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...

"P-please, I beg you. Come let's go tell Christian I had no hand in whatever happened, p-please." I clutched the lapel of his jacket desperately. "Let's go. You need to tell my husband you were paid."
"Young lady, you're harassing me." His tone was cold and his stare granite.
But I could care less. "You harassed me first! You had sex with me without my consent, my husband knows and now I'm pregna...

She saved his life.
He ruined hers.
Now they have another chance, but a secret could tear them apart.

Aria Blake is a new maid, unnoticed by the rich and powerful. But when tech billionaire Damian Cross is attacked at home, she's the one who finds him barely alive. She saves him, then vanishes.

The next day, she's fired for something she didn't do. She's silenced, embarrased and sent away.

Dami...

To get revenge on my cheating ex, I splurged a fortune on the most expensive 'escort,' only to discover he was the one person who could save my father's life—a top-tier surgeon.

He cornered me, a dangerous smile playing on his lips. "The 'service fee' you left that night," he whispered, "it seems it wasn't quite enough." To save my family from bankruptcy and my gravely ill father, I had no choice...

Her mate chose her sister.
Her family chose lies.
Her Alpha chose exile.

Novalyn lost everything the night betrayal carved her out of the only life she’d ever known. Now, she lives in solitude, pouring her rare healing gift into the animals on her farm, far from the cruelty of packs and mates.

But fate isn’t finished with her.

Lazarus, the feared young Alpha, crashes into her world, dangerous, ...

Laura Brown was a plain nerd in the most prestigious high school in New York City, mocked for her looks and bullied for her poverty.

But when she is betrayed and loses everything she held dear. Her dignity. Her future. Even her memories… she swore to get revenge on everyone that hurt her.

Eight years later, she reappears as a tech empire queen. A Billionairess.

Untouchable. Powerful.

No long...

Tomorrow I was to marry the "suitable" good man—until my "deceased" first love, Fenrir, now the Alpha King, stormed in with his army on a thunderous night and tore my wedding dress to shreds before everyone.
Eight years ago, he promised under the moon to return and marry me. Eight years later, he gripped my chin and hissed, "From the moment you saved me, you were destined to be mine."
I hated him...

I thought my past was buried until Kieran walked into that bridal shop. The same guy who chose video games over becoming Alpha, who watched me work three jobs while he did nothing. Three years later, I'm building something beautiful with Nathaniel and our growing pack alliance. But Kieran's back, obsessed and desperate, hunting me down at every turn. He thinks I owe him another chance. Some men ne...

When I died alone in the hospital in my past life, Nathaniel was in Paris getting engaged to Sophia.

Reborn on the day of Mom's funeral, I watched him announce his first love's return at the gala. Watched him smile at her the way he never smiled at me in three years.

So I threw wine in his face.

"The transaction is over, Nathaniel."

In front of all Boston high society, I dropped his million-do...

Have you ever been yanked by your hair in the dead of night, at 3 a.m., forced to your knees on that freezing tile floor while your mother-in-law stands there clapping like it's some twisted game, barking, "Say it—say you're worthless trash!"? God, I have. I've felt the sickening thud of a baseball bat slamming into my swollen belly, the fragile kicks of my unborn baby fading to nothing... and the...

On the night of her anniversary, Renee was pushed into the sea by her husband and best friend, their betrayal disguised as an accident. They pretended to grieve at her funeral, but little did they know, even the Moon Goddess couldn't let it end that way. Renee was reborn.
This time, everything is different. The powerful, cold-hearted Alpha—her best friend's father—finds himself drawn to her in way...

He serves me divorce papers for his one true love, and I readily agree. But when I move on with another man, he's driven mad by jealousy, pinning me to the wall with a furious, possessive kiss.
"Until I'm tired of you, you are mine!"
I thought it was just a twisted game of possession... until a cold blade presses against my throat, and he becomes my only hope...

The sound of bones cracking filled the forests eery silence as what was once a wolf was beginning to contort into a humanoid creature.

Pinching herself Danica tried to wake from what had to be a dream as a naked man occupied where once stood a wolf.  Not any man, but Mason Thompson, the neighborhood playboy.

He sniffed the air while examining the area to make sure there were no more threats befo...

When thirty-year-old interior designer Valerie Edwards is dumped weeks before her younger sister’s wedding, she is desperate to save face in front of her overbearing family. The only solution is a fake romance with her best friend’s brother—Jake Lloyd, a tech billionaire with a marriage clause standing between him and a billion-dollar deal.

But what starts as a convenient arrangement quickly spir...

She was a ghost in the underworld, her name whispered, her power feared, her face unknown. A queen in shadows, built from blood, betrayal, and vengeance. No one knew if she was a man or woman, only that the kingdoms of crime bent their knees when she spoke.

But when she stepped out of her “safe place” to embrace the parents she never knew, she didn’t find love but found betrayal. Sold like curren...

At the board meeting, he voted to dilute my equity.

"This is business, Elena. Not personal."

Three years of hidden marriage. I thought we were partners. But in that moment, I finally understood—I was just his technical supplier on the road to success.

What Ryan didn't know: that Technology Contribution Agreement he signed three years ago contained one clause. 70% of NexTech's core algorithm IP ...

On the eve of my wedding, I was drugged—forced to watch my fiancé's ultimate betrayal with my own cousin. But my nightmare didn't end there. A mysterious, scarred man dragged me into an even deeper abyss.

Five years later, I return with my three secret children, sworn to take my revenge. A fender bender, however, brings me face-to-face with the most feared man in all of New York—the CEO of the Sk...

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...

"If you hadn't played hero that day, Dayna," my father snarled, "we wouldn't be in this mess. Saving some random old woman and ruining your eyes! Do you have any idea what your medical bills cost us? Now a guy wants to marry you. Marry him quick and stop bothering us!"

I was just a college freshman when I sacrificed my sight to save an elderly lady from an ancident. But now, my own family called ...

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...

Clio's life hasn't been easy and she'd like to keep her secrets to herself but even when she's trying to pursue her happiness she find out her boyfriend was never loyal to her and now she's being sent to a place where the worst of her nightmares live, to try and find a serial killer who might just be her new boss

"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...

"Soulmate? Fated pair??" Eli scoffed, "There is no such anymore."

"They exist!"

"Not anymore. Because that's our punishment for choosing to live freely. We abandoned the moon goddess and she abandoned us." Eli said and in my heart, I knew he was right. We live- no, we werewolves pretty much rule over the humans now but as punishment, we no longer have fated mates.

This is a world where werewol...

“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...