Best City Stories & Novels Collection

The gunshot echoed through the penthouse.

Billionaire tycoon Damien Blackwood collapsed onto the marble floor, blood staining the final page of his will.

Three days later, the world was stunned when his lawyers revealed the sole heir to his forty-seven-billion-dollar empire.

Not his son, not his family.

But Evelyn Sinclair, a struggling young woman with no connection to the Blackwood dynasty.
...

I was Beauty Jones — the most desired model in the world.
Rich. Famous. Untouchable.
Until the day I insulted the wrong old woman… and she took everything from me.
One morning, I woke up ugly.
Disfigured. Repulsive. A monster in my own skin.
My career is over. My so-called friends abandoned me. The same industry that worshipped me now laughs at my downfall.
Desperate to break the curse, I begin se...

Merritt Lawson has spent years building two impossible dreams.

The first? Becoming an architect worthy of finally making her mark.

The second?

Convincing herself that one day, Hayes Gallagher–NHL superstar, lifelong best friend, and the man she’s secretly loved for years–will finally see her as more than the girl who’s always there when he needs her.

He doesn’t.

So when Hayes abandons her for...

Mia Chen does not have time for distractions. Between three jobs, a perfect GPA, and a life built on survival, there is no space for anything else. That is, before she met Ethan.
Ethan Cross is the opposite of control. As the Whitmore University’s star hockey forward, he is as famous for his temper as he is for his talent, and every mistake he makes off the ice threatens the future he is trying to...

I'm the top account director at my firm, always on the road, running myself ragged on golf courses and client dinners. Some months I barely make it back to the office at all.

Right after I land a $300 million contract for the company, my boss decides to hand the whole thing over to a new intern.

My manager says I'm wasting company resources, that my attitude's a problem. My boss tells me to give...

The night before graduation, a confession post blew up the school forum:
“Daphne, I’m gonna rip up my Harvard offer onstage during commencement to confess to you—my whole college future as my love token.”
The OP bragged nonstop in the comments that he’d locked down the state’s only full-ride Harvard scholarship, his admission was a done deal, and graduation was nothing but a meaningless formality ...

I died on that operating table.

Arthur cut my five-year-old son Leo open and took his kidneys to save his bastard kid. Leo died. I died. They threw us out like garbage in the snow.

But I came back.

Back to that same rainy night. This time when Arthur tried stealing Leo's life-saving medicine for that bitch Lily, I slapped her face to pieces.

Outside the OR, Arthur shoved donation papers at me....

"You were like a starved beast last night," I complained, spreading jam on my toast.
Gideon's hands froze mid-knot on his tie. He turned to me, his eyes filled with utter bewilderment.
"Nadia, are you out of your mind? I was in the study finishing up that proposal last night. I crashed on the couch at three in the morning. I never even went into the bedroom."
The knife dropped from my hand onto th...

My sister Chiara and I had fought over Matteo for more than a decade.

In my first life, I got my wish and married him. Everyone said he adored me, trusting me to manage the entire Salvatore family's books and money laundering operations. I worked myself to death, literally dying from exhaustion. On my deathbed, he coldly told me the truth: "I never loved you. You're the one who begged to marry me...

He is watching us, Eleanor. Your husband, the man who believes you’re dead, is watching you like this… beneath another man, breathless, trembling, losing yourself across these sheets.”

His hand tightened against my waist, rough fingers digging just enough to draw a sharp breath from my lips as his mouth brushed the shell of my ear.

“Good,” I whispered, a slow, wicked smile curving against my lip...

In a decaying city apartment building, law-clerk Maya Carter is drawn to the sealed door of 5B—an address that should not exist, yet keeps receiving late-night deliveries and whispering back from the dark. Behind the rumors of a haunted unit lies a battered woman in hiding, and a chilling hunt led by men who weaponize authority, gaslight women living alone, and turn silence into a trap. Tense, cla...

Cora Jennings thought the worst thing about finding her boyfriend in bed with her roommate was the humiliation. She was wrong. The worst part comes the next morning, when the stranger from the bar, the one who made her forget her own name for one reckless night, turns out to be the professor standing at the front of her Literary Theory class.
Dr. Nolan West doesn't do complications. Cora is nothin...

