Best Modern Novels

Following the passing of his wife, a man is pulled into a perilous maze of secrets. Motivated by justice, he explores the shadows of her final revenge, revealing long-buried truths about their history. Amidst this turmoil and persistent mystery, a surprising bond starts to develop. As he pursues closure, he faces a choice: cling to his sorrow or accept a second chance at affection with a new partner in this contemporary narrative.

For five years, I played the submissive wife while Jackson and his greedy family bled my fortune dry. The discovery of his mistress's lingerie ended my patience. After cutting off their funding, I watched a compactor crush their luxury belongings as I discarded my wedding ring. Leaving the chaos in an armored Maybach, I froze his accounts and ended his pampered life. My silent retaliation finally dismantled the world of the man who dared to underestimate me.

After funding my boyfriend Eric's law degree for four years, I flew to California to surprise him with a proposal. Instead, I found him proposing to my best friend, Janessa. In the hospital, I learned they lived together for years on my dime. Eric’s mother even mocked me as his ATM. Janessa wore clothes I bought while accepting a ring I paid for. Now, I am finished being naive. Armed with evidence from his phone, I will destroy their lives.

To protect Catalina, Sofia risks everything by confronting the intimidating Harry Meyer. Her attempt to stop a doomed wedding leads to a life-altering encounter with Naven Fort, a stoic mogul. He offers a cold bargain: he will remove Catalina from the situation if Sofia marries him. She has only one day to decide. Sofia enters a contract with this stranger, but his returning ex-lover and hidden secrets soon threaten her sacrifice.

April Gamble gave Julian Travis five years of devotion, only for him to dismantle her family's company and drive her grandfather to suicide. After dying in a horrific crash fueled by his cold betrayal, she awakens as Altagracia Blanchard, New York’s most infamous and wealthy heiress. Her previous life is gone, but her thirst for revenge remains. Now armed with a billionaire’s vast resources, April prepares to systematically destroy the man who took everything.

Elena's world shatters on her wedding day when she catches her fiancé in a scandalous affair with her sister. Escaping the heartbreak, she is pulled into a dark maze of corporate conspiracies and hidden family agendas. To uncover the truth, she teams up with a cryptic investigator. Elena must now brave a treacherous path of lies to dismantle the betrayal, take back her future, and finally discover a relationship rooted in genuine trust.

Betrayed and killed, the underworld’s deadliest hacker is reborn as a disgraced pop idol. Once a feared princess of the shadows, Molly now inhabits a fragile body mocked by the public. To reclaim her power, she utilizes her lethal instincts to navigate the cutthroat entertainment industry. Her transformation catches the eye of Kelvin Brass, a cold CEO who once dismissed her. Molly must now balance her dual life, turning scandals into weapons to crush her enemies.

Isabelle’s life shatters when her project’s new backer, Bennett Lloyd, turns out to be the man she abandoned after a secret tryst five years ago. Bennett launches a cold campaign of professional isolation and psychological torment as revenge for her past disappearance. Driven to a breaking point by his suffocating control, Isabelle gets drunk and accidentally sends a voice memo confessing to her mother’s death to him instead of her friend.

For three years, Chloe lived as a shadow in her own home, ignored by her billionaire husband, Eric. Despite her unwavering loyalty, she remained a neglected outsider in his elite social circles. Driven to her limit by his freezing indifference, Chloe finally decides to prioritize her own worth and files for divorce. As she flourishes in her new life of independence, Eric is left reeling, forced to face the empty space left by the wife he dismissed.

Reborn on her engagement day, a woman watches as her half-sister steals her ambitious fiancé. While Karly seeks political status, she unknowingly inherits a nightmare. However, the protagonist's freedom is short-lived; her family forces her into a marriage with the bankrupt Carney mafia clan. Amidst a cheating husband and lethal traps, she realizes she is a scapegoat. With the Dark Don of Chicago lurking, she resolves to stop being a pawn and destroy those who betrayed her.

For years, a devoted wife gave her all to her billionaire husband, only to be abandoned when he chose his mistress. Crushed and left with nothing, she vanished to forge a new identity from the ruins of her past. Now, she returns as a powerful, transformed woman. When they finally reunite, her ex-husband is consumed by deep regret, but the loyal spouse he betrayed no longer exists. This is a journey of healing, strength, and the cost of lost love.

A grieving woman returns home from a tragic miscarriage to find her billionaire husband has installed his pregnant mistress in their residence. Devastated by this cold betrayal and the sight of another woman carrying his child, she must confront the collapse of her marriage. As dark secrets surface within their elite social circle, she faces a choice: reclaim her lost dignity or finally escape her husband's suffocating influence.

