Dark Romance

Stories

• Mafia Heir's Breakdown: 40 Minutes with You

  Tommaso, the Brooklyn mafia boss's eldest son, is your Thursday-midnight rage-room regular. After six weeks without breaking a plate, he wrecks the room and kneels, sends his men out, then locks the…

• Faceless Nude Ad Model—His Hands Pose You

  To pay your student loans, you apply as a faceless body model for a perfume ad. Fashion photographer Matthias Kerr poses you with his hands, not words. The ad will go on the billboard across from…

• The Vampire TA Who Drank My Blood Wants My Neck

  At a Vermont campus blood drive, your blood bag vanishes. The thief is Emeric, a vampire TA hiding at the university. Your blood restarts his stopped heart; now he can't stomach anyone else's. He…

• Your VC Buyer Wants Your Nights

  Silicon Valley VC Hendrix bought your startup, rejected by 40 firms, for 3x market value. All employees stay; the deal is signed. As you set down the pen, he slides over a second contract: refusing…

• He Vanished Before Your First Night—Now He's Back

  After three months together, Cooper skipped your first night together. A year later, he sits beside you on a Friday train to New York and sets down that hotel key. Four stops; one reason for…

• Mafia Boss Caught Panicking Bought Your Dawn

  After six weeks of 6 a.m. private Pilates, Boston mob boss Gianni collapses on the reformer, unable to breathe. Your bare hand on his chest revives him. His deal: keep quiet, and give him your 6…

• The Werewolf Who Corrects Your Full-Moon Scene

  You're a bestselling adult werewolf-romance author. At your book-four cabin, Everett, next alpha of a real wolf pack, redlines your full-moon scene as wrong and offers to correct it himself before…

• The Heir's Arranged Wedding-Night Rehearsal

  You're planning the arranged marriage of Rocco, a New Jersey Mafia heir. The groom calls marriage a business deal, mocks your rule to rehearse every detail, then wants to rehearse the wedding-night…

• 14 Days as a Mob Boss's Woman to Clear Your Debt

  Waterfront bartender, you owe your former boss’s protection debt. Mob boss Cormac holds the ledger: be “Cormac’s woman” before the whole neighborhood for 14 days, until St. Patrick’s Day.

• Your Ex Sold Your Soul; You Bargained for 7 Nights

  Your ex, whom you broke up with a year ago, sold your soul and became a star overnight. Cassius, an LA club owner, is the demon here to collect. You take his pen and rewrite the deal: seven nights…

• NYC's Feared Fixer Awaits Your Orders Thursdays

  The passenger who books an hour every Thursday night for a year's cash upfront is Enrico, the New York Family's fixer. He didn't buy a ride. He bought one hour a week when he moves only on your…

• The Untouchable Pop Star Lets Your Hands Roam

  Chart-topper Atticus lets no one touch him onstage. As the replacement backup dancer, you place a hand on his neck as choreographed. He clears all 40 crew, then pulls your hand back: “Don’t stop at…

• A Drop of Blood at the Ball, a Vampire's Bite

  While you serve at a masked ball, a drop of your blood makes forty guests turn. All are vampires. Silas, the owner, shields you only until dawn. His bite marks must be on your body before then so no…

• Ransom Refused: The Don's Bedroom Locks Within

  Your father refused your ransom. Rival Don Rafael doesn't tie you up—he hands you his car keys. With five days until the summit, you choose where to sleep: beside his grandmother or in his bedroom.

• Caught Counting: Blackjack with the Casino Owner

  Caught counting cards at blackjack to pay your student loans, casino security seizes you. Owner Carlo offers a game, not a ban: he deals nightly for 30 days. Win, take the chips; lose, pay for that…

• The Sleepless Vegas Don Wants You to Tie Him Up

  Vegas casino mob boss Massimo hasn't slept in three years. When nightmares wake him, he lashes out at whoever's beside him. You, a hotel spa therapist, get him to sleep for the first time; he offers…

• You Scratch a Mafia Heir's Car; He Picks the Stops

  You're the valet who scratched Luciano's vintage sports car—heir to Chicago's Mafia. Repairs cost $90,000. He offers a lawsuit and keys. Choose the keys, and you're his driver for 30 days; he picks…

• Bootleg King Found Your Badge; He'll Search You

  In 1927 Chicago, you're a Prohibition agent undercover as a cigarette vendor in a bootleg bar. Three nights before the raid, Boss Rocco finds your badge—and returns it. Stay, and he'll search you…

• 40 Days Hungry, Trapped by Day: Your Inner Thigh

  Touring a New Orleans mansion, you enter a forbidden study. Dawn locks shutters, trapping you with Bastien, a vampire aged 200, unfed 40 days. He gives you an emergency shelter key: hide—but you…

• You Stitched Up a Mafia Boss—He'll Mark Your Hip

  On a predawn alley call, shot Manhattan mafia boss Cesare gets in your car. You, a nursing student, stitch his arm; he can't go to a hospital. He trusts you with it for seven nights, vowing to mark…

• Three Days of Alpha Heat: Bite Only Your Lines

  Storm cancels the last ferry from a Maine island. Werewolf alpha Bram's eyes turn gold only for you. His heat lasts three days before the full moon. He offers a blank page: you set the rules; he…

• I Stitched Up My Shot Neighbor; He Pays in Bed

  Dylan, the neighbor you only nodded to each night, knocked at 3 a.m., shot. As an ER nurse, you stitch him up; he swallows your name instead of groaning. He’ll repay you with his body—48 hours,…

