dark novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “dark”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

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• My Mafia Husband Faked Amnesia, So I Took His Empire
  

  For six years Mara cleaned the money that made her husband the king of New York. On their anniversary he woke up claiming he forgot her, and that night she watched him laugh about it with his new art curator.

  amnesia · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Daughter They Abandoned Twice
  

  At six, Hallie helped a woman lure a little girl away from a Dairy Mart, and her parents left her at a gas station the next dawn. Twenty years later she tells the whole country what she did, and learns who she really was.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Her First Time, Their Power Game
  

  At eighteen, Elise picks four older men to teach her the submission she craves. Each scene pushes the game further, and she learns how far she wants to go and which of them can hear what she never says.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Their Father Called Me Family, So His Four Sons Made Me Theirs
  

  When the godfather who raised her announces she will marry a stranger from Chicago, Gemma Prestia answers in front of the whole table: she will take his four sons instead, and they follow her out into the August heat.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

• I Hid a Mob Boss in the Stacks, So He Claimed My Nights
  

  A quiet Cleveland library clerk hides a stabbed mob boss from his own men in a November gale, and the man who cannot sleep without her voice will not let her go.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• Cursed by the Light for Loving the Dark
  

  Seven years after Heaven stripped her wings for loving the Prince of the Abyss, he walks up her mother's porch steps with a new fiancee on his arm. He doesn't know the curse has given her three days to live.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · misunderstanding

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Hid My Sister's Killer, So the Alpha Poured Truth Down My Throat
  

  For fifteen years Brigid took the blame for hiding her sister's killer. The day the new Alpha pours a witch's truth serum down her throat, she finally has to say the name, and it is his father's.

  dramatic · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Called Me His Weapon, So I Died and Came Back Free
  

  Corvin Stalworth whipped her, locked her up and sent her out to kill. She died running from him and woke up as another woman, in the same city, with the same hands. Now a rich, possessive man will not stop chasing her, and his family wants her dead.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Died to End Their Lie
  

  Jesse learns he has leukemia and feels relief: he was never their real son, so he owes nobody anything. Then he overhears his parents and learns the lie that has ruled his whole life.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Father Sold Me to His Oldest Enemy to Play House, and the Old Man Bought the Only Witness Against Him
  

  Thalia Mavrakis, 26, her father's closer since seventeen, is sold as a wife to the Old Admiral of the Anclote sponge docks, 63, after she refused to kill a man at a christening. She drives herself to his dock to warn him what she is, and he says he did not buy a wife.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• He Deceived Me, So I Destroyed His Family's Legacy
  

  Annabel learns her husband sent his brother to her bed in the dark for three years while he kept his promise to his mistress, and that the baby she carries is meant to be the mistress's. He thinks she is easy to control; she owns more of his family's company than he does.

  dramatic · bodyguard-romance · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Death Row
  

  Eleven days before her execution for murdering her husband, Leah Marwick sees him alive at the prison sign-in counter, and the only friend she has on the row is married to the same man.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Famous Mafioso Hired Me to Hear Him, and the Man in the Cell Is Not Who They Convicted
  

  Jo Dunphy, a court interpreter raised by Deaf parents, is hired to sign a parole deposition for the most famous mob boss in America. The man in the belly chain signs to her in the Buffalo Deaf-club sign her father's friends use, and under the table his hand tells her not to translate what he says.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

• He Paid a Million for One Night, and the Contract Was Signed by My Mother
  

  On Fat Tuesday a river baron signs a million-dollar offer for one night with Margo Landry, and she writes her own terms in the blank margin before the midnight bells. The offer was typed by her mother.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

• I Rejected My Alpha Stepbrother, So the Moon Made Him Kneel
  

  Fionn, an omega the pack calls the stray, speaks the Refusal against his bully of a stepbrother, the Alpha heir, and bites him to break free, never knowing that the bite just made Mikel his.

  forbidden love · male lead · dark

  24 chapters published

• My Best Friend Sold Me, So I Went to Poison My Mate
  

  The night his debt closes, omega Oren Sabin learns his best friend sold him to the club owner for a new name, and the price of his freedom is a vial for shipping heir Benedikt Dreyer. When the club's scent veil fades, Oren finds out his target is his fated mate, and the silent Friday regular who fed him lemon tart for two years.

