divorce & regret novels

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

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• Pregnant for His Lover's Cure, I Sent Him a Jar and Divorce Papers
  

  Camille learns her billionaire husband got her pregnant so the baby's cord blood could cure his lover, her adopted sister. At his birthday party she sends him a dark glass jar and her signed divorce papers, then walks out thirty weeks along.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• He Asked Me To Wait, I Asked For A Divorce
  

  On the second day of her marriage, a Navy wife is asked to hold down the fort for fourteen months, and says no before the captain finishes the question.

  military-base · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

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• He Put Our Love on Pause, Then Married Her Behind My Back
  

  Every time they fought, her boyfriend said "we're on a break" and went out with his coworker. This time he married her, and the florist who delivered the congratulations lilies learns she may be the only legal wife in the room.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Husband, My Sister: A Secret Betrayal
  

  At her daughter's third birthday party, Laura's seven-year-old reads a heart-emoji text from her own sister on her husband's phone, and a tablet shows three years of secret payments. She walks out with both kids in front of thirty guests and finds that the secret is not the one she thinks.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · female lead

  32 chapters published

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• He Staged My Funeral, Now His Wolf Howls at My Door
  

  For three years the most powerful Alpha on the West Coast loved Dr. Hazel Brennan loudly in public, until the woman he really wanted came home and Hazel was ordered to die on stage at the Luna ceremony. She drinks the poison, lets them bury an empty grave, and starts over, until his wolf collapses on her porch.

  medical · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

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• Vows of Treachery: Claimed by His Ruthless Brother
  

  For two years her husband played the hero who carried her out of a fire. Then she hears him laugh about it, exposes him in front of four hundred guests, and his ruthless older brother is waiting at the door.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• She Said to Wait, But Our Baby Couldn't
  

  Willa was bleeding and her baby had stopped moving, and her husband was waiting for a birth coach in a group chat to tell him it was fine. She walked out on him, and she is going to make the coach answer in front of everyone she sells to.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• While I'm Unconscious, He's Still Saving His Mistress
  

  Carrie is left a nameless Jane Doe in an ICU for three days after a hit-and-run while her husband rides trails with his coworker. When she wakes and learns the hospital called him on the first night, she stops waiting for him to choose her.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• He Left My Bed for His Secretary, So I Took His Brother
  

  On their tenth anniversary a billionaire leaves his naked wife's bed to answer his secretary, and tells her she is withered and spent. She walks out with the proof, takes half of everything and finds the brother he cheated out of her ten years ago.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• He Sacrificed Our Son, But Won't Let Me Go
  

  In a burning warehouse, mafia underboss Vincent Saraceno was told he could carry out one boy. He picked his nephew and never looked at his own son. Nine days later his wife serves him divorce papers at a birthday party, and he refuses to sign.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 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

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• He Humiliated Me in Public, So His Regret Pays by the Tear
  

  My husband told a room full of people to get me a car while he thanked his mistress for my desserts. I walked out, and a system started paying me by the tear every time he regretted it.

  contemporary · female lead · redemption arc

  32 chapters published

• 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

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• The Wife He Left for a Baby That Wasn't His
  

  Willa delivers a gender-reveal cake to a party and finds her husband, who swore he was in Denver, with his hand on another woman's belly. She cuts the cake in front of forty guests and walks out, and then learns whose baby it really is.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

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• The Queen Reborn: Claiming What's Mine
  

  Her husband divorced her on national TV and called her trailer park trash. He did not know he had just fired the genius behind his entire empire, and that she has lived this day before.

  contemporary · female lead · rags to riches

  32 chapters published

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• She Left With His Secret Child And Built Her Own Throne
  

  On their fifth anniversary her husband hands her divorce papers and takes her best friend to bed, and she signs, leaves New York pregnant with his child, and comes back three years later as the painter his whole family has to hang on their walls.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Sat Me by the Warming Racks, So I Pulled the Funding
  

  Maureen Tolbert paid $340,000 to put her husband through medical school. At the gala for his promotion he introduces her as the woman who files his paperwork and seats her by the warming racks. By Monday morning the money behind his name is gone.

  medical · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• He Sat Me by the Warming Racks, So I Pulled the Funding
  

  Maureen Tolbert paid $340,000 to put her husband through medical school. At the gala for his promotion he introduces her as the woman who files his paperwork and seats her by the warming racks. By Monday morning the money behind his name is gone.

  medical · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• Five Years a Fool, A Lifetime Apart
  

  Caleb Rutledge forgave his cheating wife once and spent five years as a fool for it. At her mother's birthday dinner he learns she has hidden a son with her lover the whole time.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

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• He Called Our Son a Curse, Now I Own His Company
  

  Joanna brings her autistic son's drawing to her husband's office at night and hears him call the boy a curse while he is with another woman. She walks out with the recording, and with a stack of yellow-tabbed pages she has signed for six years without reading.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• He Left Me at a Rest Stop on Halloween, So He Came Home to No Wife
  

  Thirty-four weeks pregnant, Cassidy is left at a highway rest stop on Halloween while her husband drives off to take his first love's daughter trick-or-treating. She signs the divorce papers from her hospital bed and leaves her ring on the dining table.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• You Chose Another, Now Forget Me
  

  Rodrigo gave up his career, his name on a studio door and even his fatherhood for the surgeon he spent three years winning. On their fifth anniversary he watches her leave the table for another man and tells his lawyer to draft the divorce.

  contemporary · male lead · romance

  24 chapters published

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• 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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• On Halloween My Husband Bet I'd Never Leave Him So I Stopped Waiting
  

  At the Halloween party, her husband smashes a pie in her face to win an old bet that she would never leave him. So she walks out, and her family's money walks out with her.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• My Husband Used My Fortune to Support His Mistress
  

  On her sixth anniversary Hannah sits at the head of the table in her own hotel and lets her husband lecture her about family, while the lobby clock ticks toward the minute the bank freezes every account he has been draining.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• On Halloween, My Husband Chose Her Family Over Ours
  

  At her own Halloween party, seven months pregnant in a red superhero suit, she watches her husband walk in with her friend on his arm and announce his real family. She throws him out in front of every guest.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  24 chapters published

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• He Signed the Divorce Without Reading Page Nine
  

  At their tenth anniversary party Trevor announces his mistress is pregnant, and Claire hands him divorce papers. He signs without reading page nine, which takes back every formula his company runs on.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  48 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Chose Her. I Chose Divorce
  

  Maggie Rooney gave her billionaire husband eleven years and built his fortune with him. The night he ignores her seventeen calls and she loses their baby alone, she leaves him the ring, the ultrasound and divorce papers.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• He Gave Our Family Speech With His Ex, So I Took the Mic
  

  My husband skipped our daughter's Family Day for a business meeting, then I found him on the school stage with his ex and her son, giving a speech about family. I took the microphone.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• My Husband Told His Ex in French I'd Never Find Out
  

  For eight years her husband's rich friends have mocked Aimée's Cajun French at her own dinner table, sure the girl from the bayou can't follow it. She understands every word, including the one he says about Nantucket, and she is eight weeks pregnant.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free