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[18+ | Mature Content | Dark Romance] After slaving away for years as Ares King's sole overworked secretary, Catherine has finally had enough of his domineering and heartless attitude. She wants to quit and use the severance pay to settle her family's debts, and spend more time with her long-term boyfriend. But soon after she hands her resignation letter, she finds out that her long-term boyfriend cheated on her. He claims she's a wreck with no future, and he's better off without her. Heartbroken and devastated, Catherine is grasping at the last straw when her boss, Ares King, proposes a contract out of the blue. "Become my wife for one year." "Why me, Mr. King?" "Because we work, Ms. Lane.” The last thing she wanted was to make a deal with the devil. But this offer is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Sell your soul to the devil for one year. How hard can that be? ********** "How many?" I froze. Did he expect me to count? "How. Many?" "I-I don't—Ah!" Ares spanked me again, continuously. My eyes stung, and sweet pain overtook me. I should feel sick from deriving pleasure from this, but strangely, I wasn't. "Two?" I teased, purposely getting the numbers wrong. "You shouldn't have done that." Just as I thought, he started again, but this time he drove each hit with more force until my ass was burning. "Fifteen!" I yelled, shaking. "Wrong." My heart momentarily stopped. "I got it right!" "You missed one." He pressed his hand on my searing bottom, and I moaned. I tried to squirm away, but he trapped my hands behind my back, his voice dark with warning. "Move again, and you'll regret it." ~ A/N: This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or real events is purely coincidental.

Iris thought she lost it all when she accidentally pushed her best friend, Bethany from their apartment building which was being engulfed in fire. But a cat system popped up and told her she can revive her friend if she complete a mission and get the soul from mission requester as a reward. And Iris seeing no other choice accepted it's offer and Thus,.... She transmigrated into the cliche story written by a newbie writer which leads her to becoming a.... side villainess who dies early! And because she almost killed the heroine by poisoning her and male lead found out! All because she loved the male lead so much! How can a proud and independent woman like Iris would tolerate that. There are plenty of fish in the sea. So, she's gonna rewrite the story in her own way.... by falling in love with other guy. And the man she chose is..... ( Read the story to find out. )

Edith accidentally spends the night with her VIP client, Callum. The next day, she finds her fiancé, whom she's due to marry a week later, kissing a strange woman in a hotel room. Having been constantly manipulated by everyone, she feels devastated. She calls off the engagement after discovering the affair. Only Callum cares about her, even though they've only known each other for a week. Callum admits he suddenly wants to get close to Edith because he doesn't want her to marry the jerk, who is his half-brother. Knowing Callum's true intentions, Edith decides to start a relationship with him. But will their relationship continue to run smoothly? While Edith is traveling with her little family, she suddenly experiences a mysterious accident. She loses her son in the accident and suffers from amnesia. Five years have passed, and she still doesn't know who her daughter's father is. She only knows Cliff (her ex-fiancé from five years ago), who has been a constant source of support. Is Cliff her daughter's father? Whether it's a coincidence or not, when her daughter changes schools, she meets a boy who looks exactly like her. The boy was suspected of being her son who died five years ago. Furthermore, she was suddenly invited to meet with a man named Callum and asked to become his son's secret nanny and VIP designer. Callum deliberately pretended to think of Edith as a stranger to facilitate his plan. To this day, she still wonders who the killer who tried to kill them five years ago was. Ultimately, Edith accepted Callum's offer because she was also curious about Callum's true identity. Was Callum her daughter's father? And, will she fall in love with the CEO who is very possessive of her as time goes by? Or will she marry Cliff, who has helped her for five years?

Murong Jin is the empire’s undefeated goddess of war. On the battlefield, she has crushed every enemy, earning glory, power, and the fear of her foes. But her greatest challenge awaits in the capital—not an enemy army, but an imperial decree. Her reward for victory is not honor, but a forced marriage to the Fifth Prince, Xue Liulan. To the world, he is the useless prince—a tyrant of taverns and gambling halls, drunk, shameless, and disgraced. To her, he is humiliation incarnate. Yet beneath his mask of vice and laziness lurks something dangerous. Behind the smile of a wastrel hides a man with sharp fangs: a secret vendetta, a war fought in the dark, and ambitions that could shake the throne itself. Now, the empire’s strongest general is bound to its most despised prince. One seeks freedom, the other revenge. But in the palace, where every smile hides a blade, their union will light the fuse that could consume the dynasty. Can Murong Jin tame her useless tyrant husband—or will she find herself trapped in his deadly game?

