Best Modern Novels

A decade after their breakup, Mr. Brooke is stunned to find his former flame, Samantha, in his office following a student altercation. While she apologizes for the chaos, the professional setting cannot mask the weight of their shared history. Samantha notes his unexpected career path, yet he maintains a cold distance, insisting that both people and their convictions evolve over time. Though she lingers in search of closure, he remains firm that his old love is a closed chapter.

While selecting wedding rings, Lucia is humiliated when her fiancé, mafia boss Demetrio Farese, declares the jewelry would look ugly on her mangled hand. He shamelessly reveals his intention to marry Carlotta Rini instead, presenting a photo of his proposal. The irony is bitter; Lucia lost her finger shielding Demetrio from an assassin's bullet intended for him. Now, her sacrifice is met with cold rejection as her husband-to-be chooses his enemy’s preference over her loyalty.

I stood before the altar of the grand gothic cathedral, about to marry Julian Moretti, the grieving adopted son stepping up for the comatose Don. To the hundreds of mafia men behind us, it was a dutiful wedding. But I knew the horrifying truth. Julian and his pregnant mistress, Clara, had orchestrated a brutal plot to steal my dowry and secure his place as the next Don. In my past life, I was completely blind to their betrayal. Julian trapped me in our apartment and set it ablaze. I could still feel the blistering heat of the fire. I could still hear my mother’s agonizing screams and my little brother Antonio’s desperate coughing as the smoke filled our lungs. My entire family was burned alive just so Julian could swap the brides and put his whore in my place. I died in pure agony, filled with hatred and despair, wondering why I had trusted a monster. God hadn't saved me from those flames. The Devil had. And he sent me back to this exact moment at the altar. "Do you, Isabella Rossi, take Julian Moretti to be your lawfully wedded husband?" the priest asked. Julian reached for my hand with a sickeningly gentle smile. I didn't give it to him. I tore back my lace veil and turned to face the crowd. "You are mistaken, Father," I said, my voice like ice. "The man I am bound to marry is your Don. Damien Moretti."

Facing a terminal diagnosis with only 72 hours left, Kathleen Sullivan watches as her husband, Bowen Liddell, gives her only chance at survival to her sister, Yvonne. Instead of fighting, Kathleen spends her final days surrendering her two-billion-dollar fortune, her art gallery, and even her daughter’s affection to Yvonne. As she becomes the submissive, perfect woman they always wanted, Kathleen hides a final, chilling secret behind her compliance and terminal revenge.

Natalie Reed’s loyalty is met with betrayal when all thirty members of her team vote for her termination during a public layoff session. Despite sacrificing her health and time to secure bonuses and save her colleagues' careers, she is accused of being a credit-stealing fraud. Natalie resigns immediately, leaving the ungrateful staff behind. However, her absence triggers a corporate collapse, forcing her former boss to beg for her return just one week later.

Serafina Greco is the envy of Astora, celebrating a lavish 470-million-dollar wedding alongside her wealthy brother, Niccolo. However, her world collapses on her wedding night when she discovers her husband, Alessandro Madonia, in bed with her sister-in-law, Matilde Denaro. Just as Alessandro is poised to become the next mafia Don, a determined Serafina shocks her legal counsel by filing for divorce. She chooses to walk away from her deceptive marriage and the life of a natural-born winner.

On graduation day, Chloe Pierce orchestrated a deadly trap, framing the protagonist for her own plunge off a cliff. The resulting public outcry labeled the narrator a murderer, leading to their mother’s fatal brain hemorrhage and the protagonist's suicide in detention. However, time resets to the day before the trip. Armed with memories of the betrayal, the protagonist prepares to confront Chloe’s scheme, vowing to inspect the rope that once sealed their doom.

After being murdered by her jealous best friend and betrayed by her boyfriend, a woman is reborn on the day her life changed. In her past life, she won a 50-million-dollar lottery jackpot while her friend struggled at a corporate job. Now, her friend has also returned to the past and stolen the winning numbers. As her former friend chases the easy money, the protagonist must navigate a web of lies and influencer schemes to survive and reclaim her future.

