Best City Stories & Novels Collection

Dominic Volkov was born to rule the Bratva—cold, ruthless, and untouchable.
Love was never part of the plan… until one unforgettable week in Las Vegas changed everything.

Maggie was the light he never knew he needed—gentle, brave, and real.
For seven days, she made him forget the blood and power that defined his world.
And when he left, he thought he could leave her behind too.

Two years later, ...

She fled the chaos to save lives.
He rules the shadows with deadly elegance.

Hope Jones, a brilliant New York doctor, thought she could stay far from danger…
until that look. The look of a man as dangerous as he is magnetic. Alessandro Romano.

Just a patient. One blazing night.
But nothing about him is simple. And nothing after him will ever be the same.

Between New York and Sicily, between bur...

Paty Hartwell is a sex crimes prosecutor with a razor-sharp sense of justice and a secret she never saw coming: she’s a killer. By day, she fights to put monsters behind bars. By night—or, more accurately, by accident—she’s racking up a body count. It all started when a rapist walked free, and a confrontation ended with her mother’s heirloom knife in his throat and a stray dog christening his corp...

They said my father’s debts died with him. They lied.
One moment I was just Isabella Hart, a nursing student fighting to save my sick mother. The next, I woke up captive inside the Romano mansion, traded like property to pay a blood debt I never knew existed.
The Romano family has four heirs: Marco, the ruthless strategist in a wheelchair; Dante, the charming manipulator; Luca, the silent killer w...

Death has never been so carefully balanced.

When a prominent banker is found dead in an apparent suicide, Detective Mira Ellison expects another routine case—until she discovers a black book hidden beneath his chair. Inside are dozens of names: politicians, judges, journalists, even police officers. Some are already dead, their endings ruled accidents or natural causes. Others are still alive… fo...

Betrayal made her heart cold. Power made her untouchable. But fate has dragged her back into the fire.

Once rejected and humiliated by Alpha Lucian, Laura rose to become the feared Alpha King. Now, with vampires plotting war and her closest friend nearly lost in their trap, she finds herself face-to-face with the man who shattered her. Fury and forbidden desire ignite, but neither can be trusted—...

Synopsis: They say numbers never lie. But in the world of the Mafia, even the truth can be buried beneath bloodstained ledgers.

Lucia Alvarez is a forensic accountant with a mind as sharp as a blade—and a heart carved hollow by loss. Five years ago, her beloved brother Miguel was pulled from the East River, his hands bound and lungs full of concrete. The official story? He betrayed the Di Santi f...

When Amelia Pierce finally admits her marriage is a gilded cage, one shattered glass and a chilling vow—I’ll never divorce you—send her straight into the orbit of Bryson Hearst: her new boss, her oldest secret, and the man who quietly bought a ring for her six years ago and locked it in his safe.

In a world of penthouse boardrooms and whispered scandal, Bryson is the kind of dangerous that feels ...

I thought the day I put on that wedding dress would be the most beautiful moment of my life.

Until I heard my fiancé Marcus talking to his mistress in the next fitting room—"Does she really believe you love her?" "Of course she believes it. Sophia's so damn naive, I just gotta say some romantic bullshit and she gets all teary-eyed and grateful."

In that moment, my world shattered completely. Thr...

I died once.

Torn apart by the first love of the Alpha Prince who I thought loved me, bleeding out on a cold basement floor. But when I opened my eyes again, I was back in that luxury car heading to the Royal Territory—one year ago, about to walk into this beautiful trap because I saved an amnesiac stranger named "Alex."

In my past life, I was too naive, thinking that saving a wounded stranger w...

I thought that one night's mistake would be our biggest secret, until two pink lines appeared on the pregnancy test.

Patrick was my stepbrother, the forbidden territory I should stay away from, the person I thought would never belong to me. When I saw Luna's text, when I thought I was just his drunken substitute, I decided to disappear with this secret.

But on that stormy afternoon, when he bloc...

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...

Five years ago, my world shattered in a single night.

