Best Suspense Stories & Novels Collection

Taylor has spent her career uncovering secrets. This time, she found one worth killing for. Unfortunately for whoever made her the prey, they forgot one thing...Bedlam Cox hunts too.

Taylor knows when a story doesn't add up. As an investigative podcast producer, she's built her career digging beneath official reports and asking questions people would rather leave buried. So when an anonymous s...

“Ah, there you are, quiet and wanton, just the way I like you.” He groaned in pleasure, wrapping his large hand around my throat as he curved his fingers in me. My knees buckled, and I tried to hold on to my rage, but there was nothing but heat, spreading under my skin like wildfire. Vincent consumed me with every touch.
He brought his mouth down on my neck, and I gave him my throat willingly. Us...

"T-The voices, Alpha. The v-voices instructed me to do it," she responded. I could sense the bewilderment radiating off him and those around us without needing to look. What on earth is she saying?

"What do you mean, what voices?" he pressed her.

"T-The tiny voices, Alpha. They won't stop urging me to k-kill Saint," she said before collapsing forward, slipping into unconsciousness.

********...

Apple High is not a school. It is a danger zone.

Home to mafia heirs, rogue wolves and students powerful enough to make the law look the other way. Strength determines your place. Weakness makes you prey.

Jivu walks in with two missions. One for the government, tracing a rogue wolf outbreak violent enough to tear the supernatural world wide open. One for herself, finding out what happened to her...

“I hate you, Xaden.”

“No, you don’t.” He counters.

“I want to kill you.”

“That’s very possible while you still love me.”

That arrogant smirk…I want to smack it off his lips so bad. My body vibrates, feeling currents through my nerves.

He backs me against the wall, blue eyes changing into golden ones as they burn intensely into mine. “Your body says very otherwise, Little flame.”

—

In exchan...

Claire Bennett buried Samantha Reed eight years ago.

She changed her name, disappeared into a new city, and built a life quiet enough to feel safe. Then Ryan Cole becomes eligible for parole, and someone starts sending her pieces of the woman she used to be.

Old photographs. Private memories. Messages no stranger should know.

Ryan is still behind bars, but someone outside is helping keep Samant...

Carina Bellini was the soft, beloved daughter of a powerful mafia family. Envious of her father's favor, her brothers betrayed her to protect their true savior, a manipulative woman named Violet Corvo. To get rid of Carina, her brothers sold her off to Renzo Valenti, a ruthless rival boss and family friend.
Behind closed doors, Renzo was a sadistic monster. Secretly in love with Violet, he brutali...

Vaelis Renn was never supposed to survive her entrance trial. Her magic answers only to the Crimson Moon, wild and impossible to tame, the kind of power every instructor has warned her will get her killed or get someone else killed first. When her trial ends in fire and screaming students, she expects to be sent home in disgrace. Instead, she is dragged into something far worse.
The Conservatory h...

For a thousand years, no fox had ever reached the legendary Ninth Tail.
Kaien Ashwyn was destined to become the first.
At only twenty-two years old, the greatest genius of the Celestial Fox Clan stood before the Ascension Ceremony, one step away from becoming the next Fox Sovereign. Instead of ascending, he was branded a traitor for conspiring with the Fox Hunters.
His Clan Leader, Lord Orion, con...

Blurb
"You have until Friday, Mr. Reed. After that, your father's garage stops existing."
I had nothing left to fight back with. No money, no leverage, nothing but a dying auto garage and a promise I made my father before he passed. Then a car nearly killed me in the middle of the street, and I woke up hearing a voice in my head that changed everything.
It told me I now carry the Negative Emotion ...

Sable Cross has one rule left standing after eight years of chasing supernatural skips for cash under the trade name Wraith, don't take a job that isn't already half finished, and don't ask too many questions about what your target actually is until the payment clears.

She breaks both rules on what is supposed to be her very last bounty, a routine skip trace that turns into a dead sprint through...

Aria was the daughter of the Alpha of the Silver moon pack born into a life of strength and legacy but instead of respect, she is overlooked by the members of her own pack due to her weak wolf. She had always wanted to have a mate just like everyone else but on the night of the mating ceremony, her dreams came crashing down when her own mate rejects her publicly choosing another.Aria is left humil...

Ava Duval gave up everything for love. She left a promising fashion career and poured five years of her life into building a multimillion-dollar empire from the bottom with her husband by her side.

