startup novels

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

• In Silence, I Let You Go
  

  At her fiance's IPO party, Hannah Brecker hears him announce his secret wife and baby to the whole company she built. She puts down her glass and walks out without a word, and his silence is the only thing she takes with her.

  contemporary · startup · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Toasted His Mistress at My Shower, So I Killed His App
  

  At her baby shower her husband introduced his pregnant mistress to sixty guests. Cora smiled, said congratulations and walked out, because she owns every line of code in the app that made him a millionaire.

  contemporary · startup · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Gave My Cousin a Car, I Built an Empire
  

  Vicky asked her lottery-rich parents for a forty thousand dollar loan and got told to figure it out. Then her father gave her cousin a forty-eight thousand dollar car.

  dramatic · contemporary · startup

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Immortal Cultivator Signed Up for a Dating App
  

  Tang Yu, 29, a software tester, is sent to debug a dating app that matches her with exactly one profile: Jiang Lü, a 904-year-old fox immortal in the same green robes every day. On their first date Jiang Lü orders everything on the menu.

  femme x femme · startup · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Love You, Miss Genius
  

  A burned-out child prodigy hides as a temp filing paperwork at a failing biotech startup. When she secretly saves its platform overnight, the arrogant CEO tears the building apart hunting the anonymous coder, and never notices it is the woman who brings him coffee.

  contemporary · startup · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Cherished by Seven Sisters
  

  Thrown out in the rain on his fifth anniversary with a garbage bag and divorce papers, Leo Hart is picked up from the curb by the seven adopted sisters he quietly supported for years. They run a bank, a hospital, a law firm and more, and they are set on spoiling him; he is set on standing on his own.

  contemporary · startup · male lead

  24 chapters published

• He Let Our Baby Die Over a Hospital Bill
  

  My husband built an app that splits everything fifty-fifty, even what happens in bed. When my card froze at six o'clock in the middle of labor, he refused the ambulance to save eighteen hundred dollars.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  32 chapters published

• My Tribal Rule Said Marry Or Matchmake
  

  When Torrie tells her boyfriend of eight years that her hollow's rule says marry by thirty or go home to be matched, he laughs and hands her engagement ring to his assistant. So she goes home to be matched, and the backward tribe he mocked turns out to own most of his company.

  contemporary · startup · female lead

  32 chapters published

• His Love Was My Poison
  

  I gave up everything to follow my general to the edge of the world, then found another woman's name carved on his parents' grave as his wife. Seven years later he says he's still lighting a candle for me every night, and I'm the only one who knows it's killing him.

  military-base · dramatic · contemporary

  48 chapters published

• From Secret Desire for My Stepbrother to Reality
  

  Three years ago I typed my stepbrother's name into the secret-crush app I built. Tonight my ex put it on an eleven-foot screen in front of 1,500 people, and the screen said it was mutual.

  dramatic · contemporary · startup

  32 chapters published

• My Stepbrother Is a Demon
  

  My mother married a billionaire, and on move-in day I killed something under my bed that nobody else could see. My new stepbrother saw it. He also saw the mark on my wrist that says my soul was sold ten years ago.

  dramatic · contemporary · startup

  32 chapters published

• I Married a Stranger to Ruin Them
  

  They fired me from my own company on a Tuesday. My husband signed the order, my best friend delivered it, and I was eight weeks pregnant. By Friday I'd married the glassblower who made the one bottle my formula can't live without.

  dramatic · contemporary · startup

  32 chapters published

• The One Who Waited
  

  After fifteen years of waiting for a ring, my boyfriend told me a backless dress wasn't for me anymore and left with his wellness coach. He asked who would marry me at my age. I already had a date.

  contemporary · startup · female lead

  24 chapters published

• They Never Picked Up My Calls, So I Made Dolls That Answer
  

  The day I scored a 1590, my family threw a party for my sister's 1450 and told me to stay in the studio they'd banished me to. Then I found her college essay about how I broke her, in my mother's handwriting.

  dramatic · contemporary · startup

  24 chapters published

• The Nanny, the Husband, and the Woman They Forgot I Was
  

  Three months after giving birth, Margot hears her tech-founder husband and her best friend, the live-in nanny, through the baby monitor. They forgot she used to be a lawyer. They forgot she wrote the papers that hold his company together.

  dramatic · contemporary · startup

  32 chapters published

• He Chose My Twin, So I Walked Away
  

  I was born without a voice. My twin was born without hearing, and our parents spent everything on fixing her. The night I brought my boyfriend home, he heard her talk and said that's what I'd sound like.

  dramatic · contemporary · startup

  32 chapters published

• My Future Self Called to Save My Ruined Life
  

  Thirteen minutes before I gave up my full-ride scholarship for my boyfriend, my phone rang from my own number. It was me, ten years older, telling me to click accept, and telling me exactly who he was sleeping with.

  contemporary · startup · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Stressed for Months to Be With Them, They Were Never Planning to Be With Me
  

  I studied for months to get into the college my boyfriend and best friend chose. Then, over chicken parm, I learned they'd been admitted to a different school in December and planned the whole future without me.

  contemporary · startup · female lead

  16 chapters published