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Wicked Swipe - Romance novels & stories
Black Pearl
One reckless swipe. One night that should’ve never happened. There's no turning back. Isla Ainsley, 26, never imagined that a silly swipe on Tinder would land her in bed with Julian Wolfe: a dangerously charming 42-year-old, high-powered fashion marketing executive. And a single father with a teenage daughter who tricked her into the match. What was supposed to be a mistake quickly becomes an addiction. And when feelings get involved, it’s not just clothing that gets stripped away, but scars from a past neither of them has fully healed. Thrown back into Julian’s world as an intern, Isla finds herself caught in a tightrope walk between professionalism, desire, and a quiet war of dominance. But love and business don’t play by the same rules. And neither shows' mercy to women like her. When family secrets, reputation, and revenge explode into chaos, Isla has to decide: walk away, or fall harder for the man who could shatter her completely. Some loves are unhealable. They're meant to be fought for. Even when they hurt like hell.
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The Billionaire's Obsession - Romance novels & stories
BUMBLEQUILL
Seraphina Harrington’s twenty-first birthday was supposed to be her escape from her greedy stepfamily. Instead, they drug her, planning to sell her to a disgusting investor to clear their debts. Running for her life in a heavy downpour, she has only one person left to call—Dominic Mercer, her cold, intimidating billionaire guardian who has always kept her at arm's length. When she collapses into his penthouse completely drenched and helpless, the rules change instantly. The raw, hidden tension between them explodes into a dark, addictive passion that neither can control. By morning, the ice-cold CEO is back, locking her away in his luxury apartment for her own protection while demanding her absolute obedience behind closed doors. Now, Seraphina is trapped between her intense craving for the man who saved her and her fear of being completely controlled. Dominic is ready to destroy anyone who tries to touch her, but his protection feels a lot like possession. Will his dark obsession be her ultimate salvation, or will her guardian end up ruining her completely?
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 Billionaire’s Mistake: Claiming the Wrong Bride - Romance novels & stories
Willi Huma
If you enjoyed Billionaire's Regret: Finding Her, I'd love to invite you to read my latest novel, Billionaire's Mistake: Claiming the Wrong Bride. I hope you'll fall in love with this new story just as much. In Ardenia’s shipping world, everyone knows Calder Rook. After losing his wife, the powerful shipping tycoon remained single for twenty years and was never seen with another woman. Then Nola Avery entered his life. Nola was supposed to marry Calder’s second son, but on the wedding night, she and her sister entered the wrong rooms. By morning, Nola had slept with Calder, while her sister had ended up with the groom. Rumors soon claimed that Nola had seduced Calder on purpose and forced her way into the Rook family. His admirers mocked her, certain that a young outsider like her would never survive among the cold patriarch and his difficult children. They were wrong. Nola turned the Rook mansion upside down. She challenged Calder, dealt with the Rook children one by one, and somehow won over the entire family. Calder, the untouchable man no woman could approach, began spoiling her beyond reason. Three months later, photos showed Nola leaving the Rook mansion in tears. The haters celebrated, convinced she had finally been thrown out. Then another report appeared. Calder had abandoned a multibillion dollar project to chase after his wife. “Baby, come home.” His father joined in. “Come back, my daughter in law. I will buy you ten yachts.” The Rook children quickly followed. “Don’t leave us, Nola. We’ll listen to you from now on.” Nola: “...”
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His To Have And To Loathe - Romance novels & stories
Riah Legend
The last thing Sophia Rossi ever expected was making a deal with the devil. When the ruthless mafia boss, Nikolai Lev, stormed into her home seeking revenge against her father for the murder of his father, she had no choice but to offer herself to him, even if it meant losing her freedom. Sophia offers herself in exchange for her father's life. What she doesn't expect is a shocking marriage contract from the handsome devil who threatened to kill her father. Now she must become his wife, share his bed, and give him an heir, or her father will die. As Nikolai's plot for revenge against his real enemies continues to build, so do his feelings for Sophia.
