Best Morally Grey Hero Stories & Novels Collection

My sister was supposed to marry the Devil. Then she was murdered.

Now I’m wearing her ring, sleeping beneath his roof, and answering to the name Mrs. Vescari.

Luciano Vescari doesn’t love gently. He commands. He protects. He watches everything and everyone around me like the entire world is one wrong move away from becoming a threat.

I was never supposed to be his bride. But when my sister and ...

Everything at my cozy little inn was perfectly ordinary until the night I saw a dead woman stirring my soup.

Apparently, the Lantern and Lark has been home to six ghosts for years. They know every secret hidden in its walls, disapprove of my terrible love life, and are delighted when Alistair Crowe checks into room seven. He is a travelling necromancer with a sharp tongue, a dangerous reputation,...

All Mia Bell wanted was to make her third-year relationship anniversary with her boyfriend unforgettable.

After months of being ignored by her perpetually busy boyfriend, Ethan, Mia decides enough is enough. She plans a surprise getaway, sneaks into his house, drugs his favorite drink, and waits for him to pass out so she can drag him into the car.

It’s ridiculous.

It’s reckless.

And, accordin...

Detective Nicole Brooks is finally trying to move on from a solved abduction case that left her with fractured memories and a guilt she can’t escape.
But moving on becomes impossible when a new murder case lands on her desk, and her prime suspect is Alister Morette, the mafia king whose name is enough to make even the powerful afraid.
What starts as a hunt for a suspect soon becomes something fa...

Thea Ridgeway tells everyone she outgrew curling. She hasn't told anyone that she still lets herself into the rink at midnight, running drills alone under half the lights, because admitting the dream is still alive feels worse than losing it did. Then a name from every broadcast she stopped watching walks into her equipment shop three divisions below where he belongs, and she can't figure out why ...

Joey Callahan has spent fourteen years believing her father died drunk behind the wheel. Then she's handed a box of his old game tapes for a team anniversary reel, and the pitch sequences he threw that final season don't match any scouting report they match a pattern he only used with one catcher, one purpose: telling someone something he couldn't say out loud.

Marilyn had one simple goal: ace her job interview, get her dream career, and finally put her miserable week behind her. Then she made one careless wish.

After complaining that she could do a better job than the helpless heroine of the fantasy romance novel she was reading, Marilyn wakes up inside the story—except she is no longer Marilyn.

She is Effie, the abused stepdaughter destined for a mis...

“You think just because I’m a stripper, I’m easy? I'm not some prize on a silver platter. And I'm definitely not going down without a fight! ” His lips curled, a slow dangerous smile that promised both pain and pleasure.
“Not easy? Good. Because I don’t do easy. I’ll drag you through hell and back until you’re nothing but my desperate, broken fucking weakness....and you’ll thank me for every godd...

Milan Bellamy was raised to believe appearances mattered more than pain. So when her husband started hitting her, her powerful family helped hide the bruises instead of helping her escape.
Four years later, Milan is done.
With two-year-old twins, barely any money of her own, and nowhere safe to go, she runs—and ends up in the path of King.
Tattooed, powerful, and dangerous in ways Milan doesn’t un...

Heather Slaviss was nineteen years old when she was married off to one of the most dangerous men in the mafia, Victor Borros. Being sold to the Mafia by her greedy parents, she had to drop out of college and go through a marriage with absolute fear for the man she was forced to marry. Victor Borros, commonly known as Vicious, was not a man to mess with. He had a long history of terror that fright...

Three years ago, Sierra Vale watched the man she loved most die.
Her father’s murder was ruled a robbery gone wrong, but Sierra never believed it. The last warning he left behind was simple: Never trust Roman Cross.
So she infiltrates the Black Vipers under a false name, determined to get close to their ruthless president and uncover proof that he killed her father.
It turned out Roman knows exact...

“What did you just say?”

“You heard me, Ronan! I. Am. Done!” Ava’s body shook hard with the sobs she tried but failed to hold back.

“And I would be proclaimed dead before I ever let you go… Sunshine!”

As one of the most talented skaters on the ice, Ava has spent her whole life chasing one thing. Being the best. Skating has always come first for her. Before love, friendships and everything.

Ro...

“Let's make a deal. Tomorrow's game. I am going to win. And when I win, you will do everything I want. Every single thing I ask of you. You disobey, I tell the school your secret.”

“And if I win?”

“You won't.”

