Best Strong Heroine Stories & Novels Collection

She needed a job.
He needed control.
Neither expected to fall apart for each other.

Elena Rivera is a Brooklyn-born fighter working two jobs, caring for her sick brother, and doing everything she can to survive in a city that swallows girls like her whole. When a fiery encounter with New York’s most ruthless billionaire unexpectedly lands her a high-paying assistant role, she’s thrown into a...

I didn't look up until I was done packing, then I clutched my suitcase and looked at him. He glared so hard at me, so hard that I feared he was going to do something again. His eyes were cold and I knew he was fighting so hard to keep the anger just beneath the surface. But I had made up my mind. I was leaving. I couldn't stay here any longer, not like this.

"I can't believe you're doing this,...

When her husband and child are brutally murdered by a man she once rejected, Aria Kane's world collapses. With no family, no power, and no protection, the law fails her, justice slips through her fingers. Desperate and broken, she turns to the most feared man in the city — Lucien Moretti, the ruthless Mafia Don known as “The Devil,” and unfortunately, her ex.

He agrees to help her destroy her en...

"Do you understand, Raven? You are mine, and mine alone."

His possessive growl sends shivers down my spine as his fingers work the laces of my nightgown. When the fabric falls away, his darkened eyes devour every inch of me.

"Say my name again."

"Liam," I breathe, and he rewards me with his mouth on my skin, my throat, my collarbone, lower still until his tongue circles my nipples and I'm cry...

Blurb
One Lycan, Two Alpha, One Omega, One mate
All her life, Lena has had her father use her as his pawn in his game of power and greed.
In a quest to break through the shackles of being a prisoner in her own life, she makes a daring offer to the ruthless Lycan, one he can't refuse.
She's on a fast rise to power as she begins to unravel secrets and hidden entities within herself, but she's qui...

Sheila moaned into his mouth, her fingers slipping away from his neck and then traced under his shirt, nails grazing his skin.
Arthur growled in response, heat surging through him like wildfire.
She had let loose his last string of restraint, and all he wanted—all he fucking wanted—was to bury himself inside her, to claim every inch of her until she forgot every other man who had ever touched her...

“Stop it, please,”
“Stop?”
She begged when his hot minty breaths were burning on her neck as he chuckled darkly.
“What makes you think I will stop tonight?”


Arabella Dew had one dream, becoming the bride of the Grayson household, the lover of the youngest son- Luke Grayson.
Ignorant of the dangerous obsession the eldest son, William Grayson, holds for her
William Grayson, the pride of the ...

I never planned to fall in love with him. I only wanted to impress him. But one stolen glance, one careless touch, and suddenly I was drowning in a man who promised passion - and delivered destruction. He said I was his muse. But all he ever did was write me into his madness.

Laramie Hale never meant to fall for her English professor.
Ethan James is everything she shouldn't want - older, married,...

She hated them, but loving them was inevitable.

Dana Varynn doesn't follow rules. She breaks them.
Born with a wild alpha wolf and a temper sharper than her claws, Dana’s never fit in — not with her pack, not with her past, and definitely not with anyone trying to cage her. But after beating the hell out of a boy who deserved worse, she’s exiled to Arclight Academy — a twisted paradise of secret...

Serena Calloway was the perfect wife—devoted, patient, and hopelessly in love with her husband. She gave Killian Blackwood everything: her heart, her loyalty, and a son who carried his name. But her love, however, was something her husand took for granted.

On the night of their anniversary, Serena walks into what should have been a celebration of their love—only to realize the candles, the diamon...

He should have killed me.
Instead, he claimed me.

When his body caged mine and his mouth hovered over my lips, I burned with fear and fury. I didn’t want him, every part of me screamed to resist but my wolf… my cursed, traitorous wolf… she whimpered for him, ached for him, chose him.

MY RUTHLESS MATE

When Diana returns back to her home after the death of her ex husband and her father, she finds out that things are no longer the same, and the boyfriend she was forced to leave was now a powerful CEO.

She tries to navigate her new job, even though he hates her and makes her life hell, but then, she is thrown a curveball.

Her father's death might not have been accident, and all evidences point...

So after this weird plague, basically all the alphas disappeared. Only a few packs had alpha bloodlines left, so they formed an alliance. Whoever could produce an alpha pup in the younger generation becomes the next pack leader.

