Best Independent Stories & Novels Collection

Two days before Valentine's Day, I found the tag of a pendant in my husband's coat.
For one bright, stupid second, I thought it was mine.
Then he kept making excuses — the office, the drawer, a box that was never in it. No pendant ever reached me.
And I stopped being stupid.
He hadn't forgotten. He hadn't lost it. He had simply bought it for someone who wasn't me.
Most women would have cried. Inst...

What do you do when your husband swears he hasn't betrayed you — because he does it blindfolded, calling it medicine?

Three years ago, Selene bonded to the Alpha of Ironwood. He came home poisoned by shadow. Her soul, too pure, burns it out of him — so he cannot touch her without agony. That is the tragedy the pack whispers about.

They don't whisper about the shrine room. About the chief hea...

Calista Dorian never envisioned falling for her boss.
Damian Westwood was the temptation she should have resisted. A brilliant, powerful music mogul whose charm made the impossible feel inevitable.
But the moment she starts to believe in their love, Damian walks away without warning, no closure or explanation, just heartbreak.
Driven by the need to start over, Calista moves to another country.
T...

“You’re worth nothing now, Molly. We’re done.”

My ex-fiancé threw money in my face. His new girlfriend watched me kneel to pick it up, then pressed her heel into my fingers.

I still pulled the last bill from beneath her shoe.

My mother needed another day in the hospital. Let them laugh.

My father was dead. My best friend had sold me out to his creditors. And the only man offering me a way forw...

My husband stole my supplies. My best friend stole my husband.

And when the world froze, they left me outside to die.

I begged them to open the door. They laughed.

Even my own family turned me away.

I died alone in the snow, hating everyone I had ever trusted.

But when I opened my eyes again, it was summer.

Thirty days before the apocalypse.

This time, I won't beg. I won't forgive. And ...

I’ve been hopelessly gone for Damon George since I was fourteen and he looked straight through me.

Now I’m a freshman at Blackwood University, and Damon isn’t just my best friend’s older brother anymore. He’s the hockey captain every girl on campus is chasing. The guy with a pro career hanging on his final season. The one person I promised myself I was finally done wanting.

Then one stupid dar...

On the very day Charlotte Blackwood discovered she was pregnant, she walked into her bedroom expecting to surprise her billionaire husband with the happiest news of their lives.

Instead, she found him in bed with her best friend.

Branded a cheater with fabricated evidence, abandoned, and left for dead after a tragic fall, Charlotte lost everything—her marriage, her unborn child, and even her mem...

"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...

After one night with the man I'd secretly loved, I told him how I felt.
His response was simple. "What made you think sleeping with me would make me want you?"
I didn't say another word. I just walked out.
I changed my number, moved to another city, and cut him out of my life completely.
Then my roommate, Vanessa, was hospitalized with a high fever.
Her boyfriend drove through the night to see her...

When Claire lost their unborn child, Ethan was in Finland—with another woman.
He didn’t ask why she had gone to the hospital. He only demanded that she visit his mother, surrender their bedroom to his beautiful colleague, and stop “making a scene.”
Then he destroyed the last piece of art Claire’s mother had left behind and locked Claire in a room while she begged him to take her to the hospital.
S...

Dominic once told me he loved me—then leaked my intimate photos to the entire school, all to avenge his dead first love.
Seven years later, he discovered that I had given birth to his son, a child suffering from a failing heart.
He ended his engagement, found our son a donor heart, dragged everyone who had ever hurt me to my feet, and finally proposed as death closed in on him.
I put on the weddin...

Georgia Steele came to Rosethorn Academy to skate.
Nothing more.
She has spent her entire life chasing perfection on the ice, following every rule, every expectation, and every demand placed in front of her. Rosethorn is supposed to be a fresh start. A place where she can finally prove she is more than the girl her mother trained her to become.
Then she meets Puck Hale.
He is Rosethorn's golden bo...

"One bite will grant your wildest desire. The second will steal your soul."
Nora Finch wants only one thing: to save the bakery she inherited from her grandmother from bankruptcy. But along with the old bakery, she also inherits one rule that no one is ever allowed to break: never bake Black Velvet Cake.
That rule shatters the moment Prince Aurelius appears at her door. The captivating fae prince ...

I had spent ten years rescuing girls sacrificed to the river god.
Then, on the morning of my wedding, my parents drugged me, tied stones to my feet, and placed me on the offering raft.
My brother needed a bride, they said. Her life mattered more than mine.
But the eighteen women I had saved were waiting beneath the water.
This time, they saved me.
And together, we decided to give the county exactl...

Brent Hale gave me one night to save the company’s worst-performing livestream—or lose my job with everyone else in Studio Three.
I wanted the severance package.
So I ignored the script, exposed every product flaw, and told viewers exactly what not to buy.
By the time my boss tried to cut the feed, the chat was threatening to riot—and half our inventory was already gone.

