Best After Death Stories & Novels Collection

I floated in what had once been my bridal studio, staring at the corpse curled up among the shattered plaster—that was me.

Three years ago, I had been my husband's moonlight, the exclusive signature on his design drafts, the one who had stayed with him from the basement to Fashion Week.

Later, I became the thief who had embezzled and fled, the stranger he spoke of.

My wedding dress had been sta...

My younger sister, Freya, was preparing for her advanced training in New York the following week, so she dragged me to the dance studio to help her correct her movements. I put on my dance shoes as usual and stood in the center of the floor, ready to demonstrate a turn.

The moment my foot slipped, I didn't even have time to react.

My body hit the ground hard, and the sharp pain from the back of ...

My parents raised me for twenty-four years. Then they found out I wasn't their biological daughter.

Their real daughter came home. She'd only been back two years. That's all it took to erase twenty-four.

When kidnappers grabbed us, I used my body as a shield. They beat me until something inside me ruptured. I was dying from internal bleeding, but no one could tell.

My parents wouldn't even look...

After Nicholas got engaged, his assistant handed me a plane ticket.

"Leave. Don’t ever show your face in Silverlight City again."

"Otherwise, Mr. Jackson has more than enough ways to ruin you."

All those years I spent by his side, I was admired by everyone, living in the spotlight.

Yet when I finally left, I was reduced to a pitiful, laughable sight.

I said, "Fine."

But that very night, the ...

I was the hottest entertainment lawyer in LA, until I overheard my husband and his rising-star client plotting to turn my life into their next project. My bottle of pancreatic cancer painkillers sat between them like a prop.
I died before the third act. He spent my legacy on a PR splash for her the day they buried me.
But Hollywood never saw a plot twist like this: I woke up.
Not just alive—but ba...

"I should've killed you when I had the chance," Julian snarled, his hot breath scorching my neck. "Kneel, Elena. Open wide and take it all!"

Framed by that viper Vanessa and my golden-boy ex-husband, I lost two years in prison—my family, my sweet Elian. Released with nothing, I begged on my knees—stripping in dingy clubs, giving blowjobs in Julian's penthouse, all for money to save our dying son....

In the terminal stage of cancer, my only life-saving chemotherapy opportunity was bought out by Patrick for Laura, who only had early-stage cancer.

I gave up the treatment plan that doctors said could save my life and swallowed strong pain-blocking medication. The consequence was organ failure and death within three days.

During these three days, I gave up everything.

When I gave all my hard-ea...

Have you ever been treated like a stand-in for your dead sibling by your own mother? I have.

Have you ever been murdered by your own mother? I have.

My name is Aira, and today is my sister Lily's birthday. It's also the anniversary of my death—the day the washing machine became my coffin.

"Why couldn't it have been you who died?"

After four long years, my mom finally got her wish.

When sixteen-year-old Ophelia dies reading werewolf novels at 3 AM, the Moon Goddess offers her a deal: save a corrupted timeline, and she can return to life.
The catch? She has to redeem Ryan, the future tyrant destined to destroy the world.
At seven, Ryan watched his father—an Alpha King consumed by dark magic—slaughter his mother's entire pack, then kill his mother when she tried to stop him. H...

Three years ago, I woke up in the body of a wealthy heiress, but this new life came with a strange rule: marry the man meant to be my husband, then "die" at the right moment to return to my own world.

I thought I could do it. None of this belonged to me anyway. But the longer I stayed, the harder it became to leave. His warmth, his quiet protectiveness, and the ease of this privileged life made m...

I used to be the luckiest girl alive—until my own mother locked me in a freezer and abandoned me there for eight agonizing days.

It all began with my father's affair with my ballet teacher. From then on, my mother despised me, blaming me for ruining her life and wishing I'd never been born. She showered affection on Emma, the girl who'd lost her own mother, while shoving me into that freezer as "...

I woke up and my husband hated me. My daughter was afraid of me. Everyone said I caused the accident.

But I remember the truth. Marcus was driving, not me. When that truck hit us, I threw my body over Iris to protect her. Yet when I woke from three months in a coma, everyone believed I was the criminal.

