Relationships that begin with a sudden marriage or a contract.
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8.2Silas abandons the narrator at the altar for Lola, then demands she become his mistress and surrender her dowry. His uncle, Don Dante Moretti, offers a different marriage to the family’s actual leader. She accepts rather than continue waiting for the fiancé she once loved. The change provides another source of support while keeping her future within a dangerous criminal world.
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8.4Forced to marry billionaire Garvril Kirilenko, Naomi struggles to preserve her identity and freedom under manipulation, coercion and abuse. Discovering her pregnancy makes survival more urgent, with her child's safety also at stake. Secrets within the marriage leave her facing dangerous choices between speaking out and remaining silent as she searches for a way to protect them both.
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8.7Unable to call easily for help, the narrator discovers plans to trade her to Sterling and seize her late mother's art trust. Lydia and Harper join the family's coercion, while troubling secrets surround her mother's death. She avoids their trap and approaches billionaire Carlisle Pierce with a written marriage offer, seeking another route out before the family can complete its scheme.
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9.1Livy Hayes initially rejects an arranged match with wealthy Arthur Finnegan. A relative who has abused her for years hopes to exploit his fortune, but Livy accepts the marriage as a way out of that control. The arrangement unexpectedly brings love: Arthur has cared for her for a long time, changing the meaning of the marriage she first resisted.
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8.8After her ex steals her late mother’s necklace to court Grisel Knight, Daphne drunkenly announces plans to seduce Grisel’s billionaire cousin Bennet. He overhears her. A night that ends at his penthouse becomes a marriage demand backed by threats to return her to a father who wants to trade her for debt relief. Another relative’s arrival intensifies the pressure to cooperate.
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9.2Buchanan discovers her marriage to Aiden Mcmahon is forged, while Ember Rowland is his legal wife. After he exploits her technical work and inheritance, she gathers evidence and prepares to reclaim control. His family rival Adelard Knowles offers help in return for marriage. Their contractual alliance develops protective intimacy, but his possessiveness complicates a bargain meant to serve mutual interests.
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8.4Pregnant Florence is neglected by hockey star Francesco, then pressured by his family to maintain a public marriage after agreeing to divorce. Her return as a sports consultant brings further sabotage and humiliation. Finding her own family near bankruptcy changes retreat into resolve: she intends to earn independently and fight back for her relatives and unborn child.
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9.2Ariel’s wedding is taken over by a ruthless Mafia lord who forces her into marriage. She does not know why he has chosen her as a target or what the sudden union will bring.
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8.0Coleton leaves his new wife to answer Hana’s call about a sick child, hurting her as he goes. Her divorce request threatens a family merger, prompting relatives to plan public pressure and manipulate injury photographs against her. Overhearing the scheme, she records evidence and contacts a formidable divorce lawyer rather than accept continued humiliation for their financial interests.
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9.2Alyssa Hart seeks work to fund her mother’s treatment but receives a marriage contract instead. The Valentino family requires marriage to Stephano and an heir in exchange for money and release after two years. Unequal rules leave her bound while he retains freedom. Growing awareness of vulnerability beneath his coldness, and his developing attachment, complicate a deal originally framed as purely practical.
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8.9After years of abuse, Ava Mckenzie’s adoptive family demands a posthumous marriage to finance its failing company. Her fiancé’s betrayal and Megan’s taunting complete the break. Ava agrees to sign only if the adoption is ended, then leaves to trace her biological family. Unknown to her, seven powerful billionaire brothers in Manhattan are already searching for her.
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7.8Camilla’s wealthy upbringing offers little happiness when Mafia father Mateo controls her future. After killing Fernando, the man she loves, he insists she marry business partner’s son Albert Alejandro despite her objections. The proposed union serves family interests rather than her wishes. Her grief and lack of choice form the central conflict, while the introduction leaves the marriage’s later direction unspecified.
