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I drained my savings and ruined my health, spending six months building my sister’s dream mansion with my own hands. I turned down high-paying projects, worked day and night, and covered all construction costs out of my own pocket. All I got in return was betrayal from my own family. At the housewarming party, Chloe falsely accused me of theft. My father and mother backed her up, threatening to se...

The yellow-green tennis ball slammed into my stomach at full speed. The heavy impact sent my 210-pound body stumbling backward, instantly triggering a chorus of vicious laughter around me.
"Look at that! The human backstop works great. We don't even need a net!"
It was Blair's voice, dripping with entitled cruelty.
Standing beside her, covering his mouth as he snickered, was Liam, the boy I'd been...

I used to be the executive chef at a three-Michelin-star restaurant in New York. Then I worked in my son’s kitchen for three years without being paid a cent.

I sold my old house in Brooklyn to cover the restaurant’s startup costs. I even used my retirement savings to pay for the restaurant’s premium ingredients.

That night, I prepared an entire dinner for eighty guests by myself. By the time I f...

My husband used our so-called "open marriage" as a shield, shamelessly bringing his mistress home.

He was dead sure I had a bottom line and would never cross it.

Until the night I stayed out until dawn, returning with the faint smell of alcohol.

The ever-arrogant man shattered a vase in a jealous rage. He gripped my wrist hard enough to bruise, demanding to know which hotel I’d been to and who ...

Elara Bennett was a rising figure-skating star—until her most trusted partner, Nick, assaulted her at a team party and refused to listen when she said no.
At Northlake, she wants one thing: to get back on the ice and stay away from men.
Then she walks in on Declan Hayes, the hockey captain, with another girl.
Perfect.
Confident, reckless, and impossible to ignore, Declan is exactly the kind of guy...

Lia charges for a striptease. Carrying a customer barefoot to the hospital should cost extra.

Instead, saving an old man gets her fired.

No job. No back pay. Apparently, doing the decent thing is expensive.

She can dodge wandering hands, fight a boss over stolen wages, and send an insult straight back with a smile. But one message from the man who promised to marry her can still keep her awake ...

Today was my wedding day.
In just one hour, I would be walking down the aisle in my wedding dress toward my future husband.

"Marry me. Come now.
Sender: Landon"

My childhood sweetheart had suddenly sent me a message. Just one sentence and a location pinned on a map.

I didn't even have time to change. I rushed to the location still wearing my wedding dress.
But when I arrived, what greeted...

Rosalind Rougeworth was born cursed or so she believed. A wolf who cannot shift, the sister of a fallen soldier, and the outcast of her pack. Her brother’s death broke her, and the one responsible, Prince Aklan Draven of Narth, became the name she learned to hate more than her weakness.

When she earned a place at Norsen Academy, she planned to prove she’s more than the powerless girl her pack cal...

Fleeing an abusive husband with nothing but a half-packed duffel and her six years old daughter, Kaia didn’t expect salvation to come with a job offer.

Good pay. Free housing. Zero drama.
At least, that’s what her best friend promised.

But nobody warned her that her neighbors growl when they’re turned on.

Now she’s got multiple Alphas sniffing around like she’s the last bite of dessert. They’re...

I hated my new neighbor before I even knew his name.

Damon Blackwood was arrogant, reckless, annoyingly charming—and somehow always where I didn’t want him to be.

Unfortunately, the universe had a cruel sense of humor.

Because the boy next door was about to become impossible to escape.

And the more I tried to stay away from Damon, the harder it became to remember why I ever wanted to.

Some pe...

Elena thought escaping her toxic ex—a ruthless member of a rival motorcycle club—was the hardest part. But when a brutal betrayal leaves her stranded and running for her life, she accidentally crashes straight into Leo’s world.
Leo is a high-ranking, merciless enforcer for the most dangerous MC in the state. He doesn't do damsels, and he definitely doesn't do charity. Elena is loud, sharp-tongued,...

In a cozy border town between the mortal world and the High Fae Realm, Aveline lives a quiet life running The Sprouted Whisk, a charming tea shop. To the locals, she is a bright, fiercely capable herbalist—though painfully awkward in casual conversation. In secret, she is a rare Earth and Air dual-wielding Fae who uses her forbidden magic to run an underground sanctuary for injured mythical beasts...

