thriller novels

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

• My Brother Called From the Ocean Floor, So I Hung Up
  

  The only man alive who can rescue a sub from 35,000 feet gets his younger brother's call for help in front of the whole Institute, and hangs up. He has heard this call before, and it killed him.

  contemporary · thriller · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Apocalypse: I Hear My Genius Husband's Sins
  

  With the dead at the stairwell door, the genius who will save humanity sends his wife down to hold it. She hears every lie he tells, and now she hears what he is hiding.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

• The World Never Ended
  

  Five years after her family and husband died in the apocalypse, Cora swallows the poison she has hidden. Then they walk in alive, and the apocalypse was a set.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Shielded by the Ruthless Military Boss
  

  A first-year nurse walks out on a date who bruised her, then a killer in a doctor's coat puts a scalpel to her throat in a locked-down hospital. The Army colonel who throws himself down the stairs to save her offers her a marriage that will keep her alive.

  military-base · bodyguard-romance · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Room 14's Secret
  

  Melinda Garrick has been drugged, filmed and locked in a psychiatric ward by her husband and her best friend, who plan to adopt her daughters on Friday. She stopped swallowing the pills fourteen days ago, and the room at the end of the hall holds the secret that can bring them both down.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  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

• They Killed Me in the Lab, So I Woke Up Early
  

  Maren Teague dies on a lab table while the people who study her ability keep her awake to map her pain. Then she wakes in her own bed nine months earlier, the morning their first phone call comes, and the technician who counted her down is waiting at the front desk.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Day My Family Left Me to Die
  

  Millicent bleeds out in her own family's ER while they choose their adopted daughter over her. Then she wakes in the body of a silent hospital cleaner, three feet from her mother.

  medical · contemporary · thriller

  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

• Rewriting the Apocalypse
  

  Jo Hetzel died strapped to a lab chair, fully awake, and her death ended the world. She wakes fourteen months earlier, with the man who drove her to that chair knocking at her door.

  dramatic · survival · thriller

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

• 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

• Wedding Night Confession: Husband Said I Slept With Your Best Friend
  

  On her wedding night her new husband plays a truth game and admits he slept with her best friend. She answers with the one secret that could send her to prison, and finds out he already knew.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  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

• I Joined a Fake Death Game for My Son's Surgery, and the First Rule Killed a Man
  

  Everyone in America thinks the deaths on Last One Home are stunts. Jo Petrillo signed up for her nine-year-old's heart surgery, watched the first rule kill a man four minutes in, and realized the sealed house was the shuttered casino where she once deleted a tape.

  survival · thriller · single parent

  24 chapters published

• The Heiress and Her Bodyguard
  

  Linnea Haugland is blind, and her father dies in her arms saying her new bodyguard's name. She keeps the man she can't see and doesn't trust.

  bodyguard-romance · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• Hidden Hero: His Time to Shine
  

  At his mentor's funeral, a famous actor and his aide throw Caleb Benton out of the front pew and call him a file clerk. They have no idea he built the secret signal system the actor has been claiming for years.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• Cyberking Reclaims His Throne
  

  A hacker king is pushed off a roof by his girlfriend the night before he exposes a government secret, and wakes with no memory and all his genius. The night-shift programmer who took him in must learn who he was, and whether she can forgive it.

  dramatic · amnesia · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Duplicated Husband
  

  After three years of abuse, Lydia kills her husband on their anniversary and buries him in the garden. The next morning he is back at the stove, gentle, and making pancakes.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• My Loser Daddy is a Big Shot
  

  A broke night driver and single dad marries a CEO to save her company, with his seven-year-old daughter playing matchmaker, while he hides that he leads a secret group that takes down untouchable men.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• Darker Shades of Elise
  

  She ended the affair on a Thursday afternoon. Her lover answered by showing her twelve afternoons he had filmed, and her husband had already watched them all.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• Return of the Reaper
  

  A retired assassin who promised his dying wife he would never kill again takes the vow apart with his bare hands when a crime family steals his six-year-old daughter.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• When Love Walked Away
  

  Theresa's five-year-old daughter whispers from a hot car and the line goes dead. She finds her too late, and then she makes the father, his lover and his mother answer for the two hours.

  contemporary · thriller · single parent

  24 chapters published

• Love Is a Dangerous Dance
  

  A ballerina signs a contract engagement to win the lead at a famous New York company, and an assassin in her dressing room makes her his way into the family that owns it.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• The CEO and Her Daughter's Secret Father
  

  The night a stranger pulled her out of an ambush, Ximena Arriaga took him to bed and let him vanish; four years later she runs the freight company his enemies are circling, with a little girl who has his eyes, and he walks back into her yard under a false name to protect them without ever telling the truth.

  contemporary · thriller · single parent

  24 chapters published

• Identity Zero
  

  At Blackwood Academy you burn your ID and never hear your name again. Jesse Vetter came to find out how his brother died there, and the Commander who wants him gone says Luke isn't dead.

  military-base · contemporary · thriller

  32 chapters published

• His Secret Nest: Trapped by the Alpha Boss
  

  For three years Noel hid his omega scent under a collar and stole the Alpha's lost shirts for a nest no one knew about. Then his heat came nine days early, Fletcher found him lying in it, and by morning Fletcher's brother had told the whole floor that Noel poisoned every omega in Pittsburgh.

  contemporary · thriller · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

• Never Cross the Mafia Don's Hidden Lover
  

  On my wedding night a bleeding stranger came through my balcony door, and while I hid him in the bathroom I heard my new husband on the phone: "Find him before the uniforms do. She's my alibi." So I took the bullet out myself, and the whole city decided I'd run off with the Don.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  32 chapters published

• In Heat for My Stepbrother
  

  On my last night in the pack, the power went out and I walked into my stepbrother's dark room to tell him the truth. Then someone else walked in with a knife, and when the lights came on I was the one holding it.

  contemporary · exile · thriller

  32 chapters published