Best City Stories & Novels Collection

For years, Iris Fernandez lived in the shadows. Her lawyer father kept her secret to shield her from the violent criminals he fought in court. But when he is found murdered with a single Iris rose placed on his body, her world shatters. Left with only a hidden clue pointing to the city’s underworld, Iris vows to catch the killer herself.
Using her elite hacking skills, she exposes herself to dang...

Three years ago, Sierra Vale watched the man she loved most die.
Her father’s murder was ruled a robbery gone wrong, but Sierra never believed it. The last warning he left behind was simple: Never trust Roman Cross.
So she infiltrates the Black Vipers under a false name, determined to get close to their ruthless president and uncover proof that he killed her father.
It turned out Roman knows exact...

When Bonnie Bennett buried her partner, Evan Mason, she buried her dream with him.

After losing the only person who ever believed in her, Bonnie is ready to leave the ice behind.
Until she’s forced to pair with Mael Laurent—the arrogant golden boy who made her teenage years hell.

When his own partner suffers a career-ending crash, he needs a replacement fast. She needs to pay her mother’s medica...

I used to love Damiano Valentino.

We met in high school, and when he left, he promised me we would never meet again.

I was heartbroken.

But I never stopped hoping that one day, he would come back.

He did.

Only, the Damiano who returned was no longer the boy I remembered.

He came back to Ireland for revenge after his mother was murdered. And when he discovered the truth, my family became the...

“What did you just say?”

“You heard me, Ronan! I. Am. Done!” Ava’s body shook hard with the sobs she tried but failed to hold back.

“And I would be proclaimed dead before I ever let you go… Sunshine!”

As one of the most talented skaters on the ice, Ava has spent her whole life chasing one thing. Being the best. Skating has always come first for her. Before love, friendships and everything.

Ro...

“Let's make a deal. Tomorrow's game. I am going to win. And when I win, you will do everything I want. Every single thing I ask of you. You disobey, I tell the school your secret.”

“And if I win?”

“You won't.”

Evander built his life on control. As an omega in hiding, attending an alpha-only university, one slip could destroy him. So he follows the rules, takes his inhibitors and keeps his di...

“Maya Foster is dead.”

Except… she isn’t.

After surviving a deadly ferry explosion, Maya discovers the world believes she is dead and someone is determined to keep it that way.

Forced into hiding, she turns to the one man she swore she would never trust: billionaire Noah Sinclair, the man she blames for destroying her family.

But Noah knows the truth.

Maya isn’t just a survivor.

She is the l...

Brynlee Walker has always loved hockey. She has played since middle school and has worked hard to become one of the best players in her school.
When she gets accepted into a 90-day elite hockey program, filled with experienced players and newbies, she sees it as her chance to finally get noticed and take her hockey career to another level.
But she never expected Nolan Hayes to be there.
Nolan is h...

Nineteen-year-old Tiffany Dion is daddy's little girl, and she would do anything to save her father's company, even if that includes getting married to a pompous show off who calls her a rude brat.

Although her husband to be is currently top three among the world's youngest directors, Tiffany can't help but think that he's just childish and annoying.

At first, they had it out for each other, fig...

Elena thought she had married the one man she could trust.
Damian Blackwood was patient, protective, and hopelessly devoted to her. In a world where the Harrington name controlled almost everything around her, their love was the one thing Elena believed she had chosen entirely for herself. Until she entered her husband's private office and found a file bearing her name. Photographs, schedules, in...

Synopsis:
One throne. Two generations. Four men willing to destroy everything to claim the woman at its center.
At twenty, Sarah never imagined she would become the fourth Mrs. Voidmere. Sold by her father to settle a devastating debt, she is forced into a marriage with Bardulf Voidmere, a forty-eight-year-old billionaire feared across two continents.
Bardulf has already buried three failed marria...

They gave me to a Mafia family because their real daughter was too precious to sacrifice.

My husband was supposed to be a crippled, impotent psychopath nobody wanted.

But on my wedding night, I found out that the man in the wheelchair could walk. And he wasn't crazy.

He was dangerous.

And worse, he already knew me.

Years ago, I saved the life of a wounded stranger and never saw him again.

I ...

BOOK ONE OF THE NORTHBRIDGE WOLVES


He broke my brother. Now he's paying to fix him.

