Dark Romance Romance Web Novels & Reject Stories

To save her family from drowning in debt, college student Emilia Jones makes a desperate choice. She becomes the secret hook up companion of Charles Reed, a rich and mysterious man who pays her well to keep their arrangement private. Their rules are clear: no feelings and no one can ever know. But everything changes when Emilia walks into her new classroom… and sees Charles standing at the front of the room. The man she meets in secret is now her professor. As forbidden feelings grow and Charles’s dark secrets start to come out, their hidden arrangement begins to fall apart. Emilia soon realizes that falling for her professor could cost her everything.

“I, Neolani Griffin accept you as my mate,” I beamed, waiting for him excitedly to accept me too. There was a long pause. “Who gave you the right to call me by my name?” He snapped, anger dripping from every word he spoke.“Answer me” He barked, eyes locked on mine. “How do you know my name? It must have been the maidservants right?, I'll have them stripped off their post” He stepped away from me. “I, Ragnar Gray, reject you Noelani Griffin as my mate” Neolani never asked to be a rogue. Once an Alpha, once a daughter, her world was in shambles the night her family was murdered and her pack taken hostage by her half-uncle. Now, she’s nothing but a rogue, fighting to survive where wolves like her are despised. On the run for survival she unkowingly crosses the borders of Alpha Ragnar pack who is known for his cruelty, powerful, merciless, and loyalty to a pack that sees rogues as the enemy. Alpha Ragnar prepares to end her without a second thought, but then he feels it. The bond, she’s his mate. The one thing he swore he would never want. Worse, his heart already belongs to someone else: his beautiful childhood friend who was mated to his beta, Kendrick. He rejected the bond the moment it burned through him. But desire doesn’t wait for permission. With every stolen glance, and every reckless touch, the line between hatred begins to blur. Together, they could ignite a powerful love that is if pride and betrayal don’t destroy them first.

Carina Sullivan believed in fairy tales…until hers shattered in the most humiliating way possible. She was abandoned by her fiancé just days before their wedding, Carina is left broken, jobless, and drowning in shame. One reckless night with a mysterious stranger was supposed to be her escape. But that man, He disappears like smoke…leaving nothing behind but a memory and a secret growing inside her. Two years after, Carina is barely surviving as a single mother working two jobs. When a powerful billionaire suddenly walks into her life, she realizes he’s the same man from that night…the father of her child. But he doesn’t recognize her. Dante Moretti is ruthless, rich, and dangerously attractive. He’s back in New York to claim revenge on the woman who once cost him everything. What he doesn’t know is that the woman he wants revenge on... isn’t Carina. As their worlds collide in passion, secrets, and betrayal, Carina is pulled into a whirlwind of emotions and lies. Love isn’t just a risk…but it’s a war. And Dante may not be the hero she needs... he might just be her greatest lesson. She gave him one night. He gave her a child. But can she ever trust him with her heart? Heart-wrenching. Fiery. Addictive. This is a story of pain, secrets, and a woman rising from her ruins to find her voice, her power, and maybe... her second chance at love.

“You really think you can trap me with a child ?” Those were the last words Elena ever expected to hear from the man she loved. When Raven’s former fiancée suddenly returns with a child claiming he’s the father, he doesn’t hesitate to throw away their four-year marriage. On the very night Elena signs the divorce papers, she discovers she’s pregnant with Raven’s baby. But instead of believing her, he accuses her of lying to trap him and humiliates her in front of everyone. Heartbroken, Elena disappears without a trace, determined to raise her child alone and rebuild the life Raven shattered. Five years later, fate brings them together again. The timid woman Raven once discarded is gone. In her place stands a confident, successful Elena… with a brilliant little boy whose eyes look exactly like his. Now Raven wants answers. Then forgiveness. And finally, the family he carelessly destroyed. But after everything he did, can a man who once rejected his own child ever earn a second chance… or has he lost Elena forever?