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Once Discarded, I Married His Dearest Daddy - Romance novels & stories
Winnie El
They say the past shows you the truth. Mine lied. Two years of loving a man who couldn’t even say my name when it mattered. Two years of standing beside Marcus Voss while he climbed his way to the top—late nights, silent sacrifices, swallowing every doubt just so he could shine. And the night he finally did? He destroyed me. In front of five hundred people… and the entire world watching, he called another woman his future wife, it was not me…never me and then he served me the divorce papers on a cold platter. That should’ve been the end of me but it wasn’t. Because the man who found me that night… wasn’t a stranger. He was Damien Voss. Marcus’s father. Cold. Untouchable. I should have been afraid…Maybe I was. Now the world is watching again. Only this time, I’m not the woman being humiliated on stage. I am the one standing beside the man who owns it. I am the woman who seeks revenge in the most painful way ever. And when my ex-husband looks at me now—really looks—he finally sees what he threw away. Well, too late, loser. I’m not yours anymore. I’m becoming something far more dangerous. And this time? I won’t be the one who breaks.
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His Forbidden Obsession: Tempting The Devil I Can't Have - Romance novels & stories
Badbitches
He was never supposed to matter. Jace Ryder was a risk—reckless, ruined, and one mistake away from disappearing for good. Hockey was his only future… until the accident took it from him, leaving behind nothing but rumors and a reputation already falling apart. Nyra Hale doesn’t believe in accidents. She believes in strategy. With two months left before she’s forced into a life she didn’t choose, Nyra needs chaos—something powerful enough to fracture the perfect image her father built. And Jace? He’s exactly the kind of damage she can control. Her offer is simple: She rebuilds his career. He plays the role of her boyfriend. Publicly, they’re irresistible—fire and chemistry no one can ignore. Privately, it’s a negotiation neither of them fully controls. Because Jace isn’t as broken as she thought. And Nyra isn’t as untouchable as she pretends. What starts as a calculated game turns into something dangerously real—late nights, lingering touches, the kind of tension that doesn’t stay fake for long. And when buried truths surface—about the accident, about betrayal, about who’s been pulling the strings—the line between control and surrender begins to blur. Someone wanted Jace gone. Someone close. And as everything unravels, Nyra and Jace are forced to decide: Was this ever just a game… or were they always meant to lose themselves in it?
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Unmasked Desires: My Ex's Professor Uncle Wants Me - Romance novels & stories
Ella Jean Ross
“You'd like that wouldn't you?” He said, thrusting sharply into my mouth, “Me fucking your mouth in the open in the open. Letting the whole class see the pretty little whore you are underneath all that prissy look of yours.” He pulled me away from his cock, forcing me to look at him. A smirk formed on his lips. “Why don't we make it happen?” ... Honor student by day, Camgirl by night. Iris Williams has it all on the surface: brains, beauty, a scholarship and a clean respectable reputation in Hawthorne College. But by night, she is the Masked Muse, a Camgirl who streams to a mystery patron whose generous payments keep her afloat…and stir a dangerous longing in her heart. When Caleb, the golden-boy playboy of Hawthorne, makes his way into her life, she contemplates leaving the past behind until she overhears his cruel wager to date her and all of her feelings crumble.  She didn't expect to run into Dmitri, his uncle and the cold captivating professor on campus. Her phone slips from her hand, revealing her identity. Mortified, she flees, yet that moment changes everything. Because she soon discovers that the cold, enigmatic Professor before her was the very benefactor she had been fantasizing about. And as their eyes lock across a classroom, she knows, he knows. Torn between shame and desire, she tries to escape him at every turn, but Dmitri, after meeting the woman he has been obsessed with, has no plans on letting her go. When giving into her desires threatens everything she's worked hard for, it's up to her to decide whether to risk everything for a chance at the passion that now threatens to consume them both.
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DOOM AT THEIR DOORS: TALES OF ILLICIT LONGINGS  - Romance novels & stories
Liptu
A college girl's secret affair with her father's bestfriend becomes leverage for her rejected crush, trapping her in a degrading arrangemet that escalates into an arranged marriage, one where obsession,humiliation and hidden desires collide until her past lover returns to complete their twisted triangle.
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Forbidden Desires: Mr Blackwell - Romance novels & stories
Maudlyn
Soren Blackwell is irresistible. Untouchable. Lyra knows she shouldn’t want him. He’s her best friend’s father but every glance, every word, every brush of his hand drags her closer… closer to temptation, closer to a storm she’s not sure she can survive. Caught between desire and reason, Lyra must choose: fight the pull of a man she can’t have, or surrender to the passion that promises both pleasure and peril.
