Best Poor Girl Stories & Novels Collection

“You're my greatest obsession, Lucy…”

“If I can't have you, neither will they. It's as simple as that…”

“My brothers have always had everything they wanted. I can't let them have you too…”

“Choosing me is the safest option. For one, I won't ever put you through hell…”


Growing up with an extremely abusive Father, Lucy never experienced care, love, support and attention.

But then everythi...

In Silver Ridge Pack, Lily Gray's family is destroyed by Shadow Brew—a dangerous drink created by Alpha Blake that weakens werewolves' connection to their wolves. After losing both parents, Lily guards a secret: her wolf awakened years early.

At Green Thumb flower shop, Lily tends the blood bat flowers used in Shadow Brew. Delivering these to Dark Moon Tavern, her wolf recognizes Blake as her...

Lila Thompson’s life falls apart in a single night—betrayed by her boyfriend, sold by her stepmother, and hunted by a ruthless gang leader. With nothing left but a desperate promise to her late mother, she crosses paths with Nate Cole—a rich, mysterious stranger haunted by his past.

He thinks she’s someone else. She needs the money he could give.
What begins as a risky lie becomes a dangerous gam...

After being publicly humiliated by the domineering CEO, Aubrey Sterling vanished into Chicago's rainy night in tears. She took with her not only a broken heart, but also a secret—Connor Blake's child.

Seven years later, Connor unexpectedly reunites with his former lover at a business meeting. The once vulnerable girl had transformed into a brilliant architectural design queen.

He desperately pur...

Eight years in that basement, and I can still smell the mold. Eight years of chains, beatings, and guards who treated me like an animal. The only kindness came from Damian—slipping me bread crusts and whispering, "Hang in there, Grace. I've got you."
I shot him when I escaped. Left him bleeding on that concrete floor without a backward glance. I had to. I was finally free, finally Grace again inst...

Five years ago, I knelt on marble floors, cleaning wine with my own dress while they laughed.

Five years later, they knelt before me, begging for forgiveness while I walked away.

They thought three hundred thousand dollars could buy my soul. They thought I was just another disposable substitute, another broken girl desperate enough to sell her dignity for her dying mother's medical bills.

Caspi...

Eric Kane married me when I was at my most desperate.

Everyone said this Alpha only married me to get revenge for my sister's betrayal.

For three years, I rejected all his marking requests, telling myself this was just a transaction.

Until that phone call came, he died on his way home.

He left me a phone with a video inside.

I gently tapped it open to hear his tender yet desperate voice. He s...

I was the most pathetic existence on campus.

Thick glasses, baggy sweaters, walking through the cafeteria like crossing a minefield. Albert, my childhood crush of three years, publicly mocked me as "a pathetic little dog following him around." Campus queen Madison crushed me under her heel. That rainy night, I gave up completely and swore to make them all pay.

Three months later, I returned.

Br...

Nine and a half million followers. Penthouse in LA. More money than I ever dreamed possible.
I built my empire teaching people to transform themselves, to become beautiful despite their scars. What I never told them was why I needed to learn that skill in the first place.
Then she slides into my DMs: "OMG ScarlettGlow! We went to high school together! Your biggest fan here!"
Madison Blackwell. The...

My childhood friend Jake prepared an elaborate confession ceremony for Madison during our graduation trip.

Everyone thought I would show up crying and making a scene to stop him, because in their eyes, I was madly in love with Jake.

But I only went to return the necklace he had given me, and then I left.

Jake thought I was playing hard to get, but I really wasn't. Because that night I was alrea...

Six years ago, I left him to protect him, letting him believe I betrayed him for money.

Six years later, when I thought I could quietly slip back into New York, I discovered I'd already fallen into the web he'd carefully woven around me—my job, my apartment, even my mother's medical bills, everything was under his control.

"Welcome home, Irene. This time, you're not going anywhere."

Ronald Ashw...

I was holding the burned puppy we adopted, sitting in the middle of our burning house. It was our fifth wedding anniversary. And he had left me. All for a phone call from another woman. They say my husband is a hero who can save anyone. So why wasn't he here to save me? As the flames danced before my eyes, I finally saw the truth: He only married me because I looked like her. Now that she's back, ...

