Best Realistic Earth Stories & Novels Collection

Lily Garcia got noticed on her first day delivering food.
They said the man in the Wexford mansion district never showed his face, and that he had an appetite — that he chose prey with the most life in it.
Lily didn’t believe in that kind of talk. Not until she was locked inside a billion-dollar house with the lights out and a breath settling against her throat.
You smell like a concha fresh from ...

In my last life, I was the scapegoat, set off Charlie's deep love for another woman, and finally ended up with a family of miserable end. After rebirth, I decided to let it go, waiting for Peiheng to file for divorce. But the development of the situation is a bit strange, how does a man who barely goes home in my last life come back every once in a while? And worried that I will betray him? "Do yo...

I am Loraine Windrug, the most eligible bachelorette on this continent, every man competes for exclusive rights to me. My bank account is loaded, I even own more cars than I can drive, my multimillion-dollar mansion has every convenience imaginable.
Men long for me, either for their guaranteed business success after a date with me or as hunters because of my reputation as an elusive billionaire...

Graham's mind went blank. He was met by the most beautiful she-wolf he had ever seen. He let his eyes trail over her body. She was short and lean but had curves in places that made his mouth dry and his pants tight.

As he took in her face, his eyes met her ice blue ones, and he stopped breathing for a moment.

While he was frozen, his wolf was ecstatic and tried to push him forward. She looked ...

“I, Eleanor Bernardi, reject you, Alpha Killian Ivanov, as my mate and Alpha.” She said, glaring at the Alpha who shook his head at the woman, seeming unaffected by her words.
He walked toward her, his eyes fixed on her, as if a predator chasing his prey.
“Over my dead, fucking, body.” He said, connecting his lips with hers. “You’re mine, Eleanor, and I suggest that you keep that in mind.”
*******...

Hi there.

Have you ever heard of the San Francisco Boys?

No? That’s surprising.

They’re kind of hard to miss — masks, billions of followers on YouTube, death-defying stunts that make your heart stop mid-beat. Reckless. Untouchable. Addictive to watch.

Yeah … those guys.

BUT … these stories ain’t really about them.
Not exactly.

They’re about the girls who get pulled into their chaos …...

Lyra Sinclair was born to rule.

At least, that was what they told me.

The daughter of an Alpha. The heir to a powerful bloodline. The girl who would one day inherit everything her family had built.

I had everything a girl could want—a loving family, a powerful name, and Jax, the Beta's son and the man I believed was my fated mate.

I thought I knew exactly where my life was headed.

Then the Bl...

I've always only liked my neighbor/childhood bestfriend who's also a big jock since like forever, but despite his platonic love for me, his looks and popularity had always gotten in the way of me getting any closer to him than a friend. Things got complicated when in my depression and desperation I gave my virginity to a stranger who after a week turned out to be a new teacher in my school and the...

𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐄
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𝐀 𝐘𝐀 𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐘-𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑

I was only eighteen when my parents were murdered for discovering a secret the government wanted buried.

Before I could even grieve, I was kidnapped and taken to a Cage, a hidden underground facility where young people like me are being hunted, imprisoned, and experimented on.

Th...

For eight years, Gwendolyn Garcia believed she knew the man she married.

She was wrong.

When Gwendolyn discovers her husband, Roman, has been having an affair, she follows the clues to his mistress's apartment, determined to confront the woman who has invaded her marriage.

But the confrontation takes a horrifying turn.

The woman ends up dead.

Terrified that she has just become a murderer, Gwe...

Dan Belinni Series — Book Three

Rebecca Windsor was born a mafia princess and raised to obey.

At eighteen, her future is already decided. She has a respectable fiancé, a powerful family, and a marriage arranged for convenience. She should be grateful.

Then she meets the one man she was never supposed to want.

William Belinni is the heir to the Chicago Outfit—a ruthless, unpredictable man prep...

SYNOPSIS

Arabella never asked for the life she had now.

Arabella Montclair is a 24 year old girl who is struggling to put a roof over her head and protect her younger sisters. Losing her job was the last thing she needed until a desperate situation leads her to an unexpected arrangement;becoming roommates with two dangerously irresistible men.