• His Secret Choice: Nine Nights Behind the Mirror

  Women who stay close to heir Kieran are fired the next day. On your first night as his mother's assistant, he slips your badge into his inner pocket. Behind the mirror is a partition; beyond it, his…

• Poker Loss: His Name Below Your Waist

  For a year, Austin tattoo artist Wolf has silently wanted you. You lose Thursday poker after betting, “The winner chooses the loser’s next tattoo.” His design trails down your back, ending just…

• One Motel Night, His Bed Till Friday

  The man from that nameless motel night was a biker club president. When rivals mark you as his weakness, he appears at your door before dawn. Five days until Friday's talks. You'll sleep in his…

• Missing Poster Outside, You in the Neighbor's Bed

  A week after you hid next door from your violent ex, missing posters of you went up around the neighborhood. For the past three nights, you've climbed into the neighbor's bed—while he smiles…

• The Bodyguard You Kissed Hijacked Your Wedding Car

  The night before a wedding you don't want, you kiss your family's bodyguard first in the garage. On your wedding day, he drives past the intersection by the cathedral and onto the highway.

• The Mob Boss Who Defied Orders to Bury You

  You're the accountant who gave the FBI a mob construction firm's money-laundering books. Before witness protection at dawn, the boss breaks into your motel—the man who's watched your fingertips for…

• The Detective Hiding You Comes In with His Key

  A detective hides you in a lakeside house after you've been stalked for three months. He locks the door from the outside and takes the key—then uses it to come in every night and sit in the chair…

• Rescued in a Blizzard, One Bed, Locked Door

  The mountain rescue volunteer who saved you in a blizzard. For three nights, you slept in his warmth on the only mattress by the fire. That morning, the road reopened; he turned off the radio and…

• One Motel Room with the Man Sent to Kill You

  The man sent to take you out by your rival family was behind the wheel of the Uber you called behind your bodyguards' backs. He took a knife for you. Tonight, there's only one motel room.

• The Mafia Nephew's Price: Six Months & 'Daddy'

  You only meant to take the supercar for a spin—but it belonged to a mafia nephew. Instead of repair costs, he wants you to live with him for six months and call him 'Daddy.' He says you'll end up…

• His Sister-in-Law Calls; He Leaves His Mark

  Last spring, your seven calls from the ER never got through to your mafia boss husband. On your anniversary, only his dead brother’s wife can bypass Do Not Disturb. Before he leaves, he marks your…

• The Mafia Heir Claims Your Birthday-Week Nights

  The eldest son of a crime family took your free birthday coffee. You took the cup right back from him. In return, he says he’ll claim the seven nights of your birthday week.

• Your Ex Bought Your Student Debt: $1K Off a Night

  The bank sold your overdue student loan for pennies. The collection agency owner who bought it was your ex, who left without a word a year ago. You owe $40,000; he offers $1,000 off for every night…

• His Kiss-Cam Girlfriend, You in His Back Seat

  You were there before anyone knew his name. Now a champion, he kisses the public girlfriend his manager set him up with on kiss cam. Then he pins you against a wall in the concourse beneath the…

• Your 9 PM Curfew Ride—His Minutes to Spend

  Your new coworker just got out after 12 years, has a 9 PM curfew, and a suspended license. You drive him home every night. With each minute left before curfew, he crosses another line in your car.

• The Boss's Bride: You Write the Bedroom Clause

  The day your father was exposed as an FBI informant, you became a crime boss's bride in exchange for his life. He claims you in front of his men, then leaves the bedroom contract's blank clause for…

• The Haunted Priest and the Thing That Wants You

  On the night you went to investigate a young priest rumored to be possessed, a storm cut off the road. He locked himself in the confessional, and the thing inside whispered in his voice that it…

• Poker Dealer: $5M If You Come to His Bed

  You're the dealer at a secret Chicago poker game. A cold regular who handles the organization's money bet his friend $5 million that he'd get you into his bed of your own accord within three weeks.

• Dad's $180K Debt: $3K a Night in His Bed

  Your dad ran up $180,000 in illegal gambling debt in your name. The syndicate boss who comes to collect gives you a choice: work at his club for years, or wipe away $3,000 for every night in his bed.

• No-Touch Clause: Married Boss Makes You Cross It

  A live-in secretary contract for a billionaire couple. Clause 12: "The employer shall not touch the secretary's body." Before his jealous wife, the employer breaks you with commands alone, never…

• The Last Lot: Bought for $9M, Valued Tonight

  You’re an undercover agent caught and sold as the auction’s final lot, bound in a scrap of a dress. The man who bid $9 million frees your cuffs and gag first, then says he’ll judge your worth…

• An Heir in 3 Months, One Bed with Your Enemy

  Married 18 months, this mafia hitman couple has never shared a bed. Your father-in-law demands an heir within three months. That night, your husband vows to make you beg first.

• Married for Debt, Ordered to Kiss Your Husband

  On your wedding night, you marry a mafia heir to erase your father's debt. Your husband stands beside his former lover and tells you to kiss him in front of the cameras. The bedroom key is in your…

• The Town's Scholar, the Vampire Lord's Feast

  The town sent you to the vampire manor on the hill on a scholarship. Its master, Quillan, takes you to his bedroom, not the dining table. Wherever his fangs touch, your body melts first.

• The Heir Who Bought Your Building Calls Fridays

  Three weeks ago, crime boss heir Conrad bought your entire apartment building. He added three handwritten lines to your lease: Friday at ten p.m., top floor. He won't touch you until you say you…

• In the Mafia Defendant’s Bed Until the Verdict

  You’re Juror 7, your identity hidden, in the murder trial of a mafia heir. The night before the verdict, the defendant shows you proof someone bought your room number—and tells you to sleep in his…