Best Strong Female Lead Stories & Novels Collection

I found the receipt in my husband Owen's jacket. Le Bernardin. 8:30 PM. Two entrees, wine, crème brûlée—Kenna's favorite.
At 8:30, I was sitting in the ER. My mom needed emergency surgery, and I'd begged him to come. He said he was working late.
He lied.
For three years, I gave Owen everything. Eighty thousand dollars from my parents—our down payment money—to fund his architecture studio. My incom...

I died in his arms as poison burned through my veins, and Dante Russo finally said "I love you." But by then, he'd spent ten years on revenge and turned himself into a monster.

I opened my eyes. Back at our engagement party. Ten years earlier.

This man is still young, still has light in his eyes. Tonight at midnight he'll kill his first victim—and never find his way back.

"Don't see Vincent ton...

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...

"Marry me before I die, and after that, I will make sure your daughter will get a new heart. Just marry me, and say 'I do' in front of my parents." - SPADE CEDRIC VASILE

What would you do if death was on its way to take you?

To fulfill his promise to his parents, Spade was prepared to marry without the binding of so-called love, just a pure contract until his dying day.

Yet, would Spade stil...

Edlyn was never meant to exist.
Born from forbidden bloodlines part wolf, part vampire, part witch, and touched by fairy magic she is the prophecy the supernatural world tried to erase. Hunted since birth, forced into hiding, she has lived her life in the shadows, training for a destiny that could unite the realms… or destroy them.

Love was never part of her plan.

But when Supreme Alpha Nelson a...

She thought his heart belonged to her, but he chose her sister.
Adriana Nox found her sister moaning beneath the man she was supposed to announce a relationship with that night.
The strong Adriana Nox broke at that moment and never healed.
She watched the man she had ever loved exchange vows with her sister— a disaster she never imagined would happen.
Not only was she betrayed by the ones she l...

Married to Damien Blackwood for two years, Vera Sinclair has become the most notorious trophy wife in the city. As the legitimate Mrs. Blackwood, she can only watch helplessly as her family's business crumbles, her father faces criminal charges, and no one dares to offer assistance.

Damien looked at her with cold indifference: "Vera, if I don't say a word, do you think there is anyone in this to...

“This game of yours is barbaric. How dare you make me play it?”
Her anger boiled over again as she realized that it was his own fault because she was sore, tired, and bleeding. She could have died if not for that son of a bitch.
“You'd better pull your finger out, Karenina, and talk to me in a more ladylike manner,” Xavier warned.
She lowered her hand, but she wouldn't back down. What he had done...

Ryder Marsh has a way of getting under Sierra Quinn’s designer skin. A titan among Manhattan marketing executives, Sierra returns to her family’s Arizona ranch, which is teetering on the brink when her father falls ill.

More comfortable in Christian Louboutin than Tony Lama, Sierra arrives, armed with Madison Avenue strategies and a firm determination to save the dusty legacy she swore she’d neve...

She doesn't remember what happened that night. But her victims will never forget.

Nineteen-year old Ember Winters has spent her entire life invisible until one college party changes everything. She wakes up with no memory of the night, but when a fellow student is found dead hours later with a scarlet rose burned into his forehead, whispers of an ancient curse begin to spread.

The legend says th...

In a world of powerful werewolves, Aurora was the one who didn't fit the mold - a forgotten omega, hiding from the shadows. But one fiery night, the notorious playboy Alpha, Lucian Vaughn, crashed into her world, igniting a blaze of passion and fury.

Their worlds collided, and they discovered the unthinkable: they're fated mates.

Aurora's icy walls crumbled, and her darkest secrets began to unra...

Nicole Pearson, goes by Cole (Current alias), most feared vampire throughout this relm and any relm unlucky enough for her to step foot in it. She's walked the Earth for over five hundred years. Most do whatever is necessary to stay off her radar. Her crankiness and pettiness know no bounds. Imagine her surprise when a werewolf decides to get uppity and demand her services. Despite her massive mag...

"You are a long way from home, little wolf."
"Stay back, I am not afraid of you."
"Oh but you should be wolf, I can be your worst nightmare." He took a step closer and that was when it hit him; the scent of her blood.