Nikolai Sterling, a 26 year old Billonaire CEO,who ...

A driven college volleyball star with everything riding on one season falls for her coach's son the team's new sports medicine student only to pull away when a childhood family friend shows up claiming to be his girlfriend, forcing her to choose between protecting her heart and the scholarship she can't afford to lose.

“I'll ruin and destroy you just like you did to me years ago, Evie Faye.” He growled against my ear.

“May the best player win, Asher Blackwood.” I retorted.


A: Arrogant.
S: Savage.
H: Heartless.
E: Exasperating.
R: Ruthless.

That's what Asher Blackwood should mean.

At least, that's what I tell myself whenever I'm forced to stand in front of the man who once owned my heart and now want...

On Thanksgiving, I take an emergency mansion cleaning gig to cover my rent. The second I step into the master bedroom, I freeze. Hanging on the wall is a huge wedding photo. The groom is my husband — but the bride beside him is not me.
Liam has built an entire secret family. Worse still, my own parents and brother happily join his fake perfect life. Even my beloved young son has grown attached to ...

When Daniel and Melissa's marriage imploded, Grace and I were ten.

They fought wildly in family court for Grace, screaming until they were blue in the face. Then, the judge looked down from the bench and asked about my custody.

Crickets. Total, suffocating silence.

They eventually agreed to split time. In a thirty-one-day month, they meticulously counted hours, practically drawing blood to see...

A disgraced witch, a grumpy craftsman, and a secret buried beneath a bakery floor that refuses to stay quiet.
Fleeing a disaster she never caused, Vesper Von Flüe hides herself away in a village that doesn't exist on any map , only to find her new home is bound to older magic than she bargained for, and to a neighbor who resents everything she represents. As a capital inspector closes in and the v...

"You don't deserve this", he breathed. His hand glided against my cheek as I slowly lean into it.

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing. Never mind", he brushes it away. I don't think too much of it, so instead I mumble against his hand.

But what I didn't know is what he said was true. I didn't know that I really never deserved any of this. Because the person I trusted the most has been slowly breaking ...

“You know something, little rabbit?” Theron muttered darkly, as he neared me. “I want you.”
My breath hitched in my throat because in a way I knew it was true. There was meaning behind those cold silver eyes that watched me intently every time.
“You can’t want me,” I whispered, backing into the desk. “I’m your—”
“My brother’s girlfriend?” He finished for me; his upper lips curved into a smirk. “...

Ariana Vale has spent her whole life proving she belongs behind the wheel. At twenty four, she is already a world champion, the fastest woman on the circuit, and the face of Vale Racing, the team her father built from a single garage. Everyone thinks her life is perfect. They do not know her father is sick, her contract is about to run out, and her biggest rival wants her seat.
Then her brakes fai...

"Sign it," he said. "Talia needs me in a way you never will."
Five years of marriage ended with a folder on the kitchen counter, one day after Olivia caught her husband with his first love in an unfinished hotel suite—and heard him blame her for walking in on it. It wasn't the papers that broke her. It was that he said it like a fact, and didn't even flinch when the pen trembled in her hand.
Oliv...

Eighteen months ago, Chiara Romano had it all: captain of the national volleyball team, an unstoppable spike, and a promising future. Then came the ultimate betrayal. Sabotaged on the court by her bitterest rival, Bianca, and abandoned by her cheating ex, Lorenzo, Chiara suffered a catastrophic knee injury that left her in a wheelchair and her career in ashes.
Now, every doctor in Italy claims sh...

Vanessa Reed didn’t come to the ultra-elite Hudson College to make friends, attend wild varsity parties, or fall in love. Coming from the working-class streets of East London, her full athletic scholarship isn’t a status symbol—it’s her family’s only financial lifeline. She knows exactly how to survive: keep your head down, keep your grades up, and stay focused.

But Vanessa has already painted a ...

“Cover yourself, Sir!”
I squeak out even though my eyes refuse to move away from his body.
God, he’s so big.
“With what?” Axel smirks, backing me against the locker. “You came in here. You took off my towel. I feel very exposed and violated, Doc.”
“It…it was an accident,” I stammered out.
“Was it?” His gaze moves over my face, settling on my lips and then he leans closer. “So what are you going...

