Best Second Chance Stories & Novels Collection

When our commercial jet began its plunge, my captain husband looked between me and his secret lover, feigning agonizing indecision over the last emergency flotation vest.
 
This time, I shoved the vest straight into their hands.
 
In my past life, Kian had put on a torturous show of weighing his options before strapping that very vest onto my pregnant body.
 
He had chosen to stay behind on the pl...

The night of my coming-of-age ceremony, Elodie asked us to sit around the bonfire and talk.

Elodie was my adoptive parents' real daughter. They had brought her home three months ago.

She smiled at me across the fire. "Wren, which academy are you choosing?"

Before I could answer, the four boys I grew up with spoke first.

One by one, they held up acceptance receipts. All four said Silverhaven.

...

I fell in love with Adrian Hale when I was fifteen.

I loved him in secret for six years. The purest year of my life was the one I spent at his grandmother's bedside—a volunteer no one knew about, asking for nothing in return. When a fire swallowed his car in Aspen, I pulled him out. It cost me every color in my world.

He proposed in my hospital room. "Marry me. I'll take care of you for the rest...

At our farewell party, my mate told everyone I'd follow him to Silvercrest. "She gave up her dream for me once. Trust me, she'd follow me anywhere."

That night, his first love sent me photos of him in her bed.

He swore himself into her pack under the full moon and texted me: "You've got until the next full moon. Don't keep me waiting."

Under pack law, mates must belong to the same pack. Once he...

It was Valentine's Day when my fiancé, Gavin Pierce, took me out to that survival course in the Catskills — him, me, and Riley Harper, the girl his family took in when she was fourteen, after her parents died.
I'd asked for a table at the Gramercy Tavern. He'd said he hated standing in line for a reservation, that he wanted to do something that actually got our blood moving.
So he booked the three...

Three days after I lost our baby, my husband finally remembered to call.

I was packing when Adrian Whitmore's name appeared on my screen.

"Vanessa told me you caused another scene over the medical bills," he said, sounding irritated. "I've authorized the payment. Can we please move on?"

I stared at the tiny knitted sweater lying in my suitcase.

I'd bought it the day I learned I was pregnant.

...

BOUND TO THE ALPHA
She was supposed to be a leverage chip. Instead, she became his obsession.

Hannah thought she was just building a career as a corporate accountant. She had no idea she was cleaning dirty money for the deadly North-East Rogue Syndicate—until federal agents knocked on her door. Trapped between testifying and keeping her medical-resident sister safe, Hannah becomes a target. Befor...

In my family, there was always room for Eden. There was never room for me.

At dinner, every dish was my sister's favorite: truffle risotto, seared scallops, chocolate soufflé. When she won a prize, my parents toasted her until the glasses rang. When I mentioned my own business, my mother laughed and called it a hobby.

I stopped waiting to be chosen. I learned to stand in the corner and let Eden ...

I married the same Mafia Don nine times.

And nine times, he divorced me for the woman he believed had saved his life.

Taviano Ruscello ruled one of New York's most feared Mafia families. Yet whenever Isolde Carenza returned, his own Donna had to step aside.

"She risked her life for me, Vespera. I won't let anyone call her a homewrecker."

Nine weddings. Nine divorces.

Every time Isolde came ho...

“The man I came here to kill is the very man I must become the consort of.”

When Elara discovers her beloved sister Lila dead, her world shatters. But grief soon turns into a burning need for answers—and revenge.

There is only one place to find them: the palace of Alpha Rhett, the ruthless ruler whose name strikes fear into every wolf pack. Feared for his merciless nature and plagued by a curse ...

Five years after I walked away from Marcus, the Alpha of the Stonecliff Pack, I received an invitation to celebrate the birth of his heir.
Just as the guard reached for my invitation, Marcus's voice sounded behind me.
"Don't bother. Let her in."
He strode past without a backward glance, already heading toward his guests.
I handed the invitation to the guard anyway and waited until he'd checked e...

The seventh time my mate walked out on our daughter for a wolf cub, I finally stopped counting.

