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8.6
Chasing the boss
8.6
After a night of unexpected passion, a young woman finds herself entangled with a powerful billionaire. What started as a fleeting encounter evolves into a high-stakes pursuit when she becomes the target of his relentless obsession. Navigating the treacherous waters of his elite world, she must decide if his intense devotion is a dream or a gilded cage. Their lives collide in a whirlwind of luxury, secrets, and a romance that defies all logic.

9.2
"I have a moral duty to marry her," my fiancé announced at the altar, abandoning me for my sobbing sister.
He claimed she was pregnant by a stalker meant for him. When I sliced my wrist in despair, he didn't panic-he sneered.
"Stop acting crazy, Angela. It's disgusting. Just wait a year for me."
Five years later, I returned as a top immunologist. When his son collapsed from anaphylaxis at a gala, I rushed to save him.
Instead of gratitude, my sister slapped me, and my ex-fiancé kicked me in the ribs, screaming that I was poisoning his child.
I injected the life-saving drug anyway, collapsing in pain as police sirens wailed outside.
"Arrest this psycho!" my ex demanded, pointing at me.
But the officers walked past me to handcuff him, just as a cold, powerful voice cut through the chaos.
"You have five seconds to step away from my wife."

8.1
Alessia Capone was sold into an engagement with the dangerous Rino Lombardi at fourteen, but she fled his obsession for a life that became a nightmare. Years later, Rino has returned as a powerful widower, determined to claim the woman who escaped him. Though Alessia is now a formidable queen who refuses to kneel, the man she once hated might be her only true match. He is prepared to burn everything down to bring her home, and this time, he won't let her go.

9.4
The protagonist lost his ability to walk protecting Clara, yet he worked day and night to support her medical studies. While he believed in her promise of marriage, Clara was busy rekindling a romance with her former flame, Caleb Carter. When the betrayal is uncovered, Clara discards her savior without mercy. Armed with a scalpel, she decides to sacrifice the man who loves her to provide Caleb with the life-saving heart transplant he requires.

7.9
After serving three years for a fatal accident, Ella Marin is released to find her husband, Andrew Lorenzo, has ascended to Don. While she was imprisoned, Andrew’s public infidelities with women like Rose Gunfire and Sophia Rossi became scandal fodder. Despite the betrayal, Ella remains indifferent to the warnings from the family. She originally wed the mafia leader only to secure a kidney donor for her terminally ill mother, accepting a hollow marriage to save a life.

8.1
This holiday collection is pure, uncut sin under the mistletoe.
Step-siblings tangled in tinsel and sweat.
Best friends betraying vows on the Christmas rug.
Stranded guests double-stuffed by the hosts.
Secret Santas delivering creampies instead of gifts.
No safe words. No condoms. Just raw, bed-breaking, screaming-orgasm holiday hookups.🔥
Kinks include: daddy kink, age-gap, cheating, Double Penetration, squirting on the Christmas tree, caught masturbating, and marital-bed breeding while the spouse sleeps downstairs.
If Christmas makes you wet for the wrong reasons-this blizzard will drown you in it.
Strictly 18+.🔞🔞🔞
Grab a blanket... you'll need it to hide the stains.🔥🔥

7.9
On their anniversary, my fiancé humiliated me by giving my heirloom ring to his lover. This ultimate betrayal shattered our future, but I refused to play the victim. Instead, I approached his most powerful rival, a man he feared and envied. By proposing a strategic marriage to this billionaire, I secured a path to reclaim my dignity. Now, as the wife of the man who can destroy him, I will watch my former lover lose everything he holds dear.

8.9
Five years after being discarded as a billionaire’s secret, Arabella Sterling returns with a new identity. Once a disgraced wife, she has transformed into a legendary business strategist known as The Reformer. When she is hired to save the failing Sterling Group, she comes face-to-face with Adrian, the man who chose another woman over her. While Adrian seeks redemption for his past lies, Arabella arrives with a cold heart and a singular mission: to destroy the empire she once helped build.

7.8
When a devoted wife discovers the chilling reality of her husband's violent nature, her world shatters. Beneath his facade of a perfect family man lies a dangerous rage that threatens everyone she loves. Now, she must navigate a web of secrets and betrayal to protect her children. As the mystery of his past unfolds, she faces a desperate struggle for survival, balancing the remnants of her love against the terrifying truth of a killer.

