Midnight Mistakes at the Sun-Forge
By @john1208
Trapped at her own suffocating engagement banquet, Jivya Darabi decides she needs one night of wild freedom before becoming a dutiful wife. Slipping away in a disguise, she ends up having a spectacular one-night stand with a breathtaking, intense stranger. Fleeing before dawn, she accidentally drops her highly confidential arranged marriage contract in his sheets. To escape her family's wrath, Jivya goes into hiding as a clumsy, relentlessly cheerful alchemical intern at the prestigious Sun-Forge. There's just one problem: her terrifying new boss is Zarren Omidvar, the man from that night. Zarren is aggressively turning the city upside down, convinced the woman who left the shady contract is a treasonous mastermind. Jivya spends her days spilling tea, tripping over her own feet, and acting like a total ditz to throw him off her scent. Unbeknownst to both, Zarren's hunt for a state traitor and Jivya's desperate quest to break her engagement are the exact same plot line - her fiancé is the traitor Zarren is looking for! But when a toxic alchemical spill locks down their laboratory, Jivya drops her ditzy act to save his life. Cornered in the quarantine ward, will Zarren finally recognize his elusive, brilliant runaway?
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Skylines and Shotgun Vows
By @john1208
Cosima Fentaro wakes up inside the beak of a giant fiberglass flamingo atop a Vegas casino, wearing a wedding ring and a dress fashioned from stolen blackout curtains. Beside her is Lazar, a devastatingly handsome man she assumes is just another broke, struggling drafter. Deciding to roll with it, the famously shameless Cosima uses her new husband to taunt her ex, Miles. Miles recently stole her portfolio to secure a plush job, and now he is actively trying to get Cosima fired from her dream internship at the prestigious firm Stratum Atelier. The catch? Miles is about to discover that the penniless artist he has been mocking is actually Lazar Toros, the elusive billionaire CEO of the very firm they both work for. While Lazar plays the doting house-husband, he is ruthlessly blacklisting Cosima's enemies behind the scenes. But as their sarcastic banter masks a bittersweet, unspoken affection neither dares to admit is real, Cosima uncovers a shocking truth: Miles only stole her designs to afford life-saving medical treatments for his little sister. Will this devastating revelation shatter the flawless empire Lazar is secretly building for her?
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