married to the unknown

Amber Cole is a 31-year-old stripper. With her prime years in the industry slipping away, she’s aware that soon her looks will no longer be enough to make the money she needs to survive. Struggling with her self-worth and looking for a way out, Amber’s world is about to be upended when she meets Ryan Carter, a cold, successful businessman from Chicago. Ryan, reeling from his fiancée's betrayal, is forced into a bizarre deal by a clause in his late grandfather’s will: he must marry and stay married for one year. When his best friend, Tom, suggests he hire a stripper to pretend to be his fiancée, Ryan reluctantly agrees. He picks Amber, offering her $500,000 for her time. Unaware of the deep complexities of her own emotions, Amber agrees, seeing the money as her ticket to a fresh start. Despite their differences — Ryan's polished world of wealth and Amber's gritty, down-to-earth life — they are drawn into a tense, fiery dynamic that forces both to confront their prejudices and assumptions. Amber start their arrangement, initially unaware of the emotional journey she’s about to embark on. As she undergoes a transformation, both physically and emotionally, Ryan begins to question his initial perception of her, discovering that beneath her tough exterior, Amber is more than just a stripper. As the months pass, their relationship evolves from contractual obligation to something far more complicated. Sparks fly, but so do their insecurities. Amber finds herself falling for Ryan, but can she ever be the woman he needs her to be? And can Ryan truly let go of his past and embrace the real, messy woman Amber has become?

Being betrayed by her future fiancé and her own sister makes Belva plan to take revenge on them. When she was drunk, Belva asked a foreign man to sleep with her as an outlet. Who would have thought that this man was the uncle of her future fiancé. Before the wedding day, Belva ran away abroad to keep her pregnancy a secret. Five years later Belva returned with her baby son. She intends to take revenge on them.

“I’ve missed you, Lisa. I want to fuck you so hard.” What? That wasn’t part of the plan, Emilia thought to herself in shock. Before she could process his words, the man’s lips crashed down onto hers, taking her by surprise. --------- Emilia Voss had a one night stand with a hot, sexy stranger who had mistook her for someone else in his drunken state. Fast forward to weeks later, Emilia is forced into an arranged marriage by her despised step father. She is taken to the Blackwoods mansion, the mysterious family she had been married into. She attempts an escape but was caught on her way out by her husband himself...Damon Blackwood. The same man she had a one night stand with but luckily... or unluckily for Emilia, Damon does not regconize her at all. This is a story about the two and their entwined fates as they transform from haters to lovers, and discover secrets about the tragedy that befell their families many years ago.

There were rules to their marriage. Lily was given the life of luxury and everything she could possibly want to live while her husband held the power and control over her fairytale life. It was a game of beauty and dominance. Lily Blakely: I had no other option but to do the unthinkable. I sold my soul to a billionaire heir, rich and spoiled. My dignity held under the heels of his shiny leather shoes and my heart in his hand. And I had done it all to save my father's life. He didn't know that. For him, I was the gold digger of highest order, one he despised the most. And yes, I didn't expect him to fall in love with me ever. He swore that he wouldn't. Daniel Rutherford: She was as beautiful as cunning. The kind I hated the most. A young, independent girl who sold herself for a life of riches and standard. I wanted nothing more than to stay a thousand miles away from her. But I seemed to fail in doing so the moment she got close enough to touch. I wanted her to repel me, yet every time she was near me I got attracted to her in a way I dreaded. I wanted to push her away, but to my utter disdain I wanted to fuck her even more.

Love leads to madness. Killian Benjamin Archer watched it happen to his father after his cherished wife's death. But when his elderly father arranges to marry flame-haired golddigger, Skye Sinclair, Ben, as he is known to his friends, is compelled to take drastic measures to stop the stunning beauty from taking advantage of the old business mogul. A marriage of mutual pleasure could be convenient, indeed … as long as unwanted feelings don't interfere. Desperation forced Skye to agree to marry an old madman. The arrangement will offer the protection she needs. Or so she believes until the billionaire's distractingly handsome son looks closer at the fine print of the contract… and takes his father's place ! Now, the easy, boring and, more importantly, secure union Skye planned, has been exchanged for one simmering with wicked temptation and potential heartbreak. Because as she begins to fall for her devilishly seductive husband, her dark secrets surface and threaten to ruin them both … unless Ben is willing to risk all and open his heart to love.

Suzie Bei was a hard-working woman struggling to make ends meet. One day, her so-called father showed up and told her she was a member of the wealthy Thomson family. The Thomson family accepted her with open arms and treated her well- for two months. Before suddenly throwing a bomb at her that she had an arranged marriage to the Albrecht family's eldest son- who was said to be disabled and comatose. Being scammed into this family and this marriage, Suzie had no choice but to care for this comatose husband. She thought she would just take care of this comatose husband until the other party breathed his last, and thus she would be free. But who would have thought that her comatose husband would wake up?

“You are nothing like my type,” he hissed, his face so close to mine that mine burned from the intensity, he definitely still had that intimidating aura from high school. This reminded me of how he would constantly back me up against my locker and tease me about all the things he hated about me until I burst out crying. He always enjoyed it, watching me cry. “Now… get the fuck out of my room.” He snapped as he pointed back at the door. ——————— Desperate to save the only family she had left in the world that cared about her, Mirabel Walter is forced into a marriage with a man from her past that had done nothing but make her life miserable, worse still, he was back with even more misery all the while being everyone’s favorite person. Determined to give him a taste of his own medicine and expose him to the entire world, Mirabel would have to do more than stay married to him, she would have to win his heart over even though it was the last thing she wanted to do.

Allianah is an only child. Dahil sa utang ng mga magulang niya ay siya ang naging kabayaran. Iyon ay pakasalan ang isang Ezekiel Saavedra. Inaamin niyang gawapo, mayaman, hot at matalino ang mapapangasawa niya ngunit ang hindi niya matanggap ay siya ang iginawang pang bayad sa utang ng kanyang mga magulang. Kahit labag sa kanyang loob ay tinanggap niya ang pagpapakasal kay Ezekiel. Ngunit mapipigilan niya kaya ang kanyang puso upang huwag umibig?

Marriage is like a company contract that is worth a hefty sum of money in which it should be carefully thought of before affixing one's signature. Her life was full of lies and mysteries. Lies that were formed and used just to protect her and mysteries from her past, the past that she had already forgotten because of an incident that cause his brother's life. Eight years later, she was arranged in a marriage to her English Professor through the alliance of her Grandfather and her soon-to-be husband's Grandmother. But the said alliance is just a cover up to protect her from someone. Someone that can either tell her the truth or cause destruction to her peaceful life.

Angelique Cruz is just a normal 22-year-old Filipina living out her last vacation as a college senior to the fullest before going into the work force. But during her vacation trip with her friends, she makes a startling discovery: she is, in fact, the reincarnation of goddess Persephone. With this, she is forced to turn her back on her peaceful, average life and face a strange, antique world of myth and magic. Between longing for her previous life and adjusting to her newfound identity, she also finds herself at odds with Fran Treloar, the reincarnation of Hades and her supposed husband. Cold and demanding, he gave her no choice but to put up with a contract marriage with him. With the two of them bickering at first sight, will there be a possibility for cooperation, or even. . affection?