Romans Dark Romance Romance & Histoires Protective Hate to Love

Andrea has always being her twin's shadow. The quiet, obedient daughter cast aside for being less than perfect Aria, the ruthless perfectionist is engaged to the dangerously powerful Mafia King, Alexander Hawthorne. But perfection shatters too. When Aria’s betrayal destroys Alexander’s only lead to his missing parents, he doesn’t want revenge, he wants ruin. He wants to do something to her that will redefine the word sadistic. Terrified of the monster she’s let loose, Aria forces Andrea into a deadly swap, using a secret from their past to blackmail her. On their wedding day Andrea is publicly humiliated when someone finds Alexander being intimate with the daughter of an ambassador. The guests mock and ridicule her for not being able to keep her man. Even though her marriage was a lie she still felt humiliated. Andrea arrives at the Hawthorne estate expecting tedious chores and slandering. Instead, she becomes a prisoner in rough sheets and locked doors. Alexander doesn’t see innocence. He sees betrayal. He plans to make her pay for every lie, every secret, including a horrific crime against his cook’s daughter. But Andrea isn’t Aria. She tries hard not to slip or act out of character. But Aria wasn't just a spoilt brat, she had gotten on nerves of many evil people and they want a pound of her flesh. As Aria's enemies close in on Andrea and the truth threatens to explode, Alexander has to protect the woman he had wanted to badly hurt. Andrea has to make a choice. Tell Alexander she's not who he thinks she is or let the secret she's kept for years get exposed and face the wrath of her parents and the law.

Years ago, Diane Hall was Conrad Beaumont's secretary. Then a scandal broke over his stocks, her name was on it, and he fired her without letting her say a single word. She lost her job, her dignity and the life she'd built. She ended up dancing for strangers just to eat. Now he's back, and he's offering a million dollars to be his fake girlfriend. She hates him. She needs the money. And she has no idea what she's walking into.

Snow Lorenzi saves a dying man one rainy night. He turns out to be Silas Rinaldi, Sicily’s most feared mafia boss. On her wedding day to Giulio Hale, Silas takes her groom’s place instead. He drags her to his fortress and calls it protection. She calls it theft. She hates his chains and his sharp ways. Then the truth shatters everything. Her own parents sold her all along. Every path was a trap laid before she ever knew him. Silas broke all the rules to take her. He loved her wrong but he loved her true. Now she must decide if she will stay or run.

The underworld is ruled by two formidable mafia dynasties: the Wijaya family, led by the cold and untouchable Bastian Wijaya, and the rival Herdian clan, led by Doni and Siska Herdian. Their generational tension is actually a malicious conspiracy orchestrated by Reza Pratama, a manipulative third party courting Talita Herdian. Reza poisons Talita's mind with lies, claiming Bastian intends to destroy her family. In reality, Bastian has secretly loved Talita since their university days. Consumed by fear, Talita rejects Bastian and marries Reza to protect her family, walking straight into a living hell. Reza drops his facade, systematically crushing the Herdians and brutally murdering Talita’s parents before her eyes. He becomes a tyrannical underworld lord, subjecting Talita to relentless physical and psychological abuse that permanently ruins her body and leaves her unable to bear children. As she nears death, a devastating truth emerges: Bastian truly loved her all along, while Reza merely used her as a disposable pawn. In her final moments of bitter remorse, Talita begs for a second chance. Miraculously, time reverses, and Talita awakens in October 2020—just on the verge of her engagement to Reza, armed with memories to rewrite her fate.

Isabella Rossi has 48 hours to come up with €300,000 or her brother Luca disappears permanently. Luca gambled with the wrong man — Alessandro De Santis, Il Capo of Milan’s most feared crime family. When Isabella storms into his club to beg for mercy, Alessandro offers her a deal instead of a bullet. One year. Live at his Lake Como estate. Be his on paper when he demands it. Follow his rules. After 365 days, the debt is erased and her brother walks free. Break the contract early, and Luca pays with blood. To Alessandro, Isabella is just a new experiment. Politicians, cops, rival bosses — they all break within days of meeting him. He’s curious how long it takes a woman with nothing left to lose. To Isabella, Alessandro is a monster in a tailored suit. Cold, controlling, and lethal. Rule #1: Don’t fall in love with me. Easy, she thinks. She hates him. But the estate isn’t a prison of iron bars. It’s gilded cages, midnight conversations in the library, scars he doesn’t explain, and a man who watches her like she’s the only threat he can’t neutralize. The more rules he makes, the more he breaks them himself. Protection turns into possession. Glances turn into touches. And the contract’s fine print becomes a countdown neither of them can escape. Because Alessandro has enemies who want his empire, and now they want her too. When Luca’s betrayal runs deeper than debt and Isabella becomes a target, Alessandro has to choose: the empire he killed to build, or the woman he swore was just collateral. 365 days to survive him. 365 days for him to ruin her. 365 days to fall in love with the last man she should ever trust.