Best Bittersweet Stories & Novels Collection

I stepped onto the stone terrace, gripping the marble railing as cool October wind cleared my head. Below, the city glittered like scattered diamonds. Above, the three-quarter moon cast everything in silver light.

That's when I heard Marcus's voice through the partially open door beside me. Speaking in Moonspeak, the ancient werewolf language.

"The bloodline will be secured within months. Vera c...

“Lola, I’ll love you for the rest of my life. If I ever break this promise, may heaven strike me down with thunder!”
The vows Ethan Jones made to me ten years ago still rang in my ears.
Yet ten years later, our daughter Lucy was standing in front of me, holding his hand—and the hand of his mistress, Alice.
“I don’t want you, you old, frumpy woman, as my mom. Alice is my mom!”
Not only did Ethan fa...

Ashley Parker’s world shatters when her Alpha, Adrian Rodrigue, publicly rejects her, branding her unworthy and choosing another as his Luna. Humiliated and cast out, Ashley becomes a target for the new Luna’s jealousy-fueled assassins, barely escaping with her life. Broken but unbowed, she was taken in by a rogue Alpha who sees the fire in her soul—a strength even she didn’t know she possessed. ...

Nora Elizabeth Wells thought the worst pain was discovering her boyfriend of seven years was a cheater. She was wrong. The real nightmare begins when a night of desperate clubbing ends with her waking up in bed with her stepsister’s fiancé, a man bound to a wheelchair.

The scandal is immediate. Furious and disgraced, Nora’s father forces her into a marriage with the very man in the middle of the ...

Six months ago, Lila Falcone thought she knew love. She never imagined that a man she trusted, Nikolai, could vanish and that his death would drag her into a world of darkness she didn't even know existed.

Now, trapped in the hands of his twin brother, Nico, Lila must confront a twisted reality where desire and danger collide. He blames her for his brother's death, yet the line between punishment...

I graduated college with Owen, my childhood best friend, and we finally started dating. He said we should keep it secret for a year first, didn't want things getting messy with our parents being so close if things went south. Once we hit that one-year mark, we'd go public and get engaged. I believed him. It's been eight months now, keeping it secret the whole time.

Meanwhile, my dad got offered a...

When innocent and naive Dr. Emily Brown, a small-town girl turned city resident, meets Marco "Lucifer" Santoro, the ruthless and cunning mafia boss, she's thrust into a world of danger and desire. Their chance encounter ignites a fiery passion that neither can ignore, and Emily finds herself torn between her sheltered upbringing and the dark allure of Marco's world.

As Emily navigates the treache...

I'm Riley. Orphan. Motorcycle mechanic. And the biggest fool in Texas.

For ten years, I thought oil tycoon Colt loved me. His adopted daughter by day, his woman by night. I actually believed his whispered promises in the dark.

Then I watched him announce his engagement to someone else.

"Your father saved my life. You're my responsibility," he said when I confronted him. Like I was some charity ...

When my parents forced me to donate my organs to my sister, I didn't refuse or run away. I just quietly signed the surgical consent forms, willingly giving my kidney to Vivienne, their beloved daughter.

A few months ago, my sister was hospitalized with kidney failure. The doctor said she needed a transplant. My family's first thought was me—the backup daughter they'd kept around all these years.
...

She only wanted one night.

He was supposed to be a beautiful stranger she’d never see again.

But fate has other plans.

Three years ago, Emmaline Facer made a bold choice. She slept with the first man who made her heart race — and disappeared the next morning, leaving with stolen money, a stolen car, and leaving behind a man who never stopped looking for her.

Now? She’s back. Working for one o...

Ten years ago, eight-year-old him nearly died under wolf claws trying to save me. Ten years later, when I gathered the courage to return to this town, that little hero had become a dangerous man.

"We're strangers, remember?" The eyes that used to be gentle only for me now looked at me with cold indifference.

But why does he hold me tight every time I'm in trouble? Why is his skin burning hot and...

I stood outside Jake's door with homemade cookies, planning how we'd fix our three-and-a-half-year relationship after this fight.

The door opened. A strange girl wearing my vintage T-shirt smiled at me. On the coffee table, the couples subscription box I'd ordered lay open, massage oil gleaming with intimate promise in the sunlight.

"Jake surprised me with these last night," she chirped. "We had...

"Honey, please open the door! Please!"

Kate Sterling pounded desperately on the basement door, with only 15 minutes left before the interview that could change her life. Yet here she was, locked inside by the very man she loved most.

