Best Second Chance Stories & Novels Collection

“You don’t know what you do to me, Theodota,” he murmured, his voice husky.
My breath caught in my throat as his teeth gently nibbled on my neck, then against my throat. I moaned. My core throbbed at the way my name rolled off his tongue like worship. Like a prayer. Like he wanted to have me right there, right at that moment. He kissed my collar bone softly, and sparks flew through my body. It bu...

To outsiders, it might seem harmless. After all, what danger could there be in loving someone so flawless—handsome, powerful, eternal? But for Hazel, giving her heart to a vampire lord is nothing short of ruin. The man who makes her pulse quicken is the monster who shattered her world. His coven slaughtered her father’s pack, drenched the city in blood, and seized it as their throne. And Ethan—the...

I woke up with a hangover, only to find I'd gone from a college girl to the revered "Luna" of a werewolf pack—complete with a handsome Alpha husband and a five-year-old son I'd never met. The catch? I'd lost eight years of memories. In my mind, my human boyfriend had just proposed last night.
Now my own son is afraid of me, my "husband" looks at me with heartbreak in his eyes, and my so-called "tr...

I am Scarlett King, heiress to a Texas oil empire and a woman who has died once before.

In my past life, I thought my marriage to cowboy Colt was nothing more than mutual respect and distant politeness. It wasn't until I was sorting through his belongings after his death that I discovered the truth—those yellowed photographs, handwritten love poems, a decade's worth of secret devotion...

"She is...

Three months after I died, he used his Grammy acceptance speech to shame me before thirty million people. He accused me of ethical violations, of seducing him, then running off with his money and our dog, leaving him with massive medical debt.
Little did he know, our dog Max and I were both gone, taken by the same cancer.
At the stroke of midnight, as his words still hung in the air, my Instagram ...

At eleven p.m., I'm staring at the charity foundation's financial report, barely able to focus on the numbers—Theron is "networking" again, but for three years now, his "networking" has always involved another woman. Then my phone rings. It's Tommy, the paparazzo: "Mrs. Sterling, your husband's on his private yacht, all over some 22-year-old blonde intern!"

Thirty-seven times. Have you ever tried...

Three years. That's how long it's been since I crawled out of that basement hell near the Mexican border. I thought LA sunshine would feel like freedom, but standing in my apartment doorway, all I felt was cold.

There was Dylan with my best friend Sophia, her hand resting on her very pregnant belly. The betrayal should have been the worst part of coming home.

It wasn't.

Because sitting on my wi...

In her previous life, Emily Charles has endured the betrayal of her husband, the manipulative works of his evil adoptive sister and the harsh treatment of her in-laws. Everything warrants her family bankruptcy and her ultimately death.

Now re-given a second chance in life, Emily sworn to deal with those who wronged her and planned to see her enemies begging for mercy on their knees, but just...

Lilac Hunter had been abandoned at the perimeters of the Red Claw pack when she was barely a teenager. Wounded, alone and afraid, she had no idea where she how she ended up at the doors to the most feral pack in all of Kansas. But finding out what happened to her pack is the last thing on her mind as she comes face to face with Alpha Krimson, a man with a vicious reputation and an even vicious tem...

Nadine is a 28 years old omega living with her abusive boyfriend and her weak mother.
Every morning felt the same—waking up in a house that didn’t feel like home, surrounded by tension so thick it clung to the walls. The bruises weren’t always visible, but the damage ran deep. Her boyfriend, Theo, didn’t need words to warn her, his fist did most of the work. He dictated what she wore, who she spo...

I told myself to only check his wound, but my gaze betrayed me--sliding back to his lips again and again. Thin, pale, but so inviting it made my throat dry.

What are you doing, Matilda? Stop!

My hand trembled as I nearly touched them. Just a little closer… Then, as if fate wished to humiliate me, his eyes opened. Golden amber, locking straight into mine.