Evander built his life on control. As an omega in hiding, attending an alpha-only university, one slip could destroy him. So he follows the rules, takes his inhibitors and keeps his di...

Liv doesn't believe in fate. After years of making one bad decision after another, she believes in dead-end jobs, cheating boyfriends, empty bank accounts, and knowing when it's finally time to walk away. So she packs her car, leaves everything behind, and drives until she runs out of gas in the middle of nowhere.

Stranded outside a strange little town with nowhere to go and barely enough money f...

Alessia Valenti learned one brutal truth the night the De Luca Empire murdered her parents: no one saves you. You save yourself.

She was four years old when she watched powerful men drag her father across the floor and put a bullet in him over a debt he couldn’t pay. That night burned her childhood to ash. From the ruins rose a woman forged for one purpose: revenge.

After years of brutal militar...

For seven years, someone has been watching me.

He leaves books I never ordered on my pillow. He sends warnings minutes before danger. And every man who frightens me has a habit of vanishing before I can learn his name.

I told myself it was coincidence. Grief. Paranoia left over from the night my mother died.

Then my apartment is torn apart, an intruder whispers my mother's name, and Cassian Vos...

She rejected her fated mate. Fate reassigned the bond to her greatest enemy.

Born as the daughter of the Alpha of Alphas, Lyra was raised to be a weapon, not a daughter. After catching her fated mate in bed with her best friend, she rejects him before the entire school and flees to the only place her father cannot control: Thornewood Academy.

But Thornewood is no sanctuary. Behind its enchante...

Brielle Veyra has one rule: never use magic.
Because witches don’t survive in Kastros.
But when a single mistake exposes her, Brielle is forced to flee through a portal into the last place she should ever be,a dragon academy ruled by fire and water heirs who would burn her alive if they knew the truth.
Now trapped in a world where power is everything, Brielle must hide what she is while navigating...

She killed her husband to survive.
Now his brother wants her back—and the only man who can protect her is the one she was never supposed to touch.

Harlow Reyes hid in the Havoc MC clubhouse, pouring drinks and fucking anyone who asked so no one looked too close. Everyone still knew the truth: the only man she wanted was Wolf, the president still haunted by a wife the River Crew put in the groun...

Fleeing an abusive husband with nothing but a half-packed duffel and her six years old daughter, Kaia didn’t expect salvation to come with a job offer.

Good pay. Free housing. Zero drama.
At least, that’s what her best friend promised.

But nobody warned her that her neighbors growl when they’re turned on.

Now she’s got multiple Alphas sniffing around like she’s the last bite of dessert. They’re...

Ever been a murder suspect for the popular girl who bullied you because ironically she trusted you enough to leave the last clue to her death with you?

Wren Hale, a quiet scholarship girl is already a murder suspect for the death of Ashford's Academy Gala queen when the killer targets her and writes her real name across her locker.

Forced to team up with Zarek, the dead girl's dangerously charmi...

Thessaly Vance has one route left to finish what her father started: El Coronel's north face, no rope, no margin. The camp medic, Kester Hale, tries to talk her out of it before she's even introduced herself. He knows the exact pitch where she falls. He knows what she says right before it happens. He won't say how. Every day she spends near him convinces her he's hiding something worse than concer...

Getting cheated on by my hockey-player boyfriend of two years was humiliating.

Finding him with my sworn enemy meant war.

So, when I cross paths with Zane Hunter, the campus's untouchable biker and king of the underground racing scene, I make a deal I know I should regret.

Fake-date him.

It was supposed to be simple. Revenge on my ex. No feelings attached. No complications.

Until our fake rel...

“You know something, little rabbit?” Theron muttered darkly, as he neared me. “I want you.”
My breath hitched in my throat because in a way I knew it was true. There was meaning behind those cold silver eyes that watched me intently every time.
“You can’t want me,” I whispered, backing into the desk. “I’m your—”
“My brother’s girlfriend?” He finished for me; his upper lips curved into a smirk. “...

As a rogue, Samantha Carson has lived her entire life untethered — answering to no Alpha, bound by no pack laws. All she’s ever wanted is freedom: to see the world, to choose her own fate, and someday, perhaps, to share that freedom with a mate worthy of her.

She never expected fate to find her first.
When she accidentally trespasses into the territory of the most ruthless pack in America — Luna...

Hazel Pemberton failed the only exam that mattered, so her parents shipped her to her aunt's dusty bookstore to recover in peace. Peace lasts one night. Past midnight the shelves fold back into an apothecary that shouldn't exist, and a dragon built like a doorway walks in expecting a potion nobody brewed. Her aunt is gone. The note explaining why is in Hazel's own handwriting , and Hazel never wro...