They tried to kill the wrong woman. Orphaned Star only ever wanted to be loved and to have a family of her own. She spent her life trying to make her husband, his family, and her best friend happy. Mistaking their cruelty for care, she sacrificed her time, her trust, and the inheritance her dead parents left her for them. But even that wasn’t enough. Star discovered her husband and best friend were having an affair. Betrayed, heartbroken, and carrying his child, she tried to leave. Instead, they chose greed over guilt and pushed her off a bridge to steal her fortune. They thought she had drowned. The world believed she was dead. But some women don’t stay buried. Now Star is back, unrecognizable and untouchable, armed with a new identity and a man who would burn cities to help her take revenge. Because taking her baby and her money wasn’t enough. This time, she will take everything they love. Even death would be too easy for them.

Aria Thornfield, 22, has known nothing but cruelty her entire life. Born an omega—the lowest rank in the werewolf hierarchy—she's been treated as less than nothing by the Silvercrest Pack. She scrubs floors, endures beatings, and survives on scraps, all while clinging to the foolish hope that the Moon Goddess has something better planned for her. That hope shatters the night of her 18th birthday when the mate bond snaps into place with Damien Silvercrest, the pack's arrogant young Alpha. She expects salvation. Instead, she gets a nightmare. Damien rejects her publicly, humiliates her repeatedly, but refuses to sever the bond completely. He keeps her close enough to use—her omega healing abilities fix his warriors, her domestic skills serve his pack—while giving his heart and title to Celeste, the beautiful Beta's daughter. For four agonizing years, Aria exists in limbo: not rejected enough to be free, not accepted enough to matter. When Celeste announces her pregnancy with Damien's child, Aria finally understands: she was never meant to be Luna. She was just convenient. Broken and ready to die, she stumbles into the Forbidden Forest during a blood moon, prepared to let the rogues or worse claim her. Instead, she's claimed by something far more terrifying: Kaine Ashenheart, the Lycan King. The Lycans are ancient, powerful, and utterly ruthless. Kaine rules them all—a beast who hasn't taken a queen in 300 years, whose fortress of black stone sits at the edge of werewolf territory like a warning. Rumors say he collects the heads of alphas who challenge him. That he bathes in blood. That his heart died centuries ago. But when Kaine finds Aria bleeding in his forest, he doesn't kill her. He offers her a deal: become his contracted queen for one year. Help him navigate an upcoming alliance summit with the werewolf packs. In return, he'll give her protection, power, and revenge. Aria accepts. She has nothing left to lose. What she doesn't expect is for the monster king to be patient. Tender. To wait for her permission before touching her. To rage when he discovers the scars covering her body. To teach her that she was never weak—she was just surrounded by cowards who feared her potential. As Aria learns to command rooms full of alphas, as ancient magic awakens in her blood, as the rejected omega becomes the most feared queen in living memory, she realizes three impossible truths: First, she's not just an omega. She's something far older, far more powerful—the last of the Moon's Chosen, blessed bloodline everyone thought extinct. Second, Kaine isn't her fated mate. But the bond they're forging through choice, through trauma, through healing—it burns brighter than any the Moon Goddess could create. Third, Damien isn't going to let her go. And Celeste's child isn't his heir—it's part of a conspiracy to overthrow the Lycan King and plunge the supernatural world into war. Now Aria must choose: hide in the safety Kaine offers, or step into the queen she was always meant to be—even if it means facing the pack that broke her, the alpha who betrayed her, and a destiny that will require her to rewrite the very laws of the Moon Goddess herself. Because Aria Thornfield was forged in suffering. And queens forged in fire don't just survive. They reign.

