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8.5
After a decade of devotion, a bride is forced to watch her secretary take her place at the altar. Chester Morrison demands she serve as a bridesmaid while he marries another, causing her grandmother to suffer a fatal collapse. As the public celebrates the new couple, the protagonist returns home with her grandmother's funeral portrait only to find the cheaters in her bed. This modern romance novel follows a woman facing total betrayal as her life and family are destroyed by greed.

8.4
A month after Caesar Shepherd left the country with his lover, he finally inquires about Ivy Rivers, the woman he forced to undergo a skin graft for another. His secretary’s revelation that Ivy vanished weeks ago forces Caesar to confront the memory of her final, desperate gaze during a hotel collapse. As he realizes the woman he overlooked has truly walked away, the billionaire must face the consequences of choosing his lover over Ivy’s sacrifice.

8.9
When her unstable ex-boyfriend launches a violent assault, the protagonist is saved by the quick intervention of her fiancé. This traumatic confrontation shatters their peace, unearthing a web of secrets and hidden dangers from the past. As they navigate the aftermath, the couple must confront a growing mystery that threatens their future. Amidst the tension and romance, they work together to uncover the truth before another tragedy strikes.

9.2
After sacrificing a strategic alliance and ten billion dollars to save the Hudson family, the protagonist is betrayed by his fiancée, Ciara, on the eve of their wedding. She spends the night with her adopted brother, Carl, and demands the protagonist hand over assets to appease him. When Carl intentionally hits him with a car, Ciara chooses Carl over her injured fiancé. Finally awake to her cruelty, he abandons Ciara to marry his business rival, Serena Langston.

9.5
In this modern billionaire romance, a woman finds herself entangled in a dangerous web of desire and betrayal. Despite being married, she is consumed by an overwhelming and illicit attraction to her husband's identical twin brother. This lustful obsession threatens to shatter her marriage and destroy the family's elite reputation. As boundaries blur, she must navigate a path of high-stakes passion where every choice leads to total ruin.

7.6
For three years, I was the dutiful, wolfless Luna of the Stone Pack. My family's immense wealth funded my Alpha mate's entire empire, keeping his pack from ruin.
But today, Angelo brought a human judge's daughter into our bedroom.
"I am taking Cecelia as my chosen mate," he declared.
He expected me to step aside, quietly manage their finances, and accept his mistress as a "sister." When I refused, his family mocked me as a defective burden. They thought because I had no inner wolf, I was powerless. They had already embezzled my dying mother's blood money to court his human fling, and now Angelo threatened to starve my younger siblings if I didn't submit. They wanted to keep me as a captive ATM while parading the new Luna.
He thought an Alpha's command would crush me. He forgot that he built his entire title on the sacred Blood Oath he swore to my dying mother. How could he be so arrogant to bite the very hand that kept his pathetic pack alive?
They thought they had drained my well, completely blind to the fact that I controlled the roots.
Since he had been too disgusted to ever Mark me, our bond was useless. I calmly locked down every cent of my trust fund, leaving his pack utterly bankrupt and drowning in debt. Then, I took my mother's ancient token straight to the apex predator of the North—the Lycan King, Damien Blackwood.
I wasn't just walking away. I was declaring war.

8.2
After dying from exhaustion caused by her toxic boss, a woman wakes up back in her college dormitory. Her supervisor was once her roommate, a competitive peer who monitored her every move and sabotaged her peace. Now armed with memories of the future, the protagonist decides to exploit her rival's deep-seated anxieties. By faking late-night study sessions, she forces her obsessed roommate into a cycle of sleep deprivation and paranoia, reclaiming her life in this young adult mystery.

8.3
After discovering her fiancé’s heartless betrayal with her own sister, a devastated young woman flees the life she once knew. Fate intervenes when she encounters a mysterious and powerful billionaire who offers her an unexpected chance at redemption. As she navigates the complexities of high society and heals from her past wounds, a deep, transformative romance begins to bloom. She must decide if she can truly trust again while building a bright future.

7.9
Bittersweet
7.9
In the modern romance Bittersweet, a woman reflects on the two pieces of chocolate that defined her marriage. Believing they were a sign of Ethan's devotion during their poorest days, she endured arguments and the tragedy of a miscarriage for him. However, a forgotten login reveals a devastating mystery. Ethan’s friend confirms the chocolates were actually meant for his first love, Anna. The romantic gesture that sustained their relationship was merely the byproduct of his heartbreak over another woman.

