Best Calm Protagonist Stories & Novels Collection

Blossoms Beneath the Moon Gate is a tender, slow burn Chinese romance set in a tranquil mountain village where fate quietly steers the lives of two souls. Lian Hua, a compassionate healer orphaned in childhood, lives a humble life tending to villagers and searching for the meaning behind her recurring dreams of a man from another lifetime. When a quiet, mysterious wanderer collapses at the moon ga...

When my boyfriend of three years won the student body presidency, I rented out the entire bar to celebrate. But when I came back with the cake, I heard deafening jeers from the private room.
"I bet ten grand I can get her to ditch the engagement her family arranged and elope with me before graduation."
"That uptight bookworm? Sweet-talk her a little and she's wrapped around your finger."
"Guess wh...

I was never supposed to survive my sixteenth birthday. Born without the ability to shift into my wolf form like every other werewolf in my pack, I was branded a freak—a mistake that shouldn't exist. My parents tried to hide me, desperate to protect me from judgment, but isolation only deepened the wound. When they were murdered in front of me during a transformation I couldn't control, everyone bl...

I was the hottest entertainment lawyer in LA, until I overheard my husband and his rising-star client plotting to turn my life into their next project. My bottle of pancreatic cancer painkillers sat between them like a prop.
I died before the third act. He spent my legacy on a PR splash for her the day they buried me.
But Hollywood never saw a plot twist like this: I woke up.
Not just alive—but ba...

“I’ll make sure you hate yourself Anya Vescovi," Sergei grinned like he was confessing love, instead of casually spewing his hatred, "So much you drop to your knees and beg for mercy in the form of death.”

Fourteen years after the Morozovs were erased by a false peace, Sergei Morozov returns to finish what the Vescovis started.

His revenge isn’t a bullet, it’s her.

Anya Vescovi will learn what ...

Detective Aria Kane tracks down a murderer who decorates each corpse with flawless origami cranes. There were eight victims. identical cut. The same position. The same bird. Home is indicated by the clues. This killer is the subject of a thriller written by her fiancé, Ethan Cross. While she sleeps, he folds cranes. He is aware of details that only a murderer should know. Like a signature, he says...

Olivia thought her life was going to be perfect after she was adopted at a legal age by the Brookes couple, who were well-known businessmen in New York.

She later found out that the reason for her adoption was only for a marriage agreement because the Brookes couple only had a male child and needed a female child to fulfil their end of the bargain.

Things got worse for Olivia when she realized...

The stranger moved closer, closing the space between him and Anna.

His hand came up, gripping her jaw and tilting her face so she had no choice but to meet his gaze.

“Are you sure about this?” he asked.

Anna swallowed hard, her pulse racing.

“Yes,” she breathed. “I want you to fuck me so hard I forget about my dickhead of a fiancé.”


Anna Hawkins was never supposed to fall ...

Ariyah Haleem’s life is signed away the night she becomes a wife for business, not love. She never imagined her father would trade her future to save a dying empire. Yet one signature is all it takes to bind her to billionaire heir Zayn Rahman a man who views marriage as ownership and wives as assets. Their wedding is broadcast in gold, glamour, and lies… but behind closed doors, Ariyah becomes in...

She was sold to be forgotten.
My family, the perfect, wealthy, charitable Morels, sold me. My brother negotiated the deal, my parents stood by and watched.”
“Now i want revenge.”
Raised by a powerful family that never loved her, Lyra Morel grew up knowing she did not belong. When she tried to do the right thing, she was traded away to keep a dark family secret buried. Her past was erased. Her name...

In Darya's first life, she got betrayed by her husband- leading her to die with her unborn child. After losing her first, second, and third life where she had undergone a lot of trauma, she went crazy. What keeps on happening is she dies and then lives another life in another body. This repeated course happened fourteen times. So then, on her 15th life to which she miraculously came back to her ...

A king bound by ambition, a girl scarred by fate, and a matebond powerful enough to bring a kingdom to its knees.
Narine never expected to survive. Not after what was done to her... body, mind, and soul. But fate had other plans. Rescued by Supreme Alpha Sargis, the kingdom’s most feared ruler, she finds herself under the protection of a man she doesn’t know… and a bond she doesn’t understand.
Sar...

Ninteen-year-old Lila never expected to find her fated mate at her sister's wedding.
She definitely never expected him to be Adrian Blackthorn, the ruthless Alpha King who just married her older sister, Queen Celeste.
The mate bond snaps into place during the ceremony, but Adrian feels it too and his eyes promise silence.

