Best Small Town Stories & Novels Collection

She buried her name, bound her chest, and became the brother who saved her life, the same brother whose legacy she now has to carry onto the ice. The Hockey Tournament is her only chance to free her father from the prison cell he was wrongfully thrown into, and she's not about to let anyone stand in her way. Not the cold, calculating Xavier. Not the reckless, infuriating Hunter. Not even the ghost...

Emily Fields never meant to become a killer.

She was twenty-two when she stabbed a man eleven times behind the bar where she worked. She remembered the first strike. She never remembered the other ten.

Seven months later, the victim suddenly withdrew the charges without explanation.

With nowhere to go and only forty-one dollars to her name, Emily accepts an offer that sounds too good to refuse:...

{MATURE — mid slow burn, notting, claiming, check your trigger warnings. Fmc is a plus size and won't change. This is bear shifter romance.}

Man or bear — Aurora chose a bear shifter.
Aurora Whisper ran from everything she knew — the abuse, the lies, and the man who convinced her that being owned was the same as being loved. Bleeding and broken in a mountain rainstorm, the last thing she expected...

I thought the scariest thing in school was the jock who harassed me. But then he vanished without a trace, and everyone blamed me.

There is no strong evidence to lock me away, so I walk the school hallways trapped in a living hell. The police watch my every move, the town hates me, and my adoptive parents treat me like an unwanted curse in their home.

Desperate to clear my name, I didn't realize...

No good girl should know what her stepbrother tastes like.

Isla has always followed the rules.
She wore her skirts long, she liked her men sweet and she lived her life, drama free.

But after her boyfriend finds his mate, someone prettier, skinny, more confident
Isla is done being the good girl.

If men wanted unforgettable, she’d become unforgettable too.

There’s just one problem.
Good girls...

Lola learned eight years ago that sometimes survival means leaving everything behind.

She fled El Paso after her drunken stepfather, Octavio Lopez, crossed a line he could never take back—and after her mother chose to stay with him anyway. Since then, Lola has built a new life in Nowhere, New Mexico, surrounded by the Son’s of Doom MC, the women of the Devil’s Den, and the family she found for he...

Sunday Bell needs a job. August Wilde needs someone willing to talk to a man who can’t talk back. It should be the easiest paycheck of her life. Hired as a companion to a handsome billionaire lying in a coma, Sunday fills the quiet with everything from mystery novels and family stories to unsolicited opinions and questionable 1980s workout routines. With August unable to complain, she quickly gets...

Oak Creek thinks my brother, Cole, is a saint. He saved the family legacy and adopted the orphaned daughter of a killer out of the goodness of his heart.
What they don’t know is the price of his halo: Me.
To keep his 'good guy' image, he sacrificed his real sister. He gave her my bed, my home, and my parents.
When I was driven out of town, sleeping in a vandalized trailer, he left me a note: Com...

"Everyone in Cedar Hollow can tell you exactly what I did. I just can't."

Twelve years ago, Vanessa Dalton walked out of Larkspur Quarry alone, covered in her best friend Jo Calloway's blood. Jo's body was never found. Vanessa never remembered what happened. The evidence disappeared with the storm, but the town reached its own verdict long ago: she was guilty.

Now a renowned forensic genealogist...

Prisca thought finding her mate was the beginning of her happily ever after. She was wrong.

After discovering that she is a Hidden hybrid witch, Prisca finally believes she has nothing left to fear—especially after Alpha Jake publicly chooses her as his mate and confesses his love.

But Jake is hiding a truth that changes everything.

He is not merely an Alpha. He is a royal heir, bound by ancien...

For three years, Caleb Vance and I were the two most mismatched people at Hometown Beans.
We fought every single day, couldn't stand the sight of each other — even Frank, our boss, just assumed it was a matter of time before we tore the place apart.
But I never expected that after one of our fights, an accident would cost me my memory.
And I definitely never expected to wake up to find the man I h...

Three years ago, Detective Blaire Hayes survived a kidnapping that should have killed her.

She escaped with scars no one could see, a partner she couldn't save, and memories so shattered that entire pieces of that night have vanished from her mind. Every nightmare drags her back into the darkness she has spent years trying to outrun, but as a detective, she's learned to bury her pain behind a fea...

