Best Love After Marriage Stories & Novels Collection

Artemis Sinclair has spent the last five years as the perfect wife to her arrogant husband, Van Calloway. Artemis loved her husband a lot, which was the only reason why she continued to let him mistreat her even though he was responsible for bringing her family to ruins after she made him CEO of her family’s company.

Now, Van seemed to have forgotten he was the one who made her nothing and wante...

What? She married a wrong guy? It wasn’t the person who was going to marry her but someone else?
After the death of her boyfriend, her family sold her off, in the name of marriage, to the wealthiest family of the city in order to pay back their debts. The condition was: She has to give birth to the Reynolds’ family’s heir within a year!
Sienna Millar always thought that, she replaced her sister ...

Amelia Reed thought marriage was supposed to mean love. Instead, her wedding vows bind her to Damian Blackwood, the cold, calculating heir of a billionaire dynasty. For him, their union is nothing more than a strategy: a contract signed in silk and diamonds, where her role is to smile for cameras and warm his bed at night.
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‎But what happens when a woman starving for affection finds it in the one...

"Do you understand, Raven? You are mine, and mine alone."

His possessive growl sends shivers down my spine as his fingers work the laces of my nightgown. When the fabric falls away, his darkened eyes devour every inch of me.

"Say my name again."

"Liam," I breathe, and he rewards me with his mouth on my skin, my throat, my collarbone, lower still until his tongue circles my nipples and I'm cry...

When I was in excruciating pain from cancer, my husband gave the last box of painkillers to his pregnant mistress.

At the press conference, my husband Thaddeus Getty publicly declared his love for his first love in front of all the media.
In an instant, the whole world knew I was a wife who wasn't cherished by her husband.
Heartbroken but not defeated, despite my deep love, I chose to leave.

Forced to marry ruthless Charles Edward, orphan Charlotte hides her identity as "K," heir to the Barrott mercenaries. While investigating the Edward family for treason, she unexpectedly develops feelings for this seemingly psychopathic man.
As Charlotte searches for her missing brother, she must navigate Charles's growing suspicions and unmask the traitor threatening her mission. In this dangerou...

So after this weird plague, basically all the alphas disappeared. Only a few packs had alpha bloodlines left, so they formed an alliance. Whoever could produce an alpha pup in the younger generation becomes the next pack leader.

I'm Natalia from Moon Stone pack. My dad's the alpha, I've got alpha blood, but I can't shift. So everyone treats me like garbage. My mom died young, dad remarried this b...

Hospital disinfectant has this way of making everything feel final. I stared at my phone screen—$3,247. That's all I had left. Mom lay unconscious in the bed beside me, her cancer spreading faster than we could fight it. Half a million dollars for treatment. On my salary? I'd need about ten lifetimes.
I was losing her, and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it.
Then came that mortifying da...

Falling in love with my arranged marriage husband is my sorrow.

Cedric York has countless lovers. Beautiful secretaries, bar girls, coffee shop owners... all could become his romantic interests.

I thought I had grown accustomed to handling these affairs for him.

But when I saw him entering a hotel with his first love, I finally understood that this endless cycle would only bring me pain.

I fil...

"Lisbeth, you'd better agree to this divorce quickly! Otherwise, I'll make these photos public and let all your fans see how their beloved star with millions of followers was once molested by an old man!"

"What?" Lisbeth Whitaker looked up in shock, unable to believe what she was hearing.

This was her husband of five years, who had cheated on her with the female caregiver she'd hired to look aft...

Midnight Orchid
Ioannis Holland never expected her life to change during a routine sketching session in the moonlit forest. As the Alpha's daughter of the Eternal Eclipse Pack, she's always preferred her art to pack politics, until a political marriage arrangement threatens everything she holds dear.
When Nickolas Harvey, heir to the Storm Striders Pack, arrives for their arranged courtship, Ioann...

I’m Molly Johnson. At my own engagement party, I witnessed my fiancé’s betrayal with my stepsister right before my eyes. Devastated, I turned around and married Edward Howard—a wealthy heir rumored to be terminally ill, with not much time left to live.
Everyone laughed, saying I was in a hurry to become a widow. But little did they know, I leaned close to his ear, my breath warm and teasing: “Sin...

I was his most devoted wife, yet for the 'sin' of not bleeding on our wedding night, he sent me to the cold operating table again and again.