Paul never understood his family’s hatred. His father despised him. His brother tormented him. His mother ignored him. Betrayed and framed, he landed in prison for crimes he didn’t commit. But they made one mistake—they let him live. Five years later, Paul walks out of prison a different man. Quietly, invisibly, he builds an empire no one sees coming. No face on the covers. No name in the headlines. Just power, moving in the shadows. When the truth about his family finally surfaces — the lies, the secret that his brother was not actually his father’s son, and the fact that Paul’s mother had covered for the real criminal — everything they built on top of their betrayal begins to collapse. Paul didn’t come back for revenge. He came back for answers. Revenge was the unexpected prize.

Veronica's husband stole her body before he ever raised a hand to her. While she lay unconscious from secret donor surgeries, Caleb and his mistress Ava were carving her up, piece by piece, and grooming her own daughter to call another woman "mommy." ‎ ‎When she finally wakes up broken, diagnosed with a degenerative organ-failure syndrome, and utterly alone, Veronica realizes the people who were supposed to love her had already decided she was easier to use than to leave. ‎ ‎So she lets them believe she's dead. ‎ ‎With a billionaire ex-classmate as her strategic husband, a new face, and a folder of evidence that could end Caleb's empire, Veronica rebuilds herself from the ashes of a marriage that nearly killed her. Every forged signature, every payoff, every cover-up gets fed back to the man who thought he buried her for good. ‎ ‎Then she walks back into his boardroom alive, on another man's arm, and watches twelve years of lies collapse in real time. ‎

Jayla Kensington was 24 when she was married into a family arranged marriage to 32 years old Alexander Woodford to save her father’s crumbling business empire. For two years she played the role of a perfect, loving and submissive wife…until she caught him in bed with her best friend Sophia. Cold, arrogant, and scarred by his mother’s brutal abandonment, Alex pushed her away with cruel indifference, then suggested an open marriage to preserve the business merger. Jayla reaches her breaking point and refuses to be the victim anymore, which makes her plan to take her revenge in the most audacious way possible. She books the most exclusive anonymous escort in New York, pays in cash, but was shocked by the figure that stood in front of her. It was him, Alexander. The husband who wants nothing to do with her yet he was in her suite. He drove her home under the name of dignity and respect for her vows. He humiliated her and in the moment of the argument they had a heated sex. Although Jayla hates herself for letting him sleep with her, and even now, is forced to stay under the same roof with him, just because they are still bound by the contract. She refused to let that one night of passion ruin her new found confidence, she sends him out of her room every time Alexander wants to make a move thinking she was still the obedient wife that desperately needed his attention. What begins as her revenge quickly escalates into a slow burn war of hearts. Alex will chase her across the danger filled streets of New York, sacrificing billions and his pride to win her back. Jayla fights him with every sassy weapon she has, even as their forbidden chemistry reignites.

Aria Kane thought the Moon Goddess had finally favored her when Alpha Kael Voss of the Shadowthorn Pack claimed her as his fated mate beneath the blood moon,his hand wrapped around her throat, his teeth grazing her neck while the entire pack watched in awe. One heartbeat later, he shattered her. “You are nothing but weak, weak filth,” he snarled, rejecting their bond in front of everyone before choosing the pure blooded Seraphina as his Luna for a political alliance. Humiliated, broken, and cast out like trash, Aria fled into the night with nothing but the burning scar of a severed mate bond. Two months later, she discovered she was carrying his twins. Five years on, Aria returns to Shadowthorn,not as the timid girl they discarded, but as a deadly rogue hunter with a reputation soaked in blood. She is raising two powerful five year old heirs who carry ancient shadow wolf blood and gifts that could destroy the pack. When a brutal war with the rival Crimsonfang Pack forces Kael to summon her back under threat of death, the rejected mate bond erupts violently between them. The same alpha who once humiliated her now looks at her like a starving beast, desperate to claim what he threw away. He will lock her in his chambers, knot her until she screams, and burn his own empire to possess her again. But Aria is done being anyone’s mate. She has secrets that could topple the Shadowthorn throne. Allies who betrayed her in the darkest ways. And two innocent children Kael can never have,unless he is willing to kneel, bleed, and destroy everything he once chose over her.

