Best Angsty Stories & Novels Collection

As a Luna, the reason I couldn't conceive for three years was shocking — my Alpha had secretly been feeding me suppressants all along. And if that betrayal wasn't enough, he let another woman carry his pup. Heartbroken and furious, I turned my back on him and severed the bond that once held us together. The headlines screamed: 'Alpha’s Luna Runs Away with Another Wolf.' Yes, I ran away with my fir...

Kira Grey was supposed to be the "rejected mate," a disposable Omega meant to be broken by the cruel Alpha of Silverpine. She was never meant to survive the wedding night, let alone command the throne.
But when a mysterious pendant awakens a dormant power within her, the servant girl begins to fight back—not with brute strength, but with intellect, organizational strategy, and the uncovering of a...

Emma Anderson has everything in her life worked out. She has her perfect job in a Manhattan empire allowing her to live a quiet and organised safe existence. A necessity to her, after a childhood filled with bad memories, abuse, and a mother who was less than useless. But, with it comes a problem, one that could derail everything she thought she needed in her life. Her promotion sends her straight...

"Jaden Cole is an eighteen-year-old high school basketball captain. He is loved by all for his perfect image. He doesn't do drugs or smoke but party hard just like every other kid on the block.

His clean boyish attitude is like a magnet that attracts all the girls around him who will stop at nothing to get in his pant but Jaden doesn't keep them around long enough to want to claim the relationsh...

Warning: Strong language, smuts, abuse, and some explicit content. Please read at your risk.

"Let go of me…" Arabella said. She grimaced, shaking her head.
"Do you think I would let you go so easily?" He questioned, then tutted.
Sandro's nostrils flared as he sniffed her hair wrapped in his hands, Vanilla and Strawberry.
The innocent yet naughty scent he remembered her with.
"That would neve...

My fated mate rejected me in front of the whole royal court and called me too fat to be his Luna.

The hall laughed. My bond snapped in my chest, and I stood in my ceremony dress with all my eyes on me, wishing the floor would eat me.

I'm Clara Beaumont, the hidden scent warden for plus-size folks. This Scentveil, guarding our border, is mine. I did it with these hands every night, as my beautif...

My fated mate is the son of the Alpha King who burned my home.

And I have been given to him as his bride.

Blackridge's army came through the hidden paths of my mountains. The war took my father. My pack scattered. And the four months before the war are gone from my head, as if someone cut them out.

All I kept from them is a name. Ash.

Now I ride into Blackridge's royal court as the price of my...

"You knew I was your brother's mate all this while but kept him from me?" I hissed in rage. "Why do you hate me so much?"

He looked down at me, his eyes cold. "Because you are my mate too. And we don't need a weak mate."

———

Tyra Valarius watched her father die protecting her secret, leaving her to become her pack’s greatest shame: a wolf who could never shift. After her mother remarried into t...

Three Powerful Alphas. One Shared, Dangerous Obsession.

Rejected publicly by Alpha Raulf, Selena was meant to be a nobody, but when her wolf finally awakens, three powerful fated mates, Thane, Echo, and Ares, answer to her call.

Selena is the daughter of a fallen queen, and the ancient seal hiding her true power is shattering.

As her ancient bloodline awakens, a long-buried resentment stirs f...

“Three years ago, you were the last person I wanted to see. Today, you’re the last person I should ever love.”

I thought I had buried my first love along with the girl I used to be. Three years ago, I disappeared into the sea, leaving everyone to believe I was dead. I survived—but the girl who once loved Dmitri with all her heart never came back.

Now I’m Celeste again: stronger, colder, and dete...

SYNOPSIS/BLURB
I fix broken magic. That is my job, my passion, and my entire life.

So when the intimidating Dragon Lord, Evaniel Draycott, walked into my shop with an ancient, unfixable pocket watch, I took the job.

I fixed it.

Then the world spun out of control, and I woke up thirty years in the past.

Now I am stuck in a quiet village before I was even born, broke, and sharing a tiny one-bed ...

“What do you do, when nobody calls?”
“When nobody calls? You think I sit by the phone?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, fair. I actually started baking recently."
"Oh, you are baker. Did you bake anything today?
"Yeah, some blueberry muffins, I shared them at my work place."
"Is strange, I have blueberry muffins today too. From someone at job."
"That is strange."
Mikhail Volkov, Russian Machine and NHL's mo...

