angsty novels

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

• Four to One: Outvoted at My Own Wedding
  

  Jo Brennan has lost every family vote, four to one, for six years. Tonight they voted to move her wedding to her foster sister's birthday, and then she found the group chat she was never in.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Husband Demanded a Paternity Test over Our Daughter's Red Hair, So I Left Him an Empty House
  

  An hour after giving birth to a red-haired baby girl, Lydia signs her husband's paternity form, then empties their house before the result is even read. The test proves him wrong, and the real reason for the red hair is the secret his mother demanded the test to bury.

  contemporary · secret parentage · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Told Me to Stay Away, So I Left and He Followed
  

  At the senior photo Hazel Dunning hears her childhood friend tell her to stay away from him. She accepts a school across the country, and the voice she trusted turns out to be a recording her best friend played on purpose.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Left My Fever for His Ex, So I Took Our Daughter
  

  Leah collapsed with a 104-degree fever and her husband kissed her forehead and went to his ex-wife's apartment. Now she has taken their daughter and walked out, and the ex-wife holds more than his heart.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

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• He Stole My Fiancée, So I Took His Wife and His Company
  

  An hour after they pick up their marriage license, Miles's fiancée smiles and tells him she has been cheating all year. His best friend is the man in the café lot, and the best friend's quiet wife owns more of the firm than he does.

  contemporary · male lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Called Himself Blind and Kept Me Poor, So I Let Him Watch Me Leave
  

  My blind boyfriend begged me to keep my desk job and swore he would provide for us. At the office party I caught him seeing, and I walked out in front of four hundred people.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  24 chapters published

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• They Called My Death a Tantrum, So I Stayed Dead
  

  Ewan and his golden brother Pierce died in the same car crash, and a voice offered both a second life if they won back their family. Pierce took every drop of the family's love, and Ewan died unseen in his own bedroom while his girlfriend married his brother.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Called My Death a Tantrum, So I Stayed Dead
  

  Ewan and his golden brother Pierce died in the same car crash, and a voice offered both a second life if they won back their family. Pierce took every drop of the family's love, and Ewan died unseen in his own bedroom while his girlfriend married his brother.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  1 chapters published

• He Called My Brain Injury a Hunger Strike, So I Forgot Him
  

  A bullet in her head turned Leah into the quiet, perfect wife her husband wanted. When he calls her illness a hunger strike, she walks out with $31 and a stranger's business card.

  amnesia · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Wrote Their Love Story, So I Wrote Myself Out
  

  For three years Jasper has filmed and scripted the internet's favorite couple: his girlfriend and his best friend. When she hands him a ring that fits his friend's finger, he deletes himself from their channel and flies to Scotland, leaving them a final script they have never read.

  contemporary · fake relationship · love triangle

  24 chapters published

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• He Sent Every Dollar, So Why Was My Daughter Starving?
  

  Emmeline asks her deployed husband for a divorce so her little girl can eat. He says he has sent every dollar for two years, and someone she trusts is lying.

  military-base · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• His Wife Her Secret Their Regret
  

  At her half-sister's baby party, Diana reads the name on the banner: the same name as her dead son, with her husband's surname. Her biker husband says the baby is his, and she walks out carrying a secret of her own.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Let Me Crash on Christmas Eve, So I Took Our Daughter
  

  Susannah called her husband from a wrecked car at thirty-three weeks pregnant, and he stayed to comfort his ex. Now she has taken their premature daughter and every door he could use, and the woman he chose is hiding why.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Sent His Helicopter for Her Dog, So I Signed the Papers
  

  Lena's grandmother died in her arms on a burning road while her husband's rescue helicopter flew away to save his first love's dog. Eleven days later he texts that she is being dramatic.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Ninety-Nine Wishes, One Broken Marriage
  

  Jo promised her dying friend ninety-nine wishes. By the ninetieth, her surgeon husband has packed his closet and left her the papers.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Lover on Loop: Her Cruel Revenge Game
  

  Every ninety-one days Greer wakes up hating him again, and every time she breaks his painting hand. This is the last loop, and he has ninety-one days to find out why.

  amnesia · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Husband Lost My Jealousy
  

  Katja watches her husband cheat with the same woman for the second time, straightens his tie and offers the guest room. Her calm is not forgiveness: anger already cost her a child, and her mother's care depends on never making a scene again.

  contemporary · female lead · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

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• Reborn to Leave Her Behind
  

  In his first life Alec told on the girl next door and she poisoned his milk ten years later. Reborn on application day, he finally looks away. Then she starts to remember too.

  contemporary · redemption arc · male lead

  24 chapters published

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• The Scandal Before the Vows
  

  Minutes after they pick up their marriage license, Corina's fiancé tells her he slept with her old best friend and plays the bet they made over her pain. She does not cry. She says yes to the wedding, on her terms.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Summer I Left
  

  The day after graduation, my parents left me on the driveway and drove off with the son they had just found. By the end of the summer I had left for good, and they were begging me to come back to a table I would no longer sit at.

  contemporary · secret parentage · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Discovered Too Late
  

  My sister walked into my hospice room to ask for my liver for the brother she chose over me. I said no, and she did not yet know that I was the one she owed.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

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• A Decade For Nothing
  

  On their wedding day, the woman Levi loved for ten years says "I don't" in front of 140 phones, and the reason she gives is a lie her own family built.

  contemporary · jilted-at-altar · male lead

  24 chapters published

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• Cursed by the Light for Loving the Dark
  

  Seven years after Heaven stripped her wings for loving the Prince of the Abyss, he walks up her mother's porch steps with a new fiancee on his arm. He doesn't know the curse has given her three days to live.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · misunderstanding

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Died Afraid My Broken Arm Burdened Them
  

  Ellis Marden spent ten years hauling, kneeling and starving to keep his sick parents alive. Then his father phoned to say it was all a test, and Ellis was already dying.

  dramatic · contemporary · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Rules Bend, Just Not for Me
  

  Jasper gave up his career and his chance at fatherhood for a surgeon wife who never bent a rule for him. When the nurse she always bends for sends her flowers on their anniversary, he files for divorce and drives Route 66.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Men Who Walked Out
  

  The night her mother moves her old sweetheart into the family house, Daphne's father smokes on the balcony until dawn. In the morning he leaves, and she goes with him.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• The Boy You Starved for Him
  

  For a year both parents sent the money and Quinn got none of it, until he collapses on a Thanksgiving train and a paramedic tells his mother to come to the hospital or pick him up from the morgue.

  contemporary · male lead · scheming relatives

  24 chapters published

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• My Regretful Ex-Husband
  

  Four weeks pregnant, Wren cooks her husband dinner and gets divorce papers instead. She signs, refuses his money and walks out with the test result in her pocket, and he has no idea why she never fought.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Night I Stopped Waiting for My Husband
  

  On their fifth anniversary Lucy sits at a table for two with an ultrasound in her purse while her billionaire husband plays hero for his widowed sister-in-law. When she ends up in a hospital bed, she stops waiting and leaves with their unborn daughter.

  contemporary · female lead · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Killed Me in the Lab, So I Woke Up Early
  

  Maren Teague dies on a lab table while the people who study her ability keep her awake to map her pain. Then she wakes in her own bed nine months earlier, the morning their first phone call comes, and the technician who counted her down is waiting at the front desk.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free