Best City Stories & Novels Collection

For the sake of my marriage, I turned down a promotion and became the perfect wife and mother.
When my six-year-old son was rushed to the ER with an asthma attack in the dead of night, I sat vigil until dawn.
What I didn't expect was to hear my husband, just outside the emergency room doors, bragging to a friend about his mistress — and sneering that I was "bland and boring."
What hurt worse: my o...

When Daniel and Melissa's marriage imploded, Grace and I were ten.

They fought wildly in family court for Grace, screaming until they were blue in the face. Then, the judge looked down from the bench and asked about my custody.

Crickets. Total, suffocating silence.

They eventually agreed to split time. In a thirty-one-day month, they meticulously counted hours, practically drawing blood to see...

A blizzard night. My car broke down in the middle of nowhere, and my legs had already lost all feeling.

With purple, cracked fingers, I dialed my fiancé, Silas.

Through the phone came the cozy crackle of a fireplace, and the sweet giggles of the fake heiress, Stella.

"Silas... save me... Route 82..." I gasped, my voice fading.

"Harper, this jealousy game makes me sick," he snapped. "Stella onl...

"Sign it," he said. "Talia needs me in a way you never will."
Five years of marriage ended with a folder on the kitchen counter, one day after Olivia caught her husband with his first love in an unfinished hotel suite—and heard him blame her for walking in on it. It wasn't the papers that broke her. It was that he said it like a fact, and didn't even flinch when the pen trembled in her hand.
Oliv...

After capturing the most vulnerable moment of a hockey superstar Chase Kensington, rookie photographer Brielle Hopkins becomes his greatest enemy. Now, she has to earn his trust to stay by his side.

She soon begins to see him as an arrogant man who must get out of her hair. But fate has other plans. One thing or the other keeps bringing them together. And just when they stop tearing at each other...

Maya never loved her husband.

She married him for one reason—his wealth.

But before she became the wealthy Mrs. Brook, Maya made one mistake that refused to stay buried.

During a drunken night at a ball, she slept with Brian Brook, a man she never expected to see again. Unfortunately, Brian had recorded everything.

From that moment, Maya became trapped in his blackmail.

Brian threatened to ex...

Getting cheated on by my hockey-player boyfriend of two years was humiliating.

Finding him with my sworn enemy meant war.

So, when I cross paths with Zane Hunter, the campus's untouchable biker and king of the underground racing scene, I make a deal I know I should regret.

Fake-date him.

It was supposed to be simple. Revenge on my ex. No feelings attached. No complications.

Until our fake rel...

Moving to the city was supposed to give me a fresh start. New team. New apartment. New season. No distractions. Then I moved in with my best friend and met her brother.

Ethan is everything I shouldn’t want—confident, charming, annoyingly attractive, and completely off-limits. He’s the kind of guy who can make me forget my own name with one smile, and unfortunately, he’s also the person I find mys...

Ariana Vale has spent her whole life proving she belongs behind the wheel. At twenty four, she is already a world champion, the fastest woman on the circuit, and the face of Vale Racing, the team her father built from a single garage. Everyone thinks her life is perfect. They do not know her father is sick, her contract is about to run out, and her biggest rival wants her seat.
Then her brakes fai...

Chiara Roman had it all—fame, fortune, and a championship-winning volleyball career. Until one devastating match shattered her knee, her dreams, and her future. Betrayed by her greatest rival, Bianca, and her cheating boyfriend, Lorenzo, Chiara loses everything she fought to achieve.

Desperate for a fresh start, she moves to Italy, joining a struggling, low-ranking volleyball team. But when she d...

Nessa Ashford has spent her whole life being overlooked — a gamma wolf in a pack that never saw her as more than useful. When her mate abandons her for an alpha's daughter, it's just one more humiliation in a lifetime of them. But when she stumbles onto proof of corruption rotting her pack from the inside, staying silent stops being an option, even if speaking up costs her everything.
Fleeing for ...

We used to ride every wave together. Until the one that destroyed us.

Tyler Brookes was my best friend before he became the one person I swore I’d never trust again. We grew up on the water, chasing waves, chasing wins, and believing nothing could ever come between us. Then one kiss changed everything.

The next day, one decision changed even more. He abandoned our plan in the middle of a competi...

