Best Stories & Novels Collection

When we moved to the estate on the hill, all the bedrooms had already been assigned.
My parents had the primary suite.
My brother, Adrian, had the east wing.
The south suite, with its view of the Hudson—the nicest room in the house—was marked Grace's Room.
There was no room with my name on it.
In the hall, a worker was fastening brass plaques to the bedroom doors.
Not one of them read Claire.
Ten ...

My boyfriend's stepsister was assaulted. She didn't survive it.

I knew the truth, but I refused to name the man who did it.

His parents got down on their knees and begged me. I didn't budge.

When the reporters showed up at my door, I chased them off with a kitchen knife.

He didn't leave me. He turned his back on his family and married me.

And then he made me pay. Every day, he brought people ...

I had caught Jasper entertaining the same woman in his bed seventeen times.   The first time I caught them, the shock triggered a miscarriage.   As I collapsed on his office floor in agony, Jasper didn't call 911. He just ordered his security to mop up my blood before it could ruin Lenora's designer shoes.   "At the end of the day, you're the one sitting at the head of my table," he would remind m...

In our family, fairness was the one rule nobody broke.

My brother Brody and my sister Raegan are twins.

Growing up, if one of them got an extra cookie, the other would tear the whole house apart.

To keep the peace, Mom and Dad split everything down the middle. Half went to Brody, half went to Raegan.

Which meant nothing in this house was ever mine.

I was the third kid. The one my parents neve...

For six years of marriage, I never made a sound in front of my husband.
He said he was hypersensitive to my voice. Whenever I spoke, his head would split with pain and he’d drop to his knees, shaking.
So for him, I had five surgeries on my vocal cords. The voice that once carried me to the national finals was cut down to a broken rasp.
When I gave birth and the epidural failed, I bit my lip bloody...

Elara Weston went to great lengths to please her three brothers, striving to do her utmost even for the slightest thing they casually mentioned.
But all her wholehearted devotion was no match for her sister shedding a couple of tears.
One accusation—“My sister bullied me”—completely exposed her true identity.
It turned out that she was the fake heiress.
Once their biological daughter returned, she...

Catherine loved Marco with all her heart.

Until she discovered that he had betrayed her with her own sister.

Instead of defending Catherine, her family blamed her for standing in the way of their happiness. To them, she was nothing more than an unwanted daughter who had ruined the love story between Marco and the sister they had always favored.

So Catherine gave them exactly what they wanted.

...

After three years of marriage, Nina Blackwell had spent all three years living as a widow.
She had accommodated him at every turn, always being sensible, understanding, and patient, only to receive cold divorce papers from {{Ethan Blackwell}}.
Her husband despised her humble origins, her mother-in-law made things difficult for her every day, and her rival even moved into their home while pregnant,...

He was the Alpha who refused to claim me. He became the man who couldn't live without me…
On her 18th birthday, Morrana, the Omega of Shadowcrest discovered the cruelest joke of her life-her fated mate is Alpha Caius Varro, the very man whose family destroyed hers.
Caius refused to acknowledge their bond, choosing a political alliance over his unwanted mate. He gives Morrana one rule above all oth...

My husband announced his second mate on the night I planned to announce our pregnancy.
He called her his destined Luna.
I called her a homewrecker.
But when his new mate caused me to lose my baby, Tristan didn’t even look back.
So I left.
I thought losing my mate was the end of my story.
Until the most feared man in the werewolf world caught my scent.
“Mine.”
Damon, the mysterious head of Wraith, ...

For one whole year, Ava lived in the dark.
The woman obsessed with her mate had thrown a fistful of poison into her eyes and robbed her of her sight. But Ava endured it all, because Victor never left her side. He hunted down every specialist. He held her through every breakdown. He swore that the day she could see again, he'd make her his Luna.
She believed him. She loved him.
Then the surgery wor...

Wendy Vance once believed love meant being chosen.

As the scentless daughter of the Whitlock Pack Alpha, she had spent her life feeling like a flaw. Then Drexel Pace, the Bloodmoon heir, claimed her. His possessiveness felt like devotion. His jealousy felt like safety. She endured his control because she believed he would never let her go.

She was wrong.

Drexel betrayed her with her stepsister,...