He told me he wouldn't call. I told him he would. I was right. He pushed me away. I pushed back. He put a gun in my nightstand and a penthouse key in my palm and told me he'd burn the whole city down before he let anyone touch me. "You're playing a dangerous game,Gaby." "I've been playing a dangerous game since the night I sat down at your table." He's a killer. I knew that from the start. The silver hair. The steady hands. The way his body moves before his brain has time to catch up. He's possessive. Ruthless. Cold as the blade he used to carry-until he's not. Until his fingers are in my hair and his mouth is on my throat and every rule he's ever made about keeping people out goes up in smoke. "I can't promise you a future." "Then promise me tonight."

She's is the daughter of the Alpha who went rogue ten years ago after the accidental death of her sister, shunned by her family who pack blamed at her, her family looked at her in disgust. On her 18th birthday, she discovered that her fated mate is the Alpha of the most powerful pack who was feared by all, Alaric, but fate threw a twist her way, as her fated mate does not want her but also refuses to reject her, instead, he brings a strange woman home and declares her to be his true love instead, shattering her totally. With a prophecy lurking above her and dark fumes wanting to destroy her, Astra must not only fight for her love but also for her survival.

Levrae thought she had been blessed by the moon goddess when she found out she was mates with the man she's loved since she could breathe. They made love under the moon but then she was harshly rejected by the same man. Forced into an arranged marriage right after that, Levrae's life was turned upside down when she married Lucas. For three years, Levrae never returned. But when her father, the alpha, was murdered, twenty-three-year-old Levrae had no choice but to return home. Back to her brother, who now led the pack, and to the man she had spent years trying to forget. To the man who once rejected her under the full moon. Finn, her brother's best friend and bodyguard, was everything dangerous. He was a man who killed without hesitation. The man who once looked at her like she was disgusting because she was his mate. Now the girl he had vowed to protect was a grown woman, broken, and everything he should try to resist. But he couldn't. His mistake had sent her running the first time but he would do anything to have her stay with him forever again. When the biggest betrayal had her broken into pieces, she found herself with the one person she was trying to avoid. He’s her brother’s best friend. Her late father’s loyal bodyguard. And he's the one man she could never have. But what happens when his self-control slips and he finds her more irresistible than before? What happens when their mate bond was never truly severed? When a war ignites and loyalty is being tested, their forbidden passion becomes the most dangerous secret of all. Their love could either destroy them both or save their lives.

Dizer Shank spent her entire life building her family’s empire, only to be erased from it in a single meeting. When her father names her younger sister as successor, Dizer was forced into a marriage contract with Liam Oscar, a cold, world-famous surgeon, as part of a deal to save her family’s collapsing hospital. On the wedding night, she is humiliated beyond repair when Liam, drunk and indifferent, mistakes her for someone else and calls out her sister’s name in her arms. By morning, she is no longer a bride and also she is now a mistake. Blamed, rejected, and isolated by both families, Dizer becomes invisible in her own marriage while her husband slowly drifts toward the very sister who replaced her. And when betrayal finally breaks what’s left of her heart, she walks away with nothing, not even dignity but what no one knows is that Dizer was never powerless. Seven years later, she returns and not as the discarded daughter, not as the forgotten wife but as the hidden owner of a global logistics empire worth billions and the mother of twin children no one knew existed. Now the woman they threw away holds the power to save or destroy every empire that once broke her. And Liam Oscar, the man who chose the wrong sister finally realizes too late that the woman he humiliated was the only one who ever truly belonged beside him but by the time regret finds him, Dizer Shank has already stopped looking back.