She was a bubbly woman until she lost her children during delivery, and out of her husband's love, or so she thought, he adopted twins for her, and she raised them as her own.

She was blessed to hav...

“The Devil always collects his debts.”
Sold by my father to settle his gambling debt, I walked down the cathedral aisle toward a sadistic mafia tyrant. Meanwhile beneath my wedding dress, I hid a lethal secret: I was three weeks pregnant by my bodyguard.
Then the doors blew off their hinges.
Through the smoke walked Lorenzo Genovese, the Devil of the East Coast. I grew up amongst powerful, dangero...

On my deathbed, I found out my husband and my sister had been poisoning me, so that they could live happily ever after together.

I refused to let that happen, so I married my loyal guard to strip my husband of the Alpha throne.

Three years later, the Moon Goddess gave me a second chance and I made a vow in blood:

Take Lucian’s Alpha title.
Expose Nora.
Marry Julian and watch my ex-husban...

Ever heard of a professional Liar-for-hire?

Well, meet Lola Beaumont, CEO of LIAR FOR HIRE, a discreet hiring and lying agency.

Lola's job is to craft and sell lies to help rich people in need of help, by assuming different identities and using various disguises. Think crashing an ex's wedding, fake dating a hockey player, bursting a cheating ass boyfriend in the act, fiancée-for-a-day, CEO’s c...

Forced to marry the very monster she was trained to destroy, Commander Thalira enters the volcanic realm of the Drakon-Vyr Clan with a single, lethal mission dictated by her treacherous father: find the Fire Lord’s weakness and slit his throat. She expects a hideous beast, but instead finds Lord Azrael, an unearthly, dangerously beautiful dragon king who is a brutal tyrant to the rest of the world...

"Let me show you what it feels like to be a woman again, Dahlia. Just for tonight, Seb doesn't have to know... You know I can keep a secret," Zane smirks darkly.

I swallow hard, my eyes darting between his gaze and his lips as an intense wave of forbidden heat sears through me.


Dahlia Sterling has been engaged to her boyfriend, Sebastian Thorne, after five years of dating.

To the outside...

"Stay away from my sons, Ariana. They're dangerous when they want something."
The irony wasn't lost on me. "And you're not?"
His smile was cold. "Oh, I don't lose what I want, Ariana. And right now… I'm trying not to want the wrong thing. Because I always get what I want."
He left me there, trembling and confused.
I managed to avoid everyone for the rest of the day. Took a taxi home, snuck in thro...

Seven years ago, Ella Carter’s father was brutally murdered. With nowhere else to go, she was taken in by Marcus Ravengard, her father’s powerful employer and the man she believed had saved her life.

Living in the Ravengard mansion, Ella became fascinated by Marcus’s eldest son, Miles. Though they had never met, she spent years secretly dreaming about the mysterious heir.

Then Miles comes home.
...

She forgot him. He never stopped hunting her.
Two years ago, Sophia Bennett ran from the only man who ever owned her heart, Chase Romano, the devil the underworld calls IL Diavolo. She buried her scars, changed her name, and said yes to a man who deserved someone whole.
He found her anyway.
“You're mine,” he said, pressing her against the wall of a life she never wanted him back in. “You've always...

Self-made CEO Angela Vale dies in a high-speed car crash, only to wake up on an 1800s execution block. Trapped in the body of a low-ranking maid framed for poisoning the royal princess, she has zero voice to defend herself.
When the terrifyingly handsome Emperor Alexander spares her neck at his daughter's request, Angela thinks she survived the worst. But the palace is full of vipers. That very ni...

Everyone thinks Nadia Hart is pure innocence—sweet, soft-spoken, and untouchable. She is the girl no one ever suspects of harboring dark, dangerous desires. Her best friend, Brielle, is the exact opposite: loud, reckless, and addicted to taking whatever—and whoever—she wants. Especially her own stepfather, Kane Vale.

Brielle treats Kane like a secret she owns. Nadia listens, pretending not to car...

There are hundreds of photographs of Judith Beauchamp. Every single one was taken without her knowledge.
Every single one was hidden inside Alexander Laurent Devereux's private study.

Alexander insists he was protecting her.

Judith believes he's obsessed.

After surviving a mysterious accident that erased the last decade of her life, Judith wakes up convinced she's still eighteen. Now twenty-ei...

"They say that you killed my best friend, Julian," I whispered, pressing against the wall of the quiet library, having nowhere to escape.
"They say a lot of things about me, Chloe." He responded, his fingers gently tracing the corner of my lips, making me shudder.
"Did you? Did you kill her?" I found myself asking, and his lips lifted in a smile as his fingers travelled down my throat.
"Will yo...

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:...

“You look soft, Pretty Boy. Like one hard hit on the ice would break you in half.”
“Then don’t hit me, Captain.”
A slow, dangerous smile curved his lips. “Who said anything about hitting you?”


My twin brother lived for hockey.
He was the university’s star winger, and the boy everyone expected to go pro but then he died.
Everyone called it an accident. I didn’t.
The last person seen with him w...

He's the golden boy of Kansas City hockey. He has the trophies, fortune, women, and a life where he always gets what he wants.

She's the Special Agent who has spent ten years hunting the monster that murdered her father, waiting for the day its signature appears again.

Zane Chandler's perfect life shatters when he comes home to find his younger sister brutally murdered, her eyes gouged out and a...

I was arrested the night I turned eighteen for murdering my parents. The evidence was perfect. The blood that stained my dress was their blood and my fingerprints were on the knife. The one person I trusted to stand up for me wouldn’t even see me—my mate, the heir to the Alpha King. Lucien Ashcroft passed without a word to me as the council sentenced me to death.
So I ran.
Seven years later, a fem...

Skylar Voss doesn't do complicated.

Smart? Annoyingly so.

Cursed? Apparently.

Mated to the one wolf on campus she's supposed to hate? Yeah. That too.

***

The thing about being wolfless is that nobody expects anything from you.

No rank. No shift. No mate bond snapping into place at the worst possible moment — like during a sold-out hockey game, in front of twelve thousand people, when ...

She was declared dead. They just didn’t expect her to come back richer, colder, and hungry for blood. Lyra Calloway once had everything: a doting father, a rightful inheritance, and a fiancé she trusted with her life. Then her half-sister and fiancé conspired to steal it all, staging a car accident to bury her secrets along with her body. She survived. And for two years, in silence, she rebuilt he...

“I only married you because Tara was gone but now that she's back, I want to divorce you!” Lucas told Elena. She couldn't believe her ears, this was the same man she loved that she risked her career for him.

Elena Rhodes married Lucas because he was her first love but their marriage was nothing to write home about and that worsen when Lucas first love came back.

Elena was carrying Lucas child...

Aria Parker is eighteen, brilliant, and completely invisible to the world around her. While other girls chase popularity and romance, she spends her nights building artificial intelligence systems powerful enough to change her family’s future forever. With hospital bills piling up after her father’s sudden cardiac arrest, failure is no longer an option.

Desperate to earn a life-changing scholarsh...

Alexander Lucas is a flirty billionaire who doesn’t believe in love or marriage. But when his father threatens to give his inheritance to his stepbrother unless he gets married, Alex is forced to find a temporary bride.
Monalisa Jacobs, a brave young woman who hates the rich, agrees to a contract marriage to save her sick mother.
They were never supposed to fall in love.
But two weeks before the c...

"Who touched you?"

Lukas didn't ask twice. The servant who brushed against Louise lost his hand before he could scream. No one touches what is his. It is a rule he has enforced for centuries.

He is a Founding Vampire. Unkillable. A monster. He has felt nothing in a thousand years—until he found her.

She is the Anathema. A cursed girl who can decay anything with a touch. The only creature on ear...

My father died with one warning written in blood:

DON'T TRUST THE MAN WHO FINDS YOU.

Three months later, I am still searching for the truth.

My father was a respected businessman, so everyone called his death a tragic accident. I know better.

Before he died, he left me a cryptic message leading to a secret hidden beneath the elite university where I now study. I thought finding it would finall...

Note; 18+ readers only [Book contains gore details and explicit writings.]

“Arrrrhhhhh!” A loud groan of pleasure slipped through my parted lips as my neck fell backward while Thane’s lips nuzzled my neck.

His two huge hands slipped up behind me to cup my breasts, his fingers wasting no time to twist the taut tips of my nipples as I dripped wet from my pussy, where Dhane had my legs spread wid...

