Best Second Chance Stories & Novels Collection

Seven years ago, I was Maplewood's heroine.
My husband Daniel Wright would proudly say every morning, "Good morning, my hero." My nine-year-old daughter Olivia would look up at me adoringly and shout, "Mommy, you're a superhero!"
Until I saved Aurora Page—a 16-year-old girl abused by her stepfather. She moved into our home and said gratefully, "Claire, you saved my life. I can never repay you."
Fi...

Twenty years ago, four-year-old Alicia vanished from a park, falling from Connecticut's wealthiest heiress to an orphan overnight. Twenty years later, her birth parents find her working at a coffee shop, bringing her back to a life of luxury.

But behind the fairy tale reunion lurks deadly danger. A mysterious guardian angel named Gabriel begins sending her prophetic warnings about her family's im...

Sienna was never supposed to be a werewolf. Born without the gene that would make her part of her pack, she was called defective, broken, and weak. But when she met Kael Ashford, a brilliant neurosurgeon and her true fated mate, she thought her curse might finally change. She was wrong. After years of cold indifference and betrayal, Kael rejected her publicly and their pack cast her out—leaving he...

On the day Mila Blackthorn was to be crowned Luna, betrayal struck. Her stepsister Rosa was named Luna instead, and Mila was falsely accused of murder and stoned to death by her own pack.
But death couldn’t hold her. Reborn as Lyra, Mila returns with beauty, power, and a single purpose and vengeance. One by one, she exposes the lies that stole her life, drives her enemies to madness, and brings S...

18+ WARNING: This novel contains mature themes, including explicit sexual content, betrayal, and dark romance.

Nana has always been an outcast in her pack, bullied and left between rejection and acceptance by her cruel Alpha mate because of her father’s betrayal. Lonely and broken, she stumbles upon a cage— Nana accidentally awakens the powerful beast secretly hidden for 25 years_ The Lycan Prince, setting off a chain of deadly events that will change her life forever. Now, she must face the consequences o...

In the gleaming werewolf capital of Silverbourne, power is currency and loyalty is illusion.
When nineteen-year-old Evie Hart, daughter of the disgraced Beta, marries Grayson Knight, heir to the ruling Alpha line, she believes she finally has the man of her dreams, but her dreams are shattered on her mating night when she finds out Grayson only married her for revenge for the death of his beloved,...

When Mellow Fanning married Zeath Lupin, the cold chairman of Lupin Group, she thought their love was forever. But everything crumbled when he introduced his pregnant mistress at a family dinner.
Angry, Mellow sought to make Zeath restless by kidnapping the mistress. However, that resulted in a tragedy that nearly claimed her life and that of the child growing inside her—a child Zeath didn’t dese...

I never thought my best friend would become the source of my deepest pain.

When Alpha Mason Grey found his true mate, everything changed. One moment, I was the girl he promised forever to. The next, I was invisible—replaced by Luna Stella, a woman as beautiful as fresh snow and twice as cold.

She makes my life miserable when no one's watching. The humiliation, the cruelty, the constant reminders...

They were fated mates but he rejected her.

Nora Fred, a beautiful and independent seventeen year old with werewolf bloodline in her. She’s known to be kind and smart with a soft heart. She’s only child to the Greenbell pack Luna before she lost her mother to death and had to face her heartless step-father and his rebellious daughters.

Her step-father forces her into marrying an Alpha from a ne...

Molly May was disowned by her wealthy adoptive family at seventeen when she mysteriously became pregnant with triplets she couldn't explain. She spent five years raising Alex, Ben, and Claudia alone in a foreign country, working herself to exhaustion to keep them safe. When a job opportunity brings her back to Northfolk, her brilliant eldest son discovers that their father is Sean Anderson, a ruth...

I'm Freya, and I just experienced the most dramatic three days of my life!
First, I ran my mouth during a livestream and accidentally said things I shouldn't have, then went viral for all the wrong reasons... My parents were so furious they decided to send me away.
Even more ridiculous—they pulled out a childhood betrothal agreement from twenty years ago??
"You need to learn to shut up, he needs t...

Just seventeen minutes after my mother drew her last breath, I ran into a man in the hospital stairwell, his head wrapped in a blood-soaked bandage. His expensive suit was shredded, and he begged me not to call a doctor, whispering only, "They're trying to kill me." With tears blurring my vision, I made the craziest decision of my life—I hid this amnesiac stranger in the now-empty hospital room wh...

