Novel & Cerita Penguin Young Reader

Content Note: This dark romance contains 80% explicit sex scenes, intense power dynamics, trauma, revenge themes, and heavy triggers (attempted assault, wrongful imprisonment, suicide, family betrayal, graphic violence). Reader discretion advised. Emily Jayden was only nineteen when her life was shattered by a lie she couldn’t escape. After a violent incident with her stepfather, Evan John, she was accused and convicted of attempted murder, despite insisting she never intended to hurt him, but with his influence and reputation shielding the truth, Emily spent ten years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit. At twenty-nine, she walks into freedom hoping for a fresh start but the world hasn’t forgotten, her name is stained and no company will hire someone with her past. Survival and revenge leaves her with few options. By day, she carefully builds a plan to expose the man who destroyed her life. By night, she works at R.M Club, one of the city’s most exclusive strip clubs, where powerful men hide behind money and closed doors. The job is humiliating but it gives her something she needed. Money. Then she meets Ryan Mason on her first night, and sparks fly. For the first time in years, Emily allows herself to feel alive and to fall in love. Until she learns the truth. Ryan isn’t just a client.

A story between a werewolf young master and a naive human man. The werewolf is a rich second generation from a prestigious family lineage. He falls in love at first sight with the human man, but instead of pursuing and cherishing him, this pampered young master repeatedly hurts him, intentionally or unintentionally, even leading to his death. Out of guilt and to atone for his sins, the werewolf young master asks his wizard butler to help him resurrect the human man. The wizard butler informs him that with each resurrection, the human man will return with a new identity but will have to pay a price each time: his life will become tougher and his character will be more innocent. Despite the warnings, the werewolf young master, driven by his desire to reunite with the human man, insists on his resurrection, regardless of the consequences.

Jordan Hayes never meant for one desperate lie to summon the devil himself. Disowned by his family for being gay, scraping by at a smoothie shop and dodging creeps at his night job, Jordan's life is already a nightmare. When a persistent harasser corners him, he blurts out the first thing that comes to mind: “He's my boyfriend.” The words summon Damien Voss—tall, lethal, and terrifyingly beautiful. The ruthless mafia heir doesn't just play along. He claims the title. Permanently. One fake boyfriend ploy becomes a dangerous game. Damien starts showing up everywhere: outside Jordan's apartment, waiting for his shift, calling him “boyfriend” with a smile that promises ruin. Every time Jordan tries to run, Damien pulls him closer—possessive, obsessive, and far too aware of Jordan's every fear, every scar. Jordan thought he was using a monster to scare off wolves. He was wrong. The monster wants to keep him. Now Damien has a plan: leverage Jordan to destroy his father's empire. And if Jordan fights back? Damien will break him. Or make him his—body, soul, and screams. In a city of neon and shadows, one lie binds them forever. Hi, boyfriend. Welcome to hell. Warning: 18+ Dark romance. Obsession, stalking, violence, power imbalance, trauma. Reader discretion strongly advised.

Malisa a Young Teenager lived in a society where women weren't respected as they were only seen as a child bearing tool , so because of this poor Malisa and her fellow females weren't sent to school, they had to stay at home with their mom to learn how to do house hold chores so they can be good wives to their husbands. In the society where Malisa lived, young girls were given out for marriage at age Eighteen to The ' Rich ' men in the village who were decades older than the young girls , the young girls were helpless they only had to accept their fate but Malisa never accepted that fate, she was determined to go to school and become somebody great in life. Will she succeed or will she get married off to old men like the others? Read this amazing story to find out.

Ender Gray Ayutthaya is the new head of his family business. As the new chairman of a traditional family, he is obliged to produce an heir and so he agrees to marry a girl his family set him up with. Before he weds, he meets a young man that instantly steals his heart—Levi. Ender proceeds with the wedding and tries to forget about the young man. He never believed in love much more love at first sight. But soon, Ender finds himself haunted by Levi’s face and the way the young man's eyes looked at him.

