Best Runaway Stories & Novels Collection

A neglected duchess flees her cruel political marriage with nothing but a white rose sapling. A cold duke wakes up too late to realize he’s destroyed the only woman he ever loved.
After humiliating Eleanor in front of Britain’s entire high society, William Cavendish loses her to the quiet streets of East London. He chases her, humbles himself, and begs for forgiveness—until gunfire erupts on their...

"We’re sending you away for a while. "Devon said.

Pain shot through me. They didn’t want me here anymore.

Was this his way of saying that he didn’t want the baby? Was he too scared to say it to my face?

I tensed when David stepped up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.

“We don’t want to, but we have no other choice right now,” David said softly.

“I can stay with you,” I whispe...

The world I live in is more dangerous than I realized, ruled by two secret organizations—the Dukes and the Lords, whom I've found myself entangled with—but not as dangerous as the treacherous man my father, a Duke of Veross City, insists I must marry. I ran away before he could sink his claws into me. I find myself forced to beg my former best friend—Alekos—for help. Alekos agrees, but he has a pr...

After Martina Martinez and Benjamin Walker's breakup, paparazzi captured photos of the business tycoon entering the Walker family mansion with a mysterious woman late at night.

This caused a stir, and this wealthy family was bombarded by various media outlets.

During a phone interview, the gossip reporter asked, "Miss Martinez, how do you feel now that Mr. Walker has a new girlfriend?"

Ma...

{Sequel to Smoke & Mirrors}

It has been 10 months since Sapphire lost her family, 8 months since she escaped the clutches of a monster.

She might have escaped, but she is still a prisoner. She still has a part to play in an ancient story of love, war and betrayal. Her bonds to Damien might have been severed, but there are stronger ties that lay below the surface, ones that she may never be able ...

“I can smell your arousal, my dear Harper.” The man with wolf's eyes moaned and sniffed her. As soon as she felt him slowly working his whole length inside of her, she forced herself to swallow hard.

“You’re going to have to spread wider for me...”

Then, all of a sudden, Harper opened her eyes. She was choking on her own breath and sweating heavily all over her body.

Since she started working a...

​"I am a monster, Miss Hart. You wouldn't want nor wish to see me..." He is mysterious and brilliant, wealthy and prominent, but no single soul has seen him in person. Well, no one should see him—that's one of his many rules. No one can touch him either; that's another rule. Except for me because I have broken every rule. Now I'm extremely drawn to him. His peculiarity is out of this world, and hi...

"Take me, please." This time into his ear. He sat up some and grabbed my hips pulling me on to him harder. The deeper he went the more I lost control. I could tell he was holding back. Maybe he was afraid to hurt me. The bruises, because of what he knows about my past, He thinks he has to treat me like I'm fragile. I looked straight into his eyes. "I can take it, please, I want you to make me yo...

Harmony is no ordinary wolf shifter—she’s a hybrid of wolf and hound, the secret daughter of the Third Prince of Wolves. Hidden from the Council’s prying eyes, she’s been raised to live a quiet, human-like life, spared the fate of being trained to serve Xaxas, the ruthless High King.
But Harmony’s heart beats for the forbidden: she loves all living things, even humans—sworn enemies of the supernat...

The door kicked in like it was being hit by a train. “Where is she NOW!” He growled asserting his dominance. How did he find me?! I hid under the covers, afraid of what he would do if no one answered. Afraid he would carry out what he said to me, thinking I didn’t hear. Aggressive, irrational, and dominant for something that he didn’t know he had until I first shifted. Is he going to rip me apart…...

It’s an enormous wolf, I've never seen one up close before. I stare into the wolves’ eyes, they seem to shift from green to blue to violet, and I breathe heavily. Is it going to kill me? Think of it, I really don’t care. Its almost as I hope the wolf does me the favor.
” Promise me you survive” I look at the beast again.
“You are going to make me keep my word, aren’t you?”

The wolf sits down on...

“I Lucas Gray, Alpha of the Dark moon pack, denounce you Sophia Roman as a member of this pack!”


Sophia was denounced by her pack for shifting four years later than she was supposed too. Sophia thought that it was the end of her life, not knowing it was the beginning of a great adventure.

Two days after Sophia became a rogue, she was attacked by older rogues but was saved by t...