Sage Bennett is invisible. A poor, bullied transfer student with glasses, braces, and secrets no one bothers to uncover. Until she walks into Wildfire Racing—and catches the eye of Zane Wilder.
Future Alpha of the Nightfall Pack. Ruthless. Arrogant. And her new boss.
He accuses her of sabotage. Vows to destroy her. Then fate plays its cruelest trick: on her eighteenth birthday, Sage learns Zane is...

"You came and ruined everything. Shouldn't you be planning to excuse yourself from this family? Undo whatever spell you did on Arthur and get lost."
I grit my teeth as the test paper crumpled further in my fist.
Hurtful as those words were, they had some truth to them. I had to ask myself the right questions. Give the right answers too.
I was a fool.
Four years ago, I traded my freedom for a dying...

After the world ended, Aria woke a hundred years too late in a wasteland full of monsters, power, and men who should have stayed out of her path. Marked as the last Moonbinder, she can bind powerful shifters to her through irresistible soul bonds, drawing out their strength while awakening a hunger of her own.
Kael is a fierce white lion commander with a body built for war and a possessive streak ...

Isla Spencer stopped believing in home after her mother died.
Living in a house where her father adored another daughter more, she learned to make herself small, quiet, forgettable—until the day fate gave her something of her own.
Coel Reese, her mate, and a future she could finally belong to.
She loved him. When a rogue attack left him in a coma, she gave everything to keep his bloodline alive, o...

I thought having one reckless night of revenge sex with a gorgeous stranger seemed like the perfect way for me to break out of my "good girl" mold.
I was wrong.
​I ran before he could even know my name, promising myself it would stay a secret. A mistake buried so deep that neither my overprotective brother nor my boyfriend would ever find out.
Then I walked onto campus for my first day of college....

My mate rejected me yesterday. This morning, I married the monster who killed his wives.
The wedding gown was never mine—it was made for my sister, Paige. So was the groom. When the Hound of War demanded the Alpha's daughter, my parents spent one week scheming behind a locked door, and the way out they found was simple: feed him the worthless one.
The wolfless one. Me.
Jax, the man I loved for two...

On the day of her coronation ceremony, Aysel cut open her palm to seal a blood oath with her fated mate.
Before she could finish—her cousin collapsed into the aisle crying for Aysel’s groom.
Again.
Her mother ran to comfort her.
Her father blamed Aysel.
Her mate abandoned her.
And in front of the entire werewolf world nobody chose her.
So Aysel made a choice of her own.
She rejected the Alpha.
She...

Lillian has always been an outcast—a hybrid without a wolf, scorned by her pack and forgotten by her own father. When she discovers her first mate's betrayal, the Moon Goddess grants her a devastating gift: the ability to hear the hidden thoughts of everyone around her. Everyone except one.
Cast out from the only home she's ever known and stripped of her wolf, Lillian is forced to serve as an Omeg...

Three years ago, his beloved sister orchestrated an accident that not only left me deaf but also stripped me of my wolf.
Three years later, I watched him hold a grand festival to welcome her home. He called the accident that ruined my life nothing more than a childish mistake and pushed me away to save her.
Now, my wolf has returned, and a marriage proposal is waiting for my answer.
I won't waste ...

Sexual compatibility mattered when choosing my husband. Love mattered more, so I chose Dean Harper.
For four unforgettable hot years, he was my best friend, my true love, and my husband. Then, one day, I handed him divorce papers. When he asked me why, I buried the truth and smiled.
"Because you're poor. I can't love a poor man forever."
He didn't argue nor did he beg me and simply accepted my dec...

Scarlett is out of options. Her ex, Caleb, has framed her, fired her, and left her destitute. In a desperate bid for justice, she storms his wedding, only to be thrown out into the rain—and straight into the path of Alpha Carter Blackwood.
Carter is everything Caleb isn't: lethal, protective, and impossibly wealthy. But he’s also a forbidden fruit.
Caleb thought he was throwing away trash, but he ...

“I have an offer for you.”
A dangerous chuckle drifted through the phone.
“What offer could my rival's mate possibly have for me?”
My heart pounded so violently I was certain he could hear it.
“What you've spent years hunting,” I whispered. “The evidence that will destroy Cassian... and the entire Silvercrest Pack.”
The silence that followed was somehow more terrifying than his voice.
“What's the ...

"You want to marry me and have my name, Amy?" His breath grazed my ear, sending an involuntary shiver down my spine. "Then you’ll take everything that comes with it."
My eyes widened slightly. “What do you mean?”
He brought his smiling face directly in front of mine with our noses almost touching.
"You have to take everything," he murmured. "My money, my status and my body."
My breath hitched but ...

