Third-Person POV Web Novels & Hidden Identity Age Gap Stories

Some masks are worn for protection but Hers was forced to hide the truth. To the world, Shayla lives a dream luxury status, a powerful family name. But behind the gates of her father's mansion, her life of her father's mansion, her life is anything but perfect. After her mother died of a heart attack, shattered by her husband's betrayal Shayla was left at the mercy of her step mum, who just happened to be her late mother's best friend. And from the moment ugly moved in, Shayla became the target. Her only crime? Being too beautiful. She was forced to wear a face mask and was branded ugly to the world to protect her step sister's spotlight. But things takes a shocking turn when a marriage proposal arrives for Shayla's step sister from the Harts family, one of the wealthiest and most powerful in New York City. Rumors has it that the youngest some of the Harts family which no one has seen was crippled, blind and cursed. Morgan rejects the offer no matter the benefits coming from the marriage and offers Shayla in her place. What happens when Shayla discovers the real truth behind the Hart's family youngest son?

Warning: this book will ruin you for slow-burn romance. If you can't handle two powerful men who'd burn a kingdom down before they let each other have her, turn back now. Emma was rejected in front of the entire court. Humiliated and called cursed. she thought that was the worst day of my life. Then his father showed up. He didn't reject her. He didn't hesitate. He put a crown on her head and a ring on her finger before the sun went down and made it very clear she belonged to him now. She thought she hated him for it. She didn't expect to feel his stare from across a room like a hand at her throat. She didn't expect the son who threw her away to start looking at her like he'd made the worst mistake of his life. She didn't expect either of them to want her this badly, this fast, this dangerously. One claimed her first and broke her heart doing it. One claimed her after and never once asked if she wanted him to.. They're both dangerous. They're both hers, in different ways. And only one of them gets to keep her. Read at your own risk. Your heart won't survive choosing sides.

SYNOPSIS Mirabel Harrington was born with a rare water allergy in a family that only cares about perfection. They hide her away and treat her like a silent maid in her own home, while her adopted sister Isabella gets all the love and attention. One night at Isabella’s birthday gala, Mirabel accidentally spills water on a masked guest, the ruthless billionaire Dante Virelli. The water triggers her painful allergy right in front of everyone. Dante, who is the son of his father’s mistress, needs to get married before he turns 29 or he will lose his father’s entire empire forever. He offers Mirabel a deal: stay with him for just ninety days and they can both escape their toxic families. What starts as a cold arrangement in his fancy penthouse slowly turns into a secret contract marriage to help him claim his inheritance. Behind Dante’s icy personality is a desperate man who sees his own painful childhood in Mirabel’s suffering. As they spend more time together, he has to take care of her during her allergic reactions, and his cold mask begins to crack. Mirabel, who has always been invisible, starts to come alive. She learns to stand up for herself, reveals family secrets, and falls for the man who refuses to look away from her scars. But Dante’s legitimate family, his half-brother Victor, and Isabella team up to tear them apart. When the fight for the inheritance gets dangerous and Mirabel’s health gets worse, both of them have to decide if their growing love is worth risking everything. In a world that punished them just for existing, can two broken people finally choose each other without any contracts or masks?