Liana never imagined that saving her mother would force her to marry the one man she hated. Damon is feared in Country Golden. To the public, he is a powerful and respected business tycoon known for his strict sense of justice. But behind closed doors, another name is whispered in fear... Liana has known Damon since childhood, hatred has always been the only thing between them. when her mother is involved in a terrible accident, no hospital is willing to treat her because of the powerful enemy behind it. Desperate, she goes to Damon, prepared to give him everything in exchange for her mother's life. But Damon wants something money cannot buy. He wants her to become his wife. With her mother's life at stake, Liana accepts the deal. Overnight, the woman who swore never to belong to Damon becomes his wife. But marriage to Damon is nothing like Liana expected. He is arrogant, impossible to understand, and strangely protective of her. He secretly assigns men to guard her, makes sure her mother receives best treatment, manipulates circumstances to protect Liana’s career, and even keeps enemies away from her. Yet whenever Liana tries to understand him, Damon hides behind his usual teasing and cruelty. would a man who claims to hate her go this far to protect her? Liana begins to realize that their marriage may never have been a simple deal. There are secrets surrounding their past, enemies and truths her mother may be hiding from her. The man Liana calls her ruthless enemy may be the only person standing between her and the people who want her destroyed. But before Liana can uncover the truth, she must answer the question; Did Damon marry her because he hated her... or because he was seeing something? Let's find out.

What happens when the man who has everything loses his moral compass? Ethan, the son-in-law of billionaire James Parker, is about to find out. As he navigates the treacherous world of wealth and power, Ethan must confront the darkness within himself and the family he's married into. Will he emerge from the shadows with a newfound sense of purpose, or will his quest for revenge destroy him?

He bought me back like you buy a car. Now… I belong to him. When her father loses everything gambling, Léna finds herself sold to a wealthy stranger to pay off his debts. She thinks it's a bad joke… until she recognizes the icy gaze of the man before her. Ilyès Blackwood. The man she slapped in public two years earlier after a disturbing night she'd rather forget. The man she's never seen again. The man who hates her. He wants neither her love nor her respect. He wants her submission. Her silence. And her body. He'll do whatever it takes to make her his entirely, with or without her consent.

She negotiated peace for five years while her fated mate raised the children she'd left behind with the best friend who now called them hers. When Lyra returns, she finds her mate celebrating five years with the woman she once called her other half. Her twin pups, stolen from her arms as infants, call another woman "Mama." Her place has been erased, her sacrifice forgotten. Then her best friend and sister frame her for poisoning her own children. Condemned by the mentor she trusted, Lyra is exiled to the rogue lands, where she uncovers the truth: the woman she called Mother has been poisoning her since childhood to suppress her Shadowborn bloodline—a power feared for generations. Exile doesn't break her. It awakens her. Five years later, Lyra returns stronger than ever, wielding shadow magic and truth-seeing abilities capable of exposing every lie. Her former mate rules with strategies she created, while her best friend wears the Luna title that should have been hers. Worse still, she discovers the woman who raised her was never her real mother—and one final betrayal is already in motion. Her only ally is Kael Northwood, a rival Alpha who has searched for her since she disappeared. He believes in her innocence, but their undeniable mate bond is forbidden by ancient law. Now Lyra must choose: reclaim the family stolen from her—or embrace the destiny waiting in the shadows. Some betrayals destroy you. Hers awakened the monster they should never have tried to bury.

"I reject you, fatass." Dean Ashcroft says it laughing, in front of the whole pack, on the night the Moon Goddess herself picked them as mates. He doesn't even flinch. Just walks away and leaves Delaney Reeves standing there with a broken bond and a room full of people snickering behind their hands. She's done crying by the time she gets home. She's not the type. She goes quiet instead, and quiet means she's already leaving. She gets two steps off the porch before Dean grabs her arm hard enough to bruise. His mate isn't going anywhere, he growls, like he has any right to say that now. That's when the real bond hits her. Not with Dean. With the stranger standing on the porch, a man she's never met until tonight. Jaxton Cole. Alpha of Ashford Ridge Pack. Here for treaty business, not for this. Two Alphas. One woman. One bond breaks and another one lights up in its place, both in the same ten minutes. Delaney thinks the worst night of her life is behind her. She's wrong. Her body starts doing things that shouldn't be possible. Her mother's death wasn't the accident everyone always said it was. And a man who's spent decades chasing a grudge older than Delaney herself is done waiting in the shadows for what he thinks he's owed. Dean wants forgiveness. Jaxton wants forever. And something out there wants Delaney for exactly what her blood can do, whether she agrees to it or not. She's spent her whole life being decided for. Not anymore. She was never his to reject. She's about to make sure everyone remembers that.

