The Nerd Who Played the Game

For three years, the protagonist of The Nerd Who Played the Game acted as the ultimate support for Shannon Seay, the school's most notorious flirt. From copying notes to providing alibis for her flings, he ensured her academic success. However, right before university orientation, Shannon dumps him for a more exciting guy named Hunter. While onlookers expect a scene, he remains calm. His secret? Shannon’s father paid him $50 million to be her handler. With the final payment secured, he is ready to disappear.

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Zach's eyes lit up with anticipation. "Got a reply? Did he agree to a face-to-face meeting?"

The assistant nodded, adjusting her grip on the files. "Met him today. He's booked tonight but slotted tomorrow."

Zach beamed triumphantly, fist-pumping subtly. "Perfect!"

He pivoted to Shannon, radiating victory. "Told you I'd seal it. Tomorrow's ours."

The assembly unleashed a torrent of sycophantic cheers.

"Zach, you're unstoppable!"

"We're all riding your coattails now."

"Shannon hit the jackpot with you."

Basking in the glow, Zach cast a smug sidelong glance my way. "Hey, any entry-level spots? Janitor, security? Troy is an old friend who did solids for my girl. Heard he's jobless. Thought I'd offer stability."

Laughter boomed.

"Zach, think twice. His family is purely toxic."

"Remember his vanishing act? His parents stormed the school, wailing and accusing the admins of abduction. Hit the evening news—total embarrassment!"

"Spot on! They're nuts. Zach, your company has just taken off. The last thing you want is their circus derailing it."

Zach feigned relief. "Whew, close call. Sorry, Troy. I love to assist, but my operation is too green for that baggage."

He sidled closer to Shannon, as if I carried a plague.

Shannon fixed me with a steely stare, her lips parting briefly before she clamped down, frustration etched in her features.

Eyes bore into me, awaiting my humiliation.

Unruffled, I reiterated, "No worries. I have a job. Thanks anyway."

Zach sighed theatrically. "That line of work? Might wanna bail before it bites you. Youth and looks fade, and those gigs come with health hazards."

Guffaws echoed, but the assistant, mid-gather, suddenly halted, her professional mask shattering as recognition dawned.

Her files cascaded to the floor in a chaotic avalanche, pages fluttering like startled birds.

Silence blanketed the space.

Zach snapped, "Clumsy much? Those are confidential!"

Oblivious to his ire, she looked in my direction, her voice quivering with awe. "Mr. Stuart? I didn't expect to see you here."

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After giving birth to a daughter, my husband secretly swapped her for a mistress's son to secure his family inheritance. I spent years raising a child that wasn't mine, unaware of the cruel betrayal. Once the truth surfaces, my devotion turns into a cold, calculated quest for vengeance. I will dismantle his billionaire empire and reclaim the life he stole. He wanted a legacy, but I will ensure he loses everything he ever built.

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9.4

Before My Last Breath, I Was Her Reflection

9.4

In this haunting billionaire romance novel, a woman serves as a physical stand-in for her husband's deceased first love. After undergoing numerous surgeries to perfect the likeness, her life shatters when the original woman miraculously returns. Ordered to undergo one final operation to erase her face, the protagonist's body fails. This mystery story follows the tragic end of a forced imitation and the husband's descent into madness as he tries to remember the face he destroyed.

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7.6

Bound By Contract: The Possessive CEO's Bride

7.6

Kaylee's family was drowning in debt, and her stepmother locked her inside a freezing bedroom. To save their bankrupt company, they decided to sell her off to a sixty-five-year-old man with a disgusting reputation. They cut off her allowance and confiscated the only precious keepsake her dead mother had ever left her. "Put on the engagement dress, or I will smash your mother's crystal box into a million pieces." Terrified of the old man, Kaylee risked her life by jumping out of the second-story window into a violent storm. She hit the muddy ground hard, twisting her ankle and tearing her skin on rusted iron gates as she escaped into the pitch-black night. Dragging her bleeding bare feet across the cold sand, her lungs felt like they were filled with broken glass. She didn't understand why she had to be the sacrifice for their endless greed, or how they could be so cruel as to hold her dead mother's memory hostage. She had absolutely nowhere to go, and the old man's cars were already pulling into the estate to claim her. Cornered by the blinding headlights of a motorcade on the beach, she threw herself at the feet of Ernest Blackwell, the most ruthless billionaire in New York. "Marry me! You need a wife, and I need a husband right now!" To buy her freedom and crush the family that sold her, she chose to sign a twenty-million-dollar fake marriage contract with the devil himself.

Billionaire Modern Romance

9.7

Cheating Season

9.7

Four years into their marriage, billionaire Scott has abandoned Leila for a vibrant college student named Gigi. While the pair bonds over street food and the thrill of professional gaming, they mock Leila for her supposed ignorance of the esports scene. Little do they know, Leila is intimately involved with their idol, Joel Arnoult. As Scott ignores his wife to watch from the stands, Leila is hidden away with Joel, navigating a high-stakes affair that turns the tables on her husband's betrayal.

Action Billionaire Modern Romance

8.1

Never divorce a wife who loves you deeply.

8.1

For three years, she lived as a ghost in her late sister's home, raising her nephew and loving a husband who ignored her. But when they left her to burn in a wrecked car to salvage a mere keepsake, her devotion died. Surviving the flames, she signs Kevin's divorce papers and finds refuge with Oscar Thorne, a cold billionaire who heals her physical and emotional scars. Yet, as her past collides with the shocking truth that her sister is actually alive, her ex-husband begs for forgiveness.

Billionaire Modern Mystery Romance

7.7

The Billionaire's Contract: Protecting My Secret Son

7.7

I sat in a Louis XV-style chair that cost more than my entire education, picking at the peeling leather of my thrift-store handbag. Across the mahogany table, Council Bartlett didn't even look at me; he just checked his watch, treating our marriage like a corporate merger that needed to be finalized before the market closed. To the world, I was a gold digger hitting the lottery, but I was actually a woman with a secret I guarded more fiercely than a state secret. I had one week to show a social worker a stable home with a husband, or they would take my four-year-old nephew, Leo, and put him back into the system forever. The ink was barely dry on our marriage certificate when my world started to fracture. My aunt called, screaming for help as her drunk husband broke into her house, forcing me to leave my new "billionaire husband" in my cramped Queens apartment to handle a domestic nightmare with a baseball bat and pepper spray. When I returned, smelling of cheap whiskey and sweat, I found Council’s mother—the ice-cold Hortense—waiting on a video call. She didn't just want a business arrangement; she wanted an heir, and she’d already sent a box of fertility drugs to my kitchen counter to prove it. I was living a lie in a tenement building, caught between a man who treated me like a line item and a social worker who viewed my life as a "phantom." Council was sleeping on my lumpy sofa, his expensive legs dangling off the end, while I locked the bedroom door every night. I didn't want his money; I just wanted my boy. But how could I survive a war where the enemy lived in a penthouse and the casualties were measured in custody hearings? Just as Council saw me holding Leo and the "Ice King" finally began to thaw, his phone buzzed with an anonymous threat. "I know you're faking it. Pay me 100k or the press gets the story." The blackmailer was someone inside the Bartlett estate, and the "shield" I had built for Leo was about to become our cage.

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