It all started with a single prophecy from their new neighbor, Anna Cross: "If Kate goes to that interview, your marriage is over."

Anna's predictions had never be...

Arielle thought she had it all, until she overheard her fiance and mother confessing on how they set her house on fire with her inside just so her sister could win an award, worse, they forcefully take her blood and give it to Lisa as well, leaving her charred and writhing in pain but at the verge of death, a shadowy figure grants her one wish; revenge.

Now she returns with her face, spiteful an...

After enduring a loveless marriage for her family, They betrayed her. She had married the dangerous Eric Black and his indifference towards her had washed away any feelings she had felt for him. It took being pushed into the ocean for Lilac to choose herself, but it was too late. As sea water washed into her lungs, she swore if she had one more chance, she would take down her filthy sister. To her...

Audrey Hepburn thought she had found her happily ever after. At twenty four, she fell deeply in love with Izo Whitmore, an older, powerful billionaire known for his wealth, charm, and philanthropy. Despite whispers about their age gap, nothing could shake her devotion. Two years of passion and promises led to the wedding of her dreams.

‎But her fairy tale shatters on their wedding night. Under th...

When Liana Moretti discovered her boyfriend was cheating with a girl, she didn’t cry but plotted. And when she found out that girl had a powerful, reclusive uncle working at the university, Liana picked her next target.
Professor Caelum Morano, who was brilliant, cold, and untouchable. What no one knows is that beneath his clean-cut academic disguise lies the most feared Mafia Don in Europe… and t...

She was raised to believe she was a human being.
He was born to destroy what she truly is.
But fate never follows the blood it spills.

When twenty-one-year-old Aria Vale begins suffering from visions of silver moons and wolves howling beneath the city streets, she thinks she’s losing her mind. But the night she meets Kael Draven, everything changes. His eyes—mercurial and ancient—awaken something...

To save her kingdom, Princess Elara of Vareth is given to the Devil’s son. But her new husband, Azael, seems more human than monster, and far too familiar.

When she finds a garden filled with statues carved in her image, she realizes her fate didn’t begin the night she met him. It began centuries ago, when she was Seraphine, the first Bride of Flame.

Now trapped in a cycle of love, death, and re...

“I want to leave.” Kyla snapped as she jumped off his bed.

“Name– Kyla Grey, Poor, orphaned, single,” Kendrick growled. “You are not going anywhere, Kyla Grey… you are homeless.”

“Are you stalking me? How did you know so much?”

Kendrick smirked as he got up and pranced towards her slowly, his pace was slow and sturdy. Kyla stepped back, gulping. Her eyes locked on him.

Kendrick overshadowed ...

When I reached him, he had his hand already stretched out at me, smitten and totally lost of words to speak.
I politely gave out my hand and like the most gentleman in a fairy tale, he gave my hand a kiss. At that moment, I felt I was in control, in total control of everything.
Or maybe I was always in control— of this man, Santiano Rafael Devereaux...

Vanessa Hudgens was about to get married to ...

A Luna or a Slave?
Edwina Quinley had nothing to offer in her life after her father being the sole enemy of Alpha King, Hades Lysander. Hades, renowned for being a beast in nature goes mad in rage after losing his beloved Luna. Hades wants nothing but revenge for the love of his life even if destroying a whole pack.Hades wanted to destroy her pack including her. As a loyal Luna to her pack, Edwina...

Selena was betrayed and buried at the bottom of the sea by her husband and first love. After returning from heaven, she is determined to take revenge on those who stole her happiness and life.

The first step on her path to revenge is to seduce the man her husband’s lover is infatuated with, so that she can understand the pain of having her beloved taken away.

Balthazar: “Selena, did you ever lov...

After a viral rescue video exposes her glitchy Gravity Anchor, sixteen-year-old Floater Ava Ward is invited to the elite Gravity Academy—but only to test a dangerous prototype. Inside the device lives Aero, an illegal AI with a sarcastic personality and a terrifying secret: the Academy is deliberately destabilizing gravity in poor districts to keep them dependent. As Ava's body begins losing all g...

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“Fuck,” I moan as strong arms wrap themselves around me, holding me steady. So much for no one being able to touch me besides my mate.
“Are you okay?” The deep timber of masculinity in a single sentence settles awareness within me, and instantly, all my senses become heightened and awakened.
The rich scent of wood and rain hits me so hard that it makes me dizzy, and the electric ...

Running for my life, I tumble straight into a hidden underground palace of nightmares.

