Ulterior Motive

It all started with a divorce, then chaos... Elodie Beaumont's life is a mess. Her little beach resort is on the verge of going under, thanks to a new competitor - her ex-husband, Valerian Blackwood. Desperate, Elodie makes a deal with the devil himself: an alliance with Valerian. He agrees, but little does she know, he has an ulterior motive - to win her back. Can love find its way back to shore after years at sea, especially when the past is a ghost and the future is uncharted?

Their love sparked war, and their downfall is a nation's triumph. Alessia is the King's assassin. Tasked to stop the uprising of a war caused by the endangered dragon-borns, she sets off on a mission and stumbles across a mysterious merchant that soon revealed his true identity and current mission. Aiding him in his journey with an ulterior motive, Alessia and Clyde uncovers a secret that has been swept under the rug for many decades. Along with an untapped powerful fairy and a wizard-in-hiding, will they be able to salvage the nearing end of the world despite their colliding ideals?

She has someone to get rid of. Megan Zendel is betrayed by her boyfriend and now she wants revenge so when Leonardo Valenti offers her a deal to be his fiancée for a year so she can make her ex-boyfriend jealous, she agrees to it. Unknown to Megan, Leonardo also approached her with an ulterior motive. The condition of the deal is that none of them must fall in love with each other. But what happens when love gets into the picture of their deal and Leonardo's motive is exposed?

The full moon hung heavy in the sky , casting its light over silver packs ceremonial grounds. Over there was Autumn shaking . Tonight was supposed to be the night she was to become no Nathaniel's mate , unknowing that there was more to come. After a while, Nathaniel came in with an ulterior motive, he grabbed her , tore her clothes , Autumn struggled and shouted but lost all hope when his strength was more than her's. After defying her,he said the word,’’I Nathaniel Packerson rejected you Autumn Callisto as my mate , everything came crashing on Autumn,She was dumped afterwards. Autumn fate was crushed,she had to face whatever was coming, would this be her fate?

Athena Michaels, a lab scientist at omega lab who has sworn to exerminate werewolves fell in with Ardolf Moon, a rejected alpha and shapeshifter of Esteros. However, could this be without an ulterior motive? Now, she's on a mission with him to reclaim his rightful place as the Alpha of his pack. But, when she receives a letter from the riverside shaman, everything changes. The shocking revelation within forces Athena to choose between love, power and vengeance. Will she stay true to her original plan with ardolf, will she carry out her secret plan or will she act on the shaman's revelation? And what exactly is in the letter that is causing such a dilemma? Find out in this thrilling page turner, filled with twists and turns that would keep you on the edge of your seat.

From the beginning, it was clear what Avara Latimer's fate would be. Since her birth, every aspect of her life has been planned with precision. Avara's life was one of pure indulgence, with the villagers showering her with the best of everything to ensure the god's favor. However, there was an ulterior motive behind the gifts, and it wasn't given out of kindness. Her island home thrived with life, and to ensure its continuous abundance, she was chosen as a bridal sacrifice for the malevolent dragon god, Kagran, who lived up the mountains. But with rations running low and some of the villagers growing more resentful of her privileges, she knew it was only a matter of time before she would have to leave the village. And just as she had feared, her worst nightmare became a reality. On a cold winter's night they come and take her from her home, leaving her to brave the unforgiving mountains alone - a whole year before the sacrifice was planned.

A man falls in love with a woman, and just because he is not up to her level. He decides to marry her sister instead with the ulterior motive of staying close to the woman he loves. The sister he got married to was an unwanted burden to her parents. This is the tough reality for Emma. After witnessing a shocking event, and her mother lying against her for the crime she committed. She is hit by a car while fleeing from the police arrest after the shocking reality. Even on the brink of life and death, her genuine desire is for vengeance against those who made her life miserable. unexpectedly, Emma gets a second chance at life and is transported back to a time before her ill-fated marriage with Zayn that decided her life. Amory, her sister's crush enters into a contractual marriage with Emma due to his harboring affection for her and he is ready to risk everything for her, and her quest for revenge begins. 

Simmi is from a rich but strict family fell in love with a Canadian, Liam Anderson. The two got married and he goes back to Canada, as she could not break the news of their marriage to her family yet. She runs away from her home because of the family's pressure to settle down with a man of their choice and reaches Canada where she finds out that Liam was already married. Now Simmi is disowned by her family because of her so-called "husband", while he is enjoying a blissful married life here in Canada where her marriage with Liam was not even legal. Great! She struggles to earn a living and sustain herself in a foreign land. Adam Wilson, a billionaire from Canada is willing to marry her and was also a solution to many of her problems. She takes time to trust him after what happened with Liam but then gives in. She believes her life would finally be blissful. But is she going to be lucky this time? Is Adam as nice as he appears? Or is he marrying her with some ulterior motive??

In a world where wealth and power dictates fate, Aria Luxen, the rightful successor to the Luxen enterprise, finds herself in a treacherous game of blackmail. With the weight of her father's legacy on her shoulders, she faces an impossible challenge: get married to Darren Maxwell or risk losing everything to her corrupt half-brother and scheming stepmother. Darren had an ulterior motive, a devious scheme to take away everything from Aria completely, including her inheritance. But deception burns like wildfire, because the man Aria thought she was married to had been living under the identity of someone he could’ve been mistaken for. Betrayed, cast out, and left to fend for herself, Aria was left with nothing on the streets. Her luck worsened when she discovered she was carrying a secret that could destroy her: a baby fathered by the man who ruined her. Years later, fate forces her back into the hands of the very man who destroyed her. But as secrets unravel and identities blur, one question remains: can love emerge from the ashes of betrayal or will vengeance consume them both? Driven by desperation and determination, would Aria rise back up to the top again from scratch?

Dante Moretti, the ruthless Billionaire CEO, hungers for power and control. Cold, calculated, he sends shivers down his rivals' spines with his cold, calculated way into any business deal that might pop up in his way. But inside the steely exterior of this man, a traumatic past torments him to have left him detached and numb as regards love. His goal is simple: solidify his control and paramountcy and build on an empire. Lyra Caine grew up privileged in a family that had disintegrated; the fortune of her father, Richard Caine, once a strong king of finance, had shrunk due to a number of bad investments. She needed to be married off to Dante Moretti, a man rumored never to have shied away from getting ruthless in whatever business dealings he had, so that their name would not be utterly ruined. Lyra had lived her whole life by what this great shadow of a father expected from her: fragile, with this inner fire barely apparent in herself. But here is the kicker that makes it even more twisted: Dante isn't marrying Lyra out of love or even because of business needs. He has an ulterior motive linked to her father's long-buried secrets, one that could totally unravel her family should it come to light.