Wren Castellano has hated Knox Hollis since the night he put her brother Eli in a hospital bed. So when her father, head coach of the Northbridge Wolves, signs "the Butcher" as his new star center, Wren wants blood.

Instead, she gets a clinical assignment: rehab his shoulder. Every day. Hands on his sk...

Betrayed, killed and reborn.
Mira Laurent refuses to repeat the mistakes of her first life.

This time, she'll build her own fortune, destroy the people who wronged her, and never again chase a man who doesn't love her.

But her carefully crafted plans begin to unravel when her contract husband, billionaire Landon Hale, starts making her question everything she thought she knew about love.

"$100 MILLION REWARD for verified information about CEO Lucius Hunt's REAL wife....
..........
What would you do if the husband you've never met turns out to be the boss you're falling for?

I married a stranger named "Lou" to escape my father's loan shark.

We exchanged vows through lawyers and phone numbers through his grandmother. We've never seen each other or know each other's real name, We'r...

Yarina Kalinova's last thought in her old life was that she should have eaten breakfast before sprinting across four lanes of traffic to catch a bus she was still going to miss.

Her first thought in her new one is that Prague has aggressive interior designers, because she wakes up in a luxury canopy bed with a face that is somehow hers in the mirror and yet completely someone else's.

Before sh...

“I am sorry. I didn't know what would happen. I just went to meet my dad.” I whimpered, standing in the corner, shivering with the incident.
“When I told you to stay away, why didn't you listen to me?” He growled at me angrily, covered with bandages and blood that had dried in his skin.
“I just wanted to meet him.” I cried, hoping my tears would soften his heart. But rocks don't soften up.
He was...

Alessia Valenti learned one brutal truth the night the De Luca Empire murdered her parents: no one saves you. You save yourself.

She was four years old when she watched powerful men drag her father across the floor and put a bullet in him over a debt he couldn’t pay. That night burned her childhood to ash. From the ruins rose a woman forged for one purpose: revenge.

After years of brutal militar...

I've always been a good girl but forlorn— abused and controlled by my husband and neglected by my parents.

But the second I walked into the stranger's house, I saw hope that I had never thought would lead me into temptation.

There, I met Courtney Siegel, a notorious Mafia King who held mighty and alluring features that would make any woman swoon. But behind his exquisite facade obscures a heart ...

Lois Luther has spent years chasing one dream, and that was earning a place on the national team. But when her twin brother, Landon, dies in a suspicious crash after the biggest championship of his life, everything changes.
The school calls it an accident. Lois knows better.
Determined to uncover what really happened, she enrolls at Landon’s university, where she continues training for her own ath...

​"He was ordered erased."

"Now the Alpha King can't stop touching him."

​Adrian Lennox has spent fourteen years hiding the truth that should have gotten him killed: he is a male Omega—the last survivor of a bloodline the previous Alpha King burned to ash.

​By night, he strips and takes any side job he can find to keep his dying twin sister alive. Chemical suppressants keep his scent locked down...

Everyone knows Darius Draven, the Lycan King, has one rule:
Never the same woman twice.
Powerful, untouchable, and infamous for leaving broken hearts behind, he has spent decades proving that rule true.
Until one reckless night changes everything.
After catching her fiancé's betrayal, Aveline Hale finds herself in the arms of the last man she should ever want, Darius Draven.
What was supposed to b...

Natalie Taylor has one goal when she signs up as a companion at Dreams: to make a shit ton of money and get out fast. She's not looking for adventure or hoping for love and romance. But days into her moonlighting job, her quiet determination is shaken when she confronts her biggest problem yet—Levi Van Holt, heir to a mega-billion hotel chain and CEO of a gaming startup.

Levi is everything she wa...

He was supposed to be a stranger.

A bruised, scarred, filthy-mouthed stranger who pinned me against a bathroom wall and made me forget the boy who broke my heart 20 minutes earlier.

I walked away first without his name or number, and I didn't look back.

Then I found out my mom was engaged. To his dad.

Rhys Maddox. Number seventeen. 6'3" of tattoos, bruised knuckles, and the kind of jaw that ma...

Sabrina Daniels has spent years quietly pining for her older brother’s closest friend—the star forward and team captain, Ronan Dickson. When her parents leave the country for several months, she’s more than happy to move into the house her brother shares with Ronan… until the night she finally confesses how she feels and he turns her down.

