Dark Romance

Four trustees want her. Her fake boyfriend is a lie.Four Trustees, Their Grieving Intern (Keep It Quiet)

Four Trustees, Their Grieving Intern (Keep It Quiet)

Ch. 1 free · 21 of 22

Kira Merton is twenty-one, grieving her mother, and still a virgin. The only thing she has left is the Merrivale Lido, an old public pool with a cracked tile mosaic her mother designed. Malcolm, her stepfather, controls the trust that pays Kira. His three closest friends control everything else. 1. Her professor, Abel, corrects her work until she craves his praise. 2. The family lawyer, Cyrus, knows what her apprenticeship really costs. 3. The contractor, Baxter, watches her like he already owns her. 4. Her stepfather, Malcolm, calls her family when he means mine. Her public boyfriend Trey is the safe face she hides behind. But the four trustees share more than power. They share one rule: no one touches Kira. Every one of them is breaking it. She can keep her pride or keep their attention. She will not keep both.

He says I’m not his. My body calls him a liar.Tallowridge Pack: Wanting Me Is a Crime

Tallowridge Pack: Wanting Me Is a Crime

Ch. 1 free · 24 of 25

He tells me I’m nothing to him. My pulse doesn’t believe a word. I came to Tallowridge with a bag, a fake name, and a man’s promise to find me. The pack lets me clean the wolf pens for cash. Their alpha, Rhett, looks at me like I’m a stain and a meal at the same time. Then he says the one thing that could ruin me: not his mate. Not ever. But he keeps me under his roof. He growls when another man smiles at me. When he touches me, his hands shake. I want him to choose me without shame. I’m scared he’ll call it a mistake again. There’s a rule in this pack. No mates. No softness. No claims. Rhett says he’ll send me away before he breaks it. But someone from my old life is at the gate, and Rhett is not the man I thought he was. He calls me his mate. I don’t know if that means rescue or one more cage.

I was sold to a sleeping dragon. I refuse to kneel.My Dragon Prince Is Awake

My Dragon Prince Is Awake

Ch. 1 free · 24 of 25

My uncle gave me a choice: marry the sleeping dragon prince in my cousin’s place, or watch my little brother die. I took the deal. I let them call me Ilyana and walked into Duskhold with my head high. The prince was not sleeping. Vaelor woke in the dark and told me he had been hiding from a poisoner. Now I am keeping his secret, and his enemies have made me a target. When they dragged me away, he came for me in fire and blood. Then he kissed me before his court and called me his wife. My name is Calista Hargrove, and I will make this marriage real even if it kills me.

I refuse his claim. My body calls him mate.The Cruel Alpha's Flood Mate

The Cruel Alpha's Flood Mate

Ch. 1 free · 25 of 26

I’m Aria Flint. I run a salvage shed on Tern Quay and hide my adopted brother, Oren, from pack law. Alpha Galen Mire opened the sea gates two years ago and drowned my parents. I have hated him every day since. Then a wreck throws us together on the same rocks. One touch, and the mate bond hits like a second flood. He says I belong to him. My wolf says yes. My heart says never. Galen controls the island’s medicine, food, and the only safe place Oren can sleep. He can make me stand beside him before the pack. He can call it a claim. He cannot make me call it love. This is a dark, steamy werewolf romance. The bond wants my body. I want my freedom. Every time he touches me, hate and want breathe the same air.

She's mine. No one touches what I own.The Tycoon's Silent Bride

The Tycoon's Silent Bride

Ch. 1 free · 12 of 33

“She’s mine. No one touches what I own.” Dorian Vale needs a wife and an heir. He pays for a quiet woman who cannot speak and cannot fight him. Sera has survived worse than a cold husband, and she expects pain. Then Dorian sees the scars she hides. He starts to watch her. He starts to protect her. His hands can be gentle. His need to keep her is not. Someone in his house has seen what should stay private. And the woman from Sera’s past is coming to take her back.

You gave me a fake name. I'll take the real one.Caldera Blood

Caldera Blood

Ch. 1 free · 11 of 12

I wore a red wig and a fake name to a card game I had no business being in. I only wanted my mother's sewing machine back from Delphine Marchetti. She wanted me to make a fool of myself in front of the man in the back room. He was supposed to laugh at me. Instead he stood up, took my hand, and ended her game. Rafael Caldera is not a man you play games with. He is quieter than his reputation and more dangerous than the whispers. He has lost someone, and he carries it like a wound that won't close. I saw him break, and he let me hold him. I promised myself I would never see him again. Then my ex came back to humiliate me, and the only place I wanted to run was straight to Rafael. Now he knows my real name, and he is not letting me go after one night.