A frat party Ouija board game awakened a deadly fae. Every fortune it grants comes with a fatal price. It offered me three. I refused them all.
But my boyfriend, crushed under student loans, craved the fae's riches. He took the money. He signed the deal. He opened the door.
I thought I would stay safe as long as I refused the fae's demands. Then my body started to weaken. My limbs thinned. My stom...

My sister’s TikTok Shop was on the verge of being shut down. As a top livestream creator with three million followers, I stepped in and turned a warehouse full of dead inventory into bestsellers.

That night, my sister shipped the wrong items for three hundred orders. I apologized on camera, then paid ten thousand dollars out of my own pocket to issue refunds and send replacements.

After the live...

The smell of blood. A nauseating mixture of rust and formaldehyde, so thick it made me want to gag.
My fingernails dug deep into my flesh, my lungs heaving like a worn-out bellows. The second hand on the clock mounted on the wall ticked forward.
"Tick."
The time was 9:50 p.m.
I lowered my head and stared at my perfectly intact hands. No broken finger bones from Chad stomping on them. No ruined wri...

Three months after my miscarriage, my family wore me down until I stepped off the board.

Nolan knelt before me and said he wanted to rebuild our marriage — that I should rest at home. I thought it was fate's only compensation for the child it had taken.

Then one day, while planning his fortieth-birthday surprise at the club, I heard him pin the brand director Aubrey against a wall of wisteria an...

For the Adventure Club’s fall break camping trip, I was in charge of organizing all the food for three days and two nights.

Pine Hollow was deep in the mountains, three hours from the nearest town, with no place nearby to buy supplies.

I contacted Prime Harvest, a supplier my family owned. The menu included wagyu beef, antibiotic-free chicken breast, and organic salad, all at cost. I quoted ever...

On Thanksgiving, I take an emergency mansion cleaning gig to cover my rent. The second I step into the master bedroom, I freeze. Hanging on the wall is a huge wedding photo. The groom is my husband — but the bride beside him is not me.
Liam has built an entire secret family. Worse still, my own parents and brother happily join his fake perfect life. Even my beloved young son has grown attached to ...

My husband doesn't love me, and he certainly doesn't love our son.
On the day Toby was born, Graham didn't even look at him before tossing him into my arms.
For seven years, he kept our marriage a secret and strictly forbade our boy from calling him "Dad."
Then, his first love returned.
The usually cold and distant billionaire came to our rundown cabin dead drunk, a rare, tender smile on his face...

I was born the true heiress of the powerful Voss family, but after being swapped at birth and failing to awaken my wolf, I was branded as worthless trash.
For six years, I worked as a "Scavenger" in the underground slums. I hauled mutant corpses, endured silver poisoning, and swallowed cheap suppressants—all to pay off my husband’s massive debts and buy the cure for my brother’s fatal blood diseas...

"If I didn't have to bring you home, Chloe wouldn't have died. Eve... I regret everything."

Those were my fiancé Lucas's final words as we lay dying beneath the crushed concrete.

I blinked, and suddenly my lungs were full of air.

I had returned to the exact day my billionaire biological family came to claim me.

I stared at their forced, plastic smiles.
I watched the imposter daughter eyeing ...

After werewolves took over the world and became its supreme ruler, human women (ages between 18 and 35) were locked away in dungeons then forced to become the s*x slaves of male werewolves who had failed to find their mates. Once you are chosen by a werewolf, you will become their possession for the rest of your life.

Sarah Fibb is a s*x slave who had been in the dungeons for five years. After be...

After inheriting a quiet little inn, Elowen Maris expects nothing more exciting than difficult guests and slow business. Then she wakes one night able to see ghosts and discovers several have been living at the inn for years. Things become even stranger when Lucien, a mysterious necromancer, checks in and can see them too. The ghosts quickly decide he belongs there and begin pushing the two reluct...

All Annalise Conner ever wanted was to belong.

Too small to be taken seriously by her pack and known as the strange girl who would rather talk to plants than people, Annalise has spent her entire life trying not to give anyone another reason to laugh at her. She tells herself everything will change when she turns eighteen and finds her fated mate. Surely the Moon Goddess will give her one person ...

