suspenseful novels

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

• 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

• The Daughter They Abandoned Twice
  

  At six, Hallie helped a woman lure a little girl away from a Dairy Mart, and her parents left her at a gas station the next dawn. Twenty years later she tells the whole country what she did, and learns who she really was.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Saved the Man He Shot, So the Mob Boss Kept Me
  

  An ER nurse seals a stranger's chest wound in a taverna back room with kitchen plastic wrap, tells the mob boss holding the gun to drive, and is kept in his house to keep the man alive.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Husband Framed Me for His Mistress's Crash
  

  Laurel Kershaw wakes up in handcuffs behind the wheel of her husband's car, with a dead man in the road and his mistress long gone. The District Attorney thinks a grieving wife on sleeping pills will take the fall. He forgot she used to be the best defense lawyer in the county.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Husband Dismissed Seven Ransom Calls as AI
  

  A pregnant music teacher is kidnapped, and the kidnapper phones her surgeon husband seven times. His head nurse answers every call and swears it is the AI scam from the hospital warning. When a truck throws the wife onto his operating table, he does not know her face.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Father Gave Me a New Big Brother, and the Only Man I Could Run To Was the One Who Put Him There
  

  Rali Etxeberria locks her new adopted big brother in the pantry of her family's Basque supper house and runs to her godfather, the detective who has always protected her, only to learn the brother came for the lie she signed at nineteen and the godfather is the one who made her sign it.

  contemporary · female lead · wrongful imprisonment

  24 chapters published

• The Man Stalking Me Said Stop Working Alone, and the Kind Vet Was the One Who Let My Tire Down
  

  Maija Kallio, a night plow dispatcher in Duluth, reports the man who stands in her lot to the sheriff, and learns he is guarding her from the kind vet who fills his thermos at her desk.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Fiancé Wants Me Back Too Bad The Only Thing Coming Back Is Your Regret
  

  My undercover fiancé vanished for four years. I found him pouring drinks in Maine under a dead man's name, and I tore his life down in front of the whole bar. The woman who loved him paid for it in an alley. He has been making me pay ever since.

  contemporary · female lead · undercover

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Death Row
  

  Eleven days before her execution for murdering her husband, Leah Marwick sees him alive at the prison sign-in counter, and the only friend she has on the row is married to the same man.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Bully Found My Photos, So Now I Kneel on Command
  

  Judah Redmayne, the preacher's perfect son, has secretly photographed the sheriff's son for seven months. Now Tate Hatchett has the folder, and Judah kneels for every photo he gets back.

  contemporary · dark romance · male lead

  24 chapters published

• Doomsday Rebirth
  

  Gillian Corrigan was thrown out the gate of Cleveland's biggest shelter by her own fiance, and she wakes up ninety-three days before the red rain falls. This time she knows where everything is, and who to leave outside.

  contemporary · survival · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Pushed Overboard Pregnant, I Crashed My Husband's Wedding
  

  Wesley kissed his pregnant wife's forehead and shoved her off the family yacht. Six days later she walks into his wedding to her best friend.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Back From The Dead: My Apocalypse Level-up System
  

  Devon Pendelton was shoved off a truck to the dead by the man she loved. She wakes thirty days before the outbreak with a level-up system, her late father's farm, and a warlord who will not let her go.

  dramatic · survival · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Let Her Ruin Herself
  

  She took a knife for her best friend and died at thirty because of her. Now she is eighteen again, standing at the same gate, and this time she stays where she is.

  contemporary · female lead · rebirth

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Fiancé Swapped Room Cards So I Mated His Rival
  

  Hours before her vampire mating ceremony, Margo watches her fiancé draw her best friend's room key in front of forty guests. Her own key says the name of his worst enemy, so she goes up to his suite.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Tyrant's Sickly Consort Refuses to Die
  

  The cup of welcome killed three consorts before him. Su Ming drinks it, names the poison, and the tyrant who has not slept in nine years tells him to stay. 架空历史 · 暴君攻 x 病弱受 · 双洁 · 1v1 · HE. Content notes: 受视角 mostly, 攻视角 in four chapters; poison, court intrigue, no cheating, no coming-out.

