Best City Stories & Novels Collection

The night my brother died, his last voicemail only mentioned one name “Caspian Vale.”

The mafia billionaire everyone feared and the ruthless heir to the Vale Syndicate. His family literally controlled half the city. He was the man who destroyed my brother's career, our family and even myself
For years, I lived only for revenge and started by working at his company.
So when Caspian suddenly offer...

My father died owing the Salvi family a hundred and forty thousand dollars.

I didn't find out until Vittorio Salvi walked into the bar where I work and told me exactly how he intended to collect — not in cash, but in me. A wedding. His son. A debt paid in the currency of my whole life.

I ran straight into the one man in Ironport with more reason to hate the Salvi name than I do.

Damien "Ghost" ...

At Westbridge University, there’s only one rule that matters: never blackmail the Ice King.

Daphne Brook broke it.

She's broke. Her grades are failing. Her scholarship is slipping away. And the billionaire heir she's been obsessed with for years won't even look at her.

So when she accidentally gets leverage over the Ice King, she uses it.
Tutoring.

Money.

And fake dating ...

The Ledger He Left Behind

My father's death was ruled an accident. I know better… because someone left a note in his coat pocket that isn't in his handwriting, warning me not to call the police.

Six years of memories, and I never knew he was hiding a second identity, a locked room, and a photograph of me as a child with a stranger's writing on the back. The address on that note leads me somewher...

He laid me on the sheets, climbed over me, caged me with his arms. "Last chance to run," he said, voice low.
"I need the money," I whispered, feeling so tiny in his arms. "You're soaking," he muttered.
"Virgin or not, your pussy wants this."I moaned, looking away, couldn’t help it, "Eyes on me, sweetheart," he pushed his tip in slowly.
"Fuck," he groaned. "So tight. "He fucked me like he was cla...

I caught him.

The man I was meant to marry—the rising Alpha, the pride of the Pack—thrusting into another girl like I didn't exist.

But I didn't cry. I didn't scream. I didn't even flinch.

Because the pain had carved me hollow long before he ever touched her.

He thinks I'm weak. That I'll stand by his side in two days, smile for the ceremony, and hand him my loyalty with the Alpha title.

But ...

Nora Bellamy has spent three years being nobody, good at her job, quiet at the parties, invisible to anyone who might remember the girl who supposedly drowned off the Maine coast. Then her new boss calls her into his office, shuts the door, and says the name she buried: Josephine Whitlock. Emory Sutter doesn't call the police. He wants something worse, a public engagement, in front of the one man ...

“I never let go,” he says to her, voice deep and intoxicating. “After you, there’ll be no one else. I’m going to want all of you. Every part of you, Sophia.”
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Alexander Thorne is vice—danger wrapped in billions, immorality, and a smile that feels like sin. And unfortunately for Sophia Rose, he’s the man she’s been arranged to marry.
Sophia may be young, spoiled, and rich, but she’s done having h...

At my boyfriend's exhibition party, I went into anaphylactic shock after eating the cake Mia handed me.
I stumbled, reaching for my EpiPen, only for Mia to snatch it out of my hand and crush it under her heel.
"Give... it back..." I choked out, grabbing onto my boyfriend's arm.
He just shook me off, disgusted. "Chloe, can you stop being so dramatic? It's not that big a deal."
"Yeah, Mia's basicall...

"Touch yourself for me."



When the plain, introverted Evelina Lockridge completely transforms herself to corner a ruthless billionaire, she only wants a transactional partner to fulfill her terminal bucket list. She never expected Malakor—secretly Malakor Morningstar, the Son of the Devil—to pin her down with a devastating, sinful kiss, only to ruthlessly reject her the moment he senses her inn...

Lord of the Puck-
She blamed me for the death of my brother and for ten years she had built her whole platform on that lie.
I was the stalker who had killed her twin, my best friend. It was a falsehood that had followed me throughout my career.
A never ending black cloud.
And now she was here, in my family home and I was about to fall into the mould she had made for me. I was about to become her ...

Six years ago, Marlowe Kestrel drowned in the Duskhaven canals, or at least that is what the obituary said, what the empty coffin implied, and what every ruling House in the city has believed ever since.

In reality she swam two streets over, bribed a mortician with a forged signature, and built herself a new, gloriously unremarkable life as a small time magical forger who fixes other people's pr...

