network effect a murderbot novel

" It's a contract. You will be my groom, just for sixty days… ", her loud but annoying voice echoed in his ear. She sat at the edge of the table, " I will hire you to be my groom, and I'll pay you immediately after the contract is over. Don't ever refer to me as your wife, because nothing is binding the both of us together." " No sex. No love. No kisses. No feelings. You are just a hired groom for sixty days. Live your life the way you want it, but not for these sixty days ", she narrated further.

In the year 3035, the world has changed and countries started to float into the skies. While technological advancements continue to develop, human population is on its worst number so the head of the countries strategized a game. Date a Liar. A game where two opposite sex are forced to play a game until one of them or both of them falls in love. Once that happens, the coordinators will pull them out and will result to a total repulsion from their country. A game that everyone avoids. A game where; "You fall in love, you lose."

Isabella Jennings thought she had married an ordinary man. Yet, one day, she discovered that he was the CEO of the very company she worked for. But what amazed her even more was discovering another of his hidden identities. He was the mysterious heir to the Grand Group, the most affluent behemoth in Astraea! To the world, he was a decisive, ruthless king of his business empire. Behind closed doors, he would do whatever Isabella said, treating her like his queen...

“I love having you at my mercy... And you love it, too.“ Fabiola Brosnan had two goals! To lose her virginity and to find her parents before she dies. After being diagnosed with a brain tumor, she was determined to enjoy every second of her life. And that led her to spend a sizzling night with a handsome stranger. Only to discover that this stranger was Don Lorenzo Martini…one of the most powerful men in Spain. As if that wasn’t enough, he took her most precious possession and wouldn’t give it back easily. “Marry me and you will get your bracelet back…plus..I will offer you protection and everything you’ve ever dreamt of…what do you say?”

The ruthless billionaire, Devon Grey once loved Karen – or at least, that’s what she believes. There was a time when his eyes had lit up in love as he looked at her, a time when his touch had been tender, loving. Now, Devon Grey is ruthless, heartless, and cold – to her. Engaged to Devon, Karen agrees to go ahead with the marriage in hopes that she would be able to win back Devon’s love, but she is in for a great shock. When the billionaire accuses Karen of betraying him, she knows that she is going to have to prove her innocence in order to win back his love – and also, in order to survive. The billionaire is known for his merciless cruelty against anyone that betrays him. Devon goes ahead with the marriage because he plans to use Karen to get to the people she has been selling information about him to, before he finally destroys her, and then he finds out he was wrong about her all along, but it might already be too late.

Alice Stevens was different. She would not fall for the school's popular boy, thinking that he might date her only to embarrass her later. Then Thomas Black came, the famous rising rock star. He came to turn her life upside down, and stole her heart, despite her trust issues.

I was the sole front desk clerk at a haunted hotel. Welcoming players, checking in on the bosses’ quarters, and slacking off a bit were all part of the job. At least, that was what I thought. It turned out my days were far from ordinary. A blood-drenched little girl in a tattered red dress kept ringing the service bell. Her eerie voice echoed, “Miss, why didn’t you come play with me?” A creepy black cat with glowing eyes wouldn’t stop meowing and rubbing against my legs. And then there was the old woman with claws like knives, cheerfully knitting me a sweater… out of players’ skin. One day, I took a day off to care for my sick mother. That was my biggest mistake. The entire game instance erupted in chaos. Bosses interrogated players, demanding to know where their precious front desk clerk had gone. “Did she abandon us? Is she never coming back?” I ran. They chased. But no matter how fast I fled, their grip on me only tightened. In the end, escape wasn’t an option.

Desperation to have a better life. The greed to swim in wealth. The thirst for wealth led a naive young lady to make a deal she had no idea of. As it seems to her, it was simple. All she had to do was get married to a gangster until he was ready to divorce her. Little did she know, it was more than that. What could be the use of a naive lady to a gangster?

People say that a girl's happiest moment is on their wedding day but that wasn't the same for Emily wood. For so long she awaited for the big day but unknown to her, it was going to be her worst night mere when she was abandoned at the alter. Depressed and frustrated, she results in ending her life but things take a different turn when a stranger comes into the picture. Damien Wilder is a charming rich tycoon who is every woman's dream. A once loving man turned cold after the death of his wife. Ever since then, he promised himself never to fall in love. He has a family that loves him dearly, he finds them annoying when the pressure exerted on him to get remarried becomes much. What happens when Damien gets married to Emily? Will Emily melt his cold stone heart?

Orphaned at age eight, May Obsidian hates nothing more than vampires. But what happens when she wants to escape her wolf family for a while and runs headfirst into a feud with a vampire that has a vendetta against the Obsidian wolf pack. With bigger issues at play around campus, will both of them be able to work together to put an end to the attacks on students or will their feud be all-consuming that one of them ends up dead before the first semester is through?—–——————————————————PLEASE READ TO LOVE A BEAST FIRST TO AVOID CONFUSION.