On my wedding anniversary, I discovered my husband, Rowan Whittaker, in the arms of his ambitious subordinate—Serena, who was carrying his child. Within hours, my family's tech empire collapsed under Rowan's betrayal, and my father was left comatose after a ruthless corporate coup. Broken, pregnant, and hunted by secrets, I fled overseas, seek...

My beloved husband was left completely paralyzed after an assassination attempt targeting our mafia family. Consumed by despair, he begged for death every day. "Let me die, Carla... This is better for both of us," he whispered through his oxygen mask.
Desperate to give him a reason to live, I told him a merciful lie—that I was pregnant. Seeing hope rekindled in his eyes, I knew I had to make this ...

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...

Trigger Warning: This book contains themes of non-consensual and dub-con encounters, bondage, explicit sexual content, stalking, kidnapping, physical and emotional abuse, mafia violence, and obsessive behavior. Read at your own risk.

A ruthless underground street fighter by night and feared mafia don by blood,Rafael De Rossi is known for his wrath, scars, and brutal silence. His fists speak more...

When Harper was just six years old, she was kidnapped by mafia enemies and nearly lost her life. The daughter of the powerful Petrovsky family’s leader—one of the most feared men in the upper ranks of the Russian mafia—she was sent to a boarding school, where she lived in hiding for over a decade.
On her 20th birthday, she was finally supposed to return home. But a tragedy changes everything: her ...

"Who’s there?” thundered one of the suited men.

“Shit, run!”

Without hesitation, she turned and fled for her life.

With a calm, almost chilling expression, Grant only said two words:

“Kill her.”

And thus, the chase began.

One detective out for revenge.
One mafia lord out for blood.

Angelina Gusta lives a double life.

By day, she’s a sharp, unassuming accountant at Detroit’s most powerful c...

“What are you doing here?”
Ryan’s voice cut through the air, his gaze locked on the one girl who had once been his greatest weakness, now his greatest enemy.
For her, the last man she ever wanted to see was now her employer.


Tessy, an orphan struggling to survive, once thought she found love during a summer with Ryan Smith. But one misunderstanding shattered everything. Branded a liar, cal...

Caroline willingly enters into a contract marriage with her ex-husband's half-brother to get revenge. She knows her ex-husband hates Dexson, and vice versa.

Caroline vows to make Damian and Eliza regret their actions for killing her baby. However, unbeknownst to Caroline, Dexson already knows her true identity.

He rejected me in front of everyone.
Called me pathetic. An unworthy human.

I thought the pain of being rejected by my Alpha mate would kill me,
until a vampire’s bite did something worse.

Now I see things that don’t make sense, memories that aren’t mine.
A stranger with silver eyes calls me Enid, like he’s known me forever.
And when he touches me… my body remembers him, even if I don’t.

Elijah...

Roxanne never imagined her life would be reduced to a transaction. At sixteen, her parents abandon her, trading her for money to the household of her father’s older brother and his elegant wife, a childless couple desperate for an heir.

Though disguised as family duty, Roxanne knows the truth: she is nothing more than a solution to their problem, a sacrifice to preserve a legacy.

Yet it is not h...

Abigail Aaro has already endured the kind of loss that would shatter most—her mate torn from her, her family stripped away, and her dignity crushed beneath betrayal. Yet even in the ruins of her life, she clings to one unbreakable truth: she will never belong to anyone. Fierce, defiant, and unwilling to bow, she would rather stand alone than be caged like property.

But the Lycan King has other pl...

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...

“I love you, Derek, and I need you to understand,” she said, her voice thick with emotion as tears streamed down her cheeks. Her hands trembled as they grasped his shirt, conveying the depth of her feelings.

Sensing the intensity of the moment, he stepped closer, placing his hands on her shoulders in a calming gesture. Leaning down, he kissed her gently, allowing that shared connection to commun...

He didn't love her but she became his Mrs. Jack. She couldn't interfere with his personal behavior and couldn't tell others that she was his wife.