To save Marcus's life, I donated my liver. Now my body runs on an artificial system while he ...

I used to think death was just a quiet ending.
My life had already turned into a dead-end rut. My family was like a bottomless pit, always draining my savings; Lewis, the husband I'd once loved so deeply, had turned cold and distant, while his so-called lost love, Rebecca, kept provoking me, as if I were some unwanted shadow. I was tired—truly exhausted—convinced that only death could bring me rel...

I am Queen Seraphina of the Moonlight Empire. Ten years ago, I conquered the strongest Alpha, Lysander, on the battlefield but was captivated by his pride. Despite knowing his heart belonged to another, I forced a mate bond upon him.

I gained his body but never his heart.

For ten years, he channeled pure hatred through our bond—a slow poison that tormented me daily. Supreme queen though I was, I...

I am Vivian, the true heiress of the Sterling family, rescued from obscurity only to become the laughingstock of high society.
At my homecoming party, my adoptive sister, Seraphina, drugged me and delivered me to three men. As they violated me, she filmed it—then edited the footage to make it look consensual. When I tried to speak the truth, my own parents slapped me across the face.
For three yea...

"You're just adopted. Know your place."
"She's your sister—what's so hard about letting her have it?"

Those two sentences were my life sentence.
I gift-wrapped my pain, mistook silence for virtue,
foolishly believing that if I just endured enough, someone might love me back.

Until the day I watched my sister take my fiancé, while they all acted like she deserved him more than I did.

That's when...

She loved him enough to die for him.
A thousand years later, she’s back to make him pay.
Seraphina Vale was once a witch with a pure heart and a dangerous gift. When the vampire Caelum Draven was hunted and left to die, she broke every law of magic to save him, binding her life to his forever. But love became a curse. Betrayal followed, and she lost everything, even her soul.
Now, Seraphina liv...

Lights... cameras... and starts the seduction... This is the story of Cris Gómez, a kind and virtuous nun who, due to unforeseen circumstances, becomes entangled in a world driven by greed and exploitation within the adult entertainment industry. Almost innocently, she becomes a favored performer for her employer, concealing her true identity behind her work, while maintaining her inner faith and ...

How does fate weigh the value of a ten-year-old girl? To my father, I was just a debt waiting to be settled; to Marco Rossini, I was nothing more than the rare RH-negative blood pulsing in my veins.

"Elvira, you're special," he'd whisper, his slender fingers gliding along my veins, his eyes shining with a hunger I foolishly took for love.

For eight long years, I matured in that opulent prison, s...

The Empire Within
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Elena Cruz has it all—a billion-dollar tech empire, a corner office in Manhattan, and a reputation as one of the most brilliant CEOs of her generation. She built CruzTech from the ground up, transforming her father's modest import business into a global powerhouse. But success comes with a price she never imagined paying.
When her father, Antonio Cruz, is found...

Emma Carter is desperate. Three jobs can’t cover her mother’s life saving surgery, and time is running out. Then billionaire CEO Adrian Wolfe makes her an outrageous offer of two million dollars to be his wife for one year.

Adrian isn’t looking for love. He’s fighting to keep custody of his five-year old daughter, and a wife will make his case stronger. The only reason he chose Emma? She’s the s...

I died clutching our unborn baby's ultrasound photo while he fucked another woman in our marriage bed. But death isn't the end—

I died loving him. When I watched his hands touch her skin, his lips kiss hers where we once swore our vows, love became hatred. Now he'll taste my wrath." Three months pregnant, dying alone, yet forced to watch their moonlit intimacy. I couldn't stop it, couldn't scream...

Three months after I died, he used his Grammy acceptance speech to shame me before thirty million people. He accused me of ethical violations, of seducing him, then running off with his money and our dog, leaving him with massive medical debt.
Little did he know, our dog Max and I were both gone, taken by the same cancer.
At the stroke of midnight, as his words still hung in the air, my Instagram ...