The problem?
Someone in the palace knows their secret and plans to use ...

Paisley is the campus-recognized "Dating Queen," specializing in orchestrating perfect romances for her best friends—never failing. Until she encounters a mysterious rival—a love coach calling himself "TexasCoach," who's actually coaching her target crush on how to counter-flirt!

When the two matchmaking masters face off head-to-head, Paisley is shocked to discover that this legendary love guru i...

For twenty years, Anna was the "shameful" Lancaster, hidden in the dark. Now, she’s the replacement bride. When her sister commits suicide on her wedding day, Anna is forced to step over the body and walk down the aisle.
Her husband? William Fairchild, the empire heir who is supposed to marry her sister, and now holds Anna captive in a marriage built on conspiracy.
Welcome to the Fairchild family...

Amelia Noah thought she came to Greece to heal. Instead, she found the most intoxicating man she’s ever met. David Sterling sees her in ways no one else has until small details start to fracture the illusion.
A forgotten key card in her purse. A newspaper headline about the “Mediterranean Strangler.”
Each victim was a woman traveling alone. Each romance lasted exactly five days.

Now Amelia’s faci...

After losing her mother, Rose’s world shatters further when her father, Thomas, remarries the cunning Melissa and arranges a loveless marriage between Rose and Connor Miller, the aloof heir of the wealthy Miller family. What begins as a forced union quickly turns into a tangled web of betrayal, power, and forbidden longing.
From the moment Rose meets her in-laws, she sense their genuine smiles . H...

After a contract marriage with genius billionaire Adam Freeman, Zina longs for the days when he would still chase her. But those days were long gone as he was now married to his lab. In a shocking twist of fate, Adam Freeman dies in an accident just when things seemed to be turning around, and a few months later Zina fights the loud attraction growing in her heart for the newest billionaire in the...

I used to create perfect weddings for other people, always dreaming that someday I'd plan my own. As Toronto's most sought-after wedding planner, I had it all mapped out—the venue, the flowers, the dress I'd been saving for since I was twenty-five.
Then I came home early from a client meeting and found my fiancé Philippe in our bed with his paralegal. The fight that followed was ugly—screaming, ac...

She saved his life.
He ruined hers.
Now they have another chance, but a secret could tear them apart.

Aria Blake is a new maid, unnoticed by the rich and powerful. But when tech billionaire Damian Cross is attacked at home, she's the one who finds him barely alive. She saves him, then vanishes.

The next day, she's fired for something she didn't do. She's silenced, embarrased and sent away.

Dami...

She was sold to her greatest enemies…four ruthless Lycans who ruled with power, danger, and desire.
But fate had a cruel twist… they were her fated mates.

Mira was never meant to be theirs. Traded by her father as nothing more than a breeder, she vowed to destroy the monsters who took everything from her. Yet the moment their eyes met, the bond ignited—a connection that burned hotter than hatred ...

Lucas: “You need the money, and I need a wife to shut my grandmother up. We’re a perfect match—don’t overthink it.”
Sophia: “You really know how to sweep a girl off her feet. Where’s the romance?”
Lucas: “I’m offering a solution, not a fairy tale.”
And that's how Sophia Lane got married to the Cruel CEO of Davenport and Co multi billion company, because of money and a burning hope to save her youn...

When Evelyn Hale moves to Ashwick Falls for a quiet new beginning, she discovers a town that knows more about her than it should. Strangers greet her by name, old photographs show her face, and the cemetery holds a grave with her birthday etched into the stone. As she digs deeper, Evelyn uncovers a cycle of vanishings the town refuses to remember—and the more she searches for answers, the more she...

Zara Alaric had always lived in the shadow of her stepsister, Selene was pampered, adored, and destined for a life of luxury. But when Selene disappears on the eve of her wedding, leaving only a letter behind, Zara is thrust into a world she never asked for: forced to marry Adrian Voss, a ruthless billionaire CEO with a heart as cold as his empire.
At first, Adrian despises her, and surviving his ...

Marrying the man whom My sister was supposed to marry was not My plan but fortunately I ended up marrying the billionaire whom My sister left to pursue her modelling career.. And the most unexpected thing happened when he told me he loves me on our wedding night.. I don't know why he fell for a plain girl like me but all I know is that he loves me and I am lucky to have him. But is that all? What ...

