Best Scumbag Stories & Novels Collection

My wedding day was twenty-four hours away. Then, I hacked into my fiancé's messages.
"The father first. Then the bride."
With my life on the line, I made a deal with the devil they call the Ghost—the lethal outcast my own family betrayed.
"Marry me," I offered, "and the Corleone empire is yours."
I walked down the aisle in black. He stood waiting, a promise of vengeance in his eyes. When the bulle...

They all say I stole Eamon from my adopted sister.
I've spent years drowning in guilt, playing the perfect wife, starving for crumbs of his love. Then came my death sentence: advanced liver cancer. Six months.
Death sentence in hand, I wandered home in a daze—only to find the town ablaze with light for her return. My “heartbroken” sister was back. And
there was my husband, holding her hand at her ...

On the week of my wedding, my fiancé kissed his long-lost love in the pouring rain.
Everyone thought I—the replacement who clawed her way out of the gutter—should bow out quietly.
So did I. That's how I ended up on the ledge of London Bridge.
The one who pulled me back was a stranger in a ridiculous bear costume. "You'd die for a man like that?" she said. "Why not run away with me instead?"
I took...

"Honey, please open the door! Please!"

Kate Sterling pounded desperately on the basement door, with only 15 minutes left before the interview that could change her life. Yet here she was, locked inside by the very man she loved most.

It all started with a single prophecy from their new neighbor, Anna Cross: "If Kate goes to that interview, your marriage is over."

Anna's predictions had never be...

I thought marrying into wealth was a dream come true—until a woman in elegant attire appeared at my wedding.
She raised her glass in congratulations, smiling as she revealed a devastating secret: this multi-million-dollar mansion beneath my feet, this custom-designed gown draped across my body, even this perfect husband standing beside me—every single detail had been crafted according to the "blu...

Six years of obsessive devotion to her Alpha, only to witness his wedding to another woman!

Raven had sacrificed everything for Asher, only to be completely abandoned at his most important moment. Even more cruelly, she was framed for harming his new Luna and exiled to the deadly borderlands.

With her heart turned to ash, she drank the Love-Erasing Potion without hesitation.

"If I can't have tr...

When I received two pieces of news at the hospital—five weeks pregnant and terminal cancer—I thought that was fate's cruelest joke.

Until I stood outside the prenatal clinic, listening to Knox whisper sweet words to another woman that he'd never said to me.

Also five weeks pregnant. Also carrying his child.

That's when I realized betrayal was more lethal than cancer.

He called me "trash," said...

Running for my life, I tumble straight into a hidden underground palace of nightmares.

The Bride-Selection slaughter is underway—no girl has survived in ten years. Bodies torn apart, blood everywhere.

Then the monstrous black dragon lowers its massive head… and gently nuzzles my palm like a lovesick puppy.

The man on the throne stares down with violet eyes.

"You don't get to run anymore. You'r...

I thought the ultimate betrayal was my fiancé publicly humiliating me and calling off our engagement... until I overheard my father's hushed conspiracy in his study: "We must sell everything her mother left before her 25th birthday."
I believed the deepest wound was my own brother exiling me from the family company... until I uncovered the shocking truth about the "architectural genius" cousin who...

My name is Aria, and the DNA tests prove I'm the daughter the Blackwell family lost 22 years ago. But their idea of a welcome home? Oh, it was unique—they sicced their dogs on me. Fine, if they want to play dirty, game on—I'll see this through to the bitter end. At tonight's charity gala, I've got evidence on my phone that could ruin them for good. Want to know why their precious adoptive daughter...

I was hospitalized with a high fever, and my boyfriend stayed by my side 24/7.
The nurses all praised him as the "perfect boyfriend," and 5 million live stream viewers were green with envy.
He looked into the camera and poured his heart out: "She's my entire world. I could never leave her, not in this lifetime."
Tears streamed down my face as I felt like the luckiest woman alive.
Until 2 AM, when ...

Seven years of love, seven years of waiting, seven years of trust.

I thought I was the most important woman in his life, until I watched him slip a wedding dress onto another woman at the bridal expo, calling me "irrelevant" in front of everyone.

I thought those sweet words were real, until I broke into his house and found that perfect wedding plan—Groom: Cole Matthews, Bride: Blaire Watson, Wed...