A new name won't hide you from them.They Know What I Did

They Know What I Did

Ch. 1 free · 13 of 14

Marnie has a new name and a bag with holes in it. In Dunmore, nobody knows she is the girl who left Ellis Ward bleeding on the sea wall. Nobody knows her aunt took his family's side. Nobody knows the three people from Pellon still want her back. Then Juno Hart finds her at a bus stop with blood on her sleeve. Juno gives her a couch, a job at the roller rink, and the name Sadie. Juno also keeps three dangerous men close: her brother Ronan, his friend Toby, and Cassian, who watches Marnie like he already knows every lie she has told. Marnie is not safe. Her old life is still looking. Her new friend is hiding a violent secret of her own. And Cassian is the one person who does not look away. Will he keep her secret when the truth comes for her? Or will he be the one who hands her back?

He killed for me. He won't let me go.Crowned Wolf's Captive Human

Crowned Wolf's Captive Human

Ch. 1 free · 12 of 28

Maeve has spent her whole life as the human stain on a werewolf pack. Her father's mistake. Her siblings' embarrassment. She has a bus ticket and a plan to disappear. Then the Alpha King's clerk puts her name on a list, and Maeve's plan starts to unravel. She is pulled into a world where the most powerful wolf in the country can decide if she lives. Corbin is next in line to the throne, and he looks at Maeve like she is the only person in the room. When the mate bond hits, he kills to keep her. He takes the crown and locks her life around his. He says she belongs to him now, and no one in the pack dares say otherwise. Maeve runs. She tries to build a life where no wolf can own her. But Corbin is still hunting her, and he doesn't lose. "You can run. You're still mine."

He bought her body. She kept her soul.The Sinner Who Claimed the Saint

The Sinner Who Claimed the Saint

Ch. 1 free · 12 of 21

Nicolette Vanni spends her days mending vestments in her aunt's religious goods shop and her nights praying for a quiet life. Her aunt and uncle spend money they do not have, then promise her to a crime lord to cover the debt. Dario Malvagi is older, dangerous, and used to taking what he wants. He does not want the shop. He wants Nicolette. He says he has watched her long enough to know she belongs to him, and he offers her guardians a wedding contract in exchange for their lives. Nicolette is devout, afraid, and not meek. She will not give Dario her faith, but her body reacts when he stands too close. Dario will not admit he needs more than her obedience, but he cannot let her go. Can a woman who belongs to no one survive being owned by the most feared man in the city?

I wore her name. He already knew.The Crime Boss Wed the Wrong Twin

The Crime Boss Wed the Wrong Twin

Ch. 1 free · 12 of 25

I am wearing my twin sister's dress, her name, and her ring. My family sold me to a crime boss to save themselves. Dante Rizzo is not fooled for one second. He tests me at his table, in his car, on my knees. He calls me Bettina while his eyes say Lola. I want to run. I want him to see me. I want to survive the night he stops pretending. He already knows my real name. He has known since the first night. And he is not done with me.

He hides her from her ex. His club cannot hide her forever.The Outlaw's Runaway Waitress

The Outlaw's Runaway Waitress

Ch. 1 free · 12 of 17

Dahlia Brooks ran from a man who taught her that trust is a trap. She blames herself for the sister she lost, so she keeps her head down, works cash-only, and answers to a fake name. At Opal's Roadhouse, she is just Dana, a waitress with no past. Then Riggs Calloway walks in. He is president of the Crow Creek motorcycle club, and he owns the roadhouse, the lot, and every favor in town. He sees the fake ID. He sees her flinch when a man raises his voice. He asks questions she cannot answer. Dahlia refuses to be owned again, even by a man whose attention feels like shelter. Riggs can shield her from the ex who is hunting her, but his club is at war with the Jackals, and his suspicion may expose her first.

She watches him from the dark. She kills to keep him alive.His Hidden Blade

His Hidden Blade

Ch. 1 free · 12 of 19

Odile Ferrante kills from the dark. She has one rule: never let Ettore Malandri see her. He runs a crime family, and she has watched him for years. She clears his enemies before they get close. He never knows she is there. Then Ettore finds a body at his aquarium meeting and a cleaner's badge in the blood. He does not run. He starts looking for the woman who saves him. When he catches her, he gives her a key instead of a bullet. Now Odile is in his world. His men fear her. His enemies want her. Ettore claims her in front of everyone and tends her wounds himself. Odile has always been a weapon. With him, she almost believes she can be a woman who stays. Danger never leaves her. If anyone touches Ettore, Odile will kill them. She just has to survive long enough to let him hold her.

