Darkglamour Stories

In a world ruled by bloodlines, borders are drawn in silence-and marriages are weapons. Elena Giordano was raised to lead, not to kneel. As the heir to Italy's most powerful crime dynasty, she commands loyalty with precision and fear with restraint. But when empires begin to close in and survival demands an alliance, Elena is faced with an impossible choice: Become collateral-or become untouchable. Alexander Anderson rules the American underworld with ambition sharpened into arrogance. He believes power is taken, not shared. Their union is not born of love, but of strategy, resentment, and a war neither of them can afford to lose. Bound by a marriage neither wants, Elena and Alexander collide in a game of dominance, deception, and public lies-where smiles hide threats, vows mask hostility, and submission is mistaken for weakness. Elena will not be owned. Alexander will not be challenged quietly. And when two empires collide, someone always bleeds. This is not a love story. It's a power struggle.

Lana Dearborn signs onto The Lamar Blanche Show expecting fame, exposure, and a second chance. Instead, she enters a mansion that feeds on secrets-hers and everyone else's. Seventy years earlier, the same house sheltered Mo Smith, a blacklisted screenwriter fleeing the McCarthy witch hunts. Hiding underground by day and risking everything by night with Irene Blanche, Mo wrote an apocalyptic screenplay about America devouring its own. Now, as the cameras turn on Lana and the world starts to hate her, the mansion's two timelines begin to echo each other. Fear repeats. Power repeats. The house remembers. A Hollywood thriller haunted by the past, told through two lives trapped in different eras-and by the secrets that refuse to die.

"But in a solitary life, There are rare moments, When another soul dips near yours, As stars once a year brush the Earth. Such a constellation was he to me." - Madeline Miller ~~~ 19 year old Camilla Jackson is the most dazzling personality of Prime High, one of the most prestigious institutions of Atlanta, Georgia. Disciplined and industrious, her life goal of becoming an 'Accomplished Perfectionist', more like her parents' goal, has been concealing her inner deprivation; her freedom. And she has accepted that it'll always be this way. However, her life turns wild when she crosses paths with James Wallace, a smoldering man of the street. Thrown into a cursed world full of deadly fights for the fittest to survive, Camilla's life will never be the same, and neither will James's; not now that they've found something both lacked - the newly ignited fire that keeps on burning their trapped souls alive. (Previously known as 'Strayed') Copyright © Anika Prova, 2019.