8.1
On our third anniversary, my husband Marcus walked out on our dinner because his "best friend" Izzy had a crisis.
That was the ninth time he chose her call over my presence. According to the sick bet I made with her years ago, it was game over.
But the true end didn't come in a restaurant. It happened inside a plummeting elevator.
When the cable snapped and the emergency brakes slammed us to a halt, I lay trapped under debris, my leg fractured and head bleeding. Izzy, terrified but scratched-free, screamed for help.
Marcus didn't even look at me.
He stepped over my broken body to scoop her up.
"I've got you, Iz," he whispered, carrying her out to safety while I lay alone in the dust, gasping his name.
He left me to die in that metal box.
Later, when I confronted him, he called me "unstable" and "jealous." He claimed I was a burden, a placeholder he married just to pass the time until Izzy was ready for him.
He even shoved me into a freezing lake to protect her from a confrontation she started.
He thought I would always be there, the pathetic wife waiting in the shadows. He thought his love was a prize I would endure any torture to keep.
He was wrong.
I signed the divorce papers, threw my ring into the ocean, and vanished without a trace.
Three years later, I returned to New York as a celebrated artist, with a man who treated me like a masterpiece, not a prop.
Marcus, now ruined by Izzy’s lies and stripped of his fortune, found me. He knelt in the rain on the city street, weeping, begging for one more chance to fix us.
I looked down at the husband who had let me drown.
"There is no 'us', Marcus," I said calmly.
Then I turned my back on him and walked into my future.

9.0
After three years of marriage, Lu Nian realizes her husband, Gu Jue, has been using her as a pawn in a calculated game of vengeance. Trapped in a web of lies and betrayal, she discovers that their entire relationship was built on a foundation of cold manipulation. Determined to reclaim her life, Lu Nian fights to escape his control. As she seeks freedom, she must navigate the dark secrets and hidden motives of the man she once loved.

8.9
Betrayed by her fated mate, a heartbroken werewolf flees for her life after her Alpha poisons her to clear a path for his mistress. Left for dead by the man she once trusted above all others, she narrowly escapes the pack's borders. Now a rogue, she must navigate a dangerous new world while nursing her wounds and a shattered soul. Can she find the strength to survive alone, or will her former lover's cruelty haunt her forever?

9.6
For four years, I endured my husband Alex' s coldness and his very public affair. I did it all for the heart beating in his chest-the one I believed belonged to my dead fiancé, Dale.
Then, a phone call from a private investigator shattered everything. It was all a lie, a simple clerical error.
Dale' s heart wasn' t in my husband. It was beating inside a tech CEO in Austin named Cash Carter.
Suddenly, the man I married for a ghost was just a cruel stranger. When his mistress caused me to fall into a pool, he left me to drown, demanding I apologize to her before he' d help me.
Four years of humiliation and heartbreak, all for a devastating coincidence. My entire life was built on nothing.
So I filed for divorce and booked a one-way ticket to Austin. When Alex finally tracked me down, begging me to come back, he didn't understand. I wasn't running from him. I was running toward the last piece of the man I truly loved.

9.7
In a world of pack hierarchy, a young werewolf faces the ultimate heartbreak when her fated mate, the powerful Alpha, publicly rejects her. Devastated by his cruel dismissal, she must navigate the pain of a broken bond while reclaiming her lost dignity. As she struggles to find her place outside his shadow, dark secrets and shifting loyalties threaten her survival. Can she forge a new destiny, or will the weight of a rejected soul consume her forever?

7.3
Hazel Foster had been married with Rayan Kingston for three years. Even though Hazel knows that Rayan had only married her because her face looked like his dead girlfriend Evleyn Hamper, she still tried her best to maintain her marriage, because she loved him and believed that maybe one day he also fall in love with her.
However, one day Rayan's ex-girlfriend sister's Oliver Hamper kidnapped Hazel and she almost lost her life, but her so-called husband didn't even come to visit at hospital even once, but asked his assistant Simon to warn Hazel not to cause trouble for him.
Hearing assistant's words, Hazel heart turned cold. Just then her phone buzzed. Olivia had posted a new photo on Instagram.
In the picture, Rayan was carrying her upstairs in his arms-like a scene from some romantic movie. You couldn't see his face, only his back, but Hazel knew that silhouette anywhere. After three years of marriage, she could recognize him by the way his shoulders moved. That was her husband. The man she'd once believed was hers.
The caption read:
"Twisted my ankle, and someone insisted on carrying me."
Below, the comments flooded in:
"So sweet!"
"Couple goals!"
"Perfect together!"
Hazel's hands trembled. Tears stung her eyes. While she'd been fighting for her life, her husband had been playing lover to another woman.
She wiped her tears away quickly. He wasn't worth it. Not a single drop.
Without hesitation, she called her friend. She didn't explain much-just asked her to prepare divorce papers. She realized that it was time for her to leave this so-called marriage.
*****
At the courthouse.
Hazel held the divorce certificate and left with her held high. Rayan looked at her back, and sneered, thinking she will certainly regret it and come to him soon.
However, what he didn't know was that the one who was going to regret was not her, but him.

