Best City Stories & Novels Collection

“Move, Princess.”

“Eat the chicken, Captain.”

To escape her toxic adopted family, Princess takes a high-paying job babysitting a wealthy family's “problem child.” But the kid isn't a toddler—he's Adnan, the university's legendary, ice-cold hockey captain.

Forced to live in his luxury penthouse, Princess clashes with the stubborn giant, matching his icy glares step for step. But as their forced ...

I threw myself at Elian Caldwell on purpose. Falling for him was the accident..

People think they know exactly what kind of girl I am.

The one screaming in the front row with glitter on her cheeks, his name on her sign, and enough shameless flirting to make an entire hockey team cringe. The puck bunny willing to embarrass herself for a chance at the campus's most untouchable man.

If only they k...

Wren Calloway has not cried in two years, not since the night her fiance David Lin died inside a collapsing building while she worked the call as lead paramedic and could not reach him in time. She buries her grief under double shifts and one strict rule: never fall for a firefighter again. Then her ambulance unit is folded into Station 14, and her new partner on every call becomes Captain Gideon ...

I swapped bags with a stranger on the last train home. Hers held a bloodstained shirt, a ring of keys, and photographs I was never meant to see.

Now she's standing at my front door, and she knows exactly what I'll do to protect my family.

I thought I was just an unlucky girl in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I was wrong.

The man in those photographs wasn't a stranger.
He was my father.

“Dad… please… help me…” I pleaded, my shattered ribs piercing my lungs, blood soaking the stretcher.
But Richard, the hospital's top surgeon and my biological father, didn't even glance at me. Instead, he rushed to the next bed.
“Don't be afraid, Chloe. I'm here,” he cooed to his stepdaughter, who merely had a tiny scratch on her arm. “Get the best equipment over here now!” he roared.
As the heart...

I was born under the red full moon, something rare and marked as a curse in the werewolf world.

My pack hated me. They wanted me gone, saying I would bring nothing but destruction. My wolf was sealed before I could reach the awakening age, leaving me worthless. Helpless. Vulnerable.

Then came the night that changed my life, dragging me into the worst world possible.

I was married off to the cru...

Reina’s parents’ mining company was already running at a loss, pushing their family into a severe financial crisis. Determined to help, Reina searched for ways to earn money and support them.

One day, while working at her job, she was approached by a middle-aged woman who offered her an unusual position with a very high salary. The job came with a dangerous condition.

She was asked to become a s...

Kyomi Wesley has spent her life running from the past. Orphaned at ten when vampires slaughtered her family, she studies folklore at Grand Oaks University, trying to understand the monsters that destroyed her world. One night changes everything—a vicious attack leaves her violated and broken, saved only by her mysterious professor, Duran Armani. But Duran isn't just a professor. He's the very crea...

She retired undefeated. He has never lost either.
Natalie Ray walked away from professional boxing at the top of her game. Now she waits tables at Rosario's, a stunning restaurant she has no idea is owned by Lorenzo Ricci the most feared man in New York.
When Lorenzo dares her to fight his security guard just to put her in her place, Natalie doesn't flinch. She doesn't raise her voice. She doesn't...

After disappointing him by not getting married to Alpha Asher as he had planned, Amelia was asked to replace her rebellious twins, who ran away as a bride in a Royal arranged marriage with Ryamond Dantata. What Amelia didn't calculate was that she would end up falling for her sister’s betrothed. She knew everything between them was temporary after all; she was just a replacement bride.

One wrong text would ruin everything.
To the ultra-wealthy elite at Manhattan’s St. Jude’s Academy, Avery Vance is an invisible scholarship kid. But online, she’s "V" a savage, anonymous ghostwriter who charges lazy rich kids insane prices to save their failing grades. She needs the cash for rent. She doesn't need complications.
Then she gets an urgent, five-hundred-dollar request from Jaxon Mont...

⬥ Keegan ⬥
I was sent to her.
To watch her. To protect her. And, when the order comes… to kill her.
My name is Keegan Caffery. I’m the Carter Mafia’s best hitman. I don’t miss. I don’t fail.
At least, I didn’t use to.
I don’t know what it is about her that got to me first—her mouth, her mind, or the way she looks at me like I’m not what she should fear.
I’ve had a gun to her head since I walked i...

