A Crown of Glass and Spite
By @john1208
An ordinary Tuesday morning goes up in flames when Maeva's espresso machine explodes over her final blueprints, forcing her to rush out covered in stains to meet the high-end gigolo she hired. Desperate to humiliate her treacherous ex, Garrick, she drags the impossibly handsome stranger into an impulsive chapel wedding so she can crash Garrick's engagement party as a happily married woman. But her doting, seemingly broke husband isn't a gigolo. He is Crown Prince Soren of the ultra-wealthy micro-nation of Altara, who was simply dodging his royal handlers at a corner cafe. While Maeva coldly dismantles Garrick's career and pours her soul into a blind bid for a mysterious royal palace, Soren is quietly paving her way from the shadows. He watches with immense satisfaction as Garrick parades his new "billionaire heiress" fiancée - who is actually Soren’s lowest-ranking palace archivist. The two plot lines converge beautifully as the blind bid concludes. But as Maeva prepares to present her magnum opus, what will she do when she realizes the royal client she is pitching to is the same man currently fixing her thrift-store sink?
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The Billionaire's Hidden Keystone
By @john1208
Soraya Najem’s life shatters at the Qartaj Design Gala when her fiancé claims her architectural masterpiece as his own and publicly dumps her. Humiliated but blazing with furious loyalty to her family's failing firm, Soraya goes through with an arranged marriage to Kareem, a quiet man she believes is a struggling contractor using a fake name to dodge debt. She thinks this union will somehow help protect her family from Al-Mansur Holdings, the predatory rival empire threatening to swallow them whole. But Kareem's real name is Tariq Al-Mansur. As Tariq dotes on his hot-tempered wife, secretly funding her projects behind the scenes and having his disguised elite bodyguards utterly destroy her violent ex when he tries to physically attack her, Soraya falls deep into a slow-burn romance. Yet a staggering secret lies dormant in her own mind: before a recent accident erased her memories of the past year, Soraya herself orchestrated this exact arranged marriage, knowing exactly who Tariq was. What will happen when the fiercely loyal architect realizes her sweet husband is the titan she swore to defeat - and that she laid the brilliant trap herself?
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