Best Female Growth Stories & Novels Collection

At Nightborne Academy, your bloodline is everything.
Vampires, wolves, witches—they all belong.

Ayla Rowan doesn't.

She thought she was just a human on scholarship. She was wrong. She’s the last of a forbidden bloodline—the Nightborne.
Now, caught between two rival heirs, she faces an impossible choice:

The vampire who claims her touch is his only salvation.
The wolf who would break his sacred ...

She was meant to die in the woods—until he claimed her as his.

Captured by a ruthless Lycan tribe, runaway Lina is thrown at the feet of Alpha Kael—a man as cold as he is commanding. Her death should have been swift, but in one glance, his wolf recognizes what she truly is: his fated mate.

Lina carries a secret that marks her for death: she is the last heir of a lost royal bloodline, a treasure ...

Aria Blackthorn was once the pride of the Moonshade Pack. The strong, capable daughter of a respected Beta and a warrior. But everything begins to crumble the day her fated mate, Alpha Kade, rejects her in front of the entire pack and banishes her from the pack.

Aria is cursed was all they could say and this became a stigma. She was hunted by rogues and was left to die but survived.

The secret...

I spent three years chasing Caden Hartwell.

He's the future Alpha. I'm just the daughter of fallen warriors. He said I was too rough, not elegant enough, could never be Luna. For three years, I changed everything to be worthy of him—wore dresses, learned makeup, cut back on training. But our relationship stayed a secret.

Until that night when I walked into his family's study and saw him with ano...

My dad passed away, leaving me a massive inheritance and this huge, empty mansion. Every morning, I'd wake up feeling totally empty inside. My body craved touch, my heart even emptier. Gazing in the mirror at my tempting curves, but who was there to hold me? To ignite that spark?

Then he showed up. Dominic, my personal trainer. Built like a god, with ripped muscles and eyes that burned right thr...

My second husband's three children have never called me "Mom." Not once in seven years.
I've been cooking since 5 AM—twenty-pound turkey, forty potatoes, three pies from scratch. At dinner, my husband stands to give thanks: "To my beautiful children. To my dear Caroline, watching over us."
Caroline. His first wife. Dead six years, still the only mother in this house.
Everyone applauds. No one look...

I used to think love could save me, only to marry the bastard who dragged me straight to hell himself. Kneeling at 4 AM, scrubbing blood stains off the floor. Miscarrying my baby after his brutal beatings. Holding broken glass to my wrist in a strip club storage room—until, on his deathbed, my father transferred eight hundred million in assets to me. Now I'm sitting pretty in the CEO's office, roc...

When my mother died, our home fell unbearably silent.
And just when I was at my weakest, my father brought a strange girl into our house.
She was sweet, polite, effortlessly lovable—everyone adored her.
Everyone but me.
Because something about her felt wrong—as if her arrival was never a coincidence.

The day I died, I found a locked box in my husband's closet.

Inside were thirty years of lies.

Gray Reed saved my life when I was eight. Everyone said I owed him everything. At eighteen, I gave him my college applications to "help revise" - he was my guidance counselor. He told me, "Livy, you're not competitive enough. Stanford's too hard. Consider community college instead."

I believed him. I ...

I shattered the perfume I crafted for him, and with it, my ridiculous love.
When Damian called me a "cheap and replaceable tool" in front of everyone in that elite club's private booth, my three-year secret crush died instantly. The bottle, containing my heartfelt creation, lay in pieces on the floor—just like my dignity.
But then his identical twin brother, Declan, found me. "If he doesn't want y...

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...

At eighteen, my mother arranged my engagement to Albert Sanchez—my childhood friend, tall, handsome, and everything I thought I wanted. She told me I'd inherit the family business after marriage, and I was thrilled. I even went shopping for the perfect engagement jewelry, saving my mother's heirloom pieces for the actual wedding.

That's when some trashy girl with blood-red nails grabbed the neckl...