For three years, I smelled like nothing for my Alpha.
Scent blocker on my wrists and throat, every time another Alpha walked into the room. "Until it's official," Knox said. Until he marked me.
When the war's over. He promised me eighteen times.
I drank wolfsbane in his place at every feast. I drew the maps that won his war, then watched him stand up and take the thanks.
The morning after the wa...

According to Plainview High, Blair Mercer got exactly what she deserved.

When her golden-boy boyfriend left her for the quiet, innocent nerdy girl, the whole school cheered for the happy ending. Blair was officially cast as the bitter mean girl—the disgraced ex standing on the wrong side of a high school cliché.

Then came Simon Adler.

Quiet, brilliant, and completely ignored, Simon is the negle...

She wanted the monster. She became his legacy.

Seraphina Vance doesn't know what fear is. Abandoned by her globetrotting model mother in a sprawling, empty mansion, Sera grew up craving chaos. When she sets her sights on Dante Moretti, the ruthless, blood-soaked king of Ravencrest Academy and the underground Moretti Syndicate, she doesn't run from his threats. She leans into them.

Dante trie...

What if the life you're living was never yours?
Eloise Ashton has spent twenty-five years believing she's the unwanted daughter of a ruthless billionaire. She's been used, manipulated, and treated as a pawn in her father's empire—until the day she walks into the office of Zev Castor, the cold and terrifying CEO of Aether Global.
Zev is everything she should fear: calculating, dangerous, and hiding...

For years, Isabella Hart stood beside billionaire Nathan Wolfe. She helped build his empire from a struggling startup into a global powerhouse, but then everything collapsed.
When a massive financial scandal threatened the company, Nathan made a choice. To save himself, he blamed his wife. The evidence was fabricated, the media destroyed her, and the man she loved signed the documents that sent he...

"I want your company in ruins. I want every person who ever invested in you to know exactly who you are."
On the night before her wedding, Isla Montclair discovered her fiancé Ronan had betrayed her with her own sister, Vivienne. She had given up her career, supported his business, and sacrificed everything for him, only to be betrayed, abused, and left to die.
Then she woke up two months earlier....

At three in the morning, I dragged my suitcase through the front door.
After a full week at an exchange program in Germany, I was too tired to even turn on the lights. I went straight to the shower.
The hot water poured over me, and I went cold all over.
A hundred and thirteen degrees.
My temperature. The one I always use.
Ryan had always said it was scalding. In five years of marriage I must have...

When I realised my lawyer husband couldn’t let go of his first love, a divorcée with a little boy, I started teaching our daughter to call him “Daniel”.
When our daughter ran a fever, one late-night call from his first love was enough to send him out the door. I stroked her burning forehead and taught her to say, “Bye, Daniel.”
He had promised to come to her school’s Father’s Day assembly. Then hi...

I'd been out of Coldwater for two weeks when my family asked me to go back behind silver.

"It's three nights," Mom said. "You did three years. Three nights won't kill you."

They had no idea it would. I'm dying. The only thing still holding my body together is my mate bond, and three nights away from Silas is all it will take.

For three years in Coldwater, a parcel came for me every month. A bla...

“Know who you belong to.”

For three years, Levi had only one answer. Then a stranger asked her what she wanted.

She escaped the man who owned her and hid in the one place he would never look.

At 25, Levi has spent three years as mafia don Matteo Calderone’s obsession, controlled, punished and displayed. With a stolen ledger and forged papers, she crosses the river and becomes Lena Hart, a waitr...

The night I found out I was pregnant, my seven-year-old son pointed at a little girl in a mommy vlogger's video on his iPad and said, softly:
"That's my sister."
I laughed and flicked his forehead.
The vlogger lived all the way down in New Orleans. He'd never even met them.
"She has a million followers, sweetie. Don't make stuff up."
"If you want a sister that badly, how about Mommy gives you one?...

Lila Vale has always been the slow one.

In a family where everyone is strong and fast, Lila is the one who never seems to measure up. She trains every morning, comes home with bruised knees, and works harder than anyone. Still, she always finishes last.

