Best Dark Stories & Novels Collection

Detective Mara Quinn has spent her life outrunning shadows some from the criminals she hunts, others from the past she refuses to face. When a string of ritualistic murders rocks the city, Mara is forced to work alongside Dr. Elias Ward, a brilliant but secretive forensic psychologist with ties to the case that run far too deep.

As the body count rises, Mara discovers unsettling patterns buried i...

"Just so you know," Seline panted, clutching to his shoulders as her life depended on it. "I HATE YOU."
Kade's gaze darkened, and in one swift motion, he thrust into her. Hard and fast.
"I."
Thrust.
"Hate."
Thrust.
"You."
Thrust.
"Too."
Thrust. "So fucking much that if it's not for this pussy, I would have killed you a long time ago."
She smirked. "The feeling is mutual."
One arranged marriage. A ...

Alina Winters had it all—luxury, fame, and Kieran Blackthrone, her foster brother who loved her far too deeply.
But when he vanished after a fight with his father, her world shattered.
Five years later, he’s back—famous, cold, and still completely hers.But now he has deadly secrets about her biological family,and he is tied to them in a way he cannot escape.
Alina is changed too—scarred, guarded...

Leslie’s hand clamped around Ruby’s jaw, forcing her to look up at him, his light brown eyes glinting.

“How dare you think you can make me jealous, huh? You’re mine, Ruby. My woman,” he growled, his voice low, vibrating against her chest as he pushed her back against the wall.

Ruby’s lips parted, a shaky breath leaving her as his body caged hers in. “I—I wasn’t. We are still at school."

His thu...

The Astra Devils will never let her go.

Omari's world shattered when her mother married the Astra Pack's alpha, binding her to triplet stepbrothers Paxton, Leighton, and Ashton - her marked mates. But a shocking betrayal severed their bond, forcing Omari to run.

Now, they're back, and their darkness is more alluring than ever. The Astra Devils will stop at nothing to reclaim her. Torn between t...

In the world of werewolves, Luna Alena is destined to be the mate of Alpha Orion, the most respected leader. However, Orion rejected her on their day of unification, deeming Alena a symbol of weakness, and banished her to the wild.

Alena survived thanks to an ancient and mysterious power residing within her, a power she herself didn't understand. Years later, she returns to her pack as a strong...

They said the Midnight Society was just a campus legend. They lied.

One moment I was Emma Stone, a scholarship student struggling to survive among the elite at Blackwood University. The next, I discovered my bloodline is the key to an ancient ritual… and four dangerous heirs will kill—or claim me—to control it.

Ryan, the calculating genius.
Blake, the charming manipulator.
Cole, the silent prote...

Psychic investigator Sam Drewsbury has spent three years hunting the demon that murdered her twin brother, using her ability to see death echoes to track supernatural killers through Seattle's underground. But when she's hired by mysterious tech mogul to find his missing daughter, Sam discovers the girl wasn't kidnapped—she was sacrificed to open a portal between worlds.
Enter Kieran Braut, a cen...

Adriano Moretti rules the city’s underworld in smoke-filled rooms and blood-soaked streets. In the daylight, he’s the king of the tech world—tailored suits, sharp smiles, every inch the respectable billionaire. But to those who cross him, he’s the executioner they never see coming.

His greatest weapon isn’t guns or money. It’s The Service.
A viral new app dressed up as anonymous therapy, a place ...

Trigger Warning!!!
This is a dark romance novel featuring morally grey characters.
Reader's discretion is advised.
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"You were born for me. You waited for me. The moment you came into this world, you cried for me, and you will keep crying for me until your last breath, Ixora."

Drexton Blackthorn had his bloody, thirst-filled eyes on a couple for the sins they committed. He swore to make t...

“You're my greatest obsession, Lucy…”

“If I can't have you, neither will they. It's as simple as that…”

“My brothers have always had everything they wanted. I can't let them have you too…”

“Choosing me is the safest option. For one, I won't ever put you through hell…”


Growing up with an extremely abusive Father, Lucy never experienced care, love, support and attention.

But then everythi...

I was sent to Thornhill Academy to be tamed.
But I don’t follow rules—I break them.
I’m a siphon, born to steal magic, and the Council fears me for it.

Then fate bound me to five impossible mates—
a dragon, a hellhound, a professor, a warlock, and a demon king who calls me queen.
Our bond is forbidden. Our love, catastrophic.
And when the truth about the council's war comes to light,
the world wi...

