public-scandal novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “public-scandal”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Ignored My Pain, So I Left Him in Regret
  

  Ivy lost their pup and burned her back, and her mate Rafe never asked. When he crosses her name off the winter roster for the woman he loved first, she signs the petition to dissolve the bond. At Moonwell Hall the keeper reads aloud what the bond held.

  dramatic · female lead · fated mate

  32 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  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

• He Swore Flowers Would Kill Him, Then Came Home Smelling of Roses
  

  For six years Clara gave up her garden because her Alpha husband's wolf could not bear a single flower. Tonight he walked in drenched in roses, and the mate bond made her smell every one.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Ten Years to Win Her, Two Weeks to Leave Her
  

  Nolan Ridley spent ten years earning his place beside the director's daughter. Two weeks before the wedding he files for a transfer across the country, and she follows him.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Mafia Husband Forced Me to Bleed for His Pregnant Mistress
  

  On our ninth anniversary my husband the Don brought his pregnant mistress home, told me to move into the guesthouse, and when she started bleeding on our marble floor he had his men hold me down and drain my arm for her.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Husband Who Lied to Me
  

  At a Sunday brunch my best friend told me she was pregnant, then left her phone on the sink. The passcode was my birthday, and what was on it was my husband.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  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

• Ten Years of Public Breakups, Then He Ran After My Bus
  

  He proposed on a microphone at the Maine Lobster Festival, she said no into the same microphone, and it was their tenth breakup in ten years, all in front of the same friends. Now a wedding, a house and a bus ride stand between them and an eleventh.

  dramatic · contemporary · misunderstanding

  40 chapters published

• They Wrote Me Fat and Doomed, So the Judge Paid My Fine
  

  A size 22 woman wakes as the fat, vicious villainess of a romance novel, four days from public ruin, and the cold lord the book wrote to humiliate her stands up at her trial and buys her.

  female lead · soapy · royal palace

  24 chapters published

• Written to Die for the Angel, So I Exposed Her First
  

  I woke up as the sweet heroine's best friend, the girl written to drown in chapter eighteen so the leads can bond. I read the ending: the angel is rotten and the book never says so, and the cold lord who loves her is about to learn it from me.

  female lead · manhwa romance · palace intrigue

  24 chapters published

• 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

• 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

  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 Best Friend Redeemed My Fiancé, So I Gave Her the Wedding
  

  Every time Bridget got jealous, her fiancé gave her best friend a day with him. When the friend asks to be the bride for a day, Bridget hands over the dress and boards a plane.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

• Not Every Home Is Meant to Be Returned To
  

  On her eighteenth birthday Hazel Tindall is handed a dishwasher while her sisters get the mall and the amusement park, so she packs a bag and walks out of the house where she has always been the guest. Her mother is already hiding a letter with her name on it.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Video Called Me His Mistress, But I Was His Wife
  

  For five years Hazel has been the CEO's secret wife and his secretary at work, until a video of him pinning her to his office desk goes viral and she is dragged to a police station as a homewrecker. The man who hid her says she is only his assistant.

  contemporary · female lead · hidden marriage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Family Abandoned Me in the Woods
  

  Her sister's Thanksgiving prank left her in the woods with her fiance laughing on the ridge. They had no idea she had already ended it and was already gone.

  dramatic · contemporary · survival

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free