debt-bondage novels

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

• The Wolf Who Saved Me Makes Other Alphas Submit. I'm Human.
  

  A human caseworker owes her life to the one Alpha whose name makes every other wolf go silent, and she's about to learn why they obey.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  48 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Joined Midnight Rockers, Then Their Vampire Lord Claimed Him
  

  Desperate to pay his debts, Lucas takes a well-paid job managing his favorite band and moves into their dorm, only to learn its three charming members are exiled vampires. When they ask him to spend the night with them, his answer pulls him into their lives and the dangerous attention of the lord who cast them out.

  dramatic · contemporary · exile

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Sold Me, Then My Dead Mother Came to Take Me Home
  

  Seven years after her family sold her, Mara Eckhart can no longer stand without a wall. Then her dead mother walks up to the trailer in a cream cashmere coat and calls it a lesson.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Bought My Nights in the Dark, and I Hated Him by Day
  

  To buy her twin out of a ruthless fish baron's debt, Astrid Lunde signs on to spend five nights a month in a pitch-black room with a man she may never see. When lightning hits the deck in a December windstorm, she finds out the buyer is the salvage captain she blames for her father's death.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• Traded for a Scar, I Carried His Heir and Took His Table
  

  At her brother's engagement supper a scarred wine importer calls in an eleven-year-old oath and her father trades Keti Beridze to him with a toast, so she takes the toastmaster's horn, drinks it dry and walks out on her own feet to give him the child he asked for.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• I Couldn't Pay My Three Landlords, So I Gave Them a Baby
  

  Behind on rent to the three brothers who own her Chicago two-flat, bus driver Ren Solis walks into their kitchen with the eviction notice and names a thirty-day trade of her own, and on the thirtieth day the dead father's letter shows that the brothers' mother never left them.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Sold to the Wolf Chief for a Debt, but His Wolf Knelt First
  

  Ishbel Gow is pledged for seven years to the cold Chief of a Highland wolf clan to pay her stepfather's debt, and finds that the wolf he hates in himself kneels to her because she is the last of the line his family killed for the chair.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

• A Hunger Most Dark
  

  She made his childhood a nightmare and walked away. Now Davren Ashkarr holds her debt, and the craving for her blood is the one thing his hatred cannot starve.

  dark romance · male lead · fantasy romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• After Three Years of Slavery, the Entire Mansion Begged Me for Forgiveness
  

  Three years a bond servant in the Marquis's mansion, Shen Wanning is sold as a bride to the comatose War God Prince, and she cures him in secret, never knowing he hears every word.

  dramatic · chongxi marriage · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Took My Wedding, So I Married the Don
  

  At the dinner before her wedding, her sister announces she is pregnant by the groom and her mother asks for the dress. Claire walks out into the street and says yes to the one man who needs a bride by Sunday.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Mother Sold Me to Pay Her Dealer, and the Man Who Took Me From Him Has a Use for Me
  

  Bronwen Treadwell, a hospice night aide, says her own name and her price to forty men in a dealer's bar and walks out behind the Sicilian boss who takes her as evidence, only to learn his uncle built the rescue as a trap.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Father Bet My Year at the Boucherie, So I Signed It Myself and Named the Terms
  

  At a Cajun boucherie, Dolly Fontenot's father loses a year of her work to the Broussard crime family on a bourré hand, and she takes the pen from the underboss, signs as his wife and writes the terms herself.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Three Hybrid Brothers Locked Me in Their Tower, and the Man Who Sent Me There Is the Real Monster
  

  When the Maine town of Port Ravensmere draws her name in a hat and gives her to the three raven-blooded MacNaughton brothers, Dally Pinkham strikes the line through the minutes in front of two hundred people and walks to their boat herself.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• I Stripped to Keep My Boyfriend in School, and He Sold Me to the Man My Brother Died Owing
  

