Romance Books With Depression

Siapa yang menyangka bermula dari dikira Host oleh tamu VIP di sebuah bar tenar, hidup Ivy Gilmore menjadi porak-poranda. Daniel Forrester, sang tamu VIP adalah Ceo dari perusahaan besar yang terobsesi padanya. Daniel terlalu sempurna untuk menjadi pendamping Ivy, sampai gadis itu tak mengerti kenapa Daniel tertarik padanya hanya karena kesalahan satu malam. Siapa yang menyangka di balik wajah tampan Daniel, pria mapan itu ternyata menyimpan sejuta rahasia yang membuat Ivy merinding ketakutan. Cinta dan obsesi tak ada bedanya bagi Daniel, apa pun akan dia lakukan demi mendapatkan Ivy Gilmore. Bisakah Ivy lepas dari pesona sang Ceo ataukah ia malah terjerat cinta penuh obsesi itu?

She wanted an autograph. She woke up in a billionaire’s bed with no memory of how she got there. To save his reputation, Nathan Blake offers Ivy a year and half contract marriage.

All he ever wanted was freedom… and love. Twenty two year-old Noah has lived a life trapped behind bruises and locked doors. Raised by a cruel father and an indifferent stepmother, his days have been filled with silence, pain, and the desperate hope that one day—someone would see him. Save him. But salvation never came. Instead, he’s sold—like property—to a powerful mafia boss under the guise of an arranged marriage. Cold, ruthless, and feared across the underworld, Damian Moretti doesn’t need love. What he needs is a husband who can serve as a political pawn in a war of families. Noah is everything Damian didn’t expect: fragile yet unyielding, terrified yet defiant. And while their marriage begins in chains, something begins to shift in the shadows of their forced union. As secrets unravel and danger stalks every corner, Noah must decide: will he be caged forever by the choices of others—or rise and claim the life and love he was always denied? In a world ruled by blood and power, can a boy who was never wanted become the heart no one can live without?

The night my sister died during a failed emergency procedure, a gang of thugs stopped the car that was taking me to the funeral home. They desecrated her body right in front of me, then beat me until every bone in my body felt shattered and the tendons in my hands were severed. The next day, the news that my hands were ruined and I would never be able to operate again made the headlines. Because of that, my fiancée of eight years, Sandra Walker, broke off our engagement. The very next day, she left for an overseas medical conference with the man she had always loved. When I was on the verge of collapse, Sandra's aunt, Magnolia Walker, set off fireworks for me and announced our wedding to the entire city. "Kayden Foster, I've loved you for so long. Now, I can finally stand by your side. In this life, you're the only man I want to marry!" In that endless despair, I clung to her as my only lifeline. On our wedding day, after I came back from paying my respects to my sister, I accidentally overheard Magnolia talking to her assistant, Robin Myers. "Dr. Walker, for your niece Sandy to be able to marry Quinton Kerr, I arranged for an intern to operate on Kayden's sister, hired people to cripple him, and had his sister's body violated. The police are still investigating, and I'm starting to get a little nervous. Isn't this too cruel?" After a brief silence, Magnolia spoke in a tired voice. "What choice did I have? Kayden was too proud. If I hadn't removed the sister he depended on and ruined both his hands, how could I make him fall apart? How else could I have made him break things off with Sandy without anyone suspecting a thing? "Quin and I were never meant to be in this life. As long as he's happy, that's enough..."

They were never meant to fall in love. But fate doesn’t follow contracts. Kellynne Mea Morleigh never believed in settling. She’s waited her whole life for a love story worth telling. One that begins with butterflies and ends in forever. No boyfriend since birth, by choice. Because she knew what she wanted. But when her family’s company teeters on the edge of collapse, she’s forced into a marriage that feels more like a business deal than a dream. Her groom? Elias Callum Fenwick. Young, brilliant, and dangerously untouchable. Elias is a billionaire by reputation, a strategist by nature. Raised to chase power, not affection. To him, marriage is just another transaction. One that unlocks the inheritance left by his late grandmother. And Kelly? She’s the key. They enter the marriage as strangers. No vows of love. No promises of forever. Just a contract built on convenience, wealth, and legacy. But behind the facade of a cold, calculated union, sparks begin to fly. Arguments turn into conversations. Clashes reveal vulnerabilities. And slowly, Kelly starts falling—not for the idea of love she once held, but for Elias himself: his honesty, his quiet sacrifices, and the way he listens even when they fight. She never meant to fall. He never planned to care. But love doesn’t ask for permission. Just when she begins to believe in their story, a devastating truth shatters her world... Elias had a past with his secretary, a woman who still lingers in the shadows of their present. Seven years. That’s how long the contract binds them. But when hearts are broken and trust is betrayed… Will Kelly fight for the love she never expected—or walk away before it destroys her?