He owns my vow. He will not own me.His Debt Wife's Crown

His Debt Wife's Crown

Ch. 1 free · 22 of 23

Avery has been Caelan's debt wife for two years. She keeps his salt ledgers, hides that he rejected her as his mate, and tells herself the Alpha will someday see her. Then Caelan's first love, Rosalind, comes back to Mistwatch with a small son. He gives her his seat, his time, and the care he never gave Avery. The pack sees it. Avery finally sees it too. She asks Caelan to let her go. He refuses. A binding vow ties her to him, and he will not lose what belongs to him. A rival Alpha wants her for his pack. Caelan's brother wants her trust. Caelan wants her obedience. He says she will never leave him. Avery is done begging.

They hurt her before. Now they say she belongs to them.The Bullies Who Own My Nights

The Bullies Who Own My Nights

Ch. 1 free · 23 of 24

Dara Moxley has spent years making excuses for Arlen. He loves her. He is hard on her because he wants them to be a family. Then he locks her son in a storage unit and dares her to call it discipline. Her brother’s best friends are the last men she wants to need. Kade, Rhys, and Bode run the Rustline motorcycle club. They used to laugh when she was scared. Now they are the only ones who see what Arlen is doing. Their club can hide her and Cal. Their protection comes with a price Kade sets himself. Kade says Dara is his. Rhys waits for scraps and calls it loyalty. Bode says nothing and watches her like he already knows how this ends. Dara is safe behind their doors, but every door has a lock, and Kade keeps the key. Arlen is still out there. Her family may never believe her. And once Dara belongs to the Rustline men, there is no clean way to leave.

He chose me to hide his heart. My mark could kill us.The Alpha's Vow Was a Lie

The Alpha's Vow Was a Lie

Ch. 1 free · 16 of 17

At the Gloamridge Claiming Board, Eden Harker waits for Joss Carey to name her. Instead he names her half-sister Odessa, and the pack laughs while Odessa spills ink on Eden’s dress. Eden hides in the old bell tower and finds a wounded stranger in the storm. Mating heat takes over. By dawn he is gone, and a secret bite burns on her shoulder. The feared Alpha Varek Lorne needs a bride for the council. He chooses Eden. His bargain is cold: she will stand at his side, her sick mother will be cared for, and he will never love her. His aunt and brother give her a warm room. Varek gives her rules. He is still searching for the lost woman he calls his mate. Eden hides the bite that could prove she is more than a contract. If Varek learns the truth, his cold vow may be the least dangerous thing between them.

He calls her his. He can still break her.The Visitor List

The Visitor List

Ch. 1 free · 23 of 24

Romy Brannock has no money, no home, and a bruise she hides under her sleeve. When her best friend signs them up for Redgate's companion program, six months on prison grounds looks like a way out. Then Romy meets the man she is matched with. Jett Corso is a maximum-security inmate with a hearing in six months and a reputation that makes the whole block go quiet. Romy is the clean, quiet companion his file needs. The program says she cannot refuse. He says he will keep her safe. But what does his safety cost? And what happens when the only man who can protect her from everyone else decides she belongs to him? He will protect her. He will own her. And he will not let her go.

Four Trustees, Their Grieving Intern (Keep It Quiet)

Reverse HaremForbidden RomanceMentor StudentAge Gap

Kira Merton is twenty-one, grieving her mother, and still a virgin. The only thing she has left is the Merrivale Lido, an old public pool with a cracked tile mosaic her mother designed. Malcolm, her stepfather, controls the trust that pays Kira. His three closest friends control everything else. 1. Her professor, Abel, corrects her work until she craves his praise. 2. The family lawyer, Cyrus, knows what her apprenticeship really costs. 3. The contractor, Baxter, watches her like he already owns her. 4. Her stepfather, Malcolm, calls her family when he means mine. Her public boyfriend Trey is the safe face she hides behind. But the four trustees share more than power. They share one rule: no one touches Kira. Every one of them is breaking it. She can keep her pride or keep their attention. She will not keep both.

