Best City Stories & Novels Collection

Blurb

I was just a broke college scholarship student cleaning arena floors to afford my textbooks while hiding a terminal illness called Fading Heart Syndrome.

One desperate, anonymous night with a man whose face I couldn't see left me with a ticking clock and two pink lines on a pregnancy test.

When I discover the father is Alexander Blackwood—the arrogant golden boy hockey captain and heir to...

"You stole Tiffany's identity as her heiress and enjoyed 18 years of her life." Alpha Theodore said.
He then rejected me and divorced me. He married Tiffany as his new Luna. And my family, the Beta family, saw me as a burden after they found their real daughter.
I ran away with my quadruplets.
---Ivy Carter, Luna of the Silver Claw Pack. At eighteen, the Beta family’s daughter she was believed to ...

Having a crush is not bad at all but what if it's on your best friend's brother who also happens to be your senior? But does it mean you can't have a crush on your senior?

Meet Victoria, a beautiful and intelligent girl who after going through a physical abuse at a young age which made her flinch when a boy touches her, but with Daniel, she was comfortable with him touching her so it wasn't surpr...

Stealing from rich men was never personal…It was how Maya survived.

For years, she has lived by three simple rules: never use her real name, never get attached, and always disappear before sunrise. It's the only way she's managed to keep a roof over her head while raising her fifteen-year-old sister after escaping the family that abandoned them.

Then one reckless night changes everything….
After...

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:...

She spent years hiding how she felt about the one guy she could never have…
until college turns the untouchable hockey captain into the only person who can either destroy her or claim her.


Sloane Harper has loved Noah Brooks in secret for as long as she can remember.
He’s her older brother’s best friend, the golden captain of the university’s hockey team, and the one rule every guy on camp...

"I hate him, so why the hell can’t I stop falling to my knees for him?"
When my mom married a man I barely knew, I though the worst part would be having a new last name and a contender for her affection. Sue me, I’ve always been a mama’s boy.
But enter Rhysand fucking Calloway. Hockey god. Cruel, Tattoed and impossibly hot. My new stepbrother.

From the moment he stormed into my life, he made it c...

“No woman has ever made this cold heart race,” he murmurs.
“Except you.”
......

Valentine’s Day was supposed to be the night I told my best friend Ethan how I felt.
Instead, I kissed his dangerous twin.

A month later my mother married their father. Elias became my stepbrother.
He still has private photos of me I never knew existed. When I find them, trust nearly shatters. He destroys them—...

She was declared dead. They just didn’t expect her to come back richer, colder, and hungry for blood. Lyra Calloway once had everything: a doting father, a rightful inheritance, and a fiancé she trusted with her life. Then her half-sister and fiancé conspired to steal it all, staging a car accident to bury her secrets along with her body. She survived. And for two years, in silence, she rebuilt he...

Alexander Lucas is a flirty billionaire who doesn’t believe in love or marriage. But when his father threatens to give his inheritance to his stepbrother unless he gets married, Alex is forced to find a temporary bride.
Monalisa Jacobs, a brave young woman who hates the rich, agrees to a contract marriage to save her sick mother.
They were never supposed to fall in love.
But two weeks before the c...

On our wedding day, Declan sent me out to Long Island. We'd been together seven years.

He said he'd left his grandmother's lucky cufflinks at the family house.

But when my car died in the storm, I opened my bridesmaid's Instagram live.

Declan was sliding my custom diamond ring onto Phoebe's finger—my adopted sister, the one with the bad heart.

My own parents were crying in the front row. My br...

Three years ago, I chose the fire.

I'm Celine. Human — or so everyone thinks. I can feel things I shouldn't: the pulse of supernatural energy in ordinary rooms, the hunger coiled beneath a stranger's smile. It's why the vampires destroyed us. It's why my father died. And when I severed the bond with Elias — the pureblood vampire I'd loved since I was old enough to fear him — my gift turned on me....

A drunken phone call to her boss. The robot and the brat. The two friends and a very awkward situation. His best friend's mom. A text to a wrong number. Her brother's best friend. First loves, chance meetings, lost loves and everything in between.

These are a collection of short stories inspired by K-drama.

For ten long years, Elena has lived in the Devils Viper MC clubhouse. Taken in at fifteen after her father died drowning in debt to the club, she transformed herself into the club's secret weapon, a fearless combat medical doctor who patches up their wounds and handles their messes.

