Best Dark Stories & Novels Collection

Everyone thought Carter Mayfield was dead. They were wrong.

When burnt-out attorney Noah Keene returns to Bellview to care for his mentally unstable father, he isn’t looking to play hero. But a house fire, a murdered teenager, and two accused boys—one poor, one powerful—pull him into a legal storm.

His father, once a respected prosecutor, whispers fragmented warnings about “the boy in red” and s...

"You're not normal," I breathed deeply, "not the way you speak, nor the way you make me feel or the way you look."

To that, he sucked my clit into his mouth, making me cum instantly.

"You deserve more than this world has to offer, my angel," he breathed into my neck, filling me with love.


No one likes the idea of death, nor the terrifying thought of a serial killer in their small town neig...

Dr. Sophia Reeves thought moving to the quiet town of Millbrook would give her the fresh start she desperately needed after a career-ending scandal in Portland. What she didn't expect was to find herself in the middle of a supernatural mystery that challenges everything she believes about the world.
From her first day treating patients with injuries that don't match their stories—scratches too pre...

At exactly 3:07 a.m., an entire city block plunges into darkness — and someone disappears. No evidence, no bodies, no return. Detective Mara Ellison is assigned to investigate what begins as a string of vanishings in Crescent Heights. But when the blackouts spread across the city, Mara uncovers a chilling truth: the phenomenon is tied to a long-buried Cold War experiment that opened doors never me...

Vanessa Hudgens, an abused Omega from a wolf pack, faces the ultimate betrayal when her own mate sells her to the Dragon King Cedric as payment for his debts. Stripped of her identity as Luna and forced into slavery, she discovers an inexplicable connection to the dragon warriors that defies centuries of hatred between their species.

As Vanessa navigates the treacherous dragon court, she catches ...

"You are a monster." I tried to retract my hands from his grasp, but it was of no use. He tightened his hold and I cried out.

Luca leaned closer. “Run again, and I’ll make sure you know just how much of a monster I can be.”

...

Aria Bellani never expected her wedding to turn into a kidnapping. But Luca Moretti... ruthless Mafia don with six months left to live... stole her from the altar and l...

Leaving the past behind was the ultimate target for Valeria Addams. Spending all her youth becoming a fashion icon, 25-year-old, Valeria thought that she had buried the past behind her after returning from abroad. One game, her psycho ex was here to collect the debt from her __ a baby. But 28-year-old, Gideon Silvestri wasn't the simple boy from her high school anymore. He was the youngest billion...

Professor Betty Graham has built her life on discipline and restraint, burying passion beneath layers of control. But when Michael Bolton, her brilliant, reckless student, challenges her in ways no one else dares, the line between forbidden and inevitable begins to blur.
It starts with a heated argument. A slap. A look that lingers too long.
Michael should be nothing more than a temptation she res...

Harder baby! Harder!!”

Kevin's office door had been left ajar just by an inch; however, this gap was used to its maximum capacity in revealing the savage moans coming from Rosa’s oldest friend.

Rosa wasn't the one to tell anyone how to live their life, but couldn't this be saved for anywhere else but the office? Kevin would be disappointed if he caught her.

The startled Luna decided to giv...

Jody Hopkins, a 20-year-old chemistry major from rural Ohio, thought her full scholarship to prestigious Ashford University was her ticket out of poverty. But fitting in among trust fund kids who spend more on textbooks than her family makes in a month proves harder than mastering advanced chemistry. When she starts failing organic chemistry with only eight weeks left in the semester, Jody faces l...

She was his weakness. He was her nightmare.

Aanya Verma is a quiet, soft-spoken girl from a small town who moves to the city for college. With dreams of becoming a teacher and making her late mother proud, she keeps her head down and avoids trouble.
Rafael "Raaz" Singh is the ruthless, feared leader of the Black Viper Syndicate. Cold, calculated, and dangerously charming, he has built his empire ...

Vedika Sharma has spent her entire life standing on the right side of the law. As one of the youngest advocates in the city’s history to take down criminal empires, her reputation for fearlessness is unshakable — until she crosses Abhimaan Rathore.

A ruthless businessman with blood on his hands and secrets buried deeper than the graves he’s ordered, Abhimaan is used to getting everything he wants...

