Romans First-Person POV Romance & Histoires Slave

"Five million," the voice echoed through the velvet-lined auction hall. Cold. Predatory. Familiar. Brittany’s heart stopped. She knew that voice. It belonged to the man who had shattered her soul five years ago—her brother’s former best friend, Houston Vane. Sold by her gambling addict father to cover a debt that wasn't hers, Brittany expected a monster. She didn't expect the man who once promised to marry her to be the one holding the gavel. Houston is no longer the boy she loved. He’s a ruthless CEO with ice in his veins and a vendetta against her family. He doesn’t want a wife; he wants a pawn. He offers her a deal: play the part of his doting fiancée for a year to save her father’s life, and he’ll set her free. The rules are simple: No feelings. No touching. No secrets. But Brittany is hiding a secret that could destroy them both. Back in a small, cramped apartment, three four-year-olds are waiting for their "Mommy" to come home. Triplets with Houston’s dark eyes and his defiant smirk. As Houston drags her into his world of high-society sharks and dangerous power plays, the line between hate and desire begins to blur. But when a rival billionaire, Xander, decides he wants Brittany for himself, the game turns deadly. Houston bought her to break her. But what happens when he realizes he’s been raising a war against the mother of his children?

To save her family from debt and pay for her father's medical bills, Hazel Anderson is forced into a marriage of convenience with Xander Kingston—the country's most powerful and feared billionaire. But for Xander, this union is nothing more than a business transaction. He bought her for five million dollars, treating her not as a wife, but as a possession he despises. Life inside the luxurious mansion becomes a living hell for Hazel. She is constantly humiliated, overworked like a servant, starved, and abused by Xander and his cruel family. Her suffering reaches its peak when Selene, the woman Xander truly loves, arrives and makes her life even more miserable. Despite her patience and sacrifices, Hazel is treated worse than an animal, left alone in pain, and even rejected when she falls deathly ill. But just as she reaches her breaking point, a secret growing within her body begins to unfold—a truth that will change everything and turn their world upside down.

That night, drunk and heartbroken after her fiancé’s betrayal, Celeste accidentally sent her masturbation video to her boss, Lazarrus Walkez V, the ruthless billionaire who lives in permanent numbness. The next morning, a single text arrived, “Come to my office, Little doe.” From that moment…he offered her a dirty deal, and she became the only one who could awaken the monster that had been dead inside him. Revenge turned into obsession. Obsession turned into love.

Sold to the Empress as a gift, I expected cruelty. I didn't expect her to freeze the moment our eyes met — like winter itself had struck her. "You will do," the Empress said. "The rest of you may stop pretending to breathe." She bought me as a pet. She has no idea I was trained since childhood to kill her. She also has no idea why I keep forgetting to hate her. Seraphine rules a fantasy empire where everyone is a knife — and she is the sharpest of them. I am the assassin hidden in her court, disguised as her newest pet: serving her wine, pouring the poison away, and forgetting, a little more each day, why I was sent to her. A GL dark romance of palace intrigue and slow-burn heat — a possessive, dominant Empress who never asks for anything, and the one person in her empire who was trained to destroy her. Until the night she asks her pet to come back. The Empress does not share. Unfortunately for us both — neither do I.

When Camila’s husband sells her to King Miller to save himself, she thinks betrayal is the worst thing she will ever face. Until she discovers a power she never knew she possessed—and a past she cannot remember. The king claims he knew her father, but his fiancée believes Camila died years ago. So why is a dead woman standing before them? As the world falls to the infected, Camila must uncover the truth about her identity before her forgotten past destroys everything she loves. Because the apocalypse has begun, but Camila’s real nightmare is only just beginning.

Aurora had spent her life in the cruel hands of her stepmother and sister, living like a maid in the very house her father built. She had thought her life was bad, until she mistakenly crossed paths with the ruthless mafia lord, Dante De Luca. Dante hated her almost immediately, for reasons best known to him. She thought she had run away from him, until he appeared at her door the next morning. Her family didn’t hesitate before tossing her out. Now she was left alone with this ruthless mafia lord. Her life became a living hell on his island, but as the days passed, feelings began to grow, and she discovered a secret that no one else knew, the type that was linked to what happened the night her dad died. Will love prevail over everything?