Pact of Silence

Romance

"Sign the contract, or lose everything." I stared at the papers that would seal my fate-a three-year marriage to Julian Blackwood, the ruthless billionaire they call the Ice King. My family didn't ask. They demanded. My father's company was drowning, my stepsister's engagement had exploded, and I was the replacement bride they could sacrifice. Just another transaction. Julian made it clear on our wedding day: "Don't expect affection. Don't expect companionship. Certainly don't expect love." He refused to kiss me at the altar. He gave me a bedroom down the hall and told me to stay out of his way. I was Mrs. Blackwood in name only-a contract, a convenience, a means to an end. I accepted it. I had survived twelve years of abuse in my own home. I could survive three years of indifference in his. But then Nate, Julian's best friend, showed me kindness, and suddenly my cold husband became possessive. When my sister attacked me, he became protective. Now the man who promised me nothing is fighting his own father to keep me. The marriage that was supposed to be fake is becoming terrifyingly real and the secrets about my mother's death are threatening to destroy everything. They said Julian Blackwood destroys everything he touches. What they didn't tell me... is that sometimes destruction is exactly what you need to be reborn. With a pregnancy involved, how was I going to end this three-year marriage peacefully?

Literature

The Master of Silence by Irving Bacheller

Werewolf

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Romance

Born to meet. Fated to love. "Listen to the silence. And you shall find the answer to your heart." When Clover Hon sensed somebody turning on the black van she was hiding beside, she immediately slid in sneakily without giving it much a thought. The only thing she knew was that she gotta escape.

Literature

Fans of golden-era mysteries will relish Fred M. White's The Slave of Silence. Beautiful Beatrice Darryll is betrothed and in the final stages of her pre-wedding preparations when she suddenly finds herself thrust into a beguiling—and potentially dangerous—imbroglio.

Literature

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Literature

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Romance

At seventy, my body failed, but my mind was sharp with the bitterness of a fifty-year marriage to a woman I was certain never loved me back. My final words, a rasping confession of lifelong regret, were, "If I could do it all over again, I would never love you." Then, darkness, a profound silence,

Modern

Alicia had never imagined that her wedding day would unravel into a storm of secrets, betrayals, and overwhelming passion. Just before her wedding, a devastating truth came to light, drawing the name of Dante Moretti into her life-a man whose power and ruthlessness had made him the most feared fi

Billionaires

22 years old Zara Klein was forced to marry, and produce an heir for 41-year-old Kai Adler, who has three months left to live; to save her father's company from bankruptcy. She had to keep up with Kai's inhumane treatment, got pregnant with his child and quietly anticipated his death. But their live

Fantasy

Being the last rarest Alpha of her lineage, her life has always been at risk. Every pack’s aim is to kill her as they believe that her existence is the birth of unfairness among their kind. As fate gave them another chance and let her live a different life to conceal her true identify, will she be a

Werewolf

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Romance

Her world was art, colorful, chaotic, and crumbling. His was power, cold, calculated, and built on secrets. When a desperate act forces a contract marriage between a fragile artist and a ruthless CEO, their union becomes a high-stakes gamble. She needs a miracle to save her cherished art center; he

LGBT+

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Modern

Imagine marrying a poor man only to discover that he wasn't actually poor. Katherine didn't know what else to expect after she got dumped by her boyfriend and ended up marrying another man the very next day. Her new husband, Esteban was handsome, but she thought her marriage life wasn't going to

Werewolf

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Mafia

I had been deaf for ten years after a cartel fire took my parents' lives. My fiancé, Alessandro, the Mafia Underboss they died to save, swore a blood oath to be my permanent refuge. Two weeks before our wedding, my hearing miraculously returned. But the first thing I heard wasn't his loving voice—i

Romance

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Werewolf

When a quiet town nestled deep in the forest starts experiencing gruesome animal attacks, young artist Mina Sullivan finds herself drawn to eerie visions in her dreams. Her new neighbor, Alec, is hiding something monstrous-and his arrival coincides with the escalating violence. As she discovers her

Mafia

Amanda is a humble girl, who by a chance of fate, witnesses the murder of a woman, who coincidentally is identical to her. That woman has just given birth in the same hospital where her mother is being held, waiting for a kidney donor. She is discovered by the man who has just murdered that woman

Mafia

My life was a perpetual grind, a blur of diner shifts and endless cleaning jobs. Every ache, every sleepless night was for him, for Mike, and the "debt" he owed to the terrifying Desert Scorpions motorcycle gang. Fifty thousand dollars, he said, or they'd kill him. I sold my mother's locket, pray