Desperate Measures

Because of an unfortunate misunderstanding in the past... For a quick promise in the most desperate of times... All this randomness created a tragedy in the contract marriage between Nolan Patrick and Almira. Nolan Patrick married Almira only to get revenge because he believed that Almira was the culprit who caused the death of his fiancée. He devised all sorts of schemes, thinking of ways to make Almira suffer with the sole goal of making her suffer the pain she once caused. Even Almira's days of resignation could not tame his cruel nature. Finally, through many events, Almira cooked up the intention to take revenge on this cruel billionaire. She promised herself, bringing back all the pain he caused her. Will their love story come to an end?

Reaching adulthood, Pax then ends up in Chicago being an unregistered and unknown chemist living in a place resembling a garage; not planning to change anything of his lifestyle, until he met someone who was able to help him with an unknown chemical substance made only in his knowledge. In cause of his mental incapacity at several points of his living, the said project resulted in a disaster, causing some of its built evaporated elements open to other people without their awareness of the possibility of obtaining them. With that supposed substance running around within the air, it then goes in the way of people who are proved worthy of them to be obtained. Scattered along the country, they find their way to each other, desperate to learn control with what they have possibly acquired.

Lily Bowman comes from a family that sat at the bottom of the social class. She believes she has met love, protection and stability in Dorian, a wealthy, cold and powerful man. Her world collapses into pieces on the night of their anniversary when she discovers Dorian in bed with Bella, a rich and rude daughter of a billionaire. Dorian didn't just break up with Lily that night, he fired from her position in his family business, leaving her desperate and fragile as her family depends on her earnings. While drinking alcohol in a club with the aim of numbing her pain, she met a mysterious man who is also trying to heal. Will this man bring Lily salvation and peace or will he shatter her life more than it has already been?

The day my husband's first love, who was my sister, died, he sent me into the wilderness, all because I was not a match for the kidney transplant she needed. "Make sure Lisa can’t leave. For pretending to be Emma’s little sister, it’s time she learns her lesson," he ordered. I was abandoned in the dense forest, trapped, and left to fend for myself. Desperate, I sought shelter in a cave, trying to survive. However, wild animals soon picked up my scent and surrounded the cave. In the end, they tore me apart, and I died a brutal, painful death, with my body left exposed and torn in the wilderness. When Benjamin finally saw what was left of me, he lost his mind.

Theirs was a relationship fated to doom even before it began. Kayla Reynolds is desperate to gain her father's affection and thinks the only way to do so in putting herself in front of the devil himself so she does all she can to become the devil's desire. Ricardo Salvatore believes no one can ever fool him. He thinks he is full proofed against games anyone might attempt against him. He is known not only as the youngest Italian billionaire but also the ruthless youngest Mafia lord in the underground world. When these two meet, their worlds collide and plans fall apart as desire and emotions lead the way in a storm of lies, deceit and games of the heart. Will they come out strong or will the betrayal be too painful to look past?

Karina Valerie Villamor lives a life almost everyone wishes for, having wealth, a happy and loving family, and friends. When she reaches the age of adolescence, however, things begin to change. Reality hits her. She gradually lost her loved ones until no one was left. Jacob, her long-time boyfriend who became her new world, cheated on her with her best friend. She made an unexpected decision in her life as a result of her grief. Karina became desperate for someone to be in her life. That is why she agreed to the agreement with a family she had never met. A contract that makes her a substitute bride for a ruthless man in town. Will she feel genuine love and appreciation as a result of this decision? Or will it make her even more miserable?

Betrayed, beaten, and left for dead in the freezing snow, Jane's world shatters when the man she loved, Chris, cruelly denies her and their unborn child. As darkness threatens to claim her, a stranger, Greg an aloof billionaire forced into an ultimatum by his grandfather stumbles upon her dying body. Desperate to save her, Greg becomes entangled in Jane’s fate, unknowingly setting off series of events that will bind them together in ways neither could have imagined. Will Jane rise from the ashes of her suffering to seek justice? And will Greg, who has sworn off love, find in Jane the woman he never knew he needed? In a world where love and revenge collide, their story is just beginning…

Victor Williams is entitled to a trust fund but can only get it if and when he gets married and has his first child. Lila needs money to treat her mother's cancer that's getting worse by the day. She's not one to fall for money and petty offers of gifts but she's desperate and her best friend Emmanuel, who is Victor’s PA offers her the job of being in a contract marriage with his boss. In this love triangle, Ema has feelings for Lila which he had kept to himself over the years, Lila didn’t for once like Victor but she was in dire need of money to help her mother survive cancer. In a shocking twist, Angela, Victor’s girlfriend was also pregnant.

Mia and Maya Moonstone are twin sisters and daughters of the Alpha of the Skye pack, one of the weakest pack in America. With their pack on the brink of collapse, their father makes a desperate bid to save it by agreeing to marry Maya to the ruthless Alpha Logan. But fate intervenes when Maya falls into a coma after a tragic accident, just one day before the wedding. With their pack’s future in danger, Mia is forced to take Maya’s place and marry the ruthless Alpha Logan, agreeing to a 91 day marriage until her sister awakens. But what happens when Maya wakes up and discovers her sister is now married to the man who was meant for her? Will Mia be forced to surrender the alpha who has capture her heart or will she be willing to risk everything to be with him?

“What?” he snapped, breathless. Then I heard her moan, his name, over and over. My husband answered my desperate call while f*ing someone else. Three years of marriage. Three years of silence, insults, and betrayal. Tonight, I begged for scraps of affection, and he gave me humiliation instead. That night should have broken me. Instead, it led me to Kai Rylan. Cold. Dangerous. A man who doesn’t smile, doesn’t forgive, doesn’t feel. He says I’m just another employee in his world of violence and power. So why does he look at me like I’m something he wants to ruin? And why do I want to let him?