In my past life, during the mate selection ceremony, my sister Nova chose Axel without hesitation—the Pack's strongest warrior. I was left with Douglas, the supposedly "gentle" healer.

Everyone thought it was the natural order. Strong with strong, weak with weak.

But three years later, fate took a cruel turn.

Axel's wolf spiraled out of control from excessive battles, turning him into a mad wol...

"He thinks he can get me now that he has money?! Absolutely not! He's a manipulator, narcissist, and an ex-convict! I will never beg him like before!” I hissed as I looked at Alpha Archer, who was playing dolls with my child, Rosie.

He looked up at me and flashed a devilish grin. “I can hear your thoughts, baby.”


Katrina's life was destined for perfection, poised to become the next Luna of ...

In a world of powerful werewolves, Aurora was the one who didn't fit the mold - a forgotten omega, hiding from the shadows. But one fiery night, the notorious playboy Alpha, Lucian Vaughn, crashed into her world, igniting a blaze of passion and fury.

Their worlds collided, and they discovered the unthinkable: they're fated mates.

Aurora's icy walls crumbled, and her darkest secrets began to unra...

I am Queen Seraphina of the Moonlight Empire. Ten years ago, I conquered the strongest Alpha, Lysander, on the battlefield but was captivated by his pride. Despite knowing his heart belonged to another, I forced a mate bond upon him.

I gained his body but never his heart.

For ten years, he channeled pure hatred through our bond—a slow poison that tormented me daily. Supreme queen though I was, I...

"Get out! I’m your sister!"
"Sister?" Alex let out a derisive scoff, his burning palm pressing against the small of my bare back, pulling me even deeper into his embrace. "A sister with no blood ties? That’s the very reason I’ve been waiting all these years."
I was once the most dazzling socialite in Washington, until I discovered I was a fake, a stand-in for the true heiress. I fled in panic, try...

I'm Ivy Thorne, botanist specializing in toxic plants.

Before Alexander Hunt, I was the academic world's infamous "wild rose"—beautiful, dangerous, never staying for anyone. No relationship lasted longer than two months. That was my rule.

Until I barged into that ice-cold neurosurgeon's lab. I retracted all my thorns for him, gave up the rainforest project, wanted to settle down for the first ti...

Five years ago, I walked away pregnant and heartbroken.
He chose someone else.
He let me go without looking back.

Now I’ve returned—with a son who carries his blood
and a strength I never knew I had.

He kneels, begging for forgiveness.

My husband Peter and I have been married for eight years. We went from passionate love to cold war, from mates to roommates.

Our six-year-old son Leo secretly signed us up for a marriage therapy show called "I Can Read Your Mind."

We thought it was a scam and didn't take it seriously.

Until Saturday morning, when the face in the mirror was Peter's!

We'd swapped bodies!

We contacted the show'...

I used to think death was just a quiet ending.
My life had already turned into a dead-end rut. My family was like a bottomless pit, always draining my savings; Lewis, the husband I'd once loved so deeply, had turned cold and distant, while his so-called lost love, Rebecca, kept provoking me, as if I were some unwanted shadow. I was tired—truly exhausted—convinced that only death could bring me rel...

Please!! Emily choked out, trying to pry the hands strangling her neck.

How could you do this to me? Stefan roared, his hands tightening on her neck. It took the three of the pack warriors to pry his hands away from her neck.

Please!!! Stefan, I can explain, it’s not what it looks like.

Instead his cold gaze freezes her from uttering another word. Shame shrouding her, as Emily clung the blanket...

When Maya Winters discovers she’s pregnant, the news feels more like a curse than a blessing. Her husband, Elias Sinclair, the cold, impossibly controlled man she’s secretly loved for years, barely tolerates her presence. Their marriage was never born out of love but of obligation, a dying man’s final wish. Now, with her father-in-law gone, Maya knows it’s only a matter of time before Elias demand...

If life gave you a second chance, would you choose forgiveness or plot your revenge down to the last detail?

When I woke up gasping from the icy depths of San Francisco Bay, I was back in my 20-year-old body—just one week before the deadly engagement party where my sister Amber and my fiancé Mark shoved me off that cliff.