He killed me twice. This third time, I'll make him wish he was dead!
In my first life, I was a beloved queen, only to discover three years into my marriage that my husband William was having an affair with Anne—my most trusted lady-in-waiting!
That night, I caught them in each other's arms in my study. Anne was wearing my royal robes while William moaned her name...
"Margaret is just a figurehead....

People said my sister-in-law scared them when she was angry.

They talked about the time she roared at my brother in front of the entire pack, or when she threw a file at his head during a council meeting. They called her the "She-Wolf Tyrant," whispered about how Alpha Damon was "whipped."

But I knew the truth.

Kira was most terrifying when she was calm.

That's when I knew she had made a decis...

Eighteen should feel different.
It doesn't.
At my birthday party, my stepfather announces three rules: forget NYU, pay rent, do all the housework. I wait for Mom to defend me. Instead, she agrees. Says I "need to learn responsibility." That night, she shoves me out the window with five hundred dollars and a vintage handbag.
I spend the next year working retail in Boston, living on my aunt's couch,...

I was on my knees outside the ICU, making my seventh call to my husband.

"Adrian, please. Dad's dying. He just wants one family photo. That's all he's asking."

"Baby, I know. I'm on my way, I promise."

Two hours later, my father died with his eyes fixed on the door.

And my husband's Instagram showed: at the exact moment I was begging on that hospital floor, he was at the Golden Gate Bridge cap...

Seven years ago, I was Maplewood's heroine.
My husband Daniel Wright would proudly say every morning, "Good morning, my hero." My nine-year-old daughter Olivia would look up at me adoringly and shout, "Mommy, you're a superhero!"
Until I saved Aurora Page—a 16-year-old girl abused by her stepfather. She moved into our home and said gratefully, "Claire, you saved my life. I can never repay you."
Fi...

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 ...

I thought the rules of the love game were simple—pretend to be a harmless art student, seduce a rich boy, take the money and run.

I never expected to fall in love with two men at the same time.

Even less expected was that when my tattoo artist identity was exposed at the charity auction, it wasn't them who abandoned me—it was me who abandoned them.

Zane said he loved my rebellion, Finn said he ...

They called me blessed by the Moon Goddess.
Chosen to be Luna of the Crescent Moon Pack.
Promised to Alpha Darius Thorn — a man carved from power, discipline, and loyalty. My life was supposed to be perfect… destined.
But destiny lied.
The night I met him — Kieran, the rogue with the storm in his eyes — something inside me shifted. His scent burned into my veins, his touch felt like home, and his ...

Ailsa, the proud Beta Female of the Silver Moon Pack, always believed in the strength of fated mates until the one meant for her, Alpha Lorcan, publicly rejects her for another. Humiliated and heartbroken, she refuses to stay where she is no longer wanted and flees into the dangerous territory of the Shadow Pack.

Ruled by the ruthless and feared Alpha Lucian, the Shadow Pack is no place for weak...

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...

When Noah betrayed me for fresher meat, he thought the only cost was our eight-year relationship. He never imagined I'd take with me the very soul of his commercial empire—and a secret he would never uncover.
For three years, he hunted for me like a madman, from Los Angeles to Reykjavik, until he finally knelt at my doorstep in Lagos.
"Give me a chance," he begged, "for the sake of our past."
I lo...

Just seventeen minutes after my mother drew her last breath, I ran into a man in the hospital stairwell, his head wrapped in a blood-soaked bandage. His expensive suit was shredded, and he begged me not to call a doctor, whispering only, "They're trying to kill me." With tears blurring my vision, I made the craziest decision of my life—I hid this amnesiac stranger in the now-empty hospital room wh...

I found the receipt in my husband Owen's jacket. Le Bernardin. 8:30 PM. Two entrees, wine, crème brûlée—Kenna's favorite.
At 8:30, I was sitting in the ER. My mom needed emergency surgery, and I'd begged him to come. He said he was working late.
He lied.
For three years, I gave Owen everything. Eighty thousand dollars from my parents—our down payment money—to fund his architecture studio. My incom...

I died in his arms as poison burned through my veins, and Dante Russo finally said "I love you." But by then, he'd spent ten years on revenge and turned himself into a monster.