  contemporary · love triangle · male lead

  24 chapters published

• Four Alpha Brothers Hunted the Ghostwriter, Now He Sleeps in Their Bed
  

  A human dishwasher who secretly wrote every hit of a Louisiana swamp-rock band sneaks into their Mardi Gras party in a bird mask, and the four Alpha werewolf brothers who play his songs lock the door. They give him forty days to be their toy, and he finds out they have been waiting for him for four years.

  contemporary · male lead · dark

  24 chapters published

• The Playboy Doctor Swore Off Love, Then His Best Friend Claimed Him
  

  New York's billionaire surgeon has sworn never to fall in love, but on his thirtieth birthday his best friend of ten years pins him to the study wall and stops waiting. In the morning Damon calls it a mistake; Elias gives him thirty nights to prove it.

  contemporary · male lead · dark

  24 chapters published

• The Heretical Path of Occult Immortal
  

  Cen Yu is a poor man's son who hosts poison insects for a mountain temple to keep his dying mother alive. When the temple feeds him the deadliest gu it has, he does what no vessel has done: he lies still and eats it back.

  survival · male lead · dark

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Dead Girl's Wheel of Wish
  

  A week after the campus beauty jumped from a roof, a wheel of wishes appears on the school forum and every spin comes true. Jo is the only one who refuses to spin, and the whole school calls her a murderer for it.

  contemporary · female lead · dark

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Stepfather Lost Me in a Poker Game, Then I Cleaned Him Out
  

  The morning after his private poker game, Aimee finds the marker on the table in her stepfather's handwriting: "One month of Aimee." She doesn't wait for the two men who won her to come at noon. She drives to them first and trades her month for every secret he ever hid at that table.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• I Told My Therapist About My Stalker, but He Already Knew
  

  A true-crime podcast host starts therapy because his anonymous watcher's notes are getting closer to his bed. Every session, his psychiatrist asks exactly the right questions, because he is the watcher.

  contemporary · thriller · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

• I Killed the Alpha King's Father, Then He Bought Me at Auction
  

  Three years ago a rogue wolf tore out the Alpha King's father's throat in the snow. Now he is chained on an auction block, and the man who bids everything on him is the son.

  dark romance · male lead · dark

  24 chapters published

• He Tortured Me for His Sister
  

  Her husband's sister threw herself off a building, and her last call was to Tatiana, who stayed silent. When her husband tied her up to show her what desperation really meant, she had in her pocket the one voice that could destroy his entire family.

  contemporary · female lead · dark

  12 chapters published

• I Died the Day My Husband's Girlfriend Did a Magic Trick
  

  Cora Winslow was called onto a talent-show stage by her husband's girlfriend and cut to pieces with real blades while three hundred people laughed, and the only man who saw her ghost is the one who pulls her back.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Mafia's Forbidden Captive
  

  An ER nurse goes to a Washington garage with her father's gun to kill the mafia boss she blames for her sister's death, saves his life instead, and is kept in his house.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Therapy Threesome
  

  Mallory, 19, and her stepfather Wade, 39, sit stiffly on a therapist's couch until Dr. Thorsby decides the root of their fights is attraction and prescribes hands-on treatment. They both say yes, and then find out who paid for the room.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Lethal Vows：Married to My Rival
  

  A retired assassin is drugged at her own wedding and sold into a death-match arena, then bought by the crime boss next door, who offers her six months as his fiancee and her brother's head.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• Chained by Hades, the Underworld King
  

  Ingrith pulls a thorn from a dying stranger while hunting the sap that could save her mother. A week later her family sells her to the Frostlands, and the stranger turns out to be the king of the dead.

  dramatic · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• Bitter Burn
  

  When her crime-boss father orders her to kill her husband, Siobhan spares him and hides him, but Finbar reads her mercy as a leash. Their private BDSM marriage cracks under punishment, jealousy and a betrayal neither saw coming.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published