The Bride-Selection slaughter is underway—no girl has survived in ten years. Bodies torn apart, blood everywhere.

Then the monstrous black dragon lowers its massive head… and gently nuzzles my palm like a lovesick puppy.

The man on the throne stares down with violet eyes.

"You don't get to run anymore. You'r...

Four years ago, I gave birth to triplets—three wolf pup babies with golden eyes.

From that moment, I knew my life had changed forever.

For four years, I've lived like a fugitive, hiding with my children in the most run-down corner of Brooklyn, running a pathetic little coffee shop. Every full moon night, I had to hold down their trembling little bodies with all my strength, keeping their wild na...

I woke up zip-tied in a speeding car, tape over my mouth, my wrists screaming in pain. My boyfriend Gregory's ex-girlfriend Marcella was driving us toward a cliff. Ninety miles an hour. I really thought I was going to die.

But when the police pulled us from the wreck, Gregory ran past my stretcher—straight to her.

"Marcella! Oh my god, what did you do?" He held her while I lay there covered in ...

"I hate you! I hate you so fucking much! You're nothing but a monster who caged me!"

When Catalina Santos screamed those words, he grabbed her throat, blue eyes blazing with destructive fury:

"Hate me? You fucking owe me."

The gentle protector who'd shielded her for fifteen years had become the vengeful beast destroying her. Because of betrayal. Because she chose to love another man. Because th...

In her past life, Mira had been hunted like prey.
Tortured. Marked. Left to die beneath a cursed red moon by the same three boys who now lived under the same roof.

But fate hadn’t been done with her.

Reborn in a different life, Mira woke in the Shadowclaw Pack estate as a human this time, early enough to run. But during Alpha Darius’s birthday feast, the Moonstone revealed a cruel truth:

She wa...

His hungry gaze dropped to my body, drinking me in, making me feel my arousal.
The way he looks at me makes my skin tingle, makes me hungry for him; I would die for his stares.
He lifted my legs and placed them around his waist, and began to slide his cock around my swollen flesh.
Fuck! It was a new kind of feeling, something I couldn't quite put into words.

“Max please!” I pleaded, with desperat...

Pedro Hernandez spent seven years away from Los Angeles and after the death of his father, Maxwell Hernandez, he can finally return home. With Max's death, Pedro feels relief and freedom, after living a lonely life, trapped in Madrid, a city he hated, far from the people he loved. However, everything he knew is completely different and now he must adapt to the city again while taking on the respon...

“You are mine now, solnishko,” he murmurs, the Russian word rolling off his tongue like silk and smoke.
“Every breath you take belongs to me, every look, and every word. I don’t share what is mine. I don’t negotiate it either.”
I try to breathe, but his hand stays where it is, on my thigh heat searing through my body.
“You will learn soon enough,” he continues, voice low and deliberate, “that in ...

"She’s the woman he wants, but will he win her heart before he loses himself?"

In the glamorous world of Monaco, Lila De Laurent, a sweet and stunning heiress, finds herself bound to the dangerously handsome billionaire, Damien Vasilis, in a marriage neither of them wants. But as sparks fly between them, their fierce attraction becomes impossible to ignore.

Damien is a man with a dark past and...

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"I don't need anyone. I built this pack alone."


Ignas is the only female Alpha in New Orleans. She's tough, powerful, but lonely. Her mate died in battle years ago and she never got over it.

When another pack starts a war over land, Ignas fights back. But on the battlefield, she locks eyes with the enemy general and feels something impossible. The mate bond.

Lykon was suppo...

Half-dragon. Half-wolf. All forbidden.

When Vayra’s secret bursts into flame, her own village brands her a curse and casts her out. Alone, bleeding, and hunted, she stumbles into the path of the Blackfang biker pack—five dangerous Alphas with the scent of smoke, leather, and sin.

The moment Alpha Damon Blackfang lays eyes on her, the bond strikes like lightning. She’s his. But fate isn’t done. T...

Every person is born with two shadows: their own, and their Echo—a silent counterpart whose experiences shape their instincts and fears across different timelines. Most never see their Echo. But on the night of a rare astral convergence, Amelie's Echo steps out of her shadow and becomes flesh—manifesting as Dexter, a man with memories of her unborn destiny. After one impossible night together, he ...

As the only human, I married Darren, the second son of the Silver Moon Pack. In this werewolf family struggling with a dying bloodline, I thought I was just an outsider.

Until I got pregnant with twins.

The news sent shockwaves through the entire pack—the Silver Moon bloodline finally had hope! Million-dollar estates, pack members' worship, Alpha father-in-law's devotion—everything beautiful cam...

