Best Independent Stories & Novels Collection

Sometimes love appears in the most unexpected ways and in the form of the least likely person. For Daniel, life at 40 is a routine of managing his three kids and his role as CEO of the family business. The death of his wife has left him steeped in sadness, creating a cold shell around him over the years.

Deanna leads a normal life, working part-time and studying at the University of Arts because ...

When a lethal Black Ops operator on the run carjacks a billionaire doctor with a hidden dark side, she expects a getaway, not a collision of souls that will force her to choose between her mission and her heart.

Dr. Julian Broody has a dirty mind and a hero's heart. When he takes in the wounded, "badass" Brianna Jackson, he isn't just treating a patient, he’s playing with fire. She’s a soldier wh...

Everyone thinks I'm the wild child of the family, the one who won't fall in line.

Blake's the young king of the business world—rational, cold, always in those perfectly cut suits.

But every night, he's got me pinned underneath him, breathing my name.

He said I was his, but never let me see daylight. Until she came back—my father's mistress's daughter, in her white dress, smiling like an angel.
...

I was seventeen when Kaelen Thorne promised we'd run away together. I was eighteen when my father sold me to a billionaire instead.

For twelve years, I've been Alexander Vance's perfect trophy wife: silent, obedient, and slowly suffocating behind designer clothes and empty smiles. He doesn't know the truth about what I am, about the forbidden bloodline I've kept dormant with suppressants and fear...

Born under the red full moon, Isolde was cursed from the start. Her pack despised her, her wolf was sealed, and she was left fragile, powerless, and alone. Worthless—at least, that’s what they believed.
Then she was thrust into Drogo’s world. The rogue Alpha, feared across the lands, bound by the moon goddess’s curse for a sin that would follow him for eternity. Cruel. Ruthless. Untouchable.
But d...

He pressed our hands together, mixing our blood as he spoke the words that sealed my fate. “I, Alpha Kayden Maxwell of the Blood Moon pack, reject Leah James as my mate.”

The words hit me like a punch to the chest, knocking the air from my lungs. The pain that followed was unbearable, like my soul was being torn in two. I gasped and clutched my chest as the bond between us snapped.

“I… I, Leah ...

Leilani is an eighteen-year-old werewolf. She has always had a crush on her father's best friend and beta Malakai. On her eighteenth birthday she finds out that Malakai is her mate, but she shouldn't be able to find her mate until she turns twenty-one. Her eighteenth birthday should have been the first time she shifted but it wasn't. She shifted for the first time when she was sixteen which has ne...

They call him a villain. I call him stepbrother.

My life was a pastel dream of university lectures and family inheritance—until my mother married Nikolai Volkov, a man whose wealth is shadowed by a dangerous, unseen empire. Overnight, I, Anya Petrova, am pulled into a world of cold luxury and deadly secrets.

Then I meet him: Dimitri Volkov.

My new stepbrother is a weapon in an Italian suit. Ca...

Catherina Hanshaw Dalton has spent six years believing she lived a fairytale, married to billionaire Xavier Dalton, cherished by him, and building a life rooted in devotion, even amid one heartbreak she cannot control: their inability to have a child. Though Xavier assures her she is enough, Catherine senses his quiet disappointment, a wound deepened by the venomous hostility of his mother, Lydia ...

Can you believe it?
A single spilled drink brings a debt-ridden, wolfless girl crashing into the most untouchable man in the entire wolf world.

He is Lycian Valor, a 22-year-old unmated top Alpha heir, the sole ruler of a hundred-billion-dollar empire, and his wolf is on the verge of running amok.

She is Elowen Hale, a scholarship student hiding the secret of being wolfless, living like an invis...

The day Father calls my sister and me into his study, there are two documents on the desk. One is the family inheritance papers, the other is a marriage contract with the Rossi family.

"It's time you two made a choice," he says, lighting his cigar. "One of you takes over the family business. The other marries Marco Rossi."

In my past life, Vivian grabbed the inheritance. She thought power meant ...

For five years, my crime boss husband made me take off my wedding ring nine times—all for his precious damsel in distress.
When we first married, he promised me: "From now on, you're my queen, the queen of New Orleans."
But whenever Odette came crying for help, he'd change his tune: "Mr. Laurent saved my life, Cordelia. I owe his family everything."
And like a fool, I believed him eight times.
Eig...

My birthday was never truly mine.