When a principal ballerina is found dead on the floor of Beaumont Atelier, the academy's brightest star ends up in a coma overnight.

With opening night only weeks away, former prodigy Odette Bellamy is unexpectedly pushed as a replacement.
But Beaumont Atelier is built on more than discipline and perfection. Behind its mirrored studios and standing ovations lies a world of ruthless ambition, dang...

I have once killed a man.
He was my first love. Everything about him was like a dream come true until my blindness was lifted, and I realised he was my greatest mistake.
Eugene would beat me to a stupor, yet I played the role of a happy wife on the outside. I had lost two pregnancies because of him, but I hoped he would change. He promised to. He would buy me tons of gifts to apologise, yet he alw...

She’s innocent and untouched.

He’s a dominant control freak.

Their worlds are totally different, but they both have one thing in common, a trauma neither wishes to revisit.

She knows he’s everything her family has been running from, but he can’t get enough of her.

The more she runs, the more she realizes he’s a constant in her life she can’t escape.

For a man with scars running as deep as hi...

Rule #1: Never accept a gift you can’t afford.

When my boyfriend proposed with a stolen blue diamond and vanished overnight, he left me at the mercy of lethal debt collectors.

Out of options and out of time, I signed a rescue contract with my powerful billionaire boss, Damian Wolfe.

He gave me safety. He gave me protection. He gave me a ring.

But protection in Damian’s world comes with a terri...

Everyone believes she's a saint. Soft-spoke, innocent and fragile.

But beneath the white veil hides the deadliest assassin the underworld has ever known.

Determined to avenge her family, she infiltrates the powerful Valenti family, pretending to be their innocent adopted daughter.

Everything goes according to plan..Until Luciano Valenti.

Pretending to be a saint is easy.

Pretending not to fa...

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...

"Welcome... to The Valemonte Whisperer."
"If you're listening to this, then either I'm dead... or someone desperately wants you to believe I am,  this  poem is for us all ."

There was once a little black rabbit 

He knew winter was near.

But had just ten nights to gather what was hidden.

One carrot for every truth buried beneath the snow.

But hunters follow quiet footsteps too.

When the tenth...

Nyksina Zharyn is just a healer’s daughter, but she harbors a dangerous secret: forbidden magic. Betrayed by the one she trusted most, branded a witch, and sentenced to death, her world collapses in flames.

Then, in the shadows of the abyss, she is pulled into the presence of Azmiel, the fabled Demon King of Ithyka. She frees him from his hundreds of years of slumber and accidentally binds hersel...

One month after bloodshed ripped their family apart, Lily has finally earned her place as Shadow, Knox wears the President patch he never expected to inherit, Darius has reclaimed his position as VP, and the dangerously unpredictable Jinx now stands as Sergeant-at-Arms. They're grieving. They're rebuilding. And they're ready to make everyone responsible for their losses pay.

Then the Iron Serpent...

The night was supposed to be Jace Hunter's biggest win. Instead, in front of a packed championship crowd, he dropped his stick, walked off the ice mid-game, and stared at a girl who was not supposed to exist.

"You are supposed to be dead."

Ava Rhodes has never met Jace Hunter, or so she claims. She came to Northwood Academy for one reason, to find out what really happened to her brother Caleb, a...

Soraya was delivered to him in chains, the last living proof of a bloodline he’d just burned to the ground.

Soraya Hallowmere has one skill that’s kept her alive her whole life: the ability to disappear. Hide the fear. Hide the grief. Hide exactly what she is. It’s the only reason she survived the fall of her pack, and the only reason she might survive what comes next.

Because Kieran Ashguard ha...

“You had promised to discard me immediately after the baby was born! So what changed now?”

I slammed the contract onto his mahogany desk, my hands trembling as tears blurred my vision. Nicholas moretti didn’t even bother to spare me a glance. Instead he leaned back in his chair swirling a glass of whiskey before lifting those cold grey eyes of his to mine.

“I don’t remember promising that Mi amo...

A botched spell bound her to a young ruthless Alpha. To save him from a deadly political trap, she sacrificed her magic and vanished.

ETHAN SILVER is the undisputed captain of the Silverwood high hockey team and the quietest, most terrifying Alpha in the territory. On and off the ice, he rules with zero tolerance for betrayal. He doesn't raise his voice; he simply destroys anyone who steps out of...