in-law conflict novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “in-law conflict”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

• 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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• 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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• 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

• 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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• 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 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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• Six Rooms at the Lake, But None for My Parents
  

  Jenna booked a six-bedroom lake house for the Fourth of July so her parents could finally have a holiday. She arrived to eighteen of her husband's relatives in the yard and every room taken.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Still Recovering After Giving Birth, I Heard My Husband Saying "I Love You" to the Night Nurse I Had Hired to Care for Our Baby Through the Baby Monitor
  

  Seven weeks after her c-section, Alexis wakes at 3:12 a.m. and hears her husband tell the night nurse she hired that he never stopped loving her. She can barely walk, so she does the one thing she is good at: she listens, and she keeps every clip.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

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• He Called Every Truth a Lie
  

  At their fifth anniversary dinner, Joanna's husband gives her a book that logs every true thing she has told him as a lie, then lets her swallow the shrimp his mother ordered. She takes the book and walks out.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• He Rejected Me the Night I Birthed His Twins
  

  My water broke while my Alpha kissed another woman downstairs. By dawn he had rejected me in front of the elders. He never learned that his famous strength had been mine.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Man Who Can't Let Go
  

  Three years after she left, Virginia walks into a dark VIP room and her husband kisses her like he never stopped, in front of the girlfriend his mother picked for him. She puts divorce papers on the birthday cake and tells him to sign.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

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• His Cruel Allowance Game Cost Him His Wife and Heir
  

  Three days after giving birth, Alma asks her husband for formula money and is made to pick one of ten sealed envelopes in front of his whole family. She opens all ten, keeps the forty dollars, and walks out with their daughter.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• His Cruel Allowance Game Cost Him His Wife and Heir
  

  Three days after giving birth, Alma asks her husband for formula money and is made to pick one of ten sealed envelopes in front of his whole family. She opens all ten, keeps the forty dollars, and walks out with their daughter.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  1 chapters published

• 519 Invitations Had Her Name, I Cancelled the Wedding
  

  Seven days before her wedding, Della opens 520 printed invitations: 519 name her best friend as the bride. She cancels in front of the groom's whole staff, and the best man who ordered the cards offers to show her where they were meant to go.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• I Was Counting Down To Leave Him
  

  Seven days before her wedding, Flora finds her husband pinning her dress on his first love. She hands over the dress, the rehearsal and the guest list, and starts counting down to the day she leaves.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Hid Our Marriage for Two Years, So I Told the Whole Ballroom
  

  A nurse who was kept a secret wife for two years announces the marriage into the microphone at her husband's gala, walks out pregnant, and comes back four years later to a custody petition and a marriage she thought was over.

  contemporary · female lead · hidden marriage

  32 chapters published

• They Gave Me a Check at Twelfth Night, So I Took Their Mardi Gras
  

  At the Villere family's Twelfth Night party in New Orleans, Clem Mouton is handed a check for six years of service and the plastic baby from the king cake. By the rules of the krewe the baby makes her keeper of Carnival, and she takes them down in six public scenes before Fat Tuesday.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

• My Best Friend Took My Wedding, So I Fed the Whole Town
  

  At her own rehearsal dinner, Sunny Fjeld watches her fiance's mother hand her wedding to her pregnant best friend. She cancels everything she paid for in front of 140 guests and serves the whole town dinner on the harbor dock instead.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• My Husband Buried Me in Gossip, So I Came Back With His Brother
  

  Jo Rieder died in a locked hospital room after her husband's family told the whole town she was unstable. She wakes at his fortieth birthday party, takes the microphone, and finds his divorced brother is back too.

  contemporary · female lead · rebirth

  24 chapters published

• The Chaebol Family Drowned Me, So This Time I Wrote the Contract
  

  Jeon Yu-ri was framed and killed in a staged crash on Banpo Bridge after signing a contract marriage with the Haneul heir. She wakes on the morning of the signing, finds the cast-out cousin who died beside her has returned too, and climbs a ladder of public takedowns while a second returner races them.

  contemporary · female lead · contract marriage

  24 chapters published

• He Voted Me Off the Island, So I Left Him Stranded
  

  Her fiancé cast the deciding vote that left her on the dock while his family sailed off. She had booked every boat.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• A Marriage Left Behind
  

  Maura has paid for her husband's family Christmas for seven years. This year he asks her to stay home from it. She stops paying, and finds out whose pocket the money has really been going into.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Fired From His Shed, I Married His Brother and Became His Landlord
  

  On the day the pecan shakers start, Susie Sutton is fired from the Tankersley packing line in front of two hundred people, so she asks her ex's quiet older brother to marry her before the probate court closes, and keeps one secret: his father's shed stands on her grandfather's ground.

  contemporary · female lead · flash marriage

  24 chapters published

• He Stole My Bill, So I Divorced Him and Outranked His Father
  

  At the Governor's bill signing, Greta Wehmeyer stands up in the third row, hands her senator's-son husband divorce papers and takes the pen for the bill he stole, then climbs room by room beside the Governor's chief of staff until his father waits in her anteroom.

  contemporary · female lead · rags to riches

  24 chapters published

• He Divorced Me at His Ship's Christening, So I Held the Ship
  

  Filipa Medeiros is divorced on a microphone at the christening of her husband's flagship, takes off her ring, keeps her late father's tugs tied to the hull, and holds the ship at the pier with a harbor pilot who will not give her lines an order.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

• My Husband Made Me Take a DNA Test While I Was Pregnant With His Baby
  

  After four years of trying, Britta gets her positive test the same morning her husband's best friend posts an ultrasound tagging him as the man who lent her the baby. He demands a paternity test of his pregnant wife, and she signs his divorce papers because the date on that scan says the best friend was pregnant before he ever handed her the cup.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• Dallas Called My Ex Rich and Barren, So I Found Out He Was Neither
  

  On Valentine's Day, Reyna Ybarra pins her divorce decree to a velvet curtain in front of four hundred women who have been laughing at her ex-husband's empty nursery, and Levi Kellum, the man Dallas calls rich and sterile, walks up the aisle and pulls her into a pastry cooler.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  24 chapters published

• They Paid Me to Fix Their Marriage, So I Took Over Their Bed
  

  A married couple pays a Portland sex therapist for six sessions, the wife puts a hand on her knee in the first one, and the therapist ends treatment, locks the door and takes both of them to bed on her terms.

  contemporary · female lead · love triangle

  24 chapters published

• After He Gave Her My Kitchen, I Left Him with Nothing
  

  Roz's husband sends the kitchen she designed and paid for to his brother's widow, then tells her she is being unkind. She opens the order log, finds the word Manually Entered on three years of gifts, and files for divorce before the guests have left.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Handed Me a Paper Plate, So I Canceled Her Whole Family
  

  At Thanksgiving, Susannah's mother-in-law serves her on a paper plate while the family eats off bone china, and her husband laughs. Susannah owns the house, the card and the company that pays them all, and three days later she starts canceling.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free