Dark Romance Romance Web Novels & Hidden Identity Second Chance Stories

This short story collection gathers multiple standalone steamy tales. Meet powerful wolf shifters and their fated partners, where forbidden attraction burns hot. Full of supernatural suspense, fiery chemistry and swoon-worthy romantic moments. Every story is packed with passion, secrets and thrilling twists. *** Reborn on her wedding day, Lira Voss refuses to repeat her deadly past.Her fiancé Leigh Holt abandons her for his pregnant nightclub mistress mid-ceremony. Instead of begging, Lira trades her groom for his loyal younger brother Callen, steals Leigh’s family inheritance, and becomes the new Holt matriarch. She sets Leigh up with fierce heiress Sylvia Valerius, sparking a brutal war between his mistress and his official bride. Greed and jealousy destroy Sloane: she loses her son, poisons Leigh, and vanishes forever. Sylvia leaves the infertile Leigh, who loses everything and breaks down. Lira and Callen seize the empire, awaiting their baby. Every betrayer has gotten their cruel reckoning.

Aiden, the kingpin of the underworld, gets a reunion invitation from high school. He chuckled, and then his brothers took Isabella's name, who is Aiden's ex-girlfriend and once used to be their best friend too. But as the power comes in a way, Aiden and his brothers think Isabella is not equal to them, so they throw her away, and now here they are again, going to meet their past again. But Aiden knew she was still the same, weak and soft. But neither he nor his brother is ready for what is coming.

She was sent to her sister's husband as a substitute. One night changed everything. Now Amanda's hair is turning white, her body is awakening to impossible power, and the man everyone fears watches her with dangerous fascination. As lies unravel and ancient secrets rise from the shadows, Amanda discovers she was never cursed. She was stolen. And the Devil who has waited a hundred years for her is finally ready to claim what was always his.

"From this day on, he is not your son. You do not exist to him." To save her dying father, Alessia Romano signed away her maternal rights, endured a painful pregnancy, and surrendered her newborn son to Lorenzo De Santis—the ruthless Mafia Don who ruled the city's underworld. Three years later, unable to silence a mother's longing, Alessia returns under a false identity and infiltrates the heavily guarded De Santis mansion as Elijah's nanny. The little boy is drawn to her from the very beginning, unaware that she is the mother he has never known. Living under the same roof with Lorenzo awakens a dangerous attraction neither of them can deny. Stolen glances become stolen kisses, and Alessia dares to believe the cold-hearted Don might truly love her. Until he introduces another woman as his fiancée. Realizing she was nothing more than the woman who carried his heir, Alessia makes the hardest decision of her life. She flees with Elijah, leaving behind the torn surrogacy contract that once stole her future. Now, the Mafia King who bows to no one has sealed every exit from the city. He will stop at nothing to reclaim his son... and the woman who walked away with his heart.

She signed away her marriage. Now she’s playing for her life. Elena Vance thought divorcing Julian Thorne was the hardest thing she’d ever do. She was wrong. When the Sterling Dynasty’s patriarch dies, his will reveals a brutal truth: Elena is the true heir—but only if she survives The Inheritance Game. Seven candidates. One isolated estate. Thirty days of lethal corporate warfare disguised as family tradition. Fail, and you lose everything. Including your life. The cruelest twist? Her ex-husband Julian is her mandatory partner. The man who discarded her is now the only person keeping her alive in a game where trust is the deadliest liability. As old enemies hunt them and hidden rules turn allies into threats, Elena must master a game rigged against her. But surviving isn’t enough. She has to win. And winning means confronting the man who broke her heart—and the dangerous, undeniable pull that still binds them in the dark. ⚠️ Content Note: Dark billionaire romance with survival game elements. Contains graphic violence, mature sexual content, and psychological tension. Slow-burn redemption arc. HEA earned through fire.