Before meeting Elliot Winter, Michelle’s life was a routine of beatings from her drunk dad to juggling part-time jobs. He was handsome, loaded, and had a smile that could melt ice.
There was also a twenty-year age gap between them, Michelle didn't care because their relationship was the only ray of sunshine in her rather bleak world. And when he popped the question she was more than happy to say ...

His lips grazed her neck, slow and hungry, trailing lower until his mouth closed around her breast like he’d done it a thousand times. His hands gripped her bare waist, firm and trembling, like he needed her just to breathe. She didn’t even know his name.

One night. One wrong door, and everything changed.

Amelia Raine never meant to sleep with a stranger, let alone one that is a billionaire. But...

He was my mate, my Alpha, my everything… until he rejected me.

Scarlett Hilary thought being chosen by the Moon Goddess to be Alpha John’s mate would save her from a life of slavery. Instead, it became her greatest curse. Publicly humiliated, stripped of her Luna title, and forced back into the slave quarters, she watches as her mate pledges his love and his child to another woman.

Broken. Betr...

She has no past, no home... and no idea she's about to marry a billionaire.
When a sweet, naive girl with no memory and nowhere to go is caught stealing just to survive, her fate seems sealed, until a cold, enigmatic billionaire steps in with a shocking offer: marriage. To him, it's a convenient arrangement. To her, it's salvation.
But stepping into his world means stepping into a lion's den.
Scor...

In a world where werewolves rule ancient territories and witches walk the line between worlds, eighteen-year-old Layla Blackwood discovers her destined mate is the one boy she can never have—the crush of her best friend Maya. But fate has crueler plans when war erupts between packs.

When Pine Hollow falls to the ruthless Shadow Creek pack, Layla's world collapses into blood and ash. Her par...

I died once, watching him leap to his death for me.

Reborn three years in the past, I decided to completely change the rules of the game.

"I'm going to marry Parker Ashford!" I declared publicly at his birthday party, ignoring everyone's shocked stares.

"You're insane? I'm a cripple..." He tried to push me away, but I wouldn't let him.

I climbed through his bathroom window, seeing him at his m...

A twenty-dollar thrift store blanket connected me to a billionaire's mind.

I'm Isadora Miller—broke Brooklyn art student who accidentally bought a psychic link to Raphael Ashford, Manhattan's most eligible heir. I could hear his thoughts, feel his touch, control his every sensation.

What started as curiosity became obsession. What began as power became love.

But when you're nobody from nowhere ...

I supported my "broke boyfriend" for five years, only to discover he's actually a Wall Street billionaire!

That day at the elite club, I overheard him talking with his friends:

"How long have you been playing poor?"

"Almost five years. Time to wrap it up."

"That girl still funding you?"

"Just bought me pants yesterday. Levi's—she saved for a whole month."

Then they all burst out laughing!

F...

I thought I'd die in that blizzard after being nearly beaten to death by my tyrannical father Terence—the crime boss of Chicago's South Side. Then Michael, a mechanic, rescued me and offered warmth and safety I'd never known. I couldn't help being drawn to him; he taught me to fight back, awakening my long-dead heart.

But I began to notice his gaze—complex and conflicted. I feared this was just a...

After my father's sudden death, the scholarship fund he left behind could only be inherited by a "son." To afford college, I had no choice but to live as a male since high school—I've been masquerading in the men's dorm for a year and a half now.
Until that damn shower incident—I thought the steam was thick enough, thought my roommate Caspian didn't see anything. But he started looking at me diffe...

I never imagined I'd fall in love with the man I was supposed to hate.

When I entered Atlas Montgomery's mansion to "pay off" my brother's medical debt, I believed I was just a desperate nursing student trading my skills for freedom. What I didn't know was that I was actually a spy, planted to destroy him.

Now I'm standing in his study, phone in my hand, finger hovering over send. One click and ...

A seventeen years old Sera Calix was never meant to set a foot in Virelade Academy, the country's most prestigious elite all boys school. But a paperwork error gave her a chance to escape a life of serving the masters and she'll do anything to hold onto it. Even if it means disguising herself as a boy!.

The plan was to keep her head down, graduate and disappear but the problem was Kael Ashbourne,...