On her twenty-first birthday, Valerie Ashford meets Rovano Morvane, her father’s ruthless business partner. Obsessed, the cold-blooded CEO abducts her that night, leaving her family unable to prove his guilt. Held captive, Valerie faces his terrifying psychopathic tendencies as he threatens her with a blade. To Rovano, she is a prize to be marked and broken. Trapped with a monster who takes what he wants, Valerie's very survival remains uncertain.

On what should be her happiest day, Chloe unmasks her groom, Julian, as a fraud hunting her family fortune. Rather than saying 'I do,' she shocks the wedding guests by handing him eviction papers at the altar. This defiant act sparks a high-stakes battle of vengeance. As Chloe digs into Julian’s murky history, she must dismantle a complex web of deception to safeguard her heritage and seek a genuine connection free from his lies.

Desperate to settle her mother’s medical debts, Amara Cole enters a cold marriage contract with Lucian Hale, a heartless billionaire. For one year, she must endure his arrogance and lack of freedom. However, unexpected sparks fly despite his cruelty and the schemes of his jealous ex-girlfriend. While Lucian’s father scorns her, another man’s warmth offers a different path. Amara must navigate this web of duty and desire before Lucian decides to break his own rules.

Lin Ran survives a devastating accident only to find her life stolen by an identical stranger. Gu Yunshen, her husband, has welcomed this imposter into their home to mother their child, offering the woman a tenderness Lin never knew. Desperate to reclaim her identity, Lin begins to unravel a dark conspiracy of lies and hidden agendas. She must now navigate a treacherous path to expose Gu’s betrayal and take back the family that is rightfully hers.

After suffering through three agonizing losses, a wife is pushed to her breaking point when her husband’s mistress demands a fourth miscarriage. Trapped in a marriage fueled by cruelty and betrayal, the submissive woman finally finds the strength to shatter her silence. This gripping domestic suspense follows her harrowing transformation as she uncovers dark secrets and revolts against her oppressors to reclaim her dignity and her life.

Seven years after surviving her family's massacre, Aria Moretti returns to New York seeking vengeance. To find the killer, she enters a marriage of convenience with her former flame, billionaire underworld kingpin Dante Russo. Dante demands six months of matrimony for his business goals, unaware of the son Aria raised in secret. As they hunt a traitor and face deadly threats, their old spark reignites, turning a cold transaction into a dangerous passion.

Betrayed and jobless, Haven is mocked by her icy ex-husband, Clayton, when she begs for legal help. As her life collapses under a false criminal record planted by her sister, she discovers Clayton is defending the man who fired her. However, finding his old diary changes everything. When her writing magically connects to his teenage self, she realizes she can communicate with the past to erase her trauma and rewrite her future.

In this gritty contemporary mafia tale, a virtuous woman is forced to abandon her innocence for a life of peril. To survive the lethal underworld, she must trade her morality for ruthlessness. As she climbs a treacherous criminal hierarchy, her character undergoes a dark transformation. This narrative tracks her evolution into a powerful player, navigating a high-stakes world defined by intense passion, cold betrayal, and dangerous authority.

Clara spent three years as a loyal wife, never realizing Julian wed her only to claim his family inheritance. When his cold calculation is exposed, the heartbreak is absolute. Determined to stop being a tool for his financial gain, Clara seeks a divorce to regain her independence. As she leaves her life as a billionaire's spouse behind, Julian is forced to face the reality that he discarded the one person who loved him without an ulterior motive.

A woman's life collapses when she discovers a hidden pair of lingerie, exposing her husband’s secret infidelity. Devastated by this ultimate betrayal, she makes the painful choice to abort their child, cutting the final bond to her failing marriage. This modern romance follows the raw aftermath of his deceit and her difficult journey toward healing. It is a poignant story about surviving heartbreak and finding the strength to start over after loss.

Trapped in a silver cage, Elena suffers a forced labor while her mate, Damien, abandons her to celebrate another woman’s child. Poisoned and left to die by his family, she is dismissed as a rogue, but she is actually the daughter of the Alpha Prime. A year later, Elena returns from the brink of death as a powerful CEO. Now Damien’s creditor, she watches him beg for mercy. She isn't his Luna anymore; she is here to collect his total ruin.

Bound by an unwanted arranged marriage, a young woman is thrust into the life of a distant billionaire who views her as a chore. Their union is defined by duty and icy indifference rather than love. Yet, as they maneuver through ruthless corporate schemes and domestic tension, cracks appear in their emotional armor. They are forced to confront whether their forced connection can evolve from a cold obligation into a heartfelt partnership.