"Mommy..." Five years ago, my own twin sister stole my newborn pups and left me to burn in the Crimson Moon Tower. I escaped into the dark wild woods, broken and alone, with two hidden secret pups she never found. Now, I am back in Ravenmoor Moon City, hiding my true face behind an ugly mask, working as a special bone reader for the Alpha Council. I only want one thing: revenge. But the moment I step foot inside the Ravenmoor Gateway, a little mute princess from the powerful Blackthorne Bloodmoon Pack runs up and hugs my legs. For the first time in her life, she speaks—and she calls me her mother. Enter Supreme Alpha King Idris Blackthorne. He is the most dangerous, powerful ruler in the entire Alpha Council Corporate Circle. He is hunting down the strange, plain omega woman who made his daughter talk. He does not know I am the real mate he claimed in the dark five years ago. He does not know his twins and my twins are actually part of the same secret bloodline prophecy. I try to stay away to protect my hidden pups, but the mate bond draws us close. When the Alpha Succession War begins, secrets will explode. Can a hidden Moonborn Alpha Queen take back her throne, or will the Supreme Alpha King find out the truth under my mask?

I was the perfect wife. For three years, I built my husband’s empire, gave him my love, my loyalty, my designs. And how did Victor Hale repay me? He stole my womb. He stole my daughter. He stole my freedom. That was the day Aurora Hale died. Now I live as Rhea Ashford — and I want blood. One reckless night, I mistake Damien Voss, a ruthless crime-lord biker with a wicked smile, for his powerful CEO twin brother. One bed. One touch. One unforgettable sin. When Damien discovers who I am and what I want, he makes me a deal: marry him, and he’ll give me the power and protection to ruin the man who destroyed me. It’s easy. He wants me, so I become his bride. I want revenge, so he becomes my weapon. But Damien isn’t just temptation in leather and ink. He’s dangerous. Addictive. A man who plays by no rules but his own. And in this contract marriage tangled with lust and lies, I can’t tell if I’m the one using him— Or if he’s already claimed me as his. TW: This story is intended for 18+ mature audiences only. It contains explicit sexual content (including kink, elements of BDSM dynamics), strong language, and other mature themes. Reader discretion is advised. BOOK 1 OF THE PRINCES OF SIN TRILOGY

⚠️ DARK ROMANCE CONTENT WARNING This is a very dark mafia romance intended for mature readers (18+). It contains a morally gray anti-hero, obsession, possessiveness, emotional manipulation, BDSM, and explicit sexual content. If you crave danger, obsession, and morally complicated passion, this dark romance will grip you—but reader discretion is strongly advised. * After waking up in her mafia husband's bed, dizzy and disoriented, Rosa is forced by the powerful Italian Don to sign divorce papers. Believing his mother and girlfriend's claim that Rosa drugged him to get into his bed, Luciano ensures she is thrown out of not only his life and home, but also the country itself. Years later, Rosa returns with a secret. But when Luciano Mancino, the formidable Italian Don, sees his ex-wife happy and building a new life with the renowned Dr. DeLuca, he experiences something he has never felt before—jealousy. A fierce, possessive need to reclaim the woman he once cast aside consumes him. Except Rosa isn't coming back. Not when marrying a gentle, caring man like Dr. DeLuca promises her the safe future and loving family she has always longed for. But Rosa isn't the only one hiding something. Buried deep within Luciano's heart is a secret so dangerous that, if revealed, it could destroy all of their lives beyond repair.

Adrian Smith a once-promising young son of a respected billionaire suddenly turns into a drunkard and a playboy, he is involved in numerous cases of infidelity, and being a top bachelor many young women wanted to play with him for his money but when it came to marriage no one was willing to get married to a young man everyone termed useless. His family was frustrated due to all the efforts they had made raising him to become the heir of their business empire and his father ended up cutting him off the family's inheritance. Will Adrian afford to live without his family's money or will he change to a better man?

In a world falling apart can a shell of a young woman survive? Bailey is a young woman struggling with her demons, trying her best to fight through a living hell; literally. Not only does bailey fight for every living breath but now she must fight for her place in this dying world.