Kadia Fenn works three jobs, can barely make rent, and wants nothing to do with the family business.
The family business is killing monsters.
Twenty-five years ago, Clan Fenn was disgraced for the murder of a vampire lord and his wife. Kadia walked away from the stakes, the oaths, and the shame. All she kept was a rune necklace she can't bring herself to take off.
Then a vampire breaks down her ap...

Taryn Rourke came to Sturgis for freedom, noise, bad decisions, and a few days away from the rules that have followed her all her life.

She did not come to find out her father had promised her to another man.

As the only daughter of Shane “Rook” Rourke, president of the Lost Coast Renegades MC, Taryn has always known club business comes first. But when Rook signs a treaty with the dangerous pres...

He's a FIFA superstar. He's engaged to my sister. And he kissed me first!

I, Jordan McFelly, am twenty-three, unemployed, and surviving one odd job at a time. When my older sister landed me an easy one-day 800 pounds gig as a referee for a charity football match, I didn't waste time—I bolted towards that paycheck.

But why in Christ's name did I collide with Jibril Reynolds! The world's most expe...

Everyone expected Isla Ulvehjerte, cribbled daughter of werewolf general Fenrir Ulvehjerte, to become a healer, like her sister… no one expected her to try out for the warrior academy.
At the academy Isla do not only have to fight against the harsh demands and the other cadets, she also has to fight her own brother and her former crush… not to mention her attraction to the cursed and very dangero...

He wanted her brother.He took her instead.Aria Vale has spent her entire life staying away from her brother’s dangerous world.Until the night he betrays the most feared biker king in the city.Ethan Vale steals millions from Dante Blackwood, destroys one of his operations, and disappears without a trace.Dante doesn’t forgive betrayal.He hunts Ethan through the city, leaving blood and broken allianc...

He rules Italy through fear and blood.
But the only thing he craves... is her.

Salvatore Morello gets whatever he wants. Power. Money. Total control. As the most dangerous Don in the country, his word is law.

Then he walked into an American diner and saw Carmella Russo.

Carmella was a girl running from guilt. Her father had died alone while she was chasing a mother who never wanted her. She ha...

As a wolfless outcast in the brutal Midnight Pack, Evangeline was marked as prey for the annual Hunt; a merciless tradition meant to end her life. Instead of dying during the hunt, she is seized by Lucian, the pack’s feared Chief Enforcer, who claims her as his personal property under ancient law.

Trapped by his side, Evangeline sharpens her mind and weapons, determined to burn his empire down. ...

He was supposed to be my saviour.

Julian Blackwood was the golden boy of high society. The billionaire saint who pulled me out of debt.

I owed him my life.

Until he decided he actually wanted it.

He asked for three things.

A single signature.
Six months of submission.
A forced move into his penthouse to play the role of his perfect, devoted prize.

"Julian" thinks he cornered a helpless gir...

MM | Stepbrothers | Enemies to Lovers | Forced Proximity | NROTC | Straight-to-Bi | Secret Identity | Forbidden Romance

Theo
I had a plan.
College. NROTC. Commission. Naval Special Warfare.
Then Eden Brooks became my stepbrother.
Black hair, green eyes, a guitar permanently attached to his hand, and absolutely no respect for rules—or me.
Now we share a university, an NROTC unit, and, thanks to ou...

Reborn after being murdered for her heart, Josephine walks into the substitute marriage she once fled straight into the arms of Lord Kael Veyron, the most violent and feared man in the empire.
"Do you want revenge? Let me help you." With those words, their unholy alliance is sealed. Armed with his power and her own cold genius, she dismantles the enemies who destroyed her. But as she delivers bru...

She was betrayed by her own blood… and loved by thieves. Framed for dark magic and left to die after watching her mother murdered, healer Sabrina is captured by a ruthless band of scavengers. Among them is Kael, a strong and daring warrior who falls for her at first sight. In their world of danger and heists, she finally finds acceptance — and a passionate love she never expected.
But their greate...

"She is mine." Ephemiel announced. "That is the only truth any of you need to know. Touch her or even look at her with hunger in your eyes, and I will carve the memory of my displeasure into your wings for the rest of eternity."

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Desperate to save her dying twin sister, Dione Allistair attempts a forbidden blood ritual to summon a lesser Fallen.
She gets th...

