Best Suspense Stories & Novels Collection

Seventeen-year-old Sable Thorne has spent her whole life running from a town she doesn't remember. When her mother, Morwen, drags her back to decaying Echo Ridge three days before her eighteenth birthday, Sable assumes it's just another one of her mother's inexplicable decisions.

Then she finds the diary.

Hidden beneath the floorboards of her childhood bedroom, a leather-bound journal belonging ...

My car dies. I get fired for telling my boss to get fucked. My ex has me thrown out of my home, and someone steals my weed. By the time I leave the pub, I am drunk, homeless and desperate enough to thank whichever god showed me mercy.
Then the footpath vanishes, and I land in a demoness’s bedroom, because why wouldn’t life take the chance to screw me harder?
Hectevia calls me Xarus, sprays me with...

A fallen princess. A ruthless demi-god. One year to change his heart—or lose her soul forever.

Slain on the battlefield by the lethal army of King Severo—the ruthless son of the divine Warrior-God, Princess Areza’s story should have ended. But, desperate, her mother strikes a perilous deal at the gates of the afterlife, with the Angel of Judgment, pulling her spirit back to life—with a terrifying...

“Tell me you don’t love me, Gabriel.”

“Don’t ask me for something I have no right to give.”

Gabriel. The man I called my uncle. We weren’t related by blood. He took me in after my parents died.

Loving him wasn’t in my mother’s last wishes.

His guardianship ended when I turned eighteen.

But I stayed.

And somewhere over the next six months, between quiet conversations, ordinary dinners, and th...

Trigger warnings: Murder, Suicide, SA, Bullying, Substance abuse.

When St. Veridian's golden girl, Blanche Montclair, plunges from the clock tower on the night of the winter ball, the world calls it a tragic accident. They lied.

Aurora Sterling knows this because Blanche was her best friend and had sent her a diary before she died, the last entry predicting her inevitable murder and begging Aur...

I told the police Emmett Rhodes killed my best friend.

Then my mother married his father.

I saw Emmett standing over Maya’s body. I recognized the rose tattoo on his neck the moment he walked into our house. And when the police let him go, I swore I’d find the proof myself.

Emmett tells me to stop digging. He calls me “Stepsis” like he knows exactly how much it gets under my skin. He has every ...

Elena, the daughter of a notorious mafia family, was offered as a tribute to the leader of the Morello family by her father. In an attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Elena marries a complete stranger. What she doesn't know is that this mysterious husband of hers is none other than the legendary mafia king... and now, he’s also her new boss...

Natalia and Andrei’s marriage was originally a three-year contract. With only 30 days left until the contract ends, Natalia discovered that she’s pregnant.
Just when she thought Andrei would reconsider divorcing her because of this, his deceased first mate, Lilith, returned. Feeling hopeless, Natalia decided to initiate the divorce.
However, at their engagement party, Andrei received the news of...

Strength is everything in our world. I was born without it.
My name is Maeve Nightwhisper—the royal family’s shame. I can’t shift. I don’t heal like a true Alpha. I was never meant to rule. That future belonged to my twin brother, Reeve.
Until he was poisoned the night before enrolling at Lycan Spirit Academy.
If the academy discovers the heir is dead, our uncle Garson claims the throne by dawn.
S...

Elena was raised as an ordinary human until the night she was sacrificed as a treaty bride to the feared Alpha King of Moonfang. Branded as cursed and hated by an entire kingdom, she soon discovers that the strange mark on her wrist is no curse... it is proof that she is the last surviving heir of the legendary Moon Queen, whose royal bloodline was believed to have been erased centuries ago.

As f...

Reborn after being murdered for her heart, Josephine walks into the substitute marriage she once fled straight into the arms of Lord Kael Veyron, the most violent and feared man in the empire.
"Do you want revenge? Let me help you." With those words, their unholy alliance is sealed. Armed with his power and her own cold genius, she dismantles the enemies who destroyed her. But as she delivers bru...

Two years ago, Maya blamed Nico Laurent for the crash that nearly ended her career.
Now he's her teammate, her biggest rival, and the last man she should fall for.

They called her weak because she was a woman. Maya intends to make them regret ever doubting her.

Maya has one season to prove she deserves her historic racing seat. If she fails, she's out. But when the mystery behind her old crash r...

There’s only one reason I came to Blackthorne University pretending to be Ellie Harper, my twin sister who mysteriously vanished after sending me one very unsettling final letter.