Everyone was busy making sure she was comfortable, happy, and protected.
When she deliberately handed me chamomile tea—knowing I was allergic—they told me not to hurt my sister’s good intentions and forced me to drink it.

My brother accused me of being jealous and locked me in the basement.

They all forgot about me to celebrate her birthday, even my fiancé.

Ly...

They were born enemies.

Isabella knew it the moment she met him.
Alessandro De Luca—the man she was never supposed to touch, love, or trust.

He didn’t know her name.
Didn’t know her blood.
Didn’t know that every smile she gave him was wrapped in betrayal.

For generations, the De Luca and Romano families had been locked in a war written in blood. She was raised to remember it. He was raised to f...

[WARNING: This book contains sexually explicit and emotionally intense content, including themes related to BDSM]
Are you looking for a man, not a boy, someone older, seasoned, the kind who knows exactly how to make you tremble?
Lucky you, I’ve been waiting.
So, go on, flick through the pages of my story with the kind of mastery only a man’s fingers can promise. Let’s see how long you can last, ...

“You can stand there and deny it all you want,” he said huskily in my ear. “But I know how drenched you were that night. Your tight little p*ssy? It was calling my name, baby.”

“You’re insane! I never wanted you!” I gritted out, hating how weak I sounded. Hating how my arms suddenly didn’t have the strength to push him away.

How there was a part of me that truly wanted him, despite everything....

Three years of grueling IVF treatments finally paid off. But then came the shattering truth: the baby growing inside me wasn’t mine. It belonged to my husband and his mistress.
That was the moment my heart finally turned to ice. This sham of a marriage was over.
But when I demanded a divorce, he didn't just refuse—he accused me of being a gold digger coming for his assets and stripped me of my...

She was sold to a man with six wives，she seduced them all.


The system was built to sell me off, so I married the one man who’d let me burn it down.My family picked the wrong girl to auction off for their debts. Sure, the offers rolled in from every rich, arrogant bore in the empire. But I’m not interested in being any man’s prize. My secret? I’m a lesbian and their laws forbid my heart. So, I ...

~Blurb.

His hands slowly traveled from my waist; he'd stopped being a gentle man.
Slowly, his hands cupped my ass.
His lips parted with a smirk, “Feels softer today,” he whispered.
One hand on my face, keeping me in place while he kissed me. Furiously, hungrily.
My breaths were heavy but his grip around my body was firmer. And soon enough, he broke the kiss.
“Undress,” he growled. His dark ...

When dragons call, only the desperate dare to answer.

I was the queen’s favored maid—trusted, protected, invisible.

I was also the woman Prince Zaries hates most.

His fiancée died screaming beneath silver fire, and in his eyes, I am the reason she never came home. Whatever I once was to him is buried beneath grief and rage.

Redemption leaves me only one path.

I enter the Slayer Trials, a bloo...

When a picture-perfect marriage shatters after the death of their son, Aveline’s life turns into muted colors and empty canvases. Her husband, Adrian, once her muse and anchor, becomes a stranger. Distant, cold, and drowning in secrets she can’t name.
Then comes Ezra. A quiet, charming art student with a haunting gaze and rumors clinging to his name. They say he was involved in the mysterious deat...

Annie always believed that finding her mate would bring her happiness. But fate had other plans. The night she was supposed to be claimed by her destined mate, he rejected her—for her own sister. The betrayal shattered her, leaving her wolf weakened and her spirit broken. With no strength left to fight, Annie was cast aside, forced to leave behind everything she once knew.

Alone and struggling w...

“On your knees, princess.”

I thought it was just a voice in the dark. Just messages. Just a dangerous fantasy that made me feel alive for the first time in years.

I didn’t know he was watching me in daylight.
I didn’t know he already knew my body, my secrets… my weakness for control I pretend I don’t crave.

Now he’s standing in front of me, untouchable, forbidden—and holding the proof that I wa...

Dante Ashford is my stepbrother, and the one person I should never have fallen in love with.

When I was ten, my parents died saving his family. The Ashfords took me in. He was good to me back then. Somewhere along the way, I fell for him.

When I was eighteen, he nearly died in an ambush. I donated blood, then a kidney to save him. I was unconscious for three days. When I woke up, Vivian Ross sat...

Fernando Buenavista’s Mother’s dying wish is to see him get married before she dies in 3 months. He has a fiancee who he had planned to get married to, but she gets into an accident and ends up in coma.

