Contemporary Romance Web Novels & Protective Revenge Stories

She spent five years loving a man who never loved her back. He brought his first love into their home, claimed he was only helping her, and slowly turned cold. One night the house burned. The first love had her tied down and whispered that her husband would save her first. He did. She died in the flames. She wakes on the morning of their fifth anniversary, the same day he once left her for the other woman’s birthday. This time she remembers everything.

Imagine paying a stranger $1,000 outside your ex’s wedding to pretend to be your boyfriend… only to discover he’s your ex’s cousin. And it gets worse. His real girlfriend— the one he planned to propose to just hours earlier— catches you both in the act, right in front of every guest and your smug ex. To keep the lie from collapsing, he drops to one knee… and proposes to you with the very ring meant for her. As if that wasn’t enough, you later learn the man you hired isn’t just anyone. He’s the richest billionaire in all of New York. Now the whole city is watching. And the real game has only just begun.

For eighteen years, Clara was the invisible, neglected daughter of the wealthy Montgomery family. Born on the same night as her sickly, idolized twin sister, Evelyn, Clara was blamed for every misfortune that befell the family. Treated worse than a servant in her own home, her final heartbreak comes when her parents force her to step in as a substitute bride. The groom? Gabriel Vance—the ruthless, rumored-to-be-cruel billionaire who was crippled in a mysterious accident that destroyed his legs and his heart. Everyone expects Clara to be tortured in the dark, isolated Vance mansion. Instead, the terrifying billionaire sees through her scars, protects her from her toxic family, and cherishes her like a queen. But as Gabriel’s hidden power comes to light and Clara’s true identity unfolds, a dangerous web of family secrets, corporate sabotage, and deadly betrayal threatens to tear them apart. Will the hated daughter and the broken billionaire survive the storm, or will their enemies destroy the love they bled to build?

Natalie Bennett spent her first life being the perfect wife. When her fiancé, Ryan Coleman, brought his pregnant mistress to their wedding and demanded that Natalie accept both her and the unborn child, Natalie swallowed her humiliation and married him anyway. It was the worst mistake of her life. Years later, betrayed by the husband she protected and the family members she trusted, Natalie discovers that her marriage was never about love. While she sacrificed everything to keep her family together, Ryan was helping the people closest to her strip away everything that belonged to her. By the time Natalie learns the truth, it is too late. She dies with only one regret: she should have walked away on her wedding day. Then Natalie opens her eyes—and finds herself wearing her wedding dress again. Ryan is standing before her. His mistress is beside him. And this time, Natalie refuses. But walking away isn't enough. Natalie wants a completely different life, and when Ryan arrogantly insists that no man in their world would dare marry the woman who humiliated him at the altar, Natalie turns to the most powerful man among their wedding guests. Dominic Sullivan. Ryan's greatest rival. The man everyone else fears. “Are you married?” “No.” “Then marry me.” Natalie expects Dominic to refuse. Instead, he smiles. “I thought you'd never ask.”

"I was his family’s multibillion-dollar lifeline, but to my husband, I was just a shameful, oversized secret." To save King Enterprises from total bankruptcy, ruthless billionaire Darel King was forced to marry me—Giselle Davis, a plus-size heiress with a heavy appetite and curves he absolutely despised. For years, Darel treated our marriage like a prison sentence, banishing me to eat in the kitchen and openly declaring that his elegant, runway-slender ex, Julia Lee, was the only woman he could ever truly desire. The very day his family's empire stabilized, Darel threw the divorce papers in my face, casting me out into the cold New York rain to run back to Julia. He thought he had broken me. He thought I would waste away in despair. He was dead wrong. Taken in by Braden Martin—Darel’s fiercest, most dangerous rival on Wall Street—she turned her heartbreak into raw fuel. Under Braden's protective gaze, she conquered her demons, sweat through her insecurities, and transformed into a stunning, unstoppable force. When Darel falls to his knees, weeping and begging for the beautiful woman I’ve become, he learns too late that some debts can never be repaid.