talent-competition novels

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

• After the Divorce, I Became His First Love's Sister-in-Law
  

  Her husband leaves her in the rain to answer his first love's call, sure she will never leave. She says yes to the first love's brother instead, and walks back into the music she gave up.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Never Wanted a Female Gamma, So I Built the Pack That Beat Theirs
  

  Zosia Dzurenda was trained since six to dig her pack's graves and carry its dead, until the two friends she grew up with cut her out in front of the whole hall. She walked out with her father's shovel, and a year later her own pack of castoffs is the one to beat.

  contemporary · female lead · childhood friends

  24 chapters published

• The Bloodline She Burned
  

  Rosalind starved to death while her billionaire family toasted the adopted sister who stole her art. Then she woke at the top of the same staircase, five years earlier, and this time she did not kneel.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Beast Trials: The Last True Tamer
  

  A beastless stable girl is forced into the realm's deadliest competition, and every beast in the Arena kneels to her. The commander who sides with her hides the worst secret of her life.

  secret parentage · female lead · rags to riches

  24 chapters published

• Mating Season: Luna Trials
  

  A low-ranking wolf sneaks onto a televised mate-selection show to steal its secrets, and the most famous alpha on screen claims her in front of the cameras.

  female lead · dark romance · undercover

  24 chapters published

• Never Underestimate Girl Math
  

  A farmhand on a full scholarship is mocked by the richest students at Harlow until she proves in front of the whole class that she is better with numbers than all of them. Then the heiress bets that the loser leaves, and pays a man to seduce her out.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• He Was Mistaken for the Sword Saint's Heir, So His Strictest Senior Trained the Fake
  

  A lazy outer disciple is mistaken for the Sword Saint's secret heir because of a noodle tab, and the strictest senior in the sect, the only one who knows, decides to keep the secret and train him. The senior is hiding a fraud of his own.

  romantic comedy · male lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• The Rhythm of Our Feelings
  

  The golden girl of an elite ballet academy has hated me for two years. Now our parents are married, we share a bathroom, and she wants me out of her house and into her bed.

  dramatic · femme x femme · contemporary

  24 chapters published

• Too Late to Love Me
  

  The rich boy read her love letter aloud and laughed. That night a man with his face, three years older, stood on her stoop and said she was dead where he came from.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• The Restoration Rival
  

  After a bathroom mishap exposes his brilliant roommate Lu Chen, pottery restorer Su Ken enters a campus talent competition to prove himself, keep Lu away from his twin sister, and resist the man who has secretly loved him since childhood.

  contemporary · romantic comedy · enemies to lovers

  21 chapters published

• Second Life: Dumping the Scum
  

  I died the night my boyfriend's other girl won Song of the Year for a song I wrote. I woke up at 22 with the pen in my hand, and this time I tore up the paper and took every song back, including the seven years of them I haven't written yet.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• I Lost 90 Pounds, Only to Find He Tried to Give Me Away
  

  The night before our first date I found out the boy I'd starved myself for had posted my picture in his guild chat a year ago and given me away to whoever wanted me. So I went to the date anyway, and read his post out loud to his face.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• His New Stepsister. His Biggest Threat.
  

  At my mother's wedding I met my new stepbrother, the 41-game quiz show champion I'm booked to play on Tuesday. Then his father, my orthodontist, handed me the answers.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  32 chapters published

• Falling for My Ex's Uncle
  

  In the middle of the awards, her boyfriend proposes to another woman holding the trophy her brisket won. She walks off his team and across the grounds to the one rival who always finishes second: his exiled uncle.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  32 chapters published

• Beastward Academy: Reborn, I Claimed My Sister's Serpent
  

  Elowen bled for a gold dragon for ten years, and on Waking day he chose her twin, then drained her on an altar. She wakes on Waking morning with a black scale in her fist, and this time, when her sister throws away her starving serpent, Elowen cuts her own palm and claims him.

  female lead · rebirth · fantasy kingdom

  32 chapters published

• Too Late for My Shifters' Regret
  

  She burned through her last warmth making three wolf shifters the strongest in the academy, and they asked to belong to her sister before she got up off the floor. So she traded them, right there under the bell, for her sister's cold, collared snake.

  female lead · fantasy kingdom · fantasy romance

  24 chapters published

• Stepbrother Made My Wet Dream Real Inside Our Shared Tent
  

  On night one of a wilderness survival show, I woke from a dream about my stepbrother with his name in my mouth, and he was awake. I asked him to make it real. Then I saw the red light on the tent camera, and the producer watching was my ex.

  dramatic · contemporary · survival

  24 chapters published

• The Cursed Blood
  

  My fated mate rejected me in front of the whole pack for the beta's daughter. The law says the bond only breaks when I accept. I said no.

  female lead · fated mate · fantasy romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• One Girl, A Pack Of Beasts
  

  My mates wanted the bonds broken so they could belong to the chief's daughter. So I put down my knife, paid them off with a bag of beast cores, and cut them loose in front of the whole tribe. They never asked where the cores came from.

  exile · female lead · fantasy romance

  32 chapters published

• They Left Me Behind on the Road Trip, So I Got on a Better Ride
  

  On day three of our last road trip before graduation, my boyfriend handed me a bus ticket so the other four could keep the car, then took them all to a pool party instead. So I got into a black car with a runaway grandmother, her furious lawyer grandson, and a job reshooting the most famous road trip in American photography.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published