coming of age novels

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

• My Twin Was Meant to Die at Sixteen, So They Spent Me
  

  The pack threw a farewell supper for Brynn's dying twin and told Brynn to skip her own sixteenth birthday. She took off the silver chain her father made her swear never to remove, and her twin began to fail.

  contemporary · female lead · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Mom Hung Up on My Call for Help to Toast My Cousin, So I Vanished
  

  Cass ate one bite of the mousse her cousin swore was nut-free, called her mother for help, and heard, "Not now, we're doing the toast." By morning she had found her EpiPen in her cousin's dress pocket and left the house for good.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Mom Hung Up on My Call for Help to Toast My Cousin, So I Vanished
  

  Cass ate one bite of the mousse her cousin swore was nut-free, called her mother for help, and heard, "Not now, we're doing the toast." By morning she had found her EpiPen in her cousin's dress pocket and left the house for good.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  19 chapters published

• Not Every Home Is Meant to Be Returned To
  

  On her eighteenth birthday Hazel Tindall is handed a dishwasher while her sisters get the mall and the amusement park, so she packs a bag and walks out of the house where she has always been the guest. Her mother is already hiding a letter with her name on it.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They All Forgot Me, So the Lycan King Marched for Me
  

  The morning after her Sweet Sixteen, the Alpha's daughter wakes to a family that doesn't know her, and a stranger's voice in her head. Across the fence, the Lycan King's army has come for the one voice that quiets him.

  female lead · coming of age · found family

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Betrayed the Heir, Then Returned to Save Him
  

  After his betrayal destroys the Su family and gets him killed in prison, Lu Chen is sent back to the day Su Ye returns as its rightful heir. Bound to feel Su Ye's pain but forbidden to reveal the truth, he must stop Su Lu's plot and prove his second chance is love, not guilt or fate.

  redemption arc · inheritance war · rebirth

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Let Them Dare
  

  Two days before the exam that decides her scholarship, the class president has her phone taken by her boyfriend and her classmates' admission tickets hidden by the girl everyone adores. Selah Flanagan has one Saturday to get them back.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• No Longer the Family Clown
  

  Bobby has spent ten years rescuing his family with loud, ridiculous scenes, until one gala night costs his brother a piano recital and costs Bobby everything. This time he hands in his red nose and walks out.

  contemporary · male lead · comedy

  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

• The Daughter They Abandoned Is the Doctor They Can't Reach
  

  Her parents moved her college fund to the orphaned cousin they adore, so Ingrid quietly opened an account they couldn't touch and walked out. Years later, they are begging to reach her, and she is the one who decides who gets through the door.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Sacrificed Me to Avoid Favoritism
  

  At Parents' Day her principal father sent her to the back of the ambulance line while she was choking, and her mother hid her EpiPen. Now she is going to say it out loud.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Seven Times They Chose Him. The Last Time, They Lost Me
  

  On his twelfth birthday, Zack Houghton's father takes his adopted brother to Disney World and his mother tears up his sketchbook to line the dog's bed. Zack stops asking and calls the aunt who has been waiting for him.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Reborn as My Enemy's Daughter
  

  Perla died locked on the rooftop of her high school because of bullying. Reborn as a baby, she discovers that her new mother is the same girl who left her to die.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  16 chapters published

• You Ignored My Birthday So I Erased Myself From The Family
  

  On my eighteenth birthday nobody said a word, so I put my house key on the dinner table and walked out. Then I found out why they never wanted me to turn eighteen.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Just One Kiss
  

  Eighteen and leaving for college in three weeks, Lottie asks her best friend Ansel to help her pick her first partner. He vets every name on her list, and the one thing he said he knew is the one thing he never did.

  contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy

  24 chapters published

• They Thought I Failed—Until I Turned Down Harvard
  

  Everyone on the train home assumed Delaney failed, until the day she turned down Harvard and showed them who really wrote their way in.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

• Betrayed by My Childhood Love
  

  The boy I'd loved since I was thirteen asked me to give my college spot to the girl who grew up with my parents, because I'd already stolen them from her. I said yes, because Rice had already said yes to me. Then I found out he'd declined Rice for me too.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  32 chapters published

• I Hid My Perfect Score
  

  On deadline night my whole family helped my twin pick a college and told me to choose any school, since my scores were bad. They didn't know I'd scored a perfect 1600, or that I was about to pick the one farthest from them.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Left Me Behind on the Road Trip, So I Got on a Better Ride
  

  On day three of our last road trip before graduation, my boyfriend handed me a bus ticket so the other four could keep the car, then took them all to a pool party instead. So I got into a black car with a runaway grandmother, her furious lawyer grandson, and a job reshooting the most famous road trip in American photography.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• They Said She Was Strong So They Never Had To Choose Her
  

  At our graduation party my best friend asked who they'd leave behind, and the three boys who swore to always choose me first all wrote my name. So I left first, eighteen hundred miles, and then she stole the one photo that proved they'd made that promise.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

• I Was Meant for More
  

  Seven minutes before the college portal closed, I got a video from myself, fifteen years older: my best friend had secretly switched my application to a community college for the girl he was hiding. I had one minute to take my future back.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  16 chapters published