Best Independent Stories & Novels Collection

Alora Dennison is an orphaned child from a shamed bloodline, surviving in her family's old pack.On the dawn of her transition pushing her into adulthood, in an unexpected turn of fate, she imprints on the mate she will be bonded to for eternity. Only he isn't the man of her dreams. He is the only one in the entire state she would never have wanted to bond to. Colton Santo is the arrogant, dominant...

Hello, My name is Spare, yes as in a spare tire kinda thing. I'm not allowed to interact with the family unless they want to teach me a lesson. I know all the secrets of this pack.I don't think they are going to let me just leave either, I don't want to go missing like a lot of girls have been lately. It doesn't matter though because I have a plan to get out of here. That is until one night at...

"Step away from the cat, Little Mate. You belong to me."

He had finally found the mate he had spent a decade of his life looking for, he wouldn't lose her.

"I am no man's mate Mr Lupus, least of all yours."

She was a woman with her own dreams, fiercely independent and not one to bow down to any man's demands.

"Yes, your reputation preceeds you, the most powerful alpha in the country. But h...

Kayla Wilson has no memory of her childhood. Found alone and lost in the middle of the woods at the young age of eight. The Wilson’s take her in, treating her as their own.
Nightmares plague Kayla every night as she sleeps. Shopping with her best friend, her nightmares become reality sending her life out of control.
She is thrust into a new life where her nightmares become more real with each day ...

When Thane Kago took over the position of Alpha in Harper Rae's pack, he had only one thing on his mind, more power and the beautiful Harper Rae. Harper had no idea that an old folklore would have Thane's bloodthirsty eyes trained solely on her.

Thane was Intent on making the beautiful Harper his chosen mate and Luna, but when she refused his advances, Thane decided to break her into submission...

Daisy was lost in a sea of pain. Her only family Aunt Clara was murdered and drained of all her blood. She returned to the town for the funeral, only to find she was the real target. A Ghost whose only pleasure was killing the innocent and being feared as a God of death; a vampire ready to sacrifice everyone else to gain him a place on the council of the seven leaders; A weretiger is hiding in the...

I thought my high school bullies were behind me...
How wrong I was.
Now they've become scandalous temptations…
And they're willing to share.

Matt, Jake, and Aaron ensured my high school experience was hell. They pushed me to the edge until I had no choice but to run. After transferring and completing high school far away from the cruel trio, I'm on my way to becoming the best person and nurse I c...

Aurelia Henley has been trained by her Father to take over his title as Alpha since she was younger, even though that is completely unheard of. All of that comes crashing down around her though, after it's revealed on her 18th Birthday that he's just been letting her think that. Instead he's turned her into a weapon, and the most powerful Luna shifters have ever known... all in the name of a polit...

"Step away from the cat, Little Mate. You belong to me."

He had finally found the mate he had spent a decade of his life looking for, he wouldn't lose her.

"I am no man's mate Mr Lupus, least of all yours."

She was a woman with her own dreams, fiercely independent and not one to bow down to any man's demands.

"Yes, your reputation preceeds you, the most powerful alpha in the country. But h...

As the knight entered the room, the sun’s rays finally had a chance to penetrate the dim storage room, filling the room with its sparkling orange light. With great wonder, Leila saw the prince’s shadow cast clearly on the floor; Instead of a man, his shadow was shaped like a fierce dragon.

Leila was gently pulled up by the dark knight. She blinked and shook her head, thinking she had witnessed so...

I wake up with the sun in my eyes and that makes me confused. I do not remember my bed right in front of my window.

I try getting up but a hand around my waist. I freeze in fear with the knowledge of what happened.

I look over my shoulder and I am shocked at what I saw.

I expected to see Jason behind me, but it was Mason in bed with me.

I was in bed with Jason's brother.
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WARNING:
Adult content, recommended for readers 18 and older only.
Contains BDSM relationship, erotic content, violence.
The book excerpt:
"Here, I have a key to your heart," she left the key in her palm, metal and skin together. Ocean stumbled upon the ancient artwork in the locker rooms. It caught her attention because of its resemblance to a dagger, so she took it and waited for the perfect o...

It's the start of a new school year for Scarlett and a lot has changed... On the top of her list are: newfound freedom, the relationship between her and her mate, and the craving for blood. But she's not about to let any of that stop her from trying to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life. And certainly not the summons from the Queen of the US branch of the royal Coven. Or t...