Marlow Winters used to know exactly one thing for certain: Truett Sorensen loved her. Then he vanished from their hometown rink the summer before their sophomore year without a word, and the certainty became a scar. Now she's a credentialed junior reporter covering the Kestrel Development Program's championship run for a regional sports outlet, and he's the team's captain, the reason scouts are ci...

For three years, she was nobody.

No name worth remembering. No money worth counting. She was just Jason Sterling’s quiet, invisible wife—the woman his world walked past without a second glance.

That was exactly how Jasmine Vance wanted it.

On their third anniversary, she found him where he shouldn’t have been—with the woman he’d sworn was “just family.” She didn’t scream. She didn’t cry. She ju...

For three years, Stella White loved Alpha heir Liam Sinclair with everything she had.

She endured being called a “defective Omega” and watching her family favor her sister Chloe, because she believed Liam would one day mark her and make her his Luna.

But just as they were about to marry, her parents sold her to a powerful stranger for pack resources.

Stella fought her way out and ran barefoot a...

Princess Delphine Rourke is being married off to end a war she didn't start. The terms are simple: three months in Thornhollow, the last unclaimed rogue territory, to prove the crown can tame it before her wedding to Prince Alaric Sterling. What nobody prepared her for is the four Alphas who actually run Thornhollow, men the crown calls criminals and the territory calls kings. She is supposed to f...

When the Manhattan morgue finally managed to reach my husband, Victor Hawthorne, he was in the penthouse suite, fucking another woman.
"Mr. Hawthorne, this is the city morgue. We need you to come down and identify your wife's remains."
"Identify what?" he snapped, his thrusts not missing a beat.
"Burn her," he ordered. "Don't bother me with her pathetic ploys."
He tossed the phone onto the nightst...

The Enforcement Corps hauled me out of my apartment in the middle of the night and dumped me at the Southside Precinct.

The subordinate I'd trained myself had scratch marks all over her neck and collarbone, and she was shaking so hard she could barely stay on her feet.

The second she saw me, she pointed and started screaming that my mate had raped her.

"Director Cordelia, I've always looked up ...

My husband stole credit for my work, gave it to his girlfriend, and waited for me to say thank you.

He assumed I'd never leave, so he missed me selling our apartment, cutting off his money, and meeting with divorce lawyers.

When he graciously offered me a second chance, I just smiled: "Thanks, but we're already divorced."

Isadora has no last name, no mother, and nothing she can truly call her own. She was taken in as a child out of "charity"—or so she was told—and grew up scrubbing pots in the Rincón household, sleeping on a cot beside the kitchen stove and surviving on leftovers she was expected to be grateful for.

On the night of the old patriarch's funeral, she hides in the wine cellar to cry where no one can...

Woke up married to my professor after one drunken night in Rhode Island.

Ethan Blackwood — 32, brilliant, untouchable, and hiding steel-blue eyes that sometimes flash gold. He says the marriage wasn't a mistake. Not to him.

I told myself I'd get a divorce. Protect his career. Protect mine. But when killer vines I somehow summoned tried to strangle me, he tore through walls with dragon fire t...

For seventeen years, Chloe was the Whitmores’ hidden spare daughter. They harvested her marrow, liver and cornea, then plotted to take her heart for their beloved adopted daughter. Fleeing death through a storm, she is rescued by ruthless power broker Victoria Kane. A faint crescent scar unearths a secret: Chloe is Victoria’s long-lost birth daughter. Together, they will destroy the greedy family ...

For five years, Lyka Forth was the invisible force behind billionaire Hollywood icon Sean McGregor. She scheduled his life, anticipated his needs, and quietly hid a hopeless, unrequited love for her boss. She never expected him to look her way, especially not after the tragic car accident that claimed his wife’s life and left his four-year-old son traumatized and mute.
But Sean is drowning. Runnin...

Bella Tom has spent her entire life fighting to survive.

Raised by a struggling single mother in a small apartment, she grows up knowing hunger, sacrifice, and heartbreak. When her mother dies, Bella is left completely alone, forced to work endless jobs just to keep a roof over her head. But when she loses her last source of income, she finds herself standing on the edge of homelessness with nowh...

“I didn’t do it, Bella,” Leo said, his voice shaking. “She set me up.”

But Bella had already seen enough to break her heart forever.

One week before her wedding, Bella walks into a luxury hotel suite expecting her first night with the man she loves — Leo, the struggling dreamer she stood by for years when he had nothing.

Instead, she finds him in bed with her best friend, Ciara — half-naked, dr...