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9.2When danger arrives, Liam shields Sophia and leaves Aria feeling abandoned despite their long engagement. Aria impulsively marries his wealthy rival Aiden Carter in response. Aiden's protection offers more than a rebound, but his possessiveness creates another uncertainty. Between the relationship that failed her and a demanding new husband, Aria must consider what being chosen should actually mean.
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9.4Mason Stone treats marriage to his fated mate as a contract while keeping his girlfriend. Maya leaves, returning four years later to clear her father's name. More assertive and guarding an important secret, she wants no renewed involvement with the Alpha who hurt her. With enemies nearby, she must protect what matters while Mason tries to win her back.
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8.0Maya Sullivan's father pledges her against an enormous debt, placing her within Silas Blackwood's carefully managed public image. She must serve as assistant, girlfriend and prospective wife under strict rules. Silas sees marriage as advantage, but their performance becomes complicated by attraction. Maya's growing feelings emerge in a household where privacy and freedom are already uncertain.
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8.0Skylar White marries Louis Anderson to help her family’s failing company, then endures abuse and control within the marriage. His hostility eventually turns into love, but she disappears before he expresses it. Her absence forces him to confront what he has lost, leaving both the search for her and any possibility of her accepting him again unresolved.
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9.0To obtain surgery funds for their mother, Rose Baxter impersonates twin Romilda as Matteo Cavanaugh’s bride. The billionaire accepted the arranged marriage for his late father, not affection for Romilda. Rose’s warmth changes that, but her sister wants to reclaim the place she surrendered. Love now conflicts with concealed identity, leaving Rose to choose between disclosure and departure without a guaranteed outcome.
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8.1Sarah hopes to marry childhood friend Jared, but her father pressures her into marriage with powerful billionaire Vincent Sterling. Threatened with disownment, she enters an arrangement she does not want. Discovering secrets about Vincent and his world complicates the relationship further, leaving Sarah to navigate personal longing and the power that has already overridden her choice of partner.
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7.9Eve Yates demands emotional submission from her husband while favoring a lover. After a severe personal crisis, the narrator faces more coercion, humiliation and a threat to his reproductive autonomy. Hope in the marriage collapses. On waking, he chooses to fight back and leave, turning toward Eve's greatest rival instead of remaining within the rules she imposed.
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8.9Caitlin marries Shawn to recover her late mother's belongings, despite rumors that he is violent and dying. Public mockery changes when her concealed identities emerge: accomplished architect, renowned healer and secret ruler of the underworld. Shawn's harsh image softens, culminating in his declaration of devotion at a globally broadcast wedding as their much-ridiculed union takes on a different meaning.
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8.7Lycan King Alexander takes Ivy from her wedding to James, forcing marriage to punish her for a death he blames on her. Hostility becomes entangled with protection and possessiveness before Ivy escapes. Three years later, he finds her alive beside a young boy. She has built another life, and reclaiming their relationship now depends on her choice rather than his command.
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8.3Overlooked beside her twin sister, Dr. Isla Bennett is forced to marry comatose billionaire Alistair Montgomery under pressure to provide an heir. He wakes, and their contractual relationship develops into love as her sister returns. Then Isla learns she is not a biological Bennett: her mother was accused of killing Alistair's mother. That unresolved accusation threatens the connection their arrangement has created.
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9.4After forty years of neglect in marriage to Nathaniel Cole, the narrator’s previous life ends with his cruelty. Rebirth gives her a chance to withdraw from him and make everyday choices for herself. When her mother asks which sister will fulfil the marriage agreement, she prepares to refuse. Catherine Brown volunteers first, changing who may enter the marriage the narrator now wants to escape.
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8.2Asked to choose an arranged-marriage partner, she surprises her family by selecting Terrence Garvin instead of Bradley, the man she pursued for years. In her previous life, twenty years of marriage ended with the discovery that Bradley had always loved her sister. Returning to the choice gives her a chance to take another path. Bradley’s reaction to her new wedding reveals that he expected her loyalty to remain unchanged.
