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 …...

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...

Ella Sterling spent twenty years believing she belonged — until a DNA test shattered everything. She was the wrong baby, switched at birth, raised in luxury that was never hers. When the biological daughter returned, Ella lost her home, her fiancé, her family, and in one devastating night, her dignity — courtesy of a drugged drink and Victoria's calculated scheme.

She walked out of Sterling Estat...

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...

"I'm giving you one month," he said. "To get used to this. To me. After that, I won't be asking."

I'm Eleanor Fitzgerald — or I was. The daughter they raised by accident, switched at birth, and erased the day the real one came home. For six years I've made myself small in my own house, and my violin is the only thing that was ever truly mine.
Then my father sold me. To Victor Sterling — the mo...

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...

Lilly thought she knew what survival looked like. But walking the halls of her high school feels like navigating a minefield when your every move is watched by Tristan. He knows her secrets, holds the unedited truths of her past, and uses his proximity in English Lit and AP Gov to pull her strings. Her life is a fragile structure—armor made entirely of paper. Desperate for protection, Lilly turns ...

Evelyn Brooks has built her career on making impossible weddings look effortless.

At twenty-nine, she is one of New York City’s most sought-after luxury wedding planners, trusted by billionaires, celebrities, and families who expect perfection. But behind the polished events and flawless timelines, Evelyn’s life is unraveling. Her mother is gravely ill with a mysterious condition no doctor can ex...

One blind date. Two reluctant hearts. A fake romance that feels way too real…
Sienna Blake isn’t looking for love—not after her last relationship left her with more scars than memories. But when her meddling mother sets her up on a blind date, she agrees just to keep the peace. What she doesn’t expect is to come face-to-face with Julian Thorne—her arrogant ex’s boss, a ruthless lawyer with a reput...

Detective Adrian has spent years solving murders. He's learned that every crime leaves something behind. No matter how carefully the truth is buried, it always finds a way back to the surface.

So when Daniel Mercer a financial analyst is found dead, Adrian approaches the case like every other investigation. Follow the evidence. Trust the facts.

But this case refuses to follow the rules.
The trai...

The Tailor Heir follows Alex Tailor, an ordinary warehouse worker whose life changes overnight when billionaire Julian Voss names him the sole heir to his fortune. But the inheritance comes with conditions: Alex must live with the Voss family, take an active role in Voss Global, and enter an engagement with Elena Marchetti, a woman he barely knows.

What begins as a forced arrangement quickly beco...

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 ...

She built a quiet life from the wreckage of a marriage that nearly swallowed her whole. A bakery. A hidden talent for art. And a son she loves more than breathing. At forty, Corinna Adler is composed, grounded, but devastatingly unsated, starved and untouched.

One night was supposed to fix that.

One anonymous night at Obscura, the city's most secretive underground club with a man whose hands kne...

She was never the daughter anyone expected to be sent up that mountain.

For a hundred years, Ironhold has paid the Dragon King a strange yearly tribute, one daughter of the royal house, sent to serve at his court. Everyone assumed it would be Bryn's beautiful older sister. Instead, to save her, Bryn puts on her sister's cloak, packs her own forge tools, and rides into the mountain herself.

She e...

Lyra Hart has spent her life knowing exactly where she stands in Greyhaven’s unforgiving shifter hierarchy. At the bottom.
As an ordinary Zeta without wealth, influence or a powerful surname, she should have known better than to believe a prominent Beta could truly love her. When she catches her boyfriend in bed with another woman, his cruel dismissal leaves her heartbroken, humiliated and despera...

“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...

Skylar Richardson has two rules: don't get caught, and don't let anyone tell her what to do.

By night, she runs with a skater gang, ruling the city's streets with her crew. By day, she's the alpha's daughter—heir to a pack she wants nothing to do with, trapped in a life that feels like a cage.

When Micah Quinn transfers to her school, quiet and unassuming with a camera always around his neck, S...

“This has to be a sick joke,” Killian muttered, his hungry gaze raked over me like a predator sizing up its prey. “You did this intentionally, didn’t you?”

“N-No, I didn't." He backed me into a wall, and my breath seized—his face was impossibly close to mine. “I didn’t know this was your house.”

“You should quit, now that you still can,” he warned.

“I’m sorry that you hate me, but you’re ...

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...

The day my doctor hinted I had very little time left to live, I decided the rules no longer applied to me. I was going to live my final weeks with zero filters and absolutely zero fear.

What I didn't plan on was getting accidentally kidnapped exactly ten minutes later.

That's how I ended up in the immaculate office of Lorenzo, the city's most feared mafia boss. A man with perfectly tailored suit...

Briella, a freshly graduated high school student, is now ready to enter the Wolf Academy. A new chapter, a new promise for her to let all the troubles of the past behind. That's what she thought, until she stumbles face-to-face with her old, not-so-favorite person, Medea, her forever bully, the one who tortured her, berated her for not having a wolf. All hopes of being free are now shattered. But ...

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...

Fayre is a provincial girl with a simple dream: to give her parents and younger sister a good and wonderful life. Driven by that desire, she moves to the big city to find a better job. She lands a job as a housemaid for a famous and powerful family. Her days inside the mansion go smoothly, and everyone treats her well. Eventually, without realizing it, she falls in love with her employer’s son. Sh...

“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...

A drunken phone call to her boss. The robot and the brat. The two friends and a very awkward situation. His best friend's mom. A text to a wrong number. Her brother's best friend. First loves, chance meetings, lost loves and everything in between.

These are a collection of short stories inspired by K-drama.

“You're my sister's boyfriend.” I forced the words out through gritted teeth.

Adrian only smirked. “Does that suddenly erase what happened between us?”

“It should.”

He took another step closer until my back hit the locker. “Then tell me why you're still looking at me like you want me to kiss you again.”

—

He was my rival on the ice, my sister's boyfriend, and the one-night stand I couldn't ...

He traveled to the countryside to propose to his sophisticated fiancée. He came back with a country bumpkin as a wife.

Sebastian Blackwood had it all. A billion-dollar empire. A beautiful society bride. A future that was perfectly planned and perfectly empty.

That was before he walked in on his fiancée, in bed with his worst enemy, Roman Sinclair.

Ten years of betrayal culminated in a single, s...

Isabel Reyes doesn't have time for a soulmate; she has ten minutes to figure out how to turn forty-two dollars of espresso tips into a month of rent. Between double shifts at the Vance & Co. campus café and maintaining a 4.0 GPA, her survival depends on one thing: the single medical school recommendation letter her department grants each year.

But Chase, her high-status ex-boyfriend and senior TA...