Best Suspense Stories & Novels Collection

Inks Game

Life was good, the club was at peace. I rode, I partied and I inked my art onto peoples skin.
But God it was boring.
Right up until Molly moved in next door. Sweet, beautiful and clearly hiding something, she came in like a wrecking ball and took us all by surprise.
We all wanted the single mum. We all made the bet.
But the more I learnt about her, the more I realised that this was a ...

Ever since she first saw him on the ice, she couldn’t look away.
Chase Sterling is everything she’s not supposed to want—captain of the Thunder Knights, the college’s notorious playboy, and her brother’s sworn rival. Knowing he's her brother's biggest enemy, she should hate him. Instead, her feelings only grow stronger, hidden behind stolen glances and quiet longing she shares with no one.

But o...

Lord of the Puck-
She blamed me for the death of my brother and for ten years she had built her whole platform on that lie.
I was the stalker who had killed her twin, my best friend. It was a falsehood that had followed me throughout my career.
A never ending black cloud.
And now she was here, in my family home and I was about to fall into the mould she had made for me. I was about to become her ...

Their whole relationship was a bet.

She was THE bet. Not the girl. Not the girlfriend. The bet, scrawled on a napkin in a locker room while his teammates laughed. Whoever could sleep with the quiet nerdy girl first won. And Ryan Beckett? He won easy.

She found out in a group chat. Every detail and the humiliation swallowed her whole, even worse when he didn't even have the decency to feel bad ab...

On that snowy night, Vincent gave Alessandro the key, the address, and a copy of Ecclesiastes his father had left behind. He said, “You’re the most irrational thing I’ve done in over a decade.”
Alessandro accepted the book but immediately stuffed all the evidence of the Calvino family’s crimes into the trash can outside the laundromat.
On the night of the final crackdown—St. Valentine’s Day—the mu...

Minutes before the birthday party of the famous Selene Ashcroft in Saint College, her blood dries up, and she collapses dead on the ground, leaving the students gasping in horror.

No one knows the cause of her strange death, so some of them started spreading rumors that the person she hated the most in college was behind it.

Who? The scholarship girl, Lyra Vale.

Innocent Lyra, who got mostly...

Rhaegor's hand slid down to my waist as he pulled me closer, his dark eyes never leaving mine.

"You should run from me, Kristi. Do you know what you're getting yourself into? Once you're mine, there will be no going back."

I opened my mouth to speak, but his hand slid down to my wet and throbbing vulva. I closed my eyes and moaned softly.

Even if I intended to run away from him, he had alrea...

Three years ago, my best friend Juliana Pierce was raped and jumped from a twelve-story building. I was there. I saw everything. I know exactly who did it.

Alexander Knight—Juliana's boyfriend, brilliant scientist, the man I've secretly loved for seven years—has spent every moment since hunting for answers. He believes I'm shielding a predator. He's dedicated his life to making mine hell.

Now I'...

First day at Lincoln High School and Aurelia already found a message scrawled on a bathroom mirror in red. “Stop asking questions”. Even when she hadn't asked anything at all.

That piqued her interest to discovering things about the school only to find out her last name matches that of a victim from 1923. A murder the founding families buried under the school itself.

Three students died in two y...

"Oh my God, is that a dead body? I am gonna puke." I choked out the words, shoving my hand over my mouth.

This is my second time seeing an actual dead body, and honestly I don't think I could ever get used to this.

Asher Rider has barely arrived in Edinburgh when his first days in the city are interrupted by a string of disturbing murders.

Then his best friend becomes one of the victims.

...

"If you want me to believe you weren't sent by my enemies," Massimo said coldly, pointing at the balcony railing, "then jump."
She froze for a moment. The drop behind her was real, the danger undeniable. Any sane person would have stepped back.
But Isabella smiled.
"I'll do anything for you."
And then she jumped.
Massimo De Luca, the ruthless mafia king feared by everyone in the city, never expect...

They were already married for three years when Alpha Damian Zeus’s long-lost first love, Lily, returned bringing along a five-year-old pup.

Luna Ariana Volkstane slid the formal rejection request across the table. "Let's end this bond. It's better for you, me, and your first love."

He just smirked. "You want me to reject you? You think you can break our bond that easily?"

So she did. Ariana cu...

