Best Bittersweet Stories & Novels Collection

He marked her as his… Now there’s no way out.

Isla Monroe is a struggling college student with big dreams—until a single night changes her fate for good when she crosses paths with Damian Cross, the dangerous and charming powerful heir to a ruthless mafia empire.

With one claim, he marks her as his. But Damian didn’t choose her by accident—his secrets are tied to her past. As enemies close in an...

"Didn't know a clumsy girl would be sent to me?" He said, and I felt a ripple go through me.

His voice!

It was the deepest one I have ever heard. His aura screams power but I don't know why I kept on looking at his face as if I was under a love spell.

"You keep looking at me, did you find me too pretty?" He asked, and his deep voice jolted me awake, goosebumps traveling down my skin when I rea...

“You left me when I needed you the most.”
“No, little flame. I left so I wouldn’t destroy you.”
Kieran Blackthrone is Alina’s foster brother, and she grew up with him as her best friend. He is her silent protector, who harbours forbidden feelings for her that he shouldn’t.
One day, Kieran vanishes without a goodbye, leaving Alina totally broken and emotionally dependent on him. He is bound by ...

No one warned me that the man who used to slip me extra birthday money and ruffle my hair would come back ten years later looking like every bad decision I wanted to make. No one told me the man behind half of New York’s skyline, the ruthless, billionaire CEO with the devil’s mouth and my father’s trust, would look at me like I was a woman. Not a child. Not his best friend’s daughter.
Now every ti...

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,...

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...

From Betrayal to Power: Her Journey of Love and Redemption.
Sheila thought her world couldn’t crumble any further when her husband, Jacob, cast her aside for being unable to give him children. Branded barren and mocked by his family, her life became a nightmare. Jacob's cruelty reached its peak when he brought his pregnant mistress into their home, flaunting her triumph. But when the truth came t...

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...

My sixteen-year-old cousin needed blood. Emergency surgery. Life or death.
But instead of buying blood from the hospital, Uncle Daryl just pointed at Grandma Maggie. "Use hers. She's tough. She can handle it."
They drained her until she collapsed. Then they took my cousin home to celebrate his recovery, leaving Grandma bleeding unconscious in the hospital parking lot.
When she finally came to, cra...

They say I should just accept my fate. At thirty-one, I'm a walking cliché: a failed career, endless disastrous blind dates. My life was going nowhere—until I discovered a secret that let me communicate with the past. I found a way to save the boy who died for me when we were seventeen.
But this second chance comes with a cruel condition: to rewrite history and keep him alive, I must make him fall...

Three chances I had to travel back and save my grandmother. Three times I failed, and each failure was worse than the last.
I watched her die. I failed her again. Then, my desperate attempt to change fate shattered the life of Garrett, the boy who loved me, turning him into a killer for my sake.
Now I've returned for the last time. I carry the weight of eight years and the cold steel of a blade. T...

My best friend paid me 150k to make her playboy brother fall in love with me, then ditch him hard. Sounds perfect, right? But no one warned me about the way Jax Vanderbilt would look at me with those sincere eyes. No one told me my heart would ache this badly when I discovered the vulnerability beneath his icy exterior. Now I'm torn between his kisses and my lies... How do I choose between saving ...

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...

“I love you, Derek, and I need you to understand,” she said, her voice thick with emotion as tears streamed down her cheeks. Her hands trembled as they grasped his shirt, conveying the depth of her feelings.

Sensing the intensity of the moment, he stepped closer, placing his hands on her shoulders in a calming gesture. Leaning down, he kissed her gently, allowing that shared connection to commun...

She never intended to fall for anyone—let alone three of them.

Trying to make ends meet in Los Angeles, Alexis didn’t expect to be caught between her childhood crush, his irresistible brother, and a rising celebrity she was only supposed to fake date.

With family chaos, betrayal, and forbidden love threatening to tear everything apart, Alexis must figure out where her heart truly belongs… before...

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.
~
“I’m going to turn every dirty page you’ve ever read into your reality, Teyana.”
And Jeremy Carter did.
~
It started with a simple party dare and ended with my legs wrapped around the ever-addictive J...

