Substitute Bride

Six years ago, driven by loyalty, Fugaku made a choice that would cost him everything. To save his adopted family, the Vegas clan, from financial ruin and to repay a life-altering debt to their patriarch, Dimitri Vegas—the man who had offered him shelter—he agreed to an unconventional marriage. He would marry into his bride's household, becoming the husband of Vior, a daughter of the influential Diningrat family in the Northem region. He walked into the union blind to the truth: it was a meticulously planned conspiracy. A trap set by his own bride, Vior, to plunder the Vegas family's most guarded business secrets. On what should have been his wedding day, Fugaku endured a nightmare of unspeakable violence. He was brutally beaten, poisoned, kidnapped, and finally, cast into the unforgiving sea. Yet, fate showed him favor. Fugaku not only survived the abyss but was reborn from it. He escaped with his life and was inducted into the ranks of Celestial, the most enigmatic special forces unit in Kastiya City. But who is the man now known as Fugaku Meteor? Why was he so viciously betrayed at the altar? And what path will he carve now that he has returned from the grave?

Amongst the wedding visitor, a masculine voice boomed and said after the priest declaration. "I have something to say, my daughter would never be getting married to a bastard." Declan Rowland was broken and shattered on the inside. Right at the altar, his bride was snatched all because he had unclear speech and couldn't fit in. Life was hell for Declan until he discovered himself. Find out his once place of rejection became his abode of vindication.

She is Nine. Blade IX of the Nine Abysses. Three hundred years ago Hell erased her name, burned its sigils into her arms, and installed a recitation under her ribs that counts her target's sins until the day she ends him. Her target: Xiao Jin, crown prince of Dalang. Wolf-blooded. Disrespectful. Weighed and found owing. The Moon's blessing makes a wolf prince untouchable to enemy blades. Only his bride can take him: the one who shares his bed and speaks the condemnation in the bridal rite. So Hell sends brides. Two burned before her. Seven was collared and sang for three days. Now Nine walks into the Looking Room wearing a drowned girl's face, meaning to be chosen. He chooses her. Then he laughs at her, a real laugh, the first true thing anyone has given her in three hundred years, and the recitation under her ribs goes silent mid-word. Now she is his chosen bride, one locked door from his bed, with a priest who already knows what she is, a kingdom that believes he murders brides, a Hell that does not forgive failure, and a mission she can no longer remember how to speak. Every chapter ends with something snapping. The only question that matters: which of them breaks first, and into what.

Tyrone is left heartbroken when his soon to be bride ditches him for riches, devastated, he drinks himself to a stupor but then hopes surge for him when he discovers that he is the long lost son of the most wealthiest man in the country, Tyrone will go on to inherit his father's wealth and become the most powerful man in the country, but just when life starts to go well for Throne, his own biological brother begins to plot his own downfall, and his ex girlfriend now seeks for Tyrone's forgiveness after the humiliation she has caused him.

Infidelity amidst triumph and defeat - isn’t too high of a price to pay when you’re a college soccer league talk of the town, but when you are secretly loving your girlfriend’s best friend, and your girlfriend secretly love the water boy while you are bound to a hospital bed; it is a whole different ballgame. “You and Rebecca been loving each other, behind my back Daniel?!” "You have been loving the water boy, while have been sick and in the hospital?! I can’t show my face anywhere now! Drama escalates in the blink of a scandal on American state Campuses. A text, a post, a cringe compromising photo! No secret is too loud to be kept under wraps! No star is too popular to quiet a scandal! The Dream League trophy needs to come home a second year in a row! It is up to one injured striker, one substitute, one faithful team, one dismantled cheerleading squad, one determined coach! “You are nothing but a lowdown dirty filthy scumbag! I will see to it that you never step foot on another campus soccer field!” Will a bad tackle and a web of deafening scandals stop The Holloway Pinnacles from taking home the Championship title a second year in a row? One team has to raise the trophy! One team have to turn and walk away! Will love take it all, or is it a campus story flooded with erotic steam and sensual boiling points?

A few days to Mcginn's birthday, he receives a letter purportedly from a mysterious person called Pluto, who wants him to return a pendant he had taken while in active service. There is only one man who can dare to search for this treasure and return it to the owner, a man who has been killed three years earlier. As the search for pendant intensifies, a dark lord ignites interest in the pendant which can give him the power to control mankind. The treasure must be found and returned to it's owner who plans to present it to his intended bride, a rich girl who doesn't know his true identity and and treats him with anything but respect. Everyone involved must tread with caution for even the knowledge of Pluto's identity is certain death.