Elara was born the daughter of an Alpha, but fate twisted her life into chains. Accused of a crime they didn’t commit, her parents vanished into the night, leaving her behind in a pack that despises her. Powerless. Wolf-less. An omega servant in the home of the man who destroyed her family.

That man is Orion. Ruthless. Cunning. Her father’s betrayer. His lies made him Alpha. His cruelty made Elar...

L“Secure me. Protect me. Save my life.”
That was all Sophie Langford asked for but fate twisted her plea into something far more dangerous. “Take my heart, save it and let it be yours .”

Sophie Langford has always lived behind walls of privilege, the only daughter and heiress of a billion-dollar fashion empire. But privilege breeds enemies. When an attempt on her life leaves her broken and bleed...

Annabel never imagined her life would be traded for a contract. To save her father from ruin, she signs her name into a marriage with Alexander Knight—the cold, commanding billionaire whose rules leave no room for mistakes.

To the world, she’s his fiancée. To him, she’s a shield. Every boardroom becomes a battlefield, every stolen glance a war of wills. Between late nights, sharp words, and a kis...

"Welcome to my territory, sweetheart." When half-naked Chase trapped me against the kitchen counter, those deep blue eyes burned with dangerous fire.

I'm Connie, a rebellious girl from a Texas trailer park who became a Connecticut elite "princess" overnight. My stepbrother Chase Blackwood—the campus golden boy, infuriatingly PERFECT—wanted to destroy me from day one.

"You better stay away from m...

My name is Rose. Nine years ago, I was dying from congenital heart disease when Leonard saved my life. My parents' car accident took everything from me, and made this handsome, austere heart surgeon my godfather.

From age 12 to 21, I watched him grow from a young doctor into Boston's youngest department chief. I also grew from a little girl who needed protection into a woman who made his gaze dar...

When I called my husband with trembling hands, clutching my cancer diagnosis, all I heard was his sweet laughter with his young, hot influencer girlfriend. Ten years of marriage, and when I needed him most, he chose betrayal.

In divorce court, I was painted as the "crazy ex-wife" while the entire internet mocked me. Everyone took their side. No one knew I was fighting for my life.

Until the day ...

Never did I imagine that I—drowning in $200,000 of debt with creditors ready to break down my door—would be approached by Carlisle from Seattle's most elite Alpha family. Her offer? One million dollars to pretend to be her blind son Raymond's wife!

Raymond may be a broken Alpha who can't even detect Omega pheromones, but why does the gentleness of his fingertips make my heart race?

Just as news ...

When Elena struggles to find her footing in the mafia family, she never imagines the greatest danger comes from Victor's brother, Dante. Those piercing gray-green eyes hide five years of desire, and now that Dante has returned to rule the family, he intends to rule her too.

After one passionate night in the wine cellar, the forbidden seed takes root in her womb. To protect this dangerous love, El...

Seventeen-year-old Lily has spent her entire life as the pack’s outcast.

Bullied relentlessly at school, especially by the Alpha twins—Lucas and Liam—who torment her with cruel nicknames, she endures the abuse because she knows she’ll escape it all on her eighteenth birthday.

Her plan is simple: run away, leave the pack behind, and start fresh, far from the shame of her family and the cruelty ...

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Ava Morgan, a struggling event planner with a heart full of dreams but pocket full of dust, enters into a contract marriage with Damien Blackwood, a wealthy but Crippled billionaire. Ava must spend 99 days as his live-in companion, pretending to be his fiancée to silence boardroom whispers and family vultures circling his empire. If she succeeds, her financial troubles vanish with one signa...

I died, only to find myself turned into a ghost, helplessly watching the world continue to spin without me.

What's even more devastating is that my own sister—the one who killed me—is now lying in my bed. She's had plastic surgery to look exactly like me, mimicking my voice and even my habits perfectly, attempting to completely take over my life.

And my husband Rafael—New York's most dangerous m...

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...

"All I wanted was a baby of my own through a sperm bank. How on earth did I end up with CEO Dylan Kane's sperm?

He threw a million dollars at me to 'terminate the pregnancy,' accusing me of stealing his genes—but this child is the light I've been waiting twenty-nine years for.

Why should I give it all up now?"

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...

