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Marriage first & marriage contracts

Relationships that begin with a sudden marriage or a contract.

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The Jilted Heiress's Ruthless Billionaire Revenge — original cover8.5

OngoingThe Jilted Heiress's Ruthless Billionaire Revenge

After concealing her Montgomery heiress status for Barrett, a woman discovers he forged her signature to transfer their joint trust funds to Crista Reid. His affair and years of denying her contribution to his company soon emerge. She turns back to her family’s resources and asks its lawyer to draft a prenuptial agreement for Commodore Clayton IV, choosing a proposed new marriage as her response.

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The Scarred Luna: Taming The Ruthless Alpha — original cover9.1

OngoingThe Scarred Luna: Taming The Ruthless Alpha

Jaselya grows up scarred and mistreated in the Moonlight pack as Alpha Balak’s unacknowledged daughter. When Xaeron returns to avenge his family, he defeats the pack and demands her as his bride. She is forced to navigate a marriage shaped by her father’s violence and another man’s revenge. Amid political conflict and inherited blame, an unexpected connection complicates the survival she has learned to put first.

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The Supreme Alpha's Defiant Substitute Bride — original cover9.2

OngoingThe Supreme Alpha's Defiant Substitute Bride

The Decker family sacrifices its biological daughter in a substitute marriage to protect Clarissa and rescue its finances. Obedience leads to her death in a previous life. Returning to the day of the forced wedding preparations, she awakens her White Wolf and healer bloodline, cuts family ties and takes control of the marriage funds. She then offers the poisoned Alpha Houston Mcleod treatment in exchange for protection against her family.

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The Unwanted Wife Is A Zillionaire — original cover9.0

CompletedThe Unwanted Wife Is A Zillionaire

An emergency-room nurse has spent seven years as August Chambers’s hidden wife. With their marriage contract about to expire, his affair becomes impossible to ignore, and his demands for silence turn increasingly cruel. She decides to leave rather than accept another humiliation. August remains unaware of both the daughter she has secretly raised and the successful technology business that gives her a life beyond the marriage he believes he controls.

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The Wolfless Bride's Secret Alpha Husband — original cover9.2

OngoingThe Wolfless Bride's Secret Alpha Husband

A wolfless woman fleeing debt collectors unexpectedly forms a mate bond with an Alpha, only to be abandoned afterward. Her family then forces her into an arranged marriage to settle its debts. With her husband absent from the wedding, a woman claiming to be his mistress confronts her in his home. She resolves to resist further humiliation while enduring the sixty days required by their false marriage.

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Touch me please: A Dark Mafia Romance — original cover9.1

OngoingTouch me please: A Dark Mafia Romance

After his wife’s death, Enzo Romano enters a contract marriage with Arianna, who has secretly loved him. She hopes for a connection he believes he can no longer offer. Moments of closeness give way to abrupt withdrawal and unanswered questions. Arianna is left confronting the distance between their marriage and the affection she wants, while Enzo remains attached to the wife he lost.

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Unwanted No More – The Devil Mafia's Love is Mine — original cover9.1

OngoingUnwanted No More – The Devil Mafia's Love is Mine

After returning to the Sterling household, Jade Saint faces an imposed marriage arrangement. To save her dying adoptive mother, she willingly enters a contract marriage with powerful Roman Volkov. His world brings enemies and secrets he will not explain. As Jade chooses to remain involved, she begins recognizing that his decision to marry her was not accidental, complicating the bargain she thought she understood.

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Your Alpha King Father's My Husband Now-Back Off, Ex! — original cover8.2

OngoingYour Alpha King Father's My Husband Now-Back Off, Ex!

After a year without sight, Ava’s recovery reveals Victor’s betrayal with Stella, the woman who harmed her. She accepts his rejection and leaves. That night, his father, Alpha King Damon Sterling, offers a contractual partnership promising protection and the means to rebuild. Ava signs while treating the arrangement as business, unaware that the king’s interest began long before the night her old relationship ended.

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You Want My Sister? Fine! I'll Have Your Uncle — original cover9.0

OngoingYou Want My Sister? Fine! I'll Have Your Uncle

Sophie's plea for help during a life-threatening pregnancy crisis is dismissed while Anthony marries her sister. After dying, she returns to the day of her engagement to him four years earlier. She remembers Anthony's uncle grieving over her body and wonders why her death mattered so deeply to him. Sophie decides to pursue marriage to that man, seeking both answers and revenge.

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I Opened the Wrong Door and Became the Billionaire’s Obsession — original cover8.7

I Opened the Wrong Door and Became the Billionaire’s Obsession

A mistaken hotel room leaves an event planner pregnant by Kaelan Rexford, the billionaire who controls her workplace and the medical support keeping her mother alive. The pregnancy draws her into a struggle involving his fiancée and the future of his dynasty. Life in his penthouse offers protection at the cost of independence. As family pressure grows, she begins finding influence inside an arrangement that initially leaves nearly every decision in his hands.

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CONTRACTED TO HATE — original cover9.1

CONTRACTED TO HATE

Ruby Andre-White and Joshua White maintain an impressive public marriage while keeping separate lives behind closed doors. Their arrangement has protected them from emotional involvement for three years. When their families turn inheritance pressure into ultimatums, forced cooperation begins unsettling the distance they thought they could preserve.

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