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Mrs. Lyla And Her Obsession  - Romance novels & stories
Natsumi
WARNING ⚠️: 90% EXPLICIT AND MATURE CONTENT AHEAD 🔞🔞🔞 |Do you dare to read a forbidden love and obsession story between a teacher and her student? Then you're in the right place… 😏| |It starts sweet until it gets filthy and hot all around! 🥵🫦| *** Mrs. Lyla Atelo had just gotten her acceptance letter as a teacher for the most prestigious high school in the country. Her excitement knows no bounds as she rushes to her best friend's house to break the news. To her shock, the door is opened by her half-naked husband, whom she hasn't seen for six years. She feels betrayed as she reads the room and flees in tears. A drunk night in the club, and she lets herself go for the first time in her life. The night gets more heated until she is bent over the hood of her car and f**ked to orgasm (something she didn't know could happen to her). When she returns home, her husband is waiting with proof that he never cheated on her, and Lyla is heavily crushed by her betrayal to her husband. Not only that, to her horror, the man who bent her over is none other than her student… and he asserts that he wants her. Sage Dominic is a nineteen-year-old senior in his finals, dangerously handsome and almost always detached from his immediate surroundings, without a care in the world for his studies until he meets Mrs. Lyla Atelo. He is drawn to her innocence, not caring that she is married. He wants her, and he always gets whatever he wants. Her resistance fuels his desires and obsession, and he knows it is only a matter of time before she will be entirely submissive to him.
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Single Mom * Brooding Billionaire  - Romance novels & stories
Maccadie Laucretta
Adia Mbeki is running on no sleep, no money, and no backup. Single mom. Coffee shop night shifts. A baby who cries more than she sleeps. She can’t afford to be late on rent. Not again. Enter Kael Sterling: cold, brooding billionaire CEO. Her landlord. The man who signs eviction notices before breakfast. But when he finds her asleep behind the counter at 3AM with her baby, something shifts. His deal is simple: Move into his penthouse. Be his “fake” live-in nanny. Let him pay the bills. No touching. No feelings. Just 90 days. The problem? He’s too quiet. Too careful with her daughter. Too good at showing up when she’s breaking. And Adia’s rule is clear: Billionaires break hearts. Single moms can’t afford that.
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Mister Temptation  - Romance novels & stories
Keyboard Warrior
When Iris loses everything due to her father’s reckless decisions, she’s forced to leave behind her old life and move into the home of her dad's mysterious childhood friend, Jackson Kim. Expecting nothing but discomfort in an unfamiliar place, Iris instead finds herself drawn to the quiet charm of their new home and dangerously captivated by the man who owns it. "Who was the guy who dropped you off today?" he asked when I stopped giving him any attention. I ignored him as if I hadn’t heard. "I’m asking you something," he pressed, clearly irritated by my silence. I said nothing. He’d had enough. Grabbing my shoulders, he spun me around to face him. His eyes locked onto mine, sharp and intense. I caught a flicker of jealousy in them and somehow, that made me feel a little better. "I said, who is the guy?" he demanded again. I held his gaze for a few seconds before replying nonchalantly, "Someone my age. Didn’t you tell me to find someone my age instead of going after a man yours?"
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The CEO's Dirty Secret - Romance novels & stories
Ex Daddy
On their third wedding anniversary, Elena Riva cooked, lit the candles, and waited. The text arrived at midnight, from a number she didn't know: a photo of her husband, Matteo Sartori, fashion's newest billionaire, his arms around a woman younger and prettier. Five years of devotion. Night shifts at eighteen so he could chase his dream, married at twenty in a secondhand dress. In return, a husband who looked at her like a bill he was tired of paying. He came home the next evening with the other woman on his arm, and it was Chiara who slid the divorce papers across the table. "Sign. It's cleaner this way." Elena signed, then drank herself blind and woke alone in a hotel suite: ten bundles of cash, an unnamed business card, no memory of the night. Only a phone number. Two years later, broke, her mother dying for a surgery she can't afford and a child growing under her heart, Elena calls the number. The man who answers is Dante Moretti, her ex-husband's estranged uncle, a name that makes grown men in Milan check the exits. He offers a contract marriage: her mother's surgery, his name for her baby, all bills paid. The gunfire at her own wedding corrects her idea of what she married. Then Elena builds her own fashion house, and it doesn't compete with Sartori. It wins. At the partnership meeting, the woman heading the table smiles with his ex-wife's eyes.
