Short Marriage

Her husband’s boss makes an indecent proposal, and there’s no way young wife Chelsea would ever consider it in a million years. Or . . . will she? When her husband goes away for business for the first time in years, Chelsea suddenly feels more alone than she has ever felt in her life… and when his boss comes around to ‘check’ on her, she finds herself in an unexpected situation that could lead to her doing things she never dreamed she’d do. . . Hot wife novella: 10,000 words

He called it her "little hobby." He never bothered to learn the password. Julie set up the family photo cloud one rainy Sunday, because somebody had to. Fifteen years later, it quietly backed up her husband's affair — with her best friend — straight to the iPad she teaches fractions on. Other women would've thrown a fit. Julie threw a party. Now there's forty guests and one big surprise for her no-good cheating husband. He told her not to make it a thing. She's going to make it a thing.

At her son's engagement dinner, Carol smiled, raised her glass, and realized the bride was sleeping with her husband. She could've flipped the table. Screamed. Burned it all down right there between the toast and the cake. Instead? She smiled wider. Poured the wine. And offered to plan the wedding herself. Big mistake — theirs. Because Carol's spent thirty years making people look good while she quietly pulls every string in the room. Her husband thinks she's clueless. The other woman thinks she's harmless. Her cheating, smug little world thinks it's already won. They're about to find out...

My husband brought his mistress on our honeymoon. I thought I had jetlag. A week in Bali and I couldn't keep my eyes open to enjoy any of it. I apologized to him every single night, thinking I ruined our honeymoon. Then one night I wake up alone. Then I hear him in another bungalow, with another woman. Then I discover she's pretending to be me. When we get home, I start putting the pieces together. What he did was so much worse than having an affair. So much worse than anything I could have imagined the man I married was capable of. He thinks I don't know what he did. He's wrong. And now ...

My husband gave his mistress my seat. He expected me to keep making him look like a hero anyway. For ten years, I built the spotless public image behind Ryan Callahan’s superstar quarterback career. Then I walk into my family’s skybox and find his mistress sitting in my seat, wearing earrings bought on our joint card. And the receipts only get worse. Eleven months of lies. Hotel rooms. Secret trips. Endorsement work pushed through using my forged signature. Ryan has always relied on one thing. Claire will fix it. Not this time. I protect the company I built, preserve the evidence and ...

From bestselling author Oona Ryda comes a high-heat, over-the-top forced-marriage mafia romance featuring an age gap, a neurodivergent heroine, a wedding hijacked at gunpoint, and a coldly lethal JP/OTT antihero. **This is a short novella. Meant to be read in under 2 hours.** Luca DiCenzo sees everything. As underboss of Chicago's Italian mafia, he reads a lie before it's spoken, spots a traitor a mile away, and trusts no one. He doesn't do softness. He doesn't do relationships. And he sure as hell doesn’t do marriage…until his Don orders him to. Giada Rafinelli has been called a freak ...

Emma spent years proving she was good enough for the Buchanans. It took one folder of photographs to prove she never had a chance. Hours after she delivers her daughter, her husband walks into the hospital room cold and furious, holding pictures that he claims is proof she cheated. His mother stands behind him, calm as winter, asking for the one thing that will end everything. A paternity test. Ryan refuses to sign the birth certificate. He refuses to look at the baby. Then he walks out and leaves them both behind. The results come back a perfect match. Emma waits for the apology. But it ...

Her vacuum cleaner found out her husband was cheating before she did. When Nell Ridley hears something rattling around in the Roomba, she pops the bin expecting a dime. She finds a diamond earring. It isn't hers. No other woman has set foot in that house in months. And the Roomba runs every single day — which means it got under her bed since Tuesday. When she asks her mother whether Tom seems off lately, Diane Whitlock reaches across the table, takes her hand, and says all the kindest things. You've never grieved your father. You've always been sensitive. Tom's the only one who's shown up...

He’s a ruthless billionaire who takes what he wants. I’m the innocent assistant who just gave him everything. Alexander Moretti is a storm in a tailored suit. He’s powerful, cold, and twice my age. As his executive assistant, I knew the rules: stay professional, don't stare too long, and never—ever—let him see how much I want him. But one rainy night at the office, the boundaries blurred. One kiss led to a night of intensity that made me forget my own name. I thought I could handle him. I thought I could keep my secret hidden. I was wrong. When Alexander sees the blood on his ...

He kissed her best friend... but he forgot about the doorbell camera. Crystal Landry teaches teenagers to read the fine print. Everyone thinks her class is cute. They don't know she reads contracts for a living. Then the camera catches her husband with her best friend — and a few words she was never supposed to hear. Words that tell her this isn't just an affair. There's a plan. It's on paper. And he's so sure his quiet little wife will never look closely enough to find it. He picked the wrong woman to underestimate. Crystal doesn't scream. She doesn't beg. She starts keeping receipts —...