The day someone stuffed a rancid, oil-dripping sandwich into my locker, splattering my uniform, I understood—no one here saw me as human.
My stepsister crushed my fallen lunch under her heel, laughing at how "pathetic" I was. In chemistry class, they all watched as I rattled around alone in the corner. Even my so-called best friend mocked me, fake-sobbing into a book—"Mommy, I miss you so much"—mi...

I died for three days. My boyfriend got a new girlfriend in two.
She's wearing my pink cardigan, sitting at our first-date table, having a candlelit dinner with my Zane. My apron on her body, my sangria recipe on her lips, even our private nickname "Z" rolling off her tongue.
I'm Harper Wells, 20, Olive Garden server, killed in a car crash. She's Brielle Kim, 22, Instagram influencer, my perfect r...

I was the most despised "sickly wolf" of the Blood Moon pack, mocked and trampled by everyone. When the Moon Devourer attacked, I risked my life to save the noble Alpha Darius, thinking I had finally found the dawn of love.

However, the tender promises whispered in that cave were nothing but manipulation—he married the daughter of another tribe's Alpha. Endless humiliation and punishment complete...

Three years ago, Sofia Cruz kissed Luca Moretti under the stars, not knowing he was the heir to the city’s deadliest mafia family.
The next morning, she vanished—leaving him with nothing but questions and a grudge that burned hotter than desire.
Now, desperate for money, Sofia takes a job as a live-in maid at the Moretti estate… only to discover the room she’s cleaning belongs to him.
Luca hasn’t ...

"Where do you think you're going?" A deep cold voice resounded behind her.

"Far away from you," Rachael snapped, turning around to face him but instantly bit her tongue when she saw the deadly glare and his handsome expressionless face.

"I just saved your life, you almost died," he pointed out like she was supposed to thank him. After everything he did to her, saving her was just not enough.

s...

Sold. Caged. Owned.

Isabella Romano never believed in love, but she knew freedom—until the night she was auctioned off to Giovanni Donatelli, the most feared mafia boss in Italy. Cold, calculating, and merciless, he doesn’t believe in love either. He only believes in power. And now, he owns her.

But Giovanni doesn’t just want to control her. He wants to break her. To consume her. His touch is p...

He stepped closer to me, his hard body invading my space.

The door that felt like support suddenly felt like a trap. There was nowhere for me to run to as his scent filled my senses.

“I’m sorry, Aurora,” his voice low, his eyes blazing with the promise of something dark.

“What are we doing, Conan?” I asked, my voice trembling.

“We are doing anything you want us to do,” his voice was low and se...

“You’re truly going to get married to Silver? When I'm still in love with you?” Liam looked at me with so much sadness which broke my heart the more.

“This is the only way out Liam. Move on with your life and forget about me. Our love was doomed right from the onset,” I answered with a poker face even though I was hurting way more than him.

This was the only way out. I knew I’d regret it but I ...

Three years ago, Emma's life was shattered in a single night. When she awoke in the dark woods, the last face she saw became her eternal nightmare—Damien Cross, the man she once loved.

Now, her father's death and crushing debts have pushed her to the brink. Surrounded by creditors with nowhere to turn, Damien appears like a savior, offering an deal she cannot refuse: Marry me, and all debts will ...

I was once a brilliant psychology student at Berkeley, but now I've become a "hunter" in Viktor Reeves' criminal empire. My job? Using psychological techniques to seduce wealthy men and swindle them out of their money for this devil.

After each mission, I hate myself a little more. Until that day, when I met him in a coffee shop—Alexei, a documentary filmmaker with gentle blue eyes. Unlike my oth...

My name is Lily Carter, a poor girl from the mountains. Ten years ago, I was used as a bet by rich boy Philip Brooks. A twisted game led to my soul being stolen by an evil spirit, and my body was controlled for ten whole years.

For ten years, I could only watch helplessly as "I" became Philip's perfect girlfriend—docile, obedient, never fighting back. The real me was trapped deep inside my own bo...

At my wedding ceremony, a woman six months pregnant walked down the aisle and announced to everyone: she was carrying my fiancé's child.

I tore my wedding dress to shreds on the spot and declared the wedding over.

But the real betrayal was just beginning—

My own mother actually urged me to become the other woman. "Men make mistakes sometimes. Todd's family has money—just put up with it."

My st...