I chose the cheapest flowers in the shop because I thought my boyfriend was drowning in debt.
Hours later, I discovered he had sent his fiancée roses worth one hundred times more.
Julian Hart wasn't a struggling intern. He was the heir to Hart Group—and our entire relationship had been an experiment designed to test whether I was worthy of his fortune.
He expected me to forgive the lies.
He expect...

When my supervisor fired me for bringing my four-year-old to work, she thought I was just another single mother she could erase.
So I carried my son to the chairman’s office, placed his birth certificate on the desk, and said, “If your company can’t stand the sight of him, then you can take care of your grandson yourself.”

Isabel Penelope Miller has one rule: never fall in love.

After being humiliated by her first boyfriend, Isabel decided to swear off romance for good.

Ten years later, she's perfected the art of being single.

Then a ridiculously handsome stranger appears in her bookstore claiming he's a magical Cupid.

Naturally, Isabel assumes he's crazy.

Edward J. Eros has been sent from a hidden magical worl...

Natalie Taylor has one goal when she signs up as a companion at Dreams: to make a shit ton of money and get out fast. She's not looking for adventure or hoping for love and romance. But days into her moonlighting job, her quiet determination is shaken when she confronts her biggest problem yet—Levi Van Holt, heir to a mega-billion hotel chain and CEO of a gaming startup.

Levi is everything she wa...

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...

Ethan built me a "Relationship Assessment System." A hundred points a month. Below eighty, we break up. Above a hundred, he marries me.
I believed it. For five whole years.
For that one point, I changed my accent, threw out my work clothes, shut down the little restaurant my mother left me, and molded myself into whatever shape he wanted. But every time I scored ninety-nine, he said: "You're still...

I found a black lace panty under my husband's car. Black lace. Definitely not mine.
Three months. That's how long he'd been telling everyone he was done with herm, telling his mom, telling our friends, telling me. I actually believed him. I thought we were finally okay.
Then I found the dash cam footage from the night before, and I heard him tell his buddy he'd never once felt anything real with m...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Rosalie Bellrose has always believed there are worse things than being a witch. Being a terrible one, for example.

Her magic never answers to spells or potions. It slips into her baking instead: happiness in honey cakes, forgotten memories in cinnamon rolls, longing in strawberry tarts. So Rosalie runs her strange little bakery, sells enchanted pastries to those who can afford them, and keeps her...

Riley Brooks knows heartbreak.

As a gifted witch and rare Heartcrafter, she can brew a potion for almost anything the heart gets wrong. Her tiny shop, "The Remedy & Ruin", is supposed to be her quiet path toward independence.

Then Ryan Reed walks through her door.
He's a powerful fae, an academy golden boy, and the most irritating person Riley has ever met. Worse, her magic can't read him.

Soon...

Nora Carter never expected to inherit a magical laundry.

She certainly never expected it to be drowning in debt, filled with broken enchanted machines, and one bad month away from closing forever.

Determined to save her grandmother's old shop, Nora puts her strange restoration magic to work. She may not be able to cast impressive spells, but she can repair enchanted clothes in ways no other witc...

Maisie Fable had gone to the countryside for one simple reason: she couldn't write anymore.

After inheriting her grandmother's beautiful villa and bed-and-breakfast in the sleepy town of Fable Hollow, she expected quiet mornings, peaceful gardens, and enough inspiration to break through her terrible writer's block.

What she didn't expect was for the inn to come alive at midnight.

Doors appeared...

"Thank God. The Whitmore bloodline can finally stop being dragged down by you."

Those were my mother-in-law's last words at the divorce signing.

Seven years. Countless fertility injections, cold examination tables, and the growing disgust in my husband's eyes.

They said I was an incomplete woman.

Two days after the divorce, he proposed to someone else. And my father arranged for me to marry a ...

When Christine Woods collapses into a hospital bed from unbearable pain, her husband's response is colder than the IV dripping into her veins: "Stop pretending to be sick."
That same night, a single social media post shatters her marriage--Neil Caffery, intimate with the first love he once claimed was dead.
Three years of marriage. Three years of neglect, indifference, and quiet self-deception.
In...

After the divorce, she became the dream woman everyone longed for.
James Ferguson saved Zelda Liamson and always did whatever she asked, making sure she had everything she could ever want. Zelda thought it was true love. After five years of marriage, she realized she was nothing more than his favourite pet, while he was her whole world.
Then, the woman James truly loved came back, and Zelda demand...

"I could never choose an Omega like Ava."

