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.
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.
8.7After five years in prison, the narrator faces a family that rejects her and Gavin, the former fiancé who framed her and stole her research. He is now engaged to Mia. Unbeknown to them, she has become the wealthy covert consultant Dr. X. She offers Horatio Melton help for an ailing elder in exchange for marriage, intending to reclaim what was stolen.
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.
8.9Carrie falls in love during a marriage of convenience, but Kristopher is with another woman when she needs him most. She divorces him and starts over. Only her departure makes him recognize what he has lost. Faced with her growing circle of admirers, he offers twenty million dollars and a new marriage deal, leaving her response unresolved.
9.2A trust audit leads Ms. Oliver to discover that Gray Cooley deliberately left their marriage unregistered. Her best friend Brylee is pregnant with his child, while the pair are taking credit for her architectural work and preparing to evict her. Facing deception and fertility shaming, she signs a marriage contract with Kane Barrett, a powerful family rival, and demands a wedding larger than her first.
9.3Pregnancy brings divorce when Ryan Xavier accuses his wife of infidelity. A doctor's account links the pregnancy to Ryan's twin brother, billionaire Kian Xavier, who offers a one-year marriage contract. She accepts and develops feelings for Kian, while Ryan seeks her return. Another revelation about the twins she carries intensifies the conflict between her painful past and an increasingly complicated new relationship.
9.3Emily once publicly rejected Vaughn Mcoy's schoolboy affection. Years later, unemployed and living with her parents, she takes a job and discovers he is her successful new boss. Vaughn still wants her and plans a proposal. Their later contract marriage is supposed to last six months, but when Emily asks about divorce papers, her billionaire husband declares that he will not end it.
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.
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.
9.1Ivana Chase discovers Fletcher Wooten’s betrayal and escapes after he drugs her, reaching Adrian Wooten’s suite. Reporters arrive to stage a scandal against both her and Fletcher’s billionaire cousin. Ivana counters by declaring herself Adrian’s fiancée. His unexpected offer of a marriage contract turns her response to public humiliation into a potential alliance against the plot surrounding them.
9.3Amber’s contract marriage funds her brother’s treatment until Donavan Carlisle’s former love returns. He demands divorce, withdraws medical funding and accepts staged accusations against Amber, escalating into abuse and police involvement. With her trust destroyed, she resolves to abandon her helpless Hayes persona, uncover a secret tied to the Swiss Alps and fight back as a Beaumont.
8.5A woman spends three years in a contract marriage with billionaire Hale Montgomery to save her family. After a crash, he threatens her remaining family assets to force a divorce. She abandons her long devotion, demands a hundred million dollars and leaves for Hollywood. Behind the discarded wife is a celebrated podcast voice whose past support he has failed to recognize.
9.3Pregnant designer Amelia Vale accepts Lucas Hart's marriage arrangement to protect her child and studio. His distrust drives her away. Four years later, she runs Vale Atelier and raises Lily alone. Lucas seeks a relationship with their daughter and another chance with Amelia, but old crimes involving both families and a struggle for Hartwell Group complicate his efforts to rebuild their trust.
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.
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.
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.
9.1After three years married to hockey star Halsey Mays, a woman learns that he regards their relationship as a publicity contract. His pregnant ex-girlfriend and threats against her family's business expose his contempt. She demands divorce, signs and refuses a payout. When she tries to leave, Halsey's detachment turns into possessive aggression, denying the freedom she believes the ended contract should provide.
8.4Bethany enters a contract marriage after her fiancé and sister betray her and target the family fortune. She expects a transaction for revenge, but her husband identifies himself as the stranger from the earlier encounter and openly supports her against threats. When the contract nears its end, his wish to make it permanent complicates her intention to leave.
9.1Daisy Turner marries the enigmatic Liam to recover her stolen inheritance, expecting distrust and a useful transaction. Her stepmother’s schemes, shifting allies and dangerous former attachments complicate that plan. Attraction develops within the marriage, making the man she intended to use a possible source of trust. Reclaiming the family’s business now involves choices that could endanger both revenge and love.
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.
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.
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.
8.5Vivienne escapes an arranged wedding and discovers that her new employer is Tristan, the lover she believed died eight years earlier. Now called Tom, he does not remember her and is involved with a mafia leader’s daughter. A contract marriage offers a way out, while Vivienne tries to recover their shared past.
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.