family drama novels

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

• The Anniversary Dinner He Gave to Her
  

  On their tenth anniversary, Lydia finds out her husband has given her dinner, her ring and her inheritance to his brother's widow, and she walks out in front of the whole restaurant.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Family Forgot I Existed, So I Left Them Behind
  

  Her whole werewolf pack looks through her at her sister's birthday gala. She walks out of the pack in front of them, and the one Alpha who still remembers her answers in her head.

  female lead · fated mate · enemies to lovers

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Day Seven I Signed It
  

  His wife bet five thousand dollars he would crawl back in three days and gave another man his key. He gave himself seven.

  contemporary · male lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

• They Mocked My Curves, So I Married the Billionaire Bartender
  

  Her brother planned to announce her engagement to a man who mocks her body, so when the bartender takes the microphone and says she's marrying him, she walks across the ballroom and says yes.

  contemporary · female lead · contract marriage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Disowning My Mafia Family After They Chose A Liar
  

  Nerina Brancato asks questions until the gap closes, and the mafia family that took her back keeps choosing the sister who lies. She has her name struck from their ledger and walks out, and the man waiting across the city already knows why they wanted her.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Killed Me Once, So This Time the Whole Pack Is Watching
  

  Rosalind died the night before her bonding, stabbed by her adopted sister while her family refused to call a healer. Now she wakes one day earlier, and this time the whole pack will see what her sister is.

  female lead · fated mate · rebirth

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Made Me Hunt For My Own Wedding
  

  Three nights before her mating ceremony, Sabine hears the secret pack link her mate, her brothers and her adopted sister have kept from her. They have moved the moon site so she will hunt for it and miss her own wedding.

  contemporary · female lead · fated mate

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Kept Me Secret Seven Years, Then Proposed to Her
  

  For seven years the boy next door loved me in secret and never said it out loud. Then he stood up at a garden party and proposed to my best friend.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Troublemakers Mess With the Wrong Girls
  

  When her grandmother hands the favorite uncle a house bought with her father's retirement, Jo and her mother, the two women nobody in the family dares cross, get the money back in public, with the help of the contractor the uncle never paid.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Parents Begged for My Execution on Live TV
  

  Everyone Nina loves turns on her the moment she swallows a handmade ravioli, and she cannot see what they see. By the time her own parents beg for her execution on live TV, she has found out what she has been eating for them.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Left Me in Traction, Then the Will Made Me Her Boss
  

  My fiancée walked into my hospital room and told me she was going back to my adopted brother, her ex. I walked out on one good leg, and three days later the family's sealed will made me the owner of everything they thought I was only paid to clerk.

  medical · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Cowboy Husband Neglected Me Ignored Our Baby for Another Woman's
  

  He missed our daughter's third birthday to cut cake for his ex's little girl, and her post called him that child's hero. I walked into their kitchen with my daughter's three candles and lit them.

  contemporary · female lead · small-town

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Cheated With My Best Friend, So I Spent the Night With His Brother
  

  Margot's fiance butt-dials her while he is in bed with her best friend, and she records every word. With the engagement brunch twelve hours away, she spends the night with a stranger who turns up at the brunch as the groom's brother.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• At My Daughter's Baby Shower, My Husband Gave My Place to My Best Friend
  

  Helen arrives at her daughter's baby shower carrying the cradle she spent six weeks restoring, and finds her husband pinning the Grandma-to-Be corsage on her best friend. She takes back the sign she painted and walks out in front of every guest.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Silence Between Us: A Vow to Return
  

  She found her husband at their anniversary restaurant with the colleague who has been slowly taking her seat beside him. She sat down on his left and refused to give it up.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Sister Married My Ex, So I Became a Billionaire's Mistress
  

  Willa comes home after three years to find her sister married to the man she loved and holding the baby they once named in their dreams. Broke and out of time, she walks into a hotel suite and applies to be a billionaire's three-month mistress.

  contemporary · female lead · love triangle

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Left Pregnant and Swore She Wasn't His, Now He Wants the Truth
  

  I told my husband the baby wasn't his and drove out of his father's birthday party. Five years later I am back in Louisiana with a five-year-old who has his eyebrows, and a one-line Ledger on my phone says who owes whom.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  32 chapters published

• My Stranger Became My Stepbrother, Then Our Parents Divorced
  

  I left a stranger's bed in a blizzard before I learned his name, and ten weeks later he walked down my new stepfather's staircase as my stepbrother. We kept the rule until our parents' marriage fell apart, and then he was the one who couldn't.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

• They Let Me Bleed Out for My Sister's Show
  

  Ivy Garrick lay bleeding under a collapsed shelf while her father downgraded her emergency call to keep her sister's livestream running. She took a scholarship, took her name off the family emergency list, and found out the whole clinic runs on her blood.

  contemporary · female lead · fated mate

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Don Faked His Death to Test Me, So I Died Haunting Him
  

  The Don's family was told every man was dead, so the women chose to die on their feet. It was a loyalty test, and Rosalia, shot through the heart, now walks the living world for her husband.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• His Cousin Was His Real Wife, So I Took My Father's Name Back
  

  Clara Mackey learns at the county records office that her husband's legal wife is the cousin who lived in her guest room. A stranger on the steps says a rich man has been looking for her for twenty-four years.

  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

  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

• My Gown Had No Gems, So I Walked Out of My Own Bonding Ceremony
  

  Every Snow Moon daughter gets a gem on her gown each birthday. At her bonding ceremony, Clara's gown is bare, her father calls her ungrateful in front of the pack, and she walks out on the Alpha she was meant to bond.

  contemporary · female lead · fated mate

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Hid Your Triplets, Why Did They Crash Your Engagement
  

  Margot spent six years keeping her triplets from the man who asked if they were even his. Then the five-year-olds ran their own DNA test and read the result into the microphone at his engagement party.

  contemporary · female lead · secret baby

  24 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

  Completed · Every chapter free