He was my destined mate. He was also the man who made me feel worthless.
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For years, Serena has lived like she doesn’t belong.
An orphaned omega, she has spent her entire life at the bottom of the pack hierarchy, watching Alpha Kieran rule over everyone while ignoring the girl whose family once sacrificed everything for his.
Then, on her eighteenth birthday, fate delivers the cruelest blow of all...

Rose Hart sacrificed everything for the Hart family for more than ten years, believing she would always remain their precious daughter.
But the moment the real Hart daughter returned, Rose was discarded without hesitation.
As if that betrayal wasn’t enough, Rose discovered an even crueler truth, the real daughter had secretly spent her heat cycles with Rose’s fiancé for more than three years behin...

On the day of my marking ceremony, my mate, Ryan Mercer, is caught kissing my sister, Paige Frost, in the dressing room. The whole pack gets to laugh at my humiliation.

Then Alpha Ethan Vale steps forward. With everyone watching, he gives me his mark.

Once we're married, Ethan couldn't be kinder to me. But we can't conceive a pup. At last, I try IVF, and I finally get pregnant.

He becomes even ...

A computer glitch opened my boyfriend's group chat.
After a cheating story went viral, his friends had talked him into faking an affair to test how much I trusted him.
At the same time, they were sending their richest, best-looking friend to seduce me. They wanted to see how easily I'd take the bait.
My boyfriend couldn't get enough of his little cheating game.
So I pretended to fall for it.

The five of us had an unwritten rule: we never discussed plans. We guessed.

What to eat, where to go, who was paying—everything was a guessing game.

They called it the kind of connection you developed after ten years together.

Somehow, I was always the only one who got it wrong.

Two weeks before our fall vacation, I asked the group chat, “Where are we going?”

All four of them gave the same an...

The night I graduated from college, Bianca Moretti asked what I was going to do next. My Mafia family had only recently brought their biological daughter home.
I didn't get a chance to answer. The four men I'd grown up with answered first, each taking his turn.
They all had paperwork showing that they were moving to California.
Then Dante Romano, the future head of one of Chicago's most powerful c...

I've always had a habit of taking people at their word.

In high school, a girl who liked bullying me broke our classroom projector.

When the teacher walked in, she shoved a broken piece into my hand and whispered, "Hold this. Don't say anything."

I raised my hand.

"Mr. Harris, she broke the projector and gave me this piece. She also told me not to say anything."

At twenty, during my first int...

Eight years together, and I'd hinted at marriage more times than I could count.

I'd even booked the venue in Hawaii, just like we'd promised each other years ago.

He played dumb.

Then he took the trip for two I'd been hoping for and handed it, without a second thought, to a young intern.

Something in me went quiet for good.

So I disappeared, cleanly and completely.

He spent the next month ...

When her father's corpse is found deep inside a river, Camellia Adams believes he was murdered and is determined to find her father's killer.

The police wouldn't investigate the case, so she's all alone. Still, she refuses to give up.

She does thorough research, and all clues about her father's death point to the most notorious and ruthless man that everyone dreads: The Viper.

He owns the ‘F...

Two ruthless mafia brothers, masters of cruelty and manipulation, have found a new obsession: an innocent young man delivered to their home as payment for a debt. To them, he is more than a prisoner. He is a game to be played, a mind to corrupt, and a fragile soul to twist until fear, obedience, and affection become impossible to separate. Every kindness hides a purpose, every promise conceals a t...

She wanted the monster. She became his legacy.

Seraphina Vance doesn't know what fear is. Abandoned by her globetrotting model mother in a sprawling, empty mansion, Sera grew up craving chaos. When she sets her sights on Dante Moretti, the ruthless, blood-soaked king of Ravencrest Academy and the underground Moretti Syndicate, she doesn't run from his threats. She leans into them.

Dante trie...

Elena returns home from London to find her sick brother Ethan risking his life in a boxing match against their ruthless rival, Marcus Miller. Racing against time, she reaches the arena just in time to stop a deadly blow. With no fighting experience, Elena steps into the ring herself, challenging Marcus to protect the only family she has. In a city built on strength, she proves that love and courag...