9.0
After being pushed to her death by her best friend Lacey and her boyfriend Xavier, Giselle Ashford unexpectedly regresses to the moment her life fell apart. In her past life, her honest advice regarding a promotion led to murderous resentment when Lacey missed out on a massive salary increase. Now, facing the same question about the career opportunity from manager Elton Baldwin, Giselle must navigate the treacherous waters of jealousy and betrayal to rewrite her tragic fate.

8.6
After a night of vulnerability leads to a steady marriage with Graham Rowland, the protagonist’s life shatters when his former lover, Leanna, passes away. Convinced she sabotaged his past relationship, Graham strips her of everything, leaving her to die in despair. However, she unexpectedly wakes up two hours before their original mistake. Determined to change her fate, she rushes to find Leanna and return the decade of happiness she unintentionally stole.

7.9
Six years after faking her death to escape Caleb Finley, Ms. Rockworth is confronted by a desperate system on the brink of collapse. Following her disappearance, Caleb succumbed to madness, prompting the system to create a child from their combined genes to preserve world balance. Now, the boy's life hangs in the balance. Caleb threatens to remove his son's oxygen tube unless she finally reveals herself, forcing a high-stakes reunion.

8.7
After a devastating earthquake, two sisters face a life-altering choice. In her first life, the protagonist saves a billionaire and inherits a fortune, only to be murdered by her jealous sister. Now reborn at the moment of the disaster, she watches as her sister rushes to save the wealthy woman first to steal her future. This modern fantasy and mystery novel follows her journey as she navigates this second chance, facing new action and high-stakes billionaire drama.

8.6
Sinful Addiction
8.6
HOLY SHIT! My father's best friend had his face buried in between my legs.
I threw my head back against the headrest, fisting his hair in my palms but it only urged him to go faster.
His breath was warm against my clit and just when I thought I couldn't get enough, he hummed, the vibration sending intense waves of pleasure through me.
"Oh my God," this was so wrong yet my body betrayed me, leaning closer into his touch.
~~
Diane Ashford thought four years in Paris had killed the forbidden feelings she had for Damon Pierce. But returning to New York brings the past rushing back. Damon is her father's best friend, her protector, and the man who makes every part of her body ache for him.
Now working as his assistant, Diane must face desire, secrets, and family lies that could destroy them. Damon is powerful, possessive, and impossible to resist.
Can their forbidden love survive the truth or will it ruin them both?

9.7
At my own engagement party, my fiancé, Franco, abandoned me. He left me standing alone in a room full of guests to rush to the side of another woman, Katina, the one he truly loved.
He called me a gold-digger, a parasite clinging to his family's name, and accused me of faking an illness just to get his attention.
But he never knew the truth. He never knew about the secret I carried-a terminal leukemia diagnosis I received just two days before he humiliated me.
He never knew that the night he called a drunken mistake, the night he spat on with disgust, had left me pregnant with his child.
And he certainly never knew that while he was tending to Katina's fake anxiety attack, I was in a sterile hospital room, alone, terminating our baby to have a fighting chance at a life he made sure was a living hell.
I thought my death would be the end of our story, a final, quiet release from his cruelty.
But when I opened my eyes again, I was back at our engagement party, the scent of gardenias filling the air, just moments before he would walk out and shatter my life for the first time.

9.5
After dying as a withered husk due to a Life-Drain System, Leah is reborn with a vengeful mission. Her husband’s mistress had possessed a pet cat to sap Leah’s vitality, killing her unborn child in the process. Now back in time, Leah realizes the animal is her enemy in disguise. To punish the soul within, she subjects the feline to endless breeding cycles. This dark romance and mystery follows her quest to reclaim her stolen life force through ruthless retribution.

9.2
Sebastian Chance sacrificed his life as a pianist to serve his mafia wife, Sylvia. After a decade of bloodshed, he is discarded for a younger man and forced to witness his brother's brutal murder. When Sebastian unexpectedly regresses to the day of Sylvia's betrayal, he chooses a different path. Instead of fighting for a broken marriage, he secures his brother's safety and files for divorce. As Sebastian walks away to reclaim his life, the once-cold mafia donna begins to lose her lose her lose her mind.