Hu bcmans are born to serve. Beastmen are born to rule. Bc Lyra Thorne, 22, has spent her life in the rural village of Ashveil, believing distance from the capital might spare her people from the cruelty of beastmen rule. She was wrong. When her village is razed for harboring "rebellious sentiment," Lyra is dragged in chains to the Grand Auction—where humans are sold like cattle to the beast elite. Beneath the blinding lights, she watches her friends disappear into the claws of wolf lords and lion generals. Then he appears. Cadeon Nightfang, the Shadow Panther—General of the Northern Legions, rumored kingslayer, and the beastman even other beasts fear. His golden eyes lock onto Lyra with an intensity that makes the auction hall fall silent. When he bids an obscene fortune for her, whispers erupt: Why would the Shadow Panther want a human slave? He's never taken one before. Lyra expects torture. Degradation. Death. Instead, she's taken to Nightfang Keep—a fortress of obsidian and thorns where no human has survived more than a year. Cadeon gives her an impossible offer: "Serve me for one year. If you survive, you'll have your freedom and enough gold to disappear forever. Refuse, and I'll return you to the auction." But nothing about her captivity makes sense. She's not locked in the dungeons with other slaves—she has a room in the east wing, where only Cadeon's most trusted advisors reside. She's not beaten—she's *trained* in combat by his second-in-command. And most confusing of all, Cadeon never touches her, never forces her into his bed, though the mate bond between them—forbidden, impossible, illegal—burns hotter with each passing day. Lyra soon discovers the horrifying truth: Cadeon didn't buy her to break her. He bought her to save her. She's the daughter of Elira Thorne, the legendary human rebel who nearly toppled the beast regime twenty years ago—before she was executed. The beast council believes Elira's bloodline died with her, but Cadeon recognized Lyra's eyes at the auction: the same silver-grey eyes that haunted him after he was *ordered* to kill Elira, the woman who showed him humans weren't animals. He's been searching for Lyra for two decades. Now she's here, and the mate bond—a bond that should be *impossible* between human and beast—is undeniable. But fate is a cruel master. As Lyra navigates assassination attempts from jealous beast nobles, political games in a court that wants her dead, and her growing, *forbidden* feelings for the monster who murdered her mother, she uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the throne itself: The Beast King is dying. His heir, Prince Theron Bloodclaw, plans to use the king's death to pass the Purge Laws—legalizing the systematic extermination of all humans, replacing them with "more obedient" slave races. Lyra has three choices: - Escape with her freedom and let millions of humans die - Stay silent and become Cadeon's willing prisoner, betraying her mother's legacy - Ignite the rebellion her mother died for—even if it means losing the one beast who sees her as an equal Because the heart doesn't recognize the difference between master and slave, human and beast, love and destruction. And Lyra is about to learn that some chains are forged not by collars and cages—but by choice. She came as his slave. She'll leave as his revolution.

One moment, Ally Nightingale, a demon and the heiress of the Essoh Clan, was facing execution in the underworld; the next, she finds herself waking up on Earth as Cassandra Benedotte, the eldest daughter of the prestigious Benedotte family. She soon became carefree, wicked, and strict, putting people in their place and giving no damn about consequences. However, everything took a drastic turn when she met Tristan Mendez, a former billionaire struggling to get back on his feet. What happens when a demon finds herself in a situation that gets her stuck with a mere human? Join the journey of reading this book, and let’s unravel this adventure together. ____________________________________________________________________ Why are you so confident? Are you not scared of me?” Cassandra asked, and he chuckled. “Scared? Why would I be? You are a good demon, you are not like those guys who tried to kill or…”  “A good demon?” Cassandra muttered, cutting him off. Her fingers moved unhurriedly to his chin, and she raised it. “I’m not nice. I'm not good. I'm not someone you can call your friend, either. I bring nothing but doom to people’s lives. That is what I do for a living.” Her words were as cold as ice—cold enough to send an ocean of shiver down his spine, but he shoved it away. He was used to it anyway. That was how she had addressed him when they first met—it was nothing new. “But you’ve never brought destruction into my life.” He answered, his eyes locked on hers. Again, her lips curled up at his confidence. “How about you stay a little more and see what I can do.”  

