on-the-run novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “on-the-run”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

• I Left My Husband Bleeding, and the Mob Boss Said Good
  

  Nahla hits her husband until he stops reaching for her, steals his car and climbs into the Range Rover of the Lebanese boss his family fears, and the man who loves only his baby sister gives her forty nights, a lock on the inside and the one word nobody ever said to her.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• The Don's Runaway Substitute
  

  For three years the Don gave her every reassurance she begged for. Then lines of text told her she was only a stand-in for the fiancée coming home, so she decided to vanish before he could put her down.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Family Sold Me for Their Favourite Daughter
  

  Seven years after her family sold her to traffickers, Willa walks out of a raid and finds the family she mourned waiting behind the police tape. They want her grateful, quiet and gone again.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Ran Home With My Baby to My Brother's Biker Friends, and the Three Who Tormented Me Said I Was Theirs to Guard
  

  Zo Mayfield flees her police-sergeant husband with her seven-month-old daughter and sits down at the table of the biker club that ran her off its lot at fifteen; the three men who tormented her say she is theirs to guard.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  24 chapters published

• He Had Me Drowned, Then Wept at My Grave
  

  Five years after her husband sent two men to drown her, Daphne Rallis is a tattoo artist in Astoria, Oregon, and he is on her step in the rain, begging. The grave he has wept over holds someone else.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• The Mafia Devil's Possession
  

  Eighteen-year-old Si-on broke a loan collector's knee on the Devil's carpet, and the Devil bought him for it. Now the boy runs, and the man who feels nothing hunts him back to the bed and the chain.

  contemporary · dark romance · dark mafia

  24 chapters published

• I Cut My Alpha's Bond, So the Lycan King Came Hunting
  

  Cassia cuts her loveless binding in front of the whole pack and drops her scent wards, and the Lycan King who has hunted the Lowwater shooter for nine years finally catches her. She fired that shot on her Marshal's order, and the man who gave it has had her under his roof for three years.

  contemporary · female lead · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

• The Biker's Hidden Heiress
  

  I ran out of my own wedding and woke up bleeding in a biker's bed, hiding the one name that would get me sent back.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Faked My Death and He Lost His Mind
  

  Her husband told her his best friend's baby was his, one day after their wedding. Fiorella faked her death and left him without a reason.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  12 chapters published

• I Fled My Wedding and Lit the Dawn
  

  On the eve of her wedding, Mariluz overhears her fiancé confess that he started the fire that killed her father and ruined her family. She flees on a truck, and the next day she confronts him in front of four hundred people.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  12 chapters published

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• After the Crash: A Love in Ruins
  

  I asked a pilot to fake a private jet crash. It was the only way to leave the man who gave up the mafia throne for me—and built, behind my back, a second home with twin boys who have his eyes.

  female lead · dark romance · redemption arc

  12 chapters published

• Gone in the Flames
  

  The vitamin C my husband bought for me tasted bitter. The hospital doctor said it wasn't vitamin C. It was mifepristone, and his wife—the one everyone knew—had given birth two months ago.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

• Gloria: The Name I Never Was
  

  Her husband, the aristocratic monk, only pretended to love her, and every prayer in his books bears another woman's name. She crafts a false identity and fakes her own drowning.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  12 chapters published

• Abandoned by the Duke, I'm the Divine Seraph
  

  Cast out by the Duke who raised him, Rowan searches for his origins, rescues his sister and discovers divine power while fighting a transformed dragon and pursuing a fugitive mage.

  secret parentage · male lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• Don't Mess with My Lethal Fiancée
  

  A fugitive assassin walks into her arranged engagement party and finds the groom is the stranger she slept with in a lake cabin, the man whose brother she killed five years ago.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• Runaway Princess Bride
  

  A bride flees a forced wedding after the groom attacks her, learns her parents sold her, and the stranger who helps her flee turns out to be a prince with a secret.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Rise of the Phoenix
  

  Emmi MacDiarmid burns her way out of a shifter lab with an ancient phoenix inside her, and the only man who can touch her fire is the frozen prisoner from the next cell.

  contemporary · survival · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Millennial Mage
  

  Hana, 33, an overqualified office temp, is pulled through a filing cabinet into a realm of duelling mages and ranked Dust, the lowest there is. Her talent is counting, and in a war nobody can feed, that makes her the most dangerous woman on the road.

  female lead · forced proximity · fantasy kingdom

  24 chapters published

• I Flew the Alien Warlord Past the Blockade, and He Already Knew My Name
  

  Broke freelance pilot Inez Quintana takes a hooded seven-foot alien warlord on a nine-day run past a Concord blockade, falls into his hands somewhere in the debris field, and learns he read her name on her hull plate before she ever said yes.

  female lead · sci-fi · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

• Loved Twice by the Hockey Star
  

  Seven years after she vanished pregnant from a crash that crippled his brother, Britta comes back under a false name because their daughter is dying, and the little girl runs into the hockey star's arms calling him Daddy before he knows she's his.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

• Two Besties, Two Babies, Two Dangerous Daddies
  

  My best friend and I got pregnant the same week, from the same masked night, by two rival mafia bosses who think we robbed them. So we sold my shoebox of ex-boyfriend jewelry and ran to the Riviera to find nicer rich men.

  contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy

  32 chapters published

• Done in Fifteen Years
  

  Six days before their fifteenth anniversary, Raylene found the divorce papers her husband had timed to leave her with nothing. She took her daughter and three hundred dollars and ran, and the man sent to serve her decided to hide her instead.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  32 chapters published

• Escaping the Arrogant Dark Moon Alpha
  

  The Alpha named another woman his Luna and ordered his secret mate never to leave his mountain. It was the one night a month his voice doesn't work, so she broke his prisoner out and drove over the pass.

  female lead · wrongful imprisonment · fated mate

  24 chapters published

• Seven Days to Disappear from My Mafia Stepbrother
  

  The last time my stepbrother told me to name my price and get on the operating table for his sister, I died on it. This time I named a price, took his money, and hired the one man in Providence who can make a woman vanish in seven days.

  medical · contemporary · forbidden love

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free