9.5
The night I ran, I left everything behind.
My dead fiancé's ghost. His brother's cold hands reaching for me. A father who won't meet my eyes because he's already sold me to the highest bidder.
I thought I was escaping.
Then a stranger pulled me from the darkness, and I learned what real danger looks like.
Damon moves like he owns the world. Talks like every word matters. Looks at me like I'm the only woman who ever made him feel something. He says he's the son the Kings family erased, the bastard they tried to bury. He says Evan loved me-really loved me-and that's why I should trust him.
He wants me to sign a contract. One year as his wife. One year to help him destroy the family that destroyed us both. One year pretending to belong to a man who makes my heart race and my skin burn every time he's close.
But the closer we get, the more I feel him keeping secrets.
He touches me like I'm fragile. Looks away when I ask about Evan. Holds the truth behind his teeth like it might cut us both.
And the whole time, I'm falling.
Falling into his warmth. His danger. His impossible kindness that feels too real to be fake.
But if I've learned anything from the Kings, it's this: the men who save you are always the ones who need you most.
And the ones who need you?
They're the ones who hurt you in the end.
Evan knew something the night he died. Something about my father. Something about the deal that would make the Kings the most powerful people in the country.
Damon knows too.
And the only way he'll tell me?
Is if I say yes.
Say yes to the contract. Say yes to the marriage. Say yes to the fire building between us that feels less like pretending every single day.
But when I finally learn the truth-about Evan, about my father, about the empire that wants us both dead-
Will the man holding me survive what comes next?
And more terrifying:
Will I survive loving him?

8.2
Grace hid her identity as the heir to a multi-billion-dollar empire just to experience ordinary love, acting as a free, devoted assistant to her actor fiancé, Hayden.
But while delivering his coffee, she caught him cheating with a new actress in his dressing room.
Through the crack in the door, she heard the actress whine about Grace being a feelingless robot.
Hayden just laughed, not stopping his frantic movements.
"She is a shield. She is a boring, free assistant. That is all she is."
He bragged that their upcoming engagement was just a PR stunt to build his perfect boyfriend image, and he would dump her the second he didn't need her.
He thought he held all the power, completely unaware that every massive movie contract and endorsement he had was secretly funded by Grace.
The betrayal poured over Grace like ice water, freezing her heart completely.
She had fought her aristocratic family and lowered herself to serve a man who treated her like disposable trash.
The girl who believed in simple love died in that hallway.
Grace didn't cry or burst into the room. She calmly hit record on her phone, securing the evidence to trigger his morality clause.
Then, she dialed her billionaire mother.
"I made a bad investment. Now I am liquidating the asset."
She was going to artificially inflate his fame to the absolute peak, and when he finally thought he was untouchable, she would strip him of everything.

8.3
She needed a solution.
He needed a wife.
When Samantha Williams signs a six-month marriage contract with the ruthless billionaire Adrian Wolfe, emotions are strictly forbidden and love is not part of the deal. To the world, they are the perfect couple.
Behind closed doors, they are two strangers bound by cold rules and dangerous attraction.
But contracts don't control hearts.
As secrets unravel, jealousy ignites, and lines blur, Samantha discovers that marrying a billionaire comes with a price far greater than she imagined. And Adrian soon realizes that the one woman he promised not to love may be the only thing he can't let go.
When the contract expires, will they walk away...
Or will love demand a price neither of them planned to pay?

8.2
After discovering her husband's secret affair and a web of lies, Elara decides to leave her marriage behind. However, her departure is complicated by a mysterious disappearance linked to her spouse’s past. As she unravels the truth, Elara must navigate dangerous secrets and unexpected allies to reclaim her freedom. Every step toward independence reveals a deeper conspiracy, forcing her to question everything she once believed about her life and love.

9.5
Scarlett Meyer’s marriage to Joachim Davidson seems perfect until she discovers his two-year betrayal with her former bully, Katrina Greene, who already has twins with him. Heartbroken on the day she learns of her pregnancy, Scarlett endures Katrina’s taunts and Joachim’s constant deception. To reclaim her life, she decides to abort her child and stage her own death. Before vanishing, she leaves Joachim a devastating parting gift: proof of his mistress’s malice and the loss of his heir.

9.6
Terry has spent seven years as the devoted, deaf companion to Caitlin Randall, Lunbury's most perfect socialite. After losing his hearing to save her life at eighteen, he became the only man she truly favored. However, during a birthday celebration, Terry’s hearing unexpectedly returns, revealing a terrifying truth. While blindfolded and drugged, he overhears a cold, robotic command through Caitlin’s earpiece. His beloved is not playing a game; she is orchestrating a sinister plot against him.

9.6
On her wedding day, Elena is shattered when her fiancé abandons her for her half-sister. Heartbroken and humiliated, she seeks solace in a one-night stand with a mysterious, powerful stranger. To her shock, he is Sebastian Thorne, a cold billionaire and her ex's biggest rival. When Sebastian proposes a marriage of convenience to reclaim her dignity, Elena agrees. Now, she must navigate high society while seeking revenge on those who hurt her.