Contemporary Mystery/Thriller 웹소설 & 스토리

Arabella Rose Montgomery has always believed in loyalty, honesty, and commitment. For three years, she gives her heart to Alexander Blackwood, a wealthy businessman who promises to make her his wife. However, her dreams shatter when she discovers his affair with another woman, Vanessa Claire. Heartbroken and humiliated, Arabella ends their relationship and decides to start over. Little does she know that her second chance at love will come from the father of the man who betrayed her. Dominic Alexander Blackwood, a powerful businessman and widower, is Alexander's father. Mature, respected, and twenty-one years older than Arabella, Dominic has secretly admired her for years. Now that she is single, he finally confesses his feelings and offers her marriage. Despite her hesitation and the scandal their relationship could cause, Arabella eventually accepts his proposal, believing Dominic can give her the love and respect she deserves. However, their marriage sparks chaos within the Blackwood family. Alexander struggles with jealousy, unable to accept that his former girlfriend is now his stepmother. Meanwhile, Vanessa plots to destroy Arabella's reputation and secure her own future. As family conflicts, dangerous secrets, suspicious company transactions, and hidden records connected to Dominic's late wife, Eleanor, emerge, their marriage faces unexpected challenges. Can Arabella and Dominic protect their love against betrayal, jealousy, and family secrets? Or will the truth destroy the happiness they fought so hard to build?

Defense attorney Julian Voss doesn't lose — and he doesn't do relationships, not since the one reckless night three years ago he's spent every day since pretending he doesn't remember. Assistant State's Attorney Adrian Cole remembers everything. Especially the morning after, when Julian never called. When a federal judge turns up dead and his much-younger husband is charged with murder, Julian and Adrian are thrown back into the same courtroom on opposite sides of the case — and neither of them can stop thinking about the night three years ago they never talk about. But the deeper Julian digs into his client's case, the less it looks like a simple story of jealousy and money. The judge was hiding a second life — a secret lover, a hidden fortune, and a very powerful man who's used to buying the outcome he wants. And the people who know the truth keep disappearing. As the investigation pulls back the layers on a decade of quiet, ordinary corruption, Julian and Adrian have to decide how much they're willing to risk — their careers, their case, and each other — to actually get this right. Some verdicts take longer to reach than others. Some people are worth the wait.

Blurb: For two years, Professor Laurel Cruz Leonard has lived in a beautifully constructed cage. To her university students and the public, she is the epitome of elegance, poise, and academic excellence. But behind the closed doors of her pristine home, she is starving. Ever since a devastating miscarriage, her husband, Leonard, has weaponized his grief, blaming her for their loss and freezing her out of his bed. Desperate to feel alive and clinging to the hope that her marriage can be saved, Laurel copes in secret with an unmet passion. Until him!! Julian Vance. He is twenty-five, fiercely intelligent, and entirely untamed. He sits in the back of her lecture hall, watching her with a dangerous hunger that mirrors her own. He knows she’s forbidden. He knows she’s his professor, and the wife of a powerful businessman. He doesn't care. When boundaries blur and a moment of weakness sparks an intoxicating affair, Laurel is thrust into a high-stakes game of obsession and betrayal. But in a world where her reputation is everything, the ultimate lesson might be how much she’s willing to lose to finally be touched.

“I know Alex loves me.” I stared at my client. Alex. The name made my stomach twist. Because Alex wasn’t just her boyfriend. He was my fiancé. Zara came to me because she wanted to save her relationship. And somehow, I found myself helping her. Teaching my fiancé’s mistress how to keep him. But the more she talked, the more I realized there was more to Alex’s lies than I had ever imagined. I could confront him. Or I could stay quiet and find out how much he was hiding. I chose to find out. And what I discovered was far worse than an affair.

Seventeen-year-old Maya lives in a city where your future is decided by a test on your eighteenth birthday. Everyone expects her to join the high-ranking Scholars, but Maya has a secret: she has been dreaming of things that haven't happened yet. When she accidentally predicts a major accident, she catches the attention of the underground Resistance. Now, she is on the run from the very people she was supposed to serve. She must decide if she wants to be a perfect citizen or the girl who brings the whole system down.

Katherine Hall has spent six years trying to forget Heath Moore. The video he leaked when she was seventeen destroyed her family—her father died the from shame, her mother fell into debt, and Katherine's future was ripped away. Now she's back in London, desperate and broke. Her mother is in the ICU with £43,000 in medical bills, and the clock is ticking. The only offer that can save her comes from the one person she swore she'd never see again. Heath Moore is offering her a job. It's a fortune. It's a trap. It's everything she hates. But the deeper Katherine falls into Heath's world, the more she realizes nothing is what it seems. Strange encrypted files. Mysterious shell companies. A project codenamed MARIS with ties to a global conspiracy. And Heath—cold, guarded, and watching her every move—is hiding something. When she's abducted and interrogated about MARIS, Heath arrives to save her, and he finally tells her the truth: He built MARIS. It's an autonomous targeting system that feeds assassination orders to drones and military networks. He never meant for it to be used this way. And now, the people controlling it will kill anyone who tries to stop them. Katherine agrees to help him destroy MARIS. But she has one condition: when it's over, he disappears from her life forever. As they race across continents, hunted by assassins and betrayed by allies, Katherine discovers the one thing she never expected—the man she hates is the only person she can trust. And the love she buried six years ago is the only thing that can save them both. The truth is never as clean as the story they tell you. But love is the only thing that makes it worth finding.

Everyone wants a piece of Lucien Vale, his money, his fame, his name. Ariana Cross wants nothing to do with him. She’s too busy fighting to survive: engineering classes by day, dead-end jobs by night, and a little sister whose next hospital bill could break them for good. Pride is the only thing her father didn’t steal when he walked out. But when a career-ending scandal rocks Lucien’s world, the ice-cold racing champion needs a miracle: a fake girlfriend who can fix his cars and his reputation. He offers Ariana everything: money, security, her sister’s future if she’ll play the part. She says no. Until one brutal night leaves her with no choice. What starts as a cold business deal explodes into a dangerous obsession. The closer Ariana gets to Lucien, the more she sees the broken man behind the legend: sleepless nights, buried rage, and a mother’s death that was never just an accident. Their lives were tangled long before they met. Now trapped in a web of lies, scorching chemistry, and secrets dark enough to destroy them both, Ariana discovers the deadliest truth of all….. Some collisions were never accidents.

“I’m not a good man. A good man would sacrifice you to save the world. I have no such inclinations.” When one is offered a job that would have them set for life, would they allow a fickle thing such as a moral compass stand in their way? Abigeal Starr, former soldier of the US Army, didn’t think so. It had been surprisingly difficult to get a stable job after leaving the military, and she was barely managing to keep her head above the water. She couldn’t even afford the rent on her small flat, so she’d had to take in a roommate whose personality frequently clashed with hers. Tired, frustrated, and dangerously approaching desperate, she found a job that was almost laughable in its simplicity: assassinate a billionaire. She couldn’t believe how much she was going to be paid for one task, but she quickly discovered that it wasn’t going to be as much of a walk in the park as she had thought. Will she follow through with her task? Or will her conscience get the best of her? Find out more in the story!