After six years of trying, she finally gets a chance to compete at the National Pack Championships. All she wants is to prove that she is not as...

When a desperate bride is traded away as "collateral" at the altar by her bankrupt fiancé, she is forced into a high-stakes, twelve-month fake marriage with the cold billionaire who put her father in prison.
$5 million. 12 months. One rule: play the perfect wife.
Adrian Cole is cold, ruthless, and heir to the empire that destroyed everything I loved. I am supposed to hate him. I am supposed to de...

My husband thinks I married him for power.
I wish that were true.
I’ve loved Austin Thorne for ten years. I’ve worn his ring for three. Now I’m giving our marriage an expiration date.
Three more months. I fight for control of my family’s empire. Then we divorce—whether I win or lose.
There’s just one problem: winning the deal that could secure my future means going up against my own husband.
I can...

On my coronation night, my beloved Alpha placed the Luna’s crown upon my head and declared before everyone, “From this day on, you are my Luna.”

When I awoke, I lay in a ruined room without windows. My wrists were scarred from cuts, and my account held nothing but debt.

Worse, my wolf had vanished along with my husband.

Searching for him, I entered a man-eating parking garage, walked into a mon...

“Why did you choose him?”

Five years ago, Ronan was my fated mate—the man I loved, the man I was supposed to marry.

Then I disappeared and became another Alpha’s wife.

Now he looks at me and sees a woman who traded love for power.

He doesn’t see the guards watching my every move. The injections keeping me alive. The locked door behind which my mother waits.

I’m a lawyer. I fight for other peo...

My mate brought his first love home on our eighth anniversary. My husband informed me that he was replacing me while our little boy waited with a cake.

For eight years, I endured the pack's cruel whispers. They told me that I had caught Alpha Kael with a pregnancy. I endured it all for his sake; I loved him. I raised our son, Leo, and I did my best to be the perfect Luna. However, when my first l...

On the night we celebrated my acceptance to MIT, my boyfriend's female best friend crashed her car while driving drunk.

My boyfriend grabbed my hand to stop me from calling the cops. "Just say you were behind the wheel," he pleaded, dropping his voice. "Take the fall for her."

It was like this every single time.

Because I was independent and strong, I was the one who had to be sacrificed. I was...

Adrian was a four-hundred-year-old vampire, and also my boss.

He always thought time was the cheapest commodity he had.

So he had no qualms about keeping me hidden in the dark for five years, no qualms about destroying my promotion in the name of "protecting" me, and no qualms about favoring a young girl who looked just like me.

He thought that as long as the danger passed, as long as he was w...

“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...

He didn't ask my name.

On graduation day, I found my boyfriend in our bed with a girl from my class. He told me I didn't have that kind of pull.

So I went looking for something that would make me forget.

I found a stranger at a bar without a sign. He took me upstairs to prove my boyfriend wrong.

Against the door. Across the sheets. His hand in my hair, his mouth at my throat, his voice low in ...

She rejected her fated mate. Fate reassigned the bond to her greatest enemy.

Born as the daughter of the Alpha of Alphas, Lyra was raised to be a weapon, not a daughter. After catching her fated mate in bed with her best friend, she rejects him before the entire school and flees to the only place her father cannot control: Thornewood Academy.

But Thornewood is no sanctuary. Behind its enchante...

She killed her husband to survive.
Now his brother wants her back—and the only man who can protect her is the one she was never supposed to touch.

Harlow Reyes hid in the Havoc MC clubhouse, pouring drinks and fucking anyone who asked so no one looked too close. Everyone still knew the truth: the only man she wanted was Wolf, the president still haunted by a wife the River Crew put in the groun...

Nessa Calder has spent her entire life skating in her father’s shadow.

One more competition could earn her a place on the Olympic team—and finally prove her success belongs to her, not the powerful sports executive who has controlled every part of her career.

Then she tears her ankle.

The federation assigns the only specialist they trust who isn’t on her father’s payroll:

Brennan Kessler.

Hoc...

Vanessa Reed didn’t come to the ultra-elite Hudson College to make friends, attend wild varsity parties, or fall in love. Coming from the working-class streets of East London, her full athletic scholarship isn’t a status symbol—it’s her family’s only financial lifeline. She knows exactly how to survive: keep your head down, keep your grades up, and stay focused.