At seventeen, Emma's life was decided by everyone except herself. Raised in a family that believed tradition should never be questioned, she was forced into an arranged marriage before she was old enough to understand what love truly meant. By the time she finally escaped the life she never chose, she had already learned that some memories never stop haunting you. Three years later, Emma is twenty-one, an ordinary college student determined to leave the past where it belongs. Hoping for a fresh start, she joins a dating app under a fake age, convinced that a small lie is easier than explaining the truth. That's where she meets Daniel. Thirty-five, thoughtful, endlessly patient, and claiming to be nothing more than an ordinary office worker, Daniel is unlike anyone Emma has ever known. What begins as late-night conversations soon turns into something neither of them expected—a love built on comfort, trust, and the courage to begin again. But Daniel is hiding more than his true identity. No one knows he was once married. No one knows his wife died years ago. To the world, he has always been a successful bachelor. Only Daniel knows the truth-and he's determined to keep it buried forever. As Emma and Daniel grow closer, the lies they've told—and the truths they've buried—begin to catch up with them. The more they fall in love, the more their carefully guarded worlds begin to unravel. Because some pasts refuse to stay buried. Some secrets are worth killing for. And sometimes, the person who feels safest to love is the one hiding the darkest scars.

Aria Calder never expected one reckless night with a stranger to follow her into her marriage. But the morning after giving herself to a man whose name she never learned, Aria is forced into an arranged marriage with billionaire heir Dorian Moretti. Then she meets Dorian’s older brother. The stranger from that night. Now trapped between two brothers and a marriage that was never supposed to involve love, Aria finds herself falling for the one man she was never supposed to want. But someone has spent years keeping dangerous secrets about who she really is, and the closer she gets to the truth, the more everything around her begins to unravel. Because some secrets can destroy a marriage. And some can destroy an entire family. And Aria is carrying one that could do both.

Tessa, known as Phantom Reaper, is a female assassin, the best of the best in her trade. Phantom Reaper is known for being a cold, calculating, untraceable, unfeeling, and ruthless assassin in the Underworld society of discarded criminals. This novel depicts her in first person narrative as we discover her past and follow her through an unforeseen encounter that changes her life forever in ways she never dreamed were possible. The Phantom Reaper contains violence, murder, and sexually explicit content, so read at your own risk.

Natalia does not want to get married, especially not to the heir to the dangerous Gretto fortune just because her mother wanted her to. But Alessio Gretto is different, a sweet automobile dork who could save her from the cutthroat world she was born into. Little did she know it was all fake. Loving him was easy but when his truth was revealed, leaving him seemed impossible.

Sophia escaped the mafia once and never planned to return. But after five long years, fate drags her back into the world she fled when she comes face-to-face with Luca Rossi... the merciless Don who broke her heart, used her as a breeding vessel, and ruined her life. Only this time, Luca isn't letting her go. He wants her back, and he will tear the city apart to claim her. Trapped between two dangerous men, a hidden child and a passion far too explosive to bury, Sophia must decide how far she’s willing to go to protect the child Luca can never discover. Can Sophia guard her secrets and her heart, or will the dark world devour her completely? In the mafia world, love is weakness and Luca Rossi is finally learning just how dangerous that weakness can be.

Ava Hart has always lived in her sister Clara's shadow. While Clara was treated as the perfect daughter, Ava is the one who stayed behind to look after their seriously ill mother, Nora. Ava has accepted that her father will never value her equally. Until the day he forces her to make an impossible choice. On the day of Clara's wedding to the most powerful billionaire, she disappears. No one knows her whereabout. Leaving Ava who has no voice on her own was forced to be the substitute bride. What will become of her if she eventually married the man meant for her sister? Was there any secret behind her sister's disappearance?

She died the first time trusting the wrong love. Rosalind Vane spent her whole life hidden, the illegitimate daughter of a fallen MC president, until the night she finally understood the truth: the man she'd fallen for built his empire on her father's ashes, and the brother her father trusted most had been rotting the club from the inside for twenty years. She tried to speak the truth. A bullet answered instead. The last thing she saw was Kade Ashworth on his knees beside her, too late, always too late. Then her eyes open again. Fifteen years earlier. Her father is alive. Silas Cade hasn't betrayed anyone yet. Kade Ashworth is a stranger who doesn't know her name. This time, Rosalind remembers everything. Every lie. Every warning she missed. Every second that led to her death. She isn't running from her second chance. She's coming for the men who took her first life.