“I’m not gonna help you hunt down my only friend!” She huffed, crossing her arms.
“It’s not a request Fidelia.” He warned, making sure to keep eye contact. “It’s an order, from your Alpha!”
“Screw you!” She shrieked. “Don’t you dare try and use your stupid Alpha power to extort information from me!”
“You know she wasn’t human, didn’t you?” He accused.
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Nessa has spent her whole life r...

“I, Eleanor Bernardi, reject you, Alpha Killian Ivanov, as my mate and Alpha.” She said, glaring at the Alpha who shook his head at the woman, seeming unaffected by her words.
He walked toward her, his eyes fixed on her, as if a predator chasing his prey.
“Over my dead, fucking, body.” He said, connecting his lips with hers. “You’re mine, Eleanor, and I suggest that you keep that in mind.”
*******...

Ava Rose has always been dating Alpha Kane Rowland thinking that he would eventually marry her. However, things took a wrong turn when Alpha Kane betrayed her trust by marrying her sister Cynthia and making her the Luna of Midnight Pack. Ava suffered a bitter betrayal but she promised herself to revenge for the pain they caused her.

** "Make me the most beautiful girl in the planet. I want him t...

you are my queen, and I want to kiss you now,” he said.
I’m not sure that was what I expected him to say, but I had been waiting to hear it. I smiled playfully, looking at him. “Yes, my king,” I said.
Moments, his lips were on mine. The kiss was soft and gentle at first, his hands wrapped around my waist, pulling me close to him; I let my arms find their way around his neck. I felt his tongue gent...

“I asked when you wanted to mark me?” growling i spin to him. I steps back and he step forward slowly. We do this dance until I is up against the wall. “what did you say little one?” he is barely able to control himself, and i am pushing all his buttons. I smirks places my hand opens palmed against his chest. He can stop the purr that leaves his throat. “when did you want to mark my alpha?” my ton...

My darkest secret?
I allowed a complete stranger to dominate me.
He left me with two things that night: His first name. And his baby.
Now Dominic's back and he's not letting me out of his sight.
It all started with a flight and a wildly attractive older guy.
And ended with the most erotic night of my life.
But my first taste of submission ended in flames.
And I ran far enough never to see him agai...

He chuckled and leaned into me and my hands hurriedly held him closer.
"I'm the only one who gets to see you like this. You're mine" he whispered into my ears and it
sent hot shivers down my body and pooled at my core.
He looked me straight in the eyes.
"Do you understand?" He asked, and the look on his face told me he was being serious.
I swallowed and nodded slowly "Yes"
He smiled "That's my gir...

I'm the Alpha's fated mate. I'm also the woman he uses to give his Luna the babies she can't have.

Three years ago, he took my newborn son from the healer and handed him straight to her. I begged until the healers had to hold me down.

This week, I gave birth to his daughter. They carried her out before I even saw her face.

My son calls her "Mommy" now. I'm not allowed anywhere near either of my...

At our twelfth attempt at a wedding, Elias was late again.
To keep the guests calm, I had to walk around with a glass of champagne, explaining to each of them one by one like an idiot.
That was when I got a text from Chloe, one of the researchers in his lab:
Stop waiting. He's not coming. He's still in the lab with me.
And here's a little secret while I'm at it: the only reason he proposed to you ...

I fell in love with my father's friend—a man twelve years older than me.
I was fourteen the first time I saw him. He stood at the arrivals gate at JFK in a dark suit, broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted, the most striking person in the whole crowd.
He smiled, ruffled my hair, and gave me a beautiful white dress. "Welcome to New York, little princess."
The year I turned twenty, someone drugged him ...

Darius Blackthorn, my mate and the Alpha of the Silverpine Pack, had told me more than once that I was too domineering.
My parents thought I wasn't understanding enough. Even my own daughter, Lyra, had openly admitted that she liked Selene Vey more than me.
If everyone believed Selene deserved everything I had more than I did, then I would give her everything during the final three days of my life...

My father and brother had always favored my half-sister, Maren. Sometimes, I felt they hated me simply for being born.
At a Moon Festival, Maren and her friends shoved me into a freezing ceremonial pool and held me underwater.
I would have drowned if Viktor, Alpha of the RedEmber Pack, hadn't rescued me.
He wrapped me in his cloak and declared that I was under his protection.
He built me a castle,...

For eighteen years, no one had my trust the way Adrian Walker did.

Then, on the very night meant to honor my future, he pressed another woman"s hotel key into my hand and asked me to guard her reputation.

I offered him one last chance: meet me at the airport and pick the trip we had promised each other. Instead, he lied about a car accident, and I watched him wind a matching scarf around Sienna ...

