Independent Action Web Novels & Stories

For seven years, Mara Ellison gave her husband's family everything she had. Her pay, her sleep, her savings, her name. When the flood hit and one seat was left on the evacuation truck, Grant Hollis gave it to his mistress and his son. Mara drowned in the dark, and on the way down she found out the rest. The boy was his. And the inheritance her grandfather left her had been kept from her by the aunt who raised her. She opens her eyes sixty days before the first rain. Her mother-in-law is already ordering her to hand over her savings. This time Mara looks around the room and says, "I want a divorce." Everyone thinks she has lost her mind. She sells, buys, builds and trains while the city laughs at her. Then the water comes on the exact day she said it would, and the people who left her to die are standing at her door, begging. But Mara is not the only one who came back.

He never loved her. He never chose her. And he never believed she could leave. For three years, Elena played the perfect wife to Adrian the cold, powerful billionaire who married her only because their families demanded it. She cooked for him. Waited for him. Supported him and loved him quietly. But Adrian never treated her like a wife. His family constantly humiliated her, while his childhood sweetheart, Sophia, slowly found her way back into his life. The final blow comes when Elena discovers Adrian is planning to publicly announce Sophia as the woman he wants by his side. That night, Elena removes her wedding ring and places it on the table. “I’m done begging for a place in my own husband’s heart.” Adrian doesn't stop her.He is certain she will come back.She always does. Except this time, Elena walks away for good. Months later, Adrian discovers the truth. The quiet wife he ignored was never helpless. She has money, power, a successful business and a family background that could rival his own. Suddenly, the woman he couldn't be bothered to notice is the only woman he can't stop thinking about. Adrian wants her back.But Elena isn't waiting for him anymore. He rejected her when she loved him. Now he loves her when she refuses to come back. Can Adrian earn the forgiveness of the woman he destroyed? Or will his greatest regret be realizing her worth only after losing her forever?

Nineteen-year-old Elliot Hayes arrives at Westbridge Academy determined to earn his place on the ice. Then he meets Cruz Blackwood—the ruthless captain who seems to have decided he hates Elliot from their very first encounter. The strange part? Elliot can’t stop thinking about him. Every heated argument leaves something unspoken between them, something neither dares name. Then one late night changes everything, forcing Elliot to question whether Cruz’s coldness is hiding something far more dangerous than dislike. Why does Cruz keep pushing him away when his eyes say something else? And what secret could make the captain fear getting too close?

“I’m not a good man. A good man would sacrifice you to save the world. I have no such inclinations.” When one is offered a job that would have them set for life, would they allow a fickle thing such as a moral compass stand in their way? Abigeal Starr, former soldier of the US Army, didn’t think so. It had been surprisingly difficult to get a stable job after leaving the military, and she was barely managing to keep her head above the water. She couldn’t even afford the rent on her small flat, so she’d had to take in a roommate whose personality frequently clashed with hers. Tired, frustrated, and dangerously approaching desperate, she found a job that was almost laughable in its simplicity: assassinate a billionaire. She couldn’t believe how much she was going to be paid for one task, but she quickly discovered that it wasn’t going to be as much of a walk in the park as she had thought. Will she follow through with her task? Or will her conscience get the best of her? Find out more in the story!

Betrayed by the man she loved and abandoned to die in a world consumed by unbearable heat, Violet Ashford lost everything in her previous life. But death gives her a second chance. Reborn one month before the apocalypse, Violet remembers everything: the scorching temperatures, the collapsing cities, the deadly mutations, and the people who will do anything to survive. This time, she refuses to be helpless. Armed with a multibillion-dollar inheritance and the mysterious Genesis System, Violet begins preparing for the end of the world. She gathers supplies, builds an underground sanctuary, unlocks extraordinary abilities, and creates a settlement that can withstand the coming catastrophe. But survival requires more than supplies. As humanity descends into chaos, dangerous enemies emerge, mutations spread, and a ruthless scientist seeks to control the future of mankind. Violet soon discovers that surviving the end of the world is only the beginning of her battle. But she’s no longer the woman who died begging for help. Alongside Grayson White, a formidable man with secrets of his own and a powerful network, Violet will protect what is hers, build an empire, and fight for a future where no one can ever make her helpless again. Her cheating ex and his family will come begging. Her enemies will learn to fear her. And as the world crumbles around them, Violet intends to be among those who rise from the ashes—not those buried beneath them.