Seven years ago, Chloe was driven away from the Blackthorn Pack for being a wolfless girl, forced to abandon her fated mate, the noble and disciplined Tristan Adams. Now an independent architect, she returns to the ominous Blackthorn Manor as the girlfriend of Ethan Moore—Tristan’s fiercely possessive and emotionally unstable younger brother. The moment Chloe steps inside, the cold and aristocrati...

Rebirth with a twist.
Fawn Jones doesn’t get a chance to resolve the issues with her marriage. No, she gets murdered in her own bathtub. Drowned by the husband she hated after he had moved his mistress into their bed, Fawn’s last lucid thought is a promise before death. "I will not stay weak. I will make you pay. If not in this life, then the next." Then she wakes up. Different room. Different bo...

Nora Voss has one month to pay her mother's medical debt or lose everything. The solution comes from the last place she expected, Colt Harren, the coldest, most feared senior at Whitfield Academy, son of a powerful family, and the boy with a scar across his jaw that everyone whispers about. His terms are simple and brutal: move into the Harren house as his fake girlfriend, attend every event his f...

Every story Iris Vale writes comes true.

A missing woman is found exactly where her latest story said she would be.

A warehouse burns down hours after she publishes another.

Then anonymous messages begin appearing.

WE KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW.

The problem is that Iris doesn't know anything.

At least, she doesn't think she does.

When her stories attract the attention of billionaire Alpha Cassian B...

Martin Williams and Estella Jules grew up together, but lived completely different lives. She was the nanny’s daughter, while Martin was the child her mother served. After her mother died, Estella was taken in by the Williams family and raised to become the nanny’s replacement. At home, she was Martin’s loyal servant, but at school, she was his number one target.

Nobody knew about their secret ma...

Evangeline "Eva" Sterling didn't choose Oakhaven; fate dragged her here. The moment she steps into the office of her brilliant, brooding billionaire boss, Alastair Sterling-Vane, the air turns to fire. It is a whirlwind, intoxicating attraction that neither can fight, a biological lock that leaves Evangeline breathless and Alastair desperate. For Alastair is an Alpha werewolf, and Evangeline is hi...

“You’re just a doll, Olivia. Did you really think I’d let someone like you carry my name?”

In a single night, Olivia Hart lost everything.

Alexander Kane—the man she loved—betrayed her coldly, crushed her heart, then threw her away as though she had never meant anything to him.

With nowhere left to go…
no family to hold onto…
and no place that still felt like home…

Olivia ended up spending th...

Rowan Calloway has one plan for senior year: survive it quietly. Scholarship girl at Velthorpe Academy, daughter of a minor diplomat, wrong bloodline, wrong world. She has never believed in werewolves, curses, or fate. Then her father sits her down and tells her she is engaged to someone.
Caspian Drell is the only heir to the Alpha King, built from cold command and colder silence. When a witch's c...

Cleo Farris has one rule: never want what you cannot have. She breaks it the moment her stepbrother's best friend walks back into her life, older, sharper, and looking at her like she is no longer the girl he used to ignore.
Dash Calloway is eighteen. Too confident. Too perceptive. And living in the same house for the summer while their parents honeymoon across Europe. Cleo is seventeen, invisible...

Alria Ryan is just a delivery driver trying to pay her rent, and she has no idea that the "Moon Salt" she eats every day is hiding a secret.

When a delivery to a billionaire’s penthouse goes wrong, she accidentally poisons the most powerful Alpha in the city with a silver blade.

Edward Ashbourne is cold, dangerous, and dying from a rare silver allergy. He should kill Alria for what she did, but...

He needed a legitimate heir. She needed a lifeline.

Ethan Blackwood, the world’s most notorious playboy racer, entered a strict contract marriage with Claire Sinclair to secure his place in his father’s vast motorsport empire. What was meant to be cold and temporary became twins — then a devastating hospital tragedy ripped their family apart.

Twenty years later, their children, Noah and Lily...

Allison Smith had just gone through a break up and was feeling suicidal. The only way she could get over the memory of her ex boyfriend fucking her rival was to do something daring.

Like taunting Kaden Blackwood, her cold brother's best friend who had literally never smiled his entire life.

She successfully ruffled his cold exterior, but that's when the problem starts. Because now that she's m...

In the ruthless world of corporate empires, Damon Blackwood is a man who never loses—he acquires, dominates, and destroys. He believes everything has a price. Including people.

So when his younger brother's scandal threatens the Blackwood name, Damon makes a calculated move: Ivy Marchetti. A ruined heiress with nowhere left to turn. In exchange for her family’s debts, she will become engaged to h...