Marilyn is a self made boss and a Baddie. She does not soften for anyone but she made an exception for her fiancé.
Until she found out her fiancé Tom was cheating on her. To make matter worse, he didn't feel remorse. He broke off the engagement and left her standing there like a fool.
She ends up at a hotel bar, where an arrogant stranger approaches her. He’s persistent, irritatingly sure of himse...

Mabel Parker has lived a hard-knock life, not only is she betrayed by her father, she loses her job that same day and is on the verge of being kicked out by her landlord. Ruth, her best friend suggests that she takes a job as a server at a high-class society ball and there, Mabel meets Alec Rivera, the CEO of Daston Airlines and heir of the Rivera group; one of the richest families in North Americ...

Twenty-two-year-old Alyssa Van Every is in a dilemma. Her close friend, Sienna, is marrying billionaire, Lucas Donnelly who, along with his brothers, happens to be her older brother, Alex's sworn enemy.
She escapes to Preston Island to attend the wedding without informing him only to collide with Lucas’s hot, fiery and arrogant brother, the twenty-three-year-old, Nicholas Donnelly. Sparks immedia...

When the Tide Took Him — A Romantic Suspense Novel
Four years ago, on a fogchoked night in coastal Maine, Silas Ward vanished without a trace. The town moved on. The police closed the case. But Eveline Shore never stopped searching—or feeling the echo of the boy she once loved whispering, “Eve, I’ll always find you.”
When Eveline discovers a torn page from Silas’s notebook hidden inside the abando...

Echo Miller once had the perfect married life—a gentle, caring husband Jason, an adorable daughter Emma, and an enviable middle-class lifestyle. Until one midnight, she felt a stranger's brutal assault through a drug-induced haze, only to wake up and find her husband sleeping peacefully on the couch.

At first, she thought it was a nightmare, until the tearing pain and bodily fluids on her underwe...

Twenty years ago, four-year-old Alicia vanished from a park, falling from Connecticut's wealthiest heiress to an orphan overnight. Twenty years later, her birth parents find her working at a coffee shop, bringing her back to a life of luxury.

But behind the fairy tale reunion lurks deadly danger. A mysterious guardian angel named Gabriel begins sending her prophetic warnings about her family's im...

My name is Neve Thornwood. I'm twenty-four and about to awaken as a wolf for the first time.
Yes, twenty-four. First awakening.
But I already have a chosen mate and a beautiful five-year-old daughter.
In the wolf world, that makes me an anomaly. A late bloomer. Some would say broken. My mother would say cursed.
Turns out, she's right.
What I didn't know was that she's the one who cursed me. She's ...

Claire's love for Richard was legendary—three years of devotion that everyone envied. Until the day she found her best friend Monica on top of her husband in their living room, and her world shattered.

"Sign it, Claire," Richard said, tossing divorce papers at her hospital bed, his once-warm blue eyes now ice cold. "You disgust me. You're clingy, obsessed, and suffocating."

One year later, Clair...

🔔🔔 Fair warning: this book contains steamy scenes, forbidden romance, stepdad and daughter taboos and languages strictly 18+

When desire crosses the line, hearts are bound to burn.

Isabella has always lived in the shadow of control until one night shatters every boundary she thought she could keep. Drawn to a man she can’t have, she’s caught between guilt and a passion that refuses to die.

Bu...

Five years ago, Aria was the Alpha's beloved daughter, deeply in love with Terry, the pack's strongest warrior.

When Terry lay dying from silver poison, Aria risked everything to find the life-saving moonlight flower in the forbidden Blood Moon Forest. But her half-sister Sera betrayed her—stealing the flower and pushing her off a cliff.

When Aria crawled back, broken and bleeding, Sera had alre...

Elena Martinez was an ordinary girl from Salem until her father's gambling debts caught up with him—debts owed to an underground vampire loan operation. When those pale, fang-bearing "creditors" showed up at her door, she learned that vampires were real.

The blood clan gave her a brutal choice: her family's death, or Elena would enter Crimson Rose Academy as a blood servant to pay the debt. To p...

Bianca Morena is accustomed to playing the dutiful daughter, but when her powerful family in Cape Townthe Morenas, who control vast wealth and trade routes—informs her she's been traded into an arranged marriage to solidify a corporate alliance, her compliance shatters. She is to marry Alessandro DeSanti, heir to a powerful Italian empire, a man she's never met and whose future she desperately wan...