Best University Student Stories & Novels Collection

Marina Cole had three rules: don’t get noticed, don’t get attached, and never, ever look back.

She broke all three the night a masked stranger cornered her in a stairwell and said her name like he already owned it.

Theo Marchetti was supposed to be just another hockey star with too much money and a family name people whispered about in hallways. But Marina knew what whispered names meant — she’d...

I didn't speak for thirteen years.
Not since the night that took both my parents away. I was the only witness. And I never told anyone what I saw — not even my brother, who spent years trying to get me out of my shell.
Until him.
Aren Caedmon, 22 years.
Captain of the Highland Hurricanes hockey team.
And my brother's best friend.
I used to avoid him.
Until that night I was supposed to be home, bu...

Some storms you can see coming. Some you don’t recognize until you’re standing in the middle of them.
Gemma Havley has never wanted to leave Florence, Oklahoma. It’s a town of wheat fields and motorcycle rallies, Sunday suppers and gossip, and a bar her brother runs with the boy who’s called her “Shortcake” her whole life. But when a prestigious writing program in Colorado offers her one of twenty...

Being Westbridge University’s first female quarterback is already hard enough without having to live with Kieran Vale, my brother’s arrogant best friend.
We can barely survive being roommates, so pretending to date should be easy, right?
Except somewhere between fake kisses, late-night arguments, and jealous glances, our fake relationship starts feeling dangerously real. Then a scandal threatens m...

Charity Southwell, a world-class figure skater obsessed with control, meets Cole Ramsey, a reckless hockey captain destined for the NHL. Their rivalry turns into attraction, and eventually love, but their relationship is tested by betrayal, mental struggles, career pressure, illness, grief, and devastating family losses.
As Charity learns to let go of her need for perfection and Cole learns what i...

I stopped letting people get close to me a long time ago. It was cleaner that way. I would not hurt anyone, and no one would get the chance to hurt me.

Ryder Kane never got that memo.

I am not here for his smile, his charm, or the way half the city seems to be in love with him. I am here because guarding him pays well. One contract covers two years of tuition. I protect him, finish the job, get ...

I was born to end wars, not start them. At least that's what the prophecy says.
Dragon, werewolf, witch. Three bloods no one thought could mix, sealed the moment I hatched because nine clans were terrified of what I might become. Now I'm just Ravenmoor's favorite joke, powerless while Lilith rules the school like the devil she was born to be, and she's made it very clear she hates me.
Then Lucien ...

Tori Hayes was unstoppable on the hockey ice. And it was her breathtaking goal that sent St. Bernard into the championship final.
Minutes after her winning goal, her teammate is found murdered in the equipment room.
When the killer threatens someone she loves if she plays the championship final, Tori chooses fear over hockey.
And it was her absence that cost her team the cup.
Her coach turns ag...

I’ve been hopelessly gone for Damon George since I was fourteen and he looked straight through me.

Now I’m a freshman at Blackwood University, and Damon isn’t just my best friend’s older brother anymore. He’s the hockey captain every girl on campus is chasing. The guy with a pro career hanging on his final season. The one person I promised myself I was finally done wanting.

Then one stupid dar...

“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...

Born into a wealthy family obsessed with its lacrosse legacy, Chase has spent her life under her mother's ruthless pressure to become the first woman in the family to dominate the sport. She finally does, until one game, with scouts watching, leaves her with a shattered leg and a career hanging by a thread.

Her abusive mother gives her one month to recover and return to the field, hiring a young ...

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...

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...

A driven college volleyball star with everything riding on one season falls for her coach's son the team's new sports medicine student only to pull away when a childhood family friend shows up claiming to be his girlfriend, forcing her to choose between protecting her heart and the scholarship she can't afford to lose.

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.

I hated my new neighbor before I even knew his name.

Damon Blackwood was arrogant, reckless, annoyingly charming—and somehow always where I didn’t want him to be.

Unfortunately, the universe had a cruel sense of humor.

Because the boy next door was about to become impossible to escape.

And the more I tried to stay away from Damon, the harder it became to remember why I ever wanted to.

Some pe...

Noah Calloway has spent his entire life cleaning up Ethan Sterling's messes.
Best friends since childhood and heirs to two billionaire empires, Noah and Ethan have always been inseparable. Ethan is reckless, charming, and impossible to control, while Noah is the only person who can drag him out of trouble.
Everyone assumes there must be something more between them.
Everyone is wrong.
Because the o...

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...

Harley has been balls to the wall throughout high school, knowing that her only path to college lay in a full-ride scholarship. She succeeded through sheer determination and the help of her best and only friend, Rebeka. There was no time for relationships or boys, and she is fully prepared for college to be the same way.

