small-town novels

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

• My Husband, My Sister: A Secret Betrayal
  

  At her daughter's third birthday party, Laura's seven-year-old reads a heart-emoji text from her own sister on her husband's phone, and a tablet shows three years of secret payments. She walks out with both kids in front of thirty guests and finds that the secret is not the one she thinks.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 39 Weeks Pregnant, My Husband Refused to Make Me 1 Bowl of Soup but Made Her 101 Breakfasts
  

  At thirty-nine weeks pregnant, Maggie asks her husband for one bowl of soup and he says no. On the way to her last checkup, a text shows he has made another woman 101 breakfasts, so she walks into the school breakfast where he plays father to someone else's boy.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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 Diary That Held the Votes Against Me
  

  In front of her whole culinary class, the boy next door cuts off the bangs she's hidden behind since her mother died, and the class steward reads out fourteen votes against her.

  contemporary · female lead · childhood friends

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Troublemakers Mess With the Wrong Girls
  

  When her grandmother hands the favorite uncle a house bought with her father's retirement, Jo and her mother, the two women nobody in the family dares cross, get the money back in public, with the help of the contractor the uncle never paid.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Four to One: Outvoted at My Own Wedding
  

  Jo Brennan has lost every family vote, four to one, for six years. Tonight they voted to move her wedding to her foster sister's birthday, and then she found the group chat she was never in.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Cowboy Husband Neglected Me Ignored Our Baby for Another Woman's
  

  He missed our daughter's third birthday to cut cake for his ex's little girl, and her post called him that child's hero. I walked into their kitchen with my daughter's three candles and lit them.

  contemporary · female lead · small-town

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Let Them Think She Was His
  

  A stranger walks onto a Wyoming ranch with a two-year-old who has her husband's gray eyes, and Abby Renner's husband doesn't say a word. He has been letting the whole county think the girl is his, and he has a reason he won't give.

  contemporary · female lead · secret baby

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Cheated With My Best Friend, So I Spent the Night With His Brother
  

  Margot's fiance butt-dials her while he is in bed with her best friend, and she records every word. With the engagement brunch twelve hours away, she spends the night with a stranger who turns up at the brunch as the groom's brother.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• At My Daughter's Baby Shower, My Husband Gave My Place to My Best Friend
  

  Helen arrives at her daughter's baby shower carrying the cradle she spent six weeks restoring, and finds her husband pinning the Grandma-to-Be corsage on her best friend. She takes back the sign she painted and walks out in front of every guest.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Made Her His Old Lady. I Took His Baby and Vanished
  

  Femke walks into her biker husband's clubhouse to tell him she is pregnant and finds her nameplate cut off her chair and another woman's engraved in its place. She tells him nothing, and leaves with his child.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Hard Version of Staying
  

  She restored her mother's seaside guesthouse room by room, and the husband who kissed her shoulder every morning. Then, the day she took a pregnancy test after four years of trying, she saw him with her best friend.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 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

• I Left Pregnant and Swore She Wasn't His, Now He Wants the Truth
  

  I told my husband the baby wasn't his and drove out of his father's birthday party. Five years later I am back in Louisiana with a five-year-old who has his eyebrows, and a one-line Ledger on my phone says who owes whom.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  32 chapters published

• 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

• He Chose the MC Princess Over Me While I Was Secretly Pregnant With His Heir, Now He Wants Us Back
  

  On the one day a year the Bitterroot Wardens ride as a single line, the founder's daughter climbs onto the seat behind Lena's husband and nobody says a word. Lena walks away with an ultrasound photo she meant to give him at the graveside.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I built a lookout room so I could watch my husband come home. On opening night, I found him screwing with another woman in it.
  

  Dani builds a motorcycle clubhouse with her own hands and a lookout room to watch her husband's headlights come home. On opening night she finds him in it with the bartender, and the club president tells someone to take her home.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 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

• You Are Not Rejecting Me
  

  When her twin rejects her mate, Nia says she'll do the same with hers, the Alpha's younger brother. He walks in on the packed bags and says she's not rejecting him.

  contemporary · female lead · small-town

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Biker Who Drove Her Away
  

  Annie Tarrant drove ninety miles to surprise her husband of fifteen years at his biker rally, seven months pregnant, and heard him say I love you to another woman in front of his whole club. She took off her ring, and the man who stopped for her on the wet road was the one she was told had left town for good.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Biker Who Drove Her Away
  

  Annie Tarrant drove ninety miles to surprise her husband of fifteen years at his biker rally, seven months pregnant, and heard him say I love you to another woman in front of his whole club. She took off her ring, and the man who stopped for her on the wet road was the one she was told had left town for good.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  1 chapters published

• When I Reached the Accident Scene to Save My Biker Husband, I Found His Mistress Wearing My Tenth-Anniversary Gift for Him
  

  A paramedic is sent to a motorcycle crash on Route 9 and finds her husband's mistress lying in the grass in the helmet she painted for their tenth anniversary. She doesn't cry. She takes the helmet, and then she takes back everything else.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Biker Husband Spent the Night in the Other Woman's Bed
  

  Hallie watches her husband walk out of the club bookkeeper's house at five in the morning wearing nothing under his vest, and the bookkeeper wearing his shirt. By nightfall she has changed the locks. The whole motorcycle club has known since April.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Eight Months Pregnant, My Husband Locked Me in a Freezing Cabin for His Ex on Christmas Eve
  

  On Christmas Eve, eight months pregnant, Hallie Brennan is bolted into a freezing mountain cabin by her husband so his ex won't be alone. The night is not about the ex at all.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Wolf Who Saved Me Makes Other Alphas Submit. I'm Human.
  

  A human caseworker owes her life to the one Alpha whose name makes every other wolf go silent, and she's about to learn why they obey.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  48 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Chose Her. I Chose Divorce
  

  Maggie Rooney gave her billionaire husband eleven years and built his fortune with him. The night he ignores her seventeen calls and she loses their baby alone, she leaves him the ring, the ultrasound and divorce papers.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Gave Our Family Speech With His Ex, So I Took the Mic
  

  My husband skipped our daughter's Family Day for a business meeting, then I found him on the school stage with his ex and her son, giving a speech about family. I took the microphone.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Six Rooms at the Lake, But None for My Parents
  

  Jenna booked a six-bedroom lake house for the Fourth of July so her parents could finally have a holiday. She arrived to eighteen of her husband's relatives in the yard and every room taken.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Bought My Husband for Seven Days, So I Took Back Everything
  

  At a charity gala, Elise's best friend wins seven days of her husband's time at auction, on the exact week of Elise's store move. Elise has a secret positive test in her purse and a friend who knows more than she should.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Chose Her. I Left Carrying His Heir.
  

  At the Rust Kings' ride-out, her biker husband puts another woman on her seat in front of fifty people. She walks out with a pregnancy test in her bag, and the mechanic who tows her home turns out to be the brother the club swore was dead.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free