Shot by her fiancé. Scapegoated by her sister. Torn apart by ice monsters in a -60°C apocalyptic hell. Cecilia Smith died clutching her bleeding wound while the people she loved stole her supplies and left her to freeze. Then she woke up. 30 days before the world froze over. This time, she isn't playing the sacrificial victim. Armed with her $5 billion inheritance and an Infinite Pocket Dimension System, Cecilia launches the most insane hoarding spree in human history: Trillions of calories of food—stored in perfect time-stasis. Millions of gallons of arctic fuel—siphoned into her private void. An impenetrable titanium mountain fortress—built by a lethal military titan who would burn the world for her. When the sudden global freeze hits, humanity descends into chaos. Her traitors freeze in the dark, starving and banging frantically on her blast doors, begging for a single grain of rice. Cecilia just sits warm inside her paradise, sipping hot coffee, and watching them freeze. “You threw me to the wolves,” she whispers. “Now beg.”

For six years, Nora’s in-laws called her fat and barren. Three times she got pregnant. Three times she lost the baby. The last was a little girl she held for an hour before they took her away. Every time, her mother-in-law hugged her, cried with her, and brewed her a special “fertility tea.” When the Endless Winter came, her husband took her money, her food, and her house, then traded her grandmother’s ring for a shelter spot for his pregnant mistress. Nora was left outside in the snow. Through the glass, her mother-in-law finally told her the truth: the tea killed her babies. If Nora died married and childless, her grandmother’s fortune would go to her husband. Then Nora opens her eyes. It is 50 days before the first snow. This time, she claims her grandmother’s abandoned cold-storage empire and wakes up with a secret of her own. So she stockpiles in silence, while the whole city laughs at the fat woman buying heaters in summer. Only one person isn’t laughing: Commander Rhys Calder, an arctic rescue officer who has survived winters that killed everyone around him. He knows she’s hiding something. He just can’t figure out why she prepares like a woman who has already died before. When the temperature hits −60°C, her ex and his family come crawling to her door. But Nora has a bigger problem. In her last life, she died in the first winter. She knows exactly how the Freeze begins. She has no idea what comes after it.

Every day at the same hour, the Red Ones come. And anyone caught outside when they arrive dies. For years, fourteen-year-old Elara Vance has lived underground with her mother and little brother, Noah, following one simple rule: never be outside when the Red Ones come. Then her mother leaves to find food—and never returns. With their supplies running out and Noah growing weaker by the day, Elara has no choice but to break the only rule keeping them alive. She goes outside. Noah follows her. And before they can make it back, the hour arrives. The streets empty. The Red Ones appear. With nowhere to hide and no idea what waits beyond the town, Elara makes a promise she doesn't know if she can keep. She will protect her brother, no matter what it costs her. Then a broken man saves them. He has lost everything. His family. His home. His reason to keep fighting. He was already waiting for the day the Red Ones would take him too. But watching Elara risk her life for her brother changes something in him. Now he has someone worth protecting. Together, the three of them must uncover the safe places hidden throughout the town, survive the hours when the Red Ones rule the streets, and find a way out before they become trapped there forever. Because there is one question nobody has dared to ask: What is waiting beyond the town?

​To the world, Nathan is an ice-cold titan—a billionaire CEO who built an empire on ruthless dominance and a predator’s intuition. But beneath the charcoal weave of his tailored suits beats the heart of a beast. Behind the reinforced glass of his penthouse, he battles a primal hunger and a violent history that his public persona can barely contain. He is an Alpha without a mate—a king ruling a lonely, concrete forest. ​Then he catches her scent. Santa. A brilliant, broken university student, she is a flicker of light surviving on the fringes. She is a survivor fleeing a nightmare, her pulse thrumming with a fear that calls to Nathan’s most lethal instincts. The connection is instant—a soul-deep recognition that shatters Nathan’s control. He doesn't just want her; he recognizes her. ​When her past finally catches up to her, Nathan doesn't rely on human laws. He yields to the wolf. In an act of savage protection, he claims her, whisking her away in a meticulously orchestrated "rescue" that feels more like a kidnapping. ​Now, she is trapped in a gilded cage of silk and steel. Her every need is met by the man who watches her with glowing, possessive eyes. As the walls of the penthouse close in, she is forced to reconcile her terror with a devastating truth: the only person capable of shredding her enemies is the monster who stole her freedom. ​As the lines between protection and possession vanish, she realizes that in his quest to keep her safe, Nathan hasn't just caged her body—he has marked her soul.