In my past life, they stole the wedding planning business I'd built from t...

My name is Aurora McNamara, federal fire investigator.

For seven years, I've endured the same three words from my husband every single day: "Get out, murderer."

Yes, my husband Phoenix—the fire captain who once whispered "I love you" in my ear—now looks at me with pure hatred every day, as if I'm the monster who killed his teammates.

But I didn't set those fires.

I was framed.

What's more twi...

On the day of my engagement, I died in the sea.
The last scene I witnessed before death was the silhouette of my fiancé protecting his first love as they walked away.
Perhaps it was resentment and unwillingness that allowed me to be reborn on the day of my engagement.
In this life, I will rewrite my destiny!

After Beth, the love of Kingsley’s life, left him, his world fell apart. Drowning in heartbreak, he vanished into obscurity… until Katherine found him and helped him heal. Her familiar aqua-blue eyes brought him peace and, eventually, love but secrets, lies, and the return of his ex-fiancée, Beth, tear them apart.

Realizing too late that Katherine was his true love, Kingsley tries to win her back...

Selene thought she'd found true love with Alexander Morrison. She was WRONG—she was just a stand-in for Jessa, the woman he really wanted.

When Alexander and his twin brother Adrian's yacht exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, Alexander came home with Adrian's ashes, claiming to BE Adrian. His goal? To steal Adrian's wife Jessa—the woman he'd always loved.

Selene knew instantly he was lying, but when...

I once believed fleeing my engagement would set me free, only to fall headlong into a web of betrayal spun by my closest friend and faithless lover.

Now, granted a second life just a week before that fateful wedding, I stand before the man I betrayed—Alexander Stone, the unyielding soul who ended his life in my previous existence, all because of me.

This time, I've sworn to mend what I shattered...

Julian says art is visualized data. But he has a blind spot: he can't see I love him.

I say art is emotional expression. But I also have a blind spot: I can't see he loves me.

Three-year contract marriage, we stood in each other's blind spots. He drove me home, helped with my zipper, texted me at dawn—I didn't see. I wore the black dress he hated to watch his ex perform, learned to make breakfas...

I've always had an innate aversion to sticky textures—when I wore gloves to learn baking, my teacher snapped, "How can you be a chef if you won't even touch ingredients?" It was Roman who knelt with me in that supply closet, teaching me to identify vanilla by smell and handling raw meat for me. But when his mom yelled in the alley behind their restaurant, "Wearing gloves to cook is just faking—you...

I thought I'd buried the past. Built a new life, won my first major award. Then a six-year-old video surfaces—me, obviously pregnant, at a private clinic. The world wants answers about the baby that never was. But more dangerous than the media frenzy is the man standing at my door, asking for what I can never give him: a second chance.

He calls me Sage, a blank canvas he reshapes to fit his whims. My Alpha, Kieran—the King of the North—blindfolds me each night, his whispers soft against my ear as he breathes my name.

Yet his intense stare cuts right through me, fixated on the distant moonlight he craves but can never touch. The irony stings—he looks at another through my eyes, just as I scour him for echoes of my fiancé, lost t...

In her previous life, Aria was the last Alpha King bloodline of Silvermoon Kingdom, fated to Kael, leader of the Frostbite clan, as mates chosen by the Moon Goddess.

After two years without offspring, Aria discovered Kael was infertile due to war injuries. To fulfill his dream of kingship, she secretly took forbidden medicine to conceive his child.

But the child was born only as a BETA!

Kael fl...

She was his Luna. But never his love.
Now another man wants her, and fate refuses to be silent.

For five years, Arya wore the title of Luna like a chain. Married to Alpha Jaime, the man her pack worshipped but who never looked at her like she was his. Not once.

She thought the ache of being unwanted was the worst pain she’d ever feel.
Then came the rogue attack. The betrayal. The accusation. And...

Lisa Marcus ran from the pack that branded her weak and unfit. Now, they are calling her back. Her dying Alpha father has named her successor, instantly putting a target on her back and resurrecting the painful connection with Ryan Blackstone, the Beta who was supposed to be hers.
But her sudden rise to power is threatened by two devastating secrets: the return of her brother, Daniel, who was sold...