Ten years ago, just as Faustina learned that she was fated to be the mate of her childhood sweetheart, her world shattered. Her mate’s parents—the Alpha King and Luna Queen—exposed a secret of her family and burned her parents alive as traitors. She barely escaped, vowing that one day she would avenge them！
Now, under a completely new identity, she has returned to her former pack—the one ruled mer...

I used to believe marriage was love's happy ending, only to realize it was the gateway to my personal hell. Staring into the mirror, my hundred-thousand-dollar wedding dress wrapped around me like golden chains, binding me tight, while my father's tears silently screamed of the doom I couldn't outrun. "This is bigger than us," he choked out, his voice trembling, each syllable slicing into my heart...

I was the mafia king's most treasured "little princess" - until the explosion that claimed my adoptive father and protector. Desperate, I clung to a man who wore his face, only to have him broadcast my desperate love confessions as a joke. The night I reached peak humiliation, the man who should have been buried in Sicily rose from hell.
Vincenzo Benedetti. My god, my ultimate sin. He shattered my...

My name is Claire Bennett, and at twenty-nine, I finally said "no" to that midnight call.

Twenty years. From pudding cups in an orphanage to a lakefront mansion in Seattle, I spent two decades proving I was "useful"—until a woman in La Perla lingerie told me to fetch her coat. Like a servant.

"Without me, what can you even do?" Ethan asked, standing among broken wine glasses.

I didn't know the ...

Thunder ripped me back from the edge of death—back to my 18-year-old bedroom, March 15, 2022 staring at me from the calendar. Seven days before Blake left me bleeding in the rain, before that drunk bastard finished what heartbreak started.

"Did you honestly think someone like me could love someone as pathetic as you?"

His words still burned as I grabbed the scissors and hacked off my hair. The c...

"I never thought my fiancé would take another woman to a pregnancy test."
Kian froze before claiming that Chelsea was "sick" with mate sickness and just needed time to recover.
"Six months, maybe less," he said. "You can go abroad for training. Alpha Stone's program in Zurich sent you an acceptance letter, why don't you take it? It'll look like a career move instead of a scandal. When you get back...

"Divorce papers. Sign them, and let's end this farce."
With a single sentence, Raina was cast out—betrayed by both her husband and his assistant, stripped of her position at the company. That very night, the hospital delivered another shocking blow:
"The child you're carrying... it's not your husband's. It belongs to someone else... someone who simply needed a surrogate."
"I'll cut to the chase," ...

Alina Rojas married Bucky Ethelred, eloped, and gave up her inheritance, but was considered greedy, bullied by her mother-in-law, abandoned by her husband, and threatened many times by her husband's first love.
For love, she lowered her status, helped her husband, but then her bastard husband revealed his true face as a narrow-minded, selfish, stingy, and heartless person.
One day, Bucky threw a d...

“You're nothing but a cheating golddigger slut. Go back to where you came from. I don't care if you die on the streets. Just never show your face in front of me.”

After discovering her pregnancy Eva finds Viktor, the man she loved, cheating on her with her best friend, only for him to mock her and put the blame on her, accusing her of being a golddigger before throwing her out.

She was the innoc...

In one life, Valerie, Luna of the Eclipse pack had died for a man who didn't love her, for a sister who betrayed her. She had spent her life in misery with a family who didn't care for her and couldn't even be there in her last moments.

But no more.

After her untimely death, she woke up to find herself years in the past. This time, she knows what she has to do; renounce her Luna position and...

I never imagined my life could change in a single night. One moment, I was living quietly, keeping my head down, and the next… I was bound by a secret marriage, thrust into a world of power, obsession, and danger. Alexander Drake isn’t just any billionaire—he’s a man who commands attention, respect, and fear, and he has a side of him only I am allowed to see.

When he appears in my life, nothing m...

“Maverick, you never loved me all these years, did you?”

“Be good. You're just a substitute.”

___ 

Never did Valencia expect that what her crush thought of her was a substitute for another woman. 

And never did she expect that the asshole would break the news to her after she gave herself to him a night before their wedding. 

Unable to take in the heartbreak, Valencia fled on her wedding ...