  dramatic · male lead · royal palace

  24 chapters published

• Monsters Got Blamed for Murder, So I Relived the Victim's Last Hour
  

  Eight years after monsters began pouring through hairline Cracks in Chicago's sidewalks, a Cook County deputy medical examiner whose skill lets her relive a dead person's final hour sees a human hand behind a 'monster attack', and writes HOMICIDE over the federal order that every Crack death be cremated unexamined.

  medical · contemporary · thriller

  32 chapters published

• Dad's Coal Pit Hid a Dungeon, Now Guilds Pay Me to Enter
  

  When his father dies, a night-shift mart clerk in the dying coal town of Taebaek inherits a mortgaged pit and a secret: a live dungeon at the bottom that will obey him as its keeper. The bank, the city and a Seoul guild want the land by Monday, and he slams the dungeon's door on all three.

  contemporary · male lead · small-town

  32 chapters published

• The Fake Medium Hooked a Real Ghost
  

  Dark first: a damp, obsessive ghost who is dangerous to everyone except one man. Ye Ming is a cold-reading fraud who sells grief for a living, until a real voice starts correcting his lies in a whisper and the more he lies, the more solid the dead man becomes. 清冷钓系受 x 阴湿男鬼攻 · 暗黑小甜饼 · 灵异 · 双洁 · 1v1 · HE · 攻受 · 受视角为主, 攻视角三章.

  contemporary · male lead · beach-town

  24 chapters published

• A Grave Beneath the Floorboards
  

  Macy's best friend always swore that if she ever stopped eating spicy food, Macy should call the cops. Tonight the woman across the table spits out one wing, and Macy knows she is not her friend.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Husband's Mistress Killed Wrong Girl in OR, Now He's Mourning His Real Sister
  

  At 3 AM the hospital called about my sister, and my husband, the head of neurosurgery, promised to take care of it personally. By morning she was dead, and the only person who would tell me the truth was the man who watched it happen.

  medical · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Dead Girl's Wheel of Wish
  

  A week after the campus beauty jumped from a roof, a wheel of wishes appears on the school forum and every spin comes true. Jo is the only one who refuses to spin, and the whole school calls her a murderer for it.

  contemporary · female lead · dark

  24 chapters published

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• I've Died Here Before
  

  For three years Addie always got her way with Holden, until the night he stands her up at the waterfront and a furious voice in her head says she has drowned there eight times already.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Rated F for Farming, Now Every Guild Bids on My Vegetables
  

  For seven years Ju Gyu-ho's farming skill has been rated F, too weak to even enter the monster Tower that rose over Korea. Then a breach drags him onto a hidden grass floor inside it, where anything he plants ripens overnight, and the Tower's auction house sells his vegetables to the hunter guilds who laughed at him.

  contemporary · male lead · public-scandal

  32 chapters published

• Reborn: Apocalypse Tyrant Endlessly Pampers Her Sickly Lover
  

  Veda Vassall died as the cruelest tyrant of a drowned world, killing for the medicine that was meant to keep her lover alive. Reborn on the deck of a cruise ship nineteen days after the sea rose, she takes the ship before anyone else can, and spoils him without limit.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · survival

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Told My Therapist About My Stalker, but He Already Knew
  

  A true-crime podcast host starts therapy because his anonymous watcher's notes are getting closer to his bed. Every session, his psychiatrist asks exactly the right questions, because he is the watcher.

  contemporary · thriller · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

• He Tortured Me for His Sister
  

  Her husband's sister threw herself off a building, and her last call was to Tatiana, who stayed silent. When her husband tied her up to show her what desperation really meant, she had in her pocket the one voice that could destroy his entire family.

  contemporary · female lead · dark

  12 chapters published

• Thrown In as Bait, the E-Rank Lantern Wakes Up Every Time He Dies
  

  For ten years Jeon Woo-seok has walked in front of Seoul's hunters with a lamp so the monsters take him first. When his guild master bars a door on him, he wakes up that same morning, one year older, and every death after that costs another year.

  contemporary · survival · male lead

  24 chapters published

• The Whole Town Forgot My Sister Overnight, So I Made Them Look at Her
  

  The night of her engagement party, Callie Coker sits alone for her future mother-in-law's antique camera and vanishes from her sister's couch at midnight. By morning there are three plates on the family table, her room is a sewing room, and her fiancé is engaged to someone else. Only Haley remembers, because Callie pulled her hand into the picture.

  contemporary · female lead · horror

  24 chapters published