Dr. Maya Cross, a 31-year-old medical examiner haunted by memory gaps from a Boston lab accident, has returned to her hometown only to find death following her. Seventeen bodies have crossed her autopsy table, all dying impossibly with crystallized blood, and now the same transformation creeps through her own veins. Kane Rivers arrives like salvation incarnate, a brilliant pharmaceutical researche...

He wanted a servant. Fate gave him a mate.

Banished. Scarred. Broken.
Valeria was marked a traitor and thrown to the wolves—literally. Her only crime? Refusing to bow to the mate who rejected her and tried to kill her.

Now, she’s forced to serve the most feared Alpha in the realm—King Aldric, a monstrous Lycan whose rage is legend and whose mercy is a myth.

But something shifts in the shadows o...

This dark romance thriller plunges you into the luxurious yet treacherous underworld of Chicago's mafia elite. The story follows Isabella "Bell" Martin, a 25-year-old art gallery assistant grappling with a stagnant career and her mother’s hospitalization. Her ordinary life takes a dangerous turn when she’s targeted by the enigmatic twin heirs of the Romano crime family, Dante and Luca.
Bell is un...

Eveet Coralo is the daughter of one of the most ruthless Mafia heads ever to exist, and she's set to pick up the crown when her father dies. His one wish? That she marry his partner's son, Julien, and become the Queen of the South.

Julien, with his beauty and strength, owns the hearts of nearly every woman in Louisiana. Yet, how can she tell her father that her heart already belongs to another? S...

"You signed the contract, Bianca."
Damien’s voice was dark, and laced with cruel possession as he towered over her.
"That means when I say strip, you strip. When I say crawl, you get on your knees. And when I say beg… well, show me how desperate you can be."
Bianca clenched her fists, trembling and, swallowing her pride.
This was the price she had to pay for revenge.
She lifted her chin and exhal...

Lena never wanted this. Mating with Alpha Asher was a punishment, a cruel twist of fate meant to keep peace between their packs. But as she walks into his world, she realizes the true nightmare isn’t the bond, it’s him.

“You belong to me now, Lena. Whether you like it or not,” his voice sent a shiver down her spine.

The man who killed her brother. The man who treated her like an object, not a ma...

When mafia princess Aria Castellano wakes up with no memory in the arms of her family's deadliest enemy, she thinks she's been taken by a monster. She's half right. Kael Blackwood is the ruthless werewolf heir to a rival crime family who took her as payback - but he never expected her forgotten innocence to break through his walls. Years ago, she saved his life during a bloody attack that destroye...

Three years ago, Emma's life was shattered in a single night. When she awoke in the dark woods, the last face she saw became her eternal nightmare—Damien Cross, the man she once loved.

Now, her father's death and crushing debts have pushed her to the brink. Surrounded by creditors with nowhere to turn, Damien appears like a savior, offering an deal she cannot refuse: Marry me, and all debts will ...

I was once a brilliant psychology student at Berkeley, but now I've become a "hunter" in Viktor Reeves' criminal empire. My job? Using psychological techniques to seduce wealthy men and swindle them out of their money for this devil.

After each mission, I hate myself a little more. Until that day, when I met him in a coffee shop—Alexei, a documentary filmmaker with gentle blue eyes. Unlike my oth...

My name is Lily Carter, a poor girl from the mountains. Ten years ago, I was used as a bet by rich boy Philip Brooks. A twisted game led to my soul being stolen by an evil spirit, and my body was controlled for ten whole years.

For ten years, I could only watch helplessly as "I" became Philip's perfect girlfriend—docile, obedient, never fighting back. The real me was trapped deep inside my own bo...

Five years ago, I was sent to prison.
Convicted of arson and the deaths of twelve people.
I was innocent.
The real killer is Madison—now with my ex, Dylan.
Prosecutor Ethan knew the truth, yet he sent me to hell.
They thought I died behind bars. They were wrong.
I'm out.
And I'm here to ruin them all.

Big-city defense attorney Marcus Kane returns to his small Southern hometown for family reasons, expecting a quiet new start. Instead, he inherits two explosive cases: a rich kid accused of murder and a poor teenager facing arson charges. Both swear they're innocent.
In a courthouse where acquittals come easy, Marcus expects quick wins. But as he digs deeper, he discovers his two cases are connect...

