Best Redemption Stories & Novels Collection

I'm Ivy Thorne, botanist specializing in toxic plants.

Before Alexander Hunt, I was the academic world's infamous "wild rose"—beautiful, dangerous, never staying for anyone. No relationship lasted longer than two months. That was my rule.

Until I barged into that ice-cold neurosurgeon's lab. I retracted all my thorns for him, gave up the rainforest project, wanted to settle down for the first ti...

Five years ago, I walked away pregnant and heartbroken.
He chose someone else.
He let me go without looking back.

Now I’ve returned—with a son who carries his blood
and a strength I never knew I had.

He kneels, begging for forgiveness.

When Formula One legend Dante Varon crashes at 320 km/h race and lives to tell the tale, the world calls it a miracle. He calls it a mistake.

Confined to a private villa on the French Riviera with shattered bones and a ruined reputation, Dante fires every therapist who tries to fix him, until Sienna Hale walks in. She’s not impressed by fame, fortune, or his billion-dollar tantrums. She’s there ...

On my 21st birthday, I kissed the man who raised me for fourteen years.

The next morning, he was gone. Just one line: "I'm sorry. I can't ruin you."

Four years later, Gabriel Sterling came back. Same deep blue eyes, same man who shows up when I'm sick. But he keeps pushing me away—because we're "stepfather and daughter," and our love could destroy everything the Sterling family built.

So I star...

"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...

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...

Julian says art is visualized data. But he has a blind spot: he can't see I love him.

I say art is emotional expression. But I also have a blind spot: I can't see he loves me.

Three-year contract marriage, we stood in each other's blind spots. He drove me home, helped with my zipper, texted me at dawn—I didn't see. I wore the black dress he hated to watch his ex perform, learned to make breakfas...

They shattered my art and labeled me "scholarship trash." When Willard, the MIT prodigy, dared to help gather the wreckage, I repaid him with cranberry juice all over his pristine jacket.
Now he's my forced art partner—all cold shoulders by daylight, but found in the studio at midnight, the scent of spray paint betraying his secret. So when the queen of our school tried to ruin my life again, he w...

My name is Victoria Sterling. Thirty-seven, Silicon Valley CEO, millions in the bank.

I don't believe in love. But I believe in deals.

Fifty grand a month for a compliant companion and bed partner—that's been my life for three years. Until I met Ethan Cole: twenty-nine, Stanford dropout, bankrupt with $1.8M in debt, mother dying of cancer.

He's smart, he's handsome, and he's desperate.

Perfect...

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...

My name is Skylar Ross. Wildlife photographer. Fifteen years ago, my parents died in an anti-poaching operation in Kenya. The Masai Mara they gave their lives to protect now faces a new threat—Dominic Blackwood's $300 million resort project.

I spent three months getting close to him. Spilled red wine on his white shirt. He bought my photograph for half a million dollars. I turned down his invitat...

Olivia is the daughter of Alpha.She tried everything to have a child with her Beta mate, but he betrayed her and mocked her infertility. Devastated, she got drunk and spent the night with a hot stranger at a bar. Later, she discovered she was pregnant—and that stranger was the most powerful Alpha in the city.

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...

I’m a new grad human in huge debt, and cheated by my Omega bf.
When I got wasted in a bar, I didn’t expect to have the best sex ever.

And the very next morning, I also didn’t expect to wake up and find my ONS hookup was my bf's Alpha billionaire BOSS….
How things are going to turn out after I accidentally became his 5yo daughter’ live-in nanny?

As the only female alpha, she is strong and brave, and fights alongside alpha King Landry, achieving victory after victory. But one day, she went into heat in front of him ...... When he learns the secret of her disguise as an alpha, will he fulfill his duty to torture her severely? Or will he personally help her ease the pain of her heat?

I thought I had it all figured out. I rejected my destined mate for the love of my high school sweetheart, Curtis. But everything shattered when Curtis met his mate and chose to lie to me instead of rejecting her.

With my heart in pieces, I sought solace in the last place I expected—my Alpha's arms. One night turned into a dangerous entanglement, and now my Alpha refuses to let me go. As the Alp...

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 ...

My precognitive gift should have been a blessing. Instead, it became my curse.

At six, I could predict any sports outcome. My parents turned me into their money-printing machine—basement prison, electric torture, carved punishments for every mistake. They called me "princess" while salting my wounds.

When my gift earned them tens of millions, they showered me with the most expensive toys. When m...

At sixteen, a cruel curse trapped my mind in the innocence of a child. I can scent the truths people hide, but I'm blind to the knives behind their smiles.
At the Moon Ceremony, I alone walked toward the Alpha King—the wolf who made our entire pack kneel in terror. While others trembled, I breathed in the profound loneliness that clung to his soul. I offered him a piece of honey candy. My father's...

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 ...

My name is Mira Sawyer, an orphan adopted by the Rossi mafia family.

The night I was kidnapped, the captor pressed a gun to my temple and told Marco over video: "Five million dollars, or she dies."

I watched Marco Rossi—heir to New York's mafia empire—laugh with a blonde in his arms: "Keep her. Maybe she'll finally learn I don't want a pathetic puppy following me around."