He's vulgar. He's cruel. He's childish. A proud, entitled, sexist fuck-boy who has no iota of regard for girls and only sees them as nothing less than a mere conquest object for his sick, twisted sexual fantasies. He's all shades of red. I know that. Very well. More than anyone else. And yet... He's all I can think about. He's taken up every single space in my head for free, and I'm beyond obsessed at this point. Every day I think about him. I can't help it. I crave his attention like I need it to survive, I burn his touch, I ache for his... mmm! I shouldn't want him. I know I shouldn't. Especially since he's the son of the very man who broke my family apart. But as I said, I can't help it. He's just like poison... like sin... so deadly... and yet feels so right... so... sweet! His name is Devin Sinclair. And if I'm to be honest... I'm not so sure how much longer I can resist him for. .... Following the devastating scandal that broke her family apart, Tamara Hamilton moved to Palmridge to escape all the unending assault she received, hoping for a fresh start. But that was nothing more than just a fairytale. There she meets Devin Sinclair, the popular, egotistical fuck-boy, who happens to be the son of the very man who broke her family, who soon became her deadly obsession after one unprecedented incident, throwing her life off course. Now she's fighting her newfound obsession... resisting him as much as she can. But deep down, she knows. His mere presence set her whole body on fire. His touch makes her feel things she wasn't allowed to feel. And every minute of the day, she thinks about him. She knows. She knows she can't keep resisting forever. She knows that her walls will come crashing down... sooner or later. But she hoped never. Only time will tell. ... NB: This book explores themes of enemies-to-lovers, forbidden student-professor age gap and bisexual romance. It is rated 18+ as there will be explicit, graphic content between chapters. Please, read at your own discretion. Due to the nature of this book, there will be frequent POV changes of these characters between chapters. Happy reading : )

Hours before they are set to walk down the aisle, a devastating betrayal shatters a bride's dreams. Her fiancé sends an emotional confession of love to his former girlfriend. When confronted with his actions, he dismisses the message as a minor issue, showing no remorse. Refusing to tolerate his emotional infidelity and lack of respect, she makes the ultimate decision to call off the ceremony immediately.

After a night of supposed mistakes, a man sacrifices his company and becomes a devoted househusband to Nancy Cooper to atone for his actions. However, at his mother's funeral, he overhears a devastating truth: he was drugged and framed by Nancy’s father to seize his assets. Even the child he raised is not his own. Betrayed and stripped of his dignity, he decides to faked his death and vanish. Yet, once he is gone, his treacherous wife becomes desperate for his return.

After a premature birth, Miss Scott recovers memories of a tragic future. In her past life, she spent eighteen years and all her wealth saving a daughter who wasn't hers, only to be poisoned by the girl and her own best friend. Upon discovering the cruel baby swap and the betrayal of those she trusted, she dies in agony. Now, she has woken up at the exact moment of the birth, determined to reclaim her real child and expose the heartless perpetrators before history repeats itself repeats.

Following the death of the Moretti family's Madre, Freya is left with a chilling deathbed warning: her husband, Malachi, is unfaithful. Even worse, the culprit is someone close. Suspicion falls upon three women present at the funeral: Freya's best friend Evelina, their sponsored family acquaintance Lucia, and Malachi’s loyal assistant Jessalyn. Determined to uncover the betrayal within her inner circle, Freya begins a dangerous game to expose her husband's hidden lover.

After three years of a cold marriage, Clara is devastated when her husband, CEO Ethan Wright, openly parades his mistress. This public betrayal shatters her world, forcing her to confront the reality of their hollow union. As she navigates the pain of his infidelity and the pressures of high society, Clara must find the strength to reclaim her dignity. It is a tale of heartbreak and resilience as a woman fights to move beyond her husband's cruelty.

In this modern LGBTQ+ romance, a high-ranking military official faces his toughest mission yet: reclaiming a reputation tarnished by scandal and duty. As he fights to restore his family's honor, he navigates a complex web of loyalty and betrayal within the armed forces. Amidst the professional turmoil, an unexpected connection forces him to confront his true self. He must balance the weight of his uniform with the desires of his heart to find peace.

Three days before the SAT, a calculated car crash shatters the protagonist’s leg and future. Govind, the man who once promised protection, admits to planning the attack to please Yvette. This betrayal reopens old wounds from fifteen years ago, when Yvette’s lies led their parents to abandon the protagonist at a children's home. Now, the very person who offered a lifeline is destroying them, proving that his loyalty lies with the sister who once framed them for her own accident.

After waking up with total amnesia following a suspicious accident, a young woman discovers she has seven former boyfriends, each hiding their own secrets. As she tries to reconstruct her shattered past, she must navigate a web of complex emotions and hidden agendas. Every reunion brings her closer to the truth behind her memory loss, but danger lurks in the shadows. Can she identify who to trust before her forgotten history catches up with her?

I endured years of humiliation and forced sedatives from my billionaire husband's family, hoping my quiet obedience would eventually win his heart. When I finally discovered I was pregnant, I thought the child would be our anchor. But when I rushed to his office to tell him, I found his untouchable first love sitting in his chair, rubbing her own swollen belly. She smiled and whispered that she was the one who orchestrated the car crash that left my adoptive mother in a vegetative state. When I lunged at her in a blind rage, my husband shielded her and shoved me backward with brutal force. My spine slammed against a marble table, and blood pooled at my feet. "Kingston, please! I'm pregnant too!" I sobbed, clutching my stomach. He just looked down at me with profound disgust. "I had a vasectomy five years ago," he hissed, condemning me as a cheating whore before ordering his men to lock me up and forcibly abort the child. I had never touched another man. I couldn't understand how the man I loved could order the murder of his own flesh and blood without a second thought. To save myself, I stole his prized Aston Martin and drove it off a bridge into the freezing Atlantic, letting his pathetic, obedient wife drown in the wreckage. Five years later, I returned to New York as a powerful European executive, ready to burn his empire to the ground.

