Best Modern Novels

Seven months into her pregnancy, Noelle faces a devastating betrayal. After her sister Brooke conceives following a night of drinking, Noelle’s husband, Jensen, demands a divorce to marry Brooke and protect her reputation. When Noelle refuses his plan to remarry later, Jensen heartlessly abandons her on a highway. After a grueling walk, she finds the pair mocking her misery. Realizing their cruelty, Noelle finally agrees to end the marriage and walk away.

After a devastating terminal cancer diagnosis, Daisy Winters reunites with her ex-lover, Thomas Vance, in Belrith, only to discover his past infidelity with Quinn Carver. Heartbroken, Daisy schedules her medical euthanasia to coincide exactly with Thomas’s wedding day. Following her tragic passing, she lingers as a spirit, witnessing his belated regret. When she miraculously wakes up resurrected in a stranger's body, her memories resurface, leading to a final confrontation and an unexpected second chance at eternal love.

As the pampered, sole daughter of the nation's wealthiest man, she has spent her life doing exactly as she pleases. Now of marrying age, her father arranges a match with Miles, an heir from Kingsport's prestigious Farley family. After flying in for the meeting, she finds her match is late. Starving, she begins to eat, only for an arrogant woman to slap the fork from her hand and insult her status. They have no idea who they just crossed, but this old-money family is about to pay the price.

On her wedding eve, a shocking photo reveals Liam's infidelity with Ava. Despite the betrayal, the bride proceeds with the ceremony, witnessing the physical marks of his affair. After hearing him dismiss her as a mere tool for an heir, she discovers she is pregnant. Refusing to be trapped in a loveless cage, she rejects her role in his dynasty. Now, she is determined to dismantle his life. Her silent departure marks the start of a calculated war to ruin him.

Five years of devotion to Garrett Armstrong crumbles when a live stream reveals his sight was restored—and his heart belongs to another. Humiliated and discarded, she signs the divorce and marries Maddox Freeman, an heir trapped in a five-year coma. But that same night, Maddox opens his eyes. When Garrett returns seeking forgiveness, he finds Maddox holding her possessively, claiming her as his wife. This time, she refuses to look back.

In My Wife Took My Kidney, a judge abuses her legal power to save her first love by forcing her husband into an involuntary transplant. Despite his warnings that he already suffers from kidney failure and that the procedure will be fatal, she dismisses his claims as desperate pleas for attention. After winning a court ruling, she mandates the surgery. This tragic modern mystery follows the husband's final days as he dies alone, sacrificed for a man his wife loved more.

When Fiona Sinclair discovers her husband, Lucas Maxwell, helped his terminally ill childhood sweetheart lose her virginity, she decides their marriage is over. After leaving a divorce agreement behind, she publicly comments on a photo of the pair, wishing them luck. Lucas reacts with outrage, calling Fiona selfish for lacking compassion toward a dying woman. However, Fiona’s cold indifference to his excuses leaves the billionaire in a state of sudden, desperate panic.

After five years of marriage, a woman's world shatters when her husband’s mistress arrives with his child. This unexpected revelation exposes a web of betrayal within her high-society life. Forced to confront her billionaire husband's infidelity, she must navigate the pain of a broken union and the presence of his secret family. As her domestic peace crumbles, she struggles to reclaim her dignity and decide the future of her failing marriage.

Betrayed by her husband Vince, the Moretti heir, a DeLuca princess loses her unborn child during a violent confrontation with his mistress. Cast aside for another woman, she refuses to be a discarded trophy. Instead, she turns to her husband's most dangerous rival, Dante Costello. By marrying his worst enemy, she orchestrates the total destruction of Vince’s mafia empire. As his world turns to ash, the man who broke her heart is forced to crawl and beg for mercy.

During a dinner with her husband’s adopted sister, a massive earthquake leaves a pregnant woman and her sister-in-law pinned beneath a boulder. Her husband, a dedicated firefighter, arrives at the scene only to face a horrific ultimatum: he can only rescue one person. Despite his wife being five months pregnant, he chooses to save the sickly Alice, ignoring his wife's desperate pleas. After her tragic death, the weight of his cold decision begins to shatter his sanity.

After a night of passion with a mysterious biker, a woman discovers she is pregnant with quintuplets. Years later, she struggles as a single mother until she crosses paths with a powerful billionaire who bears a striking resemblance to the man from her past. As secrets emerge, she must navigate the complexities of her new life and the overwhelming truth about her children's father. Will love bridge the gap between their two very different worlds?

Following her family's financial collapse, the protagonist is forced into the bed of Craig Kennedy. Despite their history, Craig subjects her to relentless humiliation, flaunting other women and demanding she beg to maintain their union. The abuse peaks when she is forced to serve his secretary, Lucia. When a desperate plea for ten million dollars goes unanswered, her parents take their own lives. Craig offers salvation in exchange for her submission, but she finally signs the divorce.