“Sebastian said he’s going to break me.” Alexandria lifted her chin. “I’d rather die.”
“Want me to go back and kill him?” Gavin jerked his thumb over his shoulder. “Because I would absolutely do that.”
He stepped closer, gently brushing the dirt from her cheek.
“Wouldn’t want to risk shining your armor,” she teased.
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He was a dragon born to destroy witches; she was a witch raised to fear dragons. They were enemies by blood, yet fate had other plans. Just one encounter and it became an obsession.
Elora has spent her entire life hiding one deadly secret: her identity as a witch, because magic is forbidden and witches are hunted; revealing her identity means death. Elora wanted only one thing, to escape the cruel...

There is only one person Chloe Turner hates with a fiery passion, and that is star basketball college player, aka childhood bully, Logan Carter.
A thick in the head ladies man, that is on every college girl’s smash list.
Not Chloe, she’ll rather chow down gravel with a glass of acid than get anywhere near the arrogant Logan’s crusty boxers.
But… everything spirals from the day Chloe uses Logan to ...

She was supposed to marry a polished mafia prince and save her dying family. Instead, her father offered her to the one man he feared most—the outlaw king who rules the roads in leather and blood. Raven Kane, known as "Ghost," is the president of the Black Vultures MC, a club that controls the smuggling routes the Italian families need to survive. He takes the mafia princess as settlement for an ...

I was born the Vampire King’s daughter and became the kingdom’s greatest young athlete, until my stepsister stole my power and framed me for attacking her. My father believed her and banished me from the kingdom. Then I met the Werewolf Prince everyone had forgotten, a prince cast aside because his own power never awakened. We were both supposed to stay powerless, but together, something changed. ...

Ever been a murder suspect for the popular girl who bullied you because ironically she trusted you enough to leave the last clue to her death with you?

Wren Hale, a quiet scholarship girl is already a murder suspect for the death of Ashford's Academy Gala queen when the killer targets her and writes her real name across her locker.

Forced to team up with Zarek, the dead girl's dangerously charmi...

Ivy doesn't need anyone. She's got three jobs, a sharp tongue, and zero patience for men who think muscle solves everything.
Then a bar fight goes wrong, an infuriatingly gorgeous stranger clears her debt, and suddenly she's stuck working for a hockey player who smells like moonlight and looks at her like she's the answer to a question he never asked.
She should have known "assistant" was too good...

Laura Jean was never just a ballerina.
She was the paycheck. The perfect daughter. The girl whose bruised feet and forced smiles kept her family afloat… until one bad accident shattered everything.
Six months in a coma cost Laura more than her career. When she wakes up, her boyfriend has moved on with her best friend who stole her spotlight , and her own parents care more about the money she can n...

Anna Brooks expects inheriting her grandmother’s old bookstore to mean dusty shelves, unpaid bills, and a property she’ll probably sell before the year is over. Then she breaks the only rule her grandmother left behind. "Never open an unfinished book after sunset."

That night, a knight falls out of a fantasy novel, a tiny dragon escapes between the shelves, and a dead detective insists Anna help ...

Layla thought she had it all—a beautiful home, a devoted husband, a precious daughter, and the kind of luxurious life thousands would kill for. But her perfect world shatters when she becomes the prime suspect in the murder investigation of her husband's secret lover.

With no way to prove her innocence, a mysterious woman who is the spitting image of the deceased stalking her every move, and the ...

Thessaly Vance has one route left to finish what her father started: El Coronel's north face, no rope, no margin. The camp medic, Kester Hale, tries to talk her out of it before she's even introduced herself. He knows the exact pitch where she falls. He knows what she says right before it happens. He won't say how. Every day she spends near him convinces her he's hiding something worse than concer...

Knowing I had severe claustrophobia, my stepfamily locked me in the basement just to make my stepsister smile.
"Evan, please! I can't breathe!" I pounded on the door until my nails bled.
But instead of saving me, my boyfriend of five years simply scoffed from the other side. "Aurora, drop the act. Daphne just wanted your room."
For fifteen years, I gave them everything, only to be treated like ...

"What if she finds out the baby she suffered so much to conceive is actually ours? Will she lose her mind?"

My stepsister giggled, snuggling into my husband’s embrace.

I stood outside the cracked door, completely frozen.

My husband was holding her tight, enthusiastically picking out names for the baby growing in my belly.

My own mother scoffed from the side. "Relax. That idiot will never f...

Kingsveil Academy is the most prestigious supernatural academy in existence, reserved exclusively for heirs destined to lead their people. Future kings, queens, alphas, coven leaders, dragon princes, vampire heirs, fae royalty, and powerful bloodlines from across the supernatural world gather within its ancient walls to prepare for the day they inherit their thrones.
For Arabella and her brothers,...

