Best Strong Female Lead Stories & Novels Collection

"You were useful," he said, driving the blade between my ribs. "But you were never going to be enough."

I died with his face above me, with the bitter taste of betrayal on my lips. I had sacrificed my magic, my soul, and my entire coven for Michael, only to be slaughtered like an animal so he could rule with another woman.

But death was not the end.

I opened my eyes in a stranger's body. Octavi...

Every person is born with two shadows: their own, and their Echo—a silent counterpart whose experiences shape their instincts and fears across different timelines. Most never see their Echo. But on the night of a rare astral convergence, Amelie's Echo steps out of her shadow and becomes flesh—manifesting as Dexter, a man with memories of her unborn destiny. After one impossible night together, he ...

When twenty-one-year-old Nyra Valeis dies in a burst of forbidden blue fire, she expects oblivion.
Instead, she resurrects in a storm of golden flames awakening the long-extinct power of the Phoenix Queens and exposing herself to the realm she’s spent her life hiding from.

Now the entire kingdom of Erevar knows the truth:
The last Phoenixborn lives and her rebirth has cracked open an ancient prop...

I clicked the anonymous link, and my world shattered. There was my perfect fiancé, in a live stream, entangled with the woman who was supposed to be my maid of honor—my best friend.
He was the hero who donated his bone marrow to save my life. Now, he was defiling our future marriage bed in the most vile betrayal. I thought this was their twisted idea of a game, until I dug deeper and uncovered the...

Marilyn is a self made boss and a Baddie. She does not soften for anyone but she made an exception for her fiancé.
Until she found out her fiancé Tom was cheating on her. To make matter worse, he didn't feel remorse. He broke off the engagement and left her standing there like a fool.
She ends up at a hotel bar, where an arrogant stranger approaches her. He’s persistent, irritatingly sure of himse...

Rose Lawrence lost everything in one night her job, her reputation, and her dignity when her best friend and fiancé framed her in a cruel scandal. Sold as a test subject by the people she trusted most, Rose endured years in prison, bearing invisible scars. She became pregnant, only to be told her baby had died a truth she never fully believed.

After her release, she rebuilt her shattered life pie...

Kaela never believed the stories about fire-born queens until flames erupted from her hands and a stranger of impossible beauty appeared in her bedroom, wings of molten gold unfurling behind him.

Aeryn Drakov is the last dragon-shifter king, bound by a brutal curse and a prophecy that forbids him from taking a mate. Cold, feared, impossibly controlled… until Kaela’s awakening power shatters every...

Vishiea and Darius were originally childhood lovers. They grew up together until they found out they were mates. But as days passed, Darius slowly fell out of love. He secretly cheated. Until one time, Vishiea captured him making love with someone else. She was heartbroken and confronted him. She expected him to beg and apologise sincerely, but he didn’t. She made him choose, and if he broke up wi...

Twenty-two-year-old Alyssa Van Every is in a dilemma. Her close friend, Sienna, is marrying billionaire, Lucas Donnelly who, along with his brothers, happens to be her older brother, Alex's sworn enemy.
She escapes to Preston Island to attend the wedding without informing him only to collide with Lucas’s hot, fiery and arrogant brother, the twenty-three-year-old, Nicholas Donnelly. Sparks immedia...

Alicia's life takes an unexpected turn when she is forced to marry Tobias Wilton, the mysterious brother of the powerful Alpha of the Golden Moon Pack. But their marriage is anything but conventional. Alicia never sees Tobias, and her life remains the same, except for her new status as a married woman. She wonders if she is doomed to a loveless, lonely life.
But one fateful night changes everythin...

"Oh God, Derek, yes! Pound my pussy—breed me like the bitch I am," she whimpered, her hands fisting in his hair, pulling him down for a sloppy, tongue-filled kiss. Their bodies moved in frantic rhythm, the desk creaking under the assault, papers scattering to the floor forgotten.
"Fuck yes, you filthy slut—take my cock like the breeding whore you are," Derek snarled.
Overjoyed by the news of her p...

She's sworn to protect the wilderness. He's the monster she's been trained to hunt. Their bond could save two worlds—or destroy them both.
Luna Pierce thought the biggest threat in her mountains was paperwork. Then she met the wolf with amber eyes—and discovered that legends bleed, love bites, and destiny has teeth.
Hawk Blackthorn is everything she shouldn't want: a werewolf alpha, a suspected ki...

Seventeen year old Elar‍a is the younge‍st of three in a powerf‍ul northern wolf pack, livin‌g a life of priv⁠ileg⁠e until a sudd‌en at⁠tack de⁠stroys her family a‌nd l‍eaves her alon‌e. She watches in‍ horror as her brother is kille‍d by som‌e⁠o⁠ne they tr‍usted, and at his urgent reque‍st, she flees south, hidi⁠ng her identity and nursing a quie‌t desire f⁠or v‍engean⁠ce.
Far to the north, Kaele...

Elsie Clarke spent three years in a secret marriage, and just as long in cold, silent separation. As their third anniversary approached, she still held on, foolishly hoping her love could melt her husband's frozen heart.

But all she received was a call from his private club. His voice was indifferent. “You wanted to see me? Bring a condom.”

That was the moment everything shattered. The marriage ...

The events begin with the kidnapping of Selene, who until that moment was living a normal, monotonous life as a human being, until she later discovers, after her kidnapping by the vampire king, Kaiden, that she is a creature with supernatural destructive powers and very dangerous to all creatures of the earth and on it, she is the daughter of the sent sun. To earth as an instrument of forgiveness...

S.I.X. Also spelled SIX, or simply the number 6.

With over eight billion people in the world, seven of those eight reckon with the name S.I.X.

To the oblivious masses, it’s just a name. To the fairly informed, it’s a jinx, bringing destruction. To the cops and government, it’s their nemesis. And to the Mafia world, it’s the legacy of a legend.
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Ten years in the Italian ‘La Fratellanza’ Mafia fa...

Yasmin has survived five years of Cole Martinez’s cruelty—his icy contempt, his mother’s vicious words, and the humiliation of watching him parade his mistress around town. She’s learned to stay quiet, stay small, and never fight back.

But two pink lines on a pregnancy test change everything.

Cole made it clear he never wants children. If he finds out about the baby, Yasmin knows exactly what he...

My name used to be whispered in fear by dictators. Now, it’s mocked by cheerleaders.

I am—or I was—Phantom. I killed for a living, and I was the best. But my retirement plan was cut short by a sudden darkness I never saw coming.

Fate, it seems, has a twisted sense of humor. I’ve been reincarnated into the body of Raven Martinez, a high school girl with a life so tragic it makes my old job look l...

Twenty years ago, four-year-old Alicia vanished from a park, falling from Connecticut's wealthiest heiress to an orphan overnight. Twenty years later, her birth parents find her working at a coffee shop, bringing her back to a life of luxury.

But behind the fairy tale reunion lurks deadly danger. A mysterious guardian angel named Gabriel begins sending her prophetic warnings about her family's im...

I used to believe the most beautiful sound in the world was a baby's first cry.

Until I watched my three children die, one by one, at the hands of a woman with the sweetest smile.

Her name was Isabella, my husband's cousin. She would tenderly offer tissues after my miscarriages, frantically call for help when I fell down the stairs, thoughtfully make soup to comfort me after I lost each child.

...

In a world dominated by werewolf power struggles, Deborah Parker is a tough and independent leader. The werewolf council forces her to marry Erick Olsen, a mysterious stranger. She expects it to be a cold, political move. But when they first touch, a solar eclipse occurs, and they discover they are the Lunar Heirs, descendants of a lost and powerful family.

Erick has always hidden his special hea...

Scarlett Carrington never meant for it to happen.

She never wanted to choose between her freedom and her family but one reckless night was all it took. A forbidden touch that got her tangled up with her sister's fiancé. The man who she hates and wants nothing to do with.

Christian Hartley.

Forced into a marriage with a cold, commanding man she loathes, Scarlett thought keeping her distance w...

In a city that never sleeps, blood has a price.

Amara Vale looks like any other woman running a late-night flower shop but her flowers bloom only under moonlight, and the perfume of her roses hides the scent of blood. She’s a vampire who’s learned to live quietly, away from the clans that crave power and purity.

But when she saves a human man — Elias Ward, a medical researcher investigating “rar...

Claire's love for Richard was legendary—three years of devotion that everyone envied. Until the day she found her best friend Monica on top of her husband in their living room, and her world shattered.

"Sign it, Claire," Richard said, tossing divorce papers at her hospital bed, his once-warm blue eyes now ice cold. "You disgust me. You're clingy, obsessed, and suffocating."

One year later, Clair...

Freya Meyers was an unmarried mother and gave birth to a pair of twins overseas clandestinely. She had gotten the sperm from a sperm bank, so she did not know who the donor was. Countless men unexpectedly claimed to be the father of her children when she return home.

What on earth was going on?!
Where did the children come from? Why did everyone end up knowing about her kids when she clearly gave...

What if you forgot everything one day only to
find one person next to you claiming to be
your husband? Hazan Shamkaran wakes up
one day to discover that she has lost all her
memory. Yagiz Egeman introduces himself to
her on the basis of her husband and shows
her a marriage certificate as well. At first she
doubted him, but she couldn't help but
believe and trust him. But what if all the love
she h...

Both of them closed in on me at once.
Ezequiel gripped my waist, his rough voice burning against my neck, while Emmanuel pushed my legs open with a confidence that made my breath break.
Their hands, their mouths, their hungry breaths claimed every inch of my skin as if I already belonged to them.
—You’re ours, —one growled.
—All of you, —the other finished, their tongues meeting between my thighs....

What happens when the world’s most beautiful man marries the woman society calls ugly?

Sonia lost everything—her home, her dignity, her son—after her husband’s betrayal left her scarred. But a surprise contract marriage to billionaire actor Fabian Martinez may be her only chance at redemption.

It was supposed to be business:
✔ One contract
✔ Six months
✔ Zero feelings

But under the cameras, in ...

Cara Smith is happily blessed with a caring and loving husband, Chris Knowles, with a true best friend, Jessica, by her side. For two years, everything is going on perfectly fine. Or so she thought?

On their anniversary party, Cara discovers a shocking secret about an intimate relationship with Jessica and Chris, and apparently, everyone around knew about it except for her! Devastated and heartb...

In Darya's first life, she got betrayed by her husband- leading her to die with her unborn child. After losing her first, second, and third life where she had undergone a lot of trauma, she went crazy. What keeps on happening is she dies and then lives another life in another body. This repeated course happened fourteen times. So then, on her 15th life to which she miraculously came back to her ...

Chosen by the Moon.
Promised to an Alpha King.
Tempted by a Rogue.

I was blessed by the Moon Goddess and raised for one purpose—
to become Luna of the Crescent Moon Pack
and marry Alpha Darius Thorn, a wolf forged from power, discipline, and absolute loyalty.

Everyone said my destiny was perfect.
Untouchable. Inevitable.

Then I met Kieran.

A rogue with nothing to lose and eyes dark enough to p...

"Looking for trouble?" His gaze locked onto me, lazy yet sharp.

"Take me home," I breathed, pulse racing.

"Know the risks?" His thumb traced my wrist, sending shivers.

"I want it."

His mouth claimed mine, biting. Fingers shoved under fabric, groping. Rip – fabric gave way.

"Dripping already?" He growled, fingers circling my core. "Eager little thing."

"...Stop—"

"Stop?" He thrust two finger...

Two worlds. One empire. And a whole lot of family drama.
From the concrete grit of an American neighborhood to the sterile glass towers of a billion-dollar security empire, The House of Charuzu was built on discipline, hustle, and community. But somewhere along the way, that soul got lost in a maze of corporate policies, luxury branding, and family scandals.
Now led by image-obsessed heirs Aoki A...

Born in a world where a single prophecy sets four Lycanthropes kingdom at war with each other, Twenty-year-old Fernanda Parkinson finds herself fighting against an unwanted arranged marriage.

After her mother's tragic death and her father’s quick remarriage to a manipulative woman, Fernanda is betrothed to Sebastian Kozlov—the cold, feared king of Clawshire, a powerful water-wielding kingdom, wh...

No

"Well, well," one of them said, his voice filled with awe. "Look at that. The princess of the purplemoon pack." One of them had already started coming forward, walking past the current like it was nothing, and I only stood there, trying to keep myself up from drowning.

It was all I could do.

"Be careful with her now," One called from the bank, his grin widening. "She's worth a fortune. The L...

When Noah betrayed me for fresher meat, he thought the only cost was our eight-year relationship. He never imagined I'd take with me the very soul of his commercial empire—and a secret he would never uncover.
For three years, he hunted for me like a madman, from Los Angeles to Reykjavik, until he finally knelt at my doorstep in Lagos.
"Give me a chance," he begged, "for the sake of our past."
I lo...

"Marry me before I die, and after that, I will make sure your daughter will get a new heart. Just marry me, and say 'I do' in front of my parents." - SPADE CEDRIC VASILE

To fulfill his promise to his parents, Spade was prepared to marry without the binding of so-called love, just a pure contract until his dying day. Yet, would Spade still wish for death when his heart slowly fell for his wife, w...