Virgin. Pregnant. Mortified.
Marie Montez has exactly three problems and they all have the same cause — one very wrong fertility clinic and one very right billionaire.
Xavier Richards did not plan to be a father. He especially did not plan to find himself fascinated by the woman carrying his child.
But here they are.

Charlotte Hayes never dreamed of becoming Mrs. Hawthorne.
After a life-changing night left her pregnant, Ethan Hawthorne was forced to marry her to take responsibility for their unborn child and protect the Hawthorne family's reputation. But the marriage Charlotte believed would be the beginning of a happy family became the beginning of her nightmare.
Inside the Hawthorne Mansion, she was treated ...

Inks Game

Life was good, the club was at peace. I rode, I partied and I inked my art onto peoples skin.
But God it was boring.
Right up until Molly moved in next door. Sweet, beautiful and clearly hiding something, she came in like a wrecking ball and took us all by surprise.
We all wanted the single mum. We all made the bet.
But the more I learnt about her, the more I realised that this was a ...

On the night of their third wedding anniversary, Aubrey Clinton made a devastating discovery- her husband, Daniel Black, was having an affair with her sister, Ember. To add to her heartbreak, she learned that the child they had adopted two years after their marriage was, in fact, the biological son of Daniel and Ember.

In that moment of betrayal, Aubrey decided to seek a divorce and left the hous...

Kiera Vosslyn is a brilliant homicide detective with a genius IQ and a perfect 3D memory of every crime scene she visits. She is assigned to the most high-profile case of her career when socialite Vivienne Corbeau is found dead in her locked penthouse. The only clue left behind is a single white rose placed in the victim's hand. Kiera soon identifies four men who were the last to see Vivienne aliv...

Their whole relationship was a bet.

She was THE bet. Not the girl. Not the girlfriend. The bet, scrawled on a napkin in a locker room while his teammates laughed. Whoever could sleep with the quiet nerdy girl first won. And Ryan Beckett? He won easy.

She found out in a group chat. Every detail and the humiliation swallowed her whole, even worse when he didn't even have the decency to feel bad ab...

Seven years ago, I crawled on my knees to save Alex Benedetti's ass, and got marked as the bitch who betrayed him.

Seven years later, he came back as New York's deadliest mob boss. Lucy Ferraro, some spoiled mafia princess, was warming his bed while I was on my hands and knees scrubbing his floors.

He let his fiancée treat me like garbage. When I started coughing up blood, the son of a bitch lau...

In the seventh year after I broke my fated mate's heart and he went abroad to study, he finally returned home with his new fiancée to meet his parents.
On that exact same day, the hospital finally pronounced my seven-year battle with Core Degeneration a failure. I was sent home to wait for death.
Seeing me sitting in a wheelchair on the street, supported by my mother, a mocking smile appeared on ...

I was supposed to start college with a future already mapped out and a boyfriend I trusted at my side. I had plans, expectations, and a life that felt safe and familiar.Then I walked into his bedroom and found my boyfriend and my sister tangled together in his sheets, breathing lies and betrayal like it was nothing.I cried once. I screamed once. And then I made a decision.I was not going to fall a...

“You're trying to impress him just to get back at me?” He sneered, laughing like everything was a joke to him. “You've got some serious nerves, Athena. Teaming up with my enemy to destroy me.”

I shot him a sharp look. “You should have thought of that when you took ten million from me and proposed to my best friend!”

“I apologized for that. It was supposed to be harmless—”

I smirked and tugged ...

I meet his gaze steadily. "You are a helpless jerk." His face hardens, jaw tight, fists curled at his sides. He grabs the front of my shirt, drags me deeper into the garage, and slams me back against the cool metal of the Ferrari. For a split second I think he is actually going to hit me. I don't anticipate the next move.
His mouth crashes into mine aggressively, nothing like a scripted kiss. His ...

Raynelle Bennett has spent her entire life saving people, or at least trying to.

As a fourth-year surgical resident, she's learned that death is inevitable, but failure isn't. Because a mistake was fatal in her field.

Then one patient dies on her operating table, her mother is rushed to the hospital hundreds of miles away, and she accidentally brings home a wounded stranger who refuses medical ...

Asher Vance is living a carefully engineered lie. As the only son and sole heir to Vance Logistics, his future is entirely mapped out by his traditional, domineering father: inherit the empire, marry his girlfriend of three years, Chloe, and provide a male heir to carry on the family name.
But Asher is secretly gay, carrying a profound emotional emptiness that threatens to break Chloe’s heart and...