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Cage Debt - Romance novels & stories
Alisa Selby
**He was my best friend’s dad…but that didn’t stop me from wanting him**. I walked into the Cagers Bar looking for a job. What I found instead was blood on concrete, fists inside a cage, and Cain Daniels standing beneath brutal white lights with another man’s blood drying across his knuckles. Older, dangerous, untouchable, and my best friend’s dad. I should have walked away the second he looked at me, but I didn’t. #contemporary romance #bikers #dark romance #slowburn erotic #age gap #forbidden love #best friends dad
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THE DON'S MISSING PIECE  - Romance novels & stories
Endelin Starh
Cassandra Hayes is a nineteen-year-old college student balancing school, a part-time job at a flower shop, and caring for her aging grandmother. Her life is ordinary, predictable, and painfully small until a routine delivery goes disastrously wrong. Sent to the Gold Coast with an arrangement of white orchids, Cassandra arrives at the wrong address and stumbles upon the aftermath of a violent confrontation. Bullet holes riddle the walls. Furniture lies shattered. And a deep, dangerous voice demands to know who's there. She flees. She thinks she's safe. But the black SUV waiting outside her apartment tells a different story. Dante Moretti is twenty-eight, cold, calculating man and the head of an empire built on both legal and illegal foundations. When a delivery girl witnesses something she shouldn't, he should eliminate the threat. Instead, he's drawn to her in ways he doesn't understand. Then he sees the necklace she wears, a pendant that belonged to her mother, a woman he helped twenty years ago. A woman who died hiding evidence that could destroy powerful men. Cassandra is no longer invisible. Enemies who killed her mother now want her dead. To protect her, Dante makes a shocking decision, he claims she's his fiancée. What begins as protection becomes entanglement. Cassandra is thrust into a world of luxury, danger, and family secrets. Dante's parents despise her. His aunt torments her. And the truth about her parents' past threatens to tear everything apart. As the fake engagement blurs into something real, Cassandra must decide if she can trust the man who's both her protector and her captor. And Dante must confront the one thing he's never allowed himself to feel. Love. Because in Dante world, love is not safe. And Cassandra might be the missing piece that destroys him or finally sets him free.
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Where fear ends - Romance novels & stories
Georgiana
Kim has spent most of her life on the edges—quiet, guarded, invisible. At nineteen, she’s only just beginning to learn what it means to be seen, to want, to belong. Erik was never meant to be more than a safe place, a steady presence in a world that once hurt her too deeply. He’s older, scarred by a past he doesn’t talk about, and painfully aware that loving her might mean holding her back. What begins as comfort turns into something dangerous: a love built in stolen mornings, unsaid fears, and promises neither of them knows how to keep. When Luca enters the picture—warm, easy, and part of the life Kim has never lived—everything Erik fears starts to feel inevitable. A single party. One careless moment. One kiss seen by the wrong eyes. Now Kim is torn between the man she comes home to and the future she’s only just daring to imagine, while Erik must decide whether love means fighting for her… or letting her go.
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REBORN TO MARRY MY EX’S BILLIONAIRE UNCLE - Romance novels & stories
Luxe writes
BLURB The night Seraphina Hart discovered she was pregnant was supposed to be the happiest night of her life. Instead, it became the night she died. Married to Ethan Knight in a billion-dollar arrangement, Seraphina spent years loving a man who never loved her back. While she dreamed of building a family with him, Ethan shared his heart—and his bed—with her twin sister, Selena. When Seraphina overhears their cruel plans to divorce her and take everything she has, her world shatters. Heartbroken and carrying their unborn child, she flees… only to fall down a staircase and die. But fate isn’t finished with her. When Seraphina opens her eyes, she finds herself three years in the past—one week before her engagement to Ethan. This time, she refuses to become the woman they destroyed. Instead of marrying her cheating fiancé, she shocks the entire elite circle by choosing the one man nobody expected: Alexander Knight, Ethan’s powerful billionaire uncle. Cold, feared, and untouchable, Alexander has spent years secretly loving her from afar. And unlike Ethan, he is willing to burn the world for her. As Seraphina begins her revenge, hidden secrets start coming to light. A shocking truth about her birth. A mysterious benefactor who protected her long before she knew his name. And a mother whose devastating secret could destroy everything. But when Ethan regains memories of the life they lost and realizes the true cost of his betrayal, will he stand by and watch Seraphina belong to another man? Or will he do anything to win back the woman he once threw away? In her second life, Seraphina isn’t choosing forgiveness. She’s choosing revenge, love, and the man who should have been hers all along.
