scheming relatives novels

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

• 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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• He Took the Heirs' Emblems, Then Became Their King
  

  A slack-off from another world wakes as the doomed Phoenix heir and must win three rival clan heirs' emblems before his scheming cousin steals everything. His new system copies their bloodline magic through the night, and the more he saves them, the harder they fight to be his consort.

  misunderstanding · redemption arc · royal palace

  32 chapters published

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• My Groom Walked Out, So His Brother Took His Place
  

  My groom walked out in front of two hundred guests, so his cold younger brother took the ring from his pocket and asked me instead. I said yes, and we had until Election Day.

  contemporary · female lead · marriage of convenience

  32 chapters published

• My Sister Ran Before the Wedding, So I Said I Do
  

  My sister left her ring on the sink an hour before the wedding, so I married her ruthless groom in her veil. A year later she came back, pregnant, wanting her seat.

  contemporary · female lead · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

• They Took His Inheritance, He Claimed Three Alpha Mates
  

  Transmigrated into a doomed omega's body, Max has one chance to stop his stepmother and stepsister from stealing his fortune: turn the three alphas they sent to ruin him into his devoted mates. When the men learn Max was the one who saved them as children, their pursuit of Linda becomes a fierce fight to protect him instead.

  romantic comedy · inheritance war · palace intrigue

  40 chapters published

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• My Brother Called From the Ocean Floor, So I Hung Up
  

  The only man alive who can rescue a sub from 35,000 feet gets his younger brother's call for help in front of the whole Institute, and hangs up. He has heard this call before, and it killed him.

  contemporary · thriller · redemption arc

  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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• Mom Let Me Marry the Security Guard
  

  At her own engagement party, Claire Penhallow's mother announces she will marry the ballroom's security guard, and Claire walks out with him. The guard did not take that door job by accident.

  contemporary · female lead · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

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• They Booked Four Seats Without Me, So I Booked One to California
  

  Hanne Halvorsen lies in a hospital bed with a broken ankle and watches her family post their trip: four seats, four rooms, four reservations. She stops waiting for their love, flies to her aunt in California and finds out whose money paid for every trip she was left out of.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

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• Rejected by My Mate, Claimed by the Alpha King
  

  My mate took my sister to my bed, and my parents gave her my room for the pup. When he rejected me I accepted it, my father banished me, and the Alpha King stepped out of the dark and called me his.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• The Girl They Forgot to Love
  

  At her father's funeral lunch, three brothers cut Lizzie out of the family slideshow and call her the housekeeper's daughter. She walks out, and a stranger calls to say her father saw it coming.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• She Sent Me Nudes of My Husband
  

  On their seventh anniversary, Leah gets a photo from her husband's mistress: his hand, with the matching wedding band, on a bare hip. She doesn't scream. She prints it as the cover of her anniversary-party invitations and mails one to all 112 guests, his mother included.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• He Gave Away Our Wedding Song, So I Ended His Signing Day
  

  On their fifth anniversary, Beau Bledsoe hands his wife's wedding song to her younger cousin in front of five hundred people and secretly spends their $300,000 house fund on the cousin's album. Marlo says nothing, and nine days later a pale-gold package lands on his table at his live-streamed signing.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• The Wedding He Stole Was My Great Escape
  

  Mireille's family locks her in a limousine on a bridge so her fiancé can marry his assistant on a livestream. She walks out with the schedule they wrote, and the man they call a stalker is the only one who can prove the wedding was a crime.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• He Counted My Lies Until I Died, Then Begged Me to Wake
  

  Rhona's husband keeps a book of her ninety-nine lies and says he will divorce her at one hundred. When she falls down the stairs and tells him she is dying, he answers "Ninety-nine." Her ghost watches him wait for her to come home.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• The Mafia Don's Vetoed Bride
  

  For five years her family took turns vetoing Vivi Lanzetta's wedding to a Don. The morning of her mother's wake she learns the funeral is a lie, and she uses the one veto she never spent.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

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• They Called My Death a Tantrum, So I Stayed Dead
  

  Ewan and his golden brother Pierce died in the same car crash, and a voice offered both a second life if they won back their family. Pierce took every drop of the family's love, and Ewan died unseen in his own bedroom while his girlfriend married his brother.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

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• They Called My Death a Tantrum, So I Stayed Dead
  

  Ewan and his golden brother Pierce died in the same car crash, and a voice offered both a second life if they won back their family. Pierce took every drop of the family's love, and Ewan died unseen in his own bedroom while his girlfriend married his brother.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  1 chapters published

• He Brought His Assistant On Our Honeymoon And Gave Me A Separate Room
  

  Five years after the wedding, Tripp finally takes Rochelle on their honeymoon, and brings his assistant and a separate room for his wife. The room was chosen on purpose.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• He Chose My Sister, But Now He Wants Me Back
  

  After five years of waiting for her missing fiancé, Linnet finds him in her sister's arms. She says no at the televised royal wedding, and the Alpha King himself stands up to answer.

  female lead · jilted-at-altar · royal palace

  32 chapters published

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• She Returned to Expose His Sister, He Won Her Heart Again
  

  After dying under a forged scandal that ended her arranged marriage, Mira Sen wakes three weeks before it happens and sets out to expose her husband's adopted sister. Dev Malhotra has to learn that loving her means questioning his own family, not asking her to forgive him.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

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• They Gave Me a Monthly Allowance, So I Took Back My Building
  

  Caterina Bellandi owns eleven wineries, and the cousin she trusted for twelve years just handed her a $3,000 envelope in front of the buyers. She owns the building they work in too.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

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• He Married the Farmer Who Taught Him to Live Again
  

  After his first love leaves him following a car accident, billionaire Daniel Silver enters a marriage of convenience with lively organic farmer Johnny Brownie. When a scheming ex and uncle threaten the life they have built, Daniel must prove that loving Johnny means standing up for him, not just needing his care.

  misunderstanding · romantic comedy · marriage of convenience

  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

• My Alpha Killed Our Pup for His Pregnant Mistress
  

  My Alpha made me kneel on the Moon Stone in the sleet for a lie his brother's widow told, and I lost our pup before dawn. By breakfast I had filed for severance, and by moonrise the pack that always answered him started answering me.

  female lead · soapy · revenge

  32 chapters published

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• My Name Was Banned, But My Success Was Unstoppable
  

  Kerensa walks into her family's Thanksgiving Eve and her brother sounds the alarm on her. She owns the mortgage on the house they just called breached.

  bodyguard-romance · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

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• Saved From Suicide, Sold Into a Lie
  

  The woman who pulled him back from the edge five years ago kept a secret in her drawer: his dead wife is alive, married to his brother, and raising a son.

  contemporary · male lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• Out of the Shadow at Last
  

  For seven years Linnet kept her pack's wards up in secret while her family gave her title to her weaker sister. When she walks away, the Alpha of Northgate names her champion at the Moon Fair, and the truth about the night the wards fell is waiting for both of them.

  female lead · fated mate · fantasy romance

  24 chapters published

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• The Daughter They Erased Came Back Untouchable
  

  At twelve, Nerina was blamed for pushing her sister down the stairs, stripped of her name and sent away. Four years later her family comes to bring her home, because her grandmother left her the company.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free