secret parentage novels

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

• He Kept Me Secret Seven Years, Then Proposed to Her
  

  For seven years the boy next door loved me in secret and never said it out loud. Then he stood up at a garden party and proposed to my best friend.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  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

• 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

• My Mafia Husband Faked Amnesia, So I Took His Empire
  

  For six years Mara cleaned the money that made her husband the king of New York. On their anniversary he woke up claiming he forgot her, and that night she watched him laugh about it with his new art curator.

  amnesia · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Five of Us at Christmas, But They Only Got Four Cookies
  

  Her husband ordered custom Christmas cookies for the five of us, and Joanna finds four names in the box and a note that calls her the help. She walks out and dials a number she has carried for five years.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Rejected Jinx Is A Billionaire Heiress
  

  Thrown out of her family home at an engagement party in front of sixty phones, Cora learns the woman who raised her never had the right to call her daughter. The real family has been looking for her for twenty-two years.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Left My Daughter With His Ex, So I Left the Sea King
  

  The sea lord promised my daughter one day at the mortal market, then handed her to his ex, who put her in the harbor to see if she would drown. I packed one suitcase and walked out into his storm.

  amnesia · secret parentage · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Forgave My Affair, But He Never Touched Me Again
  

  Darcy cheated, and her husband laid the photos on her counter and gave her one choice. She chose her family, and for two years he has been kind, calm and untouchable, until the twins' real father walks back in.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• On Halloween, My Husband Kissed Another Woman in Front of Our Daughter, So We Left
  

  Lana sewed three pirate costumes for the school Halloween show. Her husband gave her gown to his best friend's widow and her place to the widow's son, then moved them into the house, sure she would forgive him again.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Sent Every Dollar, So Why Was My Daughter Starving?
  

  Emmeline asks her deployed husband for a divorce so her little girl can eat. He says he has sent every dollar for two years, and someone she trusts is lying.

  military-base · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Bloodline of Retribution: The Disowned Prodigy
  

  Poisoned at her own birthday dinner by the family that raised her, Lena Donnelly wakes on the same morning, exposes the baby swap in front of sixty guests and walks out into a blood contract with the paralyzed heir of Chicago's most dangerous family.

  medical · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Mom Cooked Only for Bella, So I Found My Real Mother
  

  On her eighteenth birthday, Ginny asks for one spicy dish at a table of sweet food she has swallowed her whole life. Her mother says no, so she walks out into the arms of the woman who makes the hottest sauce in Louisiana.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Paid for the Wedding, So Who Was Mother of the Bride?
  

  Joanna paid every deposit for her daughter's wedding, and twelve days before it she finds her own seat moved to the kitchen doors and her husband's executive beside him at Table One. The woman in her place is not only his mistress.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Dumped Me at Our Rehearsal Dinner, So a Man Twice My Age Took Me Home
  

  Annabelle Waters drops her engagement ring into her future mother-in-law's wine glass in front of eighty guests, takes a stranger's hotel key and falls into a week of terms that will not end with a billionaire twice her age.

  contemporary · secret parentage · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

• Sold to the Wolf Chief for a Debt, but His Wolf Knelt First
  

  Ishbel Gow is pledged for seven years to the cold Chief of a Highland wolf clan to pay her stepfather's debt, and finds that the wolf he hates in himself kneels to her because she is the last of the line his family killed for the chair.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

• They Gave The Good Match To Her And A Replacement To Me
  

  Three weeks after her birth family finds her, Molly Dudley is handed a husband she has never met, while her twin gets the brother everyone wants. She walks out of the gala and takes a stranger's one-year deal instead.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Didn't Know She Was the Heiress
  

  Her husband announced that her best friend's daughter was his, and told her to keep quiet. He had no idea she owned the hotel empire his family was trying to buy.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Slept With My Husband, So Her Fiance Rides My Balloon
  

  Ten weeks after her husband left, a New Mexico balloon pilot finds out who he left her for from the woman's own fiance, flies him down the Rio Grande on the morning wind and lands on the two of them in front of thirty chile pickers.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

• He Gave Her My Home, So I Took Back My Life
  

  For the tenth time her husband sends Nora to a hotel so his brother's widow can play lady of her ancestral home. This time she doesn't pack, and the quiet tenant in the carriage house knows what her grandmother left for exactly this night.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Gave Her My Home, So I Took Back My Life
  

  For the tenth time her husband sends Nora to a hotel so his brother's widow can play lady of her ancestral home. This time she doesn't pack, and the quiet tenant in the carriage house knows what her grandmother left for exactly this night.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  1 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

• Shattered Illusions: The Wife He Left for Dead
  

  On their third anniversary Mireille Peabody waits by cold candlelight while her husband lights up the harbor for his first love. When he shoves her onto the marble and walks out, she signs the divorce papers and disappears.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Severed Mother-Daughter Ties
  

  A cardiac surgeon sold by her mother at seven is asked to save the daughter her mother kept. She recuses herself on the spot, and then finds her own face on the family's missing-child poster.

  medical · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Reborn, I Gave My Daughter to His Mistress
  

  At her funeral her daughter hugged her husband's mistress and called her Mom. Abigail wakes up in her kitchen seventeen years of mothering later, and this time she lets them have each other.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Summer I Left
  

  The day after graduation, my parents left me on the driveway and drove off with the son they had just found. By the end of the summer I had left for good, and they were begging me to come back to a table I would no longer sit at.

  contemporary · secret parentage · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Heard Nothing
  

  She died the first time because a classmate swore she could hear her thoughts. Reborn on the first day, she lets the liar keep talking until the whole school hears her fall.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free