Best City Stories & Novels Collection

"Don't test me, Stone; your family has always thought that it was untouchable... Felt on top of the world, didn't you? You didn't care about who you needed to stomp down to get there?"

His fingers hung dangerously over the trigger; I shook as far as my binds would let me, tears rolling down to the gag in my mouth… that muffled my cries.

But even as I had the gun pointed at my head, my husband wa...

Barely a month after the murder of her father, Eliana does not expect her mother to get married to another man, especially with the murder still unsolved. She meets the brother to her soon to be step-father, Nicholas King and everything in her life changes. He is a forbidden fruit, one she should stay away from, but like a magnet he keeps pulling her in. Will she overcome or will she be sucked in ...

The woman destroying my marriage suddenly moved into my home.

Anabel gave Miles Wilson everything until she discovered he was having an affair with his brother’s wife.
Before she can recover from the betrayal, tragedy strikes the Wilson family, and the woman responsible suddenly moves into her home carrying secrets capable of destroying the entire family.
Humiliated and abandoned, Anabel walks...

"Let’s place a bet," Damien said, his voice dropping an octave, the sudden quietness of it far more terrifying than his shouting.

Mia blinked, her anger faltering for a fraction of a second. "A bet?"

Damien took another slow step forward, completely erasing the remaining distance between them until he was looming directly over her. "If this wedding doesn't happen—of which it won't... I’ll viol...

Lilly Browns thought she had finally moved on.

Three years ago, Eric, the boy she loved with all her heart walked away without an explanation, shattering her world.

Just when she begins to rebuild her life at Prestige University, Eric returns as if nothing happened, determined to win her back.

But Lilly refuses to be hurt again.

To make her ex regret leaving her, she kissed Dave Charles, the...

"Congratulations Miss smith," the doctor called to Emma who sat taken back by her doctors claims.
"What?!" She quipped like she hadn’t heard what he said.
"You’re pregnant!" Emma hoped it was a nightmare, that this was a clear joke! But it wasn’t!….
***...

Look at the target, Gabe," Derek hissed, his voice a low vibration that settled in my bones. "Imagine it's my heart. Imagine you are finally putting me out of my misery."

I was trapped between the cold metal of a gun and the burning heat of his body. My finger trembled on the trigger, but I couldn't pull it.

My name is Gabriel. To the world I am the nerdy quiet university student. To Derek Mil...

In Chicago, the Belinni name is not spoken—it is feared.

Dan Belinni was raised inside violence, trained in the blood-soaked discipline of the Outfit until he became its sharpest weapon. At nineteen, he is already known for illegal fights, brutal enforcement, and a temperament that turns any challenge into punishment. He doesn’t believe in mercy. He doesn’t believe in love. He believes in control...

She came to destroy a king but didn’t expect to fall for his son.
Mira Ashveil had one purpose inside king Veyrath’s palace, and that was revenge.
The king had stolen everything from her. Her family, her identity, and her throne.
Mira decided to stay invisible for eleven months waiting, planning, and training to become the kind of woman the king would never see coming.
Then his son sees and cla...

"Eighteen point eight centimeters," I said, pushing my oversized tortoiseshell glasses up the bridge of my nose. "According to your anatomical data, that is the estimated length of your private parts, Matteo. I can get results without entering a laboratory."

The soaking wet, shirtless, and absolutely furious mafia boss standing before me was rendered utterly speechless for the first time in his l...

On the night of the charity gallery opening, I caught Lucas and Lila tangled together in the storage closet.
He pulled the girl tight against his chest and sneered, “Stella, you’re eight whole years older than me. You’ve controlled my life for five years—when are you gonna realize you can never hold onto me?”
Lila giggled, snuggling deeper into his arms. “You’re past your prime, ma’am. Why cling t...

Evelyn was given the sum of five hundred thousand to leave the family she had always tried so hard to please, because they finally found their real daughter and don't need her anymore.
They've always bullied, abused and humiliated her in the past while she accepts without retaliation because she thought of she continued to break her back to please them, they'll love her one day.
But she was wrong...

" I want nothing more than to taste your sweet blood on my tongue." His breath grazed her neck, followed by the wet glide of his tongue across her skin. Kerry shuddered, imagining his fangs sinking deep, feeding on her.

"We can't do this," she whispered, her voice trembling.

"What's stopping us?"

"You're... my brother."