Seven months pregnant and finally happy, I thought my past was buried. Then I walked into that upscale baby boutique and saw him—Donovan Ashworth, the billionaire who kept me as his secret for ten years. Standing beside him was Charlotte, his picture-perfect fiancée, flashing a diamond that could buy my house.
But Charlotte had her own agenda. A fake pregnancy. A desperate plan. And when she deman...

Vera Sinclair had everything, wealth and a future mapped out by her ambitious father. But on the night of her extravagant eighteenth birthday party, a heated argument with her father shattered everything.

Seeking an escape, she drowned her pain in reckless indulgence, only to wake up in the arms of Logan Grey, the dark, untouchable heir to one of the most feared Mafia empires. She had worshiped ...

I'm dead. But somehow, I'm still here.
Three days ago, I was Dr. Eva Torres, helicopter pilot, single mom to the most amazing eight-year-old on the planet. Then my chopper went down in a blizzard, and... well, let's just say I didn't make it home for pancakes like I promised Grace.
Now I'm stuck watching my little girl from the other side, and trust me, being a ghost mom is way worse than being a ...

I used to think emotional distance was the deadliest poison in a marriage—until I caught my husband using my phone at 5 a.m.
When my Wall Street elite husband started hitting the gym obsessively, changing his hairstyle, splurging on luxury skincare, yet showed complete indifference to my late-night returns… I was convinced his heart belonged to someone else.
But then he pinned me against the CNN m...

I busted my ass working for five years, completely wrecked my health just to scrape together money for his eye surgery. Then I discovered—he was never blind to begin with.

When I asked him why.

"Because you owe me," Matthew stared at me with those cold eyes.

But I can't remember a damn thing...

Now I'm about to die from late-stage stomach cancer. I wonder if Matthew will be pleased?

Elara Carter has always been a survivor. Orphaned at a young age, she learned to navigate the cruel city streets using her wits, scams, and sharp tongue. She believes in love but has no time for fairytales, especially when they involve possessive, overbearing men.

But one night, desperation drives her to sneak into an extravagant gathering in the park, where food and drinks flow freely. She think...

Serena was born a rare and powerful she-wolf, her wolf awakening at the age of ten — far earlier than anyone in her pack. Her wolf, a magnificent black beast with an aura of ancient strength, deepened the bond between her and her fated mates — a pair of twin alphas. But the twins, still young and blind to anything beyond appearances, saw only Serena’s dark skin, missing the brilliance and resilien...

I stared at my stepfather with the intense feeling going under my wet soaked undies .

“ you are so wet for daddy you little slut “ he whispered biting softly at my ear lobe .

I swallowed the unknown lump on my throat and looked helplessly at my step father and the words that I had been dying to say slipped out of my mouth .

“ fuck me daddy , fuck me like a dirty little slut “

"Baby, lend me Stella for the movie."
When my fiancé Damon said this, I thought it was the most romantic thing ever. My guide dog starring in his Oscar-worthy film—what a perfect love story.
I'm Aria Sinclair, 26-year-old blind film producer with perfect pitch and endless money, but no eyes. So when he said "The press will go crazy for our story," I stupidly agreed.
Three weeks later, in the editi...

"I'm pre.. pregnant." She was barely able to speak.

"What did you say?"

She stepped back trembling.

The look in his eyes shifted from lust and desire to hatred and anger.

"I..."

He cut her off; "I can’t be with you! Fucking you for few nights doesn’t mean I am gonna replave my Luna with you!"

"And?"

"Get out of here and abort the baby." He said bluntly!

He used her body like every nigh...

I thought I would spend my whole life hiding behind a mask, until I read his words in Vogue: "The most beautiful faces aren't about perfection, but the light of the soul." Wasn't he talking about me?
Seven years ago, he was the gentle boy next door, and I was the scarred girl who hated her reflection.
Now, he's an internationally renowned photographer, and I'm still just a makeup artist painting...

I was just a waitress working double shifts to pay for my sister-in-law's cancer treatment, until that brooding businessman Marcus Blackwood walked into my diner—or rather, until his eight-year-old son Tommy accidentally spilled orange juice all over me, and I didn't lose my temper.
The next day, an expensive lawyer knocked on my door: "Mr. Blackwood needs a wife. You need money. This is a mutuall...

I thought I was saving a homeless man. I had no idea I was falling in love with Wall Street's most dangerous player.