She was raised to be the mayor’s perfect daughter.
A polished little doll standing beside her father while Fairmont praised him as a hero. But behind closed doors, Victor Sterling’s hand was heavy, his rules were suffocating, and Isadora spent her whole life learning how to smile through it.
Then one fatal car crash changes everything.
Fire swallows the wreckage. Sirens close in. Her best friend l...

For three years, the wives of the Dark Prince of Ravencrest have died six months after their vows.

On the night of the King and Queen's anniversary celebration, a royal decree from Ravencrest shatters the festivities. The Dark Prince has chosen his seventh bride, and to everyone's horror, the name announced is Elara.

A girl with no reason to have been chosen.

But when grief awakens a forbidden ...

For three years of marriage, Ava had been waiting for Nicholas to publicly acknowledge her existence—to claim her as his mate and Luna before the world.

Yet Nicholas always told her, "Wait a little longer. You are an Omega, and you have no wolf. Once I grow stronger, I will announce you." Ava believed him. To her, Nicholas was her hero—the one who had rescued her from relentless bullying.

On t...

For twelve years, Valentina Fisher believed she had the perfect marriage.

Until the day she discovered her husband, Julian Wilder, had been keeping another woman.

Heartbroken and desperate for answers, Valentina confronts his mistress. Their argument spirals out of control, ending with the woman lying lifeless in a pool of blood. Terrified she’s committed murder, Valentina flees the scene

Now t...

Sophia gave three years of her life to a man who ruined her without even looking up from his phone. Married into the powerful Vale family, she thought loyalty would protect her. She was dead wrong. Caught in her own bed with his assistant, Marcus Vale offered eviction instead of an apology. Because that's exactly what trash like him does.

Thrown out into a rainstorm with an empty bank account, t...

Enrolling at the prestigious Silver High Boys' School was never part of Ariana Hayes's plan.

She came for one reason only......to uncover the truth behind her twin brother, Gerald Hayes's, death.Everyone believed he had taken his own life.
She didn't.

Determined to uncover the truth, Ariana cuts her hair, assumes a new identity, and secretly enrolls in the all-boys boarding school her bro...

All Derek Silva wants is to maintain the life he loves as is. The dangerous lifestyle that came with being a CIA agent with the license to kill. But his long time lover decides she wants a normal life, a slow and quiet life, to have a house and a family. He didn’t do normal and he definitely didn’t do slow and quiet. But saying no to a woman who went by Jackie the Ripper was a fatal risk only an i...

Jessica Howard was Ridgeview Homecoming Queen.

She smiled for the cameras, accepted her crown... and disappeared before the after-party. No body was found. No ransom. No answers.

The next morning, every student's phone lit up with the same notification. ‘A new app has been installed.’ No one downloaded it. No one can delete it.
It's simply called NEXT.

At midnight, NEXT chooses a name. The ne...

“So tell me Zinnia, what do you want?” He asked, his hands slipping between my legs, fingers finding me soaked and desperate.

“Please please…” I cried out as he teased me deliberately while watching my face twist with need.

“Please what baby? Use your words.” My head fell back, my thoughts scattering as heat pooled deep inside me.

“I want…” My voice trembled. “I want to break the rule.”

“Good...

A legendary con artist plans one final job before disappearing forever. But everything falls apart when someone starts committing crimes using her real identity. Hunted by the police and criminals alike, she must uncover the imposter before losing everything including the life she stole for herself.

Forced into an uneasy alliance with the very detective determined to arrest her, she follows a tra...

“I didn’t mean leave the house; I meant leave the pack. I don’t want you here; you should be grateful because I am doing you a favor.” Damon said.

“What?” I exclaimed, my eyes threatening to bulge out.
Roxanne, an orphan, and Damon, the son of the Alpha, have been best friends since childhood. They have a one-night stand when Damon is crowned as the alpha, even though they're not fated mates.

H...

“Xavier.” She moaned softly.
That gentle whisper broke me and reformed me all at the same time.
“Yes, blondie?” I panted heavily, my dick rock hard against her belly.
She shook her head, her hands dropping from my suit.
“I can't do this again.”
I grabbed her face between my palms, searching desperately, needing to find the truth within her expression but all I could see were remorse, guilt and reg...

I never asked to be special. I just wanted to survive.

When I got the scholarship to Caldera Academy, I thought it was my ticket out of a life of scraping by on the mainland. My magic was weak, messy, and hard to control, but they told me the Covenant Ritual would fix that. They told me I’d bond with a creature, balance my power, and finally belong.

