Best Strong Female Lead Stories & Novels Collection

When investigative journalist Elena Martinez gets too close to a dangerous story, she's taken by a mysterious stranger who claims he's saving her life. Held in a remote mountain cabin by Dante, a man with dangerous eyes and gentle hands—Elena fights against her growing attraction to her captor.
But Elena harbors a secret that could destroy them both: she's not just a journalist. She's an undercove...

She stepped into his world with a stolen name and a secret that could destroy them both.

I never meant to lie my way into the mansion,up until desperation gave me no choice. From a fake ID and borrowed identity. That’s all it took to enter Nathan’s world of ruthless, luxury and famous life.

At fifteen, my childhood ended the day my mother’s health collapsed. Overnight, I became the sole pillar ...

“You shouldn’t have come back, Aeron.”
Selene’s voice trembles, her golden eyes glowing beneath the rising Blood Moon. “They’ll kill you for this.”

“Let them try.” His hand cups her cheek, rough from battle, tender with regret. “I’ve already died once— the day I let you go.”

She turns away, chains still biting her wrists. “I’m cursed, Aeron. My blood is poison. You should’ve marked Amera… saved ...

I might hold the world record for the strangest reason to get married.
To get back at my cheating ex, I had a reckless one-night stand at his engagement party.
My delicious mistake? He—the richest, most ruthless CEO in the city.

Now, he’s blackmailing me into a temporary marriage contract.
He needs a wife to fulfill his own agenda. I need an escape from my crumbling life.

The deal was simple:...

I died betrayed, drowning in regret—and saw my feared, ruthless fiancé leap to his death trying to save me.

Fate has hurled me back: I'm reborn in his arms on our drugged wedding night. This is my second chance.

The man I once ran from is my destiny. His obsessive love, my greatest weapon. I will embrace the monster the world fears and become his queen. Together, we will burn the traitors who ru...

FBI Agent Luna Blackwood thought she'd left her past behind when she escaped the remote mountain town of Silver Ridge fifteen years ago. But when a series of brutal murders brings her back as lead investigator, she discovers the killer isn't just hunting randomly—they're targeting descendants of the town's founding families.
Each victim is found torn apart under the full moon, with mysterious claw...

Maya, a college student, thinks it's just another strange Tuesday until she finds a mysterious old knight in her living room. Sir Damien isn't just any knight, though. He's a strong fighter from 500 years ago who has been magically brought into the present day. As Maya helps him learn how to use computers and order pizza, she finds out the shocking truth: Damien was sent back in time by a bad wiza...

Dr. Maya Cross, a 31-year-old medical examiner haunted by memory gaps from a Boston lab accident, has returned to her hometown only to find death following her. Seventeen bodies have crossed her autopsy table, all dying impossibly with crystallized blood, and now the same transformation creeps through her own veins. Kane Rivers arrives like salvation incarnate, a brilliant pharmaceutical researche...

When mafia princess Aria Castellano wakes up with no memory in the arms of her family's deadliest enemy, she thinks she's been taken by a monster. She's half right. Kael Blackwood is the ruthless werewolf heir to a rival crime family who took her as payback - but he never expected her forgotten innocence to break through his walls. Years ago, she saved his life during a bloody attack that destroye...

Sacrificed to the alpha is a dark and sensual werewolf romance story about survival, destiny, and the kind of love that scorches through pain.
Elara has spent her life in the shadows of the Black Hollow Pack- a servant, an outcast, a girl marked by a curse she doesn't understand. When the alpha demands a sacrifice to the wild wolves beyond the border, Elara is the only one they choose. Abandoned ...

Eveet Coralo is the daughter of one of the most ruthless Mafia heads ever to exist, and she's set to pick up the crown when her father dies. His one wish? That she marry his partner's son, Julien, and become the Queen of the South.

Julien, with his beauty and strength, owns the hearts of nearly every woman in Louisiana. Yet, how can she tell her father that her heart already belongs to another? S...

"I died once. I won't die twice."

My husband killed me. Me—his wife, his victim, his mistake. But I survived. This time, I'm not just a story. I'm the one writing it.

The system failed me. It protects monsters like him. But justice? That's mine to take.

Some women accept their fate. I'm rewriting mine.

I was once a brilliant psychology student at Berkeley, but now I've become a "hunter" in Viktor Reeves' criminal empire. My job? Using psychological techniques to seduce wealthy men and swindle them out of their money for this devil.

After each mission, I hate myself a little more. Until that day, when I met him in a coffee shop—Alexei, a documentary filmmaker with gentle blue eyes. Unlike my oth...

I waited three years for my fiancé Kane, rejecting every suitor who came my way. But when he finally returned victorious from battle, he publicly abandoned me for another woman, leaving me humiliated before my entire clan.

Fueled by rage and shame, I made a desperate decision: to marry Drake, the captured Northern wolf clan leader. It was supposed to be a simple arrangement—I would escape a force...

My name is Lily Carter, a poor girl from the mountains. Ten years ago, I was used as a bet by rich boy Philip Brooks. A twisted game led to my soul being stolen by an evil spirit, and my body was controlled for ten whole years.

For ten years, I could only watch helplessly as "I" became Philip's perfect girlfriend—docile, obedient, never fighting back. The real me was trapped deep inside my own bo...

I thought I saved him.
Six years ago, Marcus came back from Afghanistan broken, traumatized, plagued by nightmares. I was his therapist, walked him through every panic attack, broke every professional rule to fall for my own patient.
"Age is just a number," he used to say. "You saved my life, Sophia."
Now he tells his friends I'm "stale," that I'm too old at thirty-six, that my face shows wrinkles...

Cancer was supposed to be my death sentence. Instead, it became my liberation.

I thought I had it all—wealth, status, a picture-perfect life in Greenwich's elite circles. Then came the diagnosis that would change everything: six months to live. But facing my final chapter, I uncovered a truth more devastating than any terminal illness—the man sleeping beside me was slowly killing my soul.

When...

When the person you love most becomes the one who hates you most, the truth is often more brutal than you could ever imagine.**

Three months ago, Kane called her his "little princess" and swore to protect her with his life. Three months later, he hurled her lunch tray into the trash and sneered, "Thieves don't deserve to eat with us."

Libby can't understand why her stepbrother suddenly became so...

"They taught me that love was supposed to be unconditional. That mothers always forgive. That family comes first, no matter what.

They were wrong.

I was Emily Thompson—veterinarian, wife, mother. I gave up my career to support my husband's failing farm. I spent eight years nursing my asthmatic son, building a life around their needs, sacrificing my dreams for their comfort.

Then they chose a st...

What if your guardian became your greatest threat?

I once believed the oath beneath the silver moon was a shield, but I was blind to the chains it forged around my soul. The blood-mark of Dominic burned on my wrist, yet the searing memory of his venomous kiss left an even deeper scar.

In that moment, I hated him, but I hated myself even more.

He was my protector and my executioner; my salva...

When I woke up in that hospital bed, legs wrapped in casts and burning like hell, everything came flooding back. This time, I wasn't the naive fool I'd been before.
Tyler, my brother Ryan, and that bitch Savannah—they destroyed me. Turned a gymnastics prodigy into a cripple.
Tyler had the nerve to grab my hand, begging me to forgive Savannah for ruining my legs. My brother chose outsiders over me,...

The town looks sweet, cider on every breath, smiles on every porch. But Cass Ryder tastes the rot under it. She came from the city thinking farm country meant bar fights and stolen cows. She didn’t expect graves lined up like seeds.
A skull turns up under the apple trees. Then another. Each buried upright. Each set like someone was planting them to grow. Folks whisper about the Orchard Man — a sto...

The city doesn’t sleep, it whispers.

Detective Rae Mercer has spent her life tuned to static. Her late father was a police radio operator, and the hum of dead frequencies was the soundtrack of her childhood. Now, those same whispers are back, hijacking radio towers across a rust-belt city and bleeding into murder scenes no one can trace.

Every broadcast brings a new body. Every frequency carries...

"I cannot feel, but I feel you Sarafina."
"I will shift the heavens for you, my love"
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Cursed to have an ice cold heart, Prince Jamal of Zedora has to live without feelings – not being able to know the difference between sadness and happiness nor love and hatred, that was his life, until he met her.
Sarafina Belaird, A young fair maiden whose whole life has been a roller coaster of hardship...