Ondine Skarrow was never worth claiming — unranked, unbonded, raised outside a pack that only remembered she existed the day they needed to pay off a debt. Sold at auction under wolf law, she expects a cage. She gets three men who move like they’ve commanded armies, and a bond that hits like a collision the second the tallest one looks at her. Then he rejects it. On sight. In front of everyone. Corvain Vaelth is the exiled heir to a throne stolen out from under him three years ago, hiding with the only two wolves who survived the massacre that took everything else. Claiming a mate while he’s landless and hunted isn’t romance — it’s a death sentence he refuses to hand her. So he denies the bond and walks away, and leaves Ondine legally his, emotionally nobody’s, and furious. But Alpha Alaric Vaunt — the man who built his empire on Ashgrove’s ashes — has just ratified a law that claims every unbonded omega in the region for his own territory. Ondine isn’t just unclaimed. She’s a target with a deadline. And the only thing that puts her outside Vaunt’s reach is the bond Corvain threw away. Reclaiming his throne was never just about Corvain anymore. Now it’s the only thing standing between Ondine and a cage with someone else’s name on it — and the only way any of them keep her is if all three of them are willing to fight, and choose her, for real.

They called her a stray dog dressed in silk. Her husband choked her in a wedding shop. Her sister shoved her under a car. Her family danced on her grave before the dirt was cold. Then she opened her eyes seven years in the past. "You think you can break me twice, Kyle?" "Celine, I made a mistake. I was blind. Just give me one more chance and I'll spend the rest of my life proving." "You had your chance. You used it to destroy me." "I love you." "You loved the version of me that was stupid enough to believe you." She came back with a colder heart, a sharper mind, and the kind of rage that doesn't scream. It plans. But Celine didn't expect Aron Caruso. The man who ordered her burial in one life became the man who refused to let her fall in the next. Cold, dangerous, untouchable, and the only person who never once asked her to be softer. "Why do you keep saving me?" "Because nobody else is worth the trouble." She wanted revenge. He wanted her. And the man who threw her away? He wanted her back. Too late.

"Sign your name, Maren. Unless you want to watch that monster walk out of this courthouse holding a child who isn't even his." He was arrogant. Cold. A billionaire predator who looked at her desperate, tear-stained face and saw nothing more than a useful pawn on a chessboard. Maren Jenkins had no money, no lawyers, and only forty-eight hours before her late sister's infant son was handed over to the abusive monster who helped drive her sister to her grave. She was out of options. So, she signed the contract. Gideon Cole didn't offer her a fairy tale. He offered her a war. As a rival billionaire with a blood feud against the opposition, Gideon needed a wife, a public image, and an heir to inherit his dying grandfather's empire. In exchange, Maren got his army of lawyers, his billions, and his absolute, unyielding protection. The rule was simple: it was all business. No feelings. No touching. Just a fake marriage built on mutual hatred to fool the high-society elites and crush the enemy in court. Except Gideon hadn't counted on Maren bringing absolute chaos, fire, and warmth into his sterile, lonely existence. And Maren hadn't counted on the way his merciless logic would shatter beneath a fierce, dangerous obsession the moment anyone threatened her. They thought they were playing a game of corporate chess. But when the lines between hatred and desire blur, the fallout is catastrophic. Because hidden beneath Maren's skin is a lethal secret—and when Desmond discovers the truth, he will burn them both to the ground. She was supposed to be his weapon. Instead, she became his ruin. Read the first chapter now to unlock the ultimate enemies-to-lovers, fake marriage suspense romance of the year!