Relationships that begin with a sudden marriage or a contract.
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9.0Kaylee ends her engagement when her fiancé gives her late mother’s heirloom to his pregnant lover. She marries an apparently penniless programmer through a dating app, believing their arrangement is contractual. His identity as a technology founder and the long plan behind their meeting complicate her understanding of the marriage.
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8.3Minutes after their wedding, Luca accuses his wife’s father of embezzlement and uses violence to break the alliance. She learns that his long courtship concealed an investigation. Corporate and tax records allow her to explain the money’s origin and reveal a hidden business identity while rejecting a marriage built on suspicion.
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9.2Elara escapes an arranged marriage only to be taken by Nikolai, the head of a feared underground empire. Her family’s connection to his past makes her leverage against her father. She resists captivity as attraction and emerging secrets complicate a relationship founded on coercion.
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8.8A would-be law student enters a contract marriage with Dante because of her father’s debts. He presents a polished legal-business identity while inheriting a mafia empire. She intends to endure the arrangement and regain her freedom, but new secrets and developing feelings complicate that plan.
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8.8A brief phone call ended a relationship between best friends who had become lovers. Three years later, they meet again as boss and assistant while she faces a forced marriage. Their shared history returns under new professional boundaries and the pressure of an approaching wedding.
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8.9Serafina is arranged to marry mafia don Luca and learns to equate obedience with survival. His cousin and enforcer Matteo offers a different kind of regard, leading to a forbidden attachment. As loyalties fracture, she must decide whether to remain silent or challenge the power governing her life.
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8.8Assassin Alessa is captured while attempting to kill rival mafia leader Marco. He offers freedom in exchange for killing her original employer, and a contract marriage allows them to operate together publicly. Their growing feelings complicate an assignment defined by competing criminal groups and uncertain loyalties.
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7.7Kendra is sent to marry Travis, a man believed to have only months to live, and unexpectedly helps him recover. He begins showering her with protection and gifts. As inconsistencies emerge, she learns that he has been feigning illness to keep her close, raising questions about the basis of their marriage.
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8.4After 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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8.4Elodie'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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8.0Aria 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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8.9Shaniya Venice Gershwin tries to leave Tyron Ace Villanueva and faces renewed violence and restraint. She accuses him of cheating and entanglement with Vanessa, then says she has signed divorce papers and rejects their parent-arranged marriage. Taking her luggage to a taxi, she leaves despite lingering love, treating his actions as the reason she can no longer stay.
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8.0Averie 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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8.4A family scheme forces the narrator into marriage with a disabled man who is seriously ill. Their wedding begins in fierce opposition, but the arrangement gradually becomes affectionate. Working together against others, the couple develops a partnership marked by extravagant gifts and displays of wealth. The central change is from hostility to closeness; the introduction does not identify the illness or explain any eventual medical outcome.
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9.2Scarlett gains marriage to Asher after saving his life, then spends three years sacrificing her own needs while he dismisses her as a gold-digger. When the woman he loves returns, Scarlett steps aside and chooses to reclaim her life. Divorce does not end his control: Asher refuses to release her, turning the separation she sought into another struggle over her autonomy.
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8.8Isabella enters an arranged marriage to mafia boss Noah to save her family. Treated initially as a pawn, she begins discovering the pain behind his need for control. Her family’s connection to his tragic past places their growing attraction under pressure from revenge and divided loyalty.
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8.7Neriah Vale replaces her sister as Cassian Ashbourne’s bride to obtain treatment for a rare illness. He sees deception and selfishness in that choice and neglects her until she leaves. Years later, she returns as a successful hotel owner and mother of two, seeking a divorce. Secrets from their marriage challenge Cassian’s expectation that she remains the quiet woman he once dismissed.
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9.4Married 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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8.2After public humiliation by her boyfriend, the narrator meets billionaire Christian Porter and becomes caught in a reputation crisis. He pressures her into a two-year marriage contract while her brother's arrest adds urgency. His later confession complicates the apparent business arrangement: he says he has loved her for ten years. The coercive beginning now carries an unexpected history.
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8.3Scholarship student Sapphire Richardson defies billionaire Lance Clawson, who pressures her into marriage. His family draws her into struggles driven by hatred, revenge and power. While trying to protect herself, she also hopes to help him escape the forces shaping him. Whether she can redirect his anger or becomes more deeply trapped in it remains the central conflict.
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7.2A 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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8.9Three years after Alan’s betrayal helps ruin her family, Vienna accepts his offer of a temporary contract marriage for financial security. Now visually impaired, he returns as both a source of help and a reminder of earlier harm. Their arrangement reveals manipulation surrounding the past, leading them to seek justice together while confronting feelings that do not erase what happened.
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8.7After leaving an unhappy relationship, Khloe rushes into a marriage of convenience because she believes her family faces bankruptcy. Her husband turns out to be the influential Caiden Barton. His refusal to end the marriage and her former partner’s attempts to return complicate what began as a practical decision.
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8.8After betrayal by loved ones, Jade is forced into a contract marriage with Mafia boss Liam. Reluctance and a desire for revenge gradually meet a more complicated understanding of him. Attraction develops alongside threats from powerful enemies. As Liam seeks to protect her, Jade must decide whether to trust again and whether their connection can become more than the coercive arrangement that began it.
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8.1Betrayed by her fiancé and twin sister, Meadow Russell accepts a stranger's contract and ring after drinking. Billionaire Alaric Ashford demands control, while his unusual sensory condition appears to change around her touch. Their transactional marriage develops into obsession and attraction, complicated by secrets and past pain. Alaric's desire for obedience and revenge keeps their growing connection tied to a struggle over power and trust.
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8.1A secretary's transactional marriage funds help for her mother while benefiting her billionaire husband. She falls in love despite their rule, then arranges his signature on divorce papers disguised as business documents and plans to leave in thirty days. His sudden possessiveness, including violence after another man's insult, complicates her exit without showing that he understands she is leaving.
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9.0Abandoned by her groom, Linsey impulsively marries stranger Collin, whose bad reputation invites ridicule. Her former partner offers reconciliation, but she defends her new marriage. Collin's identity as the world's richest man then emerges, overturning public assumptions. His open presentation of a ring expresses commitment, transforming the impulsive choice others dismissed into a relationship he intends to honor.
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9.4Runaway bride Serena Dawson enters a marriage of convenience with CEO Matthew Quinn. Outsiders see a perfect couple, while she struggles against his possessive control. Five years later she returns with a child he never knew about and another man beside her. Matthew's jealousy fuels his determination to reclaim her, reopening the conflict between his demands and her efforts to escape.
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7.2After 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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9.1Evelyn's mate dies in a duel with Raulph, heir to the territory's strongest throne. To prevent war, she is handed to him as a wife. Inside his family's palace, rival claimants and a broken engagement threaten an already hostile marriage. Underestimated because of her poor pack, Evelyn relies on wit and a secret she does not fully understand to navigate the danger.
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8.8Tessa'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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8.0Pressured 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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8.4Married 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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8.4After 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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8.4Ariadna’s life changes after her sister’s death and her family’s ruin. Mafia boss Dimitrios forces her into marriage to avenge harm done to his sister Antara. While he struggles with attraction alongside revenge, Ariadna tries to use her new position to secure the freedom he has taken from her.
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8.5Dismissed 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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Romantic conflicts in worlds of wolves, beast clans and dragons.
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Pack politics, complicated bonds and hidden identities.
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Choices shaped by family power and dangerous relationships.
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