My fiancé dumped me on his best friend like I was a piece of unwanted inventory.
"Her brain's broken. She doesn't remember you. You take care of her." — The most ironic line I've ever heard, right before I blacked out.
So, I, the infamous "Steel Rose" of the boxing world, decided to play along. I moved into his friend Jordan's—the billionaire's—penthouse and started acting like a scared little bun...

Valentina Roseheart has been making my life hell since the day I won the scholarship she thought was hers. Cornering me in parking garages, leaving scars, making sure foster trash like me knows exactly where I belong.
Then she sent Tyler Brooks to finish what she started.
Her ex-boyfriend showed up with that devastating smile and an offer I couldn't refuse.
"Come to my world," he said, blue eyes s...

For nine years, I loved Jake, heir to the Steel Knights MC, like a fool—until I saw him tangled up with my own cousin in the garage… while she was carrying his child. They laughed at me, called me "just a mechanic," treated me like their loyal dog. But I'll show them—the most underestimated roses grow the sharpest thorns. From Texas to California, from a cast-out nobody to the underground racing q...

"And now, he's certain your life is over because he kicked you out. They're probably already placing bets on how long it will take for you to bow and beg at their feet to take you back. But..." He said coldly.

"But..." I breathed.

"Imagine suddenly returning with a husband so wealthy he makes them look like paupers. Not only is he filthy rich, but he's hopelessly in love with you, spoiling you r...

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When Sarah David discovers her sister is marrying the only man she’s ever loved, her ex-boyfriend turned Hollywood star, Aaron Bourne, her world shatters. A reckless night of passion with Aaron leaves Sarah carrying the one secret that could destroy her family: his child. Forced to hide behind her loyal best friend, she watches Aaron marry Zara, even as his obsession with her grows. But whe...

I saved Frank from an avalanche. He paid me back by locking me at home with a pregnancy monitor and a salt-free diet. When he announced to the world on television that he was single, causing me to miscarry in a blizzard that very night, I knew this man was beyond saving.
So, I made him drink a potion that erases memory. Now, he has completely forgotten me, his wife, and our dead child.
And my grea...

He marked her as his… Now there’s no way out.

Isla Monroe is a struggling college student with big dreams—until a single night changes her fate for good when she crosses paths with Damian Cross, the dangerous and charming powerful heir to a ruthless mafia empire.

With one claim, he marks her as his. But Damian didn’t choose her by accident—his secrets are tied to her past. As enemies close in an...

New York’s underworld has always been bloody. The five Mafia families keep their fragile peace with a mix of threats, bribes, and unspoken rules. Vittorio Falcone, the kind of man whose voice can make grown soldiers rethink their loyalty, sits at the head of one of the most feared families in the city. His daughter, Francesca, was never meant to be a player in this dangerous game—she was meant to ...

Divorcing my striper husband is a love story that unfolds the two birds who have been enjoying their lives until Ava gets hired at her former college colleague who owns the company and this made Herman jealous and they kept on having fights from time to time.
Ava one day saw Herman entering a restaurant while holding a waist of one girl and she started suspecting that her husband was cheating on h...

I am Seraphina Cross, a professional heartbreaker who specializes in destroying arrogant, self-important men.

My target was tennis prodigy Phoenix Ashford, but after one wild night, I discovered I'd slept with the wrong man—his twin brother Caspian, heir to a business empire.

One mistake. One bloody game unleashed.

I drove Caspian to obsession, made Phoenix willing to die for me. When both brot...

Naomi Trent was thirty minutes late for the most important interview of her life. She expected the door to be shut, the chance gone. But instead, the CEO himself told her to sit. Lucien Kings was cold, powerful, and not known for second chances. She didn’t understand why he chose her, only that from that moment on, nothing felt normal. He gave her the job. Then the rules started changing. Commands...

From the moment she was born, she was an anomaly: a wolfless daughter of an Alpha, heir to a pack she could never truly lead. She was destined to rule with her best friend and fated mate at her side, but he shattered her world by rejecting her and siding with tradition. Her heartbreak and humiliation were absolute, leaving her a leader without a pack, an outcast in her own home.
Miles away, a rogu...

Chiara was raised in the orphanage of the Silver Aspen pack. Not an overly large Pack, but a strong Pack. As a human, she takes the brunt of the pack's bullying, especially the "Ranked Squad" as she calls them. When she turns 18 earlier than she thought, and gets a wolf, will she be able to accept what she is after all the abuse? Accept her wolf? And accept the Twins as her mates? Or will she retr...