When Alexandra’s fiancé, Cameron, was transferred from Pittsburgh to Glendale, Arizona, their wedding plans were put on hold. Alexandra, who was not known to do anything alone or without someone on the other end of her cell phone, quits her job, packs their things and hopes to surprise Cameron by driving cross-country by herself. Not particularly adept at navigation, her car breaks down in the mos...

My sister-in-law knelt and begged me to help her cover up her affair and pregnancy scandal. I softened and agreed. Little did I know, this was an elaborate blood-swap conspiracy.

That night in the hospital, Victoria secretly switched the identity tags of two newborns. From then on, my biological daughter was abused as a "bastard" for four whole years, while her illegitimate child enjoyed all the ...

For Love, Alyssa fought her family, abandoned her high-position, left her world, the poor soul gave up all just to marry the wrong man.
The man who shattered her dreams, her hopes, her life, he threw her to the bottom.
Who was going to save her from her wrong choice?
Vince Lysander.
The man she never noticed, never bothered bonding with, the man with a heavy regret, destroyed by his past for be...

Alyssa Crestwood thought she'd lost everything after being rejected and humiliated by the man who promised her forever. But fate wasn't done with her, giving her a second chance with Zayne King, the ruthless Alpha King, whose heart was buried with his first mate. She doesn't trust him and he doesn't want her. But the bond between them was undeniable... impossible to resist. What happens when two b...

“You are nothing to me. Just a mistake I need to erase.”
These cruel words from Alpha Kane Pierce destroyed Aria Winters completely. For two years, she had been his secret, believing that one day he would claim her as his Luna. But when she discovered she was pregnant with his child, she thought everything would change.
She was wrong.
The night she planned to tell him about the baby, Kane publicly...

I love you, Leo. Please… I’m begging you. I want to stay as your wife, even if you don’t feel the same anymore."

Laura’s voice cracked, her hands trembling as she reached for him. She didn’t care how desperate she looked—saving her marriage was worth any scrap of dignity she had left. But the man she had vowed to love forever only sneered, his eyes colder than she had ever seen.

"Stop it, Laura!...

Eight years.
It took eight long, aching years to say his name without shaking.
Eight years to convince myself that he was just the past..not fate.
Rafael De Luca.
The name I used to whisper with a smile now tastes like poison on my tongue. He was my first love. The boy who promised me the stars and the moon—then vanished without a word. No goodbye. No explanation. Just news that he’d flown over...

Clara Bennet thought she had everything figured out but when she discovers her boyfriend has been cheating on her, her world falls apart overnight.

In a reckless blue of heartbreak and alcohol, Clara spends the night with a charming stranger who seems to understand her pain. But she walks into class the next morning and locks eyes with him again, the truth hits hard.

Her one-night-stand was he...

When struggling actress Scarlett Rose accepts the role of "villain" on reality dating show "Love Island Dreams," she thinks she's hit rock bottom. Her job is simple: cause drama, break up couples, and be the girl everyone loves to hate. After ten years of Hollywood failures and tabloid disasters, being the bad guy for money seems like her only option. But when she walks into the mansion and sees K...

Estelle’s life was once a fairy tale, filled with love and promise. However, tragedy struck on the day of their wedding. Estelle’s father and Cristofer’s parents were involved in a car accident that took their lives instantly. The loss was devastating for Cristofer, causing him to sink into deep sorrow and anger towards Estelle.

One tragedy comes after another, and she finds herself battling canc...

"I need a bride. And you need to get out of that abusive marriage." Ryven Castello explained while Arianna stared at the papers strewn across her, trying to make a sense out of what Ryven listed to her.
"O-Okay?" Arianna struggled to get words out of her mouth as she stared intently at the marriage contract across the table.
"I'll get you a befitting seat to watch your oppressors burn. Sign the co...

I am my sister's poison taster, and my husband is her executioner.

My marriage was a transaction. My body, a laboratory to test drugs for the woman my billionaire husband truly loves. For years, I endured the agony, clinging to the hope that he might see me. But when the doctors said the poison had left me only three months to live, his response was to demand my last remaining kidney for her.

I ...

They thought I was just a helpless blind wife. They couldn't have been more wrong.

After miraculously regaining my sight, the first thing I witnessed was my devoted husband entangled with his mistress. His “unwavering love” was nothing but lies—a scheme to steal my fortune.

Now it's my turn to take control. I'll gather every shred of evidence and leave him with nothing.

But when the city's most...