"And yet, you stir something in me no other woman has." He grasped he...

I died in a rainy day. For twenty-eight years, I clung desperately to my adoptive family, craving nothing but warmth and a home. Yet all my devotion was nothing but a joke.
Everyone in the household loathed me, quick to side with my adoptive sister Isabelle over every lie she spun. I gave my whole heart to my fiancé Damien Sterling, believing he would be my salvation. But when the truth surfaced,...

Ivy Rivera, eighteen years old was known to be the girl from the wrong side of the river. Everyone in Winslow, Arizona, a small town where she grew up looked down on her and she was labeled a jinx.

Ivy Rivera life changed after spending a whole night with a stranger who showed her love and attention she had never received even from her parents.

Soon Ivy found out that she was pregnant, and to a...

"We promised each other ten PM calls every single night, no matter what was happening in our lives."

That promise used to mean everything to Eric, until it became nothing but busy tones and angry hang-ups while some other woman's perfume lingered on his shirts. The signs were all there, but I kept dialing anyway.

On cancer diagnosis day, I called him nine times and watched each call go straight ...

"I'm the Alpha King of the Shadow Moon Pack and the Mafia King of Hell Valley," Marco growled. "I don't need a nanny."

"Neither do we," his brothers said.

Their mother didn't even blink.

"It's not for you. It's for Natalia."

"We can handle our sister."

"Can you?" She arched her brow. "Between running an empire, leading a pack, and pretending you have time for either?"

Silence.

"My decision...

She has loved him all her life, she married him to save him from his vicious girlfriend but all she got in return was hatred and mistreatment from him and his girlfriend, when she couldn't endure anymore she did what he has always wanted, she signed the divorce papers

Two years later, she's back with three gorgeous sons and was now a Zillionaire, her husband knelt before her at the airport

"Pl...

"Pretend to be my girlfriend."
Gabriella Walker came to Saint Joseph High to study, not to fall for the school's arrogant hockey captain.
With a university scholarship on the line and her family's ruined reputation to restore, the last thing Gabriella needs is Ethan Carter. But when she's assigned to tutor the failing hockey captain, a fake dating deal throws them into the spotlight.
The more they...

I promised her father I would protect her.

Lizzie Foster was never meant to be mine.
She was the spoiled mafia princess I was ordered to guard… the daughter of my dying best friend… and the young woman already promised to another man.

My duty was simple: keep her safe until her wedding day.

Then her fiancé betrayed her.
And the only way to protect her was to do the unthinkable—

marry her mysel...

"Arthur, I want a divorce."

My husband was busy draping his suit jacket over Chloe's shoulders, his precious childhood sweetheart. He didn't even turn around, just let out a cold laugh.

"Oh, Evelyn. Playing the sick father card again? That trick's getting old." His voice was dismissive. "I moved your dad out of that private room to teach you a lesson. Maybe now you'll learn some manners around C...

I am Alexander Sterling's secretary. I am also his wife.

But to everyone else, I'm only the first.

Five years ago, I married New York's most powerful CEO because of this face—not for love, but because I looked like Sophia. His childhood friend. His adopted sister. The woman whose family shipped her off to London for an arranged marriage.

I thought time would make him forget her.

Then she came ...

Five years ago, my family burned to death in an "accident."

My loving husband Clifford signed the papers himself—shipped me off to a mental institution without a second thought.

Inside, Becky carved up my face with shattered glass. The same orphan I'd put through school. Then she rebuilt herself to match my features and stole my life—my husband, my son, everything.

Now she marched into the clin...

Have you ever had a crush on your best friend and you didn't dare confess to him because you're afraid of being rejected and losing your friendship? You'd rather remain a friend forever than lose him. That's my fate, my name is Amy and I had a secret crush on my best friend, he's the Alpha Prince of West wood Pack and the school's most popular bad boy.

Well I decided to keep my crush a secret, no...

Regina Fairchild lives a life defined by quiet survival.
A scholarship student working grueling hours to stay afloat, her anonymity is the only protection she has against a past she'd rather forget.
She's just trying to graduate from the University of California with her scholarship intact, avoiding attention at all costs. But Regina’s carefully constructed world is shattered the moment she catch...

Maddison Huston loses everything in one night; her job, her home, her reputation, and the man she loved. Branded a seductress and cast aside at her ex-lover’s wedding, she is left broken, homeless, and humiliated.
One drunken night leads to a dangerous encounter with a stranger whose touch she can’t forget, only to discover he is Aldric Hawthorne, the ruthless CEO who holds her fate in his hands.
...