Dragons not allowed inside

Nobody in the Vlade kingdom would dare to place such a sign outside their workshop but the mage, Raven Dameris was far from nobody. She didn't care to please the dragons who had subjugated the kingdom after a decade-long war that took her grandmother with it and set the rest of her life to flames. She never planned to break that rule until the Dragon Duke appeared, maki...

At nineteen, Madison dreamed of becoming an actress. She had a great life but she didn't want to follow in her parents footsteps. She wanted a life of her own and that was to be a world known actress. She had a best friend and an admirer whom she cared for. They made a promise that he would chase her for ten years and when she finally won his heart, she would marry him. Cedric was an ambitious ent...

On the night of her tenth wedding anniversary, Evelyn Ashford bled out on her own marble floor—poisoned by the husband she spent a decade building an empire for.
With her dying breath, she learned the horrifying truth:

Her marriage was a lie. Her best friend was his mistress. And the son she raised wasn't hers. Her biological child had been stolen at birth, abandoned somewhere in the country’s va...

She was born without magic. He was the most powerful dragon alive. Their meeting was never supposed to happen.
A drop of Calista's blood awakens an ancient dragon imprisoned deep within the earth—a terrifying creature whose very existence should be nothing more than a forgotten legend.
When a mysterious force sends them centuries into the past, Calista finds herself in a world where dragons rule ...

At twenty-six, sharp-witted investigative journalist Madeline Clarke is at the peak of her career. But beneath the prestigious awards, high-profile sponsorships, and national headlines lies a past she thought she left buried; a desperate mistake, a shadowy black-market encounter, and an ex-boss turned media fixer who is desperate to get all she has and silence her before she exposes his corrupt e...

“Take my last name and reck all the havoc you want, Ocean.”

..

His last name alone was power, a commanding force, a force that makes even rulers bow...

….

Aliyah Malvern’s life took a drastic change… a terrible one, when her step mother and brother revealed the truth about her birth, a dirty secret she feared and that was been her father's bastard child, her inheritance was also taken away fr...

Three years ago, Joe Jevon destroyed my career.

Now, I have to trust him with my future.

Valentina Cross has spent years fighting for a place on the racing grid, determined to prove that a woman can compete with the best drivers in the world. But when Blackthorn Racing gives her the opportunity of a lifetime, it comes with one humiliating condition.

She has one season to prove she belongs.

And...

After six months of waiting, Yvana thought her mate would finally claim her.
Then his childhood best friend ran in, and he ran after her, leaving Yvana standing unmarked in front of a pack that already hated her for having no wolf.
That wound was not enough. By morning they had sold her into the war between the triplet kings fighting for an empty throne.
She rejected him on the road. There was no ...

As a wolfless omega trapped in a family that has made her life unbearable, Nivilia Carson has tried to run away more times than she can count.
On her eleventh attempt to escape, luck seems to shine on her when she finds herself in the locker room of Moongladea’s most prestigious hockey team.
However, that luck seems to run out when, with a scowl, she’s found by Alpha Zay—captain of the team and ...

In the darkness of the hotel room, a sharp, spicy scent left me lightheaded. Eager, burning hands seared my skin. Before I could catch my breath he drove into me, ruthless, splitting me apart, his weight pressing down as his hands roamed my body without restraint, exploring, taking. I lost myself in the madness of it. This man had to be my boyfriend Jason — we fit together so perfectly — and waves...

“As much as I appreciate your input and your help tonight,” Amara said, pushing her mind off how good he looked, “I'd prefer you stayed out of it. I don't need to prove anything. Tonight was enough, and your acting was great. Thank you.”

“Oh.” Silas eyebrows rose, and an expression she didn't quite understand passed over his face.

“What?” Amara asked. “What’s with that look?”

“It’s just...I th...

“Aah!” A moan slips free as he slides two fingers into me. “Azreal…”

“Tell me what you want, my queen,” he murmurs. “Let me worship at your altar like the goddess you are.”


Rebelle Larson has spent twenty one years haunted by the same nightmare, convinced she is slowly losing her mind. Then a mysterious man appears at her university, calls her Amirykal, and claims she is the reincarnation...

lAdeline spent her youth programming cyborgs for her father Gustavo's mechanical firm in an apocalyptic world where machines control seventy percent of civilization. When Gustavo dies in a freak laboratory accident, Adeline expects to inherit the business. Instead, her absent mother returns, reveals she is actually a power-hungry stepmother, and forces Adeline into a marriage of convenience with J...