"I'm dying... please save me..." The last words Avery spoke into the phone. The last words Felix chose to ignore. Six months later, when the insurance money calls, Felix Sutton will discover that some mistakes can never be forgiven—and some debts can only be paid with your life.

Claire got her death sentence at life's happiest moment—advanced cancer, six months to live.

At that very time, her husband Kelvin was at a crucial juncture in his career. To avoid becoming his burden, Claire orchestrated the perfect "betrayal"—letting Kelvin witness her "affair" with his own eyes. The enraged Kelvin immediately filed for divorce, and Claire became exactly what she intended: an u...

On my 25th birthday, the doctor handed me my death sentence—stage four pancreatic cancer, six months to live. The man I’d loved for seventeen years was flirting with his secretary while I coughed up blood and collapsed. He mocked me when chemo took my hair: “Even your hair is fake.” When I secretly transferred my last savings into his sports recovery fund—the very money that could’ve saved me—he t...

I'm dead, trapped as a ghost who can only follow my husband around.

Watching him examine my dismembered corpse at the garbage dump, his coldness shattered my heart—this man couldn't even recognize his own wife's wedding ring. When I heard him tell someone that my death was "convenient, saved him the hassle of divorce," rage nearly tore my soul apart.

But when I followed him back to his car and s...

I'm dead, but I'm begging you—please save my baby girl.
My eight-year-old daughter Grace sits by the window every night, wearing my rescue jacket that's way too big for her, waiting for mommy to come home. She doesn't know I died in that helicopter crash. She doesn't know she's about to be thrown into foster care.
And she has no idea that her father is Senator William Hawthorne.
Grace clutches my ...

I died, only to find myself turned into a ghost, helplessly watching the world continue to spin without me.

What's even more devastating is that my own sister—the one who killed me—is now lying in my bed. She's had plastic surgery to look exactly like me, mimicking my voice and even my habits perfectly, attempting to completely take over my life.

And my husband Rafael—New York's most dangerous m...

I died for three days. My boyfriend got a new girlfriend in two.
She's wearing my pink cardigan, sitting at our first-date table, having a candlelit dinner with my Zane. My apron on her body, my sangria recipe on her lips, even our private nickname "Z" rolling off her tongue.
I'm Harper Wells, 20, Olive Garden server, killed in a car crash. She's Brielle Kim, 22, Instagram influencer, my perfect r...

They killed me, but my ghost got stuck. I watched my boyfriend marry the woman who murdered me. I heard her steal my songs to win a Grammy. I was ready to destroy them both—until I saw his secrets. My picture against his heart. Lethal poison in his pocket. This was no wedding. It was his revenge, and it was the sickest, most beautiful duet we'd ever performed.

Three years ago, I destroyed the only man I ever loved.

"You're not good enough for my world," I lied, watching Ethan Cross's heart shatter completely. Now he's back. Richer. More ruthless. Ready for revenge.

"Marry me, or watch your family lose everything."

Our marriage is his masterpiece of revenge. He flaunts his perfect girlfriend in our home, forcing me to watch him replace me with everyth...

The Ghost's Diary

My name is Alice Crawford. I just slit my wrists in the bathtub, and now I'm a fucking ghost.

"Sarah can finally rest in peace."

That's what my husband Nicolas said when he found my body—no crying, no breakdown, just a whispered statement with a cruel smile. That's when I realized my death was exactly what he wanted all along.

They say death brings release. Bullshit. In death...

I died—not in the way you'd expect, but slowly, painfully, while he was entangled with her.

He called her his savior, the woman who sold everything to rescue his failing empire. Little did he know, it was my money, my life's work, that he squandered.

The betrayal burned hotter than any flame, and I vowed he'd pay.

Now, he's gone—a leap from the heights he once ruled, his fall as swift as ...

I thought returning to wealth meant happiness. I was wrong—it was the entrance to hell.
My celebrity husband Ryan uses me as his personal punching bag every night, calling it "method acting." Meanwhile, my perfect sister Stella whispers in his ear: "Ruby did everything during her street years. You need to show her where she belongs."
When I called for help while holding my three-year-old Lily, cry...