Best Strong Female Lead Stories & Novels Collection

I thought I had married the love of my life, until I discovered he planned to use my womb as a sacrifice for his mistress.

For five years, I gave Dax everything—my brilliance, my body, my soul. I believed we were building a future together, trying for the baby that would complete our Silicon Valley fairy tale.

Then I overheard the conspiracy that shattered my world: defective embryos implanted i...

"All I wanted was a baby of my own through a sperm bank. How on earth did I end up with CEO Dylan Kane's sperm?

He threw a million dollars at me to 'terminate the pregnancy,' accusing me of stealing his genes—but this child is the light I've been waiting twenty-nine years for.

Why should I give it all up now?"

The day someone stuffed a rancid, oil-dripping sandwich into my locker, splattering my uniform, I understood—no one here saw me as human.
My stepsister crushed my fallen lunch under her heel, laughing at how "pathetic" I was. In chemistry class, they all watched as I rattled around alone in the corner. Even my so-called best friend mocked me, fake-sobbing into a book—"Mommy, I miss you so much"—mi...

I thought I knew my brother until I had to destroy him to save him.

Jake was my protector, my role model, the family I thought would never change. Until his roommate Crystal whispered "bloodline" and I watched everything I believed about us crumble.

When she made him question his place in our family, when she turned his adoption into a weapon of manipulation, when she convinced him to betray eve...

I once thought love meant hiding in the shadows, writing scripts for him, paying off his debts, content to be his "muse in the dark." Until that rainy night, when I heard him laughing with his new lover: "That fat pig? Just practice."
Howard Buckner, king of the media empire, offered me a contract at my most desperate: six months to transform me completely, in exchange for playing his fake fiancée...

The players are getting played- They broke her heart, now she breaks their egos.

After being cruelly dumped by her fiance, and left to raise a child all by herself, Tessa Bloom learns the hard way that loyalty means nothing in a world built on power, looks and lies. She yearns to be seen, all her life she's always been the Plain Jane in every room she stepped into, she had no problem with that, ...

Elena sacrificed everything for her marriage-only to be betrayed by the man who swore to love her. Just because Elena couldn't bear a son as an heir.

When Damian, the arrogant billionaire she used to call husband, brings another woman home, Elena doesn't cry or beg. She immediately filed for divorce and disappeared from Damian's life.

Five years later, Elena reappeared as the queen of business...

Street artist Lucy Carter has spent years hiding behind her graffiti tags and emotional walls, scraping by in Chicago's underground art scene. When her mysterious benefactor offers her a legitimate gallery showing, she thinks her luck has finally turned. Instead, she inherits a deadly game of stolen masterpieces, murder, and family secrets that someone will kill to protect.
In an art world where f...

“Your fate hasn't changed. What you saw will come to pass unless you break the curse" he explains moving closer.

"How do we do that?" I ask, placing my feet down on the floor I push myself down.

"Please tell me. Anything to stop that horror from happening" I beg, holding his hands tightly in mine.

"Your death by the hands of your mate" my hands drop down immediately.

No!!!!

My heart tea...

Rhea Morgan, a partially deaf investigative journalist, uncovers a blood-soaked conspiracy involving corrupt political systems and her own mysterious heritage.
Kellan Thorne is an exiled Alpha vampire who is on the run from the rest. Both Ree and Kellan’s lives intertwine but they soon discover that what they share might soon be torn by dark secrets that have been buried for long.

Ashes in Her Mouth

The fire took more than walls. It took names. Faces. Pieces of me I’ll never get back.

Now it’s back. Different street, same smoke. Same teeth in the dark.

The brass call it arson. I call it unfinished business.

Every blaze leaves a mark a body, a whisper, a threat carved in soot. Someone wants me chasing. Someone wants me choking on the past.

I should walk away. Let the ...

The two twins Elina and Ian disappeared from their family when they were four years old. After that their life have been filled with both abuse and misery. But when they one day get spotted on the streets of mexico at the age of 9 they get taken into a gang. One day they disappears again, and is hold captive for a year before they get rescued. During that year they are in captivity they are being ...

This story is a dark psychological thriller wrapped inside a family drama. It follows the Chambers family, a wealthy but fractured dynasty, whose perfect image is shattered when their longtime butler is found murdered during Ethan Chambers’ engagement party. The murder weapon — Ethan’s favorite pen — points directly at him, and though his influence and family name delay immediate consequences, sus...

My name is Maya Wilson. I'm seventeen, I have 100K TikTok followers, and I just watched my dad destroy our family for a twenty-five-year-old homewrecker named Ashley.

"Ashley makes me feel alive again," he said, dismissing seventeen years of marriage like a bad business deal.

"We'll be one happy family," she smiled, standing in our kitchen like she already owned it.

That's when I knew: Mom need...

One arrow changed everything—I thought I'd hunted a deer, but I saved the most dangerous man in the werewolf world.

Kael's eyes burned with golden fire, his skin blazing hot as flame. Every touch set my blood ablaze. I thought it was just a life debt, until I discovered the unbreakable mate bond between us.

I was just an ordinary forest ranger. He was the Alpha heir ruling five thousand wolves.
...

When I was poisoned by my mate and handmaiden, dying before the throne I once claimed, I thought it was over—but why did I open my eyes to find myself three years in the past, at the Moon Ceremony where I chose my lifelong mate?

Could choosing that seemingly ordinary Omega in everyone's eyes truly tear away the bastard's disguise and foil that bitch's schemes? What secret lies behind that fleetin...

Everyone thinks my stepbrother Oliver is perfect boyfriend material.
Caring, protective, straight out of a romance novel.
Problem is—he's not my boyfriend, he's my brother. And he's systematically destroying my life.
Three days ago, I killed myself with pills. Today I woke up back at eighteen.
Even more fucked up? Oliver remembers too.
Last lifetime, he spent seven years driving away every friend ...

Three years ago, Sofia Cruz kissed Luca Moretti under the stars, not knowing he was the heir to the city’s deadliest mafia family.
The next morning, she vanished—leaving him with nothing but questions and a grudge that burned hotter than desire.
Now, desperate for money, Sofia takes a job as a live-in maid at the Moretti estate… only to discover the room she’s cleaning belongs to him.
Luca hasn’t ...

FBI Agent Kate Morrison thought she'd left her painful past behind. After years of struggling to prove herself in a male-dominated field, she's finally earned respect as one of the Bureau's top investigators. But when a series of ritualistic murders rocks the city, Kate discovers that some cases cut deeper than others.

The killer isn't just targeting random victims—they're hunting people with rar...

Adrian Mahesa, the cool, modern fashion CEO, and Elara Kencana, his spirited, traditionalist rival, are forced together by their mentor's peculiar will. To claim their inheritance, the two feuding heirs must collaborate on a fashion collection for a charity event. Initially, they use the project as a new battleground, cunningly sabotaging one another to prove who is superior. However, as their col...

“I reject you Marian Storm!” Those were the words she could never have dreamed to hear from the Alpha heir to her father’s pack.
And certainly not at the New Year’s Moon celebration, in front of the whole pack.
Leaving the pack compound that had been her prison for three years, Marian was heartbroken and determined never to return. But she knew she would, she must.
After her rejection, the only ...

"Do you want to fuck me?" I whister into his ear. I have not idea why I asked, I can tell he does, but I need to hear the words.
"Yes, I want to eat your pussy," he says breathily.
He presses the tip of his cock against my pussy, and slowly slide it down, inside my juicy pussy, letting him fill me up. My hands on his shoulders, he went deep down until his cock is fully inside me. He bend towards m...

lt's time baby, come home now. You have wandered for too long. "He spoke in a calm tone as if he was coaxing a small kid to give up on her bad habit. My fingers tightly gripped each side of my dress and tears welled up in my eyes. I whipped my head at Adan for protection but my heart stuttered when witness the look of betrayal on his face.

"Please let me explain. “ I pleaded in my mind. But he ...

"You love me?"
"I do."
"But what about finding your mate?"
"My first mate died. My second rejected me. There's no fated mate out there for me—and I'm glad. Because I only want you."
Emma has known nothing but heartbreak. Her first mate died before they ever met. Her second rejected her without hesitation. And every time she's tried to love again, it's ended the same way—left behind, forgotten, alo...

Being married to a husband was exactly what Jane Austen had always wanted. As a promising actress, Jane falls prey to the machinations of a rapidly ascending actress who desires a larger role and her manager. To avoid sleeping with the director, the actress conspires against Jane by drugging her.
Jane was able to leave the room on time but ended up in the company of a charming billionaire. With t...

Kayla has one mission: infiltrate the Palecrown Pack and uncover who destroyed her home and murdered her parents. Disguised as a warrior named Kelly, she keeps her head down, avoids attention, and definitely doesn't look twice at Alpha Zachary Thorne, her dead fiance's brother.
When rogue attacks escalate and whispers of Council corruption rise, Kayla finds herself reluctantly working with the ver...

"Tell me, my sweet Mila, do you want me to stop?"
"No!" I gasp.
"Good, because no matter what, no matter who walks in, I won't," He promised.


Killian Knight was many things, dangerous, a certified killer, devastatingly handsome, my father's business partner and married. He was not just off limits, he was forbidden, he was a sin and I was tempted enough to risk the hell fire. He was ev...

Blood Sisters of the Michael family. The most powerful bloodline of dark witches, one of them sets out to ruin the world by bringing back their father who is a servant of an evil known as the darkness, while the others seek to stop her.

Welcome to Weston Hills.

A world of Witches and everything in-between.

When I opened my eyes on the operating table at Boston General, I'd somehow been sucked into that trashy novel—becoming Emily, the doormat everyone walked all over!
My snake of a husband Michael was shoving divorce papers in my face, demanding I "step aside." His mistress Sarah hung on his arm with that smug smile, while my monster-in-law joined their chorus, trying to steal my son Noah away.

But...

Clara owns a coffee shop in her small town. Every day is the same until she meets Rowan. His touch ignites something within her.

Ariel thought rejection was the worst pain a mate bond could bring—until the night she was beaten, mocked, and left with nothing but her scars. She ran, desperate for freedom, only to fall into the arms of the one man every alpha feared to cross.

Trent Blackwood.
Cruel. Untouchable. A predator wrapped in the skin of a king. His very presence could silence a room, his dark aura enough to make even...

The Alaskan winds cut across my face like knives, but only one thought consumed me—why hadn't Madison shown up to get me? In ten years, my sister had never failed to be there.

Until I walked in on my brother-in-law tangled up with some blonde bitch, and my world shattered. "Fallen through ice in a blizzard"? What a goddamn lie. They cut open her eight-month pregnant belly to steal her baby—while ...

Her sister is marrying her ex. So she brings her best friend as her fake fiancé. What could possibly go wrong?

Savannah Hart thought she was over Dean Archer—until her sister, Chloe announces she's marrying him. The same man Savannah never stopped loving. The man who left her heartbroken… and now belongs to her sister.

A weeklong wedding in New Hope. One mansion full of guests. And a very bitter...

The quiet town of Greenly Bay is plunged into terror when a vengeful spirit rises from the grave, resuming its decades-long quest for retribution. For years, the town’s children have vanished one by one, leaving the residents helpless and haunted. Hope arrives with Vera Kingsley, the newly appointed sheriff, who vows to solve the mystery of the kidnappings and restore peace.

As Vera delves into h...

Detective Sarah Kane thought she'd seen every kind of evil until a killer leaves her a bone-chilling message: "Thirteen innocents must die for one guilty soul." As bodies pile up around the city, Sarah races against time to solve the deadliest case of her career. Meanwhile, her best friend Maya works as a bodyguard protecting fierce feminist activist Dr. Elena Cross, whose speaking tour is causing...

"Allen, yes! Harder! Harder!!" she sang, begging for more.

My whole body shivered, as I drew my feet back again, recalling the night I allowed Allen to take my first kiss from me.

"I... I thought... I thought I was his true love?" My lips trembled, flashing to that beautiful moment with him.

"That beautiful line... The diamond ring... How many women did he sing that same lyrics to and stole the...

I never thought of him this way before.

For years, James Reynolds was just my stepdad—the guy who raised me after my mom left when I was seven. He attended all my school events, taught me how to drive, and told my first boyfriend he'd better have me home by eleven or else.

But lately, something's changed. And it scares me.

"Anna! Hello? What are you getting James for his birthday?" Daisy waved ...

Lucien contributed, “I can be. I will put this in order. Be thou my Luna.”
“No,” she said.
Lucien drew his eyes together. “Why not?”
She said, “Because I am not your second chance. I will start by myself.”
Aria was born at the very bottom of the pack hierarchy and had spent her whole life serving these people who stepped on her, and particularly the Alpha King, Lucien Nightfall, a ruthless and hig...

She used to be the town’s golden girl, until the ice took her brother and shattered her voice along with him.

Now Cassandra Lane avoids the rink, the spotlight, and every reminder of who she used to be. But when George Hale, a cocky, privileged transfer with something to prove, shows up wearing her brother’s number, the silence she’s hidden in begins to crack.

They’re paired for drills. Forced t...

I knelt, scope to my eye, crosshairs locking onto my target. His cold green eyes froze me for a split second. They reminded me of someone who once held me close, whispering promises that he'd be my side protecting me forever.
But that was impossible. No one could survive what had happened to us. I'd barely made it out myself, and even then, only by pure luck.
Yet... What if somehow, against all od...

"I need you to find my son. Luna is here...or maybe a doppelganger and is playing dead in my arms and I know it's not true. Gather all the men, lock down the city." I said as there was a sob from the other end of the call.

"Luna's....dead?" My Beta's voice broke on this.

"Stop playing these tricks with me, Thorne..she is not dead. Find my son. She will wake up once she sees him."

"Alpha Xenois,...

Rhea has always had one goal in life; to slay the vampires. Right from birth, it's what she's been trained for, and nothing else would bring her more peace other than finally slaying the vampire King. After months of scoping him out, she finally finds him. One silly mistake almost costs her her life, and in an attempt to escape the vampire king, she realizes she's accidentally bound them together,...

Abused, alone and on the verge of leaving it all…that’s the life of Freya Walker.
She lost her mother to child birth, leaving her at the mercy of her treacherous, gambler and alcoholic father who loves to abuse her, and with an infant she had no idea how to raise. Her fellow students in high school despise her for no reason and she is often harassed at her work. The only thing holding her back is...

“Do you prefer being punished, dirty Tali?” He asked me with a hint of amusement in his tone and I nodded even though everything in my head was screaming at me to shout No!
Let me fuck you instead!” The words slipped out freely like an embedded generational curse.
I'm already a dead soul so why the heck should I even beg, the moment I touch that device, not only would I be crushed by this demon, I...

Salem pairs with Malik Roane, her partner, to chase leads quietly. But trust starts to crack. Malik knows more about her past than he admits.

The killer escalates victims are murdered in ways tied to specific foster kids. One was drowned in a bathtub. Another buried with dolls stuffed in their mouths.

Salem visits Dr. Ezra Kade, who helped her after a traumatic incident she can’t fully remembe...

Coming home to find her fiancé in bed with her cousin should have broken her, but Blair refuses to fall apart. She's strong, capable, and determined to move on. What she doesn't plan on is drowning her sorrows in too much of her bosses scotch... or ending up in bed with her ruthless, dangerously charming boss, Roman.
One night. That's all it was supposed to be.
But in the cold light of day, walkin...

Dr. Sophia Reeves thought moving to the quiet town of Millbrook would give her the fresh start she desperately needed after a career-ending scandal in Portland. What she didn't expect was to find herself in the middle of a supernatural mystery that challenges everything she believes about the world.
From her first day treating patients with injuries that don't match their stories—scratches too pre...

My name is Isabella Torres, and I made the biggest mistake of my career—I fell in love with my target.

Vincent Salvatore was supposed to be just another assignment. Get close, gather evidence, get out. Clean and simple.

But eighteen months later, I was carrying his child and planning a future I never thought I could have.

Then the explosion happened.

Vincent lost his memory—eighteen months of ...

Isla's quiet life as an alchemist is shattered when she discovers she bears the last traces of the Moon Goddess bloodline. Bound by a blood oath to Alpha Rowan—a man devoted to her sister—she's thrust into a world of ancient werewolf politics she never wanted.

As forbidden feelings ignite and hunters close in, Isla must choose: the freedom she’s always craved, or a love that could save—or destro...

At 2:17 AM, six weeks postpartum, new mom Harper thought she was just responding to her baby's crying. Instead, she discovered her husband Kieran and their live-in nanny Anya in the most intimate embrace—right beside her daughter's crib.
In her most vulnerable moment, in what should have been the safest space in her home, the two people she trusted most were betraying everything sacred about mothe...