Six years ago, Rachel Neal was drugged and betrayed by her wicked stepmother and envious half-sister, leaving her pregnant and cast out in disgrace. Now, she has returned to Phoeiro City as a brilliant doctor and a fiercely independent single mother to six extraordinary prodigies—five genius boys and one adorable, mischievous girl. Her only goals are to protect her children, provide for her family...

Cora Snow has always been the outcast of the Lincoln Pack. At twenty, her wolf remains dormant, leaving her weak, overlooked, and an easy target for ridicule. She’s invisible, until the night her wolf finally awakens.
That same night, Cain, the Alpha’s enigmatic son, returns to the pack, accompanied by Cora’s sister, the golden image of everything Cora is not. Fate strikes cruelly: Cain, her desti...

Paul Sutcliffe has spent three years quietly hating Garrett Holt from two rows back in AP Lit, the quarterback who got everything handed to him, including the one apology he never gave her. Then her mother marries his father, and the boy she's hated becomes the boy she shares a bathroom with. Worse: on the night of the wedding, Paul finds proof that Garrett's late mother didn't die in an accident ...

Monica and Jade were best friends until betrayal tore them apart, creating a rift so deep it made them wish death upon each other.

It all began with a murder that both ruined and completely changed their lives.

They clashed at every turn, even after finding love.

In the name of revenge, and driven by the other’s lack of remorse, they did unforgivable things to one another.

Eventually, they dis...

"Please, don't leave me alone! I want you to be my mommy!"

Twana Murray thought she was just taking in a lost, pitiful four-year-old boy she met on the street. She didn't realize she was stepping right into an adorable, meticulously calculated trap. The child was none other than the hidden heir of the Levis family, and he had just claimed her as his mother.
Enter Zekariah Levis—Slington’s most ru...

"Fuck, you're so tight for me," Ryder growled against my ear, his hips slamming forward in a deep, punishing thrust that made my back arch off the bed.

I gasped, nails digging into his shoulders as he filled me completely, stretching me. "Harder... please..."
He pinned my wrists above my head with one large hand, the other gripping my hip hard enough to bruise. "You want it rough, baby? Then beg...

️ ⚠️ Warning: This is not just a sweet fake dating romance, it contains extremely grey characters that’ll have you questioning your sanity and wanting more, strong languages/actions not suitable for minors.

“You’re not going to turn me on and leave me fvckn hanging, Kade.”

F*ck. I’ve never really fancied dominant women, but that fire blazing in her eyes flips something inside me. For tonight, ...

When twenty-five-year-old Sonja steps into her regular BDSM club, she expects another night of disappointment or maybe a nice encounter with a nice Dom for a change. As the night went on it seems more like disappointment was facing her yet again, but then she meets John – a Dominant twice her age who she never seen at the club before. With his steady hand and rare ability, her plays with her and...

Lucia Moretti spent her entire life loving Matteo De Luca — the future Don of New York’s most powerful mafia family.

He was her first love, her greatest weakness, and the only man she ever trusted completely.

Until the night he chose power over her.

At a glamorous mafia gala, Lucia believes Matteo will finally claim her after years of secret love and stolen moments. Instead, he announces his en...

In a world where supernaturals coexist with humans, concealing their identities to keep the peace, Don Draco Von Dimitri, mafia boss and head of one of the most powerful vampire clans in New York City, always gets what he wants.

But Leni DiCaro not only despises supernaturals but has a very special hatred for vampires in particular. So when she crosses his sights and the 200-year old immortal j...

Hate.

Oh yes, I fucking hate Chase Hartley. I mean he's... cocky, a college hockey star, and to top it all, he's my soon-to-be stepbrother. Because my dad decided to get married and have me trapped under the same roof with him for the entire summer.

But everything changed the day we kissed.

Everything turned forbidden.

WARNING: THIS NOVEL IS SPICY. LESS HOCKEY. MUCH SEX

“I don’t remember you.”

“I’m Damian Cole. Your husband.”

“Did you marry me because you loved me?”

His cold gray eyes darkened. “No. I married you to destroy your father.”


After a car accident, Elena Voss wakes up with no memory of the past two years—including her marriage to billionaire Damian Cole. Their marriage was never about love. Damian married her for revenge, and the old Elena ...