“Don’t fall in love with me, Keona. Take it from me, you’ll regret it.” “And if you fall for me?” “Then God help me, Keona, because I’ll burn the world down before I ever let you go…” *** Everyone envied Keona Cromwell. After all, she was married to Hardin Cromwell, the youngest trillionaire in the country and CEO of Cromwell Holdings. To the outside world, she was the luckiest woman alive with a beautiful home, a handsome husband, and an adorable daughter. But only Keona knew the truth. For six years, Hardin had never celebrated her birthday. He never remembered their anniversary. He never defended her against his verbally abusive family. Even worse, he spent more time with his childhood sweetheart than his own wife. But still, she stayed. She hoped for a change. Then one heartbreaking moment changed everything. Her own daughter reached for Hardin’s childhood sweetheart and called her, “mommy.” That single word was enough to destroy the last piece of Keona’s heart. She served Hardin divorce papers, determined to walk away with her dignity intact. Everyone believed Hardin did not care. After all, he only tolerated Keona. He never loved her. But the moment she disappeared, he quietly ordered; “Double my wife’s security. Anyone who dares to hurt her answers to me.” As Keona rebuilds her life, Hardin discovers that the woman he treated like a nuisance is the one person who ever truly loved him. Now the cold billionaire who never begged anyone only has one goal: to make his ex-wife fall in love with him again. Too bad Keona has already stopped looking back.

Blurb Waking up inside the body of Emma Carter, the tragically neglected wife from a web novel, was the last thing I thought could ever happen to me and my very first nightmare. The second was remembering her canon ending: a mysterious, brutal murder shortly after her divorce. When my powerful billionaire husband, Ethan Hayes, throws the divorce papers on the table, he expects me to beg for his affection. Instead, trapped in a dead woman's shoes with a clock ticking down on my life, I decide to turn the whole game around. Ethan wanted a clean break. Instead, he's about to find out what happens when the wife he threw away holds all the power, and he's the one left waiting on her answer.

Liana Hayes thought Kane Mercer was the love of her life. Powerful, charming, and dangerously obsessed with her, Kane gives Liana the kind of love that feels impossible to escape. But behind his perfect smile hides the ruthless heir to the city’s most feared criminal empire — and their relationship was never an accident. Liana was chosen for revenge. After discovering Kane’s lies and her mother’s dark connection to his family, Liana’s world shatters. Heartbroken and betrayed, she finds comfort in billionaire Julian West, a man who offers her safety and a new beginning. But Julian has secrets of his own. Caught between two dangerous men willing to destroy each other to possess her, Liana is pulled into a deadly world of obsession, betrayal, and violence where love is never innocent — and escaping may cost her everything.

Anastasia has spent twenty-seven years believing she is an ordinary kindergarten teacher, and has learned to be grateful for the little things. After losing her mother years ago, Anastasia has no family left to depend on. One night, Anastasia returns home to find armed men waiting for her. She has no idea who they are or why they want her dead. Then Jaxon Cross walks into her life. President of the Black Vipers MC, Jaxon is the kind of man people cross the street to avoid. Cold, heavily tattooed, brutally protective and feared throughout the criminal underworld. But Jaxon knows something Anastasia doesn’t. Her mother once saved his life. And before she died, she made Jaxon promise to protect her daughter. When another attempt is made on Anastasia’s life, Jaxon takes her to the Black Vipers’ club secluded compound in the Peak District, where she is forced to live under his protection. Anastasia hates being controlled and Jaxon refuses to let her die. What begins as a battle between a stubborn woman looking for her freedom and a dangerous man determined to keep her alive slowly becomes something neither of them expected. Then Jaxon discovers the truth. Anastasia isn’t an ordinary kindergarten teacher. She’s the secret daughter of Victor Devereaux, one of Britain’s most powerful criminal cartel bosses and the rightful heir to an empire her stepbrothers will kill to control. Now the woman Jaxon promised to protect has become the target of an entire criminal dynasty. As enemies close in and betrayal reaches the heart of the Black Vipers, because Anastasia may have been born into a dangerous empire but Jaxon will make sure she survives long enough to rule it.