I clicked the anonymous link, and my world shattered. There was my perfect fiancé, in a live stream, entangled with the woman who was supposed to be my maid of honor—my best friend.
He was the hero who donated his bone marrow to save my life. Now, he was defiling our future marriage bed in the most vile betrayal. I thought this was their twisted idea of a game, until I dug deeper and uncovered the...

Can you imagine what it feels like to fall in love with a voice?

Thirty-three sleepless nights, a stranger DJ's voice became my only salvation. He called me his "midnight queen," declared his love to all of New York from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building—in that moment, I thought I was the happiest woman in the world.

Until I walked into that recording studio and watched him kiss anoth...

I used to think love could save me, only to marry the bastard who dragged me straight to hell himself. Kneeling at 4 AM, scrubbing blood stains off the floor. Miscarrying my baby after his brutal beatings. Holding broken glass to my wrist in a strip club storage room—until, on his deathbed, my father transferred eight hundred million in assets to me. Now I'm sitting pretty in the CEO's office, roc...

Echo Miller once had the perfect married life—a gentle, caring husband Jason, an adorable daughter Emma, and an enviable middle-class lifestyle. Until one midnight, she felt a stranger's brutal assault through a drug-induced haze, only to wake up and find her husband sleeping peacefully on the couch.

At first, she thought it was a nightmare, until the tearing pain and bodily fluids on her underwe...

He killed me twice. This third time, I'll make him wish he was dead!
In my first life, I was a beloved queen, only to discover three years into my marriage that my husband William was having an affair with Anne—my most trusted lady-in-waiting!
That night, I caught them in each other's arms in my study. Anne was wearing my royal robes while William moaned her name...
"Margaret is just a figurehead....

I thought the most terrifying thing about waking up was the memory loss.

Until I discovered that the man tenderly feeding me medicine by my bedside had once personally killed my first child. I woke up with amnesia, carrying another child in my womb.

The man who gently gave me medicine every day, claiming to love me, was the murderer of my first child. The woman who called herself my best friend ...

On the day I was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer, my husband's old flame returned. He greeted her with deep affection: "Welcome home."

For three years, I'd been nothing more than a stand-in, molded to resemble her. That lasted until she appeared at a charity gala in the same dress as mine, arm-in-arm with my husband, who pushed me aside with, "You're blocking Valerie."

I signed the p...

Five years ago, Aria was the Alpha's beloved daughter, deeply in love with Terry, the pack's strongest warrior.

When Terry lay dying from silver poison, Aria risked everything to find the life-saving moonlight flower in the forbidden Blood Moon Forest. But her half-sister Sera betrayed her—stealing the flower and pushing her off a cliff.

When Aria crawled back, broken and bleeding, Sera had alre...

When Noah betrayed me for fresher meat, he thought the only cost was our eight-year relationship. He never imagined I'd take with me the very soul of his commercial empire—and a secret he would never uncover.
For three years, he hunted for me like a madman, from Los Angeles to Reykjavik, until he finally knelt at my doorstep in Lagos.
"Give me a chance," he begged, "for the sake of our past."
I lo...

In my past life, during the mate selection ceremony, my sister Nova chose Axel without hesitation—the Pack's strongest warrior. I was left with Douglas, the supposedly "gentle" healer.

Everyone thought it was the natural order. Strong with strong, weak with weak.

But three years later, fate took a cruel turn.

Axel's wolf spiraled out of control from excessive battles, turning him into a mad wol...

I thought I was just an ordinary potter who fell for the wrong man—a billionaire heir who could never truly be mine.

I thought the worst pain would be watching him choose someone else.

Until that DNA report shattered every illusion I'd ever held.

Phoenix Blackwood and I... we're siblings.

For twenty-three years, I lived inside my mother's carefully woven lie. She wasn't just some nameless maid...

I was personally handed over by my boyfriend to three fugitives. In the abandoned warehouse, as they leered and ripped apart my uniform, I swore to make him pay the price.

The bathtub water turned a vivid red, and I was reborn back to the afternoon before the tragedy struck. This time, I swapped out that cup of coffee ahead of time and sent a fake message to the fugitives on the dark web.

Now, i...

Selene thought she'd found true love with Alexander Morrison. She was WRONG—she was just a stand-in for Jessa, the woman he really wanted.

When Alexander and his twin brother Adrian's yacht exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, Alexander came home with Adrian's ashes, claiming to BE Adrian. His goal? To steal Adrian's wife Jessa—the woman he'd always loved.

Selene knew instantly he was lying, but when...