A witch’s forbidden curse robbed me of my body, pureblood wolf lineage, heir title and fated mate’s bond — lasting only thirty days.
In my past life, no one believed my truth. My pack locked me in the moon dungeon, labeled me a mad wolf, and Rain sold me to rogue wolves to die.
Reborn on day one of the soul swap, I know the curse’s time limit. While Rain steals my life in my skin, I am trapped in ...

The day before Thanksgiving, my husband, David, dragged his suitcase to the airport, claiming he was flying to Seattle to meet an important client.
My parents took my younger brother to Miami for a vacation and conveniently took my six-year-old daughter with them.
With the house empty, I picked up a last-minute catering shift that paid double the usual hourly rate. I needed the extra money to cove...

For a hundred years, I used my blood to suppress Grant’s Dragon Frenzy, helping him rise to become Head of the Gold Dragon Clan.

The day of his Ascension Ceremony was also supposed to be the day of our Bonding Ceremony.

Instead, in front of guests from every supernatural race, he named Lacey, a Light Fae, as his Consort. He said I could stay at his side, but only as his Personal Guard, without s...

For the sake of my marriage, I turned down a promotion and became the perfect wife and mother.
When my six-year-old son was rushed to the ER with an asthma attack in the dead of night, I sat vigil until dawn.
What I didn't expect was to hear my husband, just outside the emergency room doors, bragging to a friend about his mistress — and sneering that I was "bland and boring."
What hurt worse: my o...

With five days left before I was to leave the Black-Fig Pack and marry into the Pear Pack, I packed away everything Kael Thorne had ever left behind.
For five years, I had cherished his lost cufflinks, dried wildflowers he casually picked, and even a used handkerchief.
Now, they meant nothing to me.
I remembered every rejection and every scar he gave me, but I had completely lost the feeling of lo...

When Daniel and Melissa's marriage imploded, Grace and I were ten.

They fought wildly in family court for Grace, screaming until they were blue in the face. Then, the judge looked down from the bench and asked about my custody.

Crickets. Total, suffocating silence.

They eventually agreed to split time. In a thirty-one-day month, they meticulously counted hours, practically drawing blood to see...

“William, I don’t love you anymore.”

Celine Quinn once gave everything she had to love, only to be repaid with betrayal and heartbreak. When she finally walks away from the man who shattered her trust, she thinks she has lost nothing more than a marriage.

Then Adrian Sterling enters her life.

Powerful, composed, and intimidatingly handsome, Adrian is not the kind of man who makes empty promises...

My mother-in-law was a spoiled and soft woman.
Fifty years old and she couldn't book a rideshare. Couldn't pick up a package. When the breaker tripped, she cried into a video call to her husband and her son.
The whole family agreed on it. Her only skills were clinging and being adorable.
Then I bled at nine weeks and took myself to the ER.
The OB who picked up my chart was my husband's best female...

A blizzard night. My car broke down in the middle of nowhere, and my legs had already lost all feeling.

With purple, cracked fingers, I dialed my fiancé, Silas.

Through the phone came the cozy crackle of a fireplace, and the sweet giggles of the fake heiress, Stella.

"Silas... save me... Route 82..." I gasped, my voice fading.

"Harper, this jealousy game makes me sick," he snapped. "Stella onl...

Nessa Calder has spent her entire life skating in her father’s shadow.

One more competition could earn her a place on the Olympic team—and finally prove her success belongs to her, not the powerful sports executive who has controlled every part of her career.

Then she tears her ankle.

The federation assigns the only specialist they trust who isn’t on her father’s payroll:

Brennan Kessler.

Hoc...

"You don't deserve this", he breathed. His hand glided against my cheek as I slowly lean into it.

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing. Never mind", he brushes it away. I don't think too much of it, so instead I mumble against his hand.

But what I didn't know is what he said was true. I didn't know that I really never deserved any of this. Because the person I trusted the most has been slowly breaking ...

"Sign it," he said. "Talia needs me in a way you never will."
Five years of marriage ended with a folder on the kitchen counter, one day after Olivia caught her husband with his first love in an unfinished hotel suite—and heard him blame her for walking in on it. It wasn't the papers that broke her. It was that he said it like a fact, and didn't even flinch when the pen trembled in her hand.
Oliv...