They lied.

I didn't get a beautiful, glowing ...

In a world where elemental magic dictates your worth, seventeen-year-old Maya is a "Null" born to high-tier fire mages but lacking enough spark to light a candle. Her only ticket to staying at the prestigious Aethelgard Academy is her lethal athletic agility. She survives by keeping her head down and playing harder than everyone else.

Jaxon Thorne is the school’s golden boy. A royal dragon shifte...

At Corvain Academy, power isn't earned in the classroom—it is inherited in secret.

When scholarship student Chris Linds stumbles onto a mystery someone has killed to protect, she becomes the next target. The only person standing between her and death is Ashen Ford, the academy's cold, untouchable Student Council President—and heir to one of Corvain's founding families.

As anonymous invitations s...

My legs are pinned to the mattress, and his head is between my thighs and all I can think of is, ‘maybe I’ll slit his throat after he makes me cum’.

My mission is to infiltrate his hockey secret society and find concrete evidence to bring them down. I'm supposed to be staying behind the camera, taking notes from the sidelines, and collecting evidence.

Instead, I’m spending my nights letting him...

Wren Calloway has not cried in two years, not since the night her fiance David Lin died inside a collapsing building while she worked the call as lead paramedic and could not reach him in time. She buries her grief under double shifts and one strict rule: never fall for a firefighter again. Then her ambulance unit is folded into Station 14, and her new partner on every call becomes Captain Gideon ...

Future Alpha Wesley Stone's teacher assigns his class a pen pal project with a class located in another state. The young Alpha soon finds himself forming a close snail mail friendship with a young, orphaned human girl, Haven Kenway. Over time, they lose touch, but neither forgets the other. Years pass, and Haven now lives in one of the towns near Wesley's pack. When they finally meet in person, sp...

They called her too fat to rule.

Too ugly to be loved.

Too weak to be Alpha.

On the day she finally found her fated mate, Velvela Logan believed the Moon Goddess had answered her prayers. Instead, her mate rejected her, drove a sword through her heart, and stole her kingdom.

Left for dead and stripped of her wolf, she is sold as a servant to Bloodcity—the ruthless military academy ruled by t...

I swapped bags with a stranger on the last train home. Hers held a bloodstained shirt, a ring of keys, and photographs I was never meant to see.

Now she's standing at my front door, and she knows exactly what I'll do to protect my family.

I thought I was just an unlucky girl in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I was wrong.

The man in those photographs wasn't a stranger.
He was my father.

I was born under the red full moon, something rare and marked as a curse in the werewolf world.

My pack hated me. They wanted me gone, saying I would bring nothing but destruction. My wolf was sealed before I could reach the awakening age, leaving me worthless. Helpless. Vulnerable.

Then came the night that changed my life, dragging me into the worst world possible.

I was married off to the cru...

Kyomi Wesley has spent her life running from the past. Orphaned at ten when vampires slaughtered her family, she studies folklore at Grand Oaks University, trying to understand the monsters that destroyed her world. One night changes everything—a vicious attack leaves her violated and broken, saved only by her mysterious professor, Duran Armani. But Duran isn't just a professor. He's the very crea...

She retired undefeated. He has never lost either.
Natalie Ray walked away from professional boxing at the top of her game. Now she waits tables at Rosario's, a stunning restaurant she has no idea is owned by Lorenzo Ricci the most feared man in New York.
When Lorenzo dares her to fight his security guard just to put her in her place, Natalie doesn't flinch. She doesn't raise her voice. She doesn't...

One wrong text would ruin everything.
To the ultra-wealthy elite at Manhattan’s St. Jude’s Academy, Avery Vance is an invisible scholarship kid. But online, she’s "V" a savage, anonymous ghostwriter who charges lazy rich kids insane prices to save their failing grades. She needs the cash for rent. She doesn't need complications.
Then she gets an urgent, five-hundred-dollar request from Jaxon Mont...

Marlow Winters used to know exactly one thing for certain: Truett Sorensen loved her. Then he vanished from their hometown rink the summer before their sophomore year without a word, and the certainty became a scar. Now she's a credentialed junior reporter covering the Kestrel Development Program's championship run for a regional sports outlet, and he's the team's captain, the reason scouts are ci...

For three years, she was nobody.

No name worth remembering. No money worth counting. She was just Jason Sterling’s quiet, invisible wife—the woman his world walked past without a second glance.