Her entire existence has been tortured by Jax, the giant ruthless Vice President and heir to the Vipers throne. J...

My father died with one warning written in blood:

DON'T TRUST THE MAN WHO FINDS YOU.

Three months later, I am still searching for the truth.

My father was a respected businessman, so everyone called his death a tragic accident. I know better.

Before he died, he left me a cryptic message leading to a secret hidden beneath the elite university where I now study. I thought finding it would finall...

Three years ago, my fiancé Asher stole my project achievements for his white moonlight Chloe and abandoned me cruelly.
Three years later, he returned arrogantly, ordering me to tidy up my villa, accept his mistress, and humble myself to apologize. He even humiliated me with a mistress contract.
A vicious supporting female system suddenly bound to me, forcing me to fawn on Asher, yield to Chloe, an...

I thought the scariest thing in school was the jock who harassed me. But then he vanished without a trace, and everyone blamed me.

There is no strong evidence to lock me away, so I walk the school hallways trapped in a living hell. The police watch my every move, the town hates me, and my adoptive parents treat me like an unwanted curse in their home.

Desperate to clear my name, I didn't realize...

Luca Vandenberg has everything: the captain's C on his chest, millions in endorsements, and a closet so airtight he can't breathe. When a rival team frames him in a sex scandal, his career hinges on one desperate gamble a fake best friend. Someone to hold in public. Someone to gaze at softly. Someone the world will believe he's loved for years.

Enter Cassian Morais. Photographer. Struggling art...

“You're my sister's boyfriend.” I forced the words out through gritted teeth.

Adrian only smirked. “Does that suddenly erase what happened between us?”

“It should.”

He took another step closer until my back hit the locker. “Then tell me why you're still looking at me like you want me to kiss you again.”

—

He was my rival on the ice, my sister's boyfriend, and the one-night stand I couldn't ...

Note; 18+ readers only [Book contains gore details and explicit writings.]

“Arrrrhhhhh!” A loud groan of pleasure slipped through my parted lips as my neck fell backward while Thane’s lips nuzzled my neck.

His two huge hands slipped up behind me to cup my breasts, his fingers wasting no time to twist the taut tips of my nipples as I dripped wet from my pussy, where Dhane had my legs spread wid...

She thought she knew what wanting felt like—until he walked out of her bathroom wearing nothing but a towel.

Chloe Bennett has spent her entire senior year being invisible: the quiet girl with the camera, the little sister no one notices, the seventeen-year-old still waiting for her life to start. Then a November storm traps Julian Vane—her brother's devastatingly gorgeous college roommate—in...

On my first day at St. Clair University, my roommate Lysandra laughed at me in French.

Wrapped in designer logos, she called me a nobody who did not even recognize luxury perfume.

She thought I could not understand her.

She was wrong. French was my first language.

I was also Iris Russell, the hidden heir to the Russell Group.

But I kept that to myself.

Then Lysandra set me up at a Michelin-s...

Alexa life changed instantly after the reappearance of her stepbrother Drew who was now a billionaire, a very mean and ruthless one at that who got whatever he wanted.

Life with him was supposed to be hell seeing as he was cold and heartless to Alexa, but it only made her fall in love with him the more. His commanding voice were like medicine to her soul and only him would heal her aching heart.
...

At Blackridge University, everyone knew the golden couple.

Taylor Hastings—the fierce, scholarship student who clawed her way to becoming head cheerleader—and Rowan Hayes, the hockey captain who treated her like the center of his universe.

They were campus royalty.

Until the video leaked.

One private night.
One humiliating betrayal.
And suddenly Taylor goes from adored to destroyed overnight.
...

She’s innocent and untouched.

He’s a dominant control freak.

Their worlds are totally different, but they both have one thing in common, a trauma neither wishes to revisit.

She knows he’s everything her family has been running from, but he can’t get enough of her.

The more she runs, the more she realizes he’s a constant in her life she can’t escape.

For a man with scars running as deep as hi...

When a principal ballerina is found dead on the floor of Beaumont Atelier, the academy's brightest star ends up in a coma overnight.

With opening night only weeks away, former prodigy Odette Bellamy is unexpectedly pushed as a replacement.
But Beaumont Atelier is built on more than discipline and perfection. Behind its mirrored studios and standing ovations lies a world of ruthless ambition, dang...

