Best Brave Stories & Novels Collection

Marin "Mars" Kessler scored the goal every athlete dreams about. Four seconds left in sudden death overtime, eighteen thousand people on their feet, a championship in her hands. Eleven minutes later, her best friend was dead.

The school calls it a heart condition. Mars knows better. She saw the rival goalie's glove drop half an inch too early. She saw Tess tap the crossbar twice, their secret sig...

“Sign the marriage contract, Selena. I’ll give you everything you need to rise again.”

My skating career is hanging by a thread. The man I loved betrayed me, stole from me, and left me with a mountain of debt.

But he made one fatal mistake: he underestimated me.

Now, I’m entering a one-year marriage with Sterling Black, a billionaire who can open every door my ex tried to slam shut. He needs a ...

“I spent twenty-five years loving him. So why am I the last woman to know the truth about my own marriage?”

Chloe has spent years teaching women how to recognize love, betrayal, and the lies men tell. As a successful relationship streamer, she can untangle everyone else’s heartbreak—except her own.

Rhys was her childhood sweetheart, her first love, and the man who once promised to love her forev...

Thea Ridgeway tells everyone she outgrew curling. She hasn't told anyone that she still lets herself into the rink at midnight, running drills alone under half the lights, because admitting the dream is still alive feels worse than losing it did. Then a name from every broadcast she stopped watching walks into her equipment shop three divisions below where he belongs, and she can't figure out why ...

"No. It's too stiff." Ronan Black, my boyfriend of three years, frowned in frustration and tossed down his paintbrush. "There's not a single sketch with any soul in it."
A classmate beside him looked confused. "How is that possible? Your paintings with Isolde as the model always had such beautiful lighting."
The words stabbed straight through my heart, but I stood there frozen, saying nothing.
Ron...

I wrote love letters for three years, on behalf of my legitimate elder sister, to her betrothed stationed at the Blood Wall.

Ten gold coins per letter.

She only wanted to marry a triumphant hero, but when everyone believed he had died in battle, I sold my mother’s keepsake and begged him, letter after letter, to survive.

Three years later, Rowan Blackwood cut off the vampire commander’s head an...

Betrayed, killed and reborn.
Mira Laurent refuses to repeat the mistakes of her first life.

This time, she'll build her own fortune, destroy the people who wronged her, and never again chase a man who doesn't love her.

But her carefully crafted plans begin to unravel when her contract husband, billionaire Landon Hale, starts making her question everything she thought she knew about love.

My brother came home from Ashgrave twenty pounds lighter with two small scars on his throat and no memory of the winter.
Everyone said mono. Everyone said burnout. Everyone said hockey.
I took his scholarship. I took his number. I am the only girl on the roster and the first thing they told me is that nobody skates after midnight.
So obviously I skated after midnight.
The Night League is real. The...

Sabrina Daniels has spent years quietly pining for her older brother’s closest friend—the star forward and team captain, Ronan Dickson. When her parents leave the country for several months, she’s more than happy to move into the house her brother shares with Ronan… until the night she finally confesses how she feels and he turns her down.

Shattered and embarrassed, Sabrina does her best to st...

Before my flight to Chicago took off, I saved an old man from nearly passing out from the heat outside Miami Airport.
The moment he swallowed the water I handed him, he suddenly grabbed my wrist and clung to it with surprising strength.
"Listen to me. Whatever you do, do not get on that plane! There's going to be a Category 5 hurricane today!"
I froze for a second and looked up at the cloudless bl...

𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐄
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
𝐀 𝐘𝐀 𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐘-𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑

I was only eighteen when my parents were murdered for discovering a secret the government wanted buried.

Before I could even grieve, I was kidnapped and taken to a Cage, a hidden underground facility where young people like me are being hunted, imprisoned, and experimented on.

Th...

Jalena Leigh was born into one of the most powerful magical families in the Eastern Kingdom.

There was only one problem.

She had no magic.

While her triplet brother became a celebrated Imperial General and her sister blossomed into one of Bouvier’s most gifted mages, Jalena was hidden away in the attic—erased from her family’s name and raised more like a servant than a duke’s daughter.

For twe...

A year after losing her father, Hailey moves with her mother, Camille, to the small town of Ashton Hollow, a place where everyone knows everyone, rumors travel faster than truth, and the boys’ basketball team is the closest thing the town has to royalty. Hailey isn’t running toward a new life. She’s running from an old one. But basketball, the one thing her father gave her, refuses to let her go, ...