Then a man sits at her table at the campus coffee shop without her permissio...

I was supposed to spend my nights cleaning the hockey arena, not ending up pregnant by the most powerful Alpha in the province.

As a broke scholarship student, I was barely surviving college while hiding a deadly secret: I have Fading Heart Syndrome, and every day brings me closer to the end.

Then one reckless, anonymous night changes everything.

Two pink lines.

And the father?

Alexander Blac...

BAIT isn’t one of your stories that puts a smile to your face. Not at all.

It explains hatred in the sweetest form of madness.

VELORA MASSIM is the heiress to an empire that shouldn’t bow to no one.

VAUGHN TENAM is the heir to a legacy that should not be messed with.

With both hands forced into an arranged marriage while still in school and still can’t stand the presence of each other. They...

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...

Everyone thinks Nadia Hart is pure innocence—sweet, soft-spoken, and untouchable. She is the girl no one ever suspects of harboring dark, dangerous desires. Her best friend, Brielle, is the exact opposite: loud, reckless, and addicted to taking whatever—and whoever—she wants. Especially her own stepfather, Kane Vale.

Brielle treats Kane like a secret she owns. Nadia listens, pretending not to car...

“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—...

Aria Parker is eighteen, brilliant, and completely invisible to the world around her. While other girls chase popularity and romance, she spends her nights building artificial intelligence systems powerful enough to change her family’s future forever. With hospital bills piling up after her father’s sudden cardiac arrest, failure is no longer an option.

Desperate to earn a life-changing scholarsh...

Alone.
Scared.
Kicked out.
I have always lived in survival mode. I've been fighting for my existence ever since I was born. Whoever gave birth to me, dumped me in a trashcan, leaving me to die.
I survived, and was put into the foster system. Again, I was fending for myself until my eighteenth birthday when my foster mother kicked me out because her son was getting a little too handy.
I find m...

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...

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...

Becky and I had been best friends since elementary school—inseparable until we both got into this top university and became roommates.
We used to lie in our dorm beds, staring at the ceiling, and swear an oath: when we got married, the gap between our weddings would never exceed one week.
I waited for Steven for four full years.
From freshman year to senior spring, I ghostwrote his papers, nursed ...

Michelle Gaze comes to Halestone University with one goal. Keep her head down, keep her mouth shut, and don't give anyone a reason to notice her.
One week in, she has shown up to the biggest party on campus in a bunny costume, been chased through an alley in her underwear by a biker gang, and somehow made an enemy of the most notorious frat president on campus.
The plan is officially dead.
Now she...

One public humiliation, one dangerous contract and zero room for real feelings.

When quiet art student Lila Stones is brutally dumped and humiliated by her popular hockey-player boyfriend in front of the entire campus, her reputation is destroyed overnight. Branded as boring, clingy, and not good enough, she refuses to be the punchline of the semester.

Desperate to reclaim her dignity, Lila make...

Don't look. Don't want. Don't fall. She failed all three…

My best friend Tatum wanted revenge on her ex, Kyler Reed.

In thirty seconds, she rewrote my article—outing him as gay, accusing him of using drugs, and claiming he was secretly sleeping with my brother Chase.

Then she hit publish.

Fifteen minutes later, Kyler was dead.

They called it suicide. The town called me a monster.

They were w...

Anne-Marie’s world collapses after spending one night in the bed of a total stranger, leaving her to pick up the pieces of her broken life. But survival is a must. Two years later, she returns to college, focused solely on securing her degree and making something out of her life against all odds.

She has to pick up figure skating again and is shocked out of her mind when she discovers that the ho...

Lena was punished for a crime she didn’t commit just to save her twin sister. But in return she was betrayed and rejected by her own destined mate, and then, worse, she was exiled from her own pack to the Darmos College.
There, her life changed when she met three hot alpha roommates.
Kai- the hot hockey player; Lucas, the doctor of the college; and Adrian, the biology professor.
“Little mouse, You...

Before they threw me into that dungeon, I never imagined my stepsister and fiancé were capable of betrayal.

Reality slapped me hard across the face.

Daniel and Lyanna fucked right in front of me just to rub it in. My grandfather died of a heart attack after I went missing. My uncle was framed and locked away. My fortune was stolen, and my body was doused in boiling fish glue. Every single one of...

The club is planning a team retreat, and sophomore Ashley suddenly raises her hand at the meeting.

"Doesn't Clara's family own a hotel? Cresthaven, right?"

"Since it's your family's place, we could each just chip in fifty bucks for the venue, like you're supporting your own business or something."

Cresthaven is the hotel my grandfather gave me on my eighteenth birthday.

Because it never advert...

