Crimeromance Stories

"He owned an empire. But she became his greatest obsession." Aurora Bennett is a twenty-two-year-old Fine Arts student whose world revolves around colors, canvases, and dreams. She lives a simple life in New York, focusing on her studies and the future she has carefully planned for herself. Love was never her priority. Danger was never part of her story. Or so she thought. Alessandro De Luca is a name feared throughout the criminal underworld. At twenty-eight, he is a billionaire, a king, and one of the most powerful mafia leaders in America. Cold, ruthless, and untouchable, he rules his empire with an iron fist and shows mercy to no one. To the world, he is a successful businessman. To his enemies, he is a nightmare. And to Aurora... He is the beginning of everything she should fear. When a chance encounter throws their worlds together, Alessandro becomes fascinated by the mysterious girl with paint-stained fingers and fearless eyes. What starts as curiosity soon turns into something far more dangerous. Obsession. The more he learns about Aurora, the more secrets begin to unravel. Secrets connected to her past. Secrets connected to powerful enemies. Secrets that threaten to destroy everything he has built. But Aurora is hiding truths of her own. Truths buried beneath years of lies. Truths that could ignite a war between the most dangerous people in the country. As betrayals surface and blood is spilled, Aurora finds herself trapped in a world she never knew existed-a world of power, revenge, crime, and deadly secrets. A world ruled by Alessandro De Luca. The Mafia King. Now enemies are closing in. Trust is becoming impossible. And the line between love and obsession is growing thinner with every passing day. Because Alessandro has never learned how to let go of something that belongs to him. And once the Mafia King decides he wants something... There is no escape. --- "Some stories begin with love. This one begins with blood."

𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬- 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭. Ruby was never meant to be part of his world. Ruby entered the Williams family as an outsider-unwanted, unnoticed... and completely unprepared for the man she would be forced to live with her step brother. Steven Williams. Cold. Controlled. Dangerous. He hurts her. He protects her. He pushes her away... and pulls her back even harder. she wasn't just brought into his life. She was bound to it. 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: I created the male lead while imagining Jungkook and his vibes. I'm not comfortable writing a full fanfiction.

Kabir Anand had everything planned. A perfect life. A perfect future. A perfect wedding with the girl he loved. But on the day he was supposed to say "I do"... she walked into his room- and told him she loved someone else. He let her go. He watched her run away with another man... and took the blame to protect her. But a week later- she came back. Not as his bride. But as a dead body. With his fingerprints on her. Now, Kabir isn't just heartbroken- he's the prime suspect. Assigned to the case is Detective Lucas Reed- a man who trusts evidence more than people, and truths more than emotions. To him, Kabir is just another suspect. But the deeper he digs into the case, the more things don't add up... Because Kabir Anand doesn't feel like a killer. He feels like something far more dangerous- innocent. And somewhere between accusations, late-night interrogations, and a truth no one is ready to face... lines begin to blur. Between right and wrong. Between truth and lies. Between hate... and something that feels a lot like love. --- A broken wedding. A brutal truth. And a love story no one saw coming.

Some love stories are written in fairy tales. Theirs was written in blood. Ciera Brooks never imagined that one chance encounter would change her life forever. She had dreams bigger than the streets she grew up in-dreams of freedom, success, and a life untouched by violence. But all of that disappears the moment she meets Chris. Handsome. Intelligent. Feared. Chris is the kind of man whose name carries weight everywhere he goes. A man who built an empire from nothing and protects it at any cost. To his enemies, he's ruthless. To his allies, he's loyal. But to Ciera... He's the only man who has ever made her feel truly seen. As their love grows, so does the danger surrounding them. Rival crews, betrayals, family secrets, and jealous enemies threaten to tear them apart. Every decision they make pulls them deeper into a world where trust is rare, loyalty is earned, and survival comes at a price. Chris has one rule: If anyone comes after Ciera... they'll answer to him. And Ciera soon learns that loving a man like Chris means accepting that his hands will never be clean. When the city declares war on Chris's empire, Ciera is faced with an impossible choice: walk away from the man she loves and save herself... or stand beside him and become the queen everyone fears. Together, they're unstoppable. Together, they're dangerous. Together, they'll risk everything for a love worth dying for. Because some couples are made for happily ever after... But Ciera and Chris were made to be history's next Bonnie & Clyde. "Ride or die. Love or war. Together, we burn."

Sometimes love leaves traces you can't show, scars no one can touch. I carry memories that weigh heavier than words, and moments that whisper in the quiet, in the spaces between my breaths. I feel you in the tremor of my chest, in the sudden ache of missing you, in every silence where your name lingers. I try to hide it, I try to move on, but it's all here-folded in the shadows of what I feel for you. But, Can you see my heart?