Ten years after the apocalypse began, I died torn apart by Fiends.

Then I woke up five days before the Demon Seeds fell from the Emerald Star.

This time, I know what's coming. I know who will turn, who will betray me, and which monsters hide behind human faces. With only five days to prepare, I liquidate my assets, stockpile supplies, and turn my sanctuary in the San Juan Islands into a fortress...

My boyfriend, Jasper Lennox, swore he'd make Tallulah Rowley pay for humiliating me.
His plan: build her up, then tear her down. Give her my VP title, a sports car, a condo—so the fall would hurt more. "Be patient, babe. It's all part of the game."
So I was patient. Even when Tallulah whispered that my five-year-old sister, Marnie, was secretly my illegitimate kid, and Jasper stopped asking about ...

The summer I turned eighteen, Ethan took my virginity.

It hurt, but I lay awake all night, secretly happy. I thought my six-year crush had finally paid off.

Until the next day, when I stood outside the hockey team's locker room and heard the guys inside whooping.

"Damn, Captain, you finally slept with Ava."

I froze. I was about to slip away quietly when Ethan's careless voice drifted out:

"I ...

My boyfriend of three years, Blake, had promised to propose at my twentieth birthday party.

But that night, he walked right past me with the ring and got down on one knee in front of my stepsister, Chelsea.

The whole room clapped. I just stood there, frozen, in the white dress I'd picked out for my engagement.

Everyone was just waiting to watch me fall apart.

Then Grayson, heir to the Hale fam...

I spent eight years loving a man who couldn't recognize my face, only to realize his "face blindness" magically cured itself for his intern.
"Name three features of your bride," my bridesmaids teased at the altar.
Arthur didn't hesitate. "She has dimples... and a crescent scar near her temple."
Laughter filled the chapel, but I stood frozen in my wedding gown. I have no dimples. I have no scar. B...

I was nine months pregnant when a sudden, agonizing cramp twisted through my abdomen.
But my husband, Nathaniel Voss, the Don of the Voss mafia family, had ordered his men to lock me inside the estate's underground holding cell.
All because he wanted to make sure I wouldn't give birth before another woman.
That woman was Isabella, the widow of his late brother.
And she was due to deliver her baby ...

Ask anyone in Westbrook who the richest man in town was, and the first name out of their mouth would be Graham Thorne.

Hardly anyone knew he'd been married for years. Or that his wife was me.

For five years, every time he went off to see his first love, Vivian Hale, another priceless necklace showed up in my jewelry case.

By the time the ninety-ninth one went in, he finally sensed something was...

For six years, I was the secret wife of Logan, the coldest billionaire in New York.

He never acknowledged me in public, and he treated our five-year-old daughter, Mia, like she was invisible.

I thought he was just carrying old wounds.

Until his first love, Serena, came back to New York with her son.

Suddenly Logan had all the time and love in the world. But only for Serena and her son.

When M...

My husband, Dante, is the most feared Mafia don on the East Coast.

On our wedding day, a car bomb nearly killed him.

He survived. But the doctors told me the trauma had split him in two. He'd developed a second personality.

That other personality called himself Dario. He was false and cruel, his heart full of nothing but his first love, Bianca, and he treated me like an old piece of furniture g...

Dante finally noticed that I'd stopped telling him things.

When I bought a new dress for the Autumn Gala, I didn't send him pictures and ask which one he liked. When the Moretti family held its annual Winter Gala, I attended alone as Mrs. Moretti. And when the doctors said the bullet fragments lodged beneath my shoulder blade had to come out, I scheduled the surgery by myself.

No call. No text. ...

On Family Day at his private school, the teacher asked the children to give each member of their family a score.

On his card, my son, Leo, wrote:

"Dad, 100. Aunt Bianca, 100."

"Mom, 0. I hate her."

For three years I had fought my ex-husband, Damon, in court with everything I had. I gave up every cent of alimony just to win custody away from him.

But now, looking at that card, I was suddenly, ...

Arthur used a glitch in the particle collider's data to make a temporal jump.
He was going back to the past to win back his first love.
I secretly went back with him.
And then I watched with my own eyes as the man I'd personally trained into the perfect lover held his first love's hand and confessed with all his heart:
"I didn't know how to love before. Now I've finally learned."

I loved Kael Duskmane for fifteen years. I was his stepsister, quiet and loyal, always waiting for him to see me.
He never did. And in my first life, that love cost me everything.
Now I’ve been given a second chance, on the very day he asks me to give up my white wolf to save his fated mate.
I don’t argue. I don’t beg. I say yes, on one condition: when it’s done, I leave Duskfall Pack for good.
He...

When my husband admitted he'd fallen for Ophelia—the girl my parents raised in my place—I divorced him and went home to the woman who raised me.
Darius tried everything to win me back. I said no every time.
Then Mom's heart gave out. The ambulance pulled up to our door, and Darius stepped in front of it.
"Bronwyn, I know you can't stand Ophelia. I'll put her on a plane tonight. Just come home, and...

In the seventh year of my father's affair, my mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Her first reaction was to get down on her knees and beg the doctor not to tell my father.
Dr. Eleanor was so angry she cried.
"Rosa, who are you trying to be, some kind of saint?"
"You think this will make that bastard break down sobbing and see the light?"
"Punishing someone else by dying? Have you lost al...

A year ago, I stood at the altar in my wedding dress, about to marry into the Vitale family.

We were halfway through the vows when my fiancé, Theo, turned and ran out of the church.

His adopted sister, Bianca, had climbed onto the roof of the estate and sworn she'd jump if he didn't come back.

The pews were packed with people from all the major families, and every one of them was waiting to wat...

The biggest regret of my life was falling in love with my Zio, Lucian Moretti.
When I was ten, my father took a bullet for the Moretti family. At the funeral, that tall man held me, an orphan now, in his arms and promised to keep me safe for the rest of my life.
When I was fifteen, I was bullied at my private school. He showed up and made the girls who'd tormented me get down on their knees and ap...

Palesa Mokhosi, 24, is a broke architecture graduate in Maseru. Her mother needs emergency surgery: R350,000 in 7 days.

Michael Thorne, 32, is the ruthless CEO of Thorne Holdings. His board wants him out. His grandfather's will is clear: marry and stay married for one year, or lose his billion-rand empire.

A failed job interview becomes a proposal: "Marry me for one year. R5 million upfront....

I dropped a small fortune online on an incubus.

The listing described him as handsome and aloof, with eight-pack abs and a lean, powerful waist.

Above all, it said he was capable.

That final point sealed it for me. I didn't think twice before paying.

But the moment my order went through, customer service messaged me.

Customer service: [Hi, are you there?]

Me: [Yes, what's up?]

Customer serv...

Ten years after the bombs fell. Ironhaven.

Jo is the most valuable — and most defenseless — kind of person in the wasteland. A Tier-4 Water Purifier: someone who can turn irradiated sludge into something people can actually drink. Under the Legal Attachment Act, anyone without combat ability must be registered under a stronger person's name to survive. Her name is listed under her comatose bo...

"Get the fuck away from me.."

"J-Jace, please. Your shoulder is badly hurt. Let me help. That's my job."

"Don't touch me, witch," he spits out bitterly without looking at her, his resentment toward her palpable.

They're both exes with a messy history. But one happens to be the injured star player, while the other is the team's physical therapist.

Bailey attempts to touch him despite his initia...

We were never fated mates. Our marriage was a political deal between two pureblood packs, and I was foolish enough to fall in love with my husband anyway.
For five years, Kieran Blackwood told me his wolf couldn’t read emotion. So I forgave him. The missed dinners. The nights he never came home. I even took a silver bullet for him, and all he said was, “Don’t get blood on the carpet.”
Then I went ...

"You're adopted, you know. Mom and Dad got you out of foster care."

My sister said that to me during a fight when I was eight.

I ran to my parents in tears, needing them to tell me it wasn't true. Instead, they pulled her into their arms and nodded at me.

"It's true. Your real parents didn't want you."

For the next fifteen years, I lived like a package that could be returned to sender at any m...

Four years ago, I gave birth to my son, Leo, at a private hospital.
But when I woke up from the anesthesia, there was no baby waiting for me.
Instead, there was a bank card loaded with an enormous amount of money.
I stared blankly at Adrian Moretti, who was standing by the hospital room door.
"Why are you giving me money? Where's Leo?"
He avoided my gaze.
Meanwhile, Serena Vale, who was sitting co...

I married him when he couldn’t even open his eyes.

Four years I sat beside Evanthe Blackwood’s bed. Keeping him alive while his family held their breath.

The marriage was a contract. A legal arrangement. Nothing more.

Nobody warned me that four years of silence could break a person open.

Nobody told me that loving a man who couldn’t reject you was the most dangerous kind of loving there was.

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