21-year-old Larisa Bronc; an unsuccessful reporter who couldn’t write a good story to save her life received a tip from an anonymous person.

It was a tip that could lure any reporter in, and sadly, it had lured her. But little did she know, it was a trap, and she had fallen right into it.

She had messed with the wrong man, and now she was being blackmailed. Obey him or surrender her freedo...

When Gwen Mitchell, a scholarship college senior stumbles upon a murder by six guys she considered friends, and she was almost raped, beaten to a pulp and throwed off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean to prevent her from saying what she saw, everyone including her best friend and mother believed she drowned.
Five years later, armed with a new face and identity as Elizabeth, she is back but with veng...

"What are you doing, Parker?"
I look up at Zane’s handsome face, knowing my boldness is coming from me being tipsy.
"I know you want to kiss me. Go ahead," I say softly.
He laughs. "You had your chance upstairs. You passed, sweetheart.”
“I changed my mind. I want you to kiss me, then take me upstairs and fuck me like everyone is watching”. I lean up on my tiptoes, my mouth next to his ear. "I dare...

"I've spent six years telling myself you're off-limits. Six years of watching you walk into rooms and reminding myself why I can't follow. But you stopped being a kid the day you looked at me like I was something worth wanting and now I don't know how to unsee it."

Wren Castellan has spent her whole adult life in the shadow of her older brother's best friend, the man who helped rebuild her famil...

I was the unluckiest kid in my family—always the one pulling the black-tipped stick from that pretty little "Fairness Jar."
In our house, red meant new dresses, Disneyland, and a goodnight kiss from Mom. Black meant endless chores, lockup in the attic, and the kind of hunger that ate you from the inside out.
Mom loved to stroke my hair in front of the neighbors. "God gives everyone a fair shake," ...

To save her dying father, human assassin Elena underwent agonizing surgery to become a ghost.
Now, she wears the face and synthetic scent of Clara—the dead fated mate of the city’s most ruthless werewolf Alpha, Derek Vance. Her mission is simple: infiltrate his pack, steal their sacred Moon Stone, and kill the Alpha.
But playing a resurrected dead woman in a house full of apex predators is a deadl...

"I married you only to destroy you."

That was the only reason FBI agent Sophia Carter accepted a new identity as Evelyn Russo and married Lorenzo Moretti, the most dangerous mafia boss in Italy.

Her mission was to infiltrate, gather evidence, drag Lorenzo to prison, and save the children and women that Lorenzo Moretti had kidnapped for trafficking.

But life as a Don's wife was never as simple a...

I've spent my whole life as the girl no one wants.

Raised on the edge of the Moonsilver Pack, I was neither fully a human nor a full wolf—that which everyone whispered about, openly despised and completely avoided. Because I cannot shift, they made me never belong.

But everything changes the night the moon answers to me.


As Aria’s powers awaken—dangerous, ancient, and undeniable hers, a...

Echoes Between is a slow-burn, why-choose romance about reclaiming yourself after years of becoming invisible. Dahlia has spent her marriage shrinking to fit someone else’s expectations, until one choice changes everything. In a new city, she begins rebuilding her life, discovering strength she never knew she possessed and three men who see the woman she’s becoming long before she does. As old wou...

“You are nothing but a female, and a fucking hybrid at that. You think anyone would want an abomination?"
In less than twenty-four hours, Adrelle Whitewolf’s entire world crashes down around her. Her Alpha father is brutally murdered, her mother slips into an unbreakable coma, and the pack she swore to protect casts her aside.
But the fatal blow? Walking in on her mate, Alpha Aldrich, tangled in ...

Wren Ellison came to Hollow Creek to start over, not to reopen the town's most painful unsolved mystery. But when she's assigned to help injured runner Dez Calloway train for regionals, she can't ignore the connection between him and the cold case she's quietly investigating — his sister Nora, missing for three years. As their daily training sessions turn into something real, Wren has to decide ho...

Corinne Baxter's father was an accountant. Quiet, careful, the kind of man who alphabetized the spice rack. Then someone puts a bullet in him and calls it a robbery. The only thing he leaves her is a claim ticket for a safety deposit box registered under a name she's never heard: Sorrentino.
To open that box, she needs Griffin Sorrentino, heir to the family half the city is afraid of, and the man ...

