Dark Romance Web Novels & Dominant Misunderstanding Stories

Diana Hamilton writes bestselling romance novels, but there is one thing she has never understood—desire. Desperate to save her career and her family, Diana agrees to a four-month arrangement with the cold and powerful billionaire, Blake Whitmore. The rules are simple: no love, no expectations, no future. But Diana soon discovers the man behind Blake’s icy walls—and the little girl who steals her heart. As their forbidden arrangement turns into something neither of them expected, Diana finds herself wanting more than a contract can offer. Yet Blake is a man trapped by his past, and some walls are harder to break than others. Can a woman who never believed in desire teach a broken billionaire how to love again?

You wanted a war, Liliana. But behind closed doors, you play by my rules." ​Four years ago, Liliana Bridget gave her heart to Kendrick Lockett, sealing their teenage love with a secret silver locket and a desperate, rain-slicked kiss before his family was exiled to Australia. But before his plane even touched down, her world was shattered. A leaked video proved the brutal truth: to Kendrick, she was nothing but a "placeholder bet" to secure a multi-billion dollar shipping merger. ​Now, Lily is the untouchable "Ice Queen" of Seattle's elite, hiding a devastating secret—her family’s empire is bleeding dry, targeted by a ruthless shadow syndicate. To unmask the conspiracy, she must travel to Sydney and step straight into the lion's den. ​But Kendrick is no longer the protective boy she loved in the rain. ​At twenty, he is the fiercely dominant, cold-hearted CEO of Lockett Global. Believing Lily was the one who betrayed his family years ago, he has spent every waking hour planning his revenge. ​When Lily is forced to beg for his help, Kendrick delivers a ruthless, predatory ultimatum: a mandatory, forced-proximity merger. He wants her in his skyscrapers, on his private mega-yacht, and bound to his side. ​As they clash in a high-stakes game of corporate espionage, their hatred burns into a dark, suffocating passion. Behind closed doors, the cold masks they wear slip away, exposing a raw, obsessive desire that neither of them can control. But with a shadow syndicate closing in and secrets from the past unraveling, they must face a devastating truth: ​Was their hatred born of a lie, or will their toxic hunger destroy them both?

Julienne had always prided herself on her sense of justice. As a criminal detective, she believed she would be able to do anything for the truth. That is until the lies looked right into her eyes and smiled. When she came home after a breakup text from her boyfriend of a year, Hades Bianchi, only to meet him and her sister, Lorelai, newly engaged and supposedly expecting a child, Julienne's world tilted on its axis. She is determined to stop the wedding, even if she has to dabble into murky waters, like kissing him hours before the wedding. But things get even messier when Lorelai doesn't show up to the ceremony and she is found dead in front of the cathedral, in her wedding dress. In order to cover up the scandal, the head of the Bianchi family decides to cover up the murder and have Julienne take her sister's place. Julienne agrees, mostly because she is the only one who knows how Hades looks when he isn't remorseful. But now that she is in his bed, his wedding band around her finger, desire and the truth collide, and Julienne will soon find out that the two may never be able to exist in the same space.

LOVE AND DEATH LOVE AND DEATH Cael Russo was nine years old when he watched his father die. He did not see a murder that night. He saw a man kneel, and another man pull the trigger, and a boy's entire world collapse in the space of a single second. The man who pulled the trigger was Adrian Frost, the most feared crime lord in the city. The boy who watched from behind a cracked door grew up eating at Adrian's table, sleeping under Adrian's roof, and hating every single second of it. For fifteen years Cael has been waiting. He had being learning. Becoming exactly the kind of dangerous that Adrian never saw coming. He knows every weakness, every pressure point, every name in every deal. He has one plan, one goal, one reason to keep breathing inside that house. Burn it to the ground. Then Lucian Ashford comes home. Adrian's only son is nothing like his father, which is the most inconvenient thing Cael has ever encountered. He is perceptive and warm and infuriatingly impossible to manipulate, and the seduction that was supposed to be Cael's fastest route to the ledger that will destroy everything keeps going in directions he did not plan for. Lucian was supposed to be a target. He was never supposed to see through every wall Cael has ever built and choose him anyway. Now Cael is running out of mission and running out of reasons to leave, and the truth about everything, about Adrian, about his father, about the fifteen years of grief he has been aiming in the wrong direction, is about to detonate what is left of the life he built around his revenge. He came here to destroy a family. He never planned to become part of one.

Ayla grows up in the frozen North because her brother is the pack’s strongest warrior, her life is safer than it once was. Then her brother captures the commander of the Southern Pack: an arrogant Southern wolf. The prisoner is an Alpha Prince, one of the Southern Pack’s finest wolves—formidable in battle and gifted in strategy. The Northern King wants to recruit the Southern prisoner, to humiliate the South and to use his mind for conquest. Darius the Alpha Prince refuses to submit under torture. Someone advises the king to give him a wife and a child: Southern wolves value family and bloodline, and a family might become a chain strong enough to bind even the coldest wolf. Ayla’s brother gives her an aphrodisiac and orders her to take it to the prisoner. Ayla believes Darius must hate her. He refuses to look at her, and when he enjoys making love with her, he forces himself not to show it. Later, when North and South fight again, Ayla gives birth to their child in chaos. But when Darius returns South, his father demands that he prove his loyalty by killing his biological child. Darius obeys, and Ayla believes he has thrown their child to its death rather than betray the South. Five years later, Darius becomes the Southern Alpha, but he still remembers the three years he spent imprisoned in the North—and the barbarian woman who once pinned him to a bed, determined to have his children. When war breaks out, Darius leads Southern warriors north and wins a victory. He sees Ayla again. He expects revenge, only to find that she appears to have married another wolf and has a child. He takes her back to the Southern Pack. This time, she is his prisoner.

I shove Killian against the wall hard enough that the air leaves his lungs. My mouth crashes onto his rough, open, claiming. He twists and shoves, but I pin one wrist above his head and shove my other hand down his trousers. I stroke him firm and relentless. “You pathetic idiot,” I growl. “Still pretending you don’t want this.” “Stop it—” His voice cracks, but his body responds. I stroke him harder. “Married. With a little girl. And still hard for the man you walked away from ten years ago.” The past floods back. We were eighteen. Best friends. I hid how badly I wanted him; he never saw it. Last night of high school I took him home, kissed him, touched him, made him come. The next morning he called me disgusting, cut me out, and stayed in New York while I left for South Korea. I spent ten years building an empire and watching him. Now I’m back. I took over the company. I watched him with his daughter from my car. I bought his painting for more than the original price. I forced a dinner he couldn’t refuse. He still has a wife. He still pushes me away. But when forgery accusations destroy his career and his daughter falls ill, he has nowhere left to turn. He comes to me. He begs. I press my forehead to his. Nothing will make me leave. I am back. This time, Killian is mine.