The town looks sweet, cider on every breath, smiles on every porch. But Cass Ryder tastes the rot under it. She came from the city thinking farm country meant bar fights and stolen cows. She didn’t expect graves lined up like seeds.
A skull turns up under the apple trees. Then another. Each buried upright. Each set like someone was planting them to grow. Folks whisper about the Orchard Man — a sto...

The city doesn’t sleep, it whispers.

Detective Rae Mercer has spent her life tuned to static. Her late father was a police radio operator, and the hum of dead frequencies was the soundtrack of her childhood. Now, those same whispers are back, hijacking radio towers across a rust-belt city and bleeding into murder scenes no one can trace.

Every broadcast brings a new body. Every frequency carries...

A rich lawyer must marry in 90 days to keep her fortune, but the perfect man she meets hides a dark secret he’s seeking revenge for a family crime.

Scarlett’s memories don’t match her life. A mysterious man calls her by another name, pulling her into a web of secrets, obsession, and danger. As she searches for the truth, she must face betrayal, hidden identities, and a love that could either save or destroy her.

When revenge becomes love, and love becomes a weapon...

Samora Morrison would do anything to save her dying mother—even marry the man who destroyed her family.

Billionaire Adrian Rourke has never forgotten the betrayal that cost him millions. Now, he has the perfect opportunity for revenge: force David Morrison's precious daughter into a contract marriage that will make her pay for her father's ...

Isabella Torrino has never questioned the gilded cage her father built around her—until Marco Santangelo becomes her shadow. As her new bodyguard, he should be just another face in her father's army of killers. Instead, his touch ignites fires she never knew existed, his dark eyes promising salvation from a life of beautiful emptiness. But in the Torrino empire, love is the deadliest luxury, and t...

Greyson slides his hand under me, stroking over my swollen clit while Jaxen drives into me from behind and Kylen fills my mouth. My vision blurs, the heat building in me like a tidal wave ready to crash. From the bed, Poku groans, his hand stroking slowly over his cock. “Look at her… our goddess on her knees, taking two of us while the rest of us just wait our turn. That’s devotion.”

Nine years ...

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Bound by Fate. Shattered by Lies.

Kathy thought finding her fated mate was the beginning of a love story blessed by the Moon Goddess. But one devastating moment changes everything—walking in on Alpha Bryson with another woman, his ex and rumored “true Luna.”

When a shocking accusation of betrayal and an impossible pregnancy test turn the pack against her, Kathy finds herself stripped of h...

The night Araya was born, the Moon refused her. Marked as wolfless, mocked and forgotten, she grew up as prey in her own pack. Even her fated mate broke the bond with a smirk and left her bleeding at the border — for rogues to finish.

But they forgot one thing:
Ash remembers.
And so does the throne buried beneath it.

The forest did not devour her. It bowed.
The flame did not die. It waited.
Unt...

He was the one man I was never supposed to want. And the still the one I could never forget.

To the world, Zane Vincenzo Marcelli is a billionaire businessman—cold, powerful, untouchable.
To me, he’s something far more dangerous.

My godfather.

The sworn to protect me… now stars in my darkest fantasies.

It started with a kiss I was never supposed to steal.
It ended with a fire neither of us cou...

Once the treasured daughter of a mafia kingpin, Isabella has now fallen to working as an ordinary employee at a community center, relying on medication to hold her shattered psyche together. Just when she thought life couldn't get any harder, devastating news arrives: her ex-boyfriend Anthony Russo has returned to Boston—no longer the poor kitchen boy from her past, but a powerful crime boss comma...

The moment I saw my friend Sarah's body, I knew it was no accident. To everyone's shock, just three months later, I married her mentor, the renowned psychology professor James Morrison.

No one knew this marriage was a meticulously designed trap.

I smile and play the role of the perfect wife, while secretly searching for the truth behind Sarah's death. How many unspeakable secrets lie beneath the...

"This is wrong professor", I whispered as I felt his breath against my neck.
“I know,” he murmured, his voice low, roughened by restraint.
“You’re my student,” he breathed, leaning closer until his lips hovered just a breath away from my skin. “I shouldn’t want you like this.”

“But we’re both men ...." , The words tumbled out of me but stopped immediately when I felt the professor's hand on my t...

