Stories with a female lead
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A plus-size girl, a billionaire alpha, and a genre that usually writes women like her out of the story.
Aria is a sheltered mafia princess from Chicago. Luca is the heir to New York's coldest family. Neither was consulted.
Emma mistakes William for someone else and ends up married to him. He is the CEO of Irving Corporation, and both of them are already planning the divorce.
Lyra spends one night with the Dragon King, is cast out on a fake prophecy, and returns years later to find a healer for their sick daughter.
Humiliated by her fiancé days before the wedding, Victoria brings a homeless stranger home to keep up appearances. Simon is not a stranger to money.
She has never had a single boyfriend. The moon goddess assigns her three mates at once.
Harper wants to finish Yale unnoticed. Chris, her father's business partner, keeps rescuing her — so she plans to make him fall for her and get him thrown out.
Summer sold her own blood to put Vincent through medical school and he repaid her by cheating. Her way out is a contract marriage with a billionaire she has just met.
He calls her honey in bed and gets his own name wrong. Seven days until the divorce, and the man in her bed is not Cirrus.
Ivy's scholarship comes with a catch: she is the fated mate of three of the strongest shifters on campus, and they all know it.
Eleanor comes home from Africa and is mistaken for a penniless volunteer. The woman her ex humiliated is the secret CEO of the world's largest investment syndicate.
Natalie married for convenience. Her husband Sebastian has a second life — and her family is planning her downfall while he plans something deadlier.
One night, one pregnancy, one rejection. The prince is not the man who left.
A mother is humiliated by the PTA after they frame her son. What they do not know yet: she is the money behind the school.
Hailey hides that her family owns half the town. The maid's daughter shows up at Western High claiming to be the Kaplan heiress — and the school believes her.
He looks at her the way you look at a stranger, and she has no idea what she did. Dreame's own front page opens with it.
Stories with a male lead
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The title is the whole pitch. Every rival in this story is wrong about who they are talking to.
The genre's favourite weapon is not a fist, it is a bank balance nobody knew about.
The original hidden-king title, and the one that set the template the others follow.
Everyone in the room is someone. He is not — until the day he is the only one who matters.
A prison is the cleanest power-fantasy setting there is: no money, no names, only rank.