When his ex-girlfriend returned as promised, she handed him the divorce agreement, saying, "She's back, and I'm returning your freedom."

But he just laughed and said, "Mrs. Jack, you have made me fall in love with you again,Where else do you want to ...

He made the rules. But she made him break every one.”

When 24-year-old Kayna Scott lands a last-minute job as a personal assistant at one of the country’s most powerful tech empires, she has no idea she’ll be working for Damian Marshall—the elusive billionaire CEO with a reputation for being merciless, brilliant, and emotionally untouchable.

He’s everything she shouldn’t want: commanding, cold, ...

Zoey Ashford spent most of her life engaged to a man she’d never met — a faceless promise made by families and sealed with expensive gifts and unanswered dreams. She believed in the story, believed in him… until he didn’t show up on the day they were meant to marry.

Humiliated and heartbroken, Zoey walks away from the altar — and straight into the arms of a stranger. He’s everything she never exp...

“You think I don’t have a heart, little one? You’re right. But if I did, it would already belong to you. And that’s far more dangerous.”

“You break the world with your hands, Nico. I mend it with mine. And maybe that’s why fate threw us together… to remind you even beasts can bleed.”

Born into one of the most powerful crime syndicates in Los Angeles, Serena Moretti has lived a life gilded with d...

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...

Detective Mara Quinn fled the fire that destroyed her family, her home, and the truth fifteen years ago. She vowed never to go back. However, Mara is pulled back into the nightmare when her hometown is rocked by a string of ritualistic killings, leaving burned feathers and bodies marked with odd symbols. The symbols are the same as those from her childhood home. The Ashen Circle, the cult she ...

This book is the second book in the Billionaire series. It can be read as a standalone novel, but it is highly suggested that you read The Billionaire’s First Glance before this novel.
I, Zander Cavanaugh, the all-American football quarterback, have done something that could get me killed. I fell in love with the brilliant, curvy mafia princess Isabella Aventini at first sight. Everything abou...

On the day of her wedding, Elena’s perfect world shatters—her groom vanishes, eloping with her best friend. But before the whispers destroy her, his powerful billionaire brother, Damian Blackwell, steps forward with a cold proposition: marry him instead, right there at the altar.

Trapped in a scandal she never asked for, Elena is thrust into a dangerous marriage built on secrets, lies, and twiste...

When prestigious art dealer Elena Vasquez is connected to "The Canvas Killer" - a serial murderer who has terrorized the nation for fifteen years by leaving victims posed like classical paintings - she becomes the most hated woman in America overnight. Evidence emerges that several artworks in her gallery match the killer's gruesome crime scenes, and the FBI believes she's been helping him select ...

Twenty-one-year-old Maya Chen thought her biggest problem was paying for college. She never knew her father owed a blood debt to the most dangerous crime family in New York—until four arrogant heirs storm into her life to collect.
Dante Rossi commands with ice-cold authority and expects total obedience. Marcus "Tank" Romano crushes enemies with his bare hands and shows no mercy. Luca Torrino charm...

Detective Sam Rivera thought that leaving the LAPD would help her get away from the evil that followed her around. Tidewaters, California, is a quiet beach town, but it hides secrets deeper than the Pacific Ocean. When her second day as a private investigator comes around and she finds the body of a youth, she remembers the people who told her, "Don't trust anything here." As Sam digs deeper, she ...

Three years ago, I ran from my abusive marriage with nothing but my two-year-old daughter and the clothes on our backs. Now I'm back in my hometown of Riverside, trying to rebuild our shattered lives while working at the local diner and hiding from shadows that may not even exist anymore.
Then Jake Miller walks into my life—the boy who broke my teenage heart by leaving town without a word. Now he'...

Rowan Hayes was just another woman lost in the city—tired, broke, and invisible—until the day she threw herself in front of a van and saved a little girl’s life.

Now that girl, Emma Vance, refuses to let her go.
Her father, Asher Vance, refuses to let her stay.

With sharp suits, inked skin, and a voice that sounds like danger, Asher is the kind of man who gets what he wants—and never forgives wh...