Five years ago, my world shattered in a single night.

On my wedding anniversary, I discovered my husband, Rowan Whittaker, in the arms of his ambitious subordinate—Serena, who was carrying his child. Within hours, my family's tech empire collapsed under Rowan's betrayal, and my father was left comatose after a ruthless corporate coup. Broken, pregnant, and hunted by secrets, I fled overseas, seek...

He didn't love her but she became his Mrs. Jack. She couldn't interfere with his personal behavior and couldn't tell others that she was his wife.

When his ex-girlfriend returned as promised, she handed him the divorce agreement, saying, "She's back, and I'm returning your freedom."

But he just laughed and said, "Mrs. Jack, you have made me fall in love with you again,Where else do you want to ...

Marrying my ex-fiancé's baby brother? The boy who was supposed to call me "sister"?
When Knox abandons me at the altar, twenty-one-year-old Theo becomes my only option to save a multi-million dollar merger. Three years of marriage, separate bedrooms, purely business. What could go wrong with a shy virgin cowboy who blushes when I get too close?
Everything, apparently.
Theo Sterling is full of dang...

He was Brett Wilson—every girl's dream on campus, yet he was obsessed with me, the coding "Ice Queen." When I proposed a "three-month relationship trial," he actually agreed? Learning to code for me, pulling all-nighters to debug algorithms, even skipping a crucial game to stay by my hospital bed… Everyone said I should be moved. But when I saw those unsaved flirty texts on his phone late at night...

"This is kidnapping," my voice cracked as I followed him. "You can't keep me here."

"I think I can," he chuckled, tge sound low and dangerous. He draped his coat over the kitchen counter, then turned back to me.

"And that's what I plan on doing."

A violent shudder ran through me.

He meant it.

"It won't be long before someone realises I am missing," I said, hoping that logic would reach him....

I thought I'd die in that blizzard after being nearly beaten to death by my tyrannical father Terence—the crime boss of Chicago's South Side. Then Michael, a mechanic, rescued me and offered warmth and safety I'd never known. I couldn't help being drawn to him; he taught me to fight back, awakening my long-dead heart.

But I began to notice his gaze—complex and conflicted. I feared this was just a...

It was supposed to be one night with a stranger, with absolutely no chance of ever seeing him again.

Until the next evening, when Aurelia walks into dinner and finds him sitting beside her stepmother… as her fiancé.

Kilian Moretti, her one-night mistake is her stepdad-to-be.

Aurelia has known loss all her life. Her mother died when she was just a child. Years later, her father’s sudden, suspici...

$20,000 a month - that was our deal to make me his contract girlfriend.
Everything changed when he sent me to care for the woman carrying his child...
Standing heartbroken in that hospital with baby gifts in hand, I discovered a truth that shattered my world.
I thought I could play this game that started with money, but I'm losing badly - because somehow, I've really fallen for my boss.

One invitation letter changes Lio’s entire life.

He never expected to be chosen for Moon’s Mate University—a place where powerful alphas can claim any omega they desire.

But what Lio doesn’t know is that fate has something extraordinary in store for him.

Not one, not two, but four alpha brothers will claim him as their destined mate.

“You are bound to me. No one can take you away.”

Each of th...

Street artist Lucy Carter has spent years hiding behind her graffiti tags and emotional walls, scraping by in Chicago's underground art scene. When her mysterious benefactor offers her a legitimate gallery showing, she thinks her luck has finally turned. Instead, she inherits a deadly game of stolen masterpieces, murder, and family secrets that someone will kill to protect.
In an art world where f...

""Stay away from my brother. He is a player, doesn't love anyone and I wouldn't want to see you being hurt by him." Jason's warning should have been enough,but one reckless kiss changed everything. Now Liam finds himself caught between Ryan the bad boy with a reputation of breaking hearts, and Brandon, the campus golden boy whose charm is a facade.

“You’ll be my Luna until I find Viviana. Then you’ll step aside like the good little Omega you are.”
“And if I refuse?”
“Then you’ll break your grandfather’s heart when this engagement falls through. Your choice, Isla.”
Those words marked the end of Isla’s freedom and the beginning of her undoing.
When Isla Morretti stumbles into the wrong hotel room after escaping a humiliating breakup, she expec...