The Guide’s Secret: Sold to the Night Crew

As a broke local guide, I deliver women to the reclusive Mr. Knox—never asking questions, just pocketing the cash. But when I glimpse chained ankles, desperate bargains, and forbidden passion under the stars, guilt and terror threaten to drown me. I’m trapped between exposing a secret harem on the cliffs and becoming the next pawn in Knox’s cruel game.

Eddie, a debt-ridden grad, lands a job as a Chicago exec’s driver—only to be swept into a world of crime, blackmail, and impossible choices. When he discovers his boss’s darkest secret and meets a traumatized victim, Eddie must decide: risk everything to do what’s right, or let temptation and fear dictate his fate. Every decision could cost him his freedom—or his soul.

He’s a broke college grad, she’s the mysterious club girl called 25—her real name a secret, her world full of danger and midnight bargains. When he risks everything to retrieve her stolen keepsake from Cleveland’s most feared criminal, he’s forced to choose: walk away, or dive headfirst into her world of quick tricks and broken rules. But the closer he gets, the more he realizes—she’s not the only one with something to lose.

Derek came to Chicago chasing stardom, but found himself learning forbidden secrets from a phantom voice haunting the theater’s midnight shadows. As his talent grew, so did the chilling suspicion that the price of his gift was more than just sleepless nights—especially when his confession brought the city’s secret ghost-catchers to the stage. Now, with the truth threatening to destroy him, Derek must choose: expose the supernatural bargain or risk becoming the next legend whispered about in the dark.

To save a wounded merman from a sadistic scientist, Dr. Morgan faces a sickening ultimatum: spend a night with the boss’s privileged son or watch her rescued specimen be butchered for parts. Caught between the love of a gentle merfolk and the burning eyes of the one she betrayed, Morgan risks everything—even her body—to keep them alive. But in this lab, kindness comes at a brutal price, and the monsters aren’t always in the tanks.

A broke cabbie’s one-night stand with a mysterious beauty leaves him marked by a deadly curse—seven nights to survive, or she’ll skin him alive. Desperate, he clings to a talisman and a stranger’s warning, but every night the line between seduction and death blurs. When he learns the only thing protecting him might be the very thing drawing her closer, he must choose: trust the living, or bargain with the dead.

Fresh out of college and broke, Tyler is forced to scrub floors in a seedy massage parlor, surrounded by tough, beautiful women and the constant threat of local gangsters. When a brutal attack on a coworker puts the whole shop in Oakridge Realty’s crosshairs, Tyler must choose: betray the makeshift family that saved him, or risk everything to protect them. In a world where loyalty is dangerous and love is off-limits, one wrong move could cost them all their lives.

Desperate for a fresh start, a naive Kentucky girl accepts a midnight job interview promising ten grand a month—alone, in the middle of nowhere, on New Year’s Eve. Her trusting family cheers her on, blind to the obvious danger, while her rideshare driver’s warnings fall on deaf ears. As she steps into the darkness, she has no idea she’s walking straight into a nightmare no one will see coming.

Transmigrated into a cold Chicago mansion, Shane is ordered by a ruthless system to win the heart of his icy CEO 'wife'—or face electric shock and a fate worse than death. Humiliated, invisible, and forced to play the clown while her true love returns, he must choose: grovel for survival, or take the money and run before the billionaire male lead destroys him. But when the divorce is signed and secrets spill, will freedom cost more than his pride—or will the CEO come hunting for the man she never thought she’d miss?

For three years, I was forced to slip into the Callahan heir’s bed, a shadow of his fragile wife—my own identity erased in the darkness. When I begged for a place in his world, he offered only cold rejection and cruel truths: I was nothing but a servant, never worthy of love or status. Desperate to save my sister from a worse fate, I offered myself as a widow bride to a dying man—trading one gilded cage for another, as the man I secretly loved watched in stunned silence.

He’s the city’s coldest rich kid. I’m the farm boy paid to warm his hands—and maybe his broken heart. The job was supposed to be simple: mop floors, keep secrets, and never ask questions about the mansion’s golden son, Julian. But one midnight meltdown, a forbidden kiss, and a ten-thousand-dollar betrayal later, I’m tangled in a web of family power games, dangerous brothers, and a pop star with bite marks on his neck. Every touch blurs the line between comfort and control. Every secret I keep for Julian is a lie I owe his enemies. When the pills run out and the music stops, will I save him—or destroy him for a paycheck? What’s the price of being the only warmth he trusts?

Matt clawed his way to the top of sales, only to have his $15,000 bonus handed to a cocky new hire with family ties. Betrayed by his boss, backstabbed by HR, and humiliated in front of the whole office, Matt refuses to back down. With everything on the line, he'll risk his job—and his pride—to take back what’s his.