modern city novels

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

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• 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

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• 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

• Wanted by My Three Bosses
  

  After ninety minutes in a marble lobby, Daphne Birchall is about to walk out of her dream job interview when the three founders step off the elevator and all three want her to stay.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  24 chapters published

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• He Chose Her, So I Faked My Death
  

  Imogen finds a second wedding ring, a signed blame contract and a secret safe in her husband's study on their fifth anniversary. She has three days to die, and a baby to protect.

  dramatic · bodyguard-romance · contemporary

  32 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

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• He Died for His Lover, Then Returned to Win His Trust
  

  After dying in a church while mourning the medical student who took a bullet for him, mafia don Dante Rossi is sent back to the day they met. He gets a second chance at love, but only if he stops treating Javier as someone he can possess and learns to stand beside him instead.

  medical · romantic comedy · redemption arc

  40 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Don's Pregnant Wife Ran to His Enemy
  

  Elena signs her divorce papers while her husband's first love sleeps in his shirt in their bed, then runs for New York carrying the Don's heir. The only man waiting for her on the platform is his worst enemy.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• 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

• 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

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• I Filmed My Husband Cheating, So I Married the Brother He Fears
  

  Imogen plays the video of her husband and her best friend in her own bed to forty dinner guests, and walks out with a better offer from his dangerous half-brother. One year as his wife, his name, his protection and a front seat to her husband's ruin.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

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• Every Song He Stole Was Mine
  

  Her husband divorced her at his album release party while his mistress sang her unreleased song in her dress. Joanna walked on stage and sang the rest of it herself.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• My Groom Chose His Mistress, Not Knowing I Was the CEO
  

  On her wedding night, Iris watched her groom walk his childhood friend to the guest room. By Monday afternoon, he would learn she was the CEO who signs his family's two hundred million dollars.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 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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• He Traded Me for My Sister Twice, But I Planned the Second Time
  

  She died once in a warehouse while two men rushed to save her sister. Reborn, she walks out on both of them and sets the trap herself.

  contemporary · female lead · rebirth

  24 chapters published

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• They Chose the Wrong Daughter
  

  The crime family that lost Roz Rainey as a child finally comes to take her home. She is already running the docks, and she walks into their mansion with a briefcase and a plan.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• He Took Jude's Money, Ken Won His Heart
  

  After his boyfriend admits he was dating him for money, billionaire heir Jude Parker finds a steady ally in scholarship student Ken Bronze, who helps him rebuild his confidence. When a cruel misunderstanding drives Ken away, Jude must prove their love is worth more than his family's fortune.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · romantic comedy

  40 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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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• They Gave My Wedding to My Brother, Now They Need Me
  

  Miles walks into his own engagement party and finds his brother's name on the banner, his fiancee in a new ring and an $18,000 bill with his name on it. He takes the job overseas he once refused, and learns his family had been saving him for something worse.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  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

  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

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• While I Couldn't Breathe, He Was With Her
  

  Her fiancé let her asthma attack ring out to be with the girl who saved his life, and registered his marriage to her instead. Kirsten walks away with nothing, and the one man who actually carried him off the mountain is waiting at the end of the trail.

  amnesia · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• He Bet My Life and Lost Me Instead
  

  At a company retreat, Nina's partner fills her rescue inhaler with smoke to win a bet with his first love, then tells the paramedic it is all in her head. She plays the recording to the whole company and walks out for good.

  medical · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Played His Perfect Girlfriend, He Couldn't Let Her Go
  

  Mara Bell is paid $15,000 a month to be the devoted girlfriend of Cain Rourke, the man the whole city fears. When his first love comes back and he ends the contract, Mara cheerfully takes her severance and leaves, and Cain starts to wonder what he lost.

  contemporary · romantic comedy · fake relationship

  32 chapters published

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• She Catfished Him With My Face, So This Time He Is Mine
  

  She died in childbirth married to the wrong man, because her best friend wore her photos online for two years. Reborn at the brunch where it began, she says no at once and goes after the man her friend lied to.

  contemporary · female lead · rebirth

  24 chapters published

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• My Husband Called Me His Mistress on Livestream
  

  A streaming crew storms Leigh's Chicago apartment and a stranger wearing her husband's ring slaps her on camera. When he walks in and says he has never seen her, she lets him, because everything he owns belongs to her family.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• 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

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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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• 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