To fulfill his mother’s wish he had to look for a replacement, a fake wife. While in search he accidentally meets Ana Lopez who shockingly looks like his fiancee.

Seeing that she desperately ne...

When fate gets stolen from you, and then destiny redeems it... You get the opportunity to set the wrongs to rights.
Stella Hope, a girl destined for greatness is cursed so another can live her destiny. Her journey of self-discovery lands her in the Royal Pack, with Romeo Adalwülf, the future King. A friendship blooms, and when love and deception meet, anything can happen. When greed and darkness m...

They say revenge is a dish best served cold.
Mine's been chilling for five years.
The night James Reed kicked me out of his life, I was pregnant, penniless, and naive enough to believe love mattered more than money.
He taught me better. When you're bleeding out in the rain, clutching your stomach while your best friend laughs from his doorway, you learn exactly what you're worth to people like the...

My father died owing the Callahan family a blood debt. His payment? Me and my sister—married off to their sons.

I woke up reborn on the night they buried him.

Standing in that funeral chamber, watching the lawyer crack open the sealed will, I discovered I could suddenly hear thoughts. My sister Vivienne's voice ripped through my head: Not marrying that butcher. No way in hell.

She lunged forw...

Maya Aldridge thought her past was buried forever.
When a mysterious fire destroys everything she knows, the only clue left behind is a crimson crest which is a mark of a feared crime dynasty.
Drawn into the Crimson Empire as an assistant, Maya steps into a world ruled by blood, power, and secrets. As buried truths awaken, she unlocks a shapeshifter legacy long thought extinct, a legacy that the e...

He erased her past. Now she’ll erase his empire.

When Elena Cross wakes from a devastating car crash, she’s told her powerful husband, Adrian, never left her side. But as fragments of memory return, so does a darker truth—Adrian caused the crash that nearly killed her. Instead of exposing him, Elena hides her secret and slips back into his world with one goal: destroy him from within.

Every smil...

“Men will stain your white,” a friend once told me during a business trip to Africa. I laughed it off as a joke. I wish I hadn’t.

I’m Amelia, a powerful real estate mogul feared across the industry. In my late thirties, I had everything; wealth, beauty, and control. Marriage? Not on my list… until I met him; a struggling fashion designer who turned one night of fun into a lifetime commitment.

Th...

YELENA:
I didn't think twice when I accepted my parents’ offer to marry our Alpha. He was a man every she-wolf in our pack wanted… I thought marrying him would mean love, protection, and respect.

Instead, it meant betrayal.

Tristan Crosswood, my husband, the Alpha of Blue Moon pack never wanted me. I was just a Luna by contract, replacing his empty title. He chose his mate repeatedly when she fo...

"You're bleeding, little mouse," Ethan Sinclair’s voice was low, dangerous, and utterly captivating.

One moment, I was about to lose everything—my father’s gallery, his legacy, my life—the next, I was cornered by Melbourne’s most ruthless billionaire. "I need a wife to secure my inheritance. You need money. It’s a contract, nothing more."

He offered me salvation wrapped in a cold, heartless deal...

I gave five years to my husband's ambition—and got betrayal in return.

Forty-three days without a break on the Imperial City project. I collapsed from exhaustion and woke up in the hospital. He never picked up the phone.

He was too busy celebrating his mistress's birthday.

The blonde hair wrapped around his jacket was like a slap to the face. I'd cut my own hair short years ago because he said ...

Grace thought New York would be her fresh start until she loses the competition she was hoping for, and ends up in a one-night stand with a mysterious stranger who changed everything.

He vanished without a word, leaving her with no clue of who he is and a pregnancy she had to deal with.

Years later, Grace has moved on. She’s in love again, and her boyfriend Nicholas Santos is about to propose. B...

My husband's first love was in trouble.
When the news came, I was lying on the operating table.
Dr. Miller put down his scalpel and said to Dr. Johnson, "I'll leave my wife's surgery to you."

"If I don’t go now, I might regret it for the rest of my life."

With that, he turned and walked away.
Watching my husband's retreating figure, I couldn't hold back—tears fell.
The next second, the...

Demetria Hernandez built Butter & Bloom, her cozy little bakery in Los Angeles, out of love and grit. She never imagined it would land her a contract for one of the city’s most prestigious charity galas. Her excitement shatters when she meets Marion Whitfield, the billionaire behind the deal, through his mother. Arrogant, impossibly good-looking, and every bit the spoiled son of old money, with th...