Rhett’s voice cut through the quiet, low and absolute.
“You’ve been shifting in that chair for twenty minutes, Beau. Stand up.”
Beau’s jaw flexed. “I’m fine.”
Seth leaned forward. “Don’t lie to us. We can smell how wet you are from here.”
Dean’s tone was quieter, but the heat beneath it was unmistakable. “The suppressants are still failing, aren’t they? Show us.”
Beau’s throat worked. Then he stoo...

Adessa Flumigale was born with a crown on her head and a soul already promised to someone she had never met.

As the daughter of an ancient royal bloodline of Fire Wolf shifters, Adessa has spent her entire life under her family’s control. In her bloodline, mates are soul-bound at birth—a sacred bond that cannot be broken and a destiny that cannot be refused. And unlike other shifters, Fire Wolves...

Taylor has spent her career uncovering secrets. This time, she found one worth killing for. Unfortunately for whoever made her the prey, they forgot one thing...Bedlam Cox hunts too.

Taylor knows when a story doesn't add up. As an investigative podcast producer, she's built her career digging beneath official reports and asking questions people would rather leave buried. So when an anonymous s...

“I hate you, Xaden.”

“No, you don’t.” He counters.

“I want to kill you.”

“That’s very possible while you still love me.”

That arrogant smirk…I want to smack it off his lips so bad. My body vibrates, feeling currents through my nerves.

He backs me against the wall, blue eyes changing into golden ones as they burn intensely into mine. “Your body says very otherwise, Little flame.”

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In exchan...

Apple High is not a school. It is a danger zone.

Home to mafia heirs, rogue wolves and students powerful enough to make the law look the other way. Strength determines your place. Weakness makes you prey.

Jivu walks in with two missions. One for the government, tracing a rogue wolf outbreak violent enough to tear the supernatural world wide open. One for herself, finding out what happened to her...

On Ivy’s wedding day to her fiancé James, Alexander, the ruthless Lycan King feared throughout the kingdom, storms in, tears her from the altar, and forces her to be his wife.

Believing Ivy responsible for his fiancée’s death, he vows to make her pay.

“You destroyed the love of my life,” he snarls. “So it’s only fair that I destroy yours.”

However, as their marriage unfolds, Ivy looks nothin...

Asterion’s cold eyes softened the instant they found mine.

“Five years was long enough, my moon.”

Faolan leaned against the balcony railing. “Did you truly believe changing your name would hide you from us, little tyrant?”


Pandora Seitz was supposed to be dead.

Once the ruthless heiress of Crescent Ice Pack, Pandora rescued two enslaved orphans and forged them into her deadliest weapons. ...

Evelyn Brooks has built her career on making impossible weddings look effortless.

At twenty-nine, she is one of New York City’s most sought-after luxury wedding planners, trusted by billionaires, celebrities, and families who expect perfection. But behind the polished events and flawless timelines, Evelyn’s life is unraveling. Her mother is gravely ill with a mysterious condition no doctor can ex...

Blurb
"You have until Friday, Mr. Reed. After that, your father's garage stops existing."
I had nothing left to fight back with. No money, no leverage, nothing but a dying auto garage and a promise I made my father before he passed. Then a car nearly killed me in the middle of the street, and I woke up hearing a voice in my head that changed everything.
It told me I now carry the Negative Emotion ...

"Let me show you what it feels like to be a woman again, Dahlia. Just for tonight, Seb doesn't have to know... You know I can keep a secret," Zane smirks darkly.

I swallow hard, my eyes darting between his gaze and his lips as an intense wave of forbidden heat sears through me.


Dahlia Sterling has been engaged to her boyfriend, Sebastian Thorne, after five years of dating.

To the outside...

Forced to marry the very monster she was trained to destroy, Commander Thalira enters the volcanic realm of the Drakon-Vyr Clan with a single, lethal mission dictated by her treacherous father: find the Fire Lord’s weakness and slit his throat. She expects a hideous beast, but instead finds Lord Azrael, an unearthly, dangerously beautiful dragon king who is a brutal tyrant to the rest of the world...

On my deathbed, I found out my husband and my sister had been poisoning me, so that they could live happily ever after together.

I refused to let that happen, so I married my loyal guard to strip my husband of the Alpha throne.

Three years later, the Moon Goddess gave me a second chance and I made a vow in blood:

Take Lucian’s Alpha title.
Expose Nora.
Marry Julian and watch my ex-husban...