Fate is such a strange thing. Fickle and sometimes cruel. Evelyn was just a crippled vampyre princess who lived in her sister's shadow for as long as she could remember. Whose her existence was on the cusp of being forgotten. All of a sudden, she's going to get married to the Alpha of a werewolf pack as her sister's replacement. For the treaty. Nothing could be worse than being treated like an invalid right? Wrong! It was being cruelly rejected by your destined soulmate. Israel knew the dyty of sn Alpha comes with many responsibility and sacrifices. So when he had to marry a vampyre princess, he was prepared. Or so he thought. He had lost his connection to his wolf and he was incomplete. So incomplete that he couldn't see when his fated mate was right in front of his nose. And then there was issue of those trying to kill every member of his family. It's insane. It's terrifying. It's fun and it's life, said Evelyn.

Labis ang galak sa puso ni Niklas nang malaman nyang sya'y nagdadalang tao. She wanted to surprise her husband on their upcoming wedding anniversary, pero ganoon na lamang ang gulat nya nang makita ang asawa nya sa hospital kasama ang bago nilang kasambahay, si Italy. Agad syang naghinala, pero ganoon na lamang ang pagkagunaw nang kanyang mundo nang malaman ang katotohanan galing mismo sa bibig ni Dominic. Italy is pregnant with her husband's child.

"Ang kabayaran sa utang ng Daddy mo, ay ang pakasalan ako at maging asawa kita" Napakurap kurap ako sa sinabi niya "Ano?!" Di makapaniwala sa narinig "Are you crazy?" Tumawa siyang muli "Daddy mo ang baliw Samantha, dahil ikaw ang ginawa niyang pambayad para sa utang niya"

WARNING: 18+ This story contains mature themes, explicit sexual content, strong language, and situations that are not suitable for readers under 18. Read at your own risk. *** When Noah Gonzaga, a 22-year-old model, moves into his mother’s new husband’s house, he never expected to gain a stepbrother who is eight years older than he is and is clearly unwilling to welcome him. From the start, he already knew Kayden didn’t want him there. Well, Noah felt the same. He hated this entire messed-up situation. If it weren’t for his mother, Noah would have never agreed to live under the same roof as her new family. However, he couldn’t just let her stay alone with a man she’d married after knowing him for six months. What he didn’t expect even more was to end up in his stepbrother’s bed one night, completely lost in the desire to be owned by him, forgetting entirely how much they hated each other. They hated each other, yes, but they also hated how their bodies couldn’t resist each other’s desires, even when they knew it was wrong.

Dmitri Volkov is the heir to one of New York’s most ruthless Russian mafia families—cold, controlled, and carrying scars no one is allowed to see. He has spent his life obeying blood oaths and burying every part of himself that doesn’t serve the syndicate. Love, especially love for a man, is a weakness he cannot afford. Ethan Moreau is a twenty-two-year-old French art student on scholarship at NYU—soft-spoken, openly gay, and painfully trusting. He came to New York to chase beauty in a city full of sharp edges, never expecting one of those edges to look back at him with ice-blue eyes. Their worlds collide by chance in Central Park. A fleeting encounter becomes stolen nights, desperate kisses in shadowed alleys, and whispered promises neither of them can keep. For Ethan, Dmitri is intensity and danger wrapped in tenderness he’s never known. For Dmitri, Ethan is the first crack of light in a life built on darkness—and the one thing that could destroy everything he’s been raised to protect. But secrets have weight. Dmitri’s family is closing in, a rival syndicate is circling, and every touch between them pulls the noose tighter. Misunderstandings fester into silence, jealousy into rage, and love into something that hurts to hold. When blood finally stains the canvas of their fragile world, Ethan will have to decide if he can love a man who was born to break hearts—and Dmitri will have to choose between the family that raised him and the only person who ever made him want to be free. In a city that devours the innocent, their story is a slow bleed of devotion, betrayal, and the kind of love that can ruin you completely.