But Vanessa has already painted a ...

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...

He rules Italy through fear and blood.
But the only thing he craves... is her.

Salvatore Morello gets whatever he wants. Power. Money. Total control. As the most dangerous Don in the country, his word is law.

Then he walked into an American diner and saw Carmella Russo.

Carmella was a girl running from guilt. Her father had died alone while she was chasing a mother who never wanted her. She ha...

“Tell me you don’t love me, Gabriel.”

“Don’t ask me for something I have no right to give.”

Gabriel. The man I called my uncle. We weren’t related by blood. He took me in after my parents died.

Loving him wasn’t in my mother’s last wishes.

His guardianship ended when I turned eighteen.

But I stayed.

And somewhere over the next six months, between quiet conversations, ordinary dinners, and th...

For three years, Ivy Green was Gabriel Black’s quiet omega wife.

She loved him, healed him, and built a home around a man who never truly saw her.

To Gabriel, their marriage was convenient. Controlled. Temporary.

Then his fated mate returned.

After one final night of passion, Gabriel asked Ivy for a divorce and thanked her for the past three years—as if her love had been nothing more than a se...

Natalia and Andrei’s marriage was originally a three-year contract. With only 30 days left until the contract ends, Natalia discovered that she’s pregnant.
Just when she thought Andrei would reconsider divorcing her because of this, his deceased first mate, Lilith, returned. Feeling hopeless, Natalia decided to initiate the divorce.
However, at their engagement party, Andrei received the news of...

Harper never planned to sell her womb, not until her father’s debt left her with no other choice. When she applies to become a surrogate, she also never expects to be chosen by the city’s most ruthless and powerful Mafia King. Even more shocking? The man behind the contract is hauntingly familiar.
He is Cade Leone, the ex she had to dump and leave years ago.
After all these years, how will they fa...

MM | Stepbrothers | Enemies to Lovers | Forced Proximity | NROTC | Straight-to-Bi | Secret Identity | Forbidden Romance

Theo
I had a plan.
College. NROTC. Commission. Naval Special Warfare.
Then Eden Brooks became my stepbrother.
Black hair, green eyes, a guitar permanently attached to his hand, and absolutely no respect for rules—or me.
Now we share a university, an NROTC unit, and, thanks to ou...

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...

“Stealing from me wasn't the problem. Leaving before I could wake up wasn't what almost drove me insane,” he whispered, kissing my neck while thrusting slowly inside me.

“Then what did?” I moaned out, loving every bit of his firm, slow thrusts. “Why did you search for me so hard?”

“Because I missed you so much, baby. After that night, I lost my mind. All I could think of was seeing you again, h...

His hand closed around my throat and he ripped the bra off in one motion, the strap biting into my skin before it tore free completely.
"What are you doing…"
He didn't answer that either. His hand found the waistband of my briefs — the only thing I had left — and pulled it down in one motion, leaving me completely naked and exposed with his hand still resting against my throat.
I didn't try to sto...

On Ivy’s wedding day to her fiancé James, Alexander, the ruthless Lycan King feared throughout the kingdom, storms in, tears her from the altar, and forces her to be his wife.

Believing Ivy responsible for his fiancée’s death, he vows to make her pay.

“You destroyed the love of my life,” he snarls. “So it’s only fair that I destroy yours.”

However, as their marriage unfolds, Ivy looks nothin...

Blurb
"You have until Friday, Mr. Reed. After that, your father's garage stops existing."
I had nothing left to fight back with. No money, no leverage, nothing but a dying auto garage and a promise I made my father before he passed. Then a car nearly killed me in the middle of the street, and I woke up hearing a voice in my head that changed everything.
It told me I now carry the Negative Emotion ...

She built a quiet life from the wreckage of a marriage that nearly swallowed her whole. A bakery. A hidden talent for art. And a son she loves more than breathing. At forty, Corinna Adler is composed, grounded, but devastatingly unsated, starved and untouched.

One night was supposed to fix that.

One anonymous night at Obscura, the city's most secretive underground club with a man whose hands kne...