action novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “action”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

• He Died Saving Me on Day 87, So Now I Save Him
  

  Signe Haugen died on day 87 of a gray-dust outbreak in Sioux Falls with the man who had saved her dead beside her. Now she wakes at her 911 console three days before it starts, and a one-line system keeps handing her tasks.

  contemporary · survival · female lead

  32 chapters published

• They Threw Me Away at Twelve, So I Came Home Undefeated
  

  Thora Thornquist was left at a truck stop at twelve and declared dead. Five years later her brothers find her in an underground cage and she walks home to make her father pay in public.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Played Sweet for Her Boyfriend, He Learned Who She Really Was
  

  Everyone mistakes Nika for a gentle pushover, including the possessive mafia heir she dates. When his father orders a hit on the man she was hired to protect, the world's top assassin has to show her hand.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Wolf Who Can't Shift Just Dropped One
  

  Larissa can't shift and no wolf can smell her, so her own Alpha uncle strikes her from the roll in front of seven packs. She answers with one punch, and the host Alpha who has watched the door for fifteen years steps in.

  contemporary · female lead · fated mate

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Called Me a Coward, My New Master Asked for Lessons
  

  A disgraced cultivator joins the weakest master in the valley, who teaches her to duck, survive, and win in public without pretending to be a hidden immortal.

  female lead · comedy · action

  24 chapters published

• Summoned to Carry His Bags, She Found Thank-Yous Beat His Sword
  

  Summoned to a fantasy kingdom and written down as the Chosen champion's bag carrier, translator Naho Kuroda discovers that anything given to her freely gets better, while the champion's habit of stealing credit keeps ruining his royal sword.

  female lead · rags to riches · fantasy kingdom

  24 chapters published

• They Left Me to Die, So I Became Undefeated in the Cage
  

  Five years after her family locked her in a freezer and drove away, seventeen-year-old Dalia is an undefeated masked fighter in a basement cage, and her brothers have come to drag her home.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Fed Me to the Dead, So I Woke Up Before the End
  

  Reese Tolland died on the roof of the last safe base, cut open by her boyfriend while her best friend held her hand. She wakes twenty-four days before the dead rise, and the people who killed her have woken too.

  contemporary · survival · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Every Fight Turns Him Into a Woman, So the Whole Kingdom Kneels
  

  A game tester sent into a sealed VRMMO region to hunt an exploit finds a ruined temple and a class that turns him into a woman every time he fights. A starving knight-captain, a laughing thief and a stone hound join him, and a goddess who isn't what she says.

  sci-fi · male lead · fantasy kingdom

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Apex Five: Mech Elite
  

  Wynne Calder was cut from the Apex Five on live broadcast, so she calls the Gate Challenge and scraps their four mechs one by one while their pilots sit helpless in the cockpits. The rival captain who stops the guards wants her blade, and what her old team never told her is why their frames freeze.

  female lead · sci-fi · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Died When the Sky Fell, Now I Wake Up Holding Lightning
  

  A 911 dispatcher who died on the air the night the sky fell wakes in her own bed twelve days before it happens, with lightning in her hands and a neighbor who already knows her job. She gathers four men she barely knows and a flatbed truck, and faces the boss who sold the shelter seats last time.

  survival · female lead · rebirth

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Reject Sniper: My Wife Banged a Bullrider
  

  A decorated sniper comes home a day early and sees his wife in a bullrider's lap on the rodeo's big screen. When the bullrider's family turns on him in front of his seven-year-old daughter, he fires one shot and sets out to take back everything they stole.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My In-Laws Mocked the Tow Driver, Until They Learned I Was Kijin
  

  Floyd Brannigan signs his divorce papers at the Hallworth Sunday table while his in-laws laugh at the tow driver. None of them know the army called him Kijin, the demon, or that the one man who told him to sign is the one who set it up.

  contemporary · male lead · romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Mercenary Queen Strikes Back
  

  She broke out of the one prison nobody ever escaped to find the family she never had. The guard who swore to drag her back is the only one who can tell her who paid for her cage.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• A Superpowered Warrior in the Body of a Fake Heiress
  

  Kerensa Haglund's family slapped the country girl they called a fake heiress. The warrior who woke inside her slapped back, and no one in that room could stand up to it.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Twin They Erased
  

  Her aunt buried her on paper at twelve and locked her in a school tower. Now Willa Astley fights for cash in a barn on her one day pass, and the principal who owns her is about to lose everything at Willa's table.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Village Fell, So the Serpent God Woke and Kept Me
  

  Ellory, the worst swordsman in a hidden forest village, wakes the serpent god bound beneath it and is claimed by the furious, starving creature who mistakes him for the lover who chained him.

  forbidden love · redemption arc · male lead

  24 chapters published

• Florida Won Gun Day, So Nobody Believes the Only Kid Who Can Level Up
  

  When the monsters came through, every armed neighbor in Florida shot them dead in an afternoon, and nineteen-year-old Lalo Quesada watched from his abuela's bakery cooler. He was also the only person on Earth who didn't swipe away the system's offer, so he alone can level up. Now the gates are back with monsters that bullets bounce off, and a state full of rifles has to ask a nerd where to shoot.