"Want to kiss me?"

"No! I—!" My whole...

At first, I thought I was the luckiest woman in the world, at least maybe the sacrifices I had made over the past five years would pay off.
But I was wrong. I was just a replacement for Luna, whom no one ever wanted.
I was abandoned by Alpha, my husband, on our fifth wedding anniversary, for the woman who had left him.
What hurt even more was that the child I had raised with all my heart and soul ...

"Didn't know a clumsy girl would be sent to me?" He said, and I felt a ripple go through me.

His voice!

It was the deepest one I have ever heard. His aura screams power but I don't know why I kept on looking at his face as if I was under a love spell.

"You keep looking at me, did you find me too pretty?" He asked, and his deep voice jolted me awake, goosebumps traveling down my skin when I rea...

Betty would do anything for her family even if it was at the cost of her own happiness but then what happens, when she is to sleep with her sister's husband, to bear a son in her stead?

Her sister's husband had always been her crush and when she thought he finally reciprocated the forbidden feelings, he pulled the plug and crushed her heart.

Now she was back for revenge.

Eve’s perfect life shattered when she discovered her husband Gabriel, a cold billionaire CEO, was having an affair with his secretary, Emily—a desperate single mother. Filing for divorce was the hardest decision of her life.

But just before the ink dried, fate struck: Gabriel suffered a helicopter crash, losing all memory of the affair, the betrayal—and the divorce.

Now Gabriel believes he’s s...

“You can lie with your lips, little moon,” he said “But your body screams for me.”

“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” I lied, although I could feel my wolf howling inside of me, trying to claw her way out to get to him.

“Say it,” he murmured. “Say you feel it too. You can’t run from me forever, little moon”

I was unraveling. My hands found his shirt and fisted it, gripping it tight l...

Elara died on her knees—begging her mate to save her.

Elara, the lowly omega with a forbidden lineage, was rejected and betrayed by the one destined to love her—Alpha Kade of the Silvermoon Pack.

While he watches her being executed, she whispers before she dies. “The Moon will judge you… and I will be her hand.”

Five hundred years later, a girl named Sera was born to humans in a coastal city h...

I trusted you with my heart, and you threw it away like yesterday's Christmas wrapping!"
Those were my last words before my husband and best friend pushed me off a cliff on Christmas Eve. But when I opened my eyes, I was back in my old bedroom—the day before my wedding. I'd been given a second chance.
This time, I won't marry the man who betrayed me. Instead, I'm teaming up with his biggest busine...

Luna Ashford knew the stories about Alpha Damon Silvermane - he was the most powerful Alpha in five areas, and he never touched the same woman twice. The night she came of age, everything changed. Her smell called to him like nothing ever had, and suddenly the untouchable Alpha couldn't stay away.
For weeks, Luna lived in secret paradise, thinking she was finally the one to capture the legendary A...

Adriano Moretti rules the city’s underworld in smoke-filled rooms and blood-soaked streets. In the daylight, he’s the king of the tech world—tailored suits, sharp smiles, every inch the respectable billionaire. But to those who cross him, he’s the executioner they never see coming.

His greatest weapon isn’t guns or money. It’s The Service.
A viral new app dressed up as anonymous therapy, a place ...

Anastasia has always been strong Luna of her Pack, the beacon of leadership in a world where loyalty and power collide. But even the fiercest heart can break. Betrayed by the two people she trusted most. Her husband, Damon, and her lifelong best friend, Penelope. she finds herself spiraling into a storm of heartbreak, rage, and forbidden desire.

Then there’s Victor, Damon’s enigmatic father. Dar...

In their three years of marriage, Stella tried her best to win Clarence’s heart, but sometimes love just isn't there.

As soon as she found out he was cheating on her and even got his mistress pregnant, all her efforts seemed futile so she made the tough decision to let go and vanish from his life.

Little did she know, Clarence went mad after her departure, searching for her everywhere.