Ten years of waiting, ...

"Are you threatening me?" Nathan's eyes flashed dangerously.
"Negotiating," I corrected. "Let me go to college, and I'll agree to your rejection."


As a wolf who doesn't like parties, my biggest dream is to leave my original pack.
I never expected that Nathan, the Alpha's son who bullied me the most, would find out on my 18th birthday that I am his destined mate.
He wants to reject m...

"I have no idea why you're so set on ruining my life, even in a completely different city! What the hell have I ever done to you?"
Coleen's voice trembled with years of bottled-up anger. "You know what? Don't even answer. I already know what you're going to say. Because you're Hayden freaking Michaels—rich, spoiled, untouchable. You get to crush whoever you want because life's always been easy for...

"You're not just any she-wolf, Ava," Lucas's voice softened, though it still held a wicked undertone. "The Moon Goddess doesn't make mistakes. She gave you to all three of us."
I stared at him, dread and curiosity twisting inside me.
Three mates?
Ava Wynter, the disgraced daughter of an Alpha, has lived as a servant in her own pack—rejected, abused, and branded wolfless after a lie destroyed her l...

"Divorce me," Chloe whispered.
Leonel froze. His eyes widened in disbelief, the mocking words stuck in his throat. For the first time in five years of marriage, his once obedient, gentle wife now faced him with a terrifyingly cold smile. "I will not divorce you."
"After all your betrayals? With me being this damaged? And your intimacy with her still here?" Chloe's voice cut like a blade.
Leonel Gr...

"Don't you want your fiancé to pay back for what he did to you?"
"I'm willing to be your contracted wife on one condition. You have to help me find out the reason behind my mother's sudden death."
Looking at the mischievous way she waved the papers, his lips curled into a smirk. "Deal."
Betrayed by her fiancé and stepsister on the eve of her wedding, Lina's world crumbled in an instant. The heartb...

"Sign the damn papers, I have signed my part. Be fast with it, I'm expecting someone special."
On her wedding anniversary, Briella is handed divorce papers—and worse, her husband openly claims her best friend as the woman he truly loves.
Devastated but unbroken, Briella rises from the ashes, stepping into her true identity as heiress of a powerful empire. No longer the timid wife begging for scrap...

"You were pregnant when you ran," he murmured, his voice trembling with disbelief. "And I—" his throat bobbed as he swallowed hard, silver eyes shimmering with raw pain, "I didn't even know."
I bit my lip until I tasted blood, tears stinging my eyes. "You rejected me," I choked out, fury and heartbreak colliding. "You humiliated me, Killian! I had nothing left... nothing but him. I couldn't let yo...

I'm the Santos family heiress—born into the kind of wealth and power that people kill for. For eighteen years, I've adored my "brother" Diego with all my heart—that golden, gorgeous surfing champion who's the pride of our family.

Then came that shark attack. A mysterious lifeguard nearly died saving us. When that DNA report landed on my desk, my world shattered completely: this beaten-up kid Luca...

He was my father's best friend and my legal guardian. I mistook his obsessive control for protection—until the night of my eighteenth birthday, when he shattered that illusion in his study. For eight long years, I lived a double life: his pure, adopted daughter by day, and his dirty little secret by night.
I thought it was love. Then today, a Wall Street alert announced his engagement to a media h...

A stormy night. A broke barista. One rescued Golden Retriever that cost Winter her last penny.

Plot twist: the dog belongs to Hollywood heartthrob Dylan Carter.

"Hand over my dog!" he demands, but the Golden Retriever won't budge from Winter's side, whimpering at its own master like a heartbroken child.

Then comes the curveball—$10K a month to live in his Malibu mansion as the dog's personal ca...

Rule one: never love your stepbrother. Rule two: never trust a bad boy. I broke both.
The day Carter traded up and called me a "disgusting mistake," Liam—the most dangerous guy in school—knelt in the rubble of my life. "Want to make him pay?" he murmured, his grip firm on my chin. "I'll show you how."
It was supposed to be a game. But his lessons came with a secret: he'd been claiming me since the...

“You don’t know what you do to me, Theodota,” he murmured, his voice husky.
My breath caught in my throat as his teeth gently nibbled on my neck, then against my throat. I moaned. My core throbbed at the way my name rolled off his tongue like worship. Like a prayer. Like he wanted to have me right there, right at that moment. He kissed my collar bone softly, and sparks flew through my body. It bu...

On a rainy evening, Ophelia Taylor caught her husband Benjamin White cheating, shattering their marriage and her happy illusions completely. Plunged into despair, she found solace in Benjamin’s younger brother, William. Gentle and steady, William silently guarded her—bringing warm milk on sleepless nights, defending her from Benjamin’s coldness—slowly melting her broken heart. Unknowingly, both fe...

My name is Serena, and I've always lived in my sister Stella's shadow.

In the werewolf world, only she-wolves with Moonlight bloodline can bear the strongest heirs for Alphas. When my sister Stella refuses to marry the car-accident-disabled Alpha Adrian, I'm pushed forward as her substitute bride.