Jace Kingston was raised to lead-built by legacy and bound to a family empire that doesn't fall. He doesn't run from the life. He controls it. But control has never given him what he really wants... something real. Then he meets Sarai Clarke. Quiet. Intelligent. Unshaken. She doesn't fear him, and she doesn't chase him-and in his world, that's rare. What starts as curiosity turns into something deeper. Something dangerous. Because love in Jace's world isn't soft. It's tested. It's exposed. And once you're in... there's no easy way out. Now Jace has to decide- Keep his empire untouched... Or risk everything for a woman who sees right through him.

Detroit made them. Miami changed them. Betrayal divided them. When Nia Hernandez falls in love with Ace Carter, the son of a notorious Detroit kingpin, she believes she's found her forever. But as Ace becomes consumed by power, money, and secrets, their relationship begins to crumble. As old friendships are tested and loyalties are questioned, childhood friends find themselves choosing sides. With jealousy, betrayal, heartbreak, and dangerous secrets threatening to tear the crew apart, one shocking night changes everything. And just when they think things can't get worse, a ghost from the past returns. In a world where loyalty is everything, not everyone stays true to the code.

A rainy night. A broken promise. A love that was never truly forgotten. Years after a heartbreaking separation, Leo has risen to become one of the most powerful men in the underworld, while Eva has buried the girl she once was beneath secrets and sacrifice. When fate brings them together again, old feelings collide with dangerous ambitions, forcing them to confront the past they left behind. Caught between love and obsession, freedom and control, Leo and Eva must decide whether their reunion will heal old wounds-or destroy everything they have become.

Her father built an empire on silence and steel. When they killed him, they expected her to grieve quietly and disappear. They miscalculated. Corren Vale does not mourn in public. She does not collapse in private. She identifies every person who smiled at her father's funeral while holding the knife that put him in the ground, and she begins, methodically, to remove them. Chicago does not belong to the grieving. It belongs to whoever is willing to do what no one else will stomach. Corren has always known that. She just never thought she would have to prove it this publicly, or this permanently. Nico DeLuca is not an ally. He is not a partner. He is a problem she cannot solve without creating a worse one. Son of a Mafia captain, raised between old money and street violence, he operates on instinct and appetite. He has never once been told no by anyone who survived the conversation. He believes she is a liability dressed in a nice coat. She believes he will burn everything she is trying to build. They are both right. The city is watching. The bodies are accumulating. And somewhere beneath the war, beneath the posturing and the gunfire and the rooms that smell like iron and expensive cologne, something is developing between them that neither of them has a name for and both of them recognize as catastrophic. No Mercy Avenue is a mature dark romance set in the criminal underground of Chicago: violence, power, obsession, and the cost of inheriting a throne built on blood. ©️ RelleLebby // R. L.

In a city built of circles, there is no place to hide. In the walled nation of Acheron, wealth is measured in light. The elite thrive in the golden sun of Sector 0, while the "unfortunate" are buried in the lightless subway tunnels of the outer rings. Divided by the Great Spine-a train system that splits the world into Left and Right Wings-everyone has a place. Everyone is watched. Lucy De Fontaine is a master of masks. A former elite agent turned corporate social worker, she navigates the Ward with cold, porcelain perfection. But a phantom is stalking the tracks. They call him the Eye-Man Killer, a high-velocity vigilante executing the city's untouchable monsters. As a Level 3 curfew descends and the Wardens seal the wings, Lucy realizes the killer isn't just cleaning the streets-he's coming for her. Benjamin Brier, a ghost from her past, has escaped the abyss, and he's drawn to the only person who ever treated him like a man. The lights of the city are failing. The "Blue Line" is screaming. And Lucy is about to find out that being seen by a monster is a death sentence. One city. Two wings. No escape.

In a lawless galaxy ruled by crime syndicates and bounty hunters, notorious outlaws Ryder Kane and Vera Black have become legends. Bound by a dangerous love and a lifetime of running from their pasts, they rob the powerful, defy impossible odds, and leave chaos in their wake. But when a shocking betrayal from Ryder's past resurfaces, the lovers are drawn into a deadly game of revenge, loyalty, and sacrifice. As enemies close in and old wounds are reopened, Ryder and Vera must decide how far they are willing to go for each other. A dark romance filled with action, heartbreak, betrayal, and star-crossed devotion, Starbound Outlaws is the story of two broken souls who found love in the darkest corners of the galaxy-and the tragic price they paid for it.