Until ...

When I was in excruciating pain from cancer, my husband gave the last box of painkillers to his pregnant mistress.

William Grayson is obsessed with his brother’s girlfriend, Arabella Dew.
To him- “One day, I will make you mine, even if it kills me,”
His every breath has her name. She was all that exists in him. His darkest, selfish, forbidden desire.
For the world, a heart-throbbing, charming billionaire. But, in reality, a possessive, dark and dangerous one who is crazy for her.
No matter what he has to los...

I thought I was broken. I never knew I was blooming.


My name is Lily, and I've been invisible my whole life.

Growing up in Silver Ridge pack meant surviving my father's drunken rages and protecting my little brother Silver from the monster our dad became after becoming addicted to Shadow Brew—a deadly alcohol made from blood bat flowers. When Mom couldn't take it anymore and chose pills...

I'm Sophia. After three years of marriage, my husband abandoned me for his first love, leaving me in danger and at the mercy of a stranger.
Desperate and pregnant, he accused me of cheating and even tried to harm our unborn child.
Five years later, I return with twins. With tears in his eyes, he demands, “Whose children are they? Who did you cheat on me with?”

My name is Sophia Blake, a small-town girl from Ohio who earned her way into Juilliard on a full scholarship. Three years ago, while playing jazz in a Greenwich Village dive bar, I was discovered by the mysterious Italian conductor Alexander Rossi, and my life changed forever.

He gave me the Lincoln Center stage, a luxury Manhattan apartment, and a music world I'd never dared to imagine. I though...

After being publicly humiliated by the domineering CEO, Aubrey Sterling vanished into Chicago's rainy night in tears. She took with her not only a broken heart, but also a secret—Connor Blake's child.

Seven years later, Connor unexpectedly reunites with his former lover at a business meeting. The once vulnerable girl had transformed into a brilliant architectural design queen.

He desperately pur...

I clutched the diagnosis paper that read "Stage 4 Gastric Cancer," my knuckles turning white. For twenty-two years, no matter how bad things got, Ethan always said he could handle it. But this time, my call only reached his voicemail.

I still remember that snowy night when I was seventeen. Under that tree, he squeezed my hand and promised, "You don't have to be strong anymore. Just lean on me." H...

Eight years in that basement, and I can still smell the mold. Eight years of chains, beatings, and guards who treated me like an animal. The only kindness came from Damian—slipping me bread crusts and whispering, "Hang in there, Grace. I've got you."
I shot him when I escaped. Left him bleeding on that concrete floor without a backward glance. I had to. I was finally free, finally Grace again inst...

Hospital disinfectant has this way of making everything feel final. I stared at my phone screen—$3,247. That's all I had left. Mom lay unconscious in the bed beside me, her cancer spreading faster than we could fight it. Half a million dollars for treatment. On my salary? I'd need about ten lifetimes.
I was losing her, and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it.
Then came that mortifying da...

I taught him how to love, and he used every lesson to win back another woman.

When I discovered Phoenix's time machine, I followed him eight months into the past—to a world where I never existed, where he looked at me like a stranger.

But in this twisted timeline, I found something impossible: Damian, alive and breathing, when in my world he'd already chosen death.

Now I'm trapped between savin...

Seven years ago, I left him while carrying his child.

That night, I had a reservation ready to tell him we were having a baby. He texted about a last-minute audition. Then I saw him on TMZ having candlelit dinner with a producer's daughter.

So I walked away. Had Mia alone. Built a gallery in Portland under a fake name. Four years of pretending the past never happened.

Until he showed up at my d...

My marriage died the day I walked in on my husband jerking off to my stepsister's underwear.
I blamed myself—thought I'd failed him somehow. Then he destroyed everything: my belongings, my keepsakes, even my dead mother's jewelry. That's when the truth hit me like a freight train: the real sin wasn't what I'd done. It was simply not being loved.
I filed for divorce. They all looked... excited. Eag...

