Lila Hayes Novels & Stories

Pearl Hayes was never meant to be the bride. When her sister runs away on her wedding day, Pearl is forced to take her place to save her struggling family. With her father drowning in debt and her younger brother in desperate need of medical treatment, she has no choice but to marry billionaire heir Dominic Ashford—a man she's never met. What Pearl doesn't know is that Dominic has his own reasons for getting married. Their union is nothing more than a six-month contract designed to protect his inheritance and solve her family's financial problems. After that, they'll walk away from each other forever. But living with Dominic proves far more complicated than Pearl expected. Beneath his cold, controlling exterior is a man she can't quite understand, while her fearless personality constantly challenges the walls he's built around himself. As they navigate public appearances, jealous rivals, family pressures, and the growing attraction neither of them can ignore, the lines between obligation and love begin to blur. What started as a convenient arrangement soon becomes something much more dangerous: a marriage neither of them wants to end. A captivating billionaire romance filled with witty banter, family drama, forced proximity, and a love story between the wrong bride and the only man she was never supposed to fall for.

Noah Hayes was supposed to be starting over. A full scholarship and a future built on talent, not survival. As one of the university’s rising ice hockey stars, everything in his life should finally be falling into place, instead, it starts falling apart on day one when Chase Voss notices him. Beautiful. Cruel. Dangerous in a way that doesn’t need to be hidden. But Noah had bigger problems than a campus king’s grudge. Drowning in debt and desperation, Noah takes a job he knows will cost him, but the man he stole from isn’t just powerful, he’s dangerous. Adrian Voss. Now Noah belongs to him, trapped in a world he never wanted. By day, he’s the university’s ice hockey star, by night, he moves product for a man who owns his life. What started as hatred between Chase and Noah turns into obsession. What should be a rivalry turns into something neither of them can control. Chase falls hard and reckless, but Noah knows better than to trust something that feels like a weakness. And if Chase Voss wants him, then Noah will use him. Play him. Survive him. But the deeper they get, the harder it becomes to tell what’s real and what’s manipulation. And in a world built on power and blood, love is the most dangerous mistake of all, because loving the wrong person could destroy everything, but walking away might be even worse.

“You’re just like a sister to me.” Those were the actual words that broke the camel’s back. Not after what just happened. Not after the hot, breathless, soul-shaking night we spent tangled in each other’s arms. I knew from the beginning that Tristan Hayes was a line I shouldn’t cross. He wasn’t just anyone, he was my brother’s best friend. The man I spent years secretly wanting. But that night… we were broken. We had just buried our parents. And the grief was too heavy, too real.... so I begged him to touch me. To make me forget. To fill the silence that death left behind. And he did. He held me like I was something fragile. Kissed me like I was the only thing he needed to breathe. Then left me bleeding with six words that burned deeper than rejection ever could. So, I ran. Away from everything that cost me pain. Now, five years later, I’m back. Fresh from rejecting the mate who abused me. Still carrying the scars of a pup I never got to hold. And the man waiting for me at the airport isn’t my brother. It’s Tristan. And he's not the guy I left behind. He's a biker. An Alpha. And when he looked at me, I knew there was no where else to run to.

Ryan Carter is a name the hockey world fears and worships in equal measure—the best player on the ice, the golden captain, the man every fan believes cannot be defeated. To Scarlett Hayes, he is more than that. He is the reason she fell in love with hockey in the first place. Her role model. Her secret crush. The one player she never imagined would ever exist in the same world as her, let alone stand on the opposite side of her future. When she joins a new pack to pursue her hockey career, it feels like the escape she has always prayed for—a chance to run from a painful home and build a life of her own through ice, sweat, and determination. But everything shatters when the final match is announced and fate places her on the ice against him. Ryan Carter. Her opponent. The moment they face each other, something inside her reacts in a way she cannot explain. Her wolf awakens, whispering a single dangerous word over and over again. Mate. Mate. Mate. It distracts her, unravels her focus. Breaks the control she has fought so hard to build and in a game where only strength survives… She loses but losing the match is only the beginning because what comes after is far more dangerous than defeat. A contract. A bond and a a marriage to the one man she was never supposed to want… Ryan Carter.

I've infiltrated into a private group chat called "The Domestication Project". The group owner is in the middle of spamming her experience of her destroying her husband's mental willpower. "I've secretly swapped out my husband's anti-depressants for something else. Every day, I keep telling him that he's a useless, pathetic loser. Once he's hopelessly dependent on me, I'll have him thrown into a mental hospital and take over his company naturally." All the group members keep praising the group owner for being a total professional in gaslighting her husband. Soon, they start asking for her methods and experience. I tap on the photo of an experimental journal that the group owner has just sent. To my shock, the name listed on the mental health report with a diagnosis of severe depression is actually my own! As for the haughty group owner, she's Sophie Hayes, my wife of ten years! Yesterday, that woman told me with red-rimmed eyes that she'd rather go bankrupt just to cure me of my depression! It turns out that her devotion and love toward me for the past ten years is nothing but a grand yet cruel plot to murder me slowly! Since Sophie wants me to get reduced into a lunatic who has lost all of his marbles, then I shall put on an insane show for her. After that, I lock the doors in the mansion and dump the gasoline that I've just bought all over the living room.