In her previous life, Aria was the last Alpha King bloodline of Silvermoon Kingdom, fated to Kael, leader of the Frostbite clan, as mates chosen by the Moon Goddess.

After two years without offspring, Aria discovered Kael was infertile due to war injuries. To fulfill his dream of kingship, she secretly took forbidden medicine to conceive his child.

But the child was born only as a BETA!

Kael fl...

I was the perfect Luna—until my telepathy awakened at the Full Moon Festival, and I heard my husband Kael’s true thoughts:
"A barren mate is defective."
"Thank fate my Omega carries my true heir."
"Where can she even go without me?"
Our eighteen-month marriage was a lie. He had me cursed by a witch while my handmaid bore his child.
They expected me to break. To vanish in disgrace.
They were wrong....

My sister-in-law knelt and begged me to help her cover up her affair and pregnancy scandal. I softened and agreed. Little did I know, this was an elaborate blood-swap conspiracy.

That night in the hospital, Victoria secretly switched the identity tags of two newborns. From then on, my biological daughter was abused as a "bastard" for four whole years, while her illegitimate child enjoyed all the ...

Three years barren, and Jessamine walked on thin ice in the elite household. Her mother-in-law spat venomous curses daily, calling her a "worthless waste of space" and threatening to force her son into divorce.

She could still remember when Damien had severed all ties with his family to marry her—kneeling outside their door in the pouring rain, begging his parents to accept her: "Jessamine is my ...

I am my sister's poison taster, and my husband is her executioner.

My marriage was a transaction. My body, a laboratory to test drugs for the woman my billionaire husband truly loves. For years, I endured the agony, clinging to the hope that he might see me. But when the doctors said the poison had left me only three months to live, his response was to demand my last remaining kidney for her.

I ...

Have you ever been yanked by your hair in the dead of night, at 3 a.m., forced to your knees on that freezing tile floor while your mother-in-law stands there clapping like it's some twisted game, barking, "Say it—say you're worthless trash!"? God, I have. I've felt the sickening thud of a baseball bat slamming into my swollen belly, the fragile kicks of my unborn baby fading to nothing... and the...

Have you ever wondered what you'd do if you could hit rewind and escape that living hell? In my past life, Alexander locked me away for ten brutal years—my body covered in scars, my soul shattered. But now, reborn at 22, with my skin smooth and unmarked, I'm done letting history repeat itself. I track down the one man who ever made Alexander tremble, Jack Morgan.

He's greasy from fixing cars, eye...

My name's Emma, and this is the story of how I went from being the grateful girlfriend to... well, you'll see.
It kicked off when Ryan, my knight in shining armor, saved me from UCLA debt hell. "Babe, I got this," he grinned, renting me a room in his best bro Dylan's swanky Palo Alto pad. Amazing views, dirt cheap—total lifesaver. I was over the moon, thinking Ryan had my back.
But Dylan? He's dro...

I was the mafia king's most treasured "little princess" - until the explosion that claimed my adoptive father and protector. Desperate, I clung to a man who wore his face, only to have him broadcast my desperate love confessions as a joke. The night I reached peak humiliation, the man who should have been buried in Sicily rose from hell.
Vincenzo Benedetti. My god, my ultimate sin. He shattered my...

My roommate's violent ex-boyfriend stormed our dorm with a knife. I rushed out to protect her and got stabbed, bleeding all over the floor.

I desperately pounded on her door for help: "Hestia! Save me! Open up!" Dead silence from inside. That BITCH stood right behind the door, listening to me take my last breath.

Even more disgusting, she cried to my boyfriend Brian:

"I don't know why this happ...

“I have wanted so long for this.” He says as he then slides my underwear off and sticks his finger inside of me, keeping his eyes on me. “You are so beautiful Jaycee.” He breathed out causing his hot breath to snake over my naked body. He leans his face towards my breasts and taking one into his mouth began to suck on it.
“Ahhhhh, Ahhhhhhh, Ricco don’t you dare stop.” I breathed out.
“What if I w...

He was my father's best friend and my legal guardian. I mistook his obsessive control for protection—until the night of my eighteenth birthday, when he shattered that illusion in his study. For eight long years, I lived a double life: his pure, adopted daughter by day, and his dirty little secret by night.
I thought it was love. Then today, a Wall Street alert announced his engagement to a media h...

On my wedding night, my husband Tyler pushed me onto the poker table as his final bet.

"She's just a retard anyway—perfect for getting rid of a problem," he sneered.

