Dark Romance Web Novels & Playboy Substitute Bride Stories

Elena never asked for a family that smiled with empty eyes. For twenty-two years she lived on the edge of town, counting hospital bills and the thin sound of her grandmother’s breathing. Then the Ashfords arrived, polished and perfect, claiming her as their lost twin. They promised the best care for the only person who had ever loved her. All she had to do was come home. Home turned out to be a mansion of mirrors. Her sister Vivian wore their shared face like a crown and refused the marriage that would bind their family to the powerful Blackwood brothers. So Elena was dressed in silk, taught to speak like someone else, and delivered as the substitute bride. She expected cold duty. Instead she found three men who looked at her as if she were a storm they could not control. Adrian had already been protecting her from a distance. Sebastian tested every quiet edge. Nathan simply stayed when staying cost him everything. The Ashfords never meant for her to become real. When the brothers began to want the girl instead of the name, they poisoned the grandmother. Grief made Elena sharper. Vivian’s jealousy turned vicious. And when Elena discovered she carried Nathan’s child, the family that sold her decided both mother and baby had to disappear. She was never the spare. She was born first.

Adrian thought he had his life planed: A future with Eliana, The woman he loved and a wedding that promised happiness, But one reckless night shattered everything,A single moment of weakness with Clara ,Elianna youngest sister leaves him bound to a secret that grows heavier with each passing day when Clara discovers that she's pregnant the fragile thread holding there family together begins to unravel. Eliana betrayed both by the man she' loves and her sister the one she trusted the most. Harden her heart torn between grief and rage Clara is been trapped between shame and motherhood.

Sophie is delighted to be marrying Sebastian, the billionaire heir to the Castillo line, who has always been her childhood crush. She counts herself one of the few amongst her peers, who wouldn't have to deal with the unpleasant ordeal of a loveless marriage, But all that hope is crushed when she's jilted at the altar by her intended groom who doesn't show up. But worse than being the jilted bride, is the crushing reality that the wedding is expected to go on. Only, instead of marrying Sebastian, she would be marrying his cold hearted, arrogant recluse of a half-brother; Dante Castillo. And in her opinion, that was the worst fate any young lady could ever be sentenced to. Or was it..?