"Touch me again, vampire, and I swear the shadows will be the least of your problems."
His smile was dark, dangerous. "That's exactly what I'm counting on, little witch."
Twenty-four-year-old Seraphine Blackwood thought she was just another broke witch selling protection charms in Chicago, until a demon lord crashed through her window and a vampire warrior kicked down her door, both claiming she'...

“Raise your gown.”

My breath catches at Demetrius' command.

“What?” I whisper.

“You’re in heat, Talitha.” He says, voice low yet edged like velvet-wrapped steel. “Though you may deny it with your tongue, your body is more honest. It aches, it hungers, and it seeks relief. I can smell how badly you want it, Wildling. How badly you want me.”

My fingers curl into the linen of my shift, knuckles b...

He locked me in his glass tower—I thought I was dead meat. But when his hand touched my wrist? BAM. That fated mate spark hit hard. Then his icy blue eyes flashed wolf-gold: “The prophecy says you’ll kill me.”

I’m Amina—half wolf, half seer. Hiding for 22 years ‘cause my magic’s a death sentence to the Werewolf Council. He’s Rian Vale—the ruthless Alpha who runs the city’s supernatural crew. He s...

Isabel's life has been a constant struggle with the word "ugly." Her Leucoderma skin disease had made her believe that she could never be beautiful. It seemed like every person she met had an opinion about her appearance, and none of them were kind. They made her feel like it was a crime to not be born with flawless skin. Despite her outside flaws, Isabel had a pure soul, but unfortunately, no one...

"The clocks stopped at 12:01 AM and a burning sigil carved itself into my spine. That's when they came for me."

Thalira Moonwhisper thought she was ordinary—until her seventeenth birthday, when two men in dark cloaks appeared at her door.

"It's time. You're coming with us."

At Duskmoor Academy, four impossibly beautiful boys claim they've been waiting fifty years for her return.

"You've died f...

“I’m pregnant.” Her voice cracked.
He stared at the test like it might explode. “How long have you known?”
“Three days.”
“Three days.” He repeated it like testing the weight of a lie. “Tell me, Bella. Whose is it?”
The question hit her like a physical blow. “Yours. It’s yours, Nathaniel.”
“Don’t lie to me.” His face was a mask of cold fury. “We haven’t shared a bed in months. So I’ll ask again, wh...

Tiara was born into the lowest rank of the pack, a breeder, a wolf destined only to birth heirs for others. After losing her parents, she became the pack’s shadow, overlooked, ridiculed, and treated as nothing more than property.

But everything changes the night Alpha Damien, the heir to the pack’s throne, feels the undeniable pull of fate. His wolf claims Tiara as his mate.

There’s just one pr...

The tide rises at midnight. And so does the truth.

In the isolated coastal town of Willow Lane, the sea has rules and so do its people. Cassia Marlowe knows them by heart. As the lighthouse keeper’s daughter, she’s learned that survival depends on silence, obedience, and never opening doors that were sealed for a reason. Some memories are safer buried. Some truths demand a price she refuses to pa...

A story about a college student who was gang raped and rescued by a mob boss. He takes revenge for her by killing every one of the guys that raped her and furthermore goes back to her past and murders everyone of the people that abused her as a child.

My husband gave me away to another man's bed. To him, I was nothing more than an object.
What he never expected was that the gift he so carelessly threw away would become the most powerful man's cherished lover.
When my ex-husband knelt before me, that powerful man pulled me into his arms.
"Pregnant with my child," he murmured, his voice a possessive growl, "where do you think you're going...

Our marriage was loveless, only physical. When he was inside me, it was another woman's name he called out.
This continued until I became pregnant. He ripped my prenatal report to shreds.
"The child and you, only one can live!"
I had no choice but to leave, filled with bitterness.
Years later, when we meet again, I am a woman who can command the winds and rains in the business world.
I tear apart ...

"You're terrible in bed! The stamina of a goldfish! I want someone else!"
"Oh yeah? Who exactly?"
"Someone who can actually keep up!"
My husband's jaw ticked. That night, he proved exactly how much stamina he had—and I could barely walk the next morning.

Three years of marriage. Three years of negative pregnancy tests. Desperate times called for desperate measures—so I pushed eve...

"You're just my business partner!" the handsome man across from me roared.
What he didn't know was that our 'love story' was already the hottest gossip in the entire company.