Three years ago, Jason De'Leon lost everything.

Prison took his freedom. A murderer took his father. And the man responsible stole the motorcycle club that should have been Jason's birthright.

When Jason returns to Las Vegas, he finds a kingdom built on lies and ruled by Victor Kane, the man everyone fears and no one dares betray.

Not even Lila Torres.

Beautiful, untouchable, and promised to V...

In 1932 Paris, "half-breed" is a slur, but "unprecedented" is a target.

Celeste Moreau spent eighteen years believing her biggest mystery was why her Fae father walked out on her. She lived a quiet life in the 6th arrondissement, watching her mother use "small magic" to keep the winter pipes from bursting. But at her mother’s wedding to a Fae aristocrat, Celeste doesn't just catch the bouquet—she...

The world knows him as untouchable. Adrian Vale is Formula 1’s golden champion, fast, ruthless, and always in control.

Until one moment shatters everything.

A scandal threatens his career. Sponsors are ready to walk. His reputation is burning to the ground.

Enter Liana Cross, the only woman who can fix him.

Her solution? Fake a relationship. Sell a love story the world will believe.

Simple.

...

One lie to save her pride. One deal to fix his past. One rule: don't fall in love.
…
Step One: Fake a relationship with the campus playboy to save face.
Step Two: Keep it a secret that you live in the same house.
Step Three: Don't let anyone see the way he looks at you when the cameras are off.
Step Four: (Most important) Don’t fall in love. Ever.
Sienna and Roman were supposed to be using each ...

On the night her family trades her future to save their collapsing business, Marionette Vale is forced into a contract marriage with the man society mocks, the reclusive, wheelchair-bound billionaire, Cassius Volkov.
To the world, Cassius is a broken heir… a powerless joke hidden behind inherited wealth.
To Marionette’s family, he is the safest place to dispose of the daughter they never valued.
B...

Joanna Arden was supposed to be dead.

The sole heir of the Arden family died in a tragic accident that sent shockwaves through the business world.

But when she opened her eyes, she found herself waking up in the body of a suicidal girl named Millie Hart.

With only ninety days to uncover her killer, Joanna must live under a new identity, infiltrate her own family, and expose a secret that has be...

Olivia spent years loving Brian in silence, trapped in a relationship with no promises, no certainties, and no future. Whilst she waited to be chosen, he always found a way to slip away.

Until the day she left.

Determined to start afresh, far from everything that hurt her, Olivia decides to leave the past behind. But some ties cannot be severed so easily.

Months later, an unexpected reunion br...

I’m Aria Rossi, a perfumer reborn from a brutal, agonizing death. Four years early, Vito Castellano drugged and overpowered me; my body shook in raw bliss when a bullet tore through my temple. All I craved after waking was anonymity—blend scents in secret, hoard cash, and flee to Switzerland to evade his blood-soaked world. Fate betrayed me when I crashed into him at the Velvet Room, his mind unra...

After I pulled every string to secure Caleb as my exclusive protégé during the faculty-student matching round.
He laid out three terms before agreeing to be my student.
First, cover all his grad school expenses.
Second, blank check for every mess he makes.
Third, no questions asked about his personal life.
The other department tutors watching nearby thought his demands were totally absurd.
But I o...

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Before I could turn toward him, the ground vanished beneath my feet. Again, a startled gasp tore from my throat as he lifted me with sudden force, and in the next breath, my legs were wrapped around his waist, his hands firm on my ass like I paid him to own it too.

Before words could leave my mouth he kissed me deliberately. Like he needed to st...

Avery Bennett has spent three years perfecting invisibility at Ridgemont Elite Academy. Scholarship student, plus-size coding genius, daughter of a housekeeper. She keeps her head down, aces every class, and builds apps at four in the morning because a tech company of her own is the only way out of the life she and her mother are barely holding together.
One night at the senior welcome party, Madi...

Santa Close is a tender holiday romance about love found in unexpected places and the quiet power of simply showing up. A financially struggling man takes a seasonal Santa Claus job to survive Christmas, he never expects to become part of a single mother’s carefully protected world, or to matter so deeply to her five-year-old son. Through small promises kept, shared moments, and the honest perspec...

Jessa Bryne was shocked after she found out she had been drugged all this time by her husband, Kaelen Cole, Alpha of the Bloodfang Pack.