Cassandra Vale has built her world on perfection. Elegant, untouchable, and always in control, she knows that in high society appearances are everything. But when whispers of betrayal threaten to unravel her carefully constructed image, she needs a distraction fast, one so scandalous that no one will dare question her again. Enter Damian Cross. He is reckless, magnetic, and every bit the trouble h...

The champagne in my glass had gone flat, but I barely noticed. From our VIP box at the Vienna State Opera House, I watched my husband lean close to the pianist Lucia—close enough that she was practically sitting in my lap.

Five years of marriage. Five years of playing the perfect Habsburg wife, smiling through charity galas and dinner parties, pretending I didn't see the way other women looked at...

For nine years, I loved Jake, heir to the Steel Knights MC, like a fool—until I saw him tangled up with my own cousin in the garage… while she was carrying his child. They laughed at me, called me "just a mechanic," treated me like their loyal dog. But I'll show them—the most underestimated roses grow the sharpest thorns. From Texas to California, from a cast-out nobody to the underground racing q...

Elara's life takes a tragic turn when her parents are mysteriously murdered, and she is framed for the death of the man she loved. Imprisoned and separated from her children, Elara emerges from the depths of despair, only to discover the truth: her husband Liam Stone, whom she once loved, had orchestrated her downfall. Now, with a burning desire for revenge, Elara must navigate a web of lies, betr...

Most of Emma Knight's life she has been made to feel like an outsider, different from those around her. This sense of isolation has driven her to become a recluse, retreating into the safety and solitude of her own world. But one day, something changes. Maybe it's a chance encounter with a kindred spirit or a moment of epiphany that shakes her out of her self-imposed exile. Suddenly, Emma is thrus...

When investigative journalist Carter Hale vanishes without a trace, his ex-girlfriend Detective Maya Cross refuses to believe he simply walked away from his life. Her search leads her to Halstead, a forgotten town hidden in the mountains, where strange transmissions broadcast only at night and residents are either too quiet or too afraid to speak.

As Maya digs deeper, she uncovers evidence of a c...

“Andreas,” I moaned in pleasure, threading my fingers through his soft hair. He responded, gently sucking and licking my skin. “Mmm,” I whimpered, “more.”

I tilted my head back, my head cradled in his hand as his lips captured mine. My hands even slid downward as he tore open the front of my top, freeing my breasts to press against his woolen robe. I shivered. He took my right breast into his war...

I rescued Frank from an avalanche, and he traded my salvation for control. His "hero" became his shameful secret, locked away in a gilded cage. Then, on national TV, he denied I ever existed—a lie that killed our unborn child. My revenge was a potion of forgetting. Now he roams the mountains, a madman begging for clues about the wife he lost. And he just asked me, looking me in the eye, "Have you ...

At eleven p.m., I'm staring at the charity foundation's financial report, barely able to focus on the numbers—Theron is "networking" again, but for three years now, his "networking" has always involved another woman. Then my phone rings. It's Tommy, the paparazzo: "Mrs. Sterling, your husband's on his private yacht, all over some 22-year-old blonde intern!"

Thirty-seven times. Have you ever tried...

New York’s underworld has always been bloody. The five Mafia families keep their fragile peace with a mix of threats, bribes, and unspoken rules. Vittorio Falcone, the kind of man whose voice can make grown soldiers rethink their loyalty, sits at the head of one of the most feared families in the city. His daughter, Francesca, was never meant to be a player in this dangerous game—she was meant to ...

Leslie’s hand clamped around Ruby’s jaw, forcing her to look up at him, his light brown eyes glinting.

“How dare you think you can make me jealous, huh? You’re mine, Ruby. My woman,” he growled, his voice low, vibrating against her chest as he pushed her back against the wall.

Ruby’s lips parted, a shaky breath leaving her as his body caged hers in. “I—I wasn’t. We are still at school."

His thu...

Elena Martin, a once-promising investigative journalist, loses everything when her father dies under suspicious circumstances and his inventions are seized by Cade Industries. Broke, desperate, and blacklisted, she agrees to perform at a high-profile party for money—only to discover the host is Damien Cade, the ruthless CEO who ruined her life. When Damien notices her defiance and intelligence, he...

A rich heir and a part-time barista—same world? Not even close.
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Isabella struggles in Christopher's arms. "Let go of me! Two years ago, you were just toying with me. Didn't your friends say I smelled like poverty? What do you want now?"
Desire smolders in Christopher's eyes, his voice rough with restraint. "Behave, or I can't promise what I'll do..."