  contemporary · male lead · comedy

  32 chapters published

• Monsters Got Blamed for Murder, So I Relived the Victim's Last Hour
  

  Eight years after monsters began pouring through hairline Cracks in Chicago's sidewalks, a Cook County deputy medical examiner whose skill lets her relive a dead person's final hour sees a human hand behind a 'monster attack', and writes HOMICIDE over the federal order that every Crack death be cremated unexamined.

  medical · contemporary · thriller

  32 chapters published

• Dad's Coal Pit Hid a Dungeon, Now Guilds Pay Me to Enter
  

  When his father dies, a night-shift mart clerk in the dying coal town of Taebaek inherits a mortgaged pit and a secret: a live dungeon at the bottom that will obey him as its keeper. The bank, the city and a Seoul guild want the land by Monday, and he slams the dungeon's door on all three.

  contemporary · male lead · small-town

  32 chapters published

• Reborn as the Henchman Who Protects the Villain
  

  Shi Wen wakes as a nameless henchman on the exact day the book says the Sect Lord will be poisoned at a banquet. He knows the cupbearer, the antidote and the ending, so he dives for the cup and tells the whole hall he tripped. The famously cruel, famously dying Lord does not have him killed. He makes him his taster: "Don't die before I decide you can." 穿书 · 反派 · 病弱 · 年上 · 攻受 · 双洁 · 1v1 · HE · 受视角为主, 攻视角三章.

  bodyguard-romance · romantic comedy · male lead

  24 chapters published

• I Enlisted for My Father, Now the Wolf Army Answers to Me
  

  Marlis takes her lame father's place in the King's wolf army, where every wolf is leashed by the Oath and it slides off her, and the Marshal who built it is already hunting the gift her mother hid in her.

  military-base · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• The Heretical Path of Occult Immortal
  

  Cen Yu is a poor man's son who hosts poison insects for a mountain temple to keep his dying mother alive. When the temple feeds him the deadliest gu it has, he does what no vessel has done: he lies still and eats it back.

  survival · male lead · dark

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Rated F for Farming, Now Every Guild Bids on My Vegetables
  

  For seven years Ju Gyu-ho's farming skill has been rated F, too weak to even enter the monster Tower that rose over Korea. Then a breach drags him onto a hidden grass floor inside it, where anything he plants ripens overnight, and the Tower's auction house sells his vegetables to the hunter guilds who laughed at him.

  contemporary · male lead · public-scandal

  32 chapters published

• Thrown In as Bait, the E-Rank Lantern Wakes Up Every Time He Dies
  

  For ten years Jeon Woo-seok has walked in front of Seoul's hunters with a lamp so the monsters take him first. When his guild master bars a door on him, he wakes up that same morning, one year older, and every death after that costs another year.

  contemporary · survival · male lead

  24 chapters published

• They Left the Healer to Die Below, So I Came Back Up With the Monster's Heart
  

  Her party left their healer pinned under a fallen roof on the seventh floor of the Deep, because healers only follow. She learned in the dark that what heals can also unmake, and walked into the guild hall during her own funeral carrying the monster's heart.

  female lead · fantasy kingdom · revenge

  24 chapters published

• Her Fiancé Dumped Her for Crippled Roots, So She Climbed the Mountain on Ash
  

  The Root Stone declares her crippled, and the sect's golden disciple breaks their engagement in front of everyone. Sentenced to haul the sect's poisonous ash for life, Meng Lian does the one thing nobody else would: she drinks it.

  female lead · revenge · fall from grace

  24 chapters published

• The Surgeon Got a Blade and I Got a Clipboard, So I Decided Who Lives
  

  When the sky opens in the middle of her night shift, the trauma surgeon who belittles her draws a blade and a forty-one-year-old ER charge nurse draws the support class everybody laughs at. It shows her who is dying and in what order, and in a city that just started sorting people into the saved and the left behind, that makes her the most dangerous woman in Baltimore.

  medical · survival · single parent

  24 chapters published

• Thrown Out of the Hero Summons for a Worthless Haggling Skill, He Struck a Deal With the Dragon
  

  Five strangers from an Osaka bullet train are summoned to slay a dragon, and the one whose only skill is Haggle gets laughed out of the castle. He's also the only one who can read the fine print, and every price he changes costs him a memory of home.

  exile · male lead · rags to riches

  24 chapters published

• My Guild Threw Me to the Monsters, So I Woke Up Three Days Before the End
  

  A single dad who spent the apocalypse carrying other men's gear dies when his best friend shoves him to the monsters, then wakes three days before the sky opens with his eight-year-old daughter alive at the breakfast table. This time he knows where to stand, who to trust, and which power everyone laughed at.

  survival · single parent · male lead

  24 chapters published