Margot Kilbride pulled a drowning boy out of a river when she was twelve. Griffin Castellane has spent eighteen years thanking the wrong sister for it. Then a car crash leaves Margot's sister paralyzed, the whole city decides Margot caused it, and Griffin, drunk, grieving, and certain she's a woman who destroys everything she touches, corners her into a marriage built to punish her. What none of t...

Margo Sutter runs the sound booth at Ridgemont High because it's the one place nobody looks at her twice. Then Wilhelmina Prescott, student council president and the school's golden girl, disappears on prom night, and an anonymous podcast starts airing the council's dirty laundry, one episode at a time. Margo is only supposed to recover a corrupted backup file. Instead she finds a recording nobody...

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 ...

Asley had grown up all her life knowing three things: she loved her family, this was a small town, and Gavin Attlage was bad news. A long-standing family feud already separated the two, not to mention he had been expelled for fighting her brother, but now they worked together. The whole town gossiped about his exploits and her breakup, it seemed like fate that they found themselves in close proxim...

Minutes before the birthday party of the famous Selene Ashcroft in Saint College, her blood dries up, and she collapses dead on the ground, leaving the students gasping in horror.

No one knows the cause of her strange death, so some of them started spreading rumors that the person she hated the most in college was behind it.

Who? The scholarship girl, Lyra Vale.

Innocent Lyra, who got mostly...

Rhaegor's hand slid down to my waist as he pulled me closer, his dark eyes never leaving mine.

"You should run from me, Kristi. Do you know what you're getting yourself into? Once you're mine, there will be no going back."

I opened my mouth to speak, but his hand slid down to my wet and throbbing vulva. I closed my eyes and moaned softly.

Even if I intended to run away from him, he had alrea...

I believed I had the perfect life.

A successful career as a paediatrician. A beautiful home in Riverside Heights. A devoted husband. A son I loved more than anything.

Then, I noticed a stranger's perfume on my husband's skin.

What begins as a small suspicion quickly unravels into a nightmare. Hidden messages. Secret meetings. Endless lies. And a younger woman who isn't just sharing my husband's...

A single moment of malicious revenge... A lifetime of swapped fates.
Twenty years ago, a spiteful nurse committed an unthinkable act—intentionally swapping two newborn girls at the hospital.
Keisha grew up in a humble fishing port, raised in poverty and hard work. Fierce, kind, and fiercely protective of her family, she built her life from scratch near the sea.
Katherine was raised as a spoiled, a...

Jessica Howard was Ridgeview Homecoming Queen.

She smiled for the cameras, accepted her crown... and disappeared before the after-party. No body was found. No ransom. No answers.

The next morning, every student's phone lit up with the same notification. ‘A new app has been installed.’ No one downloaded it. No one can delete it.
It's simply called NEXT.

At midnight, NEXT chooses a name. The ne...

She was his rival's sister.
He was the captain she was supposed to hate.
Working together was never part of the plan.
Falling for each other was even worse.
Between bitter school rivalries, campus scandals and a
game where every secret comes with a price, Imani and
Mika find themselves skating toward something neither of
them can stop.
But in hockey, one wrong move can cost everything.
And some ga...

Rejected. Bullied. Wolfless.

At Silver Claw Academy, Ophelia Ashford is treated like she doesn’t belong. Everyone believes she’s a weak omega with no wolf, no power, and no future.

Everything changes when a video of her falling from Blackthorn Cliff goes viral. The moment she almost dies, a strong mate bond awakens with three powerful Alphas.

Damon, the hockey captain who shattered her heart. C...

Princess Delphine Rourke is being married off to end a war she didn't start. The terms are simple: three months in Thornhollow, the last unclaimed rogue territory, to prove the crown can tame it before her wedding to Prince Alaric Sterling. What nobody prepared her for is the four Alphas who actually run Thornhollow, men the crown calls criminals and the territory calls kings. She is supposed to f...

Marlow Winters used to know exactly one thing for certain: Truett Sorensen loved her. Then he vanished from their hometown rink the summer before their sophomore year without a word, and the certainty became a scar. Now she's a credentialed junior reporter covering the Kestrel Development Program's championship run for a regional sports outlet, and he's the team's captain, the reason scouts are ci...

