marriage of convenience novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “marriage of convenience”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

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• Wedding Day: My Fiancé Put Another Woman in My Wedding Car
  

  The night before her wedding, Claire finds her fiancé in the bed she bought with his first love, and he calmly offers to keep the woman somewhere else after the vows. She drops the ring, texts his powerful uncle that she accepts his proposal, and on the wedding morning she walks into the church for a different groom.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  16 chapters published

• My Fiancé Butt-Dialed Me Mid-Affair, So I Married His Brother
  

  Joanna Sayre has spent two months looking for a way out of her engagement. The night before the party, her fiancé's phone calls hers from his bed, with her best friend beside him. She plays the call to the whole ballroom, and his estranged older brother offers her the only exit left.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Chose the Wrong Sister
  

  She risked her life to save the Crown Prince, and he married her sister's face instead. Reborn nine days before he arrives, she asks her father for a husband, the sooner the better.

  female lead · marriage of convenience · royal palace

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Groom Walked Out, So His Brother Took His Place
  

  My groom walked out in front of two hundred guests, so his cold younger brother took the ring from his pocket and asked me instead. I said yes, and we had until Election Day.

  contemporary · female lead · marriage of convenience

  32 chapters published

• My Sister Ran Before the Wedding, So I Said I Do
  

  My sister left her ring on the sink an hour before the wedding, so I married her ruthless groom in her veil. A year later she came back, pregnant, wanting her seat.

  contemporary · female lead · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

• The Duke Should Divorce Me, So Why Is He Stalling My Death?
  

  I woke up as the cannon-fodder wife of a cold duke in a novel I only skimmed. He divorces me in chapter 3 and I hang in chapter 20, and he is the one man in the Empire refusing to let the schedule run.

  female lead · marriage of convenience · redemption arc

  32 chapters published

• He Had a Wife I Never Knew, So I Married Her Brother
  

  For three years Linnea thought she was the one he chose. Then a lawyer rings the bell and calls her the mistress, and the wife's own brother becomes her way to a wedding that ruins them both.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• After Seeing the Comments, I Forced the Male Lead to Love Me
  

  Three years into my marriage, reader comments appeared in front of my eyes and told me my husband had no sex drive, and that he would divorce me in thirty days. I decided to force him to love me first.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Mom Let Me Marry the Security Guard
  

  At her own engagement party, Claire Penhallow's mother announces she will marry the ballroom's security guard, and Claire walks out with him. The guard did not take that door job by accident.

  contemporary · female lead · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Sent Me Away for Three Years. Now My Divorce Has Him Panicking.
  

  Monica did everything her husband asked for three years, even when he refused her time off for her sick mother. Then he told the cameras there was no Mrs. Aldridge, and she served him divorce papers on stage.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Drone Who Claimed the Marshal
  

  Sold off live to the Ore Works as an unclaimed drone, a man who died once already stands up in front of forty thousand people and claims the empire's coldest Marshal as his husband.

  sci-fi · marriage of convenience · male lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Fiancé Sacrificed Me for My Sister's Heart
  

  Nerina sees every person's death age above their head. When hers drops from 87 to 22, she learns her fiancé and her parents have chosen her heart for her favored sister.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Swapped Himself Out at the Altar, So I Married the Honest Stranger
  

  Her fiancé hid among six men in black suits, sure his face-blind bride would never find him. She picked the one man who tried to warn her, and married him in front of two hundred guests.

  contemporary · female lead · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Married the Farmer Who Taught Him to Live Again
  

  After his first love leaves him following a car accident, billionaire Daniel Silver enters a marriage of convenience with lively organic farmer Johnny Brownie. When a scheming ex and uncle threaten the life they have built, Daniel must prove that loving Johnny means standing up for him, not just needing his care.

  misunderstanding · romantic comedy · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Auctioned Off My Housekeeping, Then the Mob Paid a Million for It
  

  At a charity gala my boyfriend's friend auctioned off a week of my housekeeping while his whole table laughed and bid. Then a man I hadn't seen in six years stood up and bid a million dollars.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Lost His Family in the Snow, He Returned to Save Them
  