I'm Natalia from Moon Stone pack. My dad's the alpha, I've got alpha blood, but I can't shift. So everyone treats me like garbage. My mom died young, dad remarried this b...

I taught him how to love, and he used every lesson to win back another woman.

When I discovered Phoenix's time machine, I followed him eight months into the past—to a world where I never existed, where he looked at me like a stranger.

But in this twisted timeline, I found something impossible: Damian, alive and breathing, when in my world he'd already chosen death.

Now I'm trapped between savin...

"I don't like her. That's the truth."

Those crushing words from my own husband shattered the last remnants of hope I'd clung to during our two-year political marriage. Sebastien Grey, the powerful Alpha heir, made it clear that our union meant nothing—I was just a convenient arrangement to protect my failing pack. But what he doesn't know is that I'm carrying his child, a secret that could change...

His hand slammed against the wall beside my head, his gaze burning into mine.
“Tell me, Little Wolf… you feel it too, don’t you?”
My breath hitched. “Feel what?”
“The bond,” he growled, leaning closer, his lips brushing against my ear. “The pull that doesn’t care you belong to him.”
“You’re my mate’s brother,” I whispered, my voice trembling.
His smile was sharp, dangerous. “Exactly. Which means I...

She fled the chaos to save lives.
He rules the shadows with deadly elegance.

Hope Jones, a brilliant New York doctor, thought she could stay far from danger…
until that look. The look of a man as dangerous as he is magnetic. Alessandro Romano.

Just a patient. One blazing night.
But nothing about him is simple. And nothing after him will ever be the same.

Between New York and Sicily, between bur...

They said my father’s debts died with him. They lied.
One moment I was just Isabella Hart, a nursing student fighting to save my sick mother. The next, I woke up captive inside the Romano mansion, traded like property to pay a blood debt I never knew existed.
The Romano family has four heirs: Marco, the ruthless strategist in a wheelchair; Dante, the charming manipulator; Luca, the silent killer w...

Death has never been so carefully balanced.

When a prominent banker is found dead in an apparent suicide, Detective Mira Ellison expects another routine case—until she discovers a black book hidden beneath his chair. Inside are dozens of names: politicians, judges, journalists, even police officers. Some are already dead, their endings ruled accidents or natural causes. Others are still alive… fo...

Chiara was raised in the orphanage of the Silver Aspen pack. Not an overly large Pack, but a strong Pack. As a human, she takes the brunt of the pack's bullying, especially the "Ranked Squad" as she calls them. When she turns 18 earlier than she thought, and gets a wolf, will she be able to accept what she is after all the abuse? Accept her wolf? And accept the Twins as her mates? Or will she retr...

Sarah Mitchell has always been the quiet girl who keeps her head down. Working two jobs to support her sick mother, she's never had time for causes or protests. But when her mother dies from cancer linked to the chemical plant poisoning their water, Sarah's world ignites.
What starts as personal grief becomes a fierce crusade for justice. Armed with nothing but determination and a growing sisterho...

When Amelia Pierce finally admits her marriage is a gilded cage, one shattered glass and a chilling vow—I’ll never divorce you—send her straight into the orbit of Bryson Hearst: her new boss, her oldest secret, and the man who quietly bought a ring for her six years ago and locked it in his safe.

In a world of penthouse boardrooms and whispered scandal, Bryson is the kind of dangerous that feels ...

She trains killers on four legs.
He rules them on two.
When Anika's protection dogs are used in a brutal attack, her only lead drags her into the crosshairs of Nikolai Volkov—the ruthless Bratva king who sees everything she hides.
She's armed, guarded, and dangerous.
He's worse.
In this dark romance of power, loyalty, and obsession, control is an illusion… and falling might be the most dangerous m...

I thought the day I put on that wedding dress would be the most beautiful moment of my life.

Until I heard my fiancé Marcus talking to his mistress in the next fitting room—"Does she really believe you love her?" "Of course she believes it. Sophia's so damn naive, I just gotta say some romantic bullshit and she gets all teary-eyed and grateful."

In that moment, my world shattered completely. Thr...

I thought I'd never see Jake Morrison again.

Three years ago, that bloody night changed everything—my father died, my mother became a vegetable, and his parents were killed in the same revenge attack. To infiltrate the criminal organization that murdered our families, I chose to disappear, letting him think I'd fallen to the dark side, making him hate me completely.