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...

Raven and Winter are sisters who were torn apart when they were pups, when Winter was taken from Raven and forced into slavery in the Human Dominion. Raven has spent her whole life searching for her sister. When she finally finds Winter years later, she discovers that her sister has been forced to stay in wolf form, collared, controlled, and treated as property. Raven brings her home, determined t...

Ilone Thorne is a curvy plus-size woman and a young designer the mainstream fashion world never believed in.

Once, she squeezed herself into a so-called “standard-size” corset until it left her body covered in bruises—until her grandmother told her, “You don’t have to become someone else before you deserve to wear a beautiful dress.”

After the only person in her family who ever truly loved her p...

Twenty-five years ago, a deadly virus swept across the world, wiping out countless humans and driving female beastfolk to extinction. Since then, women have become the rarest treasure in existence—cherished, protected, and granted the power to choose any beast mate they desire.

As one of the few remaining human women, Faye Sinclair is supposed to live a life of privilege. Surrounded by powerful a...

I thought I had married a man who truly loved me.

But three years into our marriage, I discovered the horrifying truth—our marriage certificate was fake, and my husband had already gotten his young stepmother pregnant.

Abandoned by the man I loved, I was suddenly told that I was the long-lost heiress of a powerful billionaire family.

And the father of my husband—the untouchable trillionaire at ...

“You’re no longer my Luna.”

Caleb said those words in front of the entire pack—the same man I had loved for six years, the same man whose life I once saved by sacrificing my wolf.

Four years ago, I became Wolfless for him.

Now, he had chosen another woman.

Worse, when Caleb’s debts became impossible to hide, he was willing to hand his own wife over to another Alpha to pay the price.

That was ...

My husband killed me on the day of our fifth anniversary. I died at twenty-five.
Now, I'm back in my twenty-year-old body, on the very day he's meant to propose. He's waiting for me, all smiles and lies, but I know the truth—he's a cheater, a monster, and my future killer.
To escape my fate, I make a desperate move. I run straight into the arms of the one man Nicholas fears: Matteo Romano.
He's a ...

"Sign the papers, Gadreel. Consider it my anniversary gift to you—our divorce."
For five years, Ivory Remington played the perfect wife. She nursed her comatose husband back to health, endured his family’s disdain, and smiled through the rumors that she was just a placeholder for his beloved stepsister. But when Gadreel awakens—only to coldly declare their marriage a business arrangement—Ivory’s l...

“I vow to get my revenge whatever it takes!” Every ten years, sacrifices are sent from various packs to a powerful Alpha King—‘the Beast' on the mountain. Banished to die in the forest, but saved by a stranger, Alexa, an rejected mate, willing to fulfill her side of the bargain with her savior, volunteers herself to be a sacrifice to the 'Beast' with her own hidden agenda—to avenge her sister's de...

"Ahhhh," I moaned into the pillow, not wanting the neighbors to hear as they would immediately tell Mom about it.
"Ahhhh," this time it came out louder as I felt a shockwave of ectasy and satisification go through my body. This was the best feeling ever.
Suddenly, a gentle night breeze blew through my open window, My curtains fluttered open, and I looked up to find myself face to face with those b...

Anna had a crush on Declan since school. After pursuing him for ten years, he finally noticed her and asked her to be his girlfriend.
Anna’s happiness knew no bounds. She readily accepted his proposal, hoping to have a happy life with the man she loved.
But that happiness didn’t last long.
She found him cheating on her on their first anniversary, crushing her heart. She realized she was just a sta...

"You can't escape me, Aurora. You are mine!"
The Alpha King's roar echoed through the palace walls.
But Aurora just tightened her grip on the blade hidden beneath her cloak.
She would never—never—give herself to the monster who murdered her father.
Even if the Moon Goddess cursed her to be his mate.


Aurora Regalia once had everything—a loving father, a prosperous pack, and a future that glitte...

Adeline Hayes gave everything to her husband, Adrian Carter, and their beloved daughter, Zora. Her youth. Her dreams. Her entire being.
But to them? She was nothing more than a convenient maid—summoned when needed, dismissed when not.
The final straw came when Zora said the words that shattered Adeline's heart:
"Daddy, divorce mom! I want Aunt Beth to be my new mommy."
That night, Adeline walked o...