Girl running from her past finds herself and freedom! Will she find love as well? Read along to see who she chooses or if she does! 🤔😉

Level 1. Assassin. Starting gear: one rusty revolver and a really bad attitude. Aria was an insurance adjuster with a gaming habit and a Charisma score she's still offended by. Then she wakes up in a crumbling high-rise in a ruined city, with a health bar floating in her vision and a terminal telling her she's a Level 1 Assassin. Her loadout is a single Colt, a knife, and four boxes of ammo. No respawn button. No manual. No one to tell her whether she can quit. The city is full of zombies, and she's a terrible shot. But she's a quick study. With a secondhand baseball bat, a scruffy little dog named Midnight, and a talent for turning panic into XP, Aria starts to climb. She unlocks Victorian-flavored shops, scrounges for blueprints, and hunts quests for a shotgun she can't afford. She also catches the eye of a cocky guild recruiter, a flirty healer, and a secretive sisterhood of assassins whose mechanical librarian is a little too thorough with its security scan. Everyone in this world seems to want something from her. Then a stranger on a passing bus holds up a message, and Aria loses an hour in the back room of a crafting shop. Now she's wondering whether the game was built for her, and who else is watching her play. She can't log out, so she's going to have to grind. Snarky, gritty, and packed with gear porn, zombie-bashing, and slow-burn romance, this is a steampunk LitRPG for readers who've ever muttered "fuck this game" and then played for six more hours.

Forty-five days before the world freezes, Lena gets a second chance at life. In her first life, she watched helplessly as her husband, Adrian, chose his mistress over her and their six-year-old son. Left outside in the deadly snow, Lena and Noah froze to death while the people who betrayed them stayed warm and safe. But death was not the end. Reborn with memories of the coming apocalypse, Lena has only one goal: protect her son and make sure no one ever has the power to hurt them again. She divorces Adrian, takes a massive loan, and begins building a heavily fortified underground bunker in the middle of nowhere. Everyone thinks she has gone insane. Adrian mocks her, his mistress celebrates her downfall, and the world continues as if nothing is wrong. But as the temperature begins to drop, Lena discovers she isn't the only one preparing for the end. Marco Steel, Adrian's powerful rival, is building a bunker of his own. When the Great Freeze finally arrives, the people who laughed at Lena will beg for her help. And Adrian? He will learn that some regrets come too late.

They took everything from her. Now she's building something they can't touch. Emma spent years as the invisible backbone of the Smith family, cooking, cleaning, working, sacrificing while her husband Derek and his adopted sister Rachel treated her like a servant. When they finally discarded her, they thought she would crawl back, desperate and broken. They were wrong. Now Emma lives across the street in the old farmhouse, a house she bought with cash they never knew she had, and she's not just renovating, she's preparing, stockpiling supplies, reinforcing walls and building a bunker. When the Smiths discover her wealth, their greed awakens. They want her back, they want her money and they want to control her again. But Emma isn't the woman they threw away. She's patient, watching, and she knows something they don't. The world is about to change, and when it does, the people across the street will come begging. She'll be ready.

Three years. That’s how long Zarielle loved Kael — faithfully, completely, believing they were building forever together. Until the night she heard the truth: he never loved her. He stayed only out of duty, while his heart belonged to her best friend, Elara. Broken but proud, Zarielle walks away. She leaves behind the man who gave her scraps instead of love and the friend who betrayed her trust. But moving on isn’t easy. Everywhere she turns, people speak of Kael and Elara — their engagement, their happiness, the perfect life that was meant to be hers. Then Kael realizes his mistake. He sees that the peace and loyalty he found with Zarielle was worth more than the fleeting spark he chased. He comes back, begging for another chance, admitting he traded his home for a moment. But Zarielle has learned: she will never again settle for being someone’s second choice, someone’s regret, someone’s backup plan. Elara reaches out too, and in one quiet meeting, they both face the truth: Kael doesn’t know how to love anyone fully — only himself. Now free from both, Zarielle rebuilds. She finds her worth not in being chosen, but in choosing herself. She knows that one day, someone will love her with no hesitation, no comparison, no looking back. Until then, she is enough — whole, strong, and finally free.

Dying in a trap set by her selfish husband, Bennett, taught Corinne one lesson: loving the wrong person will get you killed. When Corinne wakes up sixty days before the end of the world, she gets a second chance. She sells everything she owns, cuts off her ex-husband, and fixes up her grandfather’s secret underground shelter. She also brings back a special power called the Stillroom. It does not just store food and tools—it holds secrets from lost timelines. Partnering with Devon Cross, a smart survival leader, Corinne prepares for the coming disaster. But saving lives comes with a dark rule: every life she saves causes a new danger to happen. Survival isn't free—it demands a body count, and Corinne intends to make her enemies pay it.