‘You want divorce?’
He was shocked to see the divorce papers as a gift for our third anniversary. Even I had never thought my marriage of three years will end like that until that night when I wanted to surprise my husband but was surprised catching him crying for another woman.
That night I knew what I had to do, I couldn’t live a loveless marriage, and it was time to let it go. I took revenge of...

Mia Elysia Winslow has spent her life believing she’s unworthy of love, always made to feel like her size is too much. But everything changes the night she nearly runs over a wounded stranger.
There’s something about him—his raw strength, his commanding presence—that pulls her in, making her crave a kind of connection she’s only ever dreamed of. And without a second thought, without worrying abo...

Aloe reaches her limit in her toxic marriage when she discovers her billionaire husband was cheating on her on their matrimonial bed and wasn't remorseful about it.

Pregnant and desperate to escape her toxic husband, she flees into the arms of his sworn enemy, Blake Matthew. Caught in a war between two old sworn rivalers, Aloe must fight for her life and her child… But now the question is, can s...

"Spread your legs," the cold, handsome doctor ordered.
To escape her ex-boyfriend’s wedding invitation , Alana Martin attended an elite gala, wore a borrowed gown , and ended up spending a wild night with a dangerously handsome stranger.
Panicked, she fled the next morning —only to end up in the hospital days later with severe inflammation.
But when the curtain pulled back, the "doctor" examining ...

“This is Virella… my wife.”
Three years.
And that was all Alpha Kaelen gave me.
No welcome.
No touch.
No recognition.
Just another woman at his side—carrying his child.
While I ruled in his absence… I was nothing more than a placeholder.
A Luna he never chose.
So I gave up.
And I left.
One rejection was all it took to break the bond.
When I returned, I wasn’t the Luna he abandoned.
I was untouchab...

ELENA.
For three years, I've been the perfect Luna to Alpha Dominic Ashford, while he avoided our bed.
While he loved another woman, I played my role.
But I heard him confess the truth to his Beta: he married me to hide his obsession with his brother's mate.
Now his brother is dead and the woman he truly wants is living under my roof.
He thinks I'm still his obedient little Omega.
He's about to di...

Valentina Kane doesn’t believe in love… not really.

As the fierce founder and CEO of Kane Publishing, she’s poured every ounce of herself into building an empire from the ground up. Years of relentless hustle, sleepless nights, and sacrifices have left no room for distractions, no space for heartbreak. Love, to her, has always been a luxury she couldn’t afford.

But now, with her father’s health ...

Clara thought she knew the man she loved until she goes into a warehouse and finds out his true identity as mafia. Her first step toward freedom was supposed to be fleeing from her ex who is a criminal, rather, it pushes her into another nightmare.

In a bid to avoid her ex and an anonymous stalker who won’t stop giving her sleepless nights since the past month,, she moves into a highly secured ap...

Zane was born different, he could get pregnant.

But instead of protecting him, his family treated him like dirt. They adored his adopted brother, Arin, and even his fiancé betrayed him by choosing Arin over him.

What they never knew was that Zane was not weak.

Before sixteen, he was raised by his loving grandparents. They sent him to the prestigious Elava School, where he mastered hacking, desi...

After a humiliating breakup, Athena’s best friend tricks her into helping their roommate, Jonas Parker, rehearse for a romantic comedy audition. One fake marriage license, several drinks, and one very questionable cousin later, Athena wakes up to discover she’s apparently married.
To her best friend.
And the entire internet knows about it.
Determined to fix the mistake, Athena plans to get an annu...

For twenty-two years, Emily believed she was unwanted. She'd been abandoned at birth and raised in a quiet orphanage. She'd thought she was forgotten.

Until the day a black car pulls up and billionaire tycoon Victor Hale claims her as his daughter. Emily is overjoyed. But soon, she discovers he didn’t come with love. Instead, He came with a contract.

Within days, Emily is thrust into an arran...

Selene only wanted one thing—revenge.
After being humiliated by her ex-fiancé and betrayed by her best friend, she shows up at their wedding with a lie big enough to save her pride: a handsome billionaire fiancé.
The rented Novio she hires as her fake fiancé turns out to be Alejandro Velasco devastatingly handsome, dangerous, and the new CEO of Velasco Real Estate Group.
What was supposed to be a...