Aliyah has passed through three mating seasons but she was still left without a mate. Being the only child of the alpha, everyone was looking forward to who her mate would be as he ...

Thirteen women

Only one Dragonrider who is the Crown Prince.

The Dragon Queen Selection is a special selection to pick the next dragon queen from the finest daughters of the founding magical noble families. Thirteen girls, one from each family are chosen to compete for the crown and to become the next dragon queen and the future wife of Crown Prince Cassian, the best dragon rider in the three ...

Angelo loved her from the very first moment he laid eyes on her. She didn't know who he was and what he did in his past and he loved it that way .It was his past and he wanted her not just for fun but for keeps. If only she stopped running away from him...Cleo didn't want to catch feelings for a guy who was out of her league . He had everything sussed out and she didn't or so she thought . Runn...

When Skylar North's twin brother, Valerian North, the only alpha wolf in the North family, is suddenly found dead with a suicide note attached to his body after just two months in the prestigious Alpha high school, Rosendale, his only remaining family, Skylar has questions. Her brother wrote to her every day, and they had so many plans, even on the day he had died. It was impossible that he would...

Betrayed by love.
Marked by the Moon.
Reborn in ruin.
After her fated mate rejects her, Selene Thorne flees into the cursed Shadow Woods where death should have claimed her. Instead, the Moon Goddess marks her with a forbidden power that could save or destroy the world.
Now hunted by her former pack and drawn to a rival Alpha with secrets of his own, Selene must master the fire burning inside he...

"Get out! I’m your sister!"
"Sister?" Alex let out a derisive scoff, his burning palm pressing against the small of my bare back, pulling me even deeper into his embrace. "A sister with no blood ties? That’s the very reason I’ve been waiting all these years."
I was once the most dazzling socialite in Washington, until I discovered I was a fake, a stand-in for the true heiress. I fled in panic, try...

Five years ago, my sister vanished the night before her wedding. She left behind a crying newborn in a crib and a mafia heir on the verge of losing control.

And I was forced into her place—the temporary bride, the contract wife, the whispered “replacement” in every gilded hallway.

I thought I only had to survive five years. Five years to earn what I was promised, and then walk away from this cit...

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...

She thought he was just an ordinary law student, until that bloody night—

Nurse Esperanza is five months pregnant, but she can't tell anyone who the father is. After three years of passionate love and one brutal breakup, she thought she'd never see Dante Santangelo again.

Until that early morning when she's urgently called to the VIP ward, only to find him bleeding on a hospital bed, surrounded ...

I was six years old when Mom took my brother and me by the hand, leading us into a mansion that looked like a palace. She told us this was our new beginning, after all the hardships we'd been through. But no one warned me that this so-called better life would mean giving up everything I had.

My scholarships, my prom dress, even my Stanford acceptance letter—they all turned into bargaining chips j...

As the only half-breed in the academy, I'm here for one reason: to be the perfect prey. Getting toyed with by pureblooded Alphas? Yeah, I'm used to it. But it wasn't until the Full Moon Festival—and that twisted bet where they'd win a family heirloom if they made me lose control—that I realized patience would never get me any respect.

So, I decided to turn the tables and play my own game. Student...

You want to know why I left the mafia? Because I had a kid. That's it. I didn't care if I died, but I cared if she did, so I cleaned myself up, proved I wasn't a threat anymore.
Ten years, every single day, I thought about going home, holding her, hearing her laugh again. And the moment I opened that door, I knew something was wrong. She smiled, but it wasn't real. Her eyes didn't look at me the ...

I used to think death was just a quiet ending.
My life had already turned into a dead-end rut. My family was like a bottomless pit, always draining my savings; Lewis, the husband I'd once loved so deeply, had turned cold and distant, while his so-called lost love, Rebecca, kept provoking me, as if I were some unwanted shadow. I was tired—truly exhausted—convinced that only death could bring me rel...

"You've been staring at me all night," I said, my voice slightly slurred. "Either it's creepy or you like what you see."

"Look, handsome," I continued, leaning closer.

