Billionaire's Contracted & Unloved Wife Novel

Ariel overhears her father and stepmother plotting to marry her off to their debtor's unsuccessful son instead of her stepsister. Planning her escape, she is mysteriously kidnapped that same night—by the very people she was fleeing. Forced into marriage with a stranger she neither knows nor loves, Ariel's fate takes an unexpected turn when she discovers her new husband is Chaz Aiden, the country's wealthiest billionaire. Chaz is a highly successful businessman with global enterprises and a deep aversion to women, stemming from his mother's abandonment of his father for a richer man. When his grandmother requests he marry the Hudson family's daughter as a favor, he recognizes it as driven by greed. He vows to make Ariel's life miserable, constantly reminding her that she is merely a purchased object under contract—never to be loved. Yet as their marriage unfolds, tensions between them reveal unexpected complexities beneath the surface of their contractual arrangement.