His Price of Protection
By @john1208
Elara Hayes lived for her son's bright smile, but a mountain of medical debt and the threat of eviction cast a long shadow over their small world. When a cryptic legal summons lands her at the imposing, isolated estate of billionaire Caspian Thorne, her cheerful facade threatens to crack. Caspian, a man forged from cold marble and sharper ambition, offers an impossible deal: live on his sprawling property as an "estate manager" to clear her debt, or lose everything. The catch? She must never question his rules, never intrude on his reclusive life, and never, ever reveal the secret connection her son unknowingly shares with his family. Every stolen glance, every accidental touch, sends a tremor through her, igniting a dangerous spark beneath his brooding exterior. The silk sheets of her opulent new room feel like gilded chains, her heartbeat echoing the terrifying risk. If she fails, if her secret slips, Caspian will crush her, leaving her son with nothing and exposing the truth that could dismantle both their carefully constructed lives.
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Reclaimed By His Vengeance
By @john1208
Anya Sharma's world is crumbling. Her family's historic publishing house teeters on the brink of collapse, and her ailing grandfather's last hope rests on a deal she despises. Desperation drives her to the one man she swore she'd never see again: Elias Thorne. Years ago, she broke his heart, vanishing without a trace. Now, Elias is a ruthless tech mogul, his eyes colder than glaciers, his power absolute. He offers a lifeline, but at a price: marry him, become his trophy wife, and live under his scrutinizing gaze. Each brush of his hand, every command from his lips sends a jolt through her, reminding her of the fiery passion they once shared, now twisted into a tool of his slow, agonizing revenge. Anya's heart pounds with a terrifying secret - a truth from their past that could either save her family or destroy everything, including the fragile peace she's built around a life he knows nothing about. Failing means losing her family's legacy and exposing her most vulnerable truth to a man intent on making her pay.
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The Hourglass Requiem
By @john1208
Lenaia Markovic was once a prodigy in horological restoration, a lazy genius content with the quiet ticking of antique clocks. One desperate decision led her to become a surrogate, and for five years, she has raised her son, Miro, in peaceful anonymity. But when Miro is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that only a bone marrow transplant from his biological father can cure, Lenaia's carefully constructed world shatters. She must track down the anonymous client: Krystian Kosciuszko, the heir to a ruthless industrial empire she has every reason to fear. Forced into an uneasy co-parenting truce, Lenaia and Krystian navigate a minefield of clashing values and simmering attraction. Yet as she investigates the 'accident' that ruined her mentor years ago - a tragedy that pushed her towards surrogacy in the first place - she uncovers a chilling connection to Krystian's family. Can she learn to trust the man who represents everything she hates, or will their shared past destroy any chance of a future for their son?
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My Yandere Ex Keeps Complaining to Me About Me
By @john1208
Senzhi wakes up mid-transmigration being pelted with overripe cabbages, publicly disowned by her highborn family for carrying a fatherless child. Her first thought? Good riddance. Her second? Wait, why did my past self leave a diary explaining she staged this entire humiliation just to escape Emperor Tarkhan? Now an exiled single mother, the hot-tempered Senzhi protects her secret son by hiding in the one place the tyrant wouldn't look: the Grand Vault of Kholum. Crossdressing as 'Senzo,' a lowly male archivist, she spends her days cataloging dusty scrolls and her nights sneaking snacks to her toddler. But the terrifyingly obsessed Emperor Tarkhan frequently visits the archives to aggressively vent to 'Senzo' about his lost love, demanding her advice on how to track down... herself. When a spy reports a woman matching Senzhi's exact description spotted buying baby clothes in the capital, Tarkhan seals the city gates and begins a blood-soaked manhunt. With an opportunistic elder scholar using her child as political leverage, and the Emperor's sanity hanging by a thread, how long until Tarkhan realizes his most trusted confidant is the very runaway he is threatening to burn the world for?
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Chased by the Desert Sun
By @john1208
Tasmira remembers reading The Crimson Crown of Zirqand and knowing one thing: Emperor Koshkar is a beautiful, bloodthirsty tyrant who destroys anyone who defies him. Waking up pregnant with his child, this proud and prickly transmigrator did the only logical thing - she ran. Five years later, a frantic chase through the spice markets forces Tasmira to hide in the most dangerous place of all: the Imperial Palace, disguised as a lowly incense-tender. She thinks she is playing a brilliant game of cat-and-mouse, dodging Koshkar’s obsessive manhunt while working right under his nose. But the tension shatters when her sassy five-year-old son wanders into the royal gardens and demands a piggyback ride from a towering, golden-eyed man who looks exactly like him. Koshkar's terrifying obsession instantly pivots from world-burning fury to suffocating, sweet devotion. Yet, as Koshkar traps her in a cage of silk and affection, Tasmira discovers a startling diary in her own handwriting. Did her original self intentionally wipe her memories and orchestrate this desperate flight to protect them both? Will Tasmira let down her prickly defenses before the palace’s true enemies strike?
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A Mafia 's substitute wife
By @Shaswat Jha
On the eve of her wedding, Kim Jisoo's life shatters when the notorious mafia king, Kim Taehyung, snatches her from the altar. Driven by a haunting obsession, Taehyung believes Jisoo is the spitting image of his deceased wife, forcing her into a marriage built on a lie and a stolen identity. Trapped in his gilded cage, Jisoo must navigate a world of opulence and danger, where every glance from her captor holds a dark promise and a bitter memory. As she desperately seeks an escape, the lines between fear and a forbidden, dangerous attraction begin to blur. Can Jisoo reclaim her identity, or will she become a permanent ghost in a dead woman's shadow, forever bound to the cold heart of a man haunted by grief?
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His Gilded Clockwork Snare
By @john1208
I didn't expect my Tuesday to begin by throwing a heavy brass wrench at a thug's head in a tavern brawl, but nobody messes with my cowardly buddy Gidgen, and nobody looks twice at a scruffy male machinist named Brez. Three years ago, I was Brezala, a doomed side-character in the novel *The Heiress of Brass and Glass*. When I realized I was pregnant with the ruthless industrial tycoon Rhovis Caldani’s child, I ran. Rhovis’s love is a suffocating, terrifying devotion, and my prickly pride refused to let my son Miro become a pawn in his dark, monopolistic empire. We were safe in the smog-choked lower city, relying entirely on my confidante Sarya to smuggle us supplies. Until Rhovis announced the Grand Caldani Exhibition - a high-stakes engineering contest with a prize I desperately need to cure Miro’s unique magical fever. Rhovis knows I can't resist the bait. Now I’m working right under his nose as a 'male' scholar. Every day is a heart-pounding game of cat-and-mouse. He stares too long at my hands. His dark side leaks out when he interrogates me about 'the runaway bride he lost'. But as his traps close in, will my trusted friend Sarya be the one to stab me in the back first?
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