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8.8Asked to choose a husband from a wealthy family, she selects Nathaniel Chapman instead of George, the man she once loved. Her first marriage helped George gain an inheritance, but his affair with her sister turned into resentment and ultimately murder. Rebirth offers a different choice and a chance to avoid that future. What she does not expect is that George remembers their previous life as well.
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8.4Lyra Ravenwood sacrifices her pack and plans for Cassian Voss, only to lose both her work and her trust in him. Evidence of fraud gives her a way to confront the Silvercrest leadership. She approaches Cassian’s rival, Alpha Kael Hart, with a bargain: the information he needs in exchange for marriage, protection and a place as Bloodmoon’s Luna. Her aim is no longer to save the relationship she left behind.
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8.9Betrayed alongside her daughters in an earlier apocalypse, Ivy Brooks returns to twenty days before disaster while pregnant with her third child. Future memories and a mysterious system help her prepare resources and protect them. A former romantic connection offers financial support in exchange for marriage, becoming an ally in the changed world. Ivy’s new course combines motherhood, survival and a determination to control her own future.
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9.0After Jack Hughes repeatedly dismisses his girlfriends as fortune seekers, a man accepts an arranged marriage to heiress Cyndi White. Jack then intrudes on their relationship while claiming to test her character. Reborn with a different perspective, the husband challenges his friend’s motives and false social identity rather than accepting another explanation. His response breaks with the trust he once extended unquestioningly.
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8.1After a crash, Rowan hears his late grandmother's voice warning that Elena Reed is faking amnesia and recalling their unhappy relationship in a previous life. She predicts an imminent choice of bride and recommends Piper Alden. When the elders arrive with photographs, Rowan immediately chooses Piper, despite their longstanding clashes, trusting his grandmother's warning over his attachment to Elena.
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8.3Asked to choose a fiancée, the narrator selects Yvonne Shaw instead of longtime love Natalie. In his previous life, Natalie became pregnant by his brother; the elders forced an abortion and sent the brother away. Natalie blamed her husband, and their marriage became unbearable before his death. Reborn at the original choice, he steps aside, unaware that Natalie has returned too.
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8.4Exposing Carter's affair with Sienna costs her the support of her adoptive parents, who threaten the bakery she built and rewrite her part in a past rescue. She approaches a powerful billionaire with a proposal for a publicity relationship. He offers a two-year marriage instead. Before she can adjust to the change, a young girl's question about a new mother makes the arrangement more complicated.
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9.4Catherine's family sides with her sister after Marco's betrayal, then tries to trade Catherine into another marriage. Lorenzo offers protection through a contract of his own. Becoming his wife reveals the Mafia power behind his business identity, while his growing possessiveness challenges the limits of their arrangement.
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9.1A man realizes his marriage to Eva Burnham is a deal addressing his family’s financial crisis and her company’s lawsuit. Eva continues prioritizing first love Charlie Springer, including at events where her husband might expect to stand beside her. After three years of separation within the marriage, the original problems are settled. He decides that the arrangement has reached its end and prepares to leave.
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8.2After college, Jennifer Huckabee enters a secret relationship with the man her brother once trusted to look after her. Working for him by day and adapting herself to his wishes in private leaves her increasingly dependent on his attention. His former fiancée’s return exposes the difference between his treatment of the two women. Jennifer chooses to accept another marriage proposal rather than keep pleading for a place he refuses to respect.
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8.1Reborn on the day she and Tilda Wright choose their husbands, she discovers an ability to hear other people’s thoughts. Tilda intends to take the apparently gentle man her sister married before, leaving her former abusive partner behind. The exchange does not provoke the expected fear: memories of that first marriage reveal that neither choice was as simple as Tilda believes.
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9.2Finding Julian Sinclair with her best friend ends the future she expected from their claiming ceremony. At a bar, she encounters his half-brother Cain, and a mate bond takes hold. His contract and escalating control soon make the new relationship another confinement. When Cain sends a photograph of a badly injured Julian, she begins considering how to turn his power against the people who betrayed her.
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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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