They buried her eight years ago.
Now she’s back—and everything she loved belongs to someone else.
Her husband has a new wife.
Her daughter calls another woman mother.
And the powerful billionaire who once swore to love her now wants her erased… again.
But Seraphina didn’t survive hell just to lose everything.
She came back for what’s hers.

Betrayed and creatively blocked, erotic artist Lucia Lane has sworn off love until her infuriatingly gorgeous new neighbor crashes into her life. NHL bad boy Noah Lawson is loud, arrogant, and impossible to ignore… especially after he saves her from a violent attack and the world mistakes them for lovers.

A fake relationship should be simple. No feelings. No rules broken.

But Noah isn’t just hoc...

“I want you to stage a private jet crash for me. That way I can get away from Elias for good.”
When my best friend Poppy heard my request, her jaw nearly hit the floor. She wondered if she’d misheard.
"Are you out of your fucking mind, Molly?" she deadpanned.
"I’m entirely serious." I said, keeping my voice dead flat.
"Molly, you're married to Elias Blackwood." Poppy stood up, running a hand thr...

I spent eight months making hit content for Halo Digital. My mentor Sienna Blake spent eight months putting her name on it.
I thought she was looking out for me. The big sister every new girl dreams of. Shielding me from tough meetings, "polishing" my scripts before they went to the CEO.
Then one morning, her beauty blender started talking.
It said her skin was a disaster. That she couldn't come u...

Everyone knew my twin sister wouldn't live past eighteen. So they gave her all the love, leaving me to survive in the shadows.
When I suffered a asthma attack on our birthday, my mother locked me in the basement.
"Stop faking it. Don't ruin your sister's last birthday," my mother hissed.
She thought I was throwing a tantrum for attention.
She was wrong.
I died on the cold concrete floor while th...

“Now's your chance... tell me to stop and I will. Otherwise, I’m going to worship you.” He trails his lips up to my jawline. "Every single inch of you."

​My fingers tangle in the bedsheets as my panties get wetter. We should stop. This is scandalous, reckless and all shades of wrong. But when he holds me this way, I know there's absolutely no going back.

So without thinking, I raise to my tiptoe...

Ruby, a young woman married off too quickly to the cold, emotionally absent Ellis, moves into his ancient cathedral-turned-mansion. Starved for affection, she begins hearing a voice from beneath the chapel floor at night, Malachir, an ancient demon bound to the estate. What begins as fear curdles into dependency as Malachir offers Ruby the intimacy, attention, and devotion Ellis withholds. But El...

WARNINGS: RATED 18+
“Ah—” He groaned low in his throat.
He pushed two fingers inside me.
I bit down on my lip hard while my hips lifted, chasing the pressure.
A third finger followed, stretching me wider.
“Look at me,” he ordered.
His cock pressed against my thigh as he lined himself up with my entrance and pushed in.
My legs shook around his waist while broken gasps spilled from my lips.
I wrappe...

18+
“Enjoying his attention?” Nico snarled against her neck as he pin… her against the wall, his body a wall of heat and warning. “Because I’m about to remind you exactly whose name you moan.”

Lana’s breath hitched, but she tilted her chin up anyway, refusing to give him the satisfaction of backing down. “Jealousy looks good on you, Valetti.”

His grip on her waist tightened, a low growl rumbling...

"Oh my God, is that a dead body? I am gonna puke." I choked out the words, shoving my hand over my mouth.

This is my second time seeing an actual dead body, and honestly I don't think I could ever get used to this.

Asher Rider has barely arrived in Edinburgh when his first days in the city are interrupted by a string of disturbing murders.

Then his best friend becomes one of the victims.

...

"You have no house to go to, no money, no friends and no child to drain me of child support. Don't be stubborn. You know you'll die without me, I'm your only family left." Once again that proud tone was sneered at me.

"I worry for you." Devon’s eyes glimmered waiting for me to go on my knees and beg him.

I shake my head. "Worry about yourself Devon. Do you really think you'd go scott free after ...

When Summer Reyes was transferred to Kingsley University, she has everything planned so that she can keep her head down, and survive. But her plan is quick to catch fire the moment she catches the attention of the university's infamous hockey royalty, Cole and Jax.
Cole is the golden boy of Kingsley, calm and effortlessly charming. While Jax is the polar opposite of his brother. A dark dangerous b...