The gunman pressed a Glock to my temple and gave my husband a choice. "One walks out. One stays. Choose, Mr. Underboss." I wasn't worried. I was Haven. I was his wife of ten years, his Consigliere, the woman who built his empire. Beside me sobbed Gemma, a fragile twenty-two-year-old he had known for six months. "Take Gemma! Leave Haven!" Connor screamed, his honor twisting into something unrecognizable. He walked out of the warehouse with another woman in his arms, leaving me to be butchered. I didn't wait for the bullet. I threw myself through a glass window into the freezing canal. I survived the fall, but the life inside me didn't. After five years of failed IVF, the miracle baby I hadn't even told Connor about was gone. While I lay in a cold hospital room, bleeding out the remains of our child, my husband was buying diamond earrings for the woman who had set me up to die. When the doctor tried to sedate me for the surgery, I grabbed his wrist. "No anesthesia," I commanded. "But the pain..." "I want to feel it," I said, staring at the ceiling. "I want to feel every scrap of him leaving my body." I burned that pain into my soul. Then, I went home, poured gasoline over our wedding bed, and lit a match. Two years later, I returned to the city. Connor thought I was dead. But when he saw me on the arm of his mortal enemy, wearing the crown of a rival Queen, he realized his mistake. He didn't just lose a wife. He started a war.

After a doctor saves a female patient's life, his fiancée, Scarlett Baxter, publicly accuses him of misconduct by uploading a video of the procedure. Despite his life-saving efforts, the hospital demotes him and imposes heavy penalties to appease the viral outrage. Labeled a predator by the public and betrayed by his institution, the protagonist decides to stop practicing medicine entirely. As he withdraws his skills, the hospital descends into absolute chaos, leaving those who condemned him to face the fallout.

As the Ricci dynasty collapses, its final noblewoman faces a grim fate. Refusing to let rivals desecrate her remains as a trophy, she seeks out the man she loved and abandoned seven years prior. Now the formidable Don of the Falcone family, her ex-boyfriend meets her desperate plea with freezing cruelty. Though she asks him to handle her body to avoid public disgrace, he vows to sink her in the Hudson River, marking her end with a tombstone that mocks her disgraced lineage forever.

Kendra spent five years as Jaycob's wife in name only, never able to melt his cold heart. Disheartened, she finally chose divorce, freeing him for another woman who seemed to be everything he wanted. Afterward, Kendra reignited her passion for dance and became a captivating star, admired by all, while Jaycob's regret grew so deep he would trade away fame and fortune just to win her back. But Kendra was no longer the woman who sacrificed her dreams for love. Now, at her side stood Kristopher-Jaycob's half-brother-who pulled her close and said with certainty, "She's no longer yours to claim."

"So we have a deal, do we? We do things my way, no argument, no buts." "Yes," she bit out. "Good,"he said, smiling wryly to himself at the thought that yes wasn't a word Joy was used to saying to men. But she was going to say it a lot during their time together. He would make her say it. No, he would make her want to say it. 34-year-old Joy Mike, who, after a failed engagement and struggling with infertility, seeks to conceive a baby alone. Childhood acquaintance and now successful, attractive John Davis intervenes with a tempting proposal: he will help her conceive in the "traditional way". The contract leads to intense passion and emotional risk for Joy as she risks losing her heart to the man who promised her a baby, but not a marriage. 

Everyone thought I was the pampered queen of Marcus D’Angelo, New York's most feared Don. But I was just a placeholder for the woman he couldn't have: his cousin, Izzy. The truth shattered everything at a family dinner. A waiter tripped, sending a tureen of scalding soup flying toward the table. Without a second of hesitation, Marcus threw himself over Izzy to shield her. He left me exposed. The boiling liquid seared my legs, but the real agony was watching him cradle her face, checking for scratches, while I screamed on the floor. "In my hierarchy of pain," he later told her, ignoring my burns, "her death is an inconvenience. A scratch on you is a tragedy." He didn't know that while he was comforting her over a bruise, I was in emergency surgery losing our unborn child. When I woke up, he didn't ask about me. He didn't ask about the baby he didn't know existed. instead, he asked if I would donate blood to help Izzy recover. That was the moment the old Liv died. I signed the divorce papers with a steady hand. And inside the envelope with the legal documents, I tucked a single, devastating medical report. *Diagnosis: Spontaneous Abortion. Cause: Trauma.* I left it on his desk and disappeared into the night. By the time he realizes he sacrificed his own heir to save his mistress, I will be a ghost he can never touch again.