Edlyn was never meant to exist.
Born from forbidden bloodlines part wolf, part vampire, part witch, and touched by fairy magic she is the prophecy the supernatural world tried to erase. Hunted since birth, forced into hiding, she has lived her life in the shadows, training for a destiny that could unite the realms… or destroy them.

Love was never part of her plan.

But when Supreme Alpha Nelson a...

She thought his heart belonged to her, but he chose her sister.
Adriana Nox found her sister moaning beneath the man she was supposed to announce a relationship with that night.
The strong Adriana Nox broke at that moment and never healed.
She watched the man she had ever loved exchange vows with her sister— a disaster she never imagined would happen.
Not only was she betrayed by the ones she l...

Married to Damien Blackwood for two years, Vera Sinclair has become the most notorious trophy wife in the city. As the legitimate Mrs. Blackwood, she can only watch helplessly as her family's business crumbles, her father faces criminal charges, and no one dares to offer assistance.

Damien looked at her with cold indifference: "Vera, if I don't say a word, do you think there is anyone in this to...

“This game of yours is barbaric. How dare you make me play it?”
Her anger boiled over again as she realized that it was his own fault because she was sore, tired, and bleeding. She could have died if not for that son of a bitch.
“You'd better pull your finger out, Karenina, and talk to me in a more ladylike manner,” Xavier warned.
She lowered her hand, but she wouldn't back down. What he had done...

Maeve is nineteen. Wolfless. A virgin Rogue living in Blackbridge—the ruins left behind after the Crimson War between vampires and werewolves.

To survive the mating ceremony and compete against twenty candidates, Maeve ventures into District 3 seeking a female vampire to teach her the art of seducing men.

Instead, she stumbles into Nikolai's room—a Crimson vampire who bites her.

He teaches he...

"You're fighting it," the low, maddening drawl came from directly behind her, making her heart leap into her throat.

Sierra spun around. Ryder Marsh was leaning against the fence, sweat glistening on his chest, watching her struggle with the hammer. He stepped into her personal space, his scent of leather and sun overwhelming her expensive perfume. "Let me show you." He reached around her, his ch...

She doesn't remember what happened that night. But her victims will never forget.

Nineteen-year old Ember Winters has spent her entire life invisible until one college party changes everything. She wakes up with no memory of the night, but when a fellow student is found dead hours later with a scarlet rose burned into his forehead, whispers of an ancient curse begin to spread.

The legend says th...

In a world of powerful werewolves, Aurora was the one who didn't fit the mold - a forgotten omega, hiding from the shadows. But one fiery night, the notorious playboy Alpha, Lucian Vaughn, crashed into her world, igniting a blaze of passion and fury.

Their worlds collided, and they discovered the unthinkable: they're fated mates.

Aurora's icy walls crumbled, and her darkest secrets began to unra...

Nicole Pearson, goes by Cole (Current alias), most feared vampire throughout this relm and any relm unlucky enough for her to step foot in it. She's walked the Earth for over five hundred years. Most do whatever is necessary to stay off her radar. Her crankiness and pettiness know no bounds. Imagine her surprise when a werewolf decides to get uppity and demand her services. Despite her massive mag...

"You are a long way from home, little wolf."
"Stay back, I am not afraid of you."
"Oh but you should be wolf, I can be your worst nightmare." He took a step closer and that was when it hit him; the scent of her blood.

Aliyah has passed through three mating seasons but she was still left without a mate. Being the only child of the alpha, everyone was looking forward to who her mate would be as he ...

Thirteen women

Only one Dragonrider who is the Crown Prince.

The Dragon Queen Selection is a special selection to pick the next dragon queen from the finest daughters of the founding magical noble families. Thirteen girls, one from each family are chosen to compete for the crown and to become the next dragon queen and the future wife of Crown Prince Cassian, the best dragon rider in the three ...

Angelo loved her from the very first moment he laid eyes on her. She didn't know who he was and what he did in his past and he loved it that way .It was his past and he wanted her not just for fun but for keeps. If only she stopped running away from him...Cleo didn't want to catch feelings for a guy who was out of her league . He had everything sussed out and she didn't or so she thought . Runn...

My brother didn't commit suicide. He was murdered at Rosendale High, and I’m going to make his killer pay.

Disguised as a man, I’ve infiltrated the world’s most elite Alpha academy.
My target? The four "Princes" who rule the school. Chief among them is Eros Dionte. He’s also the man who has haunted my dreams since I turned eighteen.

Eros believes I’m just a weak newcomer. He doesn't know I'm an...