Shattered and embarrassed, Sabrina does her best to st...

To protect my childhood sweetheart from the "bullies," I gave up my Yale recommendation and rejected the offer from Institut Le Rosey. I even promised to transfer with him to an ordinary local public school.
But the day before I was supposed to submit my transfer application, I overheard him in the locker room.
His friend laughed,"You faked being bullied all this time just to trick her into leavin...

I died watching my fiancé check another woman for scratches while three bullets tore through my chest.

I was his human shield. She was his true love.

Then, I blinked—and I was back. Reborn on the exact day I was supposed to sign our Mafia marriage pact.

Matteo slammed the sacred blood-oath on the desk. "Sign the damn paper, Serena. And stop being jealous of Anna. She’s fragile."

He wanted m...

Gael Sierra, an eighteen year old and just coming of age to assume his throne as the crown prince of a clan of vampires known as midnight darkness, the most powerful clan of vampires in olden Las Vegas and the world, is caught in a feral battle between the vampires of his clan and the red witches of the Eastern colony.
When the witches believe he has indeed sold them out, they cast a spell that t...

They say everything is bigger in Texas. Apparently, that includes the audacity of a cheating billionaire.
Kyle Hamilton thought I was a nobody. When his secretary/mistress drunkenly hijacked my VIP parking spot and crashed his Lamborghini into my SUV, he didn't care about the truth. He just wanted to humiliate the "small-town fiancée" his father forced upon him.
Surrounded by a mocking crowd, he...

I always thought Arthur's surgical hands were a gift from God.

When my sister Emily was crushed in a car crash, he spent ten grueling hours in the OR. He emerged exhausted, eyes red, and pulled me tight. "I'm sorry, Anna. I tried everything," he whispered. "But her heart... it can still save someone else."

I believed him. God help me, I even thanked him.

A year later, I cracked his locked safe ...

Julia grew up on the other side of the world, raised by her mother's best friend, built into a businesswoman, and certain she was an orphan with no blood family left anywhere. One phone call breaks that story in three sentences: she has a twin sister, her name is Juliana, she's in a coma in a clinic, and somebody tried to kill her.

When Julia reaches the hospital and sees her own face on the pill...

They threw me away like I was nothing.

Divorced me for my younger, prettier, fertile sister. I signed divorce papers while I suspected I was finally pregnant. Smiled while they handed me five thousand dollars and told me to disappear.

I disappeared, alright. Off a cliff, Into freezing water. Nearly drowned carrying his twins.

Someone wanted me dead. His family buried the investigation before my...

I've always only liked my neighbor/childhood bestfriend who's also a big jock since like forever, but despite his platonic love for me, his looks and popularity had always gotten in the way of me getting any closer to him than a friend. Things got complicated when in my depression and desperation I gave my virginity to a stranger who after a week turned out to be a new teacher in my school and the...

She needed to save her scholarship. He needed to save his career. Falling in love was never part of the deal.

Nova Arden lives by one rule: stay under the radar, keep her scholarship, and stay far away from the arrogant campus jerks.

But when the university threatens to cut her figure skating program due to a lack of recognition, her entire future is on the brink of collapse.

Enter Colt Callah...

For eight years, Gwendolyn Garcia believed she knew the man she married.

She was wrong.

When Gwendolyn discovers her husband, Roman, has been having an affair, she follows the clues to his mistress's apartment, determined to confront the woman who has invaded her marriage.

But the confrontation takes a horrifying turn.

The woman ends up dead.

Terrified that she has just become a murderer, Gwe...

Dan Belinni Series — Book Three

Rebecca Windsor was born a mafia princess and raised to obey.

At eighteen, her future is already decided. She has a respectable fiancé, a powerful family, and a marriage arranged for convenience. She should be grateful.

Then she meets the one man she was never supposed to want.

William Belinni is the heir to the Chicago Outfit—a ruthless, unpredictable man prep...

I was supposed to con the billionaire. I never realized he was hunting me.
Sienna Sinclair’s final con is simple: infiltrate Blackwell Logistics, become CEO Kade Blackwell’s assistant, and steal the mysterious Meridian Protocol.
What she doesn’t know is that Kade recognized her as a con artist from the moment he saw her. He lets her play her part, watching, waiting, and quietly turning the hunter ...

