Best Modern Times Stories & Novels Collection

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She is the nerd nobody cares about.

He is the hockey team captain and the popular guy on campus.

She's always an object of ridicule.

He is always there to save her.

He is her enemy.

She is the one girl that is able to catch his attention.

Their worlds couldn't have been more different.

Everything goes down the drain when Skylar falls in love with the one boy she is supposed to guar...

3:07 a.m. That’s when my world shattered—via a video call from the boyfriend who’d vanished to Australia without a word. No warning, no goodbye, just a grin and a life-altering secret that left me reeling. But heartbreak doesn’t pause for office hours, and neither does my infuriatingly handsome boss, Rowan Pierce.
One minute, he’s micromanaging my reports and calling me “incompetent” for breathing...

Adeline believed one thing for her entire life. Rafael, the bodyguard who was always at her side, was the safest place she had.
But she was wrong.
On the night her trust shattered, Rafael handed her over to a reality far crueler than betrayal. The man she loved turned into the cold figure who imprisoned her, not out of hatred, but because of a debt from the past.
Adeline’s father had taken somethi...

Ava Reed
I spent years in med school, working my ass off to get my degree. But when I told my dad I wanted to be a physiotherapist instead of a surgeon, he wasn’t thrilled. It’s not what he envisioned for me, according to him, physiotherapists aren’t real doctors. But I’m not about to let his expectations define my future. What better way to prove I’m capable than by working with his golden boy?
L...

“I need to know if you taste as intoxicating as you feel,” he says roughly.

Before I can steady my breathing, he’s already sinking to his knees. His fingers hook into my panties and tugged them down.

“Cassain…” I murmur, but the word dies as he lifts my leg onto his shoulder, pulling me closer. One slow, deliberate stroke of his tongue on my Clit, steals the air from my lungs.

My knees threaten...

Seventeen-year-old Luna Ashford always felt like an outsider at Crescent Valley High. With her silver hair and piercing amber eyes, she knew she was different, but she never imagined how different she was, until the night she accidentally witnesses a brutal fight in the woods and discovers the town's darkest secret, that werewolves are real, and one of them has been hunting her.
Enter Kai Blackth...

⚠Warning: This story contains mature content including explicit sexual scenes, domestic violence, and dark themes. Intended for 18+ readers.
For five years, Shailyn endured her husband Dante's cruelty — the cheating, infections and humiliation. She gave him her groundbreaking AI technology, H-GPT, and watched him claim it as his own to become CEO of SentientIQ.
She gave him her body, even when he ...

Four babies. A billion lies. One mess.

Ares Langford is reckless, spoiled, and dangerously close to losing his billionaire inheritance. One more mistake and his father swears to cut him off for good.

So when a cop pulls him over for speeding, Ares panics and lies. His girlfriend is giving birth, he claims. The officer insists on escorting him to the hospital. Desperate, Ares bribes a random nur...

After serving three years for a crime I didn't commit, I discovered the devastating truth on my release day: Chase Grayson, my husband, had divorced and betrayed me, marrying my younger sister. Worse still, he sold me to Axel Blackwood, a powerful and feared stranger. Heartbroken and trapped in Axel's world of secrets and lies, I faced a new prison that threatened to consume me.

“She saved me, with one nervous smile over a decade ago she started to put my broken pieces back together, it started under the apple tree and that is where it will end because I need Audrey to stay whole, even if that means I tear her apart.”

Coming back to her grandparents house after she had been sent away as a teenager, Audrey didn’t expect for her life to get even more complicated.

The hou...

Elena Moretti was supposed to marry the respectable brother, the one she was meant to love, not awaken the monster in the other.
Elena Moretti dreams of a happy ever after with her childhood best friend, Rafael Rossetti Romano, the one man she has loved all her life. Instead, she collides with Nikolai Rossetti Romano, the cold, ruthless mafia heir who looks at her like he wants to ruin every vow s...

He is the First Wolf.
Five thousand years of blood and moon and hunger carved into a man who no longer remembers how to ask.
She is the last High Priestess reborn, the only woman who ever made the Moon scream, and the only one who can end his curse… or finish him for good.
Eva Harlow doesn’t believe in fate. She believes in locks, in exits, in never owing anyone anything.
Malach Whitaker believes ...

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...

Three years of her life and the man just threw it away like it meant absolutely nothing. Natalie had been in love with Jason since she was just a teenager. The thought of spending the rest of her life with the man who made her heart race filled her with excitement. But three years down the line, she had cried more than she had smiled. Jason was not in love with her. He only married her because of ...