Eight days before my wedding, I discovered my fiancé was sleeping with my little sister. I’m going to destroy them both. I built my life from the ground up. I own a highly successful architectural firm and a beautiful home. I thought I had found the perfect man to share it with. Daniel is handsome, devoted, and endlessly charming. He’s also a quarter of a million dollars in debt, a masterful liar, and the father of my younger sister Harper’s unborn baby. To Harper, I’m a walking ATM. To Daniel, I’m a frigid bitch. They’re planning to steal my life’s work and string me along ...

I wasn't looking for proof that my marriage was a lie. Then I found my husband's favorited photos. When a cloud update synced photos from my husband's phone to the family cloud, I expect to find pictures of our kids, of me, and I did. I also find explicit photos of my husband with a woman I considered a friend. Three hours before we exchanged wedding vows, she was on her knees in a hotel room and he was taking filthy pictures like souvenirs. We had dinner with her and her husband last night. He doesn't know I know. He sits across from her husband at work like he hasn't been screwing the ...

One glove. One horse. One very public reckoning. Frankie Mercer can pick her own horse out of a hundred head in the rain. She can't spot a liar across her own kitchen table. It starts with a woman's riding glove in her husband's overnight bag. Brand new. Never ridden in. A maker she's never stocked. Beau has an answer ready. Frankie keeps the glove anyway. Because four of her homebred horses are missing — sold and "rehomed" out from under her while she lay in a hospital bed. And when she finally finds her heart-horse, he's ninety minutes down the road winning under another name, her brand...

This sparkling box set includes all four full-length novels in Claudia Stone’s Regency Murder and Marriage series—a delightful blend of cosy mystery, romantic mischief, and sharp-tongued heroines who always find trouble… and often find love along the way.

My husband has been taking his ex-wife on luxury vacations for our entire marriage. Eight years of "fishing trips with the boys." Eight years of king suites, champagne, and oceanfront dinners at a resort he told me we couldn't afford, because he had to reinvest in the business — while I slept on a saggy mattress at his family's lake house and got told Barbados was "too expensive." He doesn't know I discovered his affair. He doesn't know I booked a room at the same resort. And he definitely doesn't think I remember the infidelity clause in the prenup he made me sign — the one that says ...

He traded me in. Now he can't afford the upgrade. 🖤 My husband explained it to me over dinner the way he'd explain a car lease. I'd gotten old. He wanted the newer model. And somewhere in his head, the word he'd settled on for me was *base model*. I didn't throw the fish. I finished the fish. I'm Diana Russell, and for fourteen years I quietly built Greg Tanner into a man who could walk into rich rooms without getting spotted as a fraud. I chose his wine, remembered everyone's kids' names, and turned a guy who sells hope to strangers into someone who looked like he belonged. Then Greg ...

The cruelest betrayal wasn't that he walked away. It was discovering she'd never had his whole heart to begin with. Rachel George spent ten years loving a man who never truly let go of his first love. When Drew leaves their marriage the moment his ex returns to town, Rachel refuses to become the woman who begs him to stay. Instead, she pours everything she has into opening the flower shop she'd always dreamed of owning, determined to prove that the best chapters of her life don't begin with him. But small towns have long memories. As Rachel rebuilds her future, Drew discovers that the ...

I found my dead mother’s ring on my husband’s mistress’s Instagram. Warren told me Kendra was just his mentee. She's not. She's his mistress. And the ring she was using to promote her new jewelry company belonged to my mother. When I opened my mother’s safe-deposit box. Almost everything was gone. My husband stole her jewelry, forged my signature and sold it for $61,000. Then he borrowed another $180,000 against my mother’s estate and secretly invested it in his mistress’s company. A company he owns part of. While I was grieving for my mother, Warren and Kendra were having an ...

He kissed her best friend in her own truck. He forgot about the camera on the dash. Courtney Andrews built everything herself — the firm with her name on the door, the mid-century house she gutted and rebuilt with her own two hands. Her husband Chad calls her dashcam a "spy toy." Then a fender-bender sends her scrolling the footage for the dent, and she finds the wrong clip first. Chad. Her best friend Avery. A kiss in the front seat — and then the two of them laughing about the deed they forged, the notary stamp Avery pressed herself, the refinance that drains four hundred thousand ...

“The pages practically turn themselves” (USA TODAY) in this collection of four “disturbing, fascinating” (The Washington Post) novellas centered around the theme of retribution from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. “1922” (also a Netflix original film): A...