Content Warning: Smut, Smut and Smut.

“Whose cock made you cry the loudest tonight?” Lucien’s voice was a low snarl as he gripped my jaw, forcing my mouth open.

“Yours,” I gasped, my voice wrecked from screaming. “Alpha, please—”

Silas’s fingers dug into my hips as he slammed back inside me, rough and unrelenting. “Liar,” he growled against my spine. “She sobbed on mine.”

“Should we make her p...

They call it a curse whispered beneath the Blood Moon, a prophecy that binds lovers in chains of fate and rips packs apart in rivers of blood. Iria Korrin has spent her life running from it, hiding her true name, her true bloodline, and the shadows that stalk her every step. When she arrives at Lunar Crest University, she swears she’ll keep her head down, stay invisible, and finally build a life t...

Aubrey married Zade Solenzara to save her sister from execution. She knew he was ruthless, obsessive, and ruled half the city with an iron fist. What she didn’t know... was that his power was just an illusion.
Because the true owner of the Cosa Nostra, Darius Morrano, has finally returned..
and he’s hiding in plain sight… as her new bodyguard.
Aubrey didn’t know Darius as a mafia boss.
She knew h...

When billionaire crime boss Damian Rossi forces Elena Moretti into marriage, it isn’t out of love—it’s revenge. Her family’s betrayal left his father dead, and now she must pay the price. Trapped in a cold, loveless union, Elena refuses to break, even as Damian’s ruthless world pulls her deeper into danger.
But hatred turns to obsession, and obsession to a passion neither can deny. When Damian unc...

MATURE CONTENT! 🔞

"Call me sick for getting off to my woman being fucked by another man, but you like it." Jaxon started in my direction, slowly stalking toward me. I involuntarily take a few steps back as he begins to speak.

"The thrill, the anticipation. You love the sheer pleasure we both give to you whenever your pussy is being penetrated by either of us."

"Do you dream about us, princess...

"I object to this marriage!"
These words shattered Kaitlyn Peterson and threw her into an abyss that she couldn't escape from.

To save her late father's reputation and business, Kaitlyn grants her stepmother her greatest heart desire to leave the man she loves for the ruthless Mafia Lord.
Pledged to be his bride for 365 days, Kaitlyn seeks revenge on everyone who tore her apart from the man sh...

[Warning: This story contains sexual content, power imbalance, obsessive behavior, and psychological manipulation. It may also include themes of non-consent, emotional abuse, and mature romantic situations. Reader discretion is strongly advised.]

"Do you really think you can defy me and get away unscathed?”
When Elena fails her promotion test at Moonbridge Academy, she turns to Professor Charles ...

When her husband and child are brutally murdered by a man she once rejected, Aria Kane's world collapses. With no family, no power, and no protection, the law fails her, justice slips through her fingers. Desperate and broken, she turns to the most feared man in the city — Lucien Moretti, the ruthless Mafia Don known as “The Devil,” and unfortunately, her ex.

He agrees to help her destroy her en...

"Do you understand, Raven? You are mine, and mine alone."

His possessive growl sends shivers down my spine as his fingers work the laces of my nightgown. When the fabric falls away, his darkened eyes devour every inch of me.

"Say my name again."

"Liam," I breathe, and he rewards me with his mouth on my skin, my throat, my collarbone, lower still until his tongue circles my nipples and I'm cry...

Blurb
One Lycan, Two Alpha, One Omega, One mate
All her life, Lena has had her father use her as his pawn in his game of power and greed.
In a quest to break through the shackles of being a prisoner in her own life, she makes a daring offer to the ruthless Lycan, one he can't refuse.
She's on a fast rise to power as she begins to unravel secrets and hidden entities within herself, but she's qui...

Blurb

After Brenda loses her parents, in an unfortunate incident, her royalty is thrown to the trash. She becomes a slave to the Alpha of the Rising Moon Pack.

Brenda is determined to avenge her parents' death, but how can she do that as a slave?

When she turns 18, she finds out her mate, Jack is the next alpha of the Red Moon Pack. He was a rude and uncouth womanizer, and even though Brend...

Detective Elena Ward thought the nightmare ended seven years ago, when she put Vincent Greaves—the Skull Artist—behind bars. His grotesque exhibits of bone and blood nearly destroyed her career, and the disappearance of her sister Mara still leaves her haunted.

But when a new victim is found draped in a bloodstained veil, carved into a ritual that spells Elena’s name, she realizes the past is far...