Lena Pruitt has one rule: stay invisible, stay safe. Then her mother marries into the Calloway family, and suddenly she shares a roof, and a very thin wall, with Declan Calloway, the most infuriating boy she has ever met.
He is seventeen. Her stepbrother. Student body president by day, reckless and untouchable by night. Every girl at Westfield High wants him. Lena wants nothing to do with him.
But...

The flashing lights of the ambulance painted the rain-soaked street red as Isabella Hart dropped to her knees beside the unconscious athlete. Blood streamed down his forehead while reporters and fans screamed around them. If he didn't wake up soon, the biggest sports empire in the country would lose its greatest star.

What Isabella didn't know was that saving him would change her life forever.

D...

Nora Vess has one rule at Harrow Elite Academy: stay invisible. Her scholarship hangs by a thread, and one mistake means losing everything. She has no room for distractions. Especially not Callum Ashford.

Basketball star. Student president. Untouchable. His name is engraved in bronze above every door she walks through. He's never had to try, never had to fight, never had to care. Then he tanks th...

Six stories of love, desire, and contracts!

A Lottery Marriage with My CEO Boss, Nova Pierce is forced into an elite lottery marriage system by the parents who should have protected her—only to be chosen by Nicolai Moreau, her cold, calculating, and fearsome CEO boss.
The Arrangement, Dyanna Croft, a girl from the slums, is offered a contract engagement by Dante Westmore, a wealthy heir desperat...

Fresh out of college and fumbling through his first year in the real world, twenty-two-year-old Lysander wanders away from a friend’s party and into an isolated forest. There, he stumbles upon the high-tech laboratory hidden within the ancient castle of Vivienne—a vampire who has spent one century cultivating solitude. Disgusted by the intimacy required to hunt, she long ago withdrew from humanity...

Isabella 'Bella' Frost has spent her whole life being afraid of herself. Born with the power to freeze anything she touches, she has grown up hidden away in a big, cold house no friends, no hugs, no hope. She hates Christmas. She hates the Solstice Festival. She hates every cheerful decoration that reminds her of everything she can never have.
Then the festival comes to her town, and with it comes...

Ava Rosetti was supposed to marry the mafia prince her father chose for her.

Instead, minutes before the vows, she overhears the truth. Nico Varra does not want a wife. He wants ownership, power, and the final key to a secret Ava’s dead mother hid years ago.

So Ava runs.

Barefoot, terrified, and still wearing her wedding dress, she throws herself onto the back of a stranger’s motorcycle and beg...

I was seventeen when I fell desperately in love with Orion Blake. He didn’t see the Holt heiress or the fortune. He saw me. Our love was forbidden, fierce, and all-consuming. In his arms, I believed forever was real. Until the night my father caught us and a gunshot that shattered my world. They broke me that night,my body and soul. But from the ashes of my pain, a vow was born: I would destroy ...

The dream of everyone with regard to marriage is to be able to find that special someone and settle down with them. Even arranged marriages grant you an opportunity to meet your partner briefly before the wedding. How will you feel about waking up in the morning with someone sleeping next to you who is not just anyone but your legally married partner, yet with no memory of how that had happened in...

“Listen to me, dolcezza, I fuck. I dominate. I tie your hands, your legs and make you forget your own name.”

I pressed my lips tightly, refusing to give him the satisfaction that only his words was messing with my head, “You don’t scare me, Marco.”

His hands wrapped around my throat..not to hurt. Just enough to remind me I was his to command.

“No, but I do something worse.” His lips brushed ...

The gunshot echoed through the penthouse.

Billionaire tycoon Damien Blackwood collapsed onto the marble floor, blood staining the final page of his will.

Three days later, the world was stunned when his lawyers revealed the sole heir to his forty-seven-billion-dollar empire.

Not his son, not his family.

But Evelyn Sinclair, a struggling young woman with no connection to the Blackwood dynasty.
...

I was Beauty Jones — the most desired model in the world.
Rich. Famous. Untouchable.
Until the day I insulted the wrong old woman… and she took everything from me.
One morning, I woke up ugly.
Disfigured. Repulsive. A monster in my own skin.
My career is over. My so-called friends abandoned me. The same industry that worshipped me now laughs at my downfall.
Desperate to break the curse, I begin se...