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Married By Mistake To My Ex's Billionaire Uncle — original cover8.4

OngoingMarried By Mistake To My Ex's Billionaire Uncle

After betrayal destroys Cassandra's expectations, an encounter with Alaric leaves her unexpectedly married to a stranger. He knows more than he admits and publicly claims her, turning an impulsive mistake into an unsettling commitment. Her ex's obsession and her family's betrayal add pressure. Cassandra must judge whether this marriage offers protection or merely another form of deception and control.

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Nine Rejected Marriages, I Wed My Ex's Rival — original cover8.5

CompletedNine Rejected Marriages, I Wed My Ex's Rival

Kayson misses marriage registration for the ninth time, prioritizing Kamila's injured ankle. Amelia's mother sides with her stepsister and mocks her dependence on him. Amelia packs, discards their gifts and blocks him. While Kayson assumes a tantrum, she contacts his ruthless rival Thornton to ask whether his earlier marriage offer remains open. A car soon arrives, without revealing what follows.

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The Discarded Heiress: Waking My Comatose Billionaire — original cover8.4

OngoingThe Discarded Heiress: Waking My Comatose Billionaire

Elodie's wealthy biological family recalls her only to substitute her for adopted daughter Amira in marriage to endangered billionaire heir Damian Steele. They force her to surrender family ties and assets, unaware she is the renowned physician Kite. After Elodie enters the Steele household and Damian awakens, she prepares to turn their new alliance against the relatives who discarded her.

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Reborn From Ashes: The Obsessive CEO's Claim — original cover8.0

OngoingReborn From Ashes: The Obsessive CEO's Claim

Aria dies after Ethan and Seraphina’s betrayal, then awakens seven days before the scheme unfolds. She accepts billionaire Hayes Decker’s proposal, choosing his power as protection and a means of retaliation. He wants more than a temporary alliance, however. His obsessive commitment complicates her intention to use the marriage only against those responsible for her earlier life’s destruction.

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Marrying My Cheating Ex's Billionaire Rival — original cover8.0

OngoingMarrying My Cheating Ex's Billionaire Rival

Averie Stein ends her engagement after evidence of Preston's intimacy with a rising star. Both wealthy families pressure her to preserve their corporate alliance, treating her humiliation as a business inconvenience. Preston's fiercest rival, Fielding Everett, offers a marriage contract promising protection, money and revenge. She accepts and marries him the next morning, using their alliance to challenge the people controlling her future.

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Apocalypse Rebirth: Reclaiming My Infinite Space — original cover8.5

OngoingApocalypse Rebirth: Reclaiming My Infinite Space

During a deep-freeze apocalypse, the narrator is expelled by her adoptive family and discovers that Kendal has taken her necklace and its limitless supply space. Death returns her to three days before the disaster. Another fabricated emergency prompts a demand for money, but she now knows how the Burch family exploited her. Reclaiming the space and turning their financial dependence against them becomes her plan.

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Her Secret Identity: The Tycoon’s Unplanned Wife — original cover9.4

OngoingHer Secret Identity: The Tycoon’s Unplanned Wife

Married to Wall Street titan Silas Thorne, the narrator is underestimated because of a carefully faked limp. Her father wants Chloe to replace her, while Chloe publicly mocks her and Silas remains distant. Using his black card, she answers the humiliation with an extravagant diamond purchase. At home, Silas already knows about the spending and asks her about the purchase.

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Phoenix Rising: The Scarred Heiress's Revenge — original cover9.1

OngoingPhoenix Rising: The Scarred Heiress's Revenge

Scarred and hidden away by her billionaire husband Kason, Elease Finch discovers that her father has traded her divorce for a corporate bailout. He also uses her mother's medicine to pressure her. Elease reveals herself as Phoenix, with substantial hidden wealth, signs the divorce and strikes at her family's finances. Her revenge begins against those who mistook her scars and compliance for weakness.