In a cold rain drenched Blackwater creek, Detective Silas Vance patrols a town built on buried secrets. Thirty years ago, the valley was flooded to form a massive reservoir, swallowing the old settlement whole along with Silas' sister, who vanished the day the waters rose.

When a local woodworker is found dead, Silas uncovers a brass compas soldered east toward the sunken town and coordinates ma...

Kyra has spent years as Alpha Ethan's slave, plotting his death with every breath. When his son Damon her tormentor and bully drags her over a cliff's edge, she expects to die.

Instead, she wakes up to her worst nightmare.

The intoxicating scent filling her senses belongs to Damon—the man who tormented her, mocked her, made her life hell.

He's her fated mate.

“I reject you, Damon. I reject thi...

"Abort it," my husband said, his voice completely dead.
This was the man who had just fought off the guards to save me. The man who swore to protect me. But after one single croak from that cursed one-eyed raven, he condemned our third child to death.
My in-laws held me down. My own parents watched in cold silence.
As the abortion poison tore through my body and my blood stained the carpet, they ...

Over the past three years of dating with my boyfriend, everything was perfect. 
My first time meeting his parents at their Sunday Roast went better than I ever dreamed. His mother smiled warmly, serving me mountains of food, excitedly discussing which city we should settle in after graduation. It felt like they were practically picking out wedding dates.
But that illusion shattered over a single s...

As a rogue, Samantha Carson has lived her entire life untethered — answering to no Alpha, bound by no pack laws. All she’s ever wanted is freedom: to see the world, to choose her own fate, and someday, perhaps, to share that freedom with a mate worthy of her.

She never expected fate to find her first.
When she accidentally trespasses into the territory of the most ruthless pack in America — Luna...

Wearing a plain black velvet dress and zero jewelry, I sat quietly in the back row of the Royal Charity, completely invisible among London’s glittering elite.
My only goal tonight? Winning an 1890 Victorian pink diamond for my engagement ring. My family in the Scottish Highlands had just arranged my marriage to Phil Graham, London’s hottest real estate heir.
"Starting at £8,000," the auctioneer a...

He's a FIFA superstar. He's engaged to my sister. And he kissed me first!

I, Jordan McFelly, am twenty-three, unemployed, and surviving one odd job at a time. When my older sister landed me an easy one-day 800 pounds gig as a referee for a charity football match, I didn't waste time—I bolted towards that paycheck.

But why in Christ's name did I collide with Jibril Reynolds! The world's most expe...

Aria was taken away by her mother to keep her away from the clutches of the Russian mafia. But her plan failed and the Russian got to them. Aria ran away ones and manage to stay away from the Russians for 10 years where she became an unstoppable assassin in the underworld. But one day she was taken again and lost all her memories. Now the Russian have killed her mother and Aria is being sent back ...

When Fairview University abruptly cuts the women’s hockey program, Ava Hale’s Olympic dreams are practically dead. Her only shot at staying on the ice is taking an unprecedented walk-on tryout for the brutal, championship-hungry men’s Division 1 team.
Walking into an all-male locker room is bad enough. Dealing with Liam Reed, the arrogant 6’2” captain determined to run her off the ice, makes it wo...

"Do it then," Malakai growled, his palm slamming into the stone wall beside her ear, cracking the masonry.

"Tell me to walk the fuck out that door, Winter. Say the goddamn word."

His massive frame pinned her flush against the rock. "Derek is on patrol," Winter breathed, her legs wrapped tight around his waist. "If he walks in—"

"I don't give a fuck about your brother!" Malakai snarled against ...

My car dies. I get fired for telling my boss to get fucked. My ex has me thrown out of my home, and someone steals my weed. By the time I leave the pub, I am drunk, homeless and desperate enough to thank whichever god showed me mercy.
Then the footpath vanishes, and I land in a demoness’s bedroom, because why wouldn’t life take the chance to screw me harder?
Hectevia calls me Xarus, sprays me with...

In the end-stage of acute heart failure, the life-saving heart I had waited three grueling years for was secretly reallocated by my parents and husband to Sera, the "true" daughter of the family.