When Dr. Elena Voss inherits her estranged grandmother's Victorian mansion in the fog-shrouded town of Ravenshollow, she expects to settle the estate and leave. Instead, she discovers two disturbing cases that pull her into the town's dark heart: a missing child whose disappearance mirrors others from decades past, and a series of ritualistic symbols appearing throughout the house that seem to mov...

The Red Demon.
A beautiful assassin is hired to kill the Devil.
She can be compared to a snow leopard. She's living, hunting, and killing alone.
Love is an unknown feeling for her. That feeling has been killed since she was a helpless little girl. But now she's not helpless anymore.
Now she's heartless, and nobody can hurt her anymore.
She's been building walls so big around her heart that no...

Greyson slid his hand beneath me, his fingers expertly circling my swollen clit as Jaxen thrust deep into me from behind. Kylen’s thick length filled my mouth, muffling my moans while ecstasy blurred my vision, and the pressure coiled inside me like a storm about to break. From the bed, Poku groaned, his fist moving lazily over his rigid cock as he watched.

“Look at her,” he rasped, his voice th...

The night Araya was born, the Moon refused her. Marked as wolfless, mocked and forgotten, she grew up as prey in her own pack. Even her fated mate broke the bond with a smirk and left her bleeding at the border — for rogues to finish.

But they forgot one thing:
Ash remembers.
And so does the throne buried beneath it.

The forest did not devour her. It bowed.
The flame did not die. It waited.
Unt...

Lilieth Grimwylde’s life turns upside down when she’s accepted into Noctem Lunae, a prestigious academy that specializes in training young women to become the perfect Luna. Being Omega-born, she never thought she’d have a chance at competing, as no omega has ever passed the aptitude test.

Yet, against all odds, she does.

The Alpha- and Beta-borns see her as an embarrassment to tradition; an out...

Detective Grace Marlowe has built her career on precision and grit, carving her place in the department without owing anyone favors. But when she’s called to the scene of a murdered tech heiress in a penthouse suite, the case feels wrong from the start every detail too deliberate, too staged.

The body is laid out like an art installation: silk gown, perfectly applied lipstick, a single drop of bl...

He was the one man I was never supposed to want. And the still the one I could never forget.

To the world, Zane Vincenzo Marcelli is a billionaire businessman—cold, powerful, untouchable.
To me, he’s something far more dangerous.

My godfather.

The sworn to protect me… now stars in my darkest fantasies.

It started with a kiss I was never supposed to steal.
It ended with a fire neither of us cou...

"They took eight years of my life, destroyed my family, and buried the truth under a mountain of lies. I walked out of Riverside State Penitentiary with nothing but a canvas bag and a marriage contract to a man in a coma—my last desperate chance at revenge.

But some sleeping princes aren't as helpless as they seem. And sometimes, the most beautiful love stories begin with the darkest plans for ve...

What if your greatest sacrifice became your deepest regret?

Sarah Miller believed love meant unconditional support—abandoning her nursing degree, working double shifts, and funding her husband's coding dreams. When Jake's app hit one million downloads, she thought they'd finally taste success.

But success brought shame, not gratitude. Jake demanded a "low-key marriage," listed himself as "Single...

Who was Connor Mitchell, the man I trusted with my heart and my future?

For years, he whispered sweet nothings, promising a lifetime of love and devotion.

But beneath the surface lurked a sinister truth.

At parties, he slipped drugs into my drink, leaving me vulnerable to his vile intentions.

As I lay unconscious, he violated my trust, plotting to steal my twenty-million-dollar inheritance thr...

Once the treasured daughter of a mafia kingpin, Isabella has now fallen to working as an ordinary employee at a community center, relying on medication to hold her shattered psyche together. Just when she thought life couldn't get any harder, devastating news arrives: her ex-boyfriend Anthony Russo has returned to Boston—no longer the poor kitchen boy from her past, but a powerful crime boss comma...

The moment I saw my friend Sarah's body, I knew it was no accident. To everyone's shock, just three months later, I married her mentor, the renowned psychology professor James Morrison.

No one knew this marriage was a meticulously designed trap.

I smile and play the role of the perfect wife, while secretly searching for the truth behind Sarah's death. How many unspeakable secrets lie beneath the...