No tribute ever returned from the Dragon Court.
Lyra Walker knew that when her name appeared on the selection list. She ran to the man who had promised to marry her, only to discover he had betrayed her with her stepsister.
With no one left to save her, Lyra was sent to the Dragon King.
But the moment his black dragon saw her, everything changed.
She was supposed to be a sacrifice.
Instead, she be...

“If Mr. M wants a perfect little fiancée, he can marry someone else.”

I said that before cutting my hair, binding my chest, and enrolling at Kingston Academy for Boys under a fake identity.

My plan was simple: find my mysterious fiancé, ruin his reputation, and make him call off our engagement.

Instead, I was assigned to a Student Villa with three boys I should have avoided at all costs.

Derek...

My husband is the most generous man in all of Pittsburgh.
He donates his entire paycheck to the community every month and says to the camera with tears in his eyes: "When your neighbors are freezing, you can't just worry about whether there's enough money in your own pocket. You have to show some heart."
But where the camera can't see —
A gas company shutoff notice sits on the kitchen table. His m...

London Caldwell thought she was getting a vacation.
After losing her job and watching her carefully controlled life in New York fall apart, she agrees to escape with her three closest friends to Wyndham Island, a private paradise owned by one of the world’s wealthiest men.
She expects a place to heal.
Instead, she’s met on the pier by Julian Hamilton, the powerful first-born heir to a vast empire ...

“Please, Nepheia, just forgive us. We’re family.”

I once believed those words meant something.

After being betrayed by the Fatasleigh family, abandoned on an island, publicly ruined, and locked away to sign over everything I owned, I finally learned the truth: to them, I was never a daughter—only an asset.

Then fate gave me another chance.

This time, I refuse to beg for love, approval, or a pl...

Nyla Carter didn't come to Blackwood University to be anybody's girlfriend. She came to run track, enjoy her college experience, and make a name for herself.

Unfortunately, two of Blackwood's most talked-about athletes have other plans.

Isaiah “Zay” Reynolds is the school's star quarterback, a notorious playboy who has never had to work for a woman's attention. So when a harmless little bet puts...

Sophie Patterson had always been the quiet shy girl. She hid herself away from everyone, sticking to her three wonder trio; Best friend to Alexa Garlik, and Troy Michaelson.

She loved to spend time with them. The three protected each other and stood up for one another. That is, unless it came from Sophie's biggest pain and most ruthless prankster, Logan Spencer.

He was ruthless, senseless, a b...

Abigail Delaney, the youngest female servant of the Williams household came with the intention to work for a period of time in order to save up enough money to pay for her mother's surgery.
Unintentionally, she fell in love with the only son and heir to the Williams empire, Liam Williams.
It took just one night to lose her virginity to him. And later discovering she was pregnant, she decided to l...

In a great need to save her mother, who was dying, Ava agrees to become a surrogate for a billionaire couple. The plan seemed so simple to Ava: carry the child, get paid, and walk away.
When she thought the deal was over, she received shocking news about Vivian, the children’s mother. She has died in a tragic accident.
Caught in a whirlwind of loss and responsibility, Ava finds herself stuck in th...

I thought I was the happiest woman in the city.

My husband would gently help me into my shoes, rest his hand on my belly and whisper to our baby. My father would tie on an apron and cook dinner just for me.

Then a video from an unknown number shattered everything.

Inside a chapel, the four of them stood side by side.

My husband holding the hand of my father's mistress's daughter. My father arm...

"Will you be my mate?"

Three days after my husband's funeral, his best friend whispered those words to me.

I told myself it was a transaction.

My freedom for his protection. My heart for my survival.


I was wrong.

Fenric Silvermane was not a man who made transactions.

He was a man who took what he wanted.

And he wanted me.

He secured my place among the nobles, learned every little thin...

Sabrina devoted seven years of her life to a marriage built on hope, sacrifice, and repeated heartbreak.
But just when she discovers she is pregnant again, her husband Leon shatters her world with one sentence: "She's carrying a healthy baby, Sabrina… and she deserves to be with the father of her child." Thrown aside for Zara—his first love, now heavily pregnant with his child—Sabrina spirals int...