My heart turned to ash. I refused the doctor's final conservative treatment plan and injected a potent, lethal neuro-stimulant.
The price for blocking the agonizing pain of my failing heart was total car...

He rules Italy through fear and blood.
But the only thing he craves... is her.

Salvatore Morello gets whatever he wants. Power. Money. Total control. As the most dangerous Don in the country, his word is law.

Then he walked into an American diner and saw Carmella Russo.

Carmella was a girl running from guilt. Her father had died alone while she was chasing a mother who never wanted her. She ha...

MM | Stepbrothers | Enemies to Lovers | Forced Proximity | NROTC | Straight-to-Bi | Secret Identity | Forbidden Romance

Theo
I had a plan.
College. NROTC. Commission. Naval Special Warfare.
Then Eden Brooks became my stepbrother.
Black hair, green eyes, a guitar permanently attached to his hand, and absolutely no respect for rules—or me.
Now we share a university, an NROTC unit, and, thanks to ou...

Maya Baudelaires has one season to prove she deserves her historic racing seat. If she fails, she's out.

The catch? Her team just ordered her to train under Nico Laurent, the reigning champion and the very man who nearly ended her career in a crash two years ago. But when a series of "accidents" targets them both, they realize someone is trying to eliminate them from the grid entirely. To survive...

Mira Alcott does not fall in love. She gets paid.

For two years she has worked as a professional stand in fiancée, hired by wealthy families to attend the events their real heirs cannot face. She smiles for the cameras. She charms strangers. She goes home alone.

Her newest client is different. Julian Voss never shows his face. He speaks to her through a hidden earpiece, feeding her lines, warnin...

I wake up in a hospital bed with a shattered collarbone, no memories, and a stranger claiming to be my husband.

Julian Montgomery is billionaire-cold, devastatingly handsome, and never asks a single question. He tells me who I am. He tells me where I'm going. And every instinct I have left is screaming not to believe him.

That night, in an estate I don't remember, I find a diary hidden beneath t...

HIS WIFE FOR ONE YEAR

He wanted a wife. She needed a miracle. Neither expected to find forever.

Amelia Hart never imagined that the worst day of her life would lead her into the arms of the most powerful man in the city.

With her family's home on the verge of foreclosure and no way to repay their crushing debt, Amelia is desperate enough to accept the one offer she should have rejected.

Marry ...

London Caldwell thought she was getting a vacation.
After losing her job and watching her carefully controlled life in New York fall apart, she agrees to escape with her three closest friends to Wyndham Island, a private paradise owned by one of the world’s wealthiest men.
She expects a place to heal.
Instead, she’s met on the pier by Julian Hamilton, the powerful first-born heir to a vast empire ...

I spent months falling in love with a man who knew everything about me; I thought we were perfect for each other. Turns out, he'd spent months learning my every secret before I even knew his name. While I dreamed of his smile and his touch, he was watching me from the shadows.
Now I have a choice to make; either let him take me, body and soul, or ruin his life completely.
I thought I wanted to be ...

There was a project at our company that promised a £50,000 bonus upon completion.
As the lead planner, I had worked my fingers to the bone for over half a year, pushing the project to 99% completion. Yet, just a week ago, right at the final hurdle, Charlotte—the daughter of the company’s largest shareholder—got jealous.

Eager to steal the ultimate credit, she forcibly parachuted into the projec...

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...

I was the daughter the Sterling family never wanted.

For twenty years, I lived as a Sterling.

Twenty years believing I was the cherished daughter of one of the most powerful families in the city.

Until their real daughter came back.

Overnight, everything I thought belonged to me was taken away.

My name.

My home.

My family.

Even the man I was supposed to marry.

Worse, I was drugged, framed...

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...

The daughter they switched at birth and erased — my father sold me to the most feared man in Arcadia. He gave me one month to want him. It's almost up.

For twenty-one years, Sincerely Ashford endured a lifetime cruelty because of her weight. Treated as a servant by her own family, she survived with one fragile hope—that her fated mate would finally set her free. Instead, fate gives her Alpha Roland Blackwood who publicly humiliates and reject her before hundreds of wolves, declaring the Moon Goddess made a mistake. To complete her humiliation, h...