8.8Bound powers and years of mistreatment have left Neah trapped in her own pack. A pact brings Alpha Dane into her life, and his decision to take her away raises questions about her past. Pack politics, a contract and slowly developing trust shape this werewolf romance.
8.4Rejected by her fated mate and pressured into an arranged marriage, hybrid wolf Elara negotiates a contract meant to protect her independence. She believes she is dealing with a disreputable younger son. The man signing it is actually Alpha King Dominic Wolfe.
9.1An IVF mix-up leaves Emily Vance carrying billionaire Alistair Wolfe's child instead of her comatose fiancé's. When the fiancé wakes and reveals another betrayal, Emily faces pressure from her own family as well. A temporary union with Alistair offers protection, but brings her into a much more powerful world.
8.8Elena marries a powerful tycoon under an agreement meant to last two years. His growing protectiveness complicates the arrangement, while her concealed talents as a painter, hacker and technology expert begin to surface. A wealthy family's missing-heiress announcement adds another question about her identity.
9.7Dismissed as wolfless, she loses her engagement and is married off to Demetri Contreras, an exiled Alpha dying from silver poison. Her family expects the marriage to bury her future. They do not know she carries a brilliant surgeon's soul, or that saving him could change both their lives.
9.6A family business crisis pushes her into a three-year marriage with Julian Blackwood, who promises neither affection nor companionship. His response to his friend's kindness and her family's cruelty begins changing that arrangement. A pregnancy and questions about her mother's death make the contract harder to end.
8.7Publicly rejected by Gabe on their registration day and disowned by her family, she is left without money or a pack. Caden Sinclair, a Lycan King escaping a political union, offers a different vow: he needs a wife and she needs protection. Their arrangement begins in the wreckage of her former life.
9.4Escaping a greedy stepmother, she signs a marriage contract with a man she believes is a modest construction manager. His luxurious home, unexpected skills and careful avoidance of intimacy do not fit that picture. As opportunities arrive without explanation, she begins questioning what her supposedly convenient husband is hiding.
9.1A family trap exposes years of poisoning and an arranged marriage meant to ruin her future. She leaves, then returns a year later for a blind date that brings her face to face with Julian Sinclair. His proposal for a contract marriage reconnects her with the stranger from the night everything changed.
8.9Elena discovers that Luca's affair reaches even into the embroidery on her wedding gown. Learning that he wants her family's standing rather than a faithful marriage, she asks her father about an older pact with the Cavallaro family. Her response begins with a different groom and a ballroom across the hall.
8.9An accidental voicemail tells her demanding boss Ruslan Oryolov far more than she intended. The CEO is also a Bratva leader, and his response is a contract on his terms. With three orphaned nieces and nephews depending on her, the protection he offers carries a difficult price.
7.4A stranger turns a blackout encounter into a marriage demand backed by legal and financial threats. Even her parents take his side, leaving her unsure of his identity or motive. Refusing to remain compliant, she begins testing how far his wealth and control can really extend.
8.7Jessie's family trades her into a marriage, then sacrifices her when an apocalypse arrives. Reborn on the day the arrangement begins, she remembers both the betrayal and the magical necklace taken from her. She accepts a different bargain and starts preparing for the disaster before anyone else expects it.
7.3Lauren spends five years saving for a future with Tray, only to discover that he is a prince treating poverty as an experience. After she leaves, an encounter with her boss Dashiel Lewis changes another relationship. Instead of the dismissal she expects, he offers a three-year marriage contract.
9.1Ruby 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.
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.
8.1Her father uses a marriage pact with the Moreno family to settle his debts, but Alex abandons the wedding for his mistress. His relatives offer replacements while expecting her to accept the humiliation. She instead reads the agreement on her own terms: it requires a marriage between the families, without naming which Moreno she must choose. Her answer is Alex's father, the Don.
8.9Kelli returns to the banquet where her future was first traded away, carrying memories of Demonte's betrayal and her pack's destruction. Rather than accept his proposal again, she invokes an older honor pact involving his supposedly dead brother, Edward Wiley. The court mocks her decision to marry a fallen hero, until a warrior's arrival interrupts the ceremony and challenges what everyone believes.