Reader Advisory!!!
This story contains steamy scenes, mature language, and forbidden romance.
Recommended for readers 18+ who enjoy emotionally intense and sexually charged love stories with depth.
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“I’m going to turn every dirty page you’ve ever read into your reality, Teyana.”
And Jeremy Carter did.
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It started with a simple party dare and ended with my legs wrapped around the ever-addictive J...

WARNING: MATURE CONTENT‼️
This story contains themes of BDSM, including elements of dominance and submission, bondage, name-calling kinks (such as terms like "whore"), consensual rough play, and some scenes that involve violence. If these topics could be triggering or uncomfortable for you, I strongly recommend proceeding with caution or choosing a different story.

But if you're into all this del...

He stared down at me, his dark eyes burning with desire. His touch was electric, sending shivers through my body as his fingers teased me, leaving me breathless and aching for more.

"You want this?" he murmured, his voice rough with need.

I could barely think, barely speak—all I knew was that I needed him. "Yes..." I gasped, arching against him as his touch grew bolder, more demanding.

Every st...

She's hunting a killer. He's hunting the truth. Together, they're about to become the hunted.
Detective Rachel Jenkins doesn't believe in coincidences so when handsome journalist Alex Chen appears at her crime scene with information no outsider should have, every instinct tells her to run. Instead, she finds herself drawn into his world of dangerous secrets and impossible theories.
Five murdered w...

Mo’s life was already a mess—her mother’s gone, her brother Milo is one bad haircut away from a crisis, and now they’ve moved to a town so small it makes tumbleweeds look crowded. But things get weirder when Mo meets four mysterious boys who seem to know more about her than she does (which is rude, honestly).

At night, Mo dreams of Aeloria—a magical fairy kingdom with more drama than a reality TV...

This book has explicit content, viewers discretion is advised.

One day, I was the fat, unwanted girl rejected by the Beta's son.
The next minute, the Alpha's son himself showed up... and claimed me.

I didn’t know why, why Osborne came for me when I was at my lowest.
But I quickly learned something—he doesn’t just want my body.
He wants all of me.

He says I’m his mate.
But the way he touches me,...

He saved her heart. Now she wonders if he’ll take her life.

After a string of heartbreaks, Elena Marlowe finally meets someone who feels different—Adrian Blackwood. Charming, protective, and irresistibly mysterious, he makes her believe in love again.

But as their whirlwind romance deepens, so does the city’s fear. A killer is hunting women who look just like her, and every trail seems to circle...

🔥 The Devil's Heir 🔥
His hand fisted in my hair, a sharp, deliberate tug that caught my gasp mid-breath—an unspoken reminder of who held the reins. But the heat coiling through my veins wasn’t fear. It was hunger. Reckless. Ravenous. Consuming every rational thought in its path.
His lips tasted like forbidden sin, his touch like wildfire licking at dry tinder, and Sienna knew she should have run...

Unlike her twin brother, Jackson, Jessa struggled with her weight and very few friends. Jackson was an athlete and the epitome of popularity, while Jessa felt invisible. Noah was the quintessential “It” guy at school—charismatic, well-liked, and undeniably handsome. To make matters worse, he was Jackson’s best friend and Jessa’s biggest bully. During their senior year, Jessa decides it was time fo...

Betrayal has never struck so hard until that day I caught my fiancée and best friend cheating on me.

My world came crashing down beneath my feet, and I felt hopeless.

However, luck was on my side and I ended up having a one-night stand with a mysterious man.

Two months later, he showed up at my house with our marriage agreement and he turned out to be my ex-fiancée’s father.

Heartbroken and e...

I died at seventeen on a Christmas night, bleeding out on cold pavement while my bullies scattered. "If there's a next life, Mom... just go without me this time."

But I woke up back to that day—fifteen years old again, standing in the chaos of FBI cameras and reporters. The day they rescued us from that mountain hell.

In my past life, when the Whitman family found their long-lost daughter Rose, ...

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 ...