love be enough to survive the damage betrayal has already done?

It is supposed to be just a normal day for Rissa Williams, but she starts it will give a bomb drop on her head. She is getting married. After being imprisoned for the offence her step sister committed she had to bail herself by marrying the cold billionaire son and a jerk. Will she agree to marry a man she has not met before? Find out more in this thrilling story.

A dangerous and forbidden love triangle ensues when Ruby Lakewood finds herself stuck between the famous Riverstone twins. . . Ruby Lakewood's life is going smoothly until her father suffers a heart attack because he's at the brink of losing all that he has worked for. In other to save her father and his company, she accepts an arranged marriage with one of the brothers. Ethan Riverstone suffers from a sin committed in his past and for this reason, his mental health is unstable. When he sees Ruby, he clings to her instantly as he believes she's the only one who can save him. Ash Riverstone holds a grudge against his brother and has sworn to do nothing but destroy him in the most painful way for the sin that he committed. When he sees his brother's bride, a wicked game plays in his mind on how to destroy Ethan. On the night of Ruby's wedding, Ash makes love to her instead of his twin brother and she's unable to realize this until it's too late. Feelings begin to ignite between all three hearts and enemies as well as sins of the past come together to destroy all three of them. Will Ethan's past get the better of him and destroy him first or will Ash's wicked game do the trick? And most especially, who will get the girl in the end?

His eyes remained warm as he gazed at me. "I will do anything for you, don't ever forget that." He moved closer, gently tucking the rose behind my ear. "I promise you a future.." "Since when did my future switch from being a threat to being a promise?" I couldn't help but cut in looking straight into his eyes. He got paused for a moment as remorse flashed in his eyes. --- Elaine had given three months to their fateful marriage. Though it was an arranged more like forced marriage, Elaine had given her all to make it work. Only Cannon didn't reciprocate her efforts, let alone her feelings. He got blinded by anger and only used Elaine as a pawn to get his revenge. But it all changed when returning home, Cannon found the divorce papers with Elaine gone from his life__ --- Sequel of the book "Married to My Sister's Boyfriend" This one can be read as a standalone story but would be better if you check out the first one before this...

Six years after she left him waiting at the altar, Charles Anthony Oxford finally met Isabella Shade. And six years proved to be a long time as Isabella was already married and Charles who had grown his wealth, well, he was in search for a wife for certain reasons. On learning that his runaway bride’s company was in financial crisis because of her good for nothing husband’s gambling problems amongst other reasons, Charles saw an opportunity. Two, actually. Not only would he be getting a wife, he would be able to exact revenge on the woman who had left him heartbroken, in his own way. All he had to do was remind her of the terrible thing she had done, torture her a bit with a sexual toss here and there, remind her of her present status and all she needed to do was agree to his terms and become his wife… But with a woman like Isabella, it just wasn’t going to be so easy… [Contains mature scenes]