I have just been discharged after leg surgery when Victor Clark, my wife's former colleague who resents her for taking his position, drags me up to the roof and stabs me repeatedly. My wife, Melissa Lane, is the captain of the rescue unit, yet she is busy mobilizing everyone to stop her depressed first love, Ethan Hayes, from setting his rental apartment on fire. I don't call her to save me. In my previous life, I begged her for help. She abandoned Ethan and rushed to rescue me. In the end, I survived while Ethan died in the blaze. Melissa never blamed me. She said that Ethan got what he deserved and even promised me a surprise for my birthday a week later. But on my birthday, she drugged me, tied me to a bed, and drove a knife into me again and again. "You and Victor set me up that day, didn't you? Those stab wounds aren't even serious! You were never going to die! Since you like getting stabbed so much, I'll make it real for you!" When I open my eyes, I am back to the day Victor took me hostage. This time, I let Melissa go save her first love.

When a billionaire Victor Huxley sets his eyes on Olivia Hayes, a young artist, it’s not just her beauty that captivates him, but an undefined desire that borders on obsession. Victor is a man used to get what he wants, and from the moment he first sees Olivia, he knows she must be his, at any cost. Olivia, on the other hand, is determined to make it on her own terms, and the last thing she wants is to be tied down to a man like Victor who is ruthless, domineering, and possessive. But when Victor uses his power to force her into a contractual marriage, Olivia finds herself trapped in a world of wealth and darkness, where escape seems impossible. As Victor's dark desires unravel, Olivia becomes both a captive and his obsession. She fights for her independence, while Victor struggles with his own conflicting feelings—torn between his dark need to possess her and a growing sense of genuine love. What starts as hate evolves into a twisted form of love as Olivia slowly begins to see cracks in Victor's cold demeanor. But as their relationship grows more complicated, dangerous forces and hidden pasts threaten to tear both of them apart. Will Victor be able to let go of his control, or will his obsession consume them both? And can Olivia ever forgive the man who stole her freedom, even as he becomes the only person who can truly save her? What will happen?

For years, Isabella Hayes believed her marriage to billionaire Adrian Cole was unshakable. Even when Adrian’s first love, Olivia Hart, returned to town—beautiful, determined, and clearly intent on winning him back—Isabella refused to feel threatened. After all, she was his wife. The woman he chose. Until he slowly stopped choosing her. Late nights became lies. Public appearances turned into quiet humiliation. And the man who once promised her forever began treating her like she no longer existed, drawn back into Olivia’s orbit while forgetting the wife waiting at home. But in the middle of her crumbling marriage, someone unexpected begins to see her clearly—Ethan Blake, Adrian’s closest friend. The only man who notices her silence, her strength, and the love she keeps giving to someone who no longer deserves it. The only man who treats her like she matters. So when Isabella finally asks for a divorce, Adrian is forced to face a devastating truth: he never stopped loving his wife… he just realized too late what it cost him to lose her. Because now Isabella is walking away from him for good, straight into the arms of the one man who never let her feel invisible. And this time, it’s Ethan who leans in and whispers, “She’s finally mine.”

On the Memorial Day weekend, Mason Hayes, the student my wife, Abigail Sullivan, had been sponsoring, insisted on riding with me back to his hometown. My car was small, the drive was long, and the trunk was already packed. There was no way to fit another adult, so I turned him down as politely as I could. That night, Abigail came home and stayed quiet for a long time before finally saying, "He ended up walking along the highway. His feet were torn up." I frowned, trying to make sense of it. "It's a holiday weekend. There are Ubers everywhere. He could've booked one in minutes." She nodded softly, the same gentle expression she always wore, and poured me a glass of water. I drank it. The next thing I knew, everything went black. When I opened my eyes again, I was standing under a brutal midday sun on an empty stretch of highway. Abigail leaned into Mason's shoulder, holding her phone up as she livestreamed. There was a faint smile on her lips, but there was nothing warm about it. "You said getting around was easy, right? Why don't you try walking home yourself?" The livestream was packed. The chat flooded with messages, people placing bets on how far I would make it. I looked straight into the camera, ran my tongue over my cracked lips, and said, "Done enjoying the show? Now come and pick me up."

Mara Cole is not who she appears to be. Hired by a shadowy organization with an agenda far larger than she understands, Mara enters the Brown mansion in Los Angeles as a household maid with one purpose — eliminate Frederick and Daniel Brown, the men whose greed destroyed her family and took her younger sister's life. She is trained, focused, and ready. What she is not ready for is Simon Brown. Cold, ruthless, and impossible to read, Simon is the kind of man who sees everything and says nothing. When his father delivers an ultimatum — marry within six weeks or lose board majority of the Brown empire — Simon makes a calculated decision and offers his quiet, unconnected maid a contract marriage. Mara says yes for reasons Simon will never know. But living inside his world changes something in her. Simon is not the man she expected. He is grieving, disciplined, and unexpectedly human. And the closer she gets, the heavier the weight of what she has done becomes. When Simon's private investigator begins circling the truth and Mr. Hayes reveals that Mara was never just an assassin — she was always meant to be the instrument of the Brown empire's total destruction — Mara must choose between the mission that defined her and the man she was never supposed to love. The truth surfaces. The marriage shatters. And in the wreckage of everything they built on silence and secrets, one question remains. Was any of it real? THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER is a dark billionaire romance of approximately 500,000 words.