His dead Beta’s sister, Savannah, came home with a rescued cub named Duke. She said he’d die without her. She said her wolf was fading too. Damian believed every word.

So Duke tore up my daughter’s sketchbook for a bed, and Damian laughed. Duke chased six-year-old June down the stairs, and Damian arri...

On the day of the academy application deadline, my entire family was busy choosing a school for my twin sister, Ivy. Even Adrian, the man who'd promised to make me his Luna, only cared about her.

In my last life, I followed them to Moonvale Academy. Four years later, Adrian proposed to Ivy in front of everyone. My family applauded. That night, I died alone.

This time, I secretly chose Frostland ...

I made Sebastian Grant date me for a year because I'd saved his life.
Even though he couldn't stand me, I pressed myself against him when he tried to leave, traced my fingers down his chest when he turned away.
When his friends talked trash, I left marks on his neck and sent him out where everyone could see them.
Then an anonymous text arrived: [I'm the one you saved that day. Not Sebastian.]
Th...

"I yield." Two words that cost Sienna everything and bought back the only man who ever made her want a future worth staying for.
Sienna has spent months running from the Yosemite pack, hiding the one secret that could get her killed: she's an unclaimed female Alpha. When West-Slope's Alpha, Henry, catches her mid-rescue during a vampire attack, captivity turns into an attraction neither of them ca...

When Jake Savage walks out of prison, the man he used to be is long gone. Now known as Wrath, he carries a debt to Rancid and a reputation forged in blood. His road leads to Reading, Pennsylvania—straight into the clubhouse of the Road Warriors MC, where violence is currency and loyalty is law.
Love was never part of his plan. But when danger closes in, Wrath does the only thing he’s ever been sur...

Austin Sheffield—the all-powerful Lycan King, and the man who once made my heart nothing more than a wager.

When I overheard his lies with my own ears, I didn’t cry, beg, or try to hold on to him. I left behind everything he had ever given me and disappeared without a trace.

Six years later, I returned to his world under a new name, with my son, Sheldon, by my side.

I thought that if I was care...

The day we moved into the new estate on the hill, every bedroom had a name next to it. The master suite for my parents. The east wing for my brother, Luca. And the best room in the house, the south suite overlooking the Hudson, was labeled Sofia's Room. My name wasn't anywhere. Out in the hallway, a workman was screwing brass nameplates onto every bedroom door. None of them said Chiara. Ten years ...

HIS TO RUIN: HIS FERAL LUNA

Charlotte Scott was voted out of Ironveil Pack with two bags and a promise she made to herself in the dark. She survived. She rebuilt. And when Stonemack Pack opened its gates, she walked straight through them with revenge already decided.

Getting close to Lockwood was supposed to be strategy. It was never just strategy.

Now Charlotte is his Luna, his second chance m...

My mate, Alpha Grant, ran a pack in western Washington. A witch had cursed his wolf the day he was born, and he could never pick out a she-wolf's scent well enough to know his true mate.
He spent five years hunting for her. Every dead end wore him down a little more, until he finally quit.
That was the moment he chose me.
On our bonding night, he told me the real reason.
"Mara," he said quietly, "...

Drunk, I texted my almost-ex-husband the same thing I always did: "Come get me."
Then comments started scrolling through the air in front of me.
Apparently I was the side character, the girl standing in the way of his real love story.
Ten minutes later, he showed up with her.
So I did what a good side character should. I gave her his bedroom, stopped calling him babe, and packed my bags.
The comme...

It was supposed to be one last night of freedom, but instead, it cost me everything.

I took my late sister's place as the prince's betrothed, thinking I was saving the pack.

But I never expected the devil guarding me would be the man I once gave myself to... my mate.

Now he hates me for what I did. Hates me for what I am.

Hates me even more for swearing myself to his sworn best friend.

He kn...

“Why did you choose him?”

Five years ago, Ronan was my fated mate—the man I loved, the man I was supposed to marry.

Then I disappeared and became another Alpha’s wife.

Now he looks at me and sees a woman who traded love for power.