Everyone believes I'm Stella with the precious Moonlight bloodline, including my gentle "crippled" ...

All my life, I've been the invisible daughter in this family.

My sister Madison radiates brilliance, my brother Ryan is the beloved golden child, while I'm Harper—just an "unplanned surprise," as my parents openly admit, their unwanted burden.

Serving as unpaid labor at engagement parties, abandoned with a 103-degree fever while they vacationed in the Bahamas, having my very bloodline questioned...

Seven years ago, a cruel betrayal shattered Elena’s world. Stripped of her wolf and left to raise a child alone, she built a quiet life in the shadows of the Red Moon Pack where she serves as a maid. But fate isn’t done with her yet.

When the ruthless and feared Alpha Harrison unexpectedly steps in to protect her and her son, long-buried secrets begin to rise, secrets about bloodlines and the rea...

Trigger Warning!!!
This is a dark romance novel featuring morally grey characters.
Reader's discretion is advised.
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"You were born for me. You waited for me. The moment you came into this world, you cried for me, and you will keep crying for me until your last breath, Ixora."

Drexton Blackthorn had his bloody, thirst-filled eyes on a couple for the sins they committed. He swore to make t...

My name is Sophia Blake, a small-town girl from Ohio who earned her way into Juilliard on a full scholarship. Three years ago, while playing jazz in a Greenwich Village dive bar, I was discovered by the mysterious Italian conductor Alexander Rossi, and my life changed forever.

He gave me the Lincoln Center stage, a luxury Manhattan apartment, and a music world I'd never dared to imagine. I though...

I Thought He Was Dumping Me, So I Asked for the Breakup Settlement First

On my birthday night, Ethan filled the apartment with candles and held out a three-tiered pink cake, his eyes softer than I'd ever seen.

Three years. From the day I saved this broken man off the streets to watching him become a CEO worth hundreds of millions. Three years of him never saying "I love you," never defining ...

Seven years ago, I left him while carrying his child.

That night, I had a reservation ready to tell him we were having a baby. He texted about a last-minute audition. Then I saw him on TMZ having candlelit dinner with a producer's daughter.

So I walked away. Had Mia alone. Built a gallery in Portland under a fake name. Four years of pretending the past never happened.

Until he showed up at my d...

Six years ago, Evelyn White caught her husband Arthur Collins cheating, then left his mansion—pregnant and unseen. Now she’s back as Eve, a top artist, with two genius twins. At her exhibition, the kids yell “Mommy”… and Arthur’s world breaks. He’s obsessed with dragging her (and the kids he never knew) back. She just wants to paint and protect her family. But as their past’s lies unravel, escapin...

“Touch me… I want to feel you, Noland.”

Noland Christopher, gentle Alpha of a tiny pack, never thought he’d find a mate. Then Lucien Collin—the most feared and powerful Alpha in the world, appears, his presence commanding and dangerous.

“You’re mine, whether you realize it or not.”

Lucien had given up hope of ever finding his mate. But Noland, with his quiet strength and irresistible warmth, aw...

I was the most pathetic existence on campus.

Thick glasses, baggy sweaters, walking through the cafeteria like crossing a minefield. Albert, my childhood crush of three years, publicly mocked me as "a pathetic little dog following him around." Campus queen Madison crushed me under her heel. That rainy night, I gave up completely and swore to make them all pay.

Three months later, I returned.

Br...

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...

The two loves of my life—one died because of him, the other wishes me dead. My seven-year-old daughter only wanted to make a lamp for her "afraid-of-the-dark" daddy, but died from electrocution instead. She'll never know that her father was using this very opportunity to plan a new life with his mistress. When I held my terminal diagnosis in my hands, I cried silently. Look, Patty—Mommy will be co...

I was supposed to be the avenger who would kill Vincenzo Romano, head of the Romano family, to settle the blood debt for my deceased lover Matteo. But I never expected to suffer a severe head injury at the crucial moment, losing my memory completely.

When I woke up, this "enemy" told me he was my fiancé and showered me with tender love and devotion during my amnesiac state.

But when my memory re...

"You're nothing but bad luck! You're just as vile and worthless as that wretched mother of yours!" My father's roar echoed through the room, punctuated by the sharp crack of his belt.

Through my tears, I tried to defend myself: "That's not true! My mom is a good person—she's a police officer!"

He let out a cold laugh: "Good person? Your mother was nothing but a slut! How dare you talk back to me...

I died once, watching him leap to his death for me.

Reborn three years in the past, I decided to completely change the rules of the game.

"I'm going to marry Parker Ashford!" I declared publicly at his birthday party, ignoring everyone's shocked stares.

"You're insane? I'm a cripple..." He tried to push me away, but I wouldn't let him.

I climbed through his bathroom window, seeing him at his m...

I died at seventeen on a Christmas night, bleeding out on cold pavement while my bullies scattered. "If there's a next life, Mom... just go without me this time."

But I woke up back to that day—fifteen years old again, standing in the chaos of FBI cameras and reporters. The day they rescued us from that mountain hell.

In my past life, when the Whitman family found their long-lost daughter Rose, ...