After four years of marriage, Maureen Winston still viewed her husband, Derek Romano, as nothing more than a worthless substitute, a pathetic replacement for her first and only true love, Nicole Calloway. Despite Derek’s unwavering love, endless devotion, and quiet sacrifices, he could never measure up in her eyes. All his efforts were meaningless the moment Nicole returned. What Maureen didn’t know was that Derek was the invisible force protecting her entire family. No one dared touch her father’s crumbling company because of the fear and respect Derek commanded in the shadows. A few days after Maureen filed for divorce, she discovered she was pregnant with Derek’s child. Nicole’s return was anything but innocent. Armed with charm and calculated generosity, he framed Derek with vicious lies and scandals. Blinded by her lingering feelings for her ex, Maureen chose to believe Nicole over the man who had stood by her through every hardship. But Derek was never ordinary. He was the hidden son of a legendary Supreme Warrior. When deadly enemies rose against his father, Derek was forced into hiding and stripped of his identity. Now, with Nicole’s true sinister motives beginning to surface, Derek decides it’s time to stop hiding. As his supreme power awakens and his real identity is revealed, shocking truths come to light, including the fact that Maureen’s own father was behind the death of Derek’s mother. What happens when Maureen and her family finally discover that the man they looked down on, humiliated, and tried to cast away was actually a supreme existence far beyond their imagination? Will Maureen regret her choices, or is it already too late?

'I didn't kill him' I whispered my camera shaking in my hands while I looked at the blood on the marble floor. 'I know' the man in shadows whispered, his voice like velvet on rough ground. 'But the world believes that I did and you are the only one to attest to my innocence'. Elara Vance is a forensic photographer of the wealthy; a woman who sees the truth through a camera lens, and Silas Vane is the heir to a bankrupt empire who lives off the carrion of his enemies (known as the 'Vulture'), but when Elara catches him in the act of a murder she isn't supposed to witness he proposes a deal: either become his bride and his 'Glass Alibi' or she is the next body he will require her to photograph. In a world of predators can the man keeping her prisoner actually be her executioner...or her salvation.

They shattered his core. Burned his clan. Left him begging in the gutter for three years. Then they dragged him to the execution stones, and his bride, now a princess, smiled. Yulen Valerius died hating himself for ever loving her. He wakes on his wedding morning. Three hours to the altar. Three hours until the Imperial Court signs his family’s death warrant. This time, Yulen won’t beg. He won’t run. He’ll walk into the wedding hall, look at the woman who sold his blood, and ask her one question. How much did he promise you for my family? But the traitors he remembers are only the surface. Beneath the Valerius Clan sleeps a secret even his dead father never named, and something very old has been waiting thirty thousand years to see who bleeds on it. He died on his knees once. This time, the heavens will kneel.

Blake glanced at everyone in the room. Despite how they just treated him, he went down on his knees to beg them, throwing the shame and the hurtful feeling he was having at that moment through the window. “Please help me, my sister is dying. Even if you don't pay me for being a substitute husband on the wedding day like you promised, I will pay back every single penny” he pleaded. Maria kicked him hard on his stomach, making him stumble on the ground. “Were you assuming that I would give you a ten million you didn't work for? Are you stupid or pretending to be stupid?” she fired. Maria used Blake to save her face that day, a year ago. He was just the perfect person she needed, he was a cleaner, and it also felt like he needed money. Promising him money was the only thing that got him married to her. He is just a wretched pauper, she would never give her money to someone like Blake. “How do you intend to pay back if we lend you the money? From your part-time jobs?” she taunted. “Is leeching off us not enough? Now, you want more?” Mrs Jones added, bursting into a cynical laughter. “What have you done for us? You couldn't afford your tuition fees and dropped out because of that, what should I expect from someone of your caliber?” At that moment, Blake knew that they would not help him no matter what. Standing up with a shallow sigh, he peeked at them and shook his head. What was he thinking? **** Just when he thought life has ended, Blake found out that he was the owner of a company worth trillions of dollars. Will he seek revenge or hide his identity from his In-Laws?