  Iris Aalto danced Friday nights at a Duluth supper club to pay her boyfriend's tuition, and he sold her marker to the club's book. The man who carries her out of the trunk is her dead brother's best friend, and he will not say why he took her.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Stepmother Sold Me to the Alpha Who Hates My Father's Name, and the Child He Wants Is the Proof That Clears It
  

  Caly Lowry's stepmother sells her to the Alpha who hates her dead father's name. Caly strikes out the words 'in full settlement' with the Teller's pen in front of two packs and walks to his truck on her own feet.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

• My Father Sold Me at Eighteen, but the Mafia Lord Was the One in Debt to Me
  

  Graciela Montalvo is married at eighteen to the Padrino of Tampa Bay to clear her father's debt, until she reads the dowry folder aloud in the sacristy and finds the debt runs the other way.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Husband Lent Me to His Best Friend for the Night, and the Man He Chose Was the One I Hated Most
  

  On her wedding night in a Chicago mansion, Kali Vrettos is handed by her new husband to his friend, the man who broke her brother's hands. She locks the door and takes the night as hers, and the child she conceives is the one thing the house cannot claim.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Stepfather Sold Me at the Card Table, and the Man Who Won Me Never Looked My Way
  

  At a Butte card table at 1:40 a.m., Maeve Tierney's stepfather bonds her to the Hill Crew boss for a year and a day; she writes her own line on the form and walks out, and the cold man who signed it will not look at her.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• He Rejected Me Out Loud and Kept Other Women, So I Never Answered
  

  Her father hands Rhiannon Etheridge to the Alpha of a hidden wolf island against a $140,000 note, and Doran Gaskill rejects her out loud in front of the pack and keeps other women in his house all winter. She never says the words back, and under the pack's oldest law that means he never got free.

  female lead · dark romance · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

• Sold to the Man Who Took Me, but I Hold His Life
  

  Her father pays a sixty-one thousand dollar debt by handing Roz Dunleavy to Declan Mallory, the boss of the Atlantic City Boardwalk, the same man who raped her eleven nights ago, and she is the one witness who can end him.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Father Gave the King His Youngest Daughter, and My Sister Chose Which One
  

  In front of three daughters and a Sunday lamb, the man every sheep rancher south of the Snake River pays demands one Iriondo daughter for an eleven-year debt, and the father names the youngest because her sister told him to.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  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

• He Bought My Father's Name to Make Me Kneel, but I Was the One Who Cut His Chains
  

  In her father's Shetland store in 1884, the biggest curer on the Ness lays down the bank's ledger and says he now owns every debt her father wrote. He will take her labour for a year and a day, and he flinches from her touch like a man struck.

  female lead · dark romance · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• He Bought My Father's Debt, So Now He Owns Me
  

  At her father's bankruptcy hearing in Mobile, Alabama, the buyer of every Guidry note turns around and counts the steps from a cabin hatch to a rail. He will clear the debt if Jo, the dock owner's daughter, lives in his house for a year.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• They Came to Buy My Sister, So I Went in Her Place as a Boy
  

  When two riders come to the sheepfold to collect her sixteen-year-old sister for a debt, Itziar Etxeberria puts on her dead brother's coat and rides into the Bear's mountain fortress as a boy.

  female lead · dark romance · revenge

  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

• I Married the Don for the Debt, and My Husband Walked In Alive
  

  A New Orleans baker marries the Don to clear her drowned husband's debt. At the reception the band stops, and her husband walks in alive and lifts a glass.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Groom Never Showed, So I Cursed Him for Eleven Months
  

  Her groom never came to their wedding, and the best man told the church he had stolen a mob boss's money and run. She cursed him by name for eleven months while she cooked in that boss's kitchen, until his men dug up the best man's car.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• The Mafia Devil's Possession
  

  Eighteen-year-old Si-on broke a loan collector's knee on the Devil's carpet, and the Devil bought him for it. Now the boy runs, and the man who feels nothing hunts him back to the bed and the chain.

  contemporary · dark romance · dark mafia

  24 chapters published

• 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