Dark Romance Urban Web Novels & Brave Stories

When I stumbled into a Mafia run club seeking a job, I was looking for protection. Little did I know I’d need protection from him. Damian was exactly the kind of danger I was trying to avoid. He was gorgeous as sin with an accent hotter than Ronan, but that’s where the charm ended. He was also cynical, cold, and downright cranky. So, you could imagine my surprise when he gave me a proposition to marry him or lose my life. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I’ve learned to do what’s necessary to survive in this world, and that includes marrying a mobster. Regardless of what he might say, it’s only temporary. It’s not like I’m going to fall for him, because that would be stupid, right?

He gave up everything for her. Killian Dante spent 720 days in the world's most dangerous prison for a murder his wife committed — a sacrifice he made without hesitation, for the woman he loved and the child she swore was his. He walked out a king. A thousand of the deadliest men alive dropped to their knees and begged to serve him. She handed him divorce papers before he even made it through the door. The baby was a lie. The "dead" man she left him for was very much alive — and very much laughing in his face. Two years of his life, erased with a five-million-dollar check and the words: "You were the mistake." She thinks she buried a broken man. She has no idea what walked out of that prison. Now the same hands that once healed hardened criminals in the dark are bringing dying children back from the edge — in front of the entire world. Fortune 500 families are begging at his feet. The internet can't stop asking his name. And the wife who threw him away? She's about to learn that some men don't come back to beg. They come back to collect.

Aria Sinclair has always known her father's world has a dark side. She just never expected to become part of it. When Richard Sinclair's debt to the most feared family in the city comes due, there is only one currency left that will satisfy it. His daughter. Promised to Dante Vitale — charming, ruthless, and utterly untouchable — in an arrangement that leaves Aria no choice and no way out. Dante doesn't want a wife. He wants what the marriage represents. Power. Leverage. Control. But Aria Sinclair refuses to be controlled. And the one thing Dante Vitale has never known how to handle is something he cannot have. As their worlds collide behind closed doors, what begins as a cold arrangement begins to crack at the edges. Dante is used to taking what he wants. Aria is used to fighting for what she believes in. And somewhere between the danger and the defiance, between the secrets and the silence, something neither of them planned begins to take hold. But Dante's world is built on blood and betrayal. And love, in the Vitale family, has always come at a price. Some deals change everything. Some men are impossible to resist. And some women refuse to break — no matter how hard the world tries.