But fate loves its cruel joke...

I thought that one night's mistake would be our biggest secret, until two pink lines appeared on the pregnancy test.

Patrick was my stepbrother, the forbidden territory I should stay away from, the person I thought would never belong to me. When I saw Luna's text, when I thought I was just his drunken substitute, I decided to disappear with this secret.

But on that stormy afternoon, when he bloc...

When Harper was just six years old, she was kidnapped by mafia enemies and nearly lost her life. The daughter of the powerful Petrovsky family’s leader—one of the most feared men in the upper ranks of the Russian mafia—she was sent to a boarding school, where she lived in hiding for over a decade.
On her 20th birthday, she was finally supposed to return home. But a tragedy changes everything: her ...

“What are you doing here?”
Ryan’s voice cut through the air, his gaze locked on the one girl who had once been his greatest weakness, now his greatest enemy.
For her, the last man she ever wanted to see was now her employer.


Tessy, an orphan struggling to survive, once thought she found love during a summer with Ryan Smith. But one misunderstanding shattered everything. Branded a liar, cal...

Caroline willingly enters into a contract marriage with her ex-husband's half-brother to get revenge. She knows her ex-husband hates Dexson, and vice versa.

Caroline vows to make Damian and Eliza regret their actions for killing her baby. However, unbeknownst to Caroline, Dexson already knows her true identity.

Lev" I breathed out pulling my lips away but still leaving his arms around my body.

His eyes fell but he quickly masked it up with a sudden determination, "Reject him" he suddenly said, shocking me to my very core.

My heart stilled, "What?" I whispered, unable to hide my shock.

"Reject him, Ri. Come be with me" he said again, his voice even stronger this time.

I couldn't hold in my shock a...

Carys MacQuoid is done being an undercover agent. After years of living in shadows, she’s ready to walk away from a career that has cost her peace, trust, and pieces of her soul. But before she can resign, her handler throws one final assignment on her desk—an infiltration mission into one of the most untouchable crime dynasties in Europe: the Valachi family.

The Valachi brothers are as dangerous...

“You think I don’t have a heart, little one? You’re right. But if I did, it would already belong to you. And that’s far more dangerous.”

“You break the world with your hands, Nico. I mend it with mine. And maybe that’s why fate threw us together… to remind you even beasts can bleed.”

Born into one of the most powerful crime syndicates in Los Angeles, Serena Moretti has lived a life gilded with d...

Elena is a 15-year-old girl who grew up in an abusive and hostile home, unlike her twin sister who, despite growing up in the same house, had the life of a princess.

Eloisa grew up surrounded by luxury, fake smiles and the certainty that the world revolved around her.

A tragedy throws them into the mansion of the older brothers they never knew: Lorenzo, Vicente, Luca, Leonardo and Sandro - powe...

When prestigious art dealer Elena Vasquez is connected to "The Canvas Killer" - a serial murderer who has terrorized the nation for fifteen years by leaving victims posed like classical paintings - she becomes the most hated woman in America overnight. Evidence emerges that several artworks in her gallery match the killer's gruesome crime scenes, and the FBI believes she's been helping him select ...

Duke Orion von Hawthorne is feared across Ebonvale, ruthless, calculating, and unmatched in power. But beneath his unshakable rule lies a secret that threatens to destroy everything he has built.
He cannot produce an heir.
When whispers of an ancient legend resurface, Orion learns that only a Velaryn, a rare and nearly extinct race of women, can bear his child. Velaryns were once revered for their...

Maddie had trained all her life to succeed her father as the Alpha, but her dreams were shattered when she was taken away by her mate.

Several months had passed and there had been no significant changes in their relationship, and with nothing to hold on to, Maddie decided it was time to return home to claim her throne with her mate beside her.

Toby was the head warrior of the rogue pack, and t...

“Aurelia! You wicked woman, why did you push Jiana down the stairs!”

My husband, Luther, roared at me, rushing over and slapping me hard across the face.

My heart sank. I shook my head violently, unable to utter a word in my defense.

It wasn't me, it was never me who pushed Aurelia! She framed me!

However, Luther would never listen to my explanations. He simply stepped on my body and uttered a...