I opened my eyes. Back at our engagement party. Ten years earlier.

This man is still young, still has light in his eyes. Tonight at midnight he'll kill his first victim—and never find his way back.

"Don't see Vincent ton...

In my past life, during the mate selection ceremony, my sister Nova chose Axel without hesitation—the Pack's strongest warrior. I was left with Douglas, the supposedly "gentle" healer.

Everyone thought it was the natural order. Strong with strong, weak with weak.

But three years later, fate took a cruel turn.

Axel's wolf spiraled out of control from excessive battles, turning him into a mad wol...

Mistaken for a runaway bride, Mildred's ordinary life is shattered when she's forced to marry the Alpha King. Trapped in a castle of secrets, she's a pawn in a deadly game she doesn't understand. When danger strikes, Mildred must face her greatest fear to save the kingdom and the heart of a king who never wanted to love her. Will their bond be their undoing, or will it be the key to their survival...

I'm Qiana.

On my eighteenth birthday, I had to walk home from the hospital by myself. I wasn't even fully recovered yet. My family? They were throwing a grand coming-of-age ceremony for my twin sister Stella.

Yes, "her" ceremony. Not "ours."

I've owed her since the day we were born—at least that's what my parents kept telling me. Because I "stole" her nutrition in the womb and made her weak and...

She thought he was just an ordinary law student, until that bloody night—

Nurse Esperanza is five months pregnant, but she can't tell anyone who the father is. After three years of passionate love and one brutal breakup, she thought she'd never see Dante Santangelo again.

Until that early morning when she's urgently called to the VIP ward, only to find him bleeding on a hospital bed, surrounded ...

I was six years old when Mom took my brother and me by the hand, leading us into a mansion that looked like a palace. She told us this was our new beginning, after all the hardships we'd been through. But no one warned me that this so-called better life would mean giving up everything I had.

My scholarships, my prom dress, even my Stanford acceptance letter—they all turned into bargaining chips j...

I died screaming as my "gentle" husband forced poison down my throat. His last words? "Just a small experiment, my dear wife."

But death gave me a second chance.

I'm back to the night I have to choose between two Torrente brothers - the "safe" Matteo and the "dangerous" Marco. My sister Valentina is here too, and I can hear her thoughts now. She's planning to steal Matteo, leaving me with the "m...

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...

Betrayed by love.
Marked by the Moon.
Reborn in ruin.
After her fated mate rejects her, Selene Thorne flees into the cursed Shadow Woods where death should have claimed her. Instead, the Moon Goddess marks her with a forbidden power that could save or destroy the world.
Now hunted by her former pack and drawn to a rival Alpha with secrets of his own, Selene must master the fire burning inside he...

"Get out! I’m your sister!"
"Sister?" Alex let out a derisive scoff, his burning palm pressing against the small of my bare back, pulling me even deeper into his embrace. "A sister with no blood ties? That’s the very reason I’ve been waiting all these years."
I was once the most dazzling socialite in Washington, until I discovered I was a fake, a stand-in for the true heiress. I fled in panic, try...

I've played the broken girl for years, hiding behind a fake scar. They think they've crushed me. They're wrong. Revenge is mine.

"You can't run from me," Jack Sterling smirked, eyes blazing.

"I've destroyed worse." I snapped, "Underestimate me. Big mistake."

In his private suite, his touch claimed me. "You're mine to break," he growled, his kiss igniting a hunger I can't escape.

Tortured by m...

Kerri Coleman thought her worst nightmare was divorcing Liam Tate - Hollywood's hottest actor and the man she loved in secret.
But when she exposed their hidden marriage, the world didn't crown her his wife... it crucified her as his scandal. Betrayed, penniless, and hunted by Liam's furious fans, she had nowhere left to turn.
Until she met him.
Arlo Frantz. Infamous mafia boss. The man who claime...

When human healer Elera saves a dying silver-eyed wolf, she never imagines he’s Prince Aiden—
or that her touch would bind their lives under the Blood Moon Bond.
Now the Queen wants her dead because legends say the one who holds a wolf’s heart has the power to end or save their entire race.
Aiden refuses to release her,
and her human friend—the one who’s loved her for years—desperately searches fo...

