terminal-illness novels

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

• Memories Without Him
  

  She texted "I love you" to the mafia Don who raised her, and he cut her off for six months. Now she has a brain tumor, one goodbye left, and the memory of him is the first thing it will take.

  amnesia · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Discovered Too Late
  

  My sister walked into my hospice room to ask for my liver for the brother she chose over me. I said no, and she did not yet know that I was the one she owed.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Family Sold Me for Their Favourite Daughter
  

  Seven years after her family sold her to traffickers, Willa walks out of a raid and finds the family she mourned waiting behind the police tape. They want her grateful, quiet and gone again.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Cursed by the Light for Loving the Dark
  

  Seven years after Heaven stripped her wings for loving the Prince of the Abyss, he walks up her mother's porch steps with a new fiancee on his arm. He doesn't know the curse has given her three days to live.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · misunderstanding

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Granted Her 100 Wishes And Forgot I Was Dying Too
  

  The whole town can see the countdown over the sister raised in her place, so they grant that sister a hundred wishes. The real daughter came home dying too, and nobody asked.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Died to End Their Lie
  

  Jesse learns he has leukemia and feels relief: he was never their real son, so he owes nobody anything. Then he overhears his parents and learns the lie that has ruled his whole life.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Widow's Fate They Chose Was My Escape Plan
  

  Reborn on the day her brothers rig a draw to hand her fiancé to their adopted sister, Willa lets them and signs for the dying heir nobody wants. The widow's fate was meant to be her escape, until she learns what the Keanes do to their widows.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Sixty Days Left, So He Asked the Deacon's Son for Every One
  

  Cooper, a mechanic with sixty days to live, walks into the office of the rich pecan heir he has fought with for years and asks for every one of them. Jonas says yes in front of everyone, and the secret he keeps could save Cooper or cost him the only thing he asked for.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · love triangle

  24 chapters published

• I Gave It All Back to My Sister, Even My Husband
  

  Cassandra spent her whole life handing her twin everything, then took one thing back: a husband. Told she has less than three months, she signs it all over to her sister, and the man who never looked at her finally looks.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Moretti Daughter They Denied
  

  The day Nora Moretti learned she had leukemia she felt relief, because the family that kept her out of kindness would finally be owed nothing. Then she overheard them trade her to their worst enemy, and she said yes to his face.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Gave My Heart to My Sister and Forgot My Last Birthday
  

  Deirdre Kilbride was dying of heart failure on her twenty-sixth birthday when her father told the whole hospital floor that the only matching heart was going to her adopted sister. She walked out in the rain and into the car of the one man her family calls a rat.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

• My Alpha Shed Silver Tears
  

  Amaranta broke her childhood sweetheart's heart so he wouldn't have to watch her die. Seven years later, he returns to the highlands with another woman, only to discover she has three months left—and someone is poisoning her.

  terminal-illness · female lead · fated mate

  16 chapters published

• They Stole My Heart and My Life
  

  The heart I waited two years for went to my sister because my husband decided to give it to her. They gave me a week to live. I decided to give them exactly what they wanted.

  medical · dramatic · terminal-illness

  12 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Ashes at My Husband's Feet
  

  On the third day after my death, my husband got a call to identify my body and said to call him back once I was cremated. They did, and he came.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · female lead

  12 chapters published

• They Said I Was Adopted, but I Was Always the Real Daughter
  

  The day Inés is told she has leukemia, she feels relief, because her mother taught her at six that she was never really theirs. When her mother refuses to be tested, the lie starts to come apart.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• After Cancer I Turn into A Badass
  

  The doctor gave her six months. Her mother told her not to die before the wedding photos.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Dear Brother, You Loved Me Too Late
  

  Angie is nineteen, blamed for her mother's death and despised by the stepbrother she loves. She has three months to live, and one night left to make him say it.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

• Kiss Me One Last Time
  

  Suzette has three months to live and one request for her husband: a kiss. Finley is too busy using her blood to save her stepsister to look up.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

• The Dying Duke's One-Year Wife Is a Nurse
  

  She wakes mid-signature on a one-year marriage contract to a duke who is supposed to die at its end, and the first thing the former ER nurse does is knock the lancet out of his physician's hand.

  medical · terminal-illness · female lead

  24 chapters published

• The Billionaire's Baby Bargain
  

  To save her dying sister, a night clerk signs a marriage contract with a billionaire: one baby from a clinic, no sex, no love. The rules hold for exactly one dinner.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• To My Romeo, with Love
  

  The morning after Laurel Pinkney finally sleeps with her best friend of twenty years, a nurse calls with a word that sounds like her mother's death. She breaks his heart in public to save him, and he turns out to have heard every word.

  dramatic · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Billionaire Completes My Bucket List
  

  Told she has nine months, Dinah catches her boyfriend cheating, quits her toxic job in front of the room, and a hotel CEO offers to pay for every line on her list if she'll wear his ring for the board.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• His First Love, My Last Goodbye
  

  On the day Esme learns she has months to live, her surgeon husband rushes to the airport to meet the first love he never stopped carrying. She signs the divorce and walks out to spend her last goodbye on her own terms.

  medical · terminal-illness · contemporary

  24 chapters published

• The Don's Dying Wish
  

  Everyone said the Don's son was brain-dead. On my wedding night I watched his stepmother hang the bag that kept him that way, and I shut it off.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

• Bound to My Mafia Stepuncle
  

  My mother spent my nursing school fund on her wedding to a mob boss, so I told his whole dinner table she stole it. Then the groom followed me out, coughed blood into his handkerchief, and told me someone in that house wanted him dead before the vows.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · forbidden love

  32 chapters published

• Too Late to Win Me Back, Mr. Billionaire
  

  The night my dying sister's new lungs came in, my billionaire husband had a helicopter on the lawn. He used it to fly his assistant to Boston for a panic attack, so I woke the island's mail pilot and flew through the fog myself.

  medical · dramatic · terminal-illness

  32 chapters published

• My Daughter Is Dying, and My Husband Is Saving His Lover's Son
  

  The night before my daughter's marrow transplant, her father, the donor, left her birthday party to drive his old flame and her son home. So I called the doctor and made myself the donor instead.

  medical · terminal-illness · contemporary

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• One Last Call Before Goodbye
  

  Five years after I left him, the doctors sent me home to die. I found a note inside his old gift that promised he would come if I called, so I did, and a woman told him to hurry, the movie was starting.

  medical · terminal-illness · contemporary

  16 chapters published