Best Suspense Stories & Novels Collection

Buried in the dirt, a forgotten queen is about
‎ to wake up.
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‎For nine agonizing years, fifteen-year-old Lyra has lived as a ghost. Sent to an orphanage at age six, she has been haunted by the exact same terrifying nightmare every single night—a horrific vision of a helpless six-year-old girl witnessing her parents being brutally murdered. Yet, the moment she wakes up, her memory vanishes into a...

To honor a promise to her best friend, Ashley, Jade agrees to stalk the school’s golden boy, Arthur Fletcher. But while spying on the wrong brother, she falls hopelessly for the right one: the cold, lethal hybrid, Lancelot Fletcher. The mission was a success — until Ashley returns from heart surgery with a life-shattering revelation. The boy she actually saw at the tailor shop and fell for wasn't ...

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...

Six years ago, I died.
At least, that is what everyone believes.
I staged my death to escape a powerful family, a violent past, and the secrets that nearly destroyed me. Since then, I have lived quietly beneath a stolen name, careful never to give anyone a reason to look too closely.
Then my boss calls me into his office and places a photograph of my funeral on the desk.
He knows who I am.
Worse, ...

Kate Brady doesn’t exist. She’s a name on a passport, a voice Jackson Ruspoli has started to trust, a lie built carefully enough to survive inside the walls of Ruspoli Industries. Underneath her is Natalie Cromwell, a woman who died the same year her father did, when his ruined name became the only inheritance she had left.

Getting close to Jackson was supposed to be simple: find the buried proof...

Arvin thought betraying her father would finally set her free.
After turning in Mario De Luca, one of the most feared crime lords in the country, she is forced into witness protection under a new identity, hidden away in a quiet Sacramento neighborhood where survival depends on staying invisible.
But the past doesn’t stay buried for long.
Especially not when she meets Asher West.
Her dange...

One mate was supposed to be a blessing. But three mates was a problem.
Three identical Alphas was complete and utter chaos.
Celine has spent her whole life being told she's too broken, too wolfless, too unwanted to ever be chosen.
So when fate drops not one but three devastatingly handsome triplet Alphas at her feet, each one more dangerous to her sanity than the last, she does the only logical t...

Lyric sacrificed everything to become the Lunar Queen. Now she must prove she's worthy of the crown. As she learns to rule two kingdoms alongside her mates and build a home for the family she's fought so hard to protect, an unsettling pattern begins to emerge. Wolves, witches, fae, and vampires are disappearing without a trace, leaving every kingdom on edge. As fear spreads and old alliances begin...

Vera's life collapsed completely the year she turned twenty-two. Her father absconded with embezzled funds, leaving behind a staggering $7.8 million in debt. Her mother remarried and severed all ties without looking back. Her seven-year-old brother—a child genius afflicted with systemic lupus erythematosus—required treatments costing $600,000 a month.

Her bank account held exactly $412.

And as i...

You are so fucking wet for me already.” He groaned against my ear, sliding his large hand between thighs, his fingers teasing my ruined panties.

“You are mine, only mine. I don't care if you are my son’s wife.” He whispered, circling my clit as he pressed his tick erection against my body.

“This pussy…” he spanked directly at my clit, making a moan erupted from my mouth.

“It belongs to me and I...

"Do not tempt me, Wildling. You're mine to protect, not to fuck."


Kyla Harper

After the death of my father, I never expected to be placed under the custody of a stranger who claimed to be his friend.

I expected an old man with grey hair. Not a demigod who turned my world upside down. Cold. Distant. Devilishly handsome.

His words sink into my skin, leaving my knees shaking. And while I fli...

For five long years, Chloe hated me with every fiber of her being, blaming me entirely for Arthur’s tragic death. She cultivated her magic relentlessly and climbed to the peak of power, determined to avenge her lover. Yet one soul-searching trial shattered her entire world in an instant.

Someone at Ravenwood High is a killer.
After a brutal murder leaves the school locked down, ordinary students suddenly become suspects, and one of them knows far more than they're willing to admit.
Rina thought she knew her friends. She was wrong.
The ex-boyfriend the police are certain is guilty, even when the evidence doesn't add up. The charming boy who watches her like he's waiting for her to ...

I married my college crush, only to discover that becoming his wife was the biggest mistake of my life.

Draven Hilton was the hockey god everyone wanted, but I was the only woman he never wanted—until his betrayal turned my heart to stone.

Then his tattooed, bad-boy best friend walked into the space Draven left behind, becoming the one man I couldn't resist, no matter how hard I tried.

Now, the...

Mackenzie believes she was abandoned at an ED when she was a toddler. She was passed around the foster care system until she aged out, but in that time, she learned to change her behavior and personality to survive the people who were her caregivers. When she was on her own, she made a career out of infiltrating companies to get information for the people who hired her. She is not afraid to ben...

Hazel Aradia has dreamed of attending the elite Viremont Academy, but her first evaluation ends in disaster. Paired with the cold and arrogant third-year Kieran Pierce, she fails spectacularly and lands near the bottom of the rankings.

Now stuck training with the academy's elite S-rank prodigy who clearly thinks she doesn't belong, Hazel must prove her worth or risk being expelled.

As public hum...

“You’re not going back to work.”

“You don’t get to decide that.”

“I do when the man sitting beside you was murdered.”

Stone stepped closer. “Walk out that door, Fox, and I’ll follow.”

“To protect me?”

His jaw tightened. “To make damn sure you come back.”

——————

Getting involved with my biker bodyguard was never part of the plan.

Neither was watching one of his brothers die in front of me.
...

"You have terrible manners," I snapped, pressing a hand to my bleeding neck.

The vampire wiped my blood from his jaw and smirked. "I was locked in a chained coffin for eight centuries. My etiquette is understandably rusty."

"Next time, ask before you bite."

His dark eyes locked onto mine. "I never ask for what already belongs to me."

I, Lenora Draxen, was a nobody in the Solaryn Abbey until my...

She died on her wedding night with her ex-boyfriend's blade in her heart and her sister's face on the screen.

She woke up six years earlier the morning of her wedding.

Megan Cole knows every lie, every trap, every smiling face that will eventually destroy her. This time, she's not the girl who bleeds quietly. This time, she walks down that aisle on her own terms, stands next to the cold, brilli...

I am Catherine Holloway, CEO of a tech company in Seattle.
It was just an ordinary rainy night. I was driving my Porsche Cayenne toward the airport when a beat-up Ford pickup rear-ended me on the off-ramp.
I never imagined that this seemingly routine accident would drag me into a serial murder case — turning me from a witness into the police's prime suspect.

When a mysterious billionaire, Julian Cross, approaches widow Iris Hartwell with a proposition—he knows who killed her husband, and his price is her hand in marriage, she sees a path to justice she never had. She agrees, fully intending to manipulate him into confession while uncovering the truth herself.
But in the sprawling Manhattan penthouse they now share, every clue she unearths points to Ju...

When Hazel Ellington was twelve, her father brought home a orphan from England named Caden Durham, and her lonely world cracked open. They grew up tangled together — best friends, sworn enemies, and something neither of them dared to name. Then, the night she turned eighteen, Hazel finally gave Caden all of her. By morning, he was gone. No letter. No goodbye. Just an ocean of silence and a father ...

I'm a con artist. My real name is Imogen Vance, and almost nobody alive knows it. That's the whole point. You can't catch a woman who doesn't exist.
My last job before I quit for good: get close to Graham Fenwick, the coldest CEO in Castryn, and walk out with the files that could ruin him. One month. One mask. Then I disappear forever.
Then the news breaks. Imogen Vance was seen at a crime scene a...

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 ...

Detective Elena Cross has spent twelve years hunting killers.

She never expected one to start exposing the people hiding behind the law.

When a respected judge is found dead inside an abandoned courtroom, his hands stained red and a confession pinned to his chest, Elena is assigned to lead the investigation. The evidence reveals that the judge accepted bribes, buried violent crimes, and protecte...

Rule number one: Never fall for the Hockey Alpha.

That was the plan.

Ninety days.
One fake relationship.
No feelings.

I’m a fallen Crescent Moon princess turned scholarship boxer, fighting to save my sick brother while uncovering the truth behind my father’s disappearance.

Luca Silver is the hockey captain, the future Alpha, and the heir to the family I’ve spent years blaming for my downfall.
...

She was supposed to survive University.

That was the plan. Get the scholarship. Keep her head down. Ignore the strange symbol she's drawn her entire life without knowing why. Pretend the nightmares, missing memories, and impossible feelings mean nothing.

Then one night at a club drenched in blood and silver lights, a monster looked at her like he already knew her.

And said: She's mine.

By morn...

For three years I bore living with Bennett Thompson, being the perfect house wife while pleasuring him.
Bennett treats me badly, laying his hands on me whenever I approach him in a wrong mood, calls be barren because I didn't give him a baby since we started dating and finally got married.
He finally cheats on me with my best friend who may not be a friend at all.
But now.. this chaotic night thro...

Everyone in Vellum City knows the name Cole Ashford.
He built Ashford Industries from nothing a self-made billionaire who runs half the city's economy and donates to every charity gala on the calendar. The press loves him. The city trusts him. And nobody asks what he does after midnight.
Nobody except Mara Voss.

Mara is a crime journalist at the city's last independent newspaper, The Vellum Cour...

For five years Genevieve Drayne was dead. As Aveline the baker, she was safe. Until the Albanos came for her and Nilo Cross dragged her into fire.