A year after losing her father, Hailey moves with her mother, Camille, to the small town of Ashton Hollow, a place where everyone knows everyone, rumors travel faster than truth, and the boys’ basketball team is the closest thing the town has to royalty. Hailey isn’t running toward a new life. She’s running from an old one. But basketball, the one thing her father gave her, refuses to let her go, ...

I should have stepped back.

But I didn’t.

His face was so close to mine that I could feel his breath against my lips.

Then I noticed something on his arm.

“Wait.”

I grabbed his wrist before he could move.

He frowned. “What?”

I pushed his sleeve up.

And then I saw it.

My stomach dropped.

On the 26th of my birthday, my true love gave me divorce papers and a broken heart.
One meant to wound. One meant to finish me.

Life has a way of giving gifts that are both unexpected and profound.
If the people you love the most can hurt you this deeply, then perhaps it is only fair to return the gesture, quietly and carefully.

This is a thick and cruel world.
But I am still here.
And some gift...

Lia charges for a striptease. Carrying a customer barefoot to the hospital should cost extra.

Instead, saving an old man gets her fired.

No job. No back pay. Apparently, doing the decent thing is expensive.

She can dodge wandering hands, fight a boss over stolen wages, and send an insult straight back with a smile. But one message from the man who promised to marry her can still keep her awake ...

Today was my wedding day.
In just one hour, I would be walking down the aisle in my wedding dress toward my future husband.

"Marry me. Come now.
Sender: Landon"

My childhood sweetheart had suddenly sent me a message. Just one sentence and a location pinned on a map.

I didn't even have time to change. I rushed to the location still wearing my wedding dress.
But when I arrived, what greeted...

My sister’s TikTok Shop was on the verge of being shut down. As a top livestream creator with three million followers, I stepped in and turned a warehouse full of dead inventory into bestsellers.

That night, my sister shipped the wrong items for three hundred orders. I apologized on camera, then paid ten thousand dollars out of my own pocket to issue refunds and send replacements.

After the live...

My husband doesn't love me, and he certainly doesn't love our son.
On the day Toby was born, Graham didn't even look at him before tossing him into my arms.
For seven years, he kept our marriage a secret and strictly forbade our boy from calling him "Dad."
Then, his first love returned.
The usually cold and distant billionaire came to our rundown cabin dead drunk, a rare, tender smile on his face...

There is only one person Chloe Turner hates with a fiery passion, and that is star basketball college player, aka childhood bully, Logan Carter.
A thick in the head ladies man, that is on every college girl’s smash list.
Not Chloe, she’ll rather chow down gravel with a glass of acid than get anywhere near the arrogant Logan’s crusty boxers.
But… everything spirals from the day Chloe uses Logan to ...

She was supposed to marry a polished mafia prince and save her dying family. Instead, her father offered her to the one man he feared most—the outlaw king who rules the roads in leather and blood. Raven Kane, known as "Ghost," is the president of the Black Vultures MC, a club that controls the smuggling routes the Italian families need to survive. He takes the mafia princess as settlement for an ...

Ever been a murder suspect for the popular girl who bullied you because ironically she trusted you enough to leave the last clue to her death with you?

Wren Hale, a quiet scholarship girl is already a murder suspect for the death of Ashford's Academy Gala queen when the killer targets her and writes her real name across her locker.

Forced to team up with Zarek, the dead girl's dangerously charmi...

Laura Jean was never just a ballerina.
She was the paycheck. The perfect daughter. The girl whose bruised feet and forced smiles kept her family afloat… until one bad accident shattered everything.
Six months in a coma cost Laura more than her career. When she wakes up, her boyfriend has moved on with her best friend who stole her spotlight , and her own parents care more about the money she can n...

Layla thought she had it all—a beautiful home, a devoted husband, a precious daughter, and the kind of luxurious life thousands would kill for. But her perfect world shatters when she becomes the prime suspect in the murder investigation of her husband's secret lover.

With no way to prove her innocence, a mysterious woman who is the spitting image of the deceased stalking her every move, and the ...

Thessaly Vance has one route left to finish what her father started: El Coronel's north face, no rope, no margin. The camp medic, Kester Hale, tries to talk her out of it before she's even introduced herself. He knows the exact pitch where she falls. He knows what she says right before it happens. He won't say how. Every day she spends near him convinces her he's hiding something worse than concer...