Drama Web Novels & Actor / Actress Hate to Love Stories

Maria Moore was once the daughter of one of the country's most powerful families and an aspiring actress chasing her dream. But when the Moore family is accused of corruption, murder, and illegal dealings, she loses everything. Shunned by the industry, drowning in debt, and left to care for her alcoholic father, Maria is forced to accept a private sponsorship deal from a man she knows nothing about. Lewis, the enigmatic CEO of Halcyon Industries, has only one condition: "Act like you're madly in love with me." A fake relationship soon thrusts Maria back into the spotlight. But the closer she gets to Lewis, the more she realizes he isn't the man she thought he was. Then a desperate phone call from her missing mother changes everything. Stay away from Halcyon Industries. Now Maria is left questioning everything. Why did Lewis choose her? What secret is Halcyon Industries hiding? And is the man she should hate the only one who can uncover the truth behind her family's downfall?

Julian Vane and Leo Thorne are the kings of the silver screen, but their off-screen hatred is the industry's worst-kept secret. When a viral public brawl threatens to blacklist them both, they are forced into the ultimate performance: a six-month dating contract. As the cameras roll, the scripted kisses start to feel dangerously real, and a dark agency conspiracy threatens to turn their staged romance into a terminal tragedy. In a world built on lies, can they survive the truth before the final curtain falls?

Amani as simple as she has always been ,moved away from her old life in order to start afresh and build her career as a lawyer.But she also came chasing a dream she should have let go of, Avan Cole a rising celebrity actor she has watched from afar for years.When a high profile case pulls him into her world, and forces her into close proximity with powerful men who shape the city’s legal empire, her life takes a turn she never saw coming.What begins as obsession slowly turns into something far more complicated… and far more dangerous.

Six years ago, Melody Brooks caught her fiancé cheating three weeks before their wedding. The betrayal was bad enough, but learning that her brother and parents already knew and expected her to marry Paul Belcourt anyway was worse. So Melody walked away from all of them. Now she is back. She is no longer the insecure woman who believed being chosen by Paul was the best she could hope for. Melody is confident, successful, and the owner of a thriving theater. When the Belcourts show up on opening night of the play she wrote from the wreckage they left behind, Melody finally gets to watch Paul realize exactly what he threw away. And judging by the way he is looking at her, he wants her back. Melody has no intention of giving him a second chance. But making him wish she had never left? That could be fun. Then she runs into Paul's older brother. Dark, powerful, and infuriatingly controlled, August Belcourt is everything Paul is not. He is determined to stop Melody before her play damages the family name, and Melody should hate him for it. Instead, she cannot stop wondering how Paul would react if his perfect older brother wanted the woman he once discarded. It starts as revenge: a little flirting, a little jealousy, and one spectacularly bad idea. But the closer Melody gets to August, the harder it becomes to remember which Belcourt she is supposed to be playing. Because falling for her ex's brother was never part of the revenge plan.

Elena Marchetti, a rising film star, wakes up in a hospital after a car accident with no memory of the last two years. The last face she saw — the last photo she remembers looking at before the accident — belongs to Daniel Ashford, a powerful, guarded tech billionaire she'd only just met once at an event. Convinced he's her husband, she says so out loud in front of the press, his family, and half the hospital staff before he can stop her. Daniel corrects her immediately, privately, the moment they're alone. But by then, the story is already out — and it's solved a very real problem he has: a hostile board vote, a family trust that requires him to be "settled" to retain control of his company, and a tabloid narrative he desperately needed to change. He proposes they let the world keep believing it, just for a few months, while her memory (hopefully) returns and his company crisis resolves. She agrees — she has nowhere else stable to land right now anyway, and something about him feels like gravity she can't explain. What neither of them expects is how easily the pretend marriage starts to feel like it isn't pretend at all — or the secret Daniel is keeping about why he was really at that event the night they first met, and why her memory loss might be more complicated than a car accident. **Core conflict:** A necessary lie built on real, growing feelings — and a hidden truth about their real first meeting that could destroy the fragile trust they're building. **Setting:** Los Angeles and a private coastal estate outside the city. **Tone:** Glamorous, high-stakes, slow-burn with real emotional stakes, steamy but tasteful (closed-door-adjacent — sensual tension and fade-to-black intimacy, not explicit).

Maren Vass runs the world's most ruthless reputation-and-crisis empire. The firm billionaires, politicians, and dynasties call when a scandal could vaporize their fortune or destroy them. She doesn't do PR or fix reputations, She manufactures consent: buries stories, rebuilds images, rewrites reality, decides who the public gets to forgive. She is the most powerful person almost no one has heard of, by design. So when disgraced tech billionaire Theo Kashner is forced to hand over control of his collapsing public image to Vass & Cole, the most feared crisis management firm in Manhattan, Maren expects another damaged rich man begging to be saved. Instead, she finds a man whose ruin feels disturbingly familiar. Theo lost everything three years ago after a scandal destroyed his company, his marriage, and his name. Now he’s desperate for one last chance to rebuild. The board funding his comeback imposes one condition: submit completely to Maren’s control for 18 months. This includes total control of his public life, his words, his appearances, his entire constructed self. But while rebuilding his life, Maren discovers something horrifying. The scandal that destroyed Theo… was created by her own firm. And she was the one who signed off on it. Now every moment between them becomes poisoned by the truth she cannot confess. Every touch feels like theft. Every act of repair becomes an apology he cannot hear. Because if Theo ever discovers that the woman he’s falling for is the architect of his destruction, it won’t just destroy their love, It will destroy her entire empire. And this time, there will be no narrative left to hide behind. Read on to see what happens next.

“Run if you want, Lia. I’ll only chase you. And you know exactly how that ends…” … Natalia Monroe had the world at her feet—Hollywood’s golden girl, four Oscars, two Emmys, and a fanbase that worshipped her. Until one scandalous video destroyed everything. Overnight, she goes from America’s sweetheart to the internet’s favorite villain. Betrayed, mocked, canceled, and hunted by paparazzi—her glittering life collapses in a single breath. And when the harassment turns violent, her father drags her back to the tiny hometown she swore she’d never return to. She expects the usual boredom, silence and insignificance. What she doesn’t expect is him. Roman Volkov—her small town’s new mayor, its “miracle man,” loved by everyone, trusted by all. He’s charming, untouchable and practically perfect. Except Natalia doesn’t buy it. Behind his polite smile and mismatched eyes, she sees the truth—danger, darkness, and secrets that could ruin them both. He’s clearly hiding something. Something big…something…deadly. But when her father forces her to work as Roman’s secretary and a PR disaster traps them in a fake relationship—she realizes one terrifying thing: The town may see an angel. But the man watching her like a hawk is the devil she should’ve run from. Except he has no intention of letting her go.