Isabella "Bella" Romano, 24**, has spent three years working double shifts at a rundown diner, her fingers raw from scrubbing grease, her dreams buried under medical bills for her dying mother. She's invisible—just another exhausted girl in a city that chews up the desperate and spits out bones. Then one blood-soaked night, she witnesses a execution in the alley behind her workplace. The killer's cold eyes meet hers. She should run. She should scream. Instead, **Dante Salvatore**—the Ghost of Chicago, the most feared mafia boss in North America—makes her an offer: become his tool, his perfect weapon disguised as innocence, or watch her mother die without the experimental treatment that could save her. Bella has no choice. She becomes Dante's **"little bird"**—his spy in high society, his bait for enemies, his alibi when bodies drop. She wears the designer dresses he buys, attends galas on his arm, and learns that monsters don't always have fangs. Sometimes they have empty eyes and blood on their Armani suits. Dante Salvatore has never let a woman past his bed. Love is weakness. Attachment is a target painted on your back. His empire was built on ruthlessness, and he's survived by feeling nothing. Women are transactions—pleasure exchanged for jewelry, then forgotten by morning. But Bella is different. She doesn't flinch when he kills. She doesn't beg for mercy or luxury. When he barks orders, she obeys with fire in her green eyes. When he bleeds, she stitches him up with steady hands, asking nothing in return. The tool is becoming something else. Something dangerous. As Bella navigates assassination attempts, deadly rivals, and the twisted politics of five crime families, she discovers the truth: Dante isn't just a monster. He's a king haunted by the massacre that orphaned him at twelve, forced into power by his uncle's cruelty, and imprisoned by a legacy of violence he never wanted. Then **Nico Moretti**—Dante's childhood friend and underboss—betrays them. The experimental treatment for Bella's mother? Funded by the Bratva, who want Dante dead. Bella's mother's illness? Poisoned deliberately to recruit Bella as their inside agent. Bella was never supposed to be Dante's tool. She was meant to be his **assassin**. When Dante discovers the conspiracy, he's faced with an impossible choice: kill the woman who betrayed him, or trust the girl who taught him what it means to have a heart—even if it gets him killed. Because in the underworld, love isn't a weakness. **It's a loaded gun pointed at everything you care about.** And Isabella Romano—the girl who scrubbed floors—is about to prove that queens aren't born into power. They're forged in fire, crowned in blood, and built by the men who underestimated them.

I'm going to updating five chapters a day ,If you enjoyed this chapter, please drop a Power Stone or add the book to your library. Your support really helps Synopsis Emily and Nathan are the kind of wealthy power couple everyone envies—successful, beautiful, and completely unavailable. To their children, Ava and Prim, their parents’ marriage looks less like love and more like a corporate merger. Things get worse when a suspiciously attractive woman starts hovering around their father, smiling a little too comfortably. Determined to protect their family, the siblings set out on a luxury mountain trip meant to “fix things.” Instead, something goes terribly wrong—and they wake up in the past, back when their parents were still in high school. Bored, curious, and slightly panicked, Ava and Prim decide to play matchmaker for fun. If they can make their parents fall in love early, everything in the present should be solved… right? Except teenage Emily and Nathan are sworn enemies—ruthless rivals from powerful families, more likely to destroy each other than date. After barely surviving the chaos, the siblings return to the present, convinced they’ve fixed the timeline. Until they see their parents again. Younger. Unchanged. And fully aware of everything that happened. Now, with time unraveling and their existence at risk, Ava and Prim must fix it and stop their parents from dating different people and also from getting punished by their parents sigh being their children is stressful And they also have their love life to handle --- So you guys know the book cover is not mine from Pinterest thank you

From overworked corporate slave to… the fat niece of a future villain? At twenty-three, my life ended in the most ironic way possible—drowning in a lake while reading an online romance novel. When I woke up, I wasn’t just alive—I was inside that very novel. And worse, not as the princess or the healer or even the tragic maid. No. I woke up as Seraphine Agro, the silver-haired, chubby niece of the story’s main villain, Duke Tayler Agro—the man who would one day summon a famine, experiment on peasants, and get publicly executed. Awesome. Now I’m stuck in a half-collapsed mansion with stale soup, a broken “Duke” father who’s too kind for his own good, and an entire kingdom collapsing into plague and hunger. And to make things worse, the hero of the story—the dangerously handsome knight Sir Alex Canva—is on his way to inspect our lands. I know the plot. I know who dies. And I’m not planning to go quietly. Armed with sarcasm, stubbornness, and a questionable diet, I’m rewriting destiny—one disastrous choice at a time.