After thirty years of marriage to Bryce, Tiffany still dreams of the wedding they skipped when they were poor. Instead of a ceremony, she gets cold demands to cook and clean from her husband and their son, Flynn. When Tiffany discovers wedding invitations, her hope flares—until she finds a Polaroid in Flynn's pocket. The photo reveals Bryce with her younger sister, Brittany, alongside a note from her own son wishing his father and aunt a happy upcoming wedding.

Elliot Gray has survived six years in a league that bans Omegas, relying on iron discipline and triple-dose suppressants to hide what he is. Then Sebastian Wolfe, the most feared Alpha captain in the league, shatters his stick and starts seeing through every wall Elliot built. Their rivalry has burned for two years, but when a threat arises that could expose Elliot to the world, Sebastian offers a legal marriage—a shield no authority can break. Now they share a home, a bed, and a life neither chose. Elliot agreed to a contract, not to wanting his husband, needing him, or carrying his child. In a league built on dominance and silence, two rivals are about to learn the truth about fated mates.

After saving an amnesiac Keith years ago, she thought their love was real. But once his memories returned, he brought her into his family's empire only to neglect her. Now, his first love Faye has returned, and Keith's mother demands a divorce. Kept as a secret wife and abandoned on her third anniversary while Keith and Faye announce their marriage, she decides she has had enough. Demanding a ten-million-dollar payoff, she plans to sign the papers, disappear, and fake her own death forever.

Betrothed to Sean Benson since childhood, the protagonist watches their bond wither as he pursues Selena White. After catching them together at their engagement banquet, she destroys her pregnancy results and stays silent. Sean only agrees to the wedding to secure his inheritance, but he is left at the altar when his bride never arrives. As he fumes over her absence, she is already moving on. Now, her child is destined to call a different man "daddy" in this billionaire romance.

Grieving the loss of her father, a woman faces a secondary betrayal when her fiancé leaves her to marry his former flame. He justifies his actions as a final wish for the other woman's dying father, dismissing his partner's pain as irrelevant. After hearing his new bride answer his phone and being told not to bother him with wedding details, she realizes their relationship is over. She discards her engagement ring and cancels their future, choosing to walk away from his cruelty.

Publicly shamed and seeking retribution, Aria Collins aims to seduce Zane Parker to dismantle her enemy. Lacking experience, she turns to her four formidable new stepbrothers, the Steel siblings, for a carnal education. What begins as a strategic request at the dinner table descends into a series of intense, dominant lessons. Reed, Cole, Kai, and Jasper push Aria to her limits through raw, physical discipline, leaving her completely transformed and under their absolute control.

A devastating brawl threatens to ruin Jaxson Thorne’s hockey captaincy. To salvage his career, he must fake-date figure skating coach Liam Vance, who reluctantly agrees to the ruse after losing his Olympic funding. Forced to share a luxury penthouse, these two straight men establish strict boundaries. Yet, under the constant glare of paparazzi cameras, their hostile arrangement sparks an unexpected, agonizing attraction that threatens to change their lives forever.

Sophie thought she had it all until a devastating betrayal by those she trusted most shattered her world. Left with nothing, she must navigate the high-stakes environment of the elite billionaire class to reclaim her dignity. As she orchestrates her rise, she faces intense emotional hurdles and unexpected romantic entanglements. This modern tale follows her strategic journey to expose the truth, seek retribution, and finally secure the justice she deserves.

At 11:47 Tuesday night, Luna follows cheap honeysuckle to a door that shatters her world. Inside, her Alpha husband Lucas—the mate who marked her at twenty-two—shifts with Valerie Bishop. Each betraying movement makes Luna's scar flare as she counts three seconds, memorizing every detail. When Valerie's gaze locks with hers, the true war ignites: exposing Lucas's faked sterility and clawing back her life from a mate who blamed her for his lies.

Three years after burying her husband, a widow finds the ruthless Chicago Don alive, living as 'Arthur' with a pregnant fiancée. To shield his amnesia, she hides her identity, enduring the agony of his newfound tenderness for another. Despite her failing heart, he demands a divorce for a fresh start. She dies holding his name, just as a sudden injury restores his memory. He rushes to find her, only to face her brother and the truth: his betrayal killed his soulmate.

One desperate night meant to save her mother spirals into chaos when a room mix-up leaves her with a stranger. Humiliated, she flees—only to discover she's carrying twins. Years later, returning from Canada, she lands a job at Bradley Enterprises, where her cold CEO, Lucien Bradley, is the father who never knew. As he pulls her into galas and office storms, her clever son starts connecting dots. With his supermodel lover watching and his wealth as a weapon, she fears losing everything if the truth emerges.

After three years of funding Beck’s life and secretly saving his company with her AI code, Harlow discovers him with his mistress, Fallon, in her late father’s library. Beck demands she accept his illegitimate son to protect his image, unaware Fallon is a corporate spy stealing Harlow’s legacy. When Beck refuses a divorce, Harlow vows to destroy him. She enlists Fitzgerald Monroe, a ruthless lawyer, using her secret identity to ensure Beck loses everything.