Falling in love with my arranged marriage husband is my sorrow.
Cedric York has countless lovers. Beautiful secretaries, bar girls, coffee shop owners... all could become his romantic interests.
I thought I had grown accustomed to handling these affairs for him.
But when I saw him entering a hotel with his first love, I finally understood that this endless cycle would only bring me pain.
I filed f...

Three years ago, as Luna Gray, I secretly seduced Gabriel Ashford—heir to a powerhouse family—luring him into a scorching underground fling during our college days in Vale City. For three wild months, our passion burned hot and hidden, until I dumped him cold, leaving him reeling.

Now, I'm engaged to the Anderson family's polished gentleman—a strategic move that ignites Gabriel's explosive retu...

Ioannis Holland never imagined a political marriage would rewrite her entire fate.
As the Alpha’s daughter, she wants nothing more than to paint—not to marry the heir of a rival pack, Nickolas Harvey.
She expected him to be arrogant and cold, a man who saw her as nothing but a bargaining chip.
“If you expect me to obey, Alpha, you chose the wrong bride.”
Nickolas lifts a brow.
“Good. I have no int...

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, ...

I was declared dead in a car accident—while my husband was desperately trying to save the woman he truly loved.
Five years later, I return with top medical skills and two adorable children. Now, the world knows me as the renowned “Dr. Green.”
With red-rimmed eyes, Charles Windsor corners me and chokes out, “Diana, our children… are they still alive?”

Do you believe in rebirth? I do. I was betrayed and murdered by the man I loved, only to wake up in the body of his greatest fool—the spoiled heiress he's already destroyed once.

Now he's back, expecting me to fall for his charms all over again. "May I have this dance?"

Not a chance. I'm not that girl anymore.

But there's a bigger problem: the legendary Alpha King. He's just invited me to dance...

When I was twenty, Samuel called off our engagement and chose Stella instead.

After the engagement party ended, he told me: "Stella saved my life once. Now her father wants to marry her off to that disgusting old man Harrison Burke. I can't just stand by and watch."

He said to give him three years to repay his debt of gratitude, and after three years he would come back to me.

Like a fool, I wai...

I thought next week I'd be walking through the daisies on Grandma's farm to marry the man who promised to treat me like a princess—until our wedding planner's call shattered everything. He'd changed our venue to a Tuscan castle because it was his childhood friend Lina's favorite place? When exactly had I agreed to that?

What chilled me to the bone was seeing Grandma's heirloom necklace—my heirloo...

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...

At the Rossini family gala, I clutched my wine glass, listening to Patrick chat with the senator's daughter about politics and business, without even the right to join their conversation. It wasn't until I overheard him in his study late that night calling me "just a plaything from peasant stock" that I realized how ridiculous my six years of devotion had been.

After fleeing to Los Angeles, I tho...

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...

To escape his torture, I faked my death while pregnant and fled. Four years later, I returned in glory, intending to make him regret everything for the rest of his life. Instead, my cold ex-husband became insanely obsessed with me.

Deep in the night, he trapped me in his arms, his thumb brushing against my lips, his voice husky and dangerous: ""Name your price. As long as you stay by my side, hal...

Five years ago, Emma Holloway made the cruelest choice of her life—breaking the heart of the only man who ever truly loved her. She let him walk away without knowing the truth. Now? She’s broke, desperate, and hiding behind a fake name just to land a job.

Only it’s not just any job. It’s at Harrington Enterprises.

And her new boss?
Cole Harrington. The man she pushed away. The man who built an e...

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...

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...

Maddie had trained all her life to succeed her father as the Alpha, but her dreams were shattered when she was taken away by her mate.

Several months had passed and there had been no significant changes in their relationship, and with nothing to hold on to, Maddie decided it was time to return home to claim her throne with her mate beside her.

Toby was the head warrior of the rogue pack, and t...