Camilla. An Italian American whose parents were allegedly killed in an auto accident, is attending law school in New York City. Camilla was oblivious to what her parents had actually been doing with their careers, kept in the dark by her family for her entire life. Her brother completely cuts off contact with her after he graduates from high school. The only family she speak with is her Nonna, who...

Detective Sam Rivera thought that leaving the LAPD would help her get away from the evil that followed her around. Tidewaters, California, is a quiet beach town, but it hides secrets deeper than the Pacific Ocean. When her second day as a private investigator comes around and she finds the body of a youth, she remembers the people who told her, "Don't trust anything here." As Sam digs deeper, she ...

When Ava Carter walks into Blackridge Academy with a fake name and a flawless plan, she’s not there to make friends — she’s there to destroy Jace Langston.
He’s the boy who made her brother disappear.
Son of a corrupt police chief. Golden boy with a perfect smile and a darkness no one sees. She knows getting close to him is the only way to expose the truth — and take down the entire Langston legac...

Annabeth and Lexy were inseparable best friends who thought they were good at keeping secrets - until a fateful encounter shattered their perception of reality. They are thrust into a world that they didn’t know existed, filled with deception and danger. They must navigate both loyalty and betrayal as it comes from all angles. Caught in a war they knew nothing about, their bond will be tested like...

Documentary filmmaker Fern Walker arrives in the remote town of Spring Water to debunk decades-old ghost stories for her latest project. Armed with cameras and scientific skepticism, she expects to expose the supernatural claims as small-town folklore and leave with compelling footage of human gullibility.
Instead, she discovers evidence of ritualistic murders spanning decades—and realizes that no...

In Sicily, Italy, family is more than just blood... it’s power.

Loyalty is earned with bullets, and betrayal costs lives.

Two strong Mafia families, the Bellantis and the Morettis plan to unite through marriage. It’s a careful deal built on years of violence and tradition.

Valentina Bellanti is the perfect daughter. She was chosen to be the bride, the symbol of peace between the families.

Mean...

On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Aria discovers she is the long-lost heir of a forgotten bloodline cursed to destroy the vampire race. The Vampire King, Lucian, bound to the same prophecy, marks her as his mate to keep her close and control her power. But the closer they grow, the more dangerous the bond becomes.

Aria must choose between breaking the curse or embracing it—because in the e...

Three years ago, I ran from my abusive marriage with nothing but my two-year-old daughter and the clothes on our backs. Now I'm back in my hometown of Riverside, trying to rebuild our shattered lives while working at the local diner and hiding from shadows that may not even exist anymore.
Then Jake Miller walks into my life—the boy who broke my teenage heart by leaving town without a word. Now he'...

Plot

Maureen and her brother Lancelot were the children of the Beta male and female both love each other like every sibling. Suddenly things changed when Lancelot turned eighteen, he began acting strange and wanted his sister to stay away from him which broke his sister's heart. In an angry frenzy, he nearly killed his sister while trying to make her stay away from him.
He had to insist ...

Reader Advisory!!!
This story contains steamy scenes, mature language, and forbidden romance.
Recommended for readers 18+ who enjoy emotionally intense and sexually charged love stories with depth.
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“I’m going to turn every dirty page you’ve ever read into your reality, Teyana.”
And Jeremy Carter did.
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It started with a simple party dare and ended with my legs wrapped around the ever-addictive J...

Banished. Branded. Bound to a creature of shadow.

Liora, a Lightborn healer sworn to sanctity, is exiled from the sacred Choir after breaking the First Commandment of her order: Do not touch the darkness. Her crime? Healing a dying enemy: a shadow beast feared by all, a man named Kael who should have been her undoing.

But when her light touched his wound, it didn’t burn. It bonded.

Now, marked ...

She's hunting a killer. He's hunting the truth. Together, they're about to become the hunted.
Detective Rachel Jenkins doesn't believe in coincidences so when handsome journalist Alex Chen appears at her crime scene with information no outsider should have, every instinct tells her to run. Instead, she finds herself drawn into his world of dangerous secrets and impossible theories.
Five murdered w...

Mo’s life was already a mess—her mother’s gone, her brother Milo is one bad haircut away from a crisis, and now they’ve moved to a town so small it makes tumbleweeds look crowded. But things get weirder when Mo meets four mysterious boys who seem to know more about her than she does (which is rude, honestly).

At night, Mo dreams of Aeloria—a magical fairy kingdom with more drama than a reality TV...