I was marrying Boone Ashcroft on a Saturday morning. Before I could step out of the truck, his mother walked up with a rope and pointed at the cattle chute behind the barn.
Her terms: hands and knees through six inches of mud and manure. A metal headgate clamped around my neck at the end. That was the price of walking through her front door.
I said no.
Then forty Ashcrofts surrounded the truck. My...

Lucia Moretti spent her entire life loving Matteo De Luca — the future Don of New York’s most powerful mafia family.

He was her first love, her greatest weakness, and the only man she ever trusted completely.

Until the night he chose power over her.

At a glamorous mafia gala, Lucia believes Matteo will finally claim her after years of secret love and stolen moments. Instead, he announces his en...

I thought inheriting a forgotten farmhouse in the middle of nowhere would solve my problems.

Instead, it shattered everything I believed about myself.

After losing my job and the life I'd built in Los Angeles, I travel to rural Indiana to claim an inheritance from a grandfather I never knew existed. The plan is simple. Sign the papers, sell the land, and leave.

Then I discover the town isn't on...

Paul Sutcliffe has spent three years quietly hating Garrett Holt from two rows back in AP Lit, the quarterback who got everything handed to him, including the one apology he never gave her. Then her mother marries his father, and the boy she's hated becomes the boy she shares a bathroom with. Worse: on the night of the wedding, Paul finds proof that Garrett's late mother didn't die in an accident ...

On the night of her 18th birthday, Leah Hart walks in on her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend. Humiliated and heartbroken, she runs into the woods where she's nearly killed by a wolf. But alas, she's saved by none other than Hardin West. Ashwood High's star hockey captain and her ex-boyfriend's older brother.

He's the last person she should fall for but one thing leads to another a...

At sixteen, Clara Bennett lost the last place she could call home.

After years of feeling unwanted by the father who should have protected her, Clara is finally forced to leave the only home she has ever known. Her stepmother’s pregnancy only makes it easier for her family to let her go.

With nothing but her mother’s old violin, she arrives in a small Pennsylvania town carrying the fear that sh...

Cael Morrow has one rule: never look too long at anyone. Because when he does, he sees the date they'll die. He's kept that secret buried since he watched the numbers above his family's heads count down to zero. Now he's seventeen, living under the roof of his mother's new husband, and trying to survive a school where his new stepbrother, Rowe Daltry, runs everything.
Rowe is cold, controlled, and...

Raven Hollow came to Ashmourne Academy to find her missing twin brother. She never expected to become the prey.

Against her grandmother's wishes, she enrolls at the prestigious Ashmourne Academy, determined to uncover what happened to her twin brother, Roman, who vanished during during his first year. But behind the academy's elegant halls lurks a deadly secret—the school's elite are vampires, an...

Akira Sanders is an author...an erotic romance author. Pen named Miss. OG, her writings are famous among the high school kids, but little do her fans know that she herself is a high school student and...a virgin. Her biggest inspirations are porn videos and washroom gossips.
Ethan Whitmore is the high school 'it' boy with God like looks and an ego as huge as Mt. Olympus. An arrogant jerk but the ...

Amaya Philips is forced into a contract marriage with Benjamin, a dangerous billionaire playboy. He’s the arrogant twin brother of Bernard, the man she actually loves and literally gave her kidney to save.

Torn between her family's survival and the man who holds her heart, Amaya faces a choice that will ruin them all.

And neither twin knows the secret she left behind in the dark.

My best friend pushed me out of the bunker to be fed to the zombies.

Before he died, his grandfather's pocket watch activated a storage space.

When I opened my eyes again, the apocalypse was still three days away .

My fiancée sent me a photo ; she and my brother were naked and embracing.

"In this life, it's your turn to die."

Olivia Adler moves from Chicago to East Texas after escaping an abusive marriage. In a desperate bid to overcome the pain and humiliation of divorce, she buys a house sight unseen. The cheery yellow a frame house in the woods looked to be the perfect sanctuary when she bought came across it online. Determined to make a new life for herself, she throws herself into her new community. Soon she has ...

“You belong to me completely, and I'd still want every piece of you. But let's get one thing clear, you do not possess the qualities of being my Luna. I never mated or marked you, meaning there's absolutely nothing, no bond, between us.”

“A-A-Alpha Kane. Please.”

No. It's not happening. The way he touches me, holds me, breathes me in… made me think otherwise. Was he really serious?

Destined...