That moment, I thought my life was completely over.

Until the man in the delivery uniform won me, gently called me "princess," and filled his tiny apartment with pink dresses just for me.

I thought I'd found a kind, poor guy.

I t...

"The night I miscarried our baby, my husband was toasting his mistress's award win."

Five years of secret marriage. I was Broadway producer Maximilian Cross's hidden wife while the world thought he was a golden bachelor. Only I knew who he was really fucking every night.

Until that bitch Vivienne Sterling showed up.

She became his "artistic muse." I became his live-in booty call. He took her to...

Rule one: never love your stepbrother. Rule two: never trust a bad boy. I broke both.
The day Carter traded up and called me a "disgusting mistake," Liam—the most dangerous guy in school—knelt in the rubble of my life. "Want to make him pay?" he murmured, his grip firm on my chin. "I'll show you how."
It was supposed to be a game. But his lessons came with a secret: he'd been claiming me since the...

I almost gave up admission to a top-15 university for my childhood sweetheart Brent, fantasizing he would finally confess his love.

Until that afternoon when I overheard him telling his friend dismissively: "Without me, she's nothing."

Turns out I could never compete with Sienna, the blonde beauty who transferred here three months ago. Turns out he chose Michigan State because the pretty girl ne...

My fiancé dumped me on his best friend like I was a piece of unwanted inventory.
"Her brain's broken. She doesn't remember you. You take care of her." — The most ironic line I've ever heard, right before I blacked out.
So, I, the infamous "Steel Rose" of the boxing world, decided to play along. I moved into his friend Jordan's—the billionaire's—penthouse and started acting like a scared little bun...

I died once.

In that moment when the out-of-control truck slammed into me, as I felt the poisoned blood flowing through my veins in that hospital bed, I saw everyone's true face—my beloved husband Marco, Lucia whom I'd treated like a sister, and that so-called sacred, untouchable Italian family.

But God gave me a second chance.

When I stood again in Saint Anthony's Church, watching that familia...

For nine years, I loved Jake, heir to the Steel Knights MC, like a fool—until I saw him tangled up with my own cousin in the garage… while she was carrying his child. They laughed at me, called me "just a mechanic," treated me like their loyal dog. But I'll show them—the most underestimated roses grow the sharpest thorns. From Texas to California, from a cast-out nobody to the underground racing q...

I saved Frank from an avalanche. He paid me back by locking me at home with a pregnancy monitor and a salt-free diet. When he announced to the world on television that he was single, causing me to miscarry in a blizzard that very night, I knew this man was beyond saving.
So, I made him drink a potion that erases memory. Now, he has completely forgotten me, his wife, and our dead child.
And my grea...

I am Scarlett King, heiress to a Texas oil empire and a woman who has died once before.

In my past life, I thought my marriage to cowboy Colt was nothing more than mutual respect and distant politeness. It wasn't until I was sorting through his belongings after his death that I discovered the truth—those yellowed photographs, handwritten love poems, a decade's worth of secret devotion...

"She is...

Three months after I died, he used his Grammy acceptance speech to shame me before thirty million people. He accused me of ethical violations, of seducing him, then running off with his money and our dog, leaving him with massive medical debt.
Little did he know, our dog Max and I were both gone, taken by the same cancer.
At the stroke of midnight, as his words still hung in the air, my Instagram ...

At eleven p.m., I'm staring at the charity foundation's financial report, barely able to focus on the numbers—Theron is "networking" again, but for three years now, his "networking" has always involved another woman. Then my phone rings. It's Tommy, the paparazzo: "Mrs. Sterling, your husband's on his private yacht, all over some 22-year-old blonde intern!"

Thirty-seven times. Have you ever tried...

All my life, I've been the invisible daughter in this family.

My sister Madison radiates brilliance, my brother Ryan is the beloved golden child, while I'm Harper—just an "unplanned surprise," as my parents openly admit, their unwanted burden.

Serving as unpaid labor at engagement parties, abandoned with a 103-degree fever while they vacationed in the Bahamas, having my very bloodline questioned...

Blurb

After Brenda loses her parents, in an unfortunate incident, her royalty is thrown to the trash. She becomes a slave to the Alpha of the Rising Moon Pack.

Brenda is determined to avenge her parents' death, but how can she do that as a slave?

When she turns 18, she finds out her mate, Jack is the next alpha of the Red Moon Pack. He was a rude and uncouth womanizer, and even though Brend...