Sold out by my best friend to a high-born vampire coven, I was drained, slashed, and thrown into a subterranean dungeon to rot. For a year, I lived like a forgotten corpse—eating filth, nursing broken bones, and watching my humanity wither away in the pitch-black silence.
They thought I died down there. They were wrong.
Deep within my shattered soul, something ancient and terrifying woke up. I am...

AGE GAP • REVERSE HAREM • POSSESSIVE BROTHERS • FORBIDDEN ROMANCE • UNEXPECTED PREGNANCY

She believed in forever, until betrayal and a devastating divorce destroyed everything she thought her future would be.

Determined to leave the past behind, she allows herself one reckless night. No promises. No expectations. No consequences.

At least, that's what she thought.

Two strangers. Two brothers. ...

“I, Timothy Blackthorn, Alpha heir of Frostfang Pack, reject you, Penelope Hale, as my mate.

Timothy Blackthorn has it all. Alpha heir to the most powerful pack, hockey captain with a god-tier body, and a reputation for breaking hearts as easily as he breaks records. When the Moon Goddess reveals quiet, overlooked Penelope Hale as his destined mate, Timothy does the unthinkable: he rejects her. P...

She left because the pain was too much to endure and the man who broke her heart was the only one who had ever held it. He was the love of her life, the father of her children, and the reason she had to run.
Years later, driven by her boys' longing to meet their father, she is forced to return to the City. She hoped time might have changed him, but he remains the same ruthless playboy, a billionai...

Kyra has spent years as Alpha Ethan's slave, plotting his death with every breath. When his son Damon her tormentor and bully drags her over a cliff's edge, she expects to die.

Instead, she wakes up to her worst nightmare.

The intoxicating scent filling her senses belongs to Damon—the man who tormented her, mocked her, made her life hell.

He's her fated mate.

“I reject you, Damon. I reject thi...

Over the past three years of dating with my boyfriend, everything was perfect. 
My first time meeting his parents at their Sunday Roast went better than I ever dreamed. His mother smiled warmly, serving me mountains of food, excitedly discussing which city we should settle in after graduation. It felt like they were practically picking out wedding dates.
But that illusion shattered over a single s...

Kadia Fenn works three jobs, can barely make rent, and wants nothing to do with the family business.
The family business is killing monsters.
Twenty-five years ago, Clan Fenn was disgraced for the murder of a vampire lord and his wife. Kadia walked away from the stakes, the oaths, and the shame. All she kept was a rune necklace she can't bring herself to take off.
Then a vampire breaks down her ap...

When Fairview University abruptly cuts the women’s hockey program, Ava Hale’s Olympic dreams are practically dead. Her only shot at staying on the ice is taking an unprecedented walk-on tryout for the brutal, championship-hungry men’s Division 1 team.
Walking into an all-male locker room is bad enough. Dealing with Liam Reed, the arrogant 6’2” captain determined to run her off the ice, makes it wo...

It’s Valentine’s Day. While Evermont High is busy planning dates, outfits, and couple posts, Freya is trying to survive the day without getting crushed by roses, gifts and love notes.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, she’s stuck dealing with her stepbrother, Xen who she finds completely annoying for reasons she can’t even explain. But somehow, he’s the reason she ends up at the school’s Valentine’s ...

One message changed everything: "The Alpha is coming for you."
Elara Vance spent her life sacrificed for her family, nursing her dying mother in the shadows of a pack that forgot them. When she’s sold to the lethal Alpha Silas Vane to pay a debt, she expects a life of servitude. She doesn't expect the soul-searing heat of the Mate Bond the moment they meet.
But fates have a cruel sense of humor....

On Amelia's eighteenth birthday, her life goes downhill.

First, her mother summons her to a wedding she never told her about.

Then Amelia arrives and discovers the groom is her mate.

Mateo Vane is everything an eighteen-year-old girl should stay away from.

Cold. Powerful. Dangerous.

And much older than her.

But Mateo has no interest in Amelia.

He calls her little girl and makes it clear tha...

I spent ten years keeping our severely allergic son alive and gave up my award-winning career to support my husband.
My reward? My son killed my unborn baby, and my husband labeled me "mentally ill."
Dr. Steve Harrington, the brilliant psychiatrist, thought he was a genius.
He secretly used me as a lab rat for his experimental detachment therapy, trying to wipe away my "paranoid jealousy" so he ...

I was born to be the villain in my twin sister's fairy tale.

Thanks to a fake psychic's prophecy, my parents believed I was a parasite—a cursed child draining Amy's life with every success I had. To ensure she survived her national ballet finals, my father bolted me inside an abandoned meat freezer. Even the boy who once promised to protect me thought I was just throwing a selfish tantrum.

