dark romance novels

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

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• She Hid Them in Her Lighthouse Cove Cabin, They Asked Her to Stay
  

  When two Korean stars arrive undercover in Lighthouse Cove, Mara Larkin offers them shelter, not surrender. But the more Hyunjin and Chan see the woman beneath her sharp jokes and guarded heart, the harder it becomes to keep their growing love from turning her carefully built life into another secret.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  40 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Don's Pregnant Wife Ran to His Enemy
  

  Elena signs her divorce papers while her husband's first love sleeps in his shirt in their bed, then runs for New York carrying the Don's heir. The only man waiting for her on the platform is his worst enemy.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Disowning My Mafia Family After They Chose A Liar
  

  Nerina Brancato asks questions until the gap closes, and the mafia family that took her back keeps choosing the sister who lies. She has her name struck from their ledger and walks out, and the man waiting across the city already knows why they wanted her.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Chose the Wrong Daughter
  

  The crime family that lost Roz Rainey as a child finally comes to take her home. She is already running the docks, and she walks into their mansion with a briefcase and a plan.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Mate Gave My Wolf to His Mistress
  

  Hesper was chained to a silver altar so her Alpha mate could cut out her wolf and give it to the woman in his bed. She said the one thing she had kept from him for seven years: her real name.

  female lead · dark romance · fated mate

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Four STARZ Members Came to Hide, Then Fell for the Cat Café Owner
  

  When four members of STARZ rent a cabin beside Missy's cat café for a quiet writing retreat, their private rules and strict NDAs complicate a scorching attraction to the 49-year-old owner. Missy must decide whether to risk her hard-won independence for a love that can only work if all five of them choose honesty over secrecy.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  40 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Cheated With My Best Friend, So I Spent the Night With His Brother
  

  Margot's fiance butt-dials her while he is in bed with her best friend, and she records every word. With the engagement brunch twelve hours away, she spends the night with a stranger who turns up at the brunch as the groom's brother.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Mafia Husband Forced Me to Bleed for His Pregnant Mistress
  

  On our ninth anniversary my husband the Don brought his pregnant mistress home, told me to move into the guesthouse, and when she started bleeding on our marble floor he had his men hold me down and drain my arm for her.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Made Her His Old Lady. I Took His Baby and Vanished
  

  Femke walks into her biker husband's clubhouse to tell him she is pregnant and finds her nameplate cut off her chair and another woman's engraved in its place. She tells him nothing, and leaves with his child.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Sacrificed Our Son, But Won't Let Me Go
  

  In a burning warehouse, mafia underboss Vincent Saraceno was told he could carry out one boy. He picked his nephew and never looked at his own son. Nine days later his wife serves him divorce papers at a birthday party, and he refuses to sign.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Alpha's Debt the King's Claim
  

  She died in a ring of silver runes, nine months pregnant, killed by the mistress her Alpha swore was dead. Reborn on the morning of her bonding, she calls in his life-debt before the High King, and the king claims her.

  female lead · dark romance · fated mate

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Don Faked His Death to Test Me, So I Died Haunting Him
  

  The Don's family was told every man was dead, so the women chose to die on their feet. It was a loyalty test, and Rosalia, shot through the heart, now walks the living world for her husband.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Let My Sister Have the Man Who Broke My Heart
  

  Reborn on the day her mother makes her choose a husband, Gemma hands her jealous sister the cheating mafia heir who ruined her and takes the sickly Miami heir everyone says will die young.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Chose the MC Princess Over Me While I Was Secretly Pregnant With His Heir, Now He Wants Us Back
  

  On the one day a year the Bitterroot Wardens ride as a single line, the founder's daughter climbs onto the seat behind Lena's husband and nobody says a word. Lena walks away with an ultrasound photo she meant to give him at the graveside.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• His Loyalty Test Became My Pack's Funeral
  

  A white flag flies over Redcliff, the Alpha is called dead, and an enemy envoy demands Willa as his leader's mate. The fiance she mourns is alive, and the test that burned her pack was his.