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HER BOSS,HIS DESIRE  - Romance novels & stories
Chiomzie
Serena Hart never imagined that one job could change her entire life. After losing her parents, Serena spends every day struggling to take care of her younger sister while trying to survive in New York. Love is the last thing on her mind. She has no time for heartbreak, no space for distractions, and definitely no interest in getting involved with rich men. Then she gets hired as a nanny for Kael Vale’s daughter. Kael Vale is everything people fear and desire — a billionaire, powerful CEO, and widowed single father known for his cold heart and emotionless personality. Since losing his wife two years ago, he has shut the world out completely, dedicating his life only to his daughter, Lia. But the moment Serena walks into Vale Manor, something begins to change. Lia, who hasn’t smiled in years, instantly grows attached to her. The quiet warmth Serena brings into the mansion slowly breaks through the walls Kael spent years building around himself. What starts as simple attraction soon becomes something far more dangerous. Because Kael cannot stay away from her. And Serena is terrified of falling for a man who carries so much pain behind his eyes. As emotions deepen, jealousy, gossip, past grief, and forbidden desire threaten to pull them apart. Serena knows loving Kael could destroy the peaceful life she fought so hard to build for herself and her sister. But Kael has already made up his mind. He wants her. And for the first time in years, he is willing to fight for love again.
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Stolen by my Dad best friend  - Romance novels & stories
Chi writes
At twenty-one, Tessa Hale is tired of being betrayed. After catching her boyfriend, Blake Monroe, cheating yet again, she finally walks away from the relationship she once believed would last forever. But moving on becomes complicated when her father sends his longtime best friend, Daven Morgan, to bring her home during a storm. Daven is thirty-eight, successful, protective, and everything Blake never was. He is also the one man Tessa should never want—the best friend of her father and a man seventeen years older than her. What begins as an innocent ride home soon becomes a dangerous attraction neither of them can ignore. Lingering looks, unexpected jealousy, and stolen moments slowly blur the line between friendship and desire. Then Tessa meets Rose, Daven’s twenty-year-old daughter, and an unexpected friendship draws the two families even closer. But there is more beneath the surface than either family realizes. While Tessa struggles with her growing feelings for Daven, Blake refuses to accept that she has moved on. When he publicly humiliates her at their class reunion by revealing a deeply personal secret, Daven steps in to defend her—and Blake decides revenge is the only way to get her back. Jake Hayes, Tessa’s charming classmate, also enters the picture, offering her the genuine affection she deserves. Suddenly, Tessa is caught between the man from her past, the man who wants her future, and the man she was never supposed to love. As jealousy turns dangerous and hidden family secrets begin surfacing, Tessa must finally choose for herself. Will she return to the love that betrayed her, choose the safe path with Jake, or risk everything for Daven—the one man who could cost her family, her future, and her heart?
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The Billionaire's Sweet Nanny  - Romance novels & stories
Lidiane Trindade
Kyra wasn’t looking for redemption. Just a roof over her head. A fake name. A place where she could hide from the men who used her, broke her, and discarded her. When she agrees to work as a nanny for little Julie, she finds a peaceful routine — until the girl’s father comes home. Liam Blackthorne. A billionaire. A widower. Brutally handsome. Cold as ice — and twice as lethal. He didn’t want a nanny. He wanted silence, control, and distance. But Kyra… she challenged him just by breathing. With those eyes that hid pain. With the submissive way he recognized from afar. She had scars — but his knew exactly how to speak to hers. And that’s how the game began… Words whispered in the dark. Orders she didn’t dare disobey. Punishments that burned more in the soul than on the skin. Liam didn’t just touch her body. He invaded her mind, her will, her weaknesses. He broke her slowly — only to rebuild her in the image of what he desired. But there are too many secrets between them. And some, if revealed, may be too cruel to be forgiven. Kyra was trained to obey. But Liam wants more than obedience. He wants total possession. And he accepts nothing less than everything.
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