Ayesha Wilson, a 19-year-old Harvard scholar on a full ride, never expected her life to spiral into a storm of power, secrets, and forbidden love. Her father works for Aberama Kane, a ruthless billionaire whose son, Daniel Kane, once tried to bully her out of Harvard.

But when Daniel discovers Ayesha is about to marry his much older uncle, he storms into her life, determined to stop her. What he ...

He died once. No one remembers.

Except Elena.

Years ago, a boy named Samuel drowned. The town mourned and moved on. But when he suddenly reappears—alive and unchanged—Elena is the only one who knows the truth: he shouldn’t be here.

Because she remembers his death. And she remembers the quiet, cold presence of someone else there that day. Someone who let it happen.

Now, time is breaking. Echoes...

"She’s the woman he wants, but will he win her heart before he loses himself?"

In the glamorous world of Monaco, Lila De Laurent, a sweet and stunning heiress, finds herself bound to the dangerously handsome billionaire, Damien Vasilis, in a marriage neither of them wants. But as sparks fly between them, their fierce attraction becomes impossible to ignore.

Damien is a man with a dark past and...

She stared at him with nothing but emptiness holding in her beautiful grey eyes.

"What are you doing here." She mumbled in a blank tone waiting for him to spit out the reason of him showing up.

"Amy I-I am sorry I just." His throat contracted in a painful way as he couldn't find the right words to speak further.

"It's Amelia. And I already forgave you. Didn't I then why are you here." He shook...

Alessia Molano was born into service at the Sirrano household. A loyal maid and trusted keeper of the Glass Chamber key where the legendary jewel La Rosa de la Vita was housed. Until one fateful night when it disappears.

In the blink of an eye, Alessia becomes the target. She is locked up, tortured, and stripped of the only thing she had her dignity and her name. She manages to escape after recei...

"You're fighting it," the low, maddening drawl came from directly behind her, making her heart leap into her throat.

Sierra spun around. Ryder Marsh was leaning against the fence, sweat glistening on his chest, watching her struggle with the hammer. He stepped into her personal space, his scent of leather and sun overwhelming her expensive perfume. "Let me show you." He reached around her, his ch...

A city-bred data analyst, Clara Vance, inherits a secluded cabin in the rugged Colorado Rockies from her eccentric Aunt Bea. Intent on disposing of the property so she can get back to her stable, calculated life in Denver, she finds it difficult to let it go when she uncovers a dangerous environmental conspiracy and a reclusive, protective wildlife photographer, Ethan Kincaid, haunted by an unspok...

Five years ago, a chubby seventeen year old girl nearly drowned in the river and was saved by a boy whose dazzling face and mysterious mole etched into her memory forever. She never forgot him.

Now, transformed into a beautiful, confident woman, she finally crosses paths with her long time crush—at least, that’s what she thinks. After a heated night together, she realizes something is wrong. The...

When Damon Strathmore crashes into Alicia Collins' life, it isn’t quiet, it’s a wildfire. Damon, a ruthless athlete with no patience for distractions, never planned to feel anything real. Alicia, a sharp-witted medical student with dreams too big for detours, didn’t expect to lock eyes with someone who sees through her instead of at her.
One night. One impossible connection.
Between stolen glances...

Adriano Moretti rules the city’s underworld in smoke-filled rooms and blood-soaked streets. In the daylight, he’s the king of the tech world—tailored suits, sharp smiles, every inch the respectable billionaire. But to those who cross him, he’s the executioner they never see coming.

His greatest weapon isn’t guns or money. It’s The Service.
A viral new app dressed up as anonymous therapy, a place ...

Synopsis: They say numbers never lie. But in the world of the Mafia, even the truth can be buried beneath bloodstained ledgers.

Lucia Alvarez is a forensic accountant with a mind as sharp as a blade—and a heart carved hollow by loss. Five years ago, her beloved brother Miguel was pulled from the East River, his hands bound and lungs full of concrete. The official story? He betrayed the Di Santi f...

How far are you willing to go for your family's company?

Eloise Jane Lopez is the one true child of the Lopezes—and due to her sick father's wish, she needs to marry a man she doesn't know to keep the company her parents manage in order. And the man she will marry is none other than Cosmo Dominguez, a multi-billionaire, whose supposed fiancée was Eloise's step-sister but got pregnant, leaving Elo...

This werewolf romance story captures the classic elements of the paranormal romance genre while exploring themes of identity, belonging, and trust. The narrative follows Megan, a young woman who believes she's "broken" because she can't access her wolf, and Damien, an Alpha who discovers she's his true mate rather than belonging to the deceptive Samuel.
The story's strength lies in its character d...