When I found Ryan digging through garbage, he couldn't use my washing machine or figure out the coffee maker—a perfect man who needed my care. But why did he speak French like a native? Why did expensive watches keep "accidentally" appearing in his belongings?

When my family busin...

I thought winning the lottery would save our family. I never imagined it would destroy it.
When Colton held up that $3 million lottery ticket, I cried with relief—no more struggling with rent, finally our kids could have a good life. I even threw a BBQ to celebrate with all our trailer park neighbors.
But he stood on that picnic table and announced to everyone: "Winning this money made me realize ...

After her rebirth, my sister was overjoyed. She knew that the "struggling screenwriter" was actually a Hollywood billionaire heir. This time, she was determined not to miss out on her meal ticket! She forced me to help her pose as an intellectual artist to win his heart.
I agreed because in my previous life, I was the one who "stole" him away.
But I underestimated the pain of watching the man I lo...

Olivia Grace Harper is a 21-year-old first-year college student. What if she sees the guys she has been stalking over the years? But what if her crush? She has had one since middle school.
He hates her, and she is always there trying to grab his attention.
What if one night, he has had enough of her shit and does something he will regret for the rest of his life?
"What are you doing here, stalker?...

Tonight, delivering food to a private dining room, I pushed open the door and saw him.
Harold Sterling—the world's hottest supermodel. The man I abandoned three years ago.
He was telling his friend: "That vain woman? She was just a sugar mama who got bored and ran off. I'm only looking for her to ask why she humiliated me like that."
I desperately tried to escape, but—
Just as the elevator doors w...

On her wedding day, she was deliberately sabotaged! And this was just the beginning of revenge...
Today was supposed to be the most important day of Vera Sinclair's life. White dress, flower arch, ready to marry fire captain Caleb Morrison, the love of her life.
But her booked makeup artist suddenly had an "emergency," replaced by a complete stranger.
The woman's eyes held pure malice, yet she dis...

"Ryan, I'm dying. One month left. Can you handle my corpse?"

Three years ago, we fell in love in a Baghdad field hospital.
Three years later, I'm waiting to die in a shabby Manhattan apartment.

He thought I betrayed him for money, hated me for three whole years.
I thought he'd never forgive me, buried the truth for three whole years.

When the diagnosis arrived, when the death countdown began, I...

They killed me, but my ghost got stuck. I watched my boyfriend marry the woman who murdered me. I heard her steal my songs to win a Grammy. I was ready to destroy them both—until I saw his secrets. My picture against his heart. Lethal poison in his pocket. This was no wedding. It was his revenge, and it was the sickest, most beautiful duet we'd ever performed.

Three years ago, I destroyed the only man I ever loved.

"You're not good enough for my world," I lied, watching Ethan Cross's heart shatter completely. Now he's back. Richer. More ruthless. Ready for revenge.

"Marry me, or watch your family lose everything."

Our marriage is his masterpiece of revenge. He flaunts his perfect girlfriend in our home, forcing me to watch him replace me with everyth...

I was auctioned off like merchandise by three men, but I don't know why they want a worthless person like me.

I'm a blind hooker who can't see anything, surviving only by selling my body.
After accidentally getting pregnant, my client humiliated me in public: "Two lines! You lying bitch trying to scam my money!" The owner immediately threw me out, and my begging on my knees was useless—who wants ...

I thought I saved him.
Six years ago, Marcus came back from Afghanistan broken, traumatized, plagued by nightmares. I was his therapist, walked him through every panic attack, broke every professional rule to fall for my own patient.
"Age is just a number," he used to say. "You saved my life, Sophia."
Now he tells his friends I'm "stale," that I'm too old at thirty-six, that my face shows wrinkles...

I thought returning to wealth meant happiness. I was wrong—it was the entrance to hell.
My celebrity husband Ryan uses me as his personal punching bag every night, calling it "method acting." Meanwhile, my perfect sister Stella whispers in his ear: "Ruby did everything during her street years. You need to show her where she belongs."
When I called for help while holding my three-year-old Lily, cry...

I thought seven years of marriage had given me a home, but I was just a supporting character in someone else's love story.
When I saw that ArtForum magazine, my heart nearly stopped—my mother's only legacy, Ansel Adams's signed Moonrise, Hernandez, was hanging on the wall behind Evangeline. She reclined elegantly on white Italian leather, her smile perfect like a victory announcement.
Adrian calle...