"I've had a really shitty day. Want to make it better? I'll pay for your time. I've got plenty of money."

His eyes widened slightly, and then he reached out, taking my hand in his.

His touch was warm, his fingers long and stro...

Please!! Emily choked out, trying to pry the hands strangling her neck.

How could you do this to me? Stefan roared, his hands tightening on her neck. It took the three of the pack warriors to pry his hands away from her neck.

Please!!! Stefan, I can explain, it’s not what it looks like.

Instead his cold gaze freezes her from uttering another word. Shame shrouding her, as Emily clung the blanket...

One Forbidden Night. Three Brothers. No Way Out.

Millie was supposed to clean up after the rich—not sleep with them.

But one reckless night with a mysterious stranger shatters that rule. The next morning, he's gone... And so is her sense of control.

She never expected to see him again.

She definitely didn’t expect to find herself working as a live-in maid for the ruthless, filthy-rich Moretti ...

When Formula One legend Dante Varon crashes at 320 km/h race and lives to tell the tale, the world calls it a miracle. He calls it a mistake.

Confined to a private villa on the French Riviera with shattered bones and a ruined reputation, Dante fires every therapist who tries to fix him, until Sienna Hale walks in. She’s not impressed by fame, fortune, or his billion-dollar tantrums. She’s there ...

Gabriella is a no-nonsense kind of woman. She loves deeply and fights for what matters to her. Her life was going along just fine, that is until she catches her boyfriend cheating on her.

That should have been the worst of her issues, but soon a cheating boyfriend pales in comparison to being fated to a God, and a brooding one at that.

Quickly, Gabriella will be pulled into thousand-year-old dr...

Riley Matthews never imagined her first assignment as a sports journalist back in Texas would be covering the football team—where the star quarterback Mason Cole turned out to be the guy she'd had a massive crush on four years ago. And to make matters worse, he's her brother Chase's best friend!

"Chase's baby sister has grown up... and gotten beautiful." When Mason fixes those green eyes on her w...

I work for Umbra, making the wealthy's "little problems" vanish without a trace. But tonight's client is the nephew of my daytime boss—the same bastard who treats me like garbage. Floating in the blood-filled pool is the woman who mocked me daily. He offers me champagne, his boot resting on her hair, and casually asks how much to dispose of a body. "Two hundred thousand," I say, head bowed. He agr...

If life gave you a second chance, would you choose forgiveness or plot your revenge down to the last detail?

When I woke up gasping from the icy depths of San Francisco Bay, I was back in my 20-year-old body—just one week before the deadly engagement party where my sister Amber and my fiancé Mark shoved me off that cliff.

In my past life, they stole the wedding planning business I'd built from t...

"Ivory's six months pregnant. She needs to get back more than you do."

When my husband Donovan said those words at a South African mining disaster site, I knew my marriage was over. Two helicopter seats, three British nationals. He chose to save his mistress instead of his pregnant wife.

"I'm pregnant too," I told him, my voice shaking.

"I know," he replied without emotion. "You're only three m...

I died in his fire.

Lucian Cross made me Ghost—the deadliest assassin in New York's underworld. Thirty-seven kills. Ten years of loyalty. Then he locked the cuffs himself and told me I was too soft to live.

But death gave me a second chance.

When I open my eyes again, I'm back in that warehouse. This time, I'm not crying. This time, I'm escaping. And this time, I'm taking everything he built an...

My name is Aurora McNamara, federal fire investigator.

For seven years, I've endured the same three words from my husband every single day: "Get out, murderer."

Yes, my husband Phoenix—the fire captain who once whispered "I love you" in my ear—now looks at me with pure hatred every day, as if I'm the monster who killed his teammates.

But I didn't set those fires.

I was framed.

What's more twi...

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...

On the day of my engagement, I died in the sea.
The last scene I witnessed before death was the silhouette of my fiancé protecting his first love as they walked away.
Perhaps it was resentment and unwillingness that allowed me to be reborn on the day of my engagement.
In this life, I will rewrite my destiny!