"The debt you owe me can never be repaid!" he'd roar.

"Then I'll repay it with my life!" I vowed. "And we will be even!"

Reborn from the ashes, I returned with a new identity, determined to make him feel the pain of eternal loss. But just as I thought I...

His lips grazed her neck, slow and hungry, trailing lower until his mouth closed around her breast like he’d done it a thousand times. His hands gripped her bare waist, firm and trembling, like he needed her just to breathe. She didn’t even know his name.

One night. One wrong door, and everything changed.

Amelia Raine never meant to sleep with a stranger, let alone one that is a billionaire. But...

“You think I don’t have a heart, little one? You’re right. But if I did, it would already belong to you. And that’s far more dangerous.”

“You break the world with your hands, Nico. I mend it with mine. And maybe that’s why fate threw us together… to remind you even beasts can bleed.”

Born into one of the most powerful crime syndicates in Los Angeles, Serena Moretti has lived a life gilded with d...

On the day of her wedding, Elena’s perfect world shatters—her groom vanishes, eloping with her best friend. But before the whispers destroy her, his powerful billionaire brother, Damian Blackwell, steps forward with a cold proposition: marry him instead, right there at the altar.

Trapped in a scandal she never asked for, Elena is thrust into a dangerous marriage built on secrets, lies, and twiste...

Duke Orion von Hawthorne is feared across Ebonvale, ruthless, calculating, and unmatched in power. But beneath his unshakable rule lies a secret that threatens to destroy everything he has built.
He cannot produce an heir.
When whispers of an ancient legend resurface, Orion learns that only a Velaryn, a rare and nearly extinct race of women, can bear his child. Velaryns were once revered for their...

“Are you afraid?” he murmured, his voice low, teasing, and commanding, each word slicing through her mind like a razor. She bit her lip, wanting to resist, yet her body had already betrayed her，every heartbeat echoed his presence, every inch of her skin ached for his touch.

His fingers glided over her shoulder, tracing down her arm with deliberate, intoxicating pressure, soft yet impossibly stron...

In Sicily, Italy, family is more than just blood... it’s power.

Loyalty is earned with bullets, and betrayal costs lives.

Two strong Mafia families, the Bellantis and the Morettis plan to unite through marriage. It’s a careful deal built on years of violence and tradition.

Valentina Bellanti is the perfect daughter. She was chosen to be the bride, the symbol of peace between the families.

Mean...

🌶 Warning: Mature content 🌶

Feeble. Small. Helpless. A nuisance. The little pet human. That's what I was to the pack. What I had always been. The Luna's little charity project. A small and inconvenient liability.

My name is Calla Winters and I am the only human ever known to be part of a wolf pack. The Everglade Pack. I am Alpha Cassius' and Luna Atheia's adoptive daughter. The child they ch...

Abandoned with unborn twins five years ago, I've returned with sons who mirror their father perfectly.

After surviving wrongful imprisonment, I raised my boys alone overseas. Now back home seeking peace, my ex-husband Benjamin has found us and demands we stay. My twins despise him, refusing to accept the man who left us. As old lies about the fire and Olivia's schemes unravel, I'm torn between ho...

DARK ROMANCE
"Sir, I am in a dire need of loan. Its very important, my friends life is at stake. I assure you I'll try my best to return the loan asap." She breathlessly said it all.
Her eyes were filled with hope and expectations. He was her last hope.
"Miss Sheharzaad," Shehryaar said, while standing up from his chair causing her to instantly stand up.
"Yes sir" she replied, her voice troubl...

The Barrett family and Prescott family agreed to ally with each other 20 years ago. The son of the Barrett family was to marry the first daughter of the Prescott family. But what happens when Mason refuses to marry the unknown girl his family chose for him?

In an attempt to escape this alliance, he ends up marrying the second daughter of the Prescott family, Raven.

This causes the first daughter...

My name is Isabella, Silicon Valley's top psychologist, and I've suffered from emotional detachment disorder for twenty-two years.

On Valentine's Day, I left work early to surprise my husband, only to walk in on him and my stepsister Selena having sex in our bed. Three years of marriage, destroyed by the most grotesque betrayal I could witness.

"You're just like your mother, never able to keep a...

To save my stepsister's life, I accepted a contract marriage with a stranger—$100,000 for one year.

