Independent

They traded me for their "real" daughter the day she showed up.

My fiancé didn't just dump me—he proposed to her that same night. My so-called family handed me bus fare and a one-way ticket out of their lives.

Perfect. Let them think they won.

They don't know who I really am. The anonymous genius surgeon who saves lives when elite hospitals give up. The legendary artist whose paintings sell for...

Eight years of marriage — she thought she'd married love itself.
Until the day she watched her husband's Bentley rocking on the roadside, and knew exactly why.
She played it cool. Maneuvered him into signing the divorce papers without a clue, then waited for her billion-dollar exit.
But before she could walk free, someone poisoned her drink and staged a crash that nearly killed her.
The man who sa...

"I hate you," Aïssata spat, her chest heaving with fury as she glared at Koffi. "You think you can just claim me as your own?"

Koffi's dark eyes glinted with a mixture of frustration and something far more dangerous. "I don't want to, but I will. You're the key to everything, whether you like it or not."

In the heart of Silvercrest, where wolves rule and forbidden desires burn, Aïssata Doumbia i...

"Harrison, save me!" I clung to the phone, my last thread of hope trembling in my voice.

After a pause, a sweet, syrupy voice came through: "Luci, Harrison just finished with me. He's too tired to move right now." Summer's words dripped with venom. "If you have any self-awareness at all, stop bothering him and just go die!"

I'm Luci Lane. I once loved Harrison Forrester with everything I had—fro...

“I cut off his hands because he touched you. I gouged out his eyes because he looked at you. Do you want to keep playing games with me, Chloe?”

Eighteen years of being her father's heavily guarded mafia princess did nothing to prepare her for Christian Vaughn — a man who kills without hesitation, controls without mercy, and has just decided that she belongs to him.
She didn't choose him out of fr...

They told Christine Hayes she was worthless—no wolf, no power, no place in the pack. Her own father sold her for fifty million dollars.

The buyer? The Lycan King himself.

Cedric Lancaster doesn't do love. Not anymore. His fated mate died in his arms five years ago, and he swore never to mark another. But Christine is carrying his twins—an accident from a night neither of them fully remembers—and...

I was the underworld’s deadliest assassin — until my most trusted man hired hitmen and blew me up, using the parents I’d never found as bait.
I wake as Serena Sterling, nineteen, the long-lost daughter my wealthy birth parents just brought home. My siblings sneer, my classmates write me off, but my parents cherish me. So I play soft, harmless, and hide every lethal skill I own. All while hunting t...

When broke, quietly devastated Zara Cole accepts a job as the personal assistant to the most infuriating man in European football, she tells herself it's temporary. A paycheck. Nothing more.
Matteo Reyes — Real Valencia's notoriously cold-blooded striker, the man the press calls "The Ghost" — has one problem: a tabloid feeding frenzy threatening to unravel a contract worth fifty million euros. His...

“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...

She died as the forgotten daughter.​
Her songs were handed to the adopted sister. Her fiancé ran to that sister’s tears.
Her family didn’t even look down as she bled out.
Then she wakes up—exactly one year before it happens—with a cruel countdown carved into her chest: 365 days to live. And the rule is simple—every day she isn’t truly loved, her time slips away.
Only this time, she refuses to beg ...

For most, anime is just a hobby. For others, it is a sanctuary—the only escape from a harsh, disappointing, and often depressing reality. This is the story of a devoted fan, a "Shut-in NEET" who has turned their back on the real world to find life and meaning in the stories of 2D characters, manga, and games.
​But the lines between fiction and reality are about to vanish forever.

​When a mysterio...

I turned to Lily. "What do you think? Want to help me hack into the campus security system?"
Lily's eyes widened. "Are you kidding? Breaking school rules? Something this exciting—of course I'm in!"


Ellie and Lucas grew up together as young werewolves, always hiding their true identities from the humans around them. Ellie believed she and Lucas were destined to be together, but in high school...

When I handed the divorce agreement and the severance-of-parental-rights form to my husband and son, they signed without even reading them.
"Mom, I don't need your patent transfer. I'm in a hurry to go see Aunt Bianca," my son said.
My husband tossed the divorce papers aside. "Bianca's dog is missing. Get out of the way."
I picked up the scattered pages from the floor. A long time passed before I ...

I was sixteen when my biological father dragged me from our Montana ranch back to his East Coast mansion. Welcome party? My half-brother Brandon pointed at my face in the cafeteria and sneered, "Trash from the farm!"

I slapped him. Hard. His cheek bloomed red.

"Girls can't possibly understand baseball tactics," he spat, trying to save face. "If you can even make the team, I'll do whatever you sa...

A ruined promise. A reckless threat. And a proposal that turns vengeance into a dangerous game.
Desperate to restore her shattered dignity, Raellyn confronts Arnav, the powerful director who holds the key to her ruined past. Driven by pride she offer him marriage instead of money.
For Arnav, she’s the perfect solution. For Raellyn, he’s the only path left.
But what begins as a cold transaction sp...

I had met Soren Ashvale twice.

The first time was in the university cafeteria, when I accidentally dropped my lunch tray and stained his outrageously expensive coat.

The second time, he stopped me beneath a streetlamp on a night ravaged by snow and wind, blocking my way. There was an undisguised, predatory hunger in his dark eyes—the kind only an Alpha wolf could possess. His scent pressed in o...

Jackie Sheeran has spent her entire life being told she's not good enough. As the plus-size daughter of a disgraced alpha who let his pack fall to ruin, she's been groomed to take over a pack that sees her as nothing more than a burden. Her mother, Alpha Theia, has trained her relentlessly—but never allowed her to fight with the warriors, never trusted her to lead, and never once believed she coul...

Ashley Evaline Miller was your drop-dead gorgeous perfect girl next door. Decent, smart, focused, and goal-oriented. She didn't have all the luxury one could think of, but she was content with what she had.

Stuck with her self-acclaimed perfect boyfriend, whom she'd do and be anything for, breathing down on her neck and draining every ounce of happiness out of her, plunging her into an oblivious ...

I crawled out of a mental hospital in the middle of the night—bleeding, broken, and desperate to see my husband.

Instead, I found him toasting champagne with the sister who put me there.

My daughter was starved in an orphanage. My father died alone, his grave unmarked.

And my husband? He threw me back into the snow to die.

A stranger pulled me from the cold. He didn’t offer comfort. He offered...

Alexander Hale built his empire on control — of markets, of people, of himself. Nothing and no one ever rattled him… until Elena Ward walked into his boardroom with a challenge that could destroy everything he’s built.
She’s the one woman he can’t have — brilliant, principled, and bound by rules he helped write. But every argument sparks chemistry, every glance burns hotter than it should, and eve...