Damon's voice was absolute ice as he cradled his mistress. "In our world, no one believes an Omega woman can lead a pack. They're meant to be protected, marked, locked in bedrooms pumping out heirs, not standing at the negotiation table redrawing the map of power."

Ava stared down at the thousand-dollar lingerie clinging to her skin, the sick realization...

I was once the cherished princess of the strongest pack, until I lost everything in a single night.
My mate, Damon Gray, the Alpha heir of the Bloodmoon Pack, claimed both me and what remained of my pack. For years I endured their cruelty in silence: scrubbing floors, washing clothes, cooking meals, and serving as his mother's personal punching bag whenever she was in a foul mood. All because I'm ...

Hazel Foster had been married with Rayan Kingston for three years. Even though Hazel knows that Rayan had only married her because her face looked like his dead girlfriend Evleyn Hamper, she still tried her best to maintain her marriage, because she loved him and believed that maybe one day he also fall in love with her.
However, one day Rayan's ex-girlfriend sister's Oliver Hamper kidnapped Hazel...

She was trained to be his destruction. Fate made her his mate.
Crown Prince Knox never expected his new royal guard to be the same woman who tried to infiltrate his court two years ago. He certainly never expected her to be his destined mate. But Aubrey Houston is both—and she hates him almost as much as he wants to resist her.
Aubrey has one mission: get close to the crown prince. It should be si...

Elena, the daughter of a notorious mafia family, was offered as a tribute to the leader of the Morello family by her father. In an attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Elena marries a complete stranger. What she doesn't know is that this mysterious husband of hers is none other than the legendary mafia king... and now, he’s also her new boss...

Evelyn had to marry the infamous Alpha Kane to save her mother‘s pack, but Kane let her go through half of their wedding alone, ridiculed by the entire pack. When Kane finally showed up with a fresh hickey on his neck, their eyes locked and realized they were fated mates.
Bound to him by an unwanted arranged marriage and the mate bond, Evelyn endured betrayal, pain, and the humiliation。
Then Evely...

Seven years. A three-million-dollar contract. A heart broken into pieces.

Serena Powell was never more than a ghost in her own home. Hired by a billionaire to heal his broken son, she spent seven years playing the role of a devoted wife and mother, hiding the jagged scar on her palm,a reminder of the night she saved Victor’s life. She thought her love had finally overwritten the contract. She was...

Harper never planned to sell her womb, not until her father’s debt left her with no other choice. When she applies to become a surrogate, she also never expects to be chosen by the city’s most ruthless and powerful Mafia King. Even more shocking? The man behind the contract is hauntingly familiar.
He is Cade Leone, the ex she had to dump and leave years ago.
After all these years, how will they fa...

She: "10,000,000＄. We're done. Just don’t let my husband find out."
The call boy took the black card, frowning.
She: "Not enough? You're good, but don’t push it."
He dressed, leaving behind a cold warning—"You'll regret this😡!"
A week later, she knelt before the Lycan King🐺, begging for a divorce ruling.
And there he was. Her call boy. Sitting on the throne.
He: "(Smirking) Uh-huh😈?"

Two years ago, Maya blamed Nico Laurent for the crash that nearly ended her career.
Now he's her teammate, her biggest rival, and the last man she should fall for.

They called her weak because she was a woman. Maya intends to make them regret ever doubting her.

Maya has one season to prove she deserves her historic racing seat. If she fails, she's out. But when the mystery behind her old crash r...

Mae is the secret wife of Alpha Werewolf President Aaron. As an Omega, she has always been nothing more than useless in his eyes. But when her sister, who disappeared eight years ago, suddenly returns, Mae finally decides to break free from Aaron's cage. Yet, he hunts her down, determined to control her. This arrogant, cold-hearted man has never understood what it means to win someone back. He ref...

She buried her name, bound her chest, and became the brother who saved her life, the same brother whose legacy she now has to carry onto the ice. The Hockey Tournament is her only chance to free her father from the prison cell he was wrongfully thrown into, and she's not about to let anyone stand in her way. Not the cold, calculating Xavier. Not the reckless, infuriating Hunter. Not even the ghost...

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...

Twelve months of internship, top of my class in every evaluation. I showed up at Vanguard Systems to finalize my hire, and Ryan Caldwell blocked the door.
"The Aegis research position and security clearance nomination went to Madison. Five hundred thousand. Sign the NDA and walk away."
Madison Cole stood beside him. She knew her scores didn't come close to mine, yet a federal project access badge ...

I'm thirty-four. He's twenty-one.

I'm his professor. He's my student.

And wanting him could ruin us both.

I've spent my entire life following the rules. No scandals. No reckless decisions. Not even a real love life.

Then Liam Brown walks into my classroom.

He's the university's star hockey player, the captain everyone wants, and the one man I should never touch.

But Liam doesn't seem to unde...