Sebastian Sterling, the mysterious billionaire from Manhattan's Upper East Side, a devastatingly handsome bachelor. He needed a wife in name only, I needed money—a perfect arrangement.

But as I lost myself in his tender gaze and caring touch, his ex-girlfriend's return shattered everything. Behind...

An accident left him mentally impaired, but for three years he loved me—gentle, steady, impossibly attentive.

Then he recovered—and all I got was his cold back.

If love can vanish, why keep holding on?

My palm settles on my belly.
"Baby," I whisper, "do we just file for the divorce?"

Oliver Haywood never wanted love—only control. But his grandfather’s will leaves him no choice: marry or lose everything. His solution? A cold contract. No emotions. No weakness. No escape.

Nuella Allen is nothing like the polished socialites he rejected. She’s quiet, determined—and the one woman bold enough to stand against him. What begins as a deal soon ignites into a war of wills, where every...

Forced into marriage with New York’s most feared Mafia King, Aria Vale swore she would never bow, never break. But the more she fights Leon De Luca, the more she risks losing the only battle that matters—her heart.

"Hate me all you want, Aria," Leon’s voice was a low growl against her ear. "But you’ll still be mine."

“You think you can use me and walk away?”
His voice was ice, his hand around her throat.
“You signed the contract, sweetheart. That makes you mine.”

Camila agreed to marry billionaire Asher Reyes to save her dying mother — one year, no strings attached.
But behind his perfect smile lies the truth about her father’s death.
Now she’s trapped in a marriage built on secrets and vengeance, where ever...

Amber Reagan thought the worst pain she could ever endure was her father’s cruelty. She was wrong.

On the night she dares to expose her mate, Reece Trent, the future Alpha King for his hidden betrayal, her world shatters. Her father strikes her down, the elders condemn her as a liar, and the pack she has bled for casts her out as a disgrace.

But Amber refuses to break. With nothing left but the ...

When debt-ridden Wendy Chen hits rock bottom, an unexpected "job" becomes her lifeline—a contract marriage with veteran Jason Morrison, paying $100,000 a year for one year, with a single assignment: being a "mom" to his fourteen-year-old son Liam.

This should have been the perfect business arrangement. Jason needs someone to care for his stepmother-resistant son, while Wendy needs money to escape...

I thought the most embarrassing moment of my life was getting reported by my neighbors for testing... certain special sound effects for my job.
That was until the doorbell rang, and standing there was a police officer so devastatingly handsome it should be illegal. He accused me of harboring a man in my apartment, then flatly informed me that he was the husband from my three-month-old, drunken Veg...

On her birthday, Chloe’s world falls apart when her boyfriend abandons her. Seeking comfort, she makes the worst mistake of her life—or maybe the best one. In a moment of weakness, she ends up in the arms of Ruan, her half-sister Megan’s rejected fiancé.

That single night changes everything. When Megan disappears and Chloe’s family turns against her, she is forced into an unthinkable role: the su...

"Hey, don't move!"
I was robbed by a stranger. But what he wanted was not money.
He tore my clothes off, kept kissing me hard, not to rape me.
He wanted me to cover his blood and track from his enemies.
I saw blood running out of his stomach.
He said thank you after he fooled his enemies.
I let him come into my place to get the bullet out of him.
I was a doctor.
He gave me a kiss the next morning ...

"SIGN IT AND GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE!"
Calvin threw the divorce agreement in her face, his voice seething with fury.
Adriana Clarke Walker, a well-known heiress and the wife of the richest man in the country and CEO of the Grand Empire Corporation, Calvin Walker, had always believed in the possibility of love.
Despite knowing that Calvin didn't love her, she married him with the hope that her ...

“You think you can walk away, bella mia?”
Melo’s voice was low, dangerous, his fingers curling under her chin. “You signed your father’s debt with your name. That makes you mine.”
Isabella met his cold, gray eyes, refusing to look away. “You can own my body, Melo Rossi,” she whispered, “but you’ll never own my heart.”
His smirk was sharp enough to cut. “We’ll see about that.”

When her father’s...

I died, only to find myself turned into a ghost, helplessly watching the world continue to spin without me.

What's even more devastating is that my own sister—the one who killed me—is now lying in my bed. She's had plastic surgery to look exactly like me, mimicking my voice and even my habits perfectly, attempting to completely take over my life.

And my husband Rafael—New York's most dangerous m...