Simple. Find out what the hell they did to my sister and get out.

Except Blackthorne is nothing like Ellie described. The place practically breathes secrets, everyone acts like they know something they shouldn’t, and a...

⚠️ Trigger Warning:
This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, consensual sex, dirty talks, and adult themes. Intended for readers 18+ only.

Desire doesn’t look the same for everyone, and this collection celebrates every intoxicating form it takes.
From stolen touches that linger too long, to late-night fantasies that refuse to stay quiet, Naughty Dripping Desires is an unap...

"She is mine." Ephemiel announced. "That is the only truth any of you need to know. Touch her or even look at her with hunger in your eyes, and I will carve the memory of my displeasure into your wings for the rest of eternity."

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Desperate to save her dying twin sister, Dione Allistair attempts a forbidden blood ritual to summon a lesser Fallen.
She gets th...

After five years of rebuilding her life, star basketball player Ava Carter believes she has finally escaped the shadow of her abusive ex, Ethan Cole. Her career is at its peak, and her relationship with Dylan Brooks, the league's golden boy, is the picture of happiness. That picture shatters when she wakes to find Dylan murdered in her apartment, with all evidence pointing to her.

As Detective M...

Adessa Flumigale was born with a crown on her head and a soul already promised to someone she had never met.

As the daughter of an ancient royal bloodline of Fire Wolf shifters, Adessa has spent her entire life under her family’s control. In her bloodline, mates are soul-bound at birth—a sacred bond that cannot be broken and a destiny that cannot be refused. And unlike other shifters, Fire Wolves...

London Caldwell thought she was getting a vacation.
After losing her job and watching her carefully controlled life in New York fall apart, she agrees to escape with her three closest friends to Wyndham Island, a private paradise owned by one of the world’s wealthiest men.
She expects a place to heal.
Instead, she’s met on the pier by Julian Hamilton, the powerful first-born heir to a vast empire ...

I wake up in a hospital bed with a shattered collarbone, no memories, and a stranger claiming to be my husband.

Julian Montgomery is billionaire-cold, devastatingly handsome, and never asks a single question. He tells me who I am. He tells me where I'm going. And every instinct I have left is screaming not to believe him.

That night, in an estate I don't remember, I find a diary hidden beneath t...

Elara Whitmore buried her twin sister three weeks ago. Then a video arrived. Wren was alive, bound to a chair, whispering her name.
The trail leads straight back to Blackthorn Academy, the school Wren vanished from, the school the powerful Vale family quietly owns. So Elara does the only thing left. She cuts her hair, steals her dead sister's face, and walks back through the gates as Wren.
Nobody ...

Taylor has spent her career uncovering secrets. This time, she found one worth killing for. Unfortunately for whoever made her the prey, they forgot one thing...Bedlam Cox hunts too.

Taylor knows when a story doesn't add up. As an investigative podcast producer, she's built her career digging beneath official reports and asking questions people would rather leave buried. So when an anonymous s...

She buried her name, bound her chest, and became the brother who saved her life, the same brother whose legacy she now has to carry onto the ice. The Hockey Tournament is her only chance to free her father from the prison cell he was wrongfully thrown into, and she's not about to let anyone stand in her way. Not the cold, calculating Xavier. Not the reckless, infuriating Hunter. Not even the ghost...

“Ah, there you are, quiet and wanton, just the way I like you.” He groaned in pleasure, wrapping his large hand around my throat as he curved his fingers in me. My knees buckled, and I tried to hold on to my rage, but there was nothing but heat, spreading under my skin like wildfire. Vincent consumed me with every touch.
He brought his mouth down on my neck, and I gave him my throat willingly. Us...

"T-The voices, Alpha. The v-voices instructed me to do it," she responded. I could sense the bewilderment radiating off him and those around us without needing to look. What on earth is she saying?

"What do you mean, what voices?" he pressed her.

"T-The tiny voices, Alpha. They won't stop urging me to k-kill Saint," she said before collapsing forward, slipping into unconsciousness.

********...

“I hate you, Xaden.”

“No, you don’t.” He counters.

“I want to kill you.”

“That’s very possible while you still love me.”

That arrogant smirk…I want to smack it off his lips so bad. My body vibrates, feeling currents through my nerves.

He backs me against the wall, blue eyes changing into golden ones as they burn intensely into mine. “Your body says very otherwise, Little flame.”

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In exchan...

Apple High is not a school. It is a danger zone.