William Grayson is obsessed with his brother’s girlfriend, Arabella Dew.
To him- “One day, I will make you mine, even if it kills me,”
His every breath has her name. She was all that exists in him. His darkest, selfish, forbidden desire.
For the world, a heart-throbbing, charming billionaire. But, in reality, a possessive, dark and dangerous one who is crazy for her.
No matter what he has to los...

Lilac Hunter had been abandoned at the perimeters of the Red Claw pack when she was barely a teenager. Wounded, alone and afraid, she had no idea where she how she ended up at the doors to the most feral pack in all of Kansas. But finding out what happened to her pack is the last thing on her mind as she comes face to face with Alpha Krimson, a man with a vicious reputation and an even vicious tem...

“You’re the Donovan heir?” Sulien sneered.

“Why? Are you disappointed?”

A pause. Then, almost teasing XL continued—

“Aren’t you supposed to be straight?”

“...Who told you that?”

…

Sulien, a man who has always wielded control, finds his world tilting when this young, ‘weak-looking’ guy challenges everything from his dominance to his sexuality.

Nadine is a 28 years old omega living with her abusive boyfriend and her weak mother.
Every morning felt the same—waking up in a house that didn’t feel like home, surrounded by tension so thick it clung to the walls. The bruises weren’t always visible, but the damage ran deep. Her boyfriend, Theo, didn’t need words to warn her, his fist did most of the work. He dictated what she wore, who she spo...

He should have killed me.
Instead, he claimed me.

When his body caged mine and his mouth hovered over my lips, I burned with fear and fury. I didn’t want him, every part of me screamed to resist but my wolf… my cursed, traitorous wolf… she whimpered for him, ached for him, chose him.

MY RUTHLESS MATE

"For those of you who may be new here, allow me to introduce myself properly. I am Onyx, bastard son of Draco, the unfortunate result of my dear father's affair with a human woman." His voice was laced with mockery. "A walking disgrace, as some of you like to say." 

Those were the words of my mate, my enemy and the bane of my existence, Onyx. After having my grandfather taken away from me and my...

"I knew you weren't her," he growled, his scent swirled around me, dangerous and alluring. "But no matter what you will be my wife, Mate." He added in a low tone.


Silvana, an omega wolf, must become her runaway sister, impersonating her to appease the ruthless Alpha Garrick. But Garrick isn't the monster she expected. He's kind, protective. But despite his efforts to make Silvana fa...

"You will have to satisfy him, wife"

My husband hates me enough to offer me to another man for one night. But when that night shatters everything he thought he knew about me, his hatred turns into something far more dangerous obsession.

Detective Lauren James has always trusted her instincts, but when she discovers that supernatural beings are manipulating Chicago's justice system, everyone thinks she's lost her mind.
Given one week to prove her "delusions" or face psychiatric evaluation, Lauren turns to the only person who believes her; her partner, Detective Alex Henderson, whose unwavering support feels like a lifeline in her ...

Dominic Volkov was born to rule the Bratva—cold, ruthless, and untouchable.
Love was never part of the plan… until one unforgettable week in Las Vegas changed everything.

Maggie was the light he never knew he needed—gentle, brave, and real.
For seven days, she made him forget the blood and power that defined his world.
And when he left, he thought he could leave her behind too.

Two years later, ...

They said my father’s debts died with him. They lied.
One moment I was just Isabella Hart, a nursing student fighting to save my sick mother. The next, I woke up captive inside the Romano mansion, traded like property to pay a blood debt I never knew existed.
The Romano family has four heirs: Marco, the ruthless strategist in a wheelchair; Dante, the charming manipulator; Luca, the silent killer w...

I never meant to want him. Gianni Rossetti—tattooed, dangerous, twice my age, and my best friend’s father.

He was supposed to be off-limits. Untouchable. The kind of man you only fantasize about when you’re alone in the dark with your hand between your thighs.

But the night I caught him eating another woman alive by the pool, I couldn’t look away.
And he knew it.
The moment his dark eyes locked ...

Rose Thiago was an ordinary human girl who loved reading dark fantasies but never believed in them.

She suddenly gets warned by her best friend never to read those kinds of books again if she doesn't want to make herself visible to the dark creatures or evoke their world to herself, but she calls her bluff and reads them over and over again.

On a field trip, Rose suddenly finds herself falling ...