"Get on your knees, wolfless freak, or I will break your legs myself." In the brutal hierarchy of the Blue Claw pack, Betty is a biological anomaly—the top warrior who cannot shift, a protector with no beast inside her.
With her twentieth birthday ticking down to midnight, her own parents have consented to her public rejection and permanent exile as a rogue.
She has exactly twenty-four hours of ...

Alone.
Scared.
Kicked out.
I have always lived in survival mode. I've been fighting for my existence ever since I was born. Whoever gave birth to me, dumped me in a trashcan, leaving me to die.
I survived, and was put into the foster system. Again, I was fending for myself until my eighteenth birthday when my foster mother kicked me out because her son was getting a little too handy.
I find m...

Three days after the miscarriage, I dragged my body — still not healed — to a rooftop club in Manhattan.
All because tomorrow was Bradley's birthday.
I wanted to buy him a gift. With money I'd earned myself.
But just before I pushed open the door to the VVIP suite, I heard his voice.
"That broke girl from Brooklyn? She was just a bet. A toy I won."
I peered through the crack in the door.
The man w...

"I'll have her in my bed before prom."
That's what my "perfect boyfriend" wrote about me, in a group chat with his best friend — betting on me like I was some kind of prize, with his friend's ridiculously expensive vintage Porsche on the line.
Me, the nobody scholarship girl, somehow ending up with the most popular playboy in school? I actually thought it was fate. I thought it was my fairy tale.
...

“Where are you going, Vesper?”

I looked at my husband’s hand blocking the elevator door—and then at Blythe standing behind him, wearing the smile of a woman who already believed she had won.

“Somewhere my child and I are not treated like tools.”

For eight years, I had built my life around Rhys Hawthorne. I worked beside him, protected his business, became his wife, and carried his child. But wh...

“You took everything I had, Jason. But you will never take my daughter's future.”
Five years of sacrifice. Three jobs. Every penny saved for one desperate hope: giving her daughter Emma the heart surgery that could change her life.
And Jason, the man who had sworn to stand beside her through everything, gambled it all away.
For Amanda Moore, that was the moment her marriage died. There would be no...

I had been Lucan Ferretti's wife for five years. I had also been the woman who took a bullet meant for him.
Four years of fertility treatments. Four years of empty rooms where a nursery should have been. Then, the day I finally get a positive test, I find something else: two secret sons, funded by my husband's money, waiting in a house I was never supposed to find.
Their names? The ones Lucan and ...

When a principal ballerina is found dead on the floor of Beaumont Atelier, the academy's brightest star ends up in a coma overnight.

With opening night only weeks away, former prodigy Odette Bellamy is unexpectedly pushed as a replacement.
But Beaumont Atelier is built on more than discipline and perfection. Behind its mirrored studios and standing ovations lies a world of ruthless ambition, dang...

“Lucy stole my fiancé.”

My best friend stared at me.

“So?”

I smiled.

“So I'm going to marry her uncle.”

I never planned to become Manhattan's biggest scandal.

But after my fiancé, Kyle, cheated on me with Lucy—and I discovered that I was drugged, left in a stranger's bed, and pregnant with a baby whose father I couldn't remember—I was done being the woman everyone could betray.

Lucy stole m...

They told Hilda Kane to share her mate and be grateful.

Her Alpha husband bedded her brother in the sacred Moon Temple. Her father slapped her for refusing to comply. Her brother shoved her off a cliff. Her pack sent wolves to finish the job.

She should be dead. Instead, she woke up in the territory of the most powerful Alpha on the continent—with no memory, no wolf, and a stranger's voice telli...

They told Christine Hayes she was worthless—no wolf, no power, no place in the pack. Her own father sold her for fifty million dollars.

The buyer? The Lycan King himself.

Cedric Lancaster doesn't do love. Not anymore. His fated mate died in his arms five years ago, and he swore never to mark another. But Christine is carrying his twins—an accident from a night neither of them fully remembers—and...

“I’m dating Adrian Lowell.”

The lie leaves my mouth before I can stop it.

Adrian Lowell—the ruthless billionaire, my ex-boyfriend’s uncle, and the most untouchable man in New York—should have exposed me.

Instead, he looks across the table and says, “Since you’ve already announced it, come sit beside me.”

What begins as one desperate lie becomes a dangerous arrangement.

I need his name to save...