Rosalind Fenwick has been the Alpha's disappointing daughter for seventeen years, scarred, overlooked, engaged by arrangement to a boy who looks through her like glass. She has also been dying in her sleep every night since she turned sixteen, murdered in a dream that never changes, by a man wearing a crown of antlers. When the dream finally finishes, something ancient wakes up inside her instead ...

Rayne never wanted to get married; he was deeply in love with Iosif. But fate had other plans for him. On the day of his blind date, he discovered that his boyfriend was cheating on him with his best friend, Ken. The betrayal shattered him from the inside, and in a moment of heartbreak, he instantly agreed to the marriage, without knowing that the alpha he was about to marry was the most dangerous...

Synopsis: Dr. Camelia Hayes, a famous marriage counsellor has the perfect husband. He is handsome, kind, and successful.

Then one day, she receives an anonymous package containing photographs of seven women.
Each woman dated the same man and each woman disappeared after saying yes to his proposal.

The shocking news: Her seemingly perfect husband is the man in every picture.
The problem is...
The...

Adriana made a mistake by trading love for security leaving Rafael behind to marry a man who could give her everything he couldn’t. But five years later, that dream shattered when her husband divorced her leaving her with nothing but a sick daughter and a desperation she never imagined. Stripping was supposed to be a one-time thing. Just enough to survive. But Rafael was watching and decided it wa...

Cael Morrow has one rule: never look too long at anyone. Because when he does, he sees the date they'll die. He's kept that secret buried since he watched the numbers above his family's heads count down to zero. Now he's seventeen, living under the roof of his mother's new husband, and trying to survive a school where his new stepbrother, Rowe Daltry, runs everything.
Rowe is cold, controlled, and...

When Addy Upston walks in on her husband, Rick Upston, with her best friend, her heart shatters into a million pieces and something changes inside of her suddenly; something that makes her decide she’s had enough of waiting around for him to love her.

They share one last intensely steamy moment before she flees to her grandmother’s, not knowing that Rick has changed his mind and now wants this n...

Blurb:

TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains explicit scenes, mature themes and adult languages. FORBIDDEN DESIRES BETWEEN ADOPTIVE SIBLINGS, Intended only for adults (18+)

“I am already wet. Please don't tease me again”

"I want you even wetter. Now, put that finger inside you baby"

She slipped it through her folds and thrust it into her pussy with a sharp gasp.

Cursing, he tore open his zipper...

I was dying in an emergency room when my husband chose his ex-girlfriend over me.

"Stop being dramatic, Olivia," Matthew said over the sound of champagne and laughter. "Rebecca's gallery opening is tonight."

Dramatic? I was hemorrhaging from a miscarriage, signing my own surgical consent because my husband of seven years couldn't be bothered to save my life.

While I flatlined twice on the opera...

I walk into the bar with my pack, and I scent her straight away.

She’s lying behind the counter with blood trailing from an injury to her head. My desire to protect her stuns me almost as much as her beauty.

But it’s the smell of her blood that stuns me the most—it’s something not quite human.

When she wakes up, her fear tells me all I need to know. She definitely thinks she’s mortal.

I choose...

Three years ago, Kieran Vale’s wife died in a yacht explosion. At least, that is what the world believes. The case was closed, DNA confirmed, and evidence sealed away.

But Kieran never accepted it.

Now, on the eve of a reluctant new engagement, a reporter walks into his life, and everything fractures.

Mira Sutton is fearless, sharp, and obsessed with a shipping company tied to that very explosi...

“So, you're alive?”

My voice came out soft, barely above a whisper.

“Shouldn't that be my line?” He asked, voice dripping with sweet mockery. “I mean, I was the one who stabbed you over half a hundred times, slit your throat, and watched you bleed to death.”

…

That's right.

Shane Blackwood is his name still.

Except now, he's crueler, more toxic, more cold-hearted and even more psychotic tha...

Fifteen years ago, Caspian Blackwood watched his world burn. His parents were murdered, his family's empire was stolen, and he was captured and forced to live as a slave by the man who destroyed everything he loved. But he escaped, disappeared, and spent the next fifteen years building an empire of his own. Now, he has returned as a ruthless billionaire CEO with only one goal—to make his enemies p...

I built Elias’s billion-dollar FinTech core system from the ground up. We once endured countless late nights in a basement, vowing to stick together. After the IPO, he grew obsessed with his fragile step-sister Mia. He shared my confidential code with her, ignored my pregnancy emergency, and lost our baby while comforting her. He even erased the secret love note I hid on page three of our architec...