She trains killers on four legs.
He rules them on two.
When Anika's protection dogs are used in a brutal attack, her only lead drags her into the crosshairs of Nikolai Volkov—the ruthless Bratva king who sees everything she hides.
She's armed, guarded, and dangerous.
He's worse.
In this dark romance of power, loyalty, and obsession, control is an illusion… and falling might be the most dangerous m...

Carys MacQuoid is done being an undercover agent. After years of living in shadows, she’s ready to walk away from a career that has cost her peace, trust, and pieces of her soul. But before she can resign, her handler throws one final assignment on her desk—an infiltration mission into one of the most untouchable crime dynasties in Europe: the Valachi family.

The Valachi brothers are as dangerous...

On the day of her wedding, Elena’s perfect world shatters—her groom vanishes, eloping with her best friend. But before the whispers destroy her, his powerful billionaire brother, Damian Blackwell, steps forward with a cold proposition: marry him instead, right there at the altar.

Trapped in a scandal she never asked for, Elena is thrust into a dangerous marriage built on secrets, lies, and twiste...

Twenty-one-year-old Maya Chen thought her biggest problem was paying for college. She never knew her father owed a blood debt to the most dangerous crime family in New York—until four arrogant heirs storm into her life to collect.
Dante Rossi commands with ice-cold authority and expects total obedience. Marcus "Tank" Romano crushes enemies with his bare hands and shows no mercy. Luca Torrino charm...

Cursed. Hunted. Betrayed.

Maiveline Underwood’s life was destroyed the night her village turned on her family. Accused of witchcraft, she watched her father slaughtered, her brother taken, and herself thrown into a cave as a bloody sacrifice. But in the shadows of death, something far darker claimed her... an Alpha of terrifying power who marked her as his own.

Raised by adoptive parents, Maive ...

"A fucking human mate! Unbelievable..." he scoffed.

In a world conquered by savage Lycans, survival for Lucy means running, hiding, and watching everyone she loves be torn apart. Captured and made a servant in the gilded cage of the most feared Lycan King, Alexander, she expects a swift death. Instead, she is confronted with an impossible destiny: she is his fated mate, a human mate.

Lucy is now...

Cast out by her father and feared by her own kind, Kaelenya Moonshadow is forced into marriage with Roman Theo—the cold, ruthless Alpha who rules the entire wolf realm.
He gives her one year: to bear his heir, or live the rest of her life as his slave.
But in a union forged from power and desire, something ancient awakens within her—the forbidden Moonshadow power that no Alpha can control.
And whe...

“Aurelia! You wicked woman, why did you push Jiana down the stairs!”

My husband, Luther, roared at me, rushing over and slapping me hard across the face.

My heart sank. I shook my head violently, unable to utter a word in my defense.

It wasn't me, it was never me who pushed Aurelia! She framed me!

However, Luther would never listen to my explanations. He simply stepped on my body and uttered a...

Camilla. An Italian American whose parents were allegedly killed in an auto accident, is attending law school in New York City. Camilla was oblivious to what her parents had actually been doing with their careers, kept in the dark by her family for her entire life. Her brother completely cuts off contact with her after he graduates from high school. The only family she speak with is her Nonna, who...

Detective Sam Rivera thought that leaving the LAPD would help her get away from the evil that followed her around. Tidewaters, California, is a quiet beach town, but it hides secrets deeper than the Pacific Ocean. When her second day as a private investigator comes around and she finds the body of a youth, she remembers the people who told her, "Don't trust anything here." As Sam digs deeper, she ...

“You’re mine now.” His voice was a dark promise.

To save her sister from a brutal marriage, Isabella Romano makes a desperate bargain. But her hero is no knight, he’s Dante Moretti De Luca, the ruthless mafia king known as "Il Diavolo".

Now, Isabella is bound to the devil himself in a marriage of convenience. Trapped in his gilded world of power and violence, she must navigate deadly rivals and ...

Documentary filmmaker Fern Walker arrives in the remote town of Spring Water to debunk decades-old ghost stories for her latest project. Armed with cameras and scientific skepticism, she expects to expose the supernatural claims as small-town folklore and leave with compelling footage of human gullibility.
Instead, she discovers evidence of ritualistic murders spanning decades—and realizes that no...

In Sicily, Italy, family is more than just blood... it’s power.

Loyalty is earned with bullets, and betrayal costs lives.

Two strong Mafia families, the Bellantis and the Morettis plan to unite through marriage. It’s a careful deal built on years of violence and tradition.

Valentina Bellanti is the perfect daughter. She was chosen to be the bride, the symbol of peace between the families.

Mean...