He's the enemy heir who put a ring on her finger to keep her alive. His world is a battlefield and his obsession becomes her armor.

But the Albanos have her childhood friend Matteo, a corrupt government body and a weapon worth billions.

But the wors...

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...

"You like it when we both touch you, don't you?" James whispers against my skin, his fingers sliding into my hair before yanking my head back.

My breath catches as his teeth skim the pulse beneath my jaw.

With trembling hands I push against Roman's chest, but his fingers close around my jaw, forcing my face toward him.

"Don't bite your lip, Fiorellina," Roman murmurs, carefully prying my mouth...

"To love her is to invite death. To touch her is to burn."

Born with a terrifying, ancient curse, Nimueh was doomed from her very first breath: the moment she feels true love for anyone, she is compelled to kill them. At just six years old, after slaughtering her own family to protect them from herself, she vanished into the shadows—taking on the identity of "Claire" and vowing to keep her heart ...

“Tell me what you want, Mi Flor. Tell me you want Daddy’s cock again.”

“I…” My voice trembled as he pressed his body against mine.

“Zara? Are you in there?”

Talia’s voice suddenly came from outside the door.

My eyes widened in panic.

Marcus only smirked, looking far too pleased with himself.


After catching her boyfriend cheating, Zara spends one reckless night with a mys...

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...

When the formidable matriarch of the city's most powerful mafia family dies, she leaves behind one final command. Every member of the family must return to the ancestral estate and remain there for seven days. Each evening, they must gather for dinner. Only if they fulfill her wishes will her fortune be divided.

None of them expect the true inheritance to be buried beneath silver.

As the first d...

Ximara has always been judged—by her parents, society, and, most importantly, by herself. With curves that invite whispers and a spirit slowly eroded by those who claim to love her, she decides to escape. Fleeing an arranged marriage and a life of scorn, she seeks refuge in New York City with her grandfather, Alister, the only person who recognizes her worth. But even as she rebuilds her life, her...

Ashcroft Academy isn’t just a school—it’s where the children of presidents, billionaires, celebrities, and professional athletes are molded into the next generation of the world’s elite. Behind its ivy-covered walls, reputation is everything, family names are worth fortunes, and every student knows one rule: protect the legacy at all costs.

Then The Velvet Ledger appears.

Every morning at exactl...

My father died owing the Salvi family a hundred and forty thousand dollars.

I didn't find out until Vittorio Salvi walked into the bar where I work and told me exactly how he intended to collect — not in cash, but in me. A wedding. His son. A debt paid in the currency of my whole life.

I ran straight into the one man in Ironport with more reason to hate the Salvi name than I do.

Damien "Ghost" ...

The Ledger He Left Behind

My father's death was ruled an accident. I know better… because someone left a note in his coat pocket that isn't in his handwriting, warning me not to call the police.

Six years of memories, and I never knew he was hiding a second identity, a locked room, and a photograph of me as a child with a stranger's writing on the back. The address on that note leads me somewher...

I caught him.

The man I was meant to marry—the rising Alpha, the pride of the Pack—thrusting into another girl like I didn't exist.

But I didn't cry. I didn't scream. I didn't even flinch.

Because the pain had carved me hollow long before he ever touched her.

He thinks I'm weak. That I'll stand by his side in two days, smile for the ceremony, and hand him my loyalty with the Alpha title.

But ...

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 ...

Forced to marry the man meant for her runaway sister, Beatrice Carmichael enters Fitzgerald Mansion expecting humiliation. She does not expect a loveless marriage, forbidden desire, and a house where every glance hides a sin.

Behind the family's glittering wealth lies a nest of secrets, betrayal, and dangerous longing. When death begins stalking the mansion and suspicion starts to coil around her...

The story is a unique blend of romance with intrigue and drama. Set in a mythical world with young adults as the main protagonists. Tropes such as enemies to lovers, revenge gone wrong and forced proximity have been employed to further the sexual and romantic chemistry between the main characters. Use of other antagonists such as the male lead's mom and the female lead's paternal family push the p...

“Is she still a virgin?” Kael asked, voice flat and cold.

“Can she still conceive?”, Before the healer could respond, he went on. "Answer the Alpha," the healer whispered urgently. "Have you ever been with a male? Any male?"

"No," I bit out, my voice sharp with humiliation and rage. "I've never... I'm still a virgin. Not that it's any of your business."

"Well you losing it tonight", Kael's word...

Lord of the Puck-
She blamed me for the death of my brother and for ten years she had built her whole platform on that lie.
I was the stalker who had killed her twin, my best friend. It was a falsehood that had followed me throughout my career.
A never ending black cloud.
And now she was here, in my family home and I was about to fall into the mould she had made for me. I was about to become her ...