My family used me as bait to destroy my sister's happiness.

The plan was simple: fake being poor, watch my sister's construction worker boyfriend run when times got tough, then reveal the truth and break her heart. I was supposed to be the convincing proof of our "poverty."

But I didn't know I was acting. For ten years, I lived their lie for real. Starved while they feasted in hiding. Worked mys...

I pressed my palm flat against the door, turned the lock, and let the click hang in the air between us.
"Professor," I whispered, stepping closer until my thighs brushed his desk. "I've been thinking about your lecture on repressed desires. About how the most intense pleasure comes from what we're told we can't have."
His jaw tightened. His pupils dilated. "This conversation is crossing a line, Mi...

"You stumbled drunk into my room and ruined my night. I'm the one who got the raw end of this deal."Damian sneered.
Elara shot back: "Fine! Do you want me to spend another night with you to pay off your supposed loss?"
Elara Green wakes up sore in an unfamiliar bed after getting wasted at her best friend's birthday bash, left with lingering proof of an impulsive one-night mistake with an unknown s...

Hot forbidden novellas so filthy that they'll leave you soaked and ashamed.
A stepdaughter bent over for her strict stepfather.
A stepsister ruined by her stepbrother in a snow-ending world.
A devout daughter corrupted on holy ground by her priest.
Best friends' innocent little sister ruined by the one man she shouldn't have.
Brilliant student blackmailed and bred by her married professor.
E...

She was raised to be the mayor’s perfect daughter.
A polished little doll standing beside her father while Fairmont praised him as a hero. But behind closed doors, Victor Sterling’s hand was heavy, his rules were suffocating, and Isadora spent her whole life learning how to smile through it.
Then one fatal car crash changes everything.
Fire swallows the wreckage. Sirens close in. Her best friend l...

“You think you know me, little rabbit? You don’t even know the half of it.”
Emma Harper wanted a normal college life — late nights studying, new friends, and freedom from her past. Instead, she caught the attention of Kai Draven.
The dangerously magnetic transfer student pulled her into stolen kisses and explosive, high-heat nights that left her addicted. Possessive. Intense. Always watching. He ...

"You're my brother's biggest rival."

Turner smirked. "And?"

"And Liam would literally kill us."

"Then it's a good thing we're not actually dating."

Ezra Beckley only agrees to fake date hockey captain Turner Fisher to save himself from a campus-wide rumor disaster. The arrangement is simple: pretend to be boyfriends for three months, fix their reputations, and walk away.

No kissing.

No feeli...

For twelve years, Valentina Fisher believed she had the perfect marriage.

Until the day she discovered her husband, Julian Wilder, had been keeping another woman.

Heartbroken and desperate for answers, Valentina confronts his mistress. Their argument spirals out of control, ending with the woman lying lifeless in a pool of blood. Terrified she’s committed murder, Valentina flees the scene

Now t...

“Move, Princess.”

“Eat the chicken, Captain.”

To escape her toxic adopted family, Princess takes a high-paying job babysitting a wealthy family's “problem child.” But the kid isn't a toddler—he's Adnan, the university's legendary, ice-cold hockey captain.

Forced to live in his luxury penthouse, Princess clashes with the stubborn giant, matching his icy glares step for step. But as their forced ...

I threw myself at Elian Caldwell on purpose. Falling for him was the accident..

People think they know exactly what kind of girl I am.

The one screaming in the front row with glitter on her cheeks, his name on her sign, and enough shameless flirting to make an entire hockey team cringe. The puck bunny willing to embarrass herself for a chance at the campus's most untouchable man.

If only they k...

When her father's reckless gambling habit sends Scarlett Carter into the arms of Malakai Lorenzo, New York most feared king, she has no other choice than to fake date him for ninety days.

The rules are simple: smile for the cameras, hold his hand in public, and never fall in love. Too bad the heart never follows the rules.

Thrown into his dangerous world, Scarlett must learn how to survive, but ...

He knew falling in love with her wasn't right. She was the enemy.

But he fell anyway..

Now he'll have to live with the consequences of their uncontrollable lust.

I swapped bags with a stranger on the last train home. Hers held a bloodstained shirt, a ring of keys, and photographs I was never meant to see.

Now she's standing at my front door, and she knows exactly what I'll do to protect my family.

I thought I was just an unlucky girl in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I was wrong.

The man in those photographs wasn't a stranger.
He was my father.