Best Romance Stories & Novels Collection

Harper Doyle knows every crack in Cedar Hollow's Main Street, every regular who still brings their dog to her father's old veterinary clinic, and every reason Everett Knox is the last person she should still think about after ten years. He was supposed to write. He didn't. He was supposed to come back for her the summer after the draft. He never did. Now he's Cedar Hollow's most famous export, an ...

My fiancé, a ruthless mