Contemporary Substitute Web Novels & Stories

My family sold me for $10 million. For three years, I was Dominic Winter's dirty secret—locked in his basement, bleeding twice a week to keep the ruthless billionaire alive. While I slowly died in the basement, he planned his wedding with my sister. The night he touched me, and whispered that I was his salvation, making me believe I mattered—I was pathetic enough to believe his words. However, I heard him tell his mother the truth one night: "She's just a medical necessity. Handle her with care." That was all I was to him—a medical necessity. I was eight weeks pregnant with his child. I ran. Six years later, I'm Dr. Bree Roberts—the world-renowned scientist he's been desperately searching for. I have our son. I have my freedom. I have the only cure that can save his dying life. Now Dominic Winter is on his knees, begging. But the girl he destroyed? She's dead. And the woman who rose from those ashes? She's going to make him pay for every drop of blood he took.

They told her carrying her sister’s child was the only way to earn the right to breath. For seven month she was a prisoner. Carrying the baby of the same guy she loved from high school down to college… the same guy married to her sister. She lost the baby after a tragic incident leading to the loss of her womb. Then an accident dragging her to a coma. Waking up a year later she’s locked up in a villa. Owned by a billionaire who looks exactly like the ghost of her past. He claims he saved her from a murder attempt orchestrated by her own flesh and blood. But as Seraphina looks into his cold, possessive eyes, she realizes the man standing before her isn't just the ghost of her past. He is a ghost with a darker face, a deadlier agenda, and a secret that changes everything she knows about her bloodline, her trauma, and the monsters who raised her.

"You have 15 minutes to get here, Cassian, or you won't believe my next action." Serena Vale had spent years loving Cassian Blackwood. On the day she was supposed to become his wife, she was still willing to forgive him for disappearing right before their wedding. Then she discovered exactly where he was: in bed with Liora Voss—the daughter of the businessman Cassian desperately needed for his next billion-dollar deal. Cassian promised he would return. He never did. Fifteen minutes later, Serena made the most reckless decision of her life. She called Asher Blackwood. Cassian’s older half-brother. The illegitimate son cast out by the family years ago. The man Cassian had always warned her never to trust. Asher knew Serena was calling out of heartbreak and humiliation. He knew she didn’t love him. Yet when she asked him to marry her, he walked straight into the venue and took her hand. By the time Cassian returned, his bride was already his brother’s wife. What begins as an act of pure revenge becomes complicated when Serena discovers Asher is nothing like the disgraced outcast everyone painted him to be. He has secrets of his own—and the closer Serena gets to her new husband, the more she realizes the Blackwood family's lies run deeper than she ever imagined. She married Asher to make Cassian regret losing her. She never expected to regret the day she ever loved Cassian in the first place.

I agree to become a surrogate for one of New York’s most powerful couples, believing I know exactly what I’m getting myself into. Nine months later, I give birth to their son, expecting to hand him over and walk away with the money that could finally change my life. But everything changes when the doctor tells me the baby isn’t biologically Aurelia Veyne’s. He is mine. And his father is Lucien Veyne, the husband I was never supposed to have anything to do with beyond the walls of a hospital. Then Aurelia disappears. With his wife missing and a secret that could destroy his family, Lucien asks me to move into his mansion and care for the baby until she returns. I agree, believing I only need to stay long enough to do my job and collect my money. But living under the same roof changes everything. Days turn into weeks. Sleepless nights become shared moments. And somewhere between caring for our son and getting to know the cold billionaire behind the headlines, the boundaries between us begin to disappear. What was supposed to be an arrangement slowly becomes something neither of us expected. Then Aurelia comes back. She sees the bond between Lucien, me, and the child. And she sees that she is losing everything she thought belonged to her. Instead of letting me walk away, she decides to destroy me. But Aurelia makes one mistake. She thinks I’m still the desperate woman who agreed to carry her baby for money. She’s about to learn that I’m not.

Riley’s life shatters the moment she meets her mate. Instead of accepting her, he rejects her at first sight and, in the same breath, proposes to her stepsister. For Riley, the pain cuts deeper because this is not the first thing she has lost to her sister. All her life, Riley has sacrificed her happiness, her opportunities, and everything precious just to keep the peace in her family. But she never imagined she would be asked to give up her mate too. When her stepsister finally offers to give something back, it comes at a terrible price. Riley is asked to take her place in an ancient ritual that has thrown every young maiden in the city into fear, a single night with the Beast. The Beast is a five-hundred-year-old monster who only emerges in the dead of night. Cursed and bound by dark magic, he is slowly dying and can only be saved by the blood of a breeder. The problem is simple and terrifying: breeders were believed to have gone extinct many years ago. With no way to escape her fate, Riley is sent to the Beast, how do she escape when the beast is obsessed with her?

"If you ruin this, Avery, I will personally pull the plug on your grandmother’s ventilator." With those cold words from her stepmother, Avery Marie Vance’s fate was sealed. Forced to wear a heavy lace veil and step into the shoes of her spoiled twin sister, Kendra, who fled the country to avoid marrying a "monster", Avery walks down the aisle of a grand cathedral. Her groom is Damien Kingsley. He is the ruthless, cold-hearted heir to the Kingsley empire, known to the world as the "Blind Beast" after a tragic accident took his sight. He is dangerous, powerful, and completely blind. Or so Avery thinks.

Synopsis; Aurelia thought she had finally found love when Asher became her boyfriend. She gave him everything, even risking her life to donate part of her liver when a terrible accident left him fighting for his life. Three years later, Aurelia believed it was finally time for the one thing she had always wanted: a marriage with the man she loved. But Asher had other plans. “I can't marry you, Lia.” Those five words shattered everything she believed about their relationship. Aurelia soon discovers that the man she sacrificed everything for never truly loved her. He only substituted for his first love. Heartbroken, she returns to the family she left behind and reclaims the identity she once abandoned. The billionaire heiress is finally back.

Jessica walked down the aisle against her will to replace her best friend and to save her mother’s life. She never agreed to fall in love with the Billionaire she married but only to survive him. Forced into a contract marriage with powerful hotel mogul John Lewis, she becomes a wife in name only, trapped by threats, silence, and fear. But when her best friend returns with dangerous lies and a fake pregnancy, Jessica is discarded like she was never meant to matter. Except the truth refuses to stay buried. Now John is begging her to stay but Jessica must decide whether to endure the disrespect… or walk away and protect her dignity.

‘Never forget this, Mira. Never forget how they humiliated you.’ She repeated the words to herself through her tears, gripping the sand until it pressed painfully into her palms. She might have to endure this marriage for three years, but she would not allow herself to forget what those years had cost her.

When a low-ranking Omega is brutally rejected by her ruthless Alpha mate after a single night of secret passion, she flees the pack carrying his unborn twins—only to return years later as a powerful rogue leader, forcing the regretful Alpha to choose between his pride and the family he unknowingly threw away. Will they end up together? Read to find out.

She needs money to fix her broken Life. He needs a fake wife to secure his corporate empire. Billionaire Abel Lamb hasn't slept a full night in eight months. He's haunted by the fire that took everything from him, circled by family who want his empire, and running out of time to save his father's legacy. The solution is simple— find a wife. What isn't so simple is the woman his team sends him. She has a different name. A different past. She insists she has never been to California before. But she is a spitting image of his late wife, Helen. She knows things only one woman should know. And she was two miles from the lake house on the night it burned to the ground. Olivia claims she's a nobody from Chicago. Abel isn't so sure. And the closer he gets to the truth, the further she pulls away from him. What if his wife didn't die in that fire? One of them is lying to themselves... But who? Abel intends to find out, and he has a five-million-dollar contract to ensure she stays right where he can watch her.

What would you do when you find out you married the wrong twin? Not after a week. Not after a month. But after years of marriage. How could anyone make such a mistake in the first place? Renee thought she was marrying the love of her life. Not knowing that the 'I do' which she said without hesitation on the altar led her into a marriage built on deception, family secrets and a truth that could destroy everything she believed about love.

To save his twin sister Clara from a terrible fate, lazy and carefree Cole Titan agrees to do the impossible: act like a woman, squeeze into a gown, and take her place in a court-ordered 3-month cohabitation with her cold husband. His temporary spouse is Xavier Sterling, the ruthless, incredibly handsome CEO of Sterling Tech Global. Cole only needs to survive ninety days, wear a strict heart-rate monitor, and stay out of Xavier’s way. There’s just one massive problem...Xavier realizes on night one that his "wife" is actually a man. Instead of exposing the fraud, Xavier decides to keep Cole captive, finding his chaotic panic far too entertaining to let go. Things spiral completely out of control when Julian Vance, Xavier’s charismatic, lifelong arch-nemesis, enters the picture to steal "Clara" away, only to end up hopelessly tangled up with Cole instead. Trapped between two insanely powerful billionaires who hate each other but refuse to let him go, Cole’s simple scheme turns into an explosive game of power, jealousy, and secret family scandals. When the dust settles, who said a man can't end up married to two rival CEOs?

Graham Morrison divorced Opal Bennett after believing she betrayed him, never knowing she was pregnant with his triplets. Years later, Opal returns with three children—and an engagement ring from Graham’s powerful father, Sebastian Morrison. But Sebastian knows the triplets are likely his grandchildren, and his engagement to Opal hides a dangerous plan: protect her while uncovering the person who framed her years ago. Now Graham must watch his ex-wife prepare to marry his father, unaware that the children beside her are his and that the betrayal that destroyed their marriage was built on a lie.

She spent her life saving every dollar to say thank you. He spent one summer stealing his brother's face. Wren Matthew has one goal at State: find the anonymous donor who's funded her entire education and finally say thank you. What she finds instead is Jonah wearing her benefactor's name, his jersey, his whole stolen life while the real Rhett Kane lies in a hospital bed, the family is desperate to hide. Jonah didn't come back to fall in love. He came back for revenge. But the harder he tries to use the girl his brother left behind, the harder he falls for the one person on the campus who refuses to be bought. One name. Two faces. A lie that gets more dangerous every time she falls for him a little further.