8.3
Alpha Killian expected a powerful partner to lead by his side, but finding his fated mate in the weak, packless omega Elena leaves him disgusted. Driven by pride and a desire for strength, he publicly rejects their divine bond, shattering Elena’s world. Forced to survive the agony of a broken soul, Elena flees to forge her own path. However, as her hidden potential emerges, Killian realizes his catastrophic mistake and begins a desperate chase.

8.3
My husband, Clark, gave me a choice: save the mother of the woman who killed my own, or he would destroy my sister's life.
He held a fabricated video over my sister Anissa's head, a cruel lie that would ruin her future. I performed the surgery, saving the life of my enemy's mother, but the blackmail drove Anissa to take her own life.
When I confronted him, he didn't just break my heart. He had his Dobermans maul my hands, the ten-million-dollar hands that had saved countless lives, shattering the bones and ending my career forever.
He then threw me out, leaving me for dead on a deserted road after I was brutally attacked.
I had lost my mother, my sister, and my life's work, all at the hands of the man who swore to love and protect me, the man I once saved on the operating table.
But as I lay in a hospital bed for the last time, a cold, calculated resolve settled deep in my bones. I made a single phone call to a man from my past.
"Apollo," I whispered, my voice raw but steady. "I'm ready. I want him destroyed. Every last piece of him."

7.9
On Yvonne Ziegler's birthday, Leslie's husband, billionaire Shawn Jacobson, gifts his new assistant a luxury villa. When Yvonne brags about her wealthy 'marriage' on social media, Shawn publicly confirms their intimacy. As colleagues celebrate the affair in the company chat, Leslie's childhood friend Oscar Jagger mocks her situation. Rather than despairing, Leslie responds with a sharp wit and a plan for divorce, ready to leave her cheating husband and his public betrayal behind.

8.2
Lina is stunned when her boyfriend, the CEO, publicly supports a false accusation that she stole the company's core algorithm. Though she built the code alone and lent it to him to save his business, he now demands she relinquish her ownership. Betrayed by the man she trusted, Lina decides to let them walk into a trap. She knows a secret they don't: she patented the algorithm years ago, and their unauthorized use will lead to their inevitable downfall.

8.3
Elena believed her marriage was a sanctuary of perfect devotion until a series of unsettling discoveries shattered her reality. As she peels back the layers of her husband’s calculated deceptions, she uncovers a web of secrets that transform her once-loving home into a house of mirrors. Trapped in a high-stakes game of psychological cat and mouse, Elena must navigate a dangerous path to uncover the truth before his final betrayal destroys her.

9.3
During her wedding, a pregnant bride is blindsided when her mother-in-law, Alice, demands an exorbitant fee while her husband, Dylan, stays silent. Suddenly, the Honest Lies System activates, forcing Alice to confess her plan to exploit the pregnancy for money. Fueled by the system's power and a 100 billion reward, the protagonist abandons the toxic Forrest family. Now matched with Lumeria's wealthiest billionaire, she prepares to expose every hidden truth.

8.2
Ivy’s life as Luna is shattered when her husband, Alpha Silas, brings his mistress into their pack and grants her unprecedented power. Forced to endure the humiliation of seeing a stranger usurp her rank and influence, Ivy must navigate the betrayal of her mate. As the mistress begins to manipulate the pack's laws and traditions, Ivy faces a desperate choice: submit to the cruel new order or find the strength to reclaim her rightful throne.

9.5
Daisy Summers, a low-ranking omega born to beta parents, has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful twin, Dahlia. On her eighteenth birthday, she discovers her fated mate is the pack's powerful Alpha, Tristian Parker. Already her sister's boyfriend and a relentless bully, Tristian cruelly rejects Daisy to keep Dahlia as his Luna. After Daisy accepts the rejection, the continued abuse and emotional trauma drive her to a breaking point that finally catches Tristian's attention.

8.1
After eight years of marriage, a wife reaches her breaking point in The Man in the Past. Her husband refuses to let their daughter call him 'Dad' to protect the feelings of his former lover's depressed son. When he misses another school meeting to be with Susan Lawson, she decides to file for divorce. Telling the teacher they are moving to join her husband out of town, she prepares to leave her old life behind and embrace her future as a single mother.