Home to mafia heirs, rogue wolves and students powerful enough to make the law look the other way. Strength determines your place. Weakness makes you prey.

Jivu walks in with two missions. One for the government, tracing a rogue wolf outbreak violent enough to tear the supernatural world wide open. One for herself, finding out what happened to her...

Claire Bennett buried Samantha Reed eight years ago.

She changed her name, disappeared into a new city, and built a life quiet enough to feel safe. Then Ryan Cole becomes eligible for parole, and someone starts sending her pieces of the woman she used to be.

Old photographs. Private memories. Messages no stranger should know.

Ryan is still behind bars, but someone outside is helping keep Samant...

Vaelis Renn was never supposed to survive her entrance trial. Her magic answers only to the Crimson Moon, wild and impossible to tame, the kind of power every instructor has warned her will get her killed or get someone else killed first. When her trial ends in fire and screaming students, she expects to be sent home in disgrace. Instead, she is dragged into something far worse.
The Conservatory h...

Carina Bellini was the soft, beloved daughter of a powerful mafia family. Envious of her father's favor, her brothers betrayed her to protect their true savior, a manipulative woman named Violet Corvo. To get rid of Carina, her brothers sold her off to Renzo Valenti, a ruthless rival boss and family friend.
Behind closed doors, Renzo was a sadistic monster. Secretly in love with Violet, he brutali...

For a thousand years, no fox had ever reached the legendary Ninth Tail.
Kaien Ashwyn was destined to become the first.
At only twenty-two years old, the greatest genius of the Celestial Fox Clan stood before the Ascension Ceremony, one step away from becoming the next Fox Sovereign. Instead of ascending, he was branded a traitor for conspiring with the Fox Hunters.
His Clan Leader, Lord Orion, con...

Blurb
"You have until Friday, Mr. Reed. After that, your father's garage stops existing."
I had nothing left to fight back with. No money, no leverage, nothing but a dying auto garage and a promise I made my father before he passed. Then a car nearly killed me in the middle of the street, and I woke up hearing a voice in my head that changed everything.
It told me I now carry the Negative Emotion ...

Sable Cross has one rule left standing after eight years of chasing supernatural skips for cash under the trade name Wraith, don't take a job that isn't already half finished, and don't ask too many questions about what your target actually is until the payment clears.

She breaks both rules on what is supposed to be her very last bounty, a routine skip trace that turns into a dead sprint through...

Aria was the daughter of the Alpha of the Silver moon pack born into a life of strength and legacy but instead of respect, she is overlooked by the members of her own pack due to her weak wolf. She had always wanted to have a mate just like everyone else but on the night of the mating ceremony, her dreams came crashing down when her own mate rejects her publicly choosing another.Aria is left humil...

"Let me show you what it feels like to be a woman again, Dahlia. Just for tonight, Seb doesn't have to know... You know I can keep a secret," Zane smirks darkly.

I swallow hard, my eyes darting between his gaze and his lips as an intense wave of forbidden heat sears through me.


Dahlia Sterling has been engaged to her boyfriend, Sebastian Thorne, after five years of dating.

To the outside...

Ava Duval gave up everything for love. She left a promising fashion career and poured five years of her life into building a multimillion-dollar empire from the bottom with her husband by her side.

She was a bubbly woman until she lost her children during delivery, and out of her husband's love, or so she thought, he adopted twins for her, and she raised them as her own.

She was blessed to hav...

Forced to marry the very monster she was trained to destroy, Commander Thalira enters the volcanic realm of the Drakon-Vyr Clan with a single, lethal mission dictated by her treacherous father: find the Fire Lord’s weakness and slit his throat. She expects a hideous beast, but instead finds Lord Azrael, an unearthly, dangerously beautiful dragon king who is a brutal tyrant to the rest of the world...

On my deathbed, I found out my husband and my sister had been poisoning me, so that they could live happily ever after together.

I refused to let that happen, so I married my loyal guard to strip my husband of the Alpha throne.

Three years later, the Moon Goddess gave me a second chance and I made a vow in blood:

Take Lucian’s Alpha title.
Expose Nora.
Marry Julian and watch my ex-husban...

Ever heard of a professional Liar-for-hire?

Well, meet Lola Beaumont, CEO of LIAR FOR HIRE, a discreet hiring and lying agency.

Lola's job is to craft and sell lies to help rich people in need of help, by assuming different identities and using various disguises. Think crashing an ex's wedding, fake dating a hockey player, bursting a cheating ass boyfriend in the act, fiancée-for-a-day, CEO’s c...