That was exactly how Jasmine Vance wanted it.

On their third anniversary, she found him where he shouldn’t have been—with the woman he’d sworn was “just family.” She didn’t scream. She didn’t cry. She ju...

Sonia Reynard has spent her entire life fighting to prove she belongs among the strongest of her kind.
She's not an Alpha's daughter. She doesn't come from a legendary bloodline. Everything she has, she earned through years of sacrifice and discipline.
Now, in her final year at Evermourne Academy, she stands one victory away from securing her legacy.
The only thing standing in her way is Wesley Wa...

She walked into the tyrant’s frozen fortress to kill him.
Princess Isolde of Oakhaven traded her freedom for peace, offering herself in marriage to King Vane Thorne — the Scourge of the North, a ruler the whole continent fears as a bloodthirsty monster.
Her plan was simple: end the war by ending him on their wedding night.

But when her dagger meets his chest, Vane does not strike back.
He reveals...

Rina Blakely was raised to believe money could solve anything. Born into an upper-middle-class family, she had every opportunity life could offer—until the night her parents died and the man she was engaged to showed his true colors.
Controlling. Violent. Obsessed.
The night he tried to kill her, Rina disappeared.
With nothing but the clothes on her back and a fake name, she flees halfway across t...

BLURB

Ravenna Damon was banished for existing.

Darius Pike crossed the border anyway.

They built something in the wilderness. A home from nothing, a child on the way, something almost close to peace. The Moon Goddess let them have three months before she took it back.

Now Darius is dead. Her child is gone. And the man responsible for both is apparently her second fated mate.

The bond does not...

Princess Delphine Rourke is being married off to end a war she didn't start. The terms are simple: three months in Thornhollow, the last unclaimed rogue territory, to prove the crown can tame it before her wedding to Prince Alaric Sterling. What nobody prepared her for is the four Alphas who actually run Thornhollow, men the crown calls criminals and the territory calls kings. She is supposed to f...

Bella Tom has spent her entire life fighting to survive.

Raised by a struggling single mother in a small apartment, she grows up knowing hunger, sacrifice, and heartbreak. When her mother dies, Bella is left completely alone, forced to work endless jobs just to keep a roof over her head. But when she loses her last source of income, she finds herself standing on the edge of homelessness with nowh...

She only wanted to escape her life.
One fall into the river changed everything.
Lina Hale wakes in a world she doesn’t understand… "trapped inside the body of a werewolf Luna with a life already falling apart.
Now she’s tied to an Alpha who has never truly loved her, surrounded by dangerous secrets and palace politics that could get her killed.
But Lina is not the woman they remember.
As she strug...

On the night of her 18th birthday, Leah Hart walks in on her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend. Humiliated and heartbroken, she runs into the woods where she's nearly killed by a wolf. But alas, she's saved by none other than Hardin West. Ashwood High's star hockey captain and her ex-boyfriend's older brother.

He's the last person she should fall for but one thing leads to another a...

Marcella, a tribrid of vampire, witch, and werewolf, was born into a prophecy foretelling destruction and chaos. Her very existence defies the natural order, and for years, she's felt the weight of her difference. Now, the truth emerges: she's a target. Haunted by a past she never knew, she's thrust into a world unravelling at its seams. Every supernatural being hunts her, their mission clear: eli...

Cora Snow has always been the outcast of the Lincoln Pack. At twenty, her wolf remains dormant, leaving her weak, overlooked, and an easy target for ridicule. She’s invisible, until the night her wolf finally awakens.
That same night, Cain, the Alpha’s enigmatic son, returns to the pack, accompanied by Cora’s sister, the golden image of everything Cora is not. Fate strikes cruelly: Cain, her desti...

Paul Sutcliffe has spent three years quietly hating Garrett Holt from two rows back in AP Lit, the quarterback who got everything handed to him, including the one apology he never gave her. Then her mother marries his father, and the boy she's hated becomes the boy she shares a bathroom with. Worse: on the night of the wedding, Paul finds proof that Garrett's late mother didn't die in an accident ...

Three years since I married into the Hawthorne family, I had already lost two children.
And the one who decided whether my babies lived or died wasn't a doctor—it was a potted plant in the manor's living room: the Crimson Orchid.
In this family, if the petals withered and reeked after drinking the pregnancy blood, it was an unbreakable rule: the child had to go.
The first two times, all I could do...