the kidnapped bride

Alexa Richardson was the true definition of tardiness. She lost her job, had an accident, and found herself in a stranger's mansion and in a sticky situation. Xavier Gold was a half-Italian and half-American billionaire. He took Alexa to his mansion instead of the hospital and his mother mistook Alexa for his supposed bride. Alexa has to pose as a billionaire's bride in exchange for a lifelong job that will yield a lot of money. She got torn between the options and deciding wasn't easy as Xavier's mother was added to the equation. Would she accept the offer and live her dream of being an executive chef in one of the best restaurants in New York? Would she keep up with her appearance as the billionaire's pretend bride? What would happen when Xavier didn't want to let her go after three months?

“The contract was only for a year, Mr Gray. I marry you for one year and you stay the fuck away from my properties,” her tone was high-pitched annoyance and anger. “You got it all wrong, sugar. The contract was to quench my thirst for you but all you did was fuel that desire. Now, I want to own you. Your body, heart and fucking soul,” that honeylike baritone was void of its usual teasing now. He meant every word of it. There was no escape for her. ********** As she lay on the operating table, bleeding to death from an abortion her husband, Regal had arranged, Claire saw her life flash before her eyes. Even in her dying state, he refused her a transfusion because donating blood would ‘hurt’ his unborn child. The words pierced through her heart. The man she'd given her world to chose her sister over her without blinking. But then life smiled at her and she was given a second chance to correct her mistakes. What happens when she gambles this chance by stealing from the famous trillionaire, Asher Gray? What will be her fate when he barges into her life and overturns her world with his wicked seduction? When life throws Regal at her feet, begging for a second chance, when old flames ignite, will she let go of the past and forgive or pursue the prospect of a beautiful new love?

Jade Hales Anderson catches the eye of Dominic Radvila, a conglomerate CEO who turns out to not only be a dragon shape shifter but also her stepsister’s fiancé. He is covered in mystery as he always wears a mask making many to think that he is ugly so Samantha, her stepsister, makes a plan to run away before the wedding. When she runs away before the wedding, Jade has to fill in for her and she gets married to the most sought for man in both the business world and the shape shifter world. When parts of Jade's heritage start to show, Dominic has to dig up the past and find out who her mother was and what had truly happened to her. Can Jade handle the truth?

"I can't marry you! My girlfriend is going to come back!" he yelled pacing in the conference room. "Me neither but unfortunately I'm now your fiancée," I told him with a smirk on my face. •–• Heaven broke up with her boyfriend and decided to move back to London, her home town to start new life when crossed paths with a couple at the airport. A not so right place to meet but at a very wrong time.They exchanged harsh words leaving them to part ways with grudges in their hearts. Getting to a job interview the following day, she met the person she thought she'd never meet. Him. Mr Jerk. Just when he thought he had gotten rid of her, she became his bride. With a strong hatred between them would they ever get along?

Two years. No love. No trust. Just a contract. Claire Donovan was drowning her business failing, debt collectors closing in, and eviction looming. Desperate, she had two options: beg her powerful family for help or take a deal with a billionaire she barely knew. Gordon Blackwood remembered everything. Ten years ago, her father destroyed his future, ensuring he would never rise in the corporate world. But fate had other plans. Now, Gordon owns everything except the one thing he truly wants: revenge. A two year contract marriage seemed like the perfect trap. She gets financial freedom, he gets a flawless cover to silence rumors about his personal life. But what Claire doesn’t know is that Gordon plans to make her life miserable. Cold. Ruthless. Unforgiving. Yet the woman he intended to break refuses to crumble. The more she fights back, the harder he falls. Hatred turns to obsession. Obsession turns to something else entirely. By the time Gordon realizes he’s in love with the woman he set out to ruin, it’s too late. Because Claire has discovered the truth. Now, the woman who once needed him is walking away, and for the first time in his life, Gordon is the one who stands to lose everything.

The story revolves around a ruthless mafioso who finds a woman buried on the ground as a sacrificial bride to the woman's townfolk's cult. He finds himself drawn to her and claims her from the grave just before she died and was instead wedded to him. Althea's fate was sealed when she became the mafioso's corpse bride. She was like a lifeless flower in a sea of blood and wrath. Men have been fawning over her ever since she remembered, and it was revealed that she was an actual human cursed by her own mother after the man who impregnated her left her to rot. She was like a human succubus, drawing men to her until they became crazy enough to kill her. And every time Althea is killed, a new Althea comes to life as though, the curse goes on and on. It is revealed later on that throughout the world, there have been more than thousands of Altheas enough to dominate the world in secret. At the end of the story, the mafioso due to the curse would kill his wife, only to be killed as well by another Althea who had been watching on the sidelines all this time. She goes back to visit her mother who had been brought to the mental asylum only to laugh hysterical at the term, 'monster'.

Darcy Bailey has lost everything she had. As if that loss isn't enough to punish her, she falls into the hands of a mobster to pay off her parents' debt. Darcy must do all his bidding to save her own life. Although she's suffering and humiliated, she has to survive. She needs to stay alive for her precious one.

THE CAPO'S DEADLY BRIDE : SHH... I TAME REAL MEN. Delilah Flynn is an orphan living in Ashwood City with her aunt. She has a gorgeous face and that curvy body that no man could resist. She is true beauty! At day, Delilah works as a coffee shop owner, but at night, she is the sexy pole dancer who steals the spotlight. She does not just ignite the desires in men, she tame them and bend them to her will. Suddenly, she is trapped in a web, where she is forced to get married to a dangerous man in the Cosa Nostra's organisation, Marco Donato. Her in-laws believed that she was the perfect, holy, submissive wife for Marco Donato, but no, she is not. She is the one who drags him by his tie, licks his ear lobe, and whispers, "Shh... I tame real men." [Warning: This book contains graphic violence, dark content, explicit scenes, rape (not between ML and FL), explicit language, and mature themes. It may be triggering for some readers due to scenes of violence, coercion, and emotional distress.] Author: @Royalmary23

Isabella has spent her life trapped behind the walls of her father’s pack, unloved and unwanted. The day she turns eighteen, she dreams of finding her fated mate and escaping her prison-like existence. But her father has other plans—a brutal arranged marriage to Ethan Alexander, the ruthless Alpha King feared across the supernatural world. Ethan is a powerful leader with a dark past and an even darker reputation. Cold, calculating, and dangerous, he’s known to kill without mercy. Yet, as Isabella enters his world, she begins to see sides of him that are hidden from others. She learns that the intimidating Alpha who haunts everyone else’s nightmares is her fated mate Will she be able to survive? Or will she finds love in the beast?

Ana Reed is wallowing in huge debts with no means in sight to pay them,until she meets Asher Howard, the grandson and CFO of the multi billionaire company, Howard Companies,who offers her money more than enough to pay her debts in exchange for a contract marriage with him. With her creditors threatening her and the mouth watering offer, Ana is left with no choice than to accept Asher's proposal. Will their fake marriage blossom into something more beautiful or will the  several obstacles such as Asher's conniving and overly ambitious cousin who is determined to bring Asher down, his wife, who would support her husband in everything he does, Ana's dirty past as a drug dealer and Asher's inner demons, swallow them whole?