Zoya thought a rebound relationship with her childhood friend was just what she needed to get over her breakup. But what she didn't know was that that friend had a dark, dangerous side to him she had never encountered before. Once she got to know the real him, it was already too late to escape.

*** OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2021 - HONORABLE MENTION *** The year is 1907, and Amalthea Huntley, Countess of Claremont, is bored. Recently widowed at a young age, she finds very little to entertain her in Edwardian London, until an unusual turn of events at a society party plants the seed of an idea. Lady detective? Why not? It would only be a hobby after all. Lending her considerable powers of observation to some of her closer acquaintances to help resolve their more sensitive issues. After all, what could be so difficult? An instance of minor household theft here, a brief indiscretion there. And it would serve to pass the time. Yes, she resolved. With some careful thought, she was sure she could pull it off, and it would certainly liven things up. Little did Amalthea know that she had bitten off far more than she could chew, when she suddenly finds herself embroiled in a dangerous murder investigation, her only ally being an attractive but rather disagreeable private investigator with a secretive past and a strong dislike for opinionated women. Still, if she wasn't careful, she could find that the biggest threat to her latest diversion was not the case at all, but rather an unexpected something, or someone, a little closer to home. This story is dedicated to Dickie, who acted as my consultant in all things historical. Highest Rankings: #1 historicalmystery (March 2021) #1 crimeromance (March 2021)

💀 Gangster Princess In a world ruled by blood and bullets, love is the deadliest weapon of all. Aria Valente was born into power-the heir to the most feared mafia empire in the country. Cold, elegant, and deadly, she's known as the Gangster Princess, with a body inked in secrets and a heart locked behind bulletproof walls. She doesn't bow. She doesn't break. And she doesn't love. Raphael Montoya is the ruthless heir to a rival cartel-violent, obsessive, and dangerously charming. He's her enemy by blood, her mirror in madness. Their first meeting ends with a gun to each other's head. The second ends in a kiss that tastes like war. Drawn together by a betrayal neither saw coming, Aria and Raphael fall into a toxic, passionate storm of violence, desire, and destruction. As enemies close in and bodies hit the ground, their forbidden love becomes a ticking time bomb-and when it explodes, not everyone will survive. Power. Obsession. Betrayal. In this war, hearts aren't stolen. They're shattered.

Feather, born to the Mafia Leader, grew up learning crime and how to fight. To blend in with the crowd she started dancing. As a child she did ballet, then as she grew, she became a lyrical dancer. She lived a peaceful life, even if in the Mafia. On her 21st birthday though, another crime group would ambush them... Little did she know, her peaceful life would change as she saw a certain man.. (Sunset image found on Pintrest, feather and roses found on picsart) NOTICE Parts of this book is based off of stuff I found on tiktok. Time isn't real world, so don't question the times. Covid did not happen, no Russia-Ukraine war.

Amara appears to be everything society admires-graceful, intelligent, and deeply respected. But beneath her composed exterior lies a chilling truth. She is not who they think she is. Haunted by a past she cannot escape and driven by a darkness she cannot control, Amara leads a double life-one of charm by day, and cold precision by night. When a man begins to uncover the layers she so carefully hides, Amara is forced to confront a terrifying question: Can love redeem a soul already lost? "Behind the Mask" is a slow-burning psychological romance that delves into the complexity of identity, obsession, and buried secrets. Set against a richly woven Nigerian backdrop, this emotionally intense story explores what happens when the truth refuses to stay hidden.

Once, Ryan and Zoe loved each other in silence - hiding their feelings behind endless arguments, distance, and pride. But when a horrifying murder case forces them back together, old emotions begin resurfacing alongside secrets that were never meant to be uncovered. At the same time, the bond between two sisters slowly starts breaking apart. What was once love turns into jealousy, obsession, and hatred as buried truths come to light. In a world filled with lies, betrayal, and dangerous choices, every relationship begins to burn from the inside. And sometimes... love survives only after everything else turns to ashes.

The murder of Kim sovilia stuns the town of Coperia, with the mysterious murderer still lurking in the country, police are still uncovering every layer to the crime. However, can crime eventually lead to forbidden love? #330 in crime #167 in lover #2 in uknown #10 in thiller #1 in crimeromance #3 in buildings #35 in town #992 in murder

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Crimson Vows is a dark, emotional, and seductive mafia romance set in Cape Town. The story follows Amara Blake, a young woman who witnesses a brutal murder at the Cape Town harbor, leading her into the dangerous world of Dante, a cold and mysterious man with a hidden past. As Amara becomes entangled in Dante's life, their slow-burn romance blossoms amidst tension, betrayal, and a tragic undercurrent. The novel explores themes of power, trust, and love, with an addictive and heartbreaking storyline.