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No Longer A Placeholder: I Rise — original cover9.2

CompletedNo Longer A Placeholder: I Rise

After three years as billionaire Keagan Steele's secret lover, a woman discovers she was only filling time until her stepsister Alba returned. Keagan favors Alba through accidents, family abuse and the taking of a treasured maternal keepsake. Repeated cruelty ends the narrator's belief in his love. She resolves to fight back against the people who treated her as disposable.

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Claimed by Two Brothers — original cover7.2

CompletedClaimed by Two Brothers

A grandfather's will links the family business and property to marriage with his friend's granddaughter. Stas had expected his older brother to inherit, but the new condition transforms their bond into rivalry. The woman they once dismissed becomes central to a contest the elders engineered, while changing feelings begin to displace the purely financial reason for pursuing her.

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Abandoned By My Mate, Claimed By The Most powerful The Alpha King — original cover8.6

OngoingAbandoned By My Mate, Claimed By The Most powerful The Alpha King

The narrator survives Karmen’s scheme only to face Julian’s condemnation and discover that her friend has also been abused. Her apparent companion is actually Cedric Bullock, the Northridge Alpha she has just freed from a curse. Accepting Julian’s demand for public rejection, she makes a deal with Cedric and resolves to confront the family whose cruelty she endured.

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Her Tormentor ( Sinfully his.) — original cover9.0

OngoingHer Tormentor ( Sinfully his.)

Ixora is traded against Clarice's debts and enters a world of mafia exploitation where her freedom is denied. Hades, a powerful Spanish crime leader with extensive business interests, conceals a past he refuses to share. The story places her vulnerability beside his control and secrecy, with family betrayal and coercion defining the conditions under which any connection must develop.

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From Rejected Omega to the Supreme White Wolf — original cover8.5

CompletedFrom Rejected Omega to the Supreme White Wolf

Dismissed by her mate Caleb while suffering fatal poisoning, Elena leaves after demanding that their bond be severed. Evidence later exposes Lydia’s years of poisoning, and his grief cannot undo the loss. In the afterlife, the Moon Goddess reveals Elena’s suppressed White Wolf power and offers a return. She chooses life again to seek revenge rather than recover his love.

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The Price of Redemption — original cover8.7

CompletedThe Price of Redemption

After eighteen years raising Chloe, the narrator faces public rejection in favour of the girl’s biological mother. Mark, Chloe’s father and the narrator’s former boyfriend, joins a scheme to take the narrator’s company and life. Death is followed by a return to the day he first brought the baby. Remembering that exploitation, the narrator resolves that this second opportunity will be different.

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Flash Marriage To My Best Friend's Father — original cover7.2

CompletedFlash Marriage To My Best Friend's Father

After losing the Solomon family’s former position, the narrator depends on the Hydes and Anson’s protection. His engagement to her tormentor Claudine Chapman exposes her lack of support and financial autonomy. She seeks safety through Dallas Koch, her best friend’s powerful father. Her spontaneous marriage proposal meets a formal agreement, which she signs to leave a household where Anson controls her trust fund.

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The Phantom Heiress: Rising From The Shadows — original cover8.3

CompletedThe Phantom Heiress: Rising From The Shadows

Exploited by adoptive parents for twenty years, Brenna is sent away when their biological daughter arrives. Her birth family's status and her own hidden talents overturn their expectation that she will fail. A broken engagement adds another complication: she meets her former fiancé's twin brother before the ex returns declaring love, placing new possibilities beside the family's reversal.

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Divorced by Him, Claimed by the Biker King — original cover8.8

OngoingDivorced by Him, Claimed by the Biker King

Tessa's stepmother and stepsister steal her paintings with husband Garrett's help. After his affair shatters the marriage, she meets billionaire criminal lawyer and biker Zane Ashford. He needs a wife to claim his inheritance and offers help recovering her work in exchange for marriage. Their practical arrangement develops into love while secrets surrounding both mothers' legacies threaten the partnership.