She died abandoned. In her first life, she gave everything to the man and family she called home. When the apocalypse turned bloodiest, they chose the mistress, the sister, even the pet—and left her outside the safe zone to die. She woke up gasping. XXX days until the end of the world. This time she does not cry. This time the first words out of her mouth are: “I want a divorce.” A cold blue panel appears before her eyes: [SURVIVAL SYSTEM ACTIVATED] New Mission: Prepare for the End of the World. Rewards: Skills | Items | Strength Armed with future knowledge, a hidden fortune, and a system that evolves with every life-or-death choice, she cuts every last tie. She sells assets that will be worthless, buys warehouses, weapons, medicine, and a fortified safe house while the world still laughs at her “paranoia.” They call her crazy. Her ex-husband calls her ungrateful. Then the sky turns black exactly on the day she predicted. Power dies. Water dies. Law dies. And the people who once left her to rot come crawling back, begging. She looks at them through reinforced glass and answers with the same coldness they once showed her: “I already survived dying for you once. I will not do it again.” This time she is not just surviving the apocalypse. She is rewriting her fate—one system reward, one bullet, and one carefully chosen ally at a time. But the disasters are arriving earlier than before… and the only man strong enough to stand beside her may force her to risk trusting someone again. The countdown has already begun.

He locked the gate and watched the infected tear me apart. My husband stood on the safe side, eyes cold, and told me the truth with his final words: “You should have been the one who died that day.” He had always loved her. They even had a child together. I was just the wife who dragged him onto the last helicopter and left her behind. I died with his betrayal in my ears and his child in my stomach. Then I opened my eyes two years before the apocalypse. Same husband. Same mistress. Same soft, disposable wife they thought they still owned. But the woman who used to beg and sacrifice is already dead. This time, I will not save him. This time, I will not share a single resource. This time, when the world ends, I will be the one standing behind the locked gate… Watching them both beg.

"Kneel!" It felt like a mountain had landed on my shoulders. My knees trembled, lowering gradually. Everyone else had dropped to their knees, unable to look up. The command came with absolute power. His Alpha Dominance was incontestable — His aura terrifying. "Kneel!" The pressure was intense. My knees began to drop, then I remembered—my father. My stepmother. My stepsister. My banishment. And everyone who decided I was beneath them. Then something pushed back, and I straightened. Alpha Kaleb narrowed his gaze, and I looked defiantly at him. "Who are you?" he growled. At the verge of death, something awakens in her. Now, they all watch in shock as the worthless girl who was cheated on, framed by her stepsister, and banished by her father through the manipulative tactics of her stepmother grows from the weak girl that she was to the first female Alpha. This time, there's no stopping her. She'll prove everyone wrong. But unknown to her, there's more to this transformation than she realizes, as something ancient senses her awakening. Is there room for love in her journey of growth? Will she be ready for what's to come?

In my first life, I was Preston’s combat quartermaster. I kept his team fed, fortified their perimeter, and crushed my knee hauling rations—only for him to strip my winter coat, seize my sidearm, and drop the iron bolt on the airlock hatch. “In the field, we don’t bleed rations on dead weight.” Those were his last words before the freezing sleet and starving scavengers finished me off. Now I’ve woken up seven days before Zero Hour. A solar superflare is about to burn out the power grid and freeze the city solid. But this time, my grandmother’s pendant has opened a hidden void in my mind—a dark space where time stands still, boiling soup stays scalding forever, and nothing ever rots. While Preston pressures me to sign over my late mother’s townhouse to cover his gambling debts, and my parasite sister—who wrapped herself in my blanket while I froze—screams about rent money, I get to work. Fifteen thousand pounds of grain and clean water. Eight hundred piping-hot meals. Heaters, fuel, trauma kits—and a three-hundred-pound steel door bolted eight inches into the cinderblock. Then I hand Preston to the loan sharks hunting him. When the sky turns violet and the transformers explode, he comes sprinting to my door, begging me to open it. Goodnight, Preston. This time, I’m the one who locks the door.

Emma was betrayed by the two people she trusted most—her boyfriend Daniel and her younger sister Lily. After surviving two brutal years of an apocalypse caused by the mysterious red rain, Emma is eventually killed by the people she once called family. Just when she believes everything is over, an Apocalypse Survival System awakens and sends her back thirty days before the red rain falls. Given a second chance, Emma decides she will never make the same mistakes again. She will prepare for the apocalypse, protect her parents, build a powerful and trustworthy refuge, and make sure Daniel and Lily can never betray her again.