He doesn’t see the guards watching my every move. The injections keeping me alive. The locked door behind which my mother waits.

I’m a lawyer. I fight for other peo...

Because of one woman's words, Naomi Pierce and her seven-year-old daughter are cast aside in a house where they once belonged, forced to swallow humiliation while the husband and son who should have protected them stand on the wrong side. This time, Naomi stops waiting to be chosen. She walks away from the man who failed her, lets go of the son who learned cruelty from the people around him, and t...

She was the fastest woman in America until one race with him destroyed everything she built. Now the only path back to the Olympics forces her to train, run and win beside the man she has hated for three years. But the closer they get, the more she realizes the crash that ruined her life was never an accident..

The day my husband gave me a five-carat diamond ring, his mistress spotted it on my hand. Wearing the exact same ring, she accused me of stealing her man. Before I could explain, she and her bridesmaids beat me to death.   My husband shielded her from the law and married her before I was even buried. My mother-in-law embraced her simply for being pregnant.   Then I opened my eyes on the day I rece...

At dinner, my boyfriend peeled a jumbo shrimp – my favorite – and reached past my waiting plate to put it in my best friend's bowl. He always chose Lena first.
I had spent two years telling myself I could wait. Then he used his family's pull to hand her the future I had earned. That was when I understood that I didn't want first place in Ethan's heart anymore.
I just wanted a life where I never ...

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...

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 ...

Thea Ridgeway tells everyone she outgrew curling. She hasn't told anyone that she still lets herself into the rink at midnight, running drills alone under half the lights, because admitting the dream is still alive feels worse than losing it did. Then a name from every broadcast she stopped watching walks into her equipment shop three divisions below where he belongs, and she can't figure out why ...

Knights MC is made up of 18 guys from special forces. They're all retired and created a motorcycle club due to their love of riding motorcycles.

They do search and rescue missions across the USA. They help rescue women and children from trafficking and drugs. They have both government and private contracts.

Follow these 18 short stories as each one finds their true love. Some women may be brok...

On my birthday, I went to the hospital hoping for a baby. Instead, I found my husband—the man who swore he never wanted children—cradling his pregnant mistress. He thought I was the one who couldn't give him a child. He forgot I was the one holding his medical reports.

Hours before I was supposed to elope with my secret boyfriend, the baby in my womb told me exactly how he would murder us both.
I had a best friend who wanted my name, my inheritance, and the man I was engaged to.
And the father I trusted was helping her take all three.
So this night, I called the man I was supposed to marry—and set a trap that would force every betrayer to expose themselves.

Nineteen-year-old Tiffany Dion is daddy's little girl, and she would do anything to save her father's company, even if that includes getting married to a pompous show off who calls her a rude brat.

Although her husband to be is currently top three among the world's youngest directors, Tiffany can't help but think that he's just childish and annoying.

At first, they had it out for each other, fig...

Elena thought she had married the one man she could trust.
Damian Blackwood was patient, protective, and hopelessly devoted to her. In a world where the Harrington name controlled almost everything around her, their love was the one thing Elena believed she had chosen entirely for herself. Until she entered her husband's private office and found a file bearing her name. Photographs, schedules, in...

Three years ago, I gave my grieving boss $6,000 for her husband’s funeral. The office called me a fool in love. She called me into her office—and fired me.
Then Claire appeared in my city with a suitcase, an apology, and an offer to start over.
I almost believed she had come back for me.
Until I overheard her whispering to a sick child about finding his real father.
Claire hadn’t returned alone. S...

I once believed becoming Empress would prove I was worthy.
Instead, the crown cost me my sister, my children, my freedom, and finally my life.
Reborn before my marriage was decided, I refused to repeat the same mistake. I stepped aside for my sister and accepted an engagement to Prince Rui—the empire’s charming, notoriously unambitious second prince.
He promised we could remain husband and wife in...

