custody-battle novels

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

• He Raised the Cup With His Mistress, But the Boy Was Mine
  

  On Stanley Cup night the captain tells the whole country another woman and her son are his family, while his pregnant wife watches from the stands. She walks out, and then learns the boy on his shoulders is hers.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Keep It, We Don't Need It Anymore
  

  Her husband scores every family emergency from one to ten and only comes for a seven. When their daughter burns at 106 degrees he gives it a four, and walks his assistant into the same ER ahead of her.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• On Halloween, My Husband Kissed Another Woman in Front of Our Daughter, So We Left
  

  Lana sewed three pirate costumes for the school Halloween show. Her husband gave her gown to his best friend's widow and her place to the widow's son, then moved them into the house, sure she would forgive him again.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Made Us His Secret, So We Disappeared
  

  For eight years Naomi Hargrove was the secret wife of New York's most famous divorce lawyer. On their son's seventh birthday he chose another woman's cake, so she signed the papers and took the boy out of the city.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

• On Halloween, My Husband Kissed His Mistress, and Our Daughter Chose Her Over Me
  

  At the school's Halloween Reading Night, Joanna watches her husband kiss his mistress on stage, in the dress she sewed by hand, while their eleven-year-old daughter takes the mistress's hand.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  24 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 Called Our Night a Mistake, So I Raised His Daughter Without Him
  

  Seven years ago her brother's best friend called their one night a mistake in front of his whole squad. Now he is standing at the back of her daughter's school assembly, and the girl on stage has his eyes.

  contemporary · forbidden love · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Six Weeks After Giving Birth, I Discovered His Affair and Left With Our Son
  

  Six weeks after Libby gave birth, her husband told her to learn to manage the baby alone while he worked in Denver. A stranger's breakfast photo showed him kissing another woman nine minutes from home, and she left that night with their son.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Toasted His Mistress at My Shower, So I Killed His App
  

  At her baby shower her husband introduced his pregnant mistress to sixty guests. Cora smiled, said congratulations and walked out, because she owns every line of code in the app that made him a millionaire.

  contemporary · startup · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Betrayed: She Took My Son
  

  Melanie finds her husband in bed with her own pregnant daughter, goes into labor, and is told her son died. Her husband locks her in a mental hospital for seven months while her daughter raises her baby.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Choices We Made
  

  Eliza's husband forged her name to free the woman who kicked their baby out of her, and now the boy they adopted calls her fake. She walks out in front of everyone, and finds out what they really did with her son.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Waited Five Years to Marry Him, Then I Found Out He'd Married My Best Friend
  

  Eliza Farraday waited five years clear of cancer for the man who promised to marry her then. The night she brought the ring, she found him toasting a wife and a one-year-old son, and the wife was her best friend.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• One Kiss for My Last Month
  

  Reborn on the day her parents divorced, nine-year-old Maddy turns her back on the mother who loved her and picks her cheating father, because only his money can fix the hole in her heart before it stops in thirty-two days.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Slept With a Stranger at the Wedding, and Monday He Was My Boss
  

  Katrina Pfluger spends a wedding night in a peach-shed cabin with a stranger who won't give his name, and on Monday the man on the porch of the live-in nanny job she can't afford to refuse is him.

  contemporary · forbidden love · single parent

  24 chapters published

• He Picked the Wrong Wife to Sacrifice for His Sister
  

  Seven months pregnant, Lena is told by her husband to sign a hit-and-run confession for his sister and hand her unborn baby to his family. Instead she sends every piece of proof to the whole family chat.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• No More Husband, No More Son
  

  Leona walks out of prison to a husband with roses, a son who will not speak and a mistress with her grandmother's brooch. She says no to all of it on camera, and then learns who really put her inside.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Perfect Husband's Darkest Secret
  

  The whole city loves her husband, until Emme follows him at midnight and finds her own sister waiting. She leaves without a sound, and three months later she owns fifty-one percent of his company.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Last Wish
  

  The night I swallowed the pills, my husband promised to make every wish I wrote come true. A thousand days later, I learn who really did.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Never In Another Life
  

  Three years after she faked her drowning, her husband and seven-year-old son find her at her mother's ventilator. Her son recites a line he was taught, and the woman who taught it is walking in.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• When She Regretted Her Lies
  

  Five-year-old Birdie tells the truth about everything, so when a police officer comes to the door, she tells him her mother kidnapped her. Rena has to prove it was a joke before anyone takes her daughter away.

  contemporary · female lead · comedy

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Died the Day My Husband's Girlfriend Did a Magic Trick
  

  Cora Winslow was called onto a talent-show stage by her husband's girlfriend and cut to pieces with real blades while three hundred people laughed, and the only man who saw her ghost is the one who pulls her back.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Betrayal Behind the Wheel
  

  On his eighth anniversary a car alert sends Gavin to his wife's Tahoe, where a hidden camera records his own brother whispering that Gavin's daughter has his chin.

  contemporary · secret parentage · male lead

  24 chapters published

• Betting on an Omega's Life: She's the Legendary Gambler
  

  Her Alpha husband gambles away everything and signs their six-year-old daughter over as collateral. The Omega who secretly made him a legend sits back down at the table, under her own name.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

• His Healing Touch
  

  After eight years of paying for her husband's career, Hallie finds him kissing another woman and walks out. In the street she calms the autistic boy nobody has touched in two years, and his billionaire father wants her to stay.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

• Call Me By Your Heart
  

  Seven years after she fled pregnant and was told her baby died, Brynn cleans the stadium of the baseball star she left and finds his young son wears her own birthmark.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Daddy Forgot, but Mommy Remembers
  

  Framed and locked away from her baby, Willa walks back into her old house as the nanny, and the man who once proposed to her looks right through her while their daughter hums the lullaby only she ever sang.

  dramatic · amnesia · contemporary

  24 chapters published

• The Other Man in My Wife's Tent
  

  Cal secretly signs up for the winter wilderness trip his wife goes on every year, to surprise her, and finds her booked into Tent 3 with another man. The only person who believes him is the other man's wife.

  contemporary · secret parentage · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• When Love Walked Away
  

  Theresa's five-year-old daughter whispers from a hot car and the line goes dead. She finds her too late, and then she makes the father, his lover and his mother answer for the two hours.

  contemporary · thriller · single parent

  24 chapters published