I have once killed a man.
He was my first love. Everything about him was like a dream come true until my blindness was lifted, and I realised he was my greatest mistake.
Eugene would beat me to a stupor, yet I played the role of a happy wife on the outside. I had lost two pregnancies because of him, but I hoped he would change. He promised to. He would buy me tons of gifts to apologise, yet he alw...

Rule #1: Never accept a gift you can’t afford.

When my boyfriend proposed with a stolen blue diamond and vanished overnight, he left me at the mercy of lethal debt collectors.

Out of options and out of time, I signed a rescue contract with my powerful billionaire boss, Damian Wolfe.

He gave me safety. He gave me protection. He gave me a ring.

But protection in Damian’s world comes with a terri...

Isabel Reyes doesn't have time for a soulmate; she has ten minutes to figure out how to turn forty-two dollars of espresso tips into a month of rent. Between double shifts at the Vance & Co. campus café and maintaining a 4.0 GPA, her survival depends on one thing: the single medical school recommendation letter her department grants each year.

But Chase, her high-status ex-boyfriend and senior TA...

Evie's life is a mess. At the company Christmas party, she catches her fiancé Mike kissing Shelby in the copier room. Instead of crying, she fires him and calls off the wedding, a weight lifted from her chest. But the real shock comes when she locks eyes eith the new Santa-Leo, a tattoos bad boy who cant stop staring at her.

When her sister "accidentally" trips her into his lap, the world tilts....

For two years, Serena believed she was the luckiest woman alive. Her husband Leo worshipped her—he was tender, protective, and swore he'd never let anyone hurt her. He even refused to touch her, claiming she was too precious.

Then, on their wedding anniversary, she walked into his private club and heard him whisper to another woman: "Take care of our baby."

The woman was his brother's wife.

E...

The death of a property developer named Nick on February 14th should have been an open-and-shut suicide case. But not for Keya Harold, a police detective, who uncovers too many inconsistencies. She and her team decide to dig deeper into the case.

But Nick's death brings Keya face to face with the man she once loved in college. His name is Raiden Evander Harrison.

Seeing each other again after te...

(Love after marriage+Pregnancy+She-power)

For four years, Serena lived as the unwanted wife of Lorenzo Russo, the ruthless Mafia King feared across Europe.
Their marriage was never built on love. Lorenzo believed Serena had trapped him for money and status. Manipulated by his Mother and possessive sister, he ignored every sacrifice Serena made, humiliated her in public, accused her of being infer...

What if the man who once risked his life to save yours became the one who destroyed it?
When billionaire heiress Victoria Hale is saved from a brutal attack by ambitious executive Ethan Cole, gratitude blossoms into a whirlwind romance. Against their families' wishes, they marry, believing love can overcome every obstacle.
Three years later, their dream life is crumbling. Infertility strains their...

Everyone believes she's a saint. Soft-spoke, innocent and fragile.

But beneath the white veil hides the deadliest assassin the underworld has ever known.

Determined to avenge her family, she infiltrates the powerful Valenti family, pretending to be their innocent adopted daughter.

Everything goes according to plan..Until Luciano Valenti.

Pretending to be a saint is easy.

Pretending not to fa...

"You'll regret this," he said, certain I was only bluffing.
I still signed the divorce papers—without asking for a single extra dollar.
For three years, I was the wife who left a light on for him, who knew exactly how warm he liked his water, how strong his coffee should be, even what his silence meant. He never once asked what I wanted.
"I can't live without you," he now begs, kneeling in the rai...

Maya Adams has a type…

Anyone who isn’t Hunter Callum.

To the rest of the world, he’s the God of Hockey..a cold, arrogant, shirtless-on-every-billboard legend.

To Maya, he’s the prude, stuck-up asshole who just got her suspended from her dream job at a top New York publishing firm.

When a drunken night of trash-talking Hunter at a club ends in a bloody brawl and a viral scandal, Maya wakes...

I'd tried to escape from my groom, but I failed at the last moment before our wedding vows were to be exchanged. My parents had sold me to the most ruthless mob boss in Chicago because my father owed a huge debt to Anthonio Ferhaag. He was a sixty-year-old pervert with a strange fetish. Everyone knew I was going to be his sex slave instead of his wife. When it was my turn to say my wedding vows, a...

