Dark Romance Web Novels & Optimism Contract Marriage Stories

When a terminal diagnosis gives her three months to live and her husband’s new decision crushes her already fragile mind, Gwen’s perfect world collapses.Left with nothing, she signs the divorce papers and risks everything on a last ditch surgery. But fate has other plans, she survives but this time, she’s sworn off love for good. Determined to start over, she goes after the one career she had secretly admired since she was a child. Dr. Alex Thorne— sexy, brilliant and a notorious sex addict— is the one man who shatters Gwen’s peaceful new life. The city’s most brilliant surgeon yet its most notorious playboy wants a deal, pretend to be her boyfriend to spite her ex-husband in exchange for her being his little plaything.She agreed, thinking she could handle it but she was wrong!Not when he demands her total submission and is obsessed with branding her as his. He’s showing her how to feel everything every wicked sensation, every evil pleasure. And the most dangerous part? She is starting to love his punishments.

She only wanted to save her future. Instead, she found herself trapped in a marriage with a man who hated her. Aria Thorne accepts a contract marriage with Lucas Sterling to pay off her father’s debt and save her dream of building her own architecture firm. Two years. Just two years, and then they will go back to being strangers. But what if the man who saw her as nothing more than a pawn from the very beginning starts to see Aria differently? What if the woman Lucas loves, Chloe, is hiding a secret capable of destroying the Sterling family? And most dangerously, can Aria survive a marriage that was built without love from the start when the line between pretending and real feelings begins to disappear? Two years. One contract. One loveless marriage. But what if their hearts have plans of their own?

Three years ago, billionaire Damian Veyron buried his brother and vowed revenge on the man who destroyed his life. Now, the man is dead, but his daughter still breathes. Aria Chen has already lost everything, her parents, her dreams, and now her dying sister who needs a treatment she can’t afford. When a stranger in a black car offers her a lifeline, she takes it… until she realizes the price isn’t money. It’s her freedom. He wants her name. Her body. Her submission. A marriage bound not by love, but by vengeance. To save her sister, Aria signs the contract and becomes the bride of the man who swore to destroy her. But the devil in the tailored suit has secrets of his own, and the deeper she’s dragged into his world, the harder it becomes to tell which of them is truly trapped. A gripping dark romance of revenge, obsession, and forbidden desire, where love isn’t the cure, it’s the punishment..

She was sent into his house as a weapon. He let her in knowing exactly what she was. The curse in her blood has killed every man who ever got close, but he doesn't care. He just watches her with those calm, knowing eyes like he has already seen every move she is going to make. She wants to destroy him. He refuses to let her go. And somewhere between the poison, the lies, and the dead bodies they keep stepping over, something far more dangerous than the curse starts to grow between them. They were never supposed to survive each other. That was always the plan. Neither of them knew.