Raina Winters, Alpha Kian Tara’s female Beta, is keeping a secret from her Alpha believing she would never be accepted by her Alpha as a desirable mate and suitable Luna. For years, she has watched her fated mate love another while she suffered in silence lingering too close to death until her Alpha and his childhood sweetheart break up, wanting to find his fated mate. Even after the break up, she...

He is her family’s greatest enemy. He is also the only man who has ever truly possessed her.
Deborah is a bird in a gilded cage, ruled by brothers who treat her heart like family property. In her world, love isn't a gift, it’s a liability.
But then came Luther Cain. Cold. Lethal. And the CEO of the empire her family is sworn to destroy.
Now, Deborah is playing a deadly game: hiding the enemy in h...

They say dying changes you. They're right, it made me see the truth.

I died choking on my own blood while my "loving" husband was toasting his bastard son at graduation. Twenty years of lies. Twenty years of being the "crazy, jealous wife" while he played house with his whore and their child under my own roof.

But the Moon Goddess had other plans.

I woke up twenty years in the past, back to the...

Riley Matthews never imagined her first assignment as a sports journalist back in Texas would be covering the football team—where the star quarterback Mason Cole turned out to be the guy she'd had a massive crush on four years ago. And to make matters worse, he's her brother Chase's best friend!

"Chase's baby sister has grown up... and gotten beautiful." When Mason fixes those green eyes on her w...

I died in a goddamn plane crash hunting down my husband who ran off with his "true love."

That lovesick moron completely screwed me over!

My sister Sofia and I are twins, born into a mafia family, but I'm the only one who actually inherited the ruthless gene. My sister? Total sweetheart and naive as hell.

The Romano family handpicked me for their heir Alessandro. They figured my cunning could r...

Six years ago, I was forced to marry the Alpha prince to keep my pack from going to a war we’d never win. Torn from the arms of my mate—scratch that…

He knew I’d be tossed aside for the peace treaty, and he didn’t say a word. He sat at that dinner table and let me go. He betrayed me. Darius Sinclair, my fated mate, betrayed me and made a fool out of me at that dinner table.

Well, I married the h...

A city-bred data analyst, Clara Vance, inherits a secluded cabin in the rugged Colorado Rockies from her eccentric Aunt Bea. Intent on disposing of the property so she can get back to her stable, calculated life in Denver, she finds it difficult to let it go when she uncovers a dangerous environmental conspiracy and a reclusive, protective wildlife photographer, Ethan Kincaid, haunted by an unspok...

I can't see color.

Red and green are just muddy grayish-brown to me. At art school, this means I'm forever the broken one.

Adrian Hawthorne—my adoptive brother, my protector for fifteen years—he sees every color in the world. While I'm trapped in black, white, and gray.

Until that exhibition night, when I saw him with her.

Celeste. Architect from London. She discusses "cobalt blue transitionin...

Selene thought she'd found true love with Alexander Morrison. She was WRONG—she was just a stand-in for Jessa, the woman he really wanted.

When Alexander and his twin brother Adrian's yacht exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, Alexander came home with Adrian's ashes, claiming to BE Adrian. His goal? To steal Adrian's wife Jessa—the woman he'd always loved.

Selene knew instantly he was lying, but when...

Paisley is the campus-recognized "Dating Queen," specializing in orchestrating perfect romances for her best friends—never failing. Until she encounters a mysterious rival—a love coach calling himself "TexasCoach," who's actually coaching her target crush on how to counter-flirt!

When the two matchmaking masters face off head-to-head, Paisley is shocked to discover that this legendary love guru i...

I've always had an innate aversion to sticky textures—when I wore gloves to learn baking, my teacher snapped, "How can you be a chef if you won't even touch ingredients?" It was Roman who knelt with me in that supply closet, teaching me to identify vanilla by smell and handling raw meat for me. But when his mom yelled in the alley behind their restaurant, "Wearing gloves to cook is just faking—you...