Zephany Draven is a shy, clumsy celebrity journalist who is constantly ridiculed for not getting the big scoops. She is soft-spoken and easily intimidated, so she looks weak. However, behind closed doors, she's Eclipse, an altogether tougher, loud-mouthed agent and quite ruthless and efficient. Kendrick Montclair is a gentle, positive artist who loves his family and remains optimistic despite his struggles. His gentle nature makes him easy to take advantage of. But secretly, he's Obscura, a cold, ruthless agent who is efficient and silent. Both work as partners in a secret organization that preserves hidden truths erased by governments, yet they remain completely unaware of each other's true identities. Their goal is to reach the highest level of clearance to access classified information. But just when they're on the verge of success, they fail. Then, a mysterious man appears with an offer—a contract marriage in exchange for the information they desperately seek. Trapped with no alternative, they sign the deal, having no idea that they just married their secret partner in crime. But neither expected what would happen next. ------------- Kendrick and Zephany sat by the glass wall, waiting for their food when a car suddenly crashed through. Kendrick pulled Zephany to safety just in time, but both got small cuts from the broken glass. "Are you okay?" they asked, checking each other. To their astonishment, the cuts healed before their eyes. Their minds raced. "Beside me, the only person I know who has that ability is." "No! She can't be that loud, short-tempered woman!" "No! He can't be that silent, obnoxious man!" "Did I marry my secret partner in crime?" They both shuddered at the thought.

He saw her broken mind before he ever touched her body... Elena Cruz believed her life was worthless and hopeless. Since age four, she had known only abuse, pain, and betrayal. Now used and scarred by a close friend, she is left dead, her story ending in silence. Yet fate has other plans. Reborn with powers she didn’t ask for, Elena swore to destroy everyone who hurt her. But when the psychic billionaire Adrian Kael, who can read her thoughts, offers to train her, their minds—and hearts—begin a war neither can win. As they face enemies, betrayals, and unravel lies. Will they drown in the depths of trauma and hurt, or will they conquer their own fears and choose to love and trust one another?

In a past life, Daphne was a concubine whose beauty won the Emperor's heart, but earned the Empress's wrath. Betrayed and poisoned, she died a tragic death,spending her final moments in the arms of a cold, powerful general who swore to find her in the next life. But fate has a different plan. Daphne is reborn, returned to a time before her family's ruin and her own gruesome end. Armed with a mind sharpened by a lifetime of regret and a body she now vows to make unbreakable, she forges a new path. She will not be a pawn again. This time, she will protect her family and defy the destiny that once took her life. General Alaric , the man who had loved her secretly in her past life is unaware that she's been reborn. He is a living legend, a name whispered with of awe and terror on every battlefield. Yet, beneath his calm surface lies a fiercely possessive nature. What Alaric desires, he claims, and what he claims, he holds with an unbreakable grip. This possessiveness is the darker twin to his battlefield prowess, a ruthless, unyielding trait that ensures once he decides something is his, be it territory, or a woman, he will stop at nothing to secure it. In the mood for a doting and extremely obsessive husband? You're in the right place.

Vignette, an orca demi-human, is raised to be the perfect heiress to her father's media agency. Vinny must stave off feelings for her suave rival, a shark that seems to know her better than she knows herself.

In a kingdom ruled by shadows and moonlight, a hidden heir awakens to her destiny. When ancient prophecies stir and a celestial power long thought lost returns, Alisha must uncover the truth behind her lineage and confront the forces determined to seize the throne. Beneath the glow of a rising moon, her choices will shape the fate of an empire—and reveal the light she never knew she carried.