  After losing his husband and child to a plot that could ignite a war between two kingdoms, Seo Min-jun dies begging the moon goddess for another chance. Reborn one month before the tragedy, he must save Han Seo-jun while hiding a divine condition that will make him carry their children and risk his husband's love all over again.

  marriage of convenience · redemption arc · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Memories Without Him
  

  She texted "I love you" to the mafia Don who raised her, and he cut her off for six months. Now she has a brain tumor, one goodbye left, and the memory of him is the first thing it will take.

  amnesia · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Stepmother Sold the Farm, So I Married the Man Who Left
  

  Solveig's stepmother has sold the family farm to a sand company, so in front of the whole church Solveig names her late brother's best friend, home after six years, as her fiance, and he says yes.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

• Scorned By Him, Cherished By His Brother
  

  Her husband sets her aside at his brother's memorial supper, so a merchant's daughter with a healer's hands finds the dead brother alive and marries him to burn her husband's rise to the ground.

  forbidden love · female lead · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Marshal Is My Mate
  

  Lucan Merrow, a C-rank Drone, is dumped in public by the S-rank Sentinel he settled for six years. So he crosses the ballroom, lays a bare hand on the Empire's unsettleable Marshal, and says: I want your uncle.

  military-base · sci-fi · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Twin Took My Husband. I Kept the Billions.
  

  My twin pushed me off the tower I built, and I woke up in my father's living room with two marriage contracts on the table. This time she can have the husband. I'm keeping the billions.

  contemporary · female lead · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Dumped on His Wharf, I Married His Brother and Set Their Price
  

  Susannah Lunt is told to step out of the Seavey family photo on a Maine lobster wharf, hands back the shirt, and marries the ex's enormous, laughing older brother by Monday, while the lobster dynasty whose price the whole harbor lives on is her father's and she has never told a soul.

  contemporary · female lead · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

• My Husband Can Hear Every Unspoken Thought Of Mine
  

  She married the only doctor among the billionaire heirs and spent her wedding day watching him leave for his best friend's emergencies. Then she found out he can hear every thought she never says.

  contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Replacing Four Grooms in One Day
  

  Vin Hargrove has until midnight to marry or lose her family house, so she booked four weddings in one day. Groom Number One walks, Two cancels, Three is at the altar with someone else, and Four is waiting on a ferry that sails at four sharp.

  contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Shielded by the Ruthless Military Boss
  

  A first-year nurse walks out on a date who bruised her, then a killer in a doctor's coat puts a scalpel to her throat in a locked-down hospital. The Army colonel who throws himself down the stairs to save her offers her a marriage that will keep her alive.

  military-base · bodyguard-romance · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Substitute Groom Refuses to Leave
  

  Wen Shuqiao substitutes at a wedding prepared for noble sacrifice. His general husband recognizes him and keeps offering him comfortable ways to leave. Practical general gong x proud scholar shou. Marry first, love later; both clean; shou viewpoint; 1v1; HE.

  romantic comedy · marriage of convenience · male lead

  24 chapters published

• He Asked for a Convenient Wife, I Taught Him to Say No
  

  A cowboy marries an outspoken newcomer to stop the town arranging his dates, but learning to refuse everybody means one day refusing her too.

  female lead · romantic comedy · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

• I Took His Prison Sentence. Now He Begs.
  

  Willa Soderberg served three years for the crash her fiance caused, and the day she walks out he is across town toasting his first love. In her pocket is a letter from the most feared woman in prison, with a stranger's name and the word husband beside it.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Can Hear My Paralyzed Billionaire Husband's Thoughts
  

  Her sister throws a ring at her face and tells her to marry the vegetable. Then Clara touches the billionaire's hand and hears him think.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Groom Chose Her Again, So I Married My Billionaire Boss
  

  Her groom left the altar for the grieving friend who ruined her dress, so Joanna called her old boss, the city's most dangerous billionaire, and married him before the guests could whisper.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free