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Married To The Wrong Montgomery Billionaire — original cover8.0

OngoingMarried To The Wrong Montgomery Billionaire

Pressured through her brother’s care needs, the narrator enters a proxy marriage to Nathaniel Montgomery. Alistair then uses a damages claim and threats to medical support to impose an assistant contract. He does not know she is his sister-in-law or the woman he has been seeking, whose identity another person has claimed. Despite limited options, she insists their relationship remain professional.

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Reborn Heiress: Revenge On My Wedding Day — original cover9.3

OngoingReborn Heiress: Revenge On My Wedding Day

Dying in a Swiss clinic, a woman discovers that her fiancé Jordan and best friend Chloe have seized her family's trust. Her father knowingly chose the takeover's profits over her life. After death, she wakes in her Manhattan bedroom on her wedding morning. With knowledge of their betrayal, she resolves to change her fate and take revenge before they can repeat their scheme.

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The Betrayed Heiress's Spectacular Doomsday Comeback — original cover8.6

OngoingThe Betrayed Heiress's Spectacular Doomsday Comeback

In an earlier apocalypse, Ethan and Mason die trying to protect their sister, while boyfriend Dean trades her away for food. She returns thirty days before financial collapse, facing her father’s demands for trust money. Refusing submission, she liquidates her assets and awakens a pocket dimension. Knowledge of the coming disaster drives plans for a secure refuge rather than another life dependent on betrayal.

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Unexpected Comeback Of The Discarded Orphan — original cover8.9

OngoingUnexpected Comeback Of The Discarded Orphan

The Tillman family demands their adopted daughter marry for debt relief, then cuts her off and attacks her reputation when she refuses. She has endured their abuse to investigate an orphanage fire that killed ten friends and was concealed by powerful circles. Leaving with transport already waiting, she plans to abandon her helpless persona, treat a paralyzed underworld figure and expose the family’s facade.

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The Mafia Bride's Lethal Revenge — original cover8.4

OngoingThe Mafia Bride's Lethal Revenge

Married to Julian Moretti to save her family, the narrator faces betrayal and humiliation before discovering further exploitation at home. Her father and stepmother have taken her late mother's trust, and his mistress is tied to the family. They underestimate her past as operative Seraph. After fighting back, she makes a deal with Julian's rival and prepares her revenge.

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Married a CEO by Mistake — original cover8.4

OngoingMarried a CEO by Mistake

After her boyfriend dies, Sienna Millar's family uses her marriage to repay debts, with a demand that she produce an heir within a year. She believes she is marrying the Reynolds family's foster son. Instead, her husband is its real heir, Ezekiel, who does not realize he has married the woman he likes. Their mistaken assumptions conceal their actual relationship from them both.

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The Cold CEO's Unwanted Genius Wife — original cover8.5

OngoingThe Cold CEO's Unwanted Genius Wife

Dismissed by her fiancé and family as a failure, the narrator conceals her work as physicist Nova Vance. A thirty-day marriage contract with Roman Knight offers funding and security, but he repeats their assumptions about her motives and abilities. Her energy research continues behind closed doors while another secret links them: she is the anonymous strategy-game expert who repeatedly defeats him.

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Reborn General: The Tycoon's Untamed Fiancée — original cover8.2

OngoingReborn General: The Tycoon's Untamed Fiancée

Betrayed and killed, General Justine Estes awakens five centuries earlier in a disgraced woman's body. Poisoning by Julissa is followed by family abuse, scandal and hostility from a wealthy fiancé. Justine's military experience changes how she responds to the household that expects submission. She leaves prepared to fight back, with the original mother's disappearance adding another unresolved mystery.

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The White Wolf Heiress: Reborn To Rule — original cover8.5

OngoingThe White Wolf Heiress: Reborn To Rule

Alea White’s first life ends after concessions to Kirt Bradford and Candida Cervantes lead to dispossession, betrayal and death. Reborn on the morning they demand a shared mating arrangement, she cancels the betrothal before the pack. Rather than follow her stepmother’s advice again, she plans to expose their schemes and reclaim the authority and inheritance taken from her.

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