Love was never meant to be part of the contract. Lady Seraphina was born to obey—polished into perfection, promised to a man known as the Empire’s Beast. Their arranged marriage was a transaction of power, not affection. Somewhere between cold vows and burning glances, duty turned to desire and desire to ruin. Beneath the glitter of chandeliers and the weight of swords, their duty ignites into something dangerously alive—until betrayal turns that love to ash. Branded a traitor and executed by the rebels she tried to control, Seraphina dies whispering in her heart the name of the man she destroyed only to wake five years before her downfall. This time, she won’t be anyone’s pawn. Not her mother's. Not the Crown’s. And certainly not her husband’s. In this life, Seraphina will wield the one advantage she was never meant to have: foresight. But when the man who once condemned her returns to claim her hand again, the game resets—only the board has changed, and Seraphina holds the pieces while facing a cruel truth: love and power are the most foolish bedfellows of all. Equal parts courtly intrigue and battlefield grit, Duty Bound: The Second Marriage Vow asks: can one second chance rewrite a lifetime of betrayal?

Ilyra Noem was never meant to live in the shadows of power, but for years she kept an empire together without saying a word. As the wife of billionaire Ruvan Calderic, she worked without a title, power, or recognition, stopping disasters that no one could have seen coming. It was difficult to see how smart she was. No one has written down her sacrifices. Her access ended with her marriage. The Calderic Group starts to break apart in small but dangerous ways when Ilyra disappears. Contracts don't work. There are holes in oversight. People in charge pay attention. The man who once thought that power could replace loyalty now knows that he can't get back what he lost by using force. Ilyra doesn't come back to beg. She comes back as an independent expert who is untouchable, controlled, and ready. Questions shift from business to personal responsibilities, revealing their past and serving as evidence. Being quiet becomes a problem. Distance becomes unfeasible. Every attempt to conceal the truth demonstrated the deep connection between their lives. This story isn't about forgiving someone right away. It's the story of a woman who won't be forgotten just because she was loved and then left. It's also about power being regained and boundaries being enforced. Once people are held accountable, the focus changes from figuring out what went wrong to resolving the problem at its source. But who will have to manage the results?

I married him to save my family. I lost myself instead. Georgia Steele was raised to believe that marriage was duty, sacrifice, and obedience. When her father’s empire begins to crumble, she is offered as a solution to a powerful older man who promises security in exchange for her future. At first, her new life is gilded and controlled, beautiful on the surface and suffocating beneath it. Then another man appears. Charming, attentive, and seemingly everything her husband is not, he offers her escape and love. She follows him willingly, believing she has chosen freedom. She is wrong. What begins as rescue becomes captivity. What feels like devotion turns into domination. Georgia is isolated inside a vast mansion where her memories are questioned, her movements monitored, and her sanity slowly dismantled. When she resists, she is medicated. When she speaks, she is silenced. When she tries to escape, the world is taught to believe she is unstable. Locked beneath the house in a hidden cellar, Georgia is erased from existence while her captor builds a new life above her. As months turn into years, Georgia survives through pain, hallucination, and rage. Another woman is brought into the house, then another, each one unknowingly stepping into the same trap. In the darkness below, Georgia’s mind fractures, hardens, and evolves. What is buried does not stay silent forever. This is a story of psychological imprisonment, gaslighting, female suffering, and the terrifying resilience of a woman pushed beyond her breaking point. It is not a love story. It is a descent, a haunting, and ultimately, a reckoning. When the truth finally surfaces, it will not come gently. Some houses are built to destroy women. Others are meant to burn.

The door opened making the bell ring, Ashley turned her head to see the man in her dreams walk up to her in real life—wiping her eyes the words 'you don't belong here' rang in her mind. She definitely was still Dreaming cause "what the..." **** ***** *** **** ******** Ashley Moren is a stubborn, soft-hearted healer who believes her life will never stretch beyond her small, magic-hating town. That illusion shatters when a reaper from the Underrealm claims her as his bride and drags her into a world of ancient creatures, fractured prophecies, and restless souls. Ashley is alive. She is not supposed to be. Her existence disrupts the natural order, sending tremors through all seven realms. As secrets surface, Ashley learns she is meant to become the anchor that binds death, fate, and creation together. Accepting the role would preserve the realms… but it will cost her the life she loves and eventually, her mortality. Refusing the bond is no better. Without her, the balance will collapse, tearing the realms apart. Caught between sacrifice and survival, Ashley must decide whether to surrender to a destiny written long before her birth or defy fate itself — even if doing so means choosing how, and when, she dies.