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Tallowridge Pack: Wanting Me Is a Crime

Fated MatesRejected MatePossessive AlphaForced Proximity

He tells me I’m nothing to him. My pulse doesn’t believe a word. I came to Tallowridge with a bag, a fake name, and a man’s promise to find me. The pack lets me clean the wolf pens for cash. Their alpha, Rhett, looks at me like I’m a stain and a meal at the same time. Then he says the one thing that could ruin me: not his mate. Not ever. But he keeps me under his roof. He growls when another man smiles at me. When he touches me, his hands shake. I want him to choose me without shame. I’m scared he’ll call it a mistake again. There’s a rule in this pack. No mates. No softness. No claims. Rhett says he’ll send me away before he breaks it. But someone from my old life is at the gate, and Rhett is not the man I thought he was. He calls me his mate. I don’t know if that means rescue or one more cage.

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My uncle gave me a choice: marry the sleeping dragon prince in my cousin’s place, or watch my little brother die. I took the deal. I let them call me Ilyana and walked into Duskhold with my head high. The prince was not sleeping. Vaelor woke in the dark and told me he had been hiding from a poisoner. Now I am keeping his secret, and his enemies have made me a target. When they dragged me away, he came for me in fire and blood. Then he kissed me before his court and called me his wife. My name is Calista Hargrove, and I will make this marriage real even if it kills me.

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I’m Aria Flint. I run a salvage shed on Tern Quay and hide my adopted brother, Oren, from pack law. Alpha Galen Mire opened the sea gates two years ago and drowned my parents. I have hated him every day since. Then a wreck throws us together on the same rocks. One touch, and the mate bond hits like a second flood. He says I belong to him. My wolf says yes. My heart says never. Galen controls the island’s medicine, food, and the only safe place Oren can sleep. He can make me stand beside him before the pack. He can call it a claim. He cannot make me call it love. This is a dark, steamy werewolf romance. The bond wants my body. I want my freedom. Every time he touches me, hate and want breathe the same air.

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“She’s mine. No one touches what I own.” Dorian Vale needs a wife and an heir. He pays for a quiet woman who cannot speak and cannot fight him. Sera has survived worse than a cold husband, and she expects pain. Then Dorian sees the scars she hides. He starts to watch her. He starts to protect her. His hands can be gentle. His need to keep her is not. Someone in his house has seen what should stay private. And the woman from Sera’s past is coming to take her back.

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I wore a red wig and a fake name to a card game I had no business being in. I only wanted my mother's sewing machine back from Delphine Marchetti. She wanted me to make a fool of myself in front of the man in the back room. He was supposed to laugh at me. Instead he stood up, took my hand, and ended her game. Rafael Caldera is not a man you play games with. He is quieter than his reputation and more dangerous than the whispers. He has lost someone, and he carries it like a wound that won't close. I saw him break, and he let me hold him. I promised myself I would never see him again. Then my ex came back to humiliate me, and the only place I wanted to run was straight to Rafael. Now he knows my real name, and he is not letting me go after one night.

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Marnie has a new name and a bag with holes in it. In Dunmore, nobody knows she is the girl who left Ellis Ward bleeding on the sea wall. Nobody knows her aunt took his family's side. Nobody knows the three people from Pellon still want her back. Then Juno Hart finds her at a bus stop with blood on her sleeve. Juno gives her a couch, a job at the roller rink, and the name Sadie. Juno also keeps three dangerous men close: her brother Ronan, his friend Toby, and Cassian, who watches Marnie like he already knows every lie she has told. Marnie is not safe. Her old life is still looking. Her new friend is hiding a violent secret of her own. And Cassian is the one person who does not look away. Will he keep her secret when the truth comes for her? Or will he be the one who hands her back?

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Maeve has spent her whole life as the human stain on a werewolf pack. Her father's mistake. Her siblings' embarrassment. She has a bus ticket and a plan to disappear. Then the Alpha King's clerk puts her name on a list, and Maeve's plan starts to unravel. She is pulled into a world where the most powerful wolf in the country can decide if she lives. Corbin is next in line to the throne, and he looks at Maeve like she is the only person in the room. When the mate bond hits, he kills to keep her. He takes the crown and locks her life around his. He says she belongs to him now, and no one in the pack dares say otherwise. Maeve runs. She tries to build a life where no wolf can own her. But Corbin is still hunting her, and he doesn't lose. "You can run. You're still mine."

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Nicolette Vanni spends her days mending vestments in her aunt's religious goods shop and her nights praying for a quiet life. Her aunt and uncle spend money they do not have, then promise her to a crime lord to cover the debt. Dario Malvagi is older, dangerous, and used to taking what he wants. He does not want the shop. He wants Nicolette. He says he has watched her long enough to know she belongs to him, and he offers her guardians a wedding contract in exchange for their lives. Nicolette is devout, afraid, and not meek. She will not give Dario her faith, but her body reacts when he stands too close. Dario will not admit he needs more than her obedience, but he cannot let her go. Can a woman who belongs to no one survive being owned by the most feared man in the city?