I'm the fiercest she-wolf warrior in the Pack—
but no one wants me as their mate.
My stunning twin sister loves to mock me, bragging that she’s about to marry the future Alpha King of this land.
Then at the wedding, her groom reaches for my scarred, sword-calloused hand—
and asks me to become the Luna Queen?!

At just 19, Sienna lost her parents and, as the Alpha’s daughter, was forced to inherit the pack early. But on the eve of her wedding, her fated mate—Julian—betrayed her. If she didn’t go through with the marriage, she’d lose her right to the pack’s leadership the very next day. With no other choice, she married her parents’ most trusted Gamma: Asher Blake. What she doesn’t know? Asher’s real name...

When you finally reach your 18th birthday and escape from the fate of being bullied,
You find out that your alpha mate is the bully.
He rejected you in public at the alpha king's welcome ceremony and exiled you to become a rouge.
Alpha king: She is mine!

I used to be the perfect daughter for my father, marrying Alpha Alexander for the benefit of my home pack, even though Alexander refused to mark me and insisted our marriage was merely a contract. I then became the perfect Luna for my Alpha husband, still hoping I could win his affection one day and we would be real husband and wife.
But everything changed the day I was told that my wolf had gone...

On the day of the Mate ceremony, Zara is devastated when her fated mate, Adrian, rejects her. As a half-blood werewolf, she can only have one mate, and unlike pureblood wolves, she cannot sever the bond. Once rejected, she cannot be claimed by a second chance mate. Zara flees to the pack's border, longing to escape to the human world.
Six months later, the Alpha forces her return. She discovers he...

In Elena’s past life, she was the hated Luna who did everything she could to please others, desperately chasing a love that was never returned. But in the end, it was her own fated mate, Alpha Killian, who betrayed her and sent her to her death. Blinded by lies, Killian believed she was trying to harm the woman he truly loved—Elena’s adoptive sister. What he never knew was that Elena died carrying...

You thought your werewolf boyfriend accepted you—his human mate.
But he secretly got engaged to Alpha Thorne’s stepsister.
Heartbroken, you drown your pain in a bar.
“Just one night. I’ll make you forget that cheater.”
So you spend a wild night with a handsome stranger—
Only to discover the hottie’s Alpha Thorne himself, your ex’s brother-in-law!

“Welcome to Oakhaven, Detective. Try not to let our quiet charm bore you to death.”

Rhys Kincaid, a cynical city detective exiled to a town draped in mist and polite whispers, snorted. “Quaintness doesn’t usually hide dead bodies, Officer Vance. And I prefer my cases with a little less smiles” His new partner, Officer Elara Vance, was all sharp wit and disarming smiles, a local golden girl he imm...

As a leader, it turns out there are still things we cannot control. First, fate, and second, arranged marriage by parents. Reinhardt must marry Leonard, who is the leader of another region, to expand their territory and fulfill their parents' promise.
However, Leonard turned out to have an illicit relationship with Veronica, a friend, a confidant, who was as close as a heartbeat. Betrayal forced R...

The night of the Choosing Ceremony was supposed to mark Sasha’s beginning. Instead, it becomes her undoing. Betrayed by the mate she trusted, shattered by the friend she loved, humiliated before the eyes of her pack.
But just when she feels like all hope is lost, an unexpected twist in the form of the exiled heir, Ronan, claims her with a truth that shakes her very soul.
“You were never his, Sasha...

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He loved her enough to burn the world—until she lit the match that destroyed him.
Serena thought she'd buried her past the day she vanished. But fate threw her back into the fire—straight into the arms of Matteo Russo, the ruthless Mafia king she once loved.
The man she betrayed. To keep her family alive, Serena can't reveal the truth. ...

You know what they say? "Couples are appointed to accompany each other in Heaven" but have you ever thought about the condition where one is from Heaven, cool calm and peaceful and the other one is from hell, hot tempered and destructor.
He walked towards her with his usual angry glare towards her. He looked so scary to her (Like always).
She took a few steps back but he was not stopped by her act...

She came at midnight… and destroyed everything.
Sienna Blackwood had it all — a powerful empire, a loving husband, and the control she fought so hard to earn. Until she arrived. A fragile girl with haunted eyes and a story that didn’t quite add up.
Sienna welcomed her in. Protected her. Trusted her.
But trust can be fatal.
When secrets unravel and loyalties twist, Sienna finds herself broken, bet...