“Did I just hear you moan my name, Simone?” I look at him, eyes heavy-lidded with desire. I’d just come undone thinking about him, of course I’d say his name. “Yes, Daddy…” I murmur, biting down hard on my lower lip as I let my knees fall apart, unashamed of the glistening moisture slicking my thighs. “Or should I say Father King? Or Professor King?” I let out a low breath, tracking the dark, dangerous shift in his eyes. “I prefer Daddy though, but I’ll call you whatever gets your hands on me.” ~~~~ Simone Grayson slept with a stranger one reckless night and discovered too late that he was someone off-limits. He turned out to be her professor and was supposedly owned by God. What begins as a mistake turns into a quiet war between restraint and desire, faith and flesh, obedience and want. And when temptation lives under the same roof, avoiding it becomes impossible. Some lines aren’t meant to be crossed. Some are crossed anyway. This book is part of the Forbidden Allure series, but it can be read as a standalone. Book 1: My Jerk stepbrother Book 2: His pretty sin

Zara Solis disappeared five years ago without a word—taking a secret that could destroy a powerful man with her. Now she’s back, not for closure, not for forgiveness but for revenge. Breaking into Van Grey’s empire was supposed to be a clean operation—get the evidence, disappear again, and finally bring him down. Instead, she gets caught. And by morning, the world knows her as something she never agreed to be— Van Grey’s wife. Van keeps her close, trapped in his world, while he monitors her every move. But Zara isn’t the only one playing a game. Van’s stepbrother, Leo Grey, steps in with charm, offering her something Van never does—freedom. And as Zara gets pulled deeper into their world of power, control, and hidden agendas, the lines begin to blur. Because the closer she gets to Van, the more possessive he becomes. And just when everything starts to get better for once— The truth she buried comes back to life. Zara didn’t just disappear five years ago, she left carrying Van Grey’s heir. Now he wants answers and most of all, he wants control

The day my seven-year-old daughter needed a blood transfusion was the day my perfect life shattered. The child I had loved, protected, and sacrificed everything for... wasn't mine. My husband had known the truth all along. While I believed our daughter had died at birth, Marcus secretly made me raise the child he had with my best friend. They stole seven years of my life, my love, and my motherhood, all while laughing behind my back. So I walked away. I divorced the man who betrayed me, abandoned the life I built for him, and returned to my true identity, the billionaire heiress I had hidden for love. I swore I would never look back. Until I met a little girl with haunting red eyes and fragile lungs... a child who looked exactly like me. Her name was Lily. And the man raising her was the cold, untouchable billionaire, Alexander Cole. He refused to tell me where Lily came from. I refused to walk away. When I discovered Alexander's family was forcing him to find a wife, I made him an offer neither of us expected. A contract marriage. No love. No feelings. Just two broken adults protecting one little girl. But the more time I spent with Lily, the more convinced I became that she was the daughter I had mourned for seven years. Now my cheating ex-husband wants me back after discovering I'm the hidden heiress he threw away. My fake husband is becoming dangerously possessive. And if the truth about Lily ever comes out... Someone will lose everything.

The Wife He Buried, The Woman He Begged For Amara Voss thought her marriage was built on love, loyalty, and promises that could never be broken. Until the night her billionaire husband destroyed everything. In front of London’s wealthiest and most influential people, Lucien Voss accused his wife of stealing £8.4 million from his company. He humiliated her, demanded a divorce, and threw her out of the home they had built together. What Lucien didn’t know was that Amara was carrying his child. Hours later, a mysterious car journey ended in a deadly crash. The world believed Amara Voss was gone forever. But Amara survived. Three years later, she returns as Amara Bennett—a successful investment executive with the power to determine the future of Lucien’s struggling empire. The woman who once begged for his trust no longer needs his love. And Lucien, haunted by the wife he believes he lost, is about to discover that some mistakes cannot be erased with money, apologies, or regret. But Amara’s return threatens more than a broken marriage. Someone inside Voss Global knows exactly what happened the night she disappeared. Someone who stole millions, destroyed her reputation, and tried to silence her forever. And this time, they won’t let her escape so easily. He buried her memory. She came back to bury his empire.