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I am wearing my twin sister's dress, her name, and her ring. My family sold me to a crime boss to save themselves. Dante Rizzo is not fooled for one second. He tests me at his table, in his car, on my knees. He calls me Bettina while his eyes say Lola. I want to run. I want him to see me. I want to survive the night he stops pretending. He already knows my real name. He has known since the first night. And he is not done with me.

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Dahlia Brooks ran from a man who taught her that trust is a trap. She blames herself for the sister she lost, so she keeps her head down, works cash-only, and answers to a fake name. At Opal's Roadhouse, she is just Dana, a waitress with no past. Then Riggs Calloway walks in. He is president of the Crow Creek motorcycle club, and he owns the roadhouse, the lot, and every favor in town. He sees the fake ID. He sees her flinch when a man raises his voice. He asks questions she cannot answer. Dahlia refuses to be owned again, even by a man whose attention feels like shelter. Riggs can shield her from the ex who is hunting her, but his club is at war with the Jackals, and his suspicion may expose her first.

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Odile Ferrante kills from the dark. She has one rule: never let Ettore Malandri see her. He runs a crime family, and she has watched him for years. She clears his enemies before they get close. He never knows she is there. Then Ettore finds a body at his aquarium meeting and a cleaner's badge in the blood. He does not run. He starts looking for the woman who saves him. When he catches her, he gives her a key instead of a bullet. Now Odile is in his world. His men fear her. His enemies want her. Ettore claims her in front of everyone and tends her wounds himself. Odile has always been a weapon. With him, she almost believes she can be a woman who stays. Danger never leaves her. If anyone touches Ettore, Odile will kill them. She just has to survive long enough to let him hold her.

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Avery has been Caelan's debt wife for two years. She keeps his salt ledgers, hides that he rejected her as his mate, and tells herself the Alpha will someday see her. Then Caelan's first love, Rosalind, comes back to Mistwatch with a small son. He gives her his seat, his time, and the care he never gave Avery. The pack sees it. Avery finally sees it too. She asks Caelan to let her go. He refuses. A binding vow ties her to him, and he will not lose what belongs to him. A rival Alpha wants her for his pack. Caelan's brother wants her trust. Caelan wants her obedience. He says she will never leave him. Avery is done begging.

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Dara Moxley has spent years making excuses for Arlen. He loves her. He is hard on her because he wants them to be a family. Then he locks her son in a storage unit and dares her to call it discipline. Her brother’s best friends are the last men she wants to need. Kade, Rhys, and Bode run the Rustline motorcycle club. They used to laugh when she was scared. Now they are the only ones who see what Arlen is doing. Their club can hide her and Cal. Their protection comes with a price Kade sets himself. Kade says Dara is his. Rhys waits for scraps and calls it loyalty. Bode says nothing and watches her like he already knows how this ends. Dara is safe behind their doors, but every door has a lock, and Kade keeps the key. Arlen is still out there. Her family may never believe her. And once Dara belongs to the Rustline men, there is no clean way to leave.

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At the Gloamridge Claiming Board, Eden Harker waits for Joss Carey to name her. Instead he names her half-sister Odessa, and the pack laughs while Odessa spills ink on Eden’s dress. Eden hides in the old bell tower and finds a wounded stranger in the storm. Mating heat takes over. By dawn he is gone, and a secret bite burns on her shoulder. The feared Alpha Varek Lorne needs a bride for the council. He chooses Eden. His bargain is cold: she will stand at his side, her sick mother will be cared for, and he will never love her. His aunt and brother give her a warm room. Varek gives her rules. He is still searching for the lost woman he calls his mate. Eden hides the bite that could prove she is more than a contract. If Varek learns the truth, his cold vow may be the least dangerous thing between them.

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Romy Brannock has no money, no home, and a bruise she hides under her sleeve. When her best friend signs them up for Redgate's companion program, six months on prison grounds looks like a way out. Then Romy meets the man she is matched with. Jett Corso is a maximum-security inmate with a hearing in six months and a reputation that makes the whole block go quiet. Romy is the clean, quiet companion his file needs. The program says she cannot refuse. He says he will keep her safe. But what does his safety cost? And what happens when the only man who can protect her from everyone else decides she belongs to him? He will protect her. He will own her. And he will not let her go.

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