"Oh my darling, if you don’t say 'I do' right now, today might end tragically for you"
A gun pressed to my head, my heart hammering, cold sweat dripping down my forehead.
"I do… I will be his wife, till death do us part," I whispered, swallowing hard, clinging to every shred of composure.

And just like that, I was married… to someone I didn’t even know. I had no memory of how I got to the altar, ...

Thornhill Academy trains the powerful. Dragons, hellhounds, shifters, vampires, witches, warlocks and worse. But I’m not one of them. I’m a siphon. And this isn’t a school to me. It’s a cage and a possible death sentence.
I can steal any magic I touch. That’s why they fear me. That’s why the Council would cage me, weaponize me, and use me in their endless war. They think I’m alone.
But they don’t ...

My name is Sophia Blake, a small-town girl from Ohio who earned her way into Juilliard on a full scholarship. Three years ago, while playing jazz in a Greenwich Village dive bar, I was discovered by the mysterious Italian conductor Alexander Rossi, and my life changed forever.

He gave me the Lincoln Center stage, a luxury Manhattan apartment, and a music world I'd never dared to imagine. I though...

I clutched the diagnosis paper that read "Stage 4 Gastric Cancer," my knuckles turning white. For twenty-two years, no matter how bad things got, Ethan always said he could handle it. But this time, my call only reached his voicemail.

I still remember that snowy night when I was seventeen. Under that tree, he squeezed my hand and promised, "You don't have to be strong anymore. Just lean on me." H...

Waking up in the middle of the night, I caught my husband Rupert Getty pleasuring himself with his stepsister's underwear.

Heartbroken, I chose divorce, stepping aside for this shameless pair.

First love? Everyone has one! So what makes theirs so special?

Midnight Orchid
Ioannis Holland never expected her life to change during a routine sketching session in the moonlit forest. As the Alpha's daughter of the Eternal Eclipse Pack, she's always preferred her art to pack politics, until a political marriage arrangement threatens everything she holds dear.
When Nickolas Harvey, heir to the Storm Striders Pack, arrives for their arranged courtship, Ioann...

She came for vengeance.
He offered rejection.
But fate doesn’t care about their hate.

To avenge her family’s death, Mara infiltrates the Bloodfang Pack with one purpose, kill the ruthless Alpha, Ronald. But when their eyes meet, fate betrays her.
He isn’t just her enemy.
He’s her mate.
Rejected and stripped of pride, Mara hides her identity to survive among his wolves. Yet the bond between them r...

I died—betrayed by the one I loved most. I watched my pack burn and my father fall, a silver bullet in my heart ending it all.

Fate granted me a second chance. Reborn as the beloved heiress of the most powerful clan, I wear the face of the woman who adored my killer. He thinks I’m still that naive girl.

He is wrong. A vengeful wolf now lurks behind these pretty eyes, ready for retribution.

But ...

I thought the day I put on that wedding dress would be the most beautiful moment of my life.

Until I heard my fiancé Marcus talking to his mistress in the next fitting room—"Does she really believe you love her?" "Of course she believes it. Sophia's so damn naive, I just gotta say some romantic bullshit and she gets all teary-eyed and grateful."

In that moment, my world shattered completely. Thr...

I died once.

Torn apart by the fiancée of the Alpha Prince who I thought loved me, bleeding out on a cold basement floor. But when I opened my eyes again, I was back in that luxury car heading to the Royal Territory—one year ago, about to walk into this beautiful trap because I saved an amnesiac stranger named "Alex."

In my past life, I was too naive, thinking that saving a wounded stranger woul...

When I woke up in the hospital after the crash, I croaked "Bro" at my brother. He stared back like I was a stranger and coldly shot back, "I'm not your brother."

Even more bizarre, he pointed at some guy with an IV stand and said, "That's your brother." I clutched my sheets, faking amnesia, and followed this "fake brother" home, only to discover his leukemia medication and hear him coughing blood...

I believed in our love story. Then I uncovered the truth in the company books: my husband was funneling my money to his mistress. He was paying for her spa and a child that wasn't even his. He betrayed me in our own bed, then laughed in my face, calling her his "real family." Okay. Challenge accepted. I'll show him a real lesson in loss, using the very wealth and influence he desires. Mess with a ...