I was just a waitress working double shifts to pay for my sister-in-law's cancer treatment, until that brooding businessman Marcus Blackwood walked into my diner—or rather, until his eight-year-old son Tommy accidentally spilled orange juice all over me, and I didn't lose my temper.
The next day, an expensive lawyer knocked on my door: "Mr. Blackwood needs a wife. You need money. This is a mutuall...

I've lived a cursed life. My father vanished without a trace, my mother died, and I was dumped on my uncle's family. They made my life hell—constant abuse, and worse, my uncle and cousin would corner me when no one was looking...
But maybe luck finally found me. I broke free from that nightmare and eloped with this gorgeous man who's got serious power and money that never seems to run out...

Ella Garcia was robbed by a pickpocket on the train. Second Lieutenant Michael acted decisively and helped her retrieve the documents.
When they met again, Ella Garcia was there for a blind date.
To her surprise, the person sitting across from her was Michael.
He greeted her politely: "Hello, my name is Michael Johnson. I'm thirty-three years old and just retired from the military this year. I'm i...

In the heart of the mountains, a wedding meant to seal peace between two powerful packs becomes a spectacle of blood, betrayal, and a desire as dangerous as it is consuming. Lunara, raised to be the perfect bride, discovers at the altar that the alpha to whom she gave her body and soul is her greatest enemy. Betrayed, she finds in her escape not only the promise of freedom, but also the wild gaze ...

Sold. Caged. Owned.

Isabella Romano never believed in love, but she knew freedom—until the night she was auctioned off to Giovanni Donatelli, the most feared mafia boss in Italy. Cold, calculating, and merciless, he doesn’t believe in love either. He only believes in power. And now, he owns her.

But Giovanni doesn’t just want to control her. He wants to break her. To consume her. His touch is p...

"Don't touch me."
She tried to push his hand away from her torn shirt.
"You're bleeding. Stop being proud."
"I'm not proud. I'm just… tired of being handled."
He didn't argue. Just pressed his palm harder to the wound.
"You're not dying. Not on my watch."


Carmilla Westwood never imagined her life would be sold with a signature. Forced into a marriage with Evans Reeds—the darkly seductive ...

"We need to talk."
"Excuse me."
I stood up taking my small purse containing the documents earlier and was about standing up when his voice stopped me.
"A month." He said, still locking his gaze on my face.
I raised a puzzled eyebrow before sitting back down.
"Be my wife for a month and consider all your problems solved."


She was dumped
He needed a bride
Elena was to be married to the only...

"Emma, this is a big night for the pack. The Alphas gathered here tonight could be important potential allies. You need to make a good impression." My father said.
"Potential husbands for your daughter, you mean?" I retort. "The way you used Mom to make an alliance before casting her aside when your 'true mate' appeared."
I cast a disdainful glance at Lisa, my father's 'true mate'. Her smile tigh...

“Fuck, Princess, you’re driving me wild,” Silas growled, his voice thick, almost desperate. His hand tightened in my hair, urging me on, but his words steadied me. “Don’t stop, just like that.”

“Imogen,” he rasped, my name a warning and a plea

But his hand stayed steady in my hair, not forcing but grounding me. “Easy, Princess,” he murmured, voice rough but soothing, even as his body shook with ...

I married a stranger in Vegas. That was my first mistake.
My second? Thinking a hot cop who responds to "I love you" with a thumbs-up emoji could actually be husband material.
Detective Mike Sullivan doesn't do feelings, doesn't do long texts, and definitely doesn't do relationship drama. His idea of communication is "K" and "👍" – and I'm supposed to decode that like some kind of digital archaeol...

Three years ago, Aria Moretti fled from her wedding to Europe, leaving debt-ridden Ella forced to marry Vincent Rossi in her place. Everyone knew she was just a stand-in—a pitiful substitute.

For three years, she silently endured her husband's indifference, tolerated the entire family's disdain, and even in the moment of pregnancy, still couldn't receive a single genuine embrace.

But no one knew...

When NASCAR champion Kyle Harrison awakens from a crash with no memory, he discovers he's caught in the ultimate paradox: he's now the secret lover of Zoe, his former arch-rival, who holds complete control over his existence.

Designer clothes, oceanfront mansion, luxury lifestyle—all his, but at what cost? He's become Zoe's kept man, living in constant fear that her husband might walk through the...