8.6After Braydon publicly names another woman as his Luna, she seeks protection through a contract marriage with Alpha King Dallas Marshall. Threats from her former protector expose the agreement, while Dallas's behavior makes its promised safety feel uncertain. Learning that others see her as a source of power strengthens her resolve to renegotiate the contract and recover control over her own boundaries.
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.
8.7A 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.
9.0Kylie watches her Alpha kiss a childhood sweetheart at their second anniversary party, confronting the cost of what she gave up for the marriage. Alpha Logan offers a possible escape and a way to retaliate. His terms require a year as his Luna. Accepting the arrangement would place her beside a powerful man she cannot easily read, while growing attraction complicates the revenge that first made the bargain appealing.
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.
9.2The 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.
7.4Discovering her fiancé and stepsister’s plan to take her mother’s inheritance leads a rejected woman into a contract with Caden Sinclair. His care also reveals a connection to her mother’s past. She confronts her stepmother over an heirloom and resists her father’s attempt to discredit her mental health, holding evidence implicating his wife in her mother’s death. A wolf-shaped shadow introduces another mystery to her fight for control.
8.8Publicly abandoned by Harper Carney at the Dragon God Altar, a woman faces pressure to apologize to Hettie, the relative he has chosen instead. Her father threatens her funds and royal scribal job. She ends the betrothal contract herself after years of being treated as a family pawn. A mysterious golden-eyed man then offers marriage and protection against their retaliation.
8.8Betrayed by Julian and relative Isabelle, an adopted daughter is blamed by her family and promised to older Lord Valerius as punishment. She refuses to remain a bargaining piece. Drafting a business proposal, she leaves the household and plans to approach powerful Gideon Montgomery instead. The plan is to negotiate with a dangerous man on her own terms instead of submitting to the future her family prescribed.
9.2After Oliver’s betrayal with Vanessa, a woman dreads facing the married pair at a gravely ill relative’s birthday. Billionaire boss Simon Hart proposes fake dating: she can escape pity, while he can present a settled public image. Their agreement is meant for two events with clear emotional boundaries. The deal expands beyond public appearances, and the carefully stated boundaries begin to unravel.
9.2Artist Elena Hart supports her brother after their parents' deaths. When he steals from the Moretti mafia family, she bargains with Dante Moretti to protect him and becomes bound to serve Dante. She tries to maintain her boundaries, but attraction complicates a relationship shaped by control. As betrayal and hidden truths emerge, Elena faces choices involving love, freedom and the brother she promised to protect.
8.6Savannah Yardley discovers Finn Hansley’s betrayal on her birthday and turns to rival-college basketball captain Ares Thatcher, her sworn enemy. Their deal is meant to be temporary: she reveals Finn’s weaknesses to help secure revenge, then parts from Ares. The alliance joins sporting rivalry with personal hurt, leaving Savannah to question whether working with an enemy can remain as limited as she intended.
8.0For three years, the narrator takes notes for Samuel Nelson, covers his flirting and helps him reach a top college. Before term begins, he ends their relationship to pursue Anna, expecting heartbreak from someone he considers dull and devoted. The narrator instead checks a fifty-million payment and accepts the breakup. Samuel’s mother had paid generously for that apparent devotion, and the arrangement has served its purpose.
8.6After her father steals from mafia leader Theo Rodriguez, the narrator confronts him to secure her father's release. Theo offers freedom in exchange for a year under his control. Frightened but determined, she accepts. Their coercive arrangement raises the possibility of attraction becoming love, while leaving open whether either will separate when the contract ends.
8.9After discovering her husband’s affair with her best friend, Torie serves divorce papers and asks her family to recognize her as the Blackwood Group’s heiress. She then enters a contractual relationship with billionaire Graham, her former husband’s uncle. His dark past and possessiveness complicate her plans for revenge. The new connection offers another source of power while exposing her to fresh control and threats.
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.
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.
8.9An accident costs Emma her parents and Damien his wife, while his son Luca stops speaking. To fund help for her ill sister, Emma later accepts a harsh live-in nanny contract. Damien becomes drawn to her without knowing she drove during the earlier tragedy. Their closeness therefore develops beside a concealed history that will force him to confront grief, blame and possible love.