“The Devil always collects his debts.”
Sold by my father to settle his gambling debt, I walked down the cathedral aisle toward a sadistic mafia tyrant. Meanwhile beneath my wedding dress, I hid a lethal secret: I was three weeks pregnant by my bodyguard.
Then the doors blew off their hinges.
Through the smoke walked Lorenzo Genovese, the Devil of the East Coast. I grew up amongst powerful, dangero...

"Stay away from my sons, Ariana. They're dangerous when they want something."
The irony wasn't lost on me. "And you're not?"
His smile was cold. "Oh, I don't lose what I want, Ariana. And right now… I'm trying not to want the wrong thing. Because I always get what I want."
He left me there, trembling and confused.
I managed to avoid everyone for the rest of the day. Took a taxi home, snuck in thro...

Skylar Voss doesn't do complicated.

Smart? Annoyingly so.

Cursed? Apparently.

Mated to the one wolf on campus she's supposed to hate? Yeah. That too.

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The thing about being wolfless is that nobody expects anything from you.

No rank. No shift. No mate bond snapping into place at the worst possible moment — like during a sold-out hockey game, in front of twelve thousand people, when ...

"They say that you killed my best friend, Julian," I whispered, pressing against the wall of the quiet library, having nowhere to escape.
"They say a lot of things about me, Chloe." He responded, his fingers gently tracing the corner of my lips, making me shudder.
"Did you? Did you kill her?" I found myself asking, and his lips lifted in a smile as his fingers travelled down my throat.
"Will yo...

Seven years ago, Ella Carter’s father was brutally murdered. With nowhere else to go, she was taken in by Marcus Ravengard, her father’s powerful employer and the man she believed had saved her life.

Living in the Ravengard mansion, Ella became fascinated by Marcus’s eldest son, Miles. Though they had never met, she spent years secretly dreaming about the mysterious heir.

Then Miles comes home.
...

Self-made CEO Angela Vale dies in a high-speed car crash, only to wake up on an 1800s execution block. Trapped in the body of a low-ranking maid framed for poisoning the royal princess, she has zero voice to defend herself.
When the terrifyingly handsome Emperor Alexander spares her neck at his daughter's request, Angela thinks she survived the worst. But the palace is full of vipers. That very ni...

I was arrested the night I turned eighteen for murdering my parents. The evidence was perfect. The blood that stained my dress was their blood and my fingerprints were on the knife. The one person I trusted to stand up for me wouldn’t even see me—my mate, the heir to the Alpha King. Lucien Ashcroft passed without a word to me as the council sentenced me to death.
So I ran.
Seven years later, a fem...

He's the golden boy of Kansas City hockey. He has the trophies, fortune, women, and a life where he always gets what he wants.

She's the Special Agent who has spent ten years hunting the monster that murdered her father, waiting for the day its signature appears again.

Zane Chandler's perfect life shatters when he comes home to find his younger sister brutally murdered, her eyes gouged out and a...

She forgot him. He never stopped hunting her.
Two years ago, Sophia Bennett ran from the only man who ever owned her heart, Chase Romano, the devil the underworld calls IL Diavolo. She buried her scars, changed her name, and said yes to a man who deserved someone whole.
He found her anyway.
“You're mine,” he said, pressing her against the wall of a life she never wanted him back in. “You've always...

There are hundreds of photographs of Judith Beauchamp. Every single one was taken without her knowledge.
Every single one was hidden inside Alexander Laurent Devereux's private study.

Alexander insists he was protecting her.

Judith believes he's obsessed.

After surviving a mysterious accident that erased the last decade of her life, Judith wakes up convinced she's still eighteen. Now twenty-ei...

Emily Fields never meant to become a killer.

She was twenty-two when she stabbed a man eleven times behind the bar where she worked. She remembered the first strike. She never remembered the other ten.

Seven months later, the victim suddenly withdrew the charges without explanation.

With nowhere to go and only forty-one dollars to her name, Emily accepts an offer that sounds too good to refuse:...

Everyone thinks Nadia Hart is pure innocence—sweet, soft-spoken, and untouchable. She is the girl no one ever suspects of harboring dark, dangerous desires. Her best friend, Brielle, is the exact opposite: loud, reckless, and addicted to taking whatever—and whoever—she wants. Especially her own stepfather, Kane Vale.

Brielle treats Kane like a secret she owns. Nadia listens, pretending not to car...