They ...

Behind the gates of this elite academy, survival has a price.Sofia is a transfer campus student just trying to navigate her senior year among the ultra rich. She expects the icy stares and the class divide. What she doesn’t expect is the dark, inescapable gravity of Asher, the campus’s untouchable, devastatingly handsome, smoky hot hockey player. They start as bitter enemies, clashing the moment s...

"I have had a crush on Maya and I just couldn't tell her,"
I said, hoping to rage-bait her more.
Maya, a college student working tirelessly to make ends meet, gets tangled in a messy web between hockey star Jason Whiteson and his ex, Tiffany Evergreen. When Tiffany brutally dumps Jason for his ultimate hockey rival, Reagan Hope, Jason pulls Maya into the spotlight to save his pride.Faced with mou...

"Give Paige the tickets. I'll buy you a new bag tomorrow."

That was Caleb's first sentence to me on our five-year anniversary. His black Maybach idled at the curb. Paige stood closely behind him, wiping her tear-stained face. She had just climbed out of his passenger seat; I was just holding the two Nova VIP passes that took a miracle to score.

"She needs a distraction," Caleb added, fully expec...

In the end-stage of acute heart failure, the life-saving heart I had waited three grueling years for was secretly reallocated by my parents and husband to Sera, the "true" daughter of the family.

My heart turned to ash. I refused the doctor's final conservative treatment plan and injected a potent, lethal neuro-stimulant.
The price for blocking the agonizing pain of my failing heart was total car...

My husband killed me on the day of our fifth anniversary. I died at twenty-five.
Now, I'm back in my twenty-year-old body, on the very day he's meant to propose. He's waiting for me, all smiles and lies, but I know the truth—he's a cheater, a monster, and my future killer.
To escape my fate, I make a desperate move. I run straight into the arms of the one man Nicholas fears: Matteo Romano.
He's a ...

To help her husband build his business empire, Veyra worked two jobs, skipped meals, and sacrificed everything she had. When her mother desperately needed life-saving treatment, she couldn't even scrape together the money.
Then, on a New Year's Eve flight, fate seated her beside her husband's mistress. That's when she discovered the cruel truth.
Her husband had secretly amassed millions long ago. ...

One lab error. Two betrayals. And a billionaire who doesn't believe in accidents.
Emily Vance thought she was carrying a miracle. After her fiancé, Julian, ended up in a coma following a horrific car crash, she underwent IVF to keep his legacy alive. It was supposed to be her anchor. Instead, a clinical mix-up reveals that the child in her womb isn't Julian’s at all. It belongs to Alistair Wolfe, ...

Elena, the daughter of a notorious mafia family, was offered as a tribute to the leader of the Morello family by her father. In an attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Elena marries a complete stranger. What she doesn't know is that this mysterious husband of hers is none other than the legendary mafia king... and now, he’s also her new boss...

Seven years. A three-million-dollar contract. A heart broken into pieces.

Serena Powell was never more than a ghost in her own home. Hired by a billionaire to heal his broken son, she spent seven years playing the role of a devoted wife and mother, hiding the jagged scar on her palm,a reminder of the night she saved Victor’s life. She thought her love had finally overwritten the contract. She was...

Alessia Moretti spent two years building a life no one could trace back to her father's empire. New name. New city. A future that finally felt like her own.
Then a stranger sits down beside her in a lecture hall and says five words that end all of it.
"You're using the wrong name."
He isn't there to drag her home. He's there for the notebook she stole the night she ran, the only thing her father w...

He was supposed to be my saviour.

Julian Blackwood was the golden boy of high society. The billionaire saint who pulled me out of debt.

I owed him my life.

Until he decided he actually wanted it.

He asked for three things.

A single signature.
Six months of submission.
A forced move into his penthouse to play the role of his perfect, devoted prize.

"Julian" thinks he cornered a helpless gir...

In a town controlled by fear, Indianna is trying to find a way to survive.
The only goal is to take down Rogue, but with him growing stronger every day it seems impossible.

How can Indianna deal with new people, new challenges, the loss of a mate and a pregnancy, as well as a brother who wants to control the werewolf world and hurt everyone she cares about?

In the end, who will be defeated, her ...