She realized he was the reason for her childlessness and also the weight she gained over the past three years.

Not only did he throw it in her face, but he also told her that his supposed cousin Solane had been his lover all along. She had just been pretending ...

She made a deal with the devil and called it strategy.

Reyna Brook is new to Blackwell Elite College…Quiet, timid, easy to overlook. At least that's what she needs everyone to believe. Because Reyna Brook isn't real. Detective Reyna Cole is undercover, and she has three months to prove that Aden Voss.. Cold, untouchable captain of the Blackhawks, knows more about her sister's death than anyone w...

Lana Moore wakes up from an accident that changed her life with memories that are full of holes and the name of a stranger on her lips. Adrian.
It's cold. Strong and untouchable.
And somehow connected to everything she can't remember.

Lana is taken to Paris under the pretense of safety, but she has to live next to a man whose eyes show both rage and desire. Adrian Blackwood is a billionaire with...

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Elena Brooks didn’t sell her soul for money.
She sold it for her sister’s life.
When cold-hearted billionaire Alessandro Rossi offers her a way out of insurmountable debt — one year as his contract wife — she has no choice but to sign. One bed. Brutal rules. Total surrender. In exchange: five million dollars and protection from the enemies her father betrayed.
But Sandro Rossi is no ordi...

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Some wounds never heal; they just dress well.
Marcus Hale turned his heartbreak into an empire. He swore he would never be weak again after watching the girl he loved choose money over love when he was seventeen. Forty years later, he is a billionaire at the top of the world. No one can touch him, and he is completely alone.
Then he sees her.
Angelina Clark isn't his lost love, but she mig...

Alora has lived her entire life believing she was the cherished daughter of the Arctic Canines' Alpha and Luna. But five years ago, her world shattered when she discovered she wasn't their real daughter. Her parents found their biological child, Cielle, and brought her home, relegating Alora to the status of a servant in her own house. Alora's existence became a daily torment, marked by the cruel ...

She signed her freedom away with a trembling hand and a heart full of rage. Two years as Lucien Cross's contracted wife—playing the role of loving spouse while he remained her enemy behind closed doors.
Mara Quinn made a deal with the devil to save her family. He married her to claim his inheritance. Their marriage is a battlefield, their home a cage gilded in wealth she never wanted.
But hate bur...

The past doesn't forgive. It waits.

Mia fled eight years ago, leaving Luke Morrison bleeding and broken. Now her brother's crisis drags her home to face the ruthless billionaire Luke's become—and the son he's raised on stories of her face.

What she finds: A child who calls her "Mama." A penthouse frozen in time. A man whose cold eyes hide eight years of unanswered questions.

She c...

My husband is sleeping with my own sister. Cliché, right? I drove to Black Pine Lake to catch them, but stumbled into a brilliantly twisted murder trap instead. Now, the cops think I am a jealous, psychotic killer. Declan believes he dug the perfect grave for me. But did he?

WARNING: This is no sweet love story. It’s raw. Dark. Obsessive. The kind of power, control, pain, and BDSM-fueled pleasure that ruins you for anyone else.

My name is Ashley the good girl but that only got my mate to cheat on me with another man on our engagement ritual and the pack labeled me a rejected mate. Vodka couldn’t drown the shame. Nothing could.

I was already labeled a laughing stock ...

Ryder Voss is the tattooed bad boy captain of Blackwood University’s hockey team. He sleeps around, breaks rules, and hates sharing his dorm with the new scholarship rookie.

But Alex Rivera isn’t what he thinks.

As roommates, they fight every day. Ryder can’t stand the quiet, pretty boy who talks back and avoids everything. Alex can’t stand the arrogant player who brings girls to their room alm...

Corvus grabbed my jaw, his fingers dug into my cheeks, and my lungs squeezed at his choking aura.

"I will never marry you, Miss Shepherd. And if you dare come near me again, I'll slit your throat." He growled, and my stomach dropped.

It wasn't a threat; it was a promise.

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A messy, drugged one-night stand gave Zuri Shepherd the marriage she desperately needed—only to discover her husb...

The Secrets We Keep

Tati has spent three years running from a past she thought was buried forever. At twenty-six, she’s built a new life in a new city, carefully hiding the mistakes that nearly destroyed her. But when an anonymous message arrives containing a photo from her past and a chilling promise to reveal the truth, everything she’s worked for begins to unravel.

As fear closes in, Tati...