When Scarlett Monroe entered her new house, she didn't expect a dangerously handsome stepbrother who despised her no reason and her irresistibly charming best friend who was dead set in winning her.

Asher Callahan was Scarlett's stepbrother. With arrogance, coldness and mysteries that surrounded him, Scarlett feels an unexplainable pulls towards him.

Bring in Ethan Kingsley, Asher's best-frien...

Eliana Reyes only wanted two things: to survive university and build a future far away from the life she grew up in. But one betrayal destroys everything.

After being secretly sold for one night by her own boyfriend, Eliana wakes up alone in the bed of Blackthorn University’s most feared athlete, Darian Blackwood, the cold and dangerously handsome hockey captain rumored to come from a powerful we...

Kyomi Wesley has spent her life running from the past. Orphaned at ten when vampires slaughtered her family, she studies folklore at Grand Oaks University, trying to understand the monsters that destroyed her world. One night changes everything—a vicious attack leaves her violated and broken, saved only by her mysterious professor, Duran Armani. But Duran isn't just a professor. He's the very crea...

My brother was murdered. But the University calls it an accident.
Refusing to believe the lies, Bella Reed enrolls at the university under a false identity, determined to uncover the truth behind her brother's death. As she investigates, she is pulled into a world of powerful students, dangerous secrets, forbidden relationships, and a mystery someone is willing to kill to protect. In her search f...

"Whoever left that wild strawberry scent on my bed is dead," the severely germaphobic captain posted.
I froze. It was me.
Now, my idiot brother just locked me in Ronan's room to pay off a debt. Ronan ignored my boyish disguise. Leaning in, his nose brushed my hood.
"Wild strawberry," he whispered, a dangerous smirk forming. "It WAS you."

Kai Mercer has only three rules.

Never miss training. Keep his spot on the team. Never take anything too seriously.

He’s been managing all three just fine until one night at a bar when he walks up to a stranger to have a little fun. But something about this man piques his interest in a way nothing ever has before.

Interesting enough that Kai can’t quite get him off his head.

He doesn’t get...

Everyone at Ringdom Academy knows two things: the Crown Alpha is not a man you should cross, and anything the academy cannot identify is something it would rather destroy.

Unfortunately for me, I am both his problem and the mystery no one can solve.

I came to Ringdom Academy hoping to survive, keep my head down, and discover what kind of power lived inside me. Instead, my affinity shattered a re...

Star Davis stopped letting people in at fourteen, the year her father left without a fight or an explanation — just a quiet withdrawal that taught her exactly what happened when you trusted someone with the real version of yourself.
So she built rules. Four of them. Written in the front of a notebook she carries everywhere.
Alex Carter was never supposed to get past the first one.
But he did. Slow...

WARNING: It may contain explicit scenes, bullying, triggering words, violence and psychological aspects scenes.

" Pitiful....I'll make sure you are pitied more...in Hunsberg university, don't you think? "

" Soon you'll be so pitiful, it will get so extreme that each and every people in there will feel sorry and disgusted by your pathetic life. I'll make you find yourself wishing that it would ...

When Beryl finds herself mated to the one person who had secretly planned to kill her, she could blame her father who had forced her to become a warrior in the first place.
A family feud that Ryder is not willing to let go of, seems to be the first step to his own death.

Because, if he has sworn to kill her, he must realize that killing her would kill him too.

Chelsea Stewart enters Blackthorn Academy on a scholarship, determined to build a better future for herself and her mother. On her very first day, she clashes with Ryan Ashford, the academy's arrogant top student and heir to one of its founding families.

When they unexpectedly tie as the highest-ranking students, they are forced into the Elite Scholars Program together. Constant competition soon ...

The rule was simple: watch her, protect her, don’t touch her.
Marshall North has spent his entire life being the boy no one chose.
His father sends money instead of showing up. His mother is gone. And the only place that ever felt like home was never really his—it belonged to someone else’s family, someone else’s name.

Iris Reed was part of that life.
Off-limits. Untouchable. A line he never cro...

I was just the invisible scholarship girl, until the most dangerous guy on campus publicly claimed me—and then dragged me into an empty classroom to prove how thoroughly I belonged to him.

I wasn't supposed to hear it. Standing by the notice board, two guys were mocking me. "Carter's still with that scholarship girl. She's not exactly his level."

Before I could move, Zane's voice cut through the...

As the son of a retired football legend and the twin brother of his college team’s star quarterback, Xavier Hunt is expected to live and breathe football. The world doesn’t understand why he rides the bench — but for Xavier, the game was never his dream. Football is his father’s legacy and his brother’s passion, not his own. He on the team to make them happy. The only place he truly feels alive is...