Reborn after being murdered for her heart, Josephine walks into the substitute marriage she once fled straight into the arms of Lord Kael Veyron, the most violent and feared man in the empire.
"Do you want revenge? Let me help you." With those words, their unholy alliance is sealed. Armed with his power and her own cold genius, she dismantles the enemies who destroyed her. But as she delivers bru...

⚠️WARNING:

This book contains explicit sexual content, possessive and toxic male leads, manipulation, emotional abuse, and disturbing themes that may be triggering to some readers. This is nothing like healthy love.

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I loved Tyler Beaumont for twelve years. Years of hoping and waiting, believing that one day, he would finally choose me.

So when my parents told me I was being arranged to ma...

There’s only one reason I came to Blackthorne University pretending to be Ellie Harper, my twin sister who mysteriously vanished after sending me one very unsettling final letter.

Simple. Find out what the hell they did to my sister and get out.

Except Blackthorne is nothing like Ellie described. The place practically breathes secrets, everyone acts like they know something they shouldn’t, and a...

He doesn't remember marrying me. His body hasn't gotten the memo.
I was his legally married wife. Now I'm the housekeeper who flinches when he raises his voice … because five years ago, his family erased me, forged my death certificate, and buried the only proof that I ever existed.
He looks at me like a stranger but his hands reach for me in his sleep. They go still when I'm close as if part of ...

⚠️ Trigger Warning:
This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, consensual sex, dirty talks, and adult themes. Intended for readers 18+ only.

Desire doesn’t look the same for everyone, and this collection celebrates every intoxicating form it takes.
From stolen touches that linger too long, to late-night fantasies that refuse to stay quiet, Naughty Dripping Desires is an unap...

HIS WIFE FOR ONE YEAR

He wanted a wife. She needed a miracle. Neither expected to find forever.

Amelia Hart never imagined that the worst day of her life would lead her into the arms of the most powerful man in the city.

With her family's home on the verge of foreclosure and no way to repay their crushing debt, Amelia is desperate enough to accept the one offer she should have rejected.

Marry ...

Rhett’s voice cut through the quiet, low and absolute.
“You’ve been shifting in that chair for twenty minutes, Beau. Stand up.”
Beau’s jaw flexed. “I’m fine.”
Seth leaned forward. “Don’t lie to us. We can smell how wet you are from here.”
Dean’s tone was quieter, but the heat beneath it was unmistakable. “The suppressants are still failing, aren’t they? Show us.”
Beau’s throat worked. Then he stoo...

Three years ago, Alicia Brown walked away from the only man who had ever made her feel undone.
After a reckless one-night stand with a powerful stranger, she slipped out of his hotel suite, convinced that disappearing was the only way to protect her heart.
No names or contact information were exchanged—only a connection so consuming it frightened her.
She never imagined fate would bring her back t...

I spent months falling in love with a man who knew everything about me; I thought we were perfect for each other. Turns out, he'd spent months learning my every secret before I even knew his name. While I dreamed of his smile and his touch, he was watching me from the shadows.
Now I have a choice to make; either let him take me, body and soul, or ruin his life completely.
I thought I wanted to be ...

Eleanor is 23, an immigrant in Spain, and the only thing standing between her mother and ruin. When her father walked out at 17 to start a new rich family, he left them with nothing. Her mother put Eleanor through college by selling everything and taking loans, never spending a cent on her own health.

Months after graduation, the debt is still 800,000 EUR and her mother collapses. The diagnosis i...

After five years of rebuilding her life, star basketball player Ava Carter believes she has finally escaped the shadow of her abusive ex, Ethan Cole. Her career is at its peak, and her relationship with Dylan Brooks, the league's golden boy, is the picture of happiness. That picture shatters when she wakes to find Dylan murdered in her apartment, with all evidence pointing to her.

As Detective M...

Adessa Flumigale was born with a crown on her head and a soul already promised to someone she had never met.

As the daughter of an ancient royal bloodline of Fire Wolf shifters, Adessa has spent her entire life under her family’s control. In her bloodline, mates are soul-bound at birth—a sacred bond that cannot be broken and a destiny that cannot be refused. And unlike other shifters, Fire Wolves...

London Caldwell thought she was getting a vacation.
After losing her job and watching her carefully controlled life in New York fall apart, she agrees to escape with her three closest friends to Wyndham Island, a private paradise owned by one of the world’s wealthiest men.
She expects a place to heal.
Instead, she’s met on the pier by Julian Hamilton, the powerful first-born heir to a vast empire ...