  female lead · dark romance · fated mate

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Night He Chose Her Over Me
  

  On their third anniversary Cora calls her husband from a crushed car on a frozen bridge, and he presses Decline. When she walks out of the hospital, the one man who stayed by her window is hiding why.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Merciless Contract: The Syndicate's Unwanted Wife
  

  On her eighteenth birthday Gemma Albertini is traded to the Sandrelli syndicate's heir, who whispers that she is a rat he will throw back into the gutter in three years. He has no idea she was sent to the altar to die by his hand.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Biker Husband Spent the Night in the Other Woman's Bed
  

  Hallie watches her husband walk out of the club bookkeeper's house at five in the morning wearing nothing under his vest, and the bookkeeper wearing his shirt. By nightfall she has changed the locks. The whole motorcycle club has known since April.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Let Her Wear His Shirt, So I Froze the Club's Money
  

  Hallie has kept the Gallows Road MC's books clean for nine years. When her husband's mistress walks into the club's cookout wearing his shirt, she takes off her ring and freezes every account in front of eighty bikers.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Stole Her for a Breeding Den, She Chose the Alpha Who Let Her Leave
  

  A small, timid werewolf is taken from a bakery lot by five men of a crime family who mean to breed her at the full moon, and one of them unlocks the door and lets her walk out.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Don Played Broke to Test Me, So I Left With His Baby
  

  Joanna Mercer spent eight months paying off a fake debt beside the man she loved, and he let his sister hand her pills to end their baby. When the Don reveals it was all a test, she says no and walks out with the child.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Took His Childhood Friend Away, So I Came Back a Mafia Heiress
  

  Three days into the silent treatment, her mafia husband takes his childhood friend on a month-long getaway, expecting Gemma to burn with jealousy. She spends the month claiming the Rinaldi family her father left her, and he comes home to a woman he doesn't recognize.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Chose Her. I Left Carrying His Heir.
  

  At the Rust Kings' ride-out, her biker husband puts another woman on her seat in front of fifty people. She walks out with a pregnancy test in her bag, and the mechanic who tows her home turns out to be the brother the club swore was dead.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Mate Exiled Me for Being Weak, Then Couldn't Smell Me in His Dungeon
  

  At eighteen, the Alpha King ordered his fated mate off his land for being weak. Three years later his guards drag her into his dungeon with the rogues, and the man who can't smell her is the one breaking her bones.

  female lead · dark romance · fated mate

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Left Her Cheating Fiancé, Then Met the Mafia Boss Who Wanted Her
  

  After her fiancé's betrayal plays on a screen in front of sixty guests, 22-year-old Ariella walks out and into the path of Dominic Falcone, a 40-year-old mafia boss who wants her near. She chooses his dark, consensual world on her own terms, until the man she left turns out to have sold her.

  dark romance · dark mafia · age gap

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Let My Sister Die, So I Ended His Bloodline
  

  The Alpha's assistant stalled the money, the Alpha shielded her, and Nessa's sister died waiting for surgery. Now Nessa has left his pack, and the last of his bloodline with it.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Everyone Had a Key but Me
  

  For three years the Don gave her his bed and never a key. The night she finds his childhood friend letting herself in with her own, Claire walks out and takes a job across an ocean.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Biker Chose His First Love
  

  Rhona Treadwell's biker husband ends their business marriage in front of his whole club and chooses the first love who just rode back into town. By morning the club has printed cards saying Rhona is dead.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Fiancé Sacrificed Me for My Sister's Heart
  

  Nerina sees every person's death age above their head. When hers drops from 87 to 22, she learns her fiancé and her parents have chosen her heart for her favored sister.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Canceled Our Wedding Ninety-Nine Times, So I Joined His Enemy
  

  For five years Renata Sartori ran the Ruggieri family's books and took a bullet for its Godfather, and he canceled their wedding ninety-nine times for his mistress. This time she resigns and flies to the rival Don who has been waiting for her.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free