“You had promised to discard me immediately after the baby was born! So what changed now?”

I slammed the contract onto his mahogany desk, my hands trembling as tears blurred my vision. Nicholas moretti didn’t even bother to spare me a glance. Instead he leaned back in his chair swirling a glass of whiskey before lifting those cold grey eyes of his to mine.

“I don’t remember promising that Mi amo...

I was supposed to be an ordinary girl.
A girl who spent most of her free time reading fantasy books, dreaming about magic, wolves, and unimaginable worlds that I couldn't possibly enter. I had my parents, my cute cat Puffy, and a quiet, dull life that I honestly thought would stay that way.

But then I turned sixteen.
One strange day was all it took for my perfectly normal life to fall apart. It t...

Twenty-one-year-old Lily Harrison has her entire life color-coded, scheduled, and under control. As a pre-med student carrying a 4.0 GPA and working two jobs to stay financially independent, she can't afford chaos. Her apartment lease fell through three days before semester starts, but she found the perfect solution: a clean, quiet single unit near campus.
Except it's not single. And it's definite...

“I'm pregnant.”

Those three words should have been the happiest moment of Elena Whitfield Voss's life. Instead, a single photo of her husband in a hotel room and a message from another woman shatter the future she has dreamed of for her marriage.

For three years, Elena has loved billionaire CEO, Damien Voss with her whole heart. She sacrificed her dream and devoted herself to their home. She nev...

He never planned to touch her, let alone crave her.

When ruthless billionaire Roman Thorne is forced into a strategic marriage, he chooses Elena Sinclair, quiet, obedient, and easily controlled.

Or so he thought.

Behind her innocent eyes is a sharp tongue, a hidden past, secrets, and curves that haunt his nights. Elena has no intention of being anyone’s trophy wife. She plays by her own rules, ...

Nathan Bennet is a broke 22 years old student who works night shift at a supermarket to pay rent.
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Daniel Kravalo is LA's most scary mafia boss. Cold, rich, abusive. His pretty boyfriend ran away 6 months ago.

One night, Nathan was kidnapped closing the store. Daniel thought his babe was back.
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"I am not Jayden! You kidnapped the wrong person!"

Daniel stared at his face, same face but braver. ...

I lost everything in a single night. For three years, I put up with endless judgment and cold treatment from everyone around me, all for my handsome , wealthy werewolf fiancé , Arthur. As the future Delta, he was my whole world. I gave up everything for him, stupidly believing my persistence would finally get me a happy life with him.
But it was all a lie. Behind my back, he’d been sleeping with m...

“This was never just a contract, sweetheart,” Emerson murmured, slowly dragging his thumb across my bottom lip.

I furrowed my brows in confusion. What was he talking about? “Why pretend then?” I could barely hear my own voice above my whisper. “Why act like it is?”

His mouth hovered a breath from mine. “Because if I touch you the way I want to,” he said quietly, “you better believe I'm never let...

"Everyone in Cedar Hollow can tell you exactly what I did. I just can't."

Twelve years ago, Vanessa Dalton walked out of Larkspur Quarry alone, covered in her best friend Jo Calloway's blood. Jo's body was never found. Vanessa never remembered what happened. The evidence disappeared with the storm, but the town reached its own verdict long ago: she was guilty.

Now a renowned forensic genealogist...

"You look at me like it means something," Austin said. "Then you pull away like it scares you, Emily."

Austin Wood used to be the easiest person in my life.

Before the fight.
Before he begged me not to marry the wrong man.
Before I ignored him... and ended up getting left at the altar.

Now everyone thinks he's my fiancé.

The engagement is fake.
The wedding plans aren't.

Pretending should've b...

Revenge is written in the blood of its authors.

Emily, Mathew, Nicholas, and Anna have been relegated to an institution because they see what no one else does.

Except Melrose Mansion isn’t what it seems. As the four share a room, they discover acceptance, connection, even love and passion. They also discover they’re not as alone as they thought. How can delusions be shared? How can they see each...

“You’re under arrest.”

“For murdering my father?”

Agent Weston Foxx’s expression didn’t change. “Murder is only one of the charges.”

I laughed, because apparently there comes a point where your life falls apart so completely that hysteria is the only option left.

“I didn’t kill him.”

“Then prove it.”

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Twenty-four hours ago, I was Brooke Mitchell, successful CEO, devoted daughter, and ...