At 2:17 a.m., I woke up five hours before my wife was supposed to die.
In my first life, my mother told me the two million dollars I had entrusted to her was gone. By the time I found enough money for my wife’s emergency surgery, I had lost her and our unborn child.
This time, I froze every account before my family could take another cent.
Then my mother called.
She needed $180,000 by morning—and ...

I can see a loyalty score over everyone's head.

When it falls below sixty percent, that person leaves.

The day my father cheated, his score fell from sixty-nine to twenty-three.

The day my sister ran away from home, hers fell to seven.

So when I grew up and started dating, I always left in time.

Then I met Beckett Hale.

His score for me was always one hundred percent. I believed I had finall...

They threw me away like I was nothing.

Divorced me for my younger, prettier, fertile sister. I signed divorce papers while I suspected I was finally pregnant. Smiled while they handed me five thousand dollars and told me to disappear.

I disappeared, alright. Off a cliff, Into freezing water. Nearly drowned carrying his twins.

Someone wanted me dead. His family buried the investigation before my...

I still remember the exact weight of his hands.
How they found me in the dark, how they made me forget every reason I had for leaving.
He said my name like a secret and a warning all at once.
I told myself I’d forgotten the way he touched me, the way he waited, the way he made me feel like I was already his.
I lied.
Five years ago, I walked out of Derek Cross's apartment with one unanswered questi...

After werewolves took over the world and became its supreme ruler, human women (ages between 18 and 35) were locked away in dungeons then forced to become the s*x slaves of male werewolves who had failed to find their mates. Once you are chosen by a werewolf, you will become their possession for the rest of your life.

Sarah Fibb is a s*x slave who had been in the dungeons for five years. After be...

The day before Thanksgiving, my husband, David, dragged his suitcase to the airport, claiming he was flying to Seattle to meet an important client.
My parents took my younger brother to Miami for a vacation and conveniently took my six-year-old daughter with them.
With the house empty, I picked up a last-minute catering shift that paid double the usual hourly rate. I needed the extra money to cove...

Emily Calder has been dreaming about her own execution since she turned eighteen.

Every nightmare ends with the same mysterious man raising his hand before a blade pierces her heart. She has no idea who he is or why his face feels strangely familiar.
Then, on her first day at Davenport Corporation, Emily meets Allen Davenport - the billionaire CEO and, unknown to Emily, a powerful Alpha whose fac...

​After being rejected by Alpha Koda for failing to bear him an heir, Amelia returns home, secretly pregnant with his child. There, she finds her true mate, Ash, who loves her and raises her daughter, Willow, as his own. But years later, when an arrogant new Alpha brings about their pack's total destruction, Willow and her sisters are forced to flee for their lives. Taken in by a neighboring pack, ...

"I left my bedroom window unlocked tonight, hoping the monster in the dark would finally come inside to ruin me."

I should be terrified of the shadow looming over my bed, but all I want is for his rough, heavy hands to slide beneath my cream sweater and ruin me in the dark. He’s a silent monster in a mask. He knows I have a boyfriend sleeping next to me, and he knows exactly what kind of filth hi...

AGE GAP • REVERSE HAREM • POSSESSIVE BROTHERS • FORBIDDEN ROMANCE • UNEXPECTED PREGNANCY

She believed in forever, until betrayal and a devastating divorce destroyed everything she thought her future would be.

Determined to leave the past behind, she allows herself one reckless night. No promises. No expectations. No consequences.

At least, that's what she thought.

Two strangers. Two brothers. ...

She left because the pain was too much to endure and the man who broke her heart was the only one who had ever held it. He was the love of her life, the father of her children, and the reason she had to run.
Years later, driven by her boys' longing to meet their father, she is forced to return to the City. She hoped time might have changed him, but he remains the same ruthless playboy, a billionai...

Kyra has spent years as Alpha Ethan's slave, plotting his death with every breath. When his son Damon her tormentor and bully drags her over a cliff's edge, she expects to die.

Instead, she wakes up to her worst nightmare.

The intoxicating scent filling her senses belongs to Damon—the man who tormented her, mocked her, made her life hell.

He's her fated mate.

“I reject you, Damon. I reject thi...