She loved him enough to die for him.
A thousand years later, she’s back to make him pay.
Seraphina Vale was once a witch with a pure heart and a dangerous gift. When the vampire Caelum Draven was hunted and left to die, she broke every law of magic to save him, binding her life to his forever. But love became a curse. Betrayal followed, and she lost everything, even her soul.
Now, Seraphina liv...

"Not pregnant again?"
Those three words have become more familiar than "I love you" in my marriage. For two years, I've dreaded the monthly ritual—the single line on the test, Damon's disappointed sigh, his mechanical "We'll try again."
Until yesterday.
"Congratulations, you're four weeks along," the doctor beamed, sliding the report across her desk.
I gripped that paper like a lifeline, tears str...

Six years ago, I was forced to marry the Alpha prince to keep my pack from going to a war we’d never win. Torn from the arms of my mate—scratch that…

He knew I’d be tossed aside for the peace treaty, and he didn’t say a word. He sat at that dinner table and let me go. He betrayed me. Darius Sinclair, my fated mate, betrayed me and made a fool out of me at that dinner table.

Well, I married the h...

I was once a brilliant researcher, but I gave up my career for my family. Everything changed during a camping trip—my husband abandoned me in the wilderness, and my son called another woman “Mom.” My husband openly favored his mistress, neglecting both me and our daughter. Heartbroken, I decided to divorce him and take my daughter with me, determined to reclaim my career and my life.

He thought I...

I once believed fleeing my engagement would set me free, only to fall headlong into a web of betrayal spun by my closest friend and faithless lover.

Now, granted a second life just a week before that fateful wedding, I stand before the man I betrayed—Alexander Stone, the unyielding soul who ended his life in my previous existence, all because of me.

This time, I've sworn to mend what I shattered...

Paisley is the campus-recognized "Dating Queen," specializing in orchestrating perfect romances for her best friends—never failing. Until she encounters a mysterious rival—a love coach calling himself "TexasCoach," who's actually coaching her target crush on how to counter-flirt!

When the two matchmaking masters face off head-to-head, Paisley is shocked to discover that this legendary love guru i...

He calls me Sage, a blank canvas he reshapes to fit his whims. My Alpha, Kieran—the King of the North—blindfolds me each night, his whispers soft against my ear as he breathes my name.

Yet his intense stare cuts right through me, fixated on the distant moonlight he craves but can never touch. The irony stings—he looks at another through my eyes, just as I scour him for echoes of my fiancé, lost t...

I am Elara Thorne, nothing more than a sacrifice masquerading as a "Friendship Ambassador." When humans and vampires forged their uneasy peace, they required a pure-blooded offering to seal the deal—and I was wrapped up as that pretty little token of goodwill.

Now, I'm thrust into the opulent world of the Ashford family, fated to dwell among vampire aristocracy. There's my polished foster parents...

After spending a full day at the FBI analyzing criminal profiles, I dragged my exhausted body home to find Marcus down on one knee, surrounded by candles and roses filling the entire room.

"Isabella, marry me." He stared at me with something in his eyes that I mistook for devotion at the time. "Let's have the wedding soon. I can't wait any longer."

That ring was everything I wanted—being with hi...

They say I married a prince and lived happily ever after.

But no one knows that after that million-dollar fairy tale wedding, my "prince" handed me three things: poison, a dagger, and one sentence—

"For my true love, please die."

That's when I realized some fairy tales are lies from the very beginning. Some princes are born devils.

But he underestimated how dangerous a girl raised in a circus ...

I was just a normal sports medicine student working part-time as a medical assistant. Until our hockey team started losing, and team captain Chase announced in front of everyone: "I think little Brie here has been a very helpful girlfriend. Helping their guys stay... energized for games." Other players joined in spreading rumors about my "sexual addiction," saying "She should just hook up with guy...

They shattered my art and labeled me "scholarship trash." When Willard, the MIT prodigy, dared to help gather the wreckage, I repaid him with cranberry juice all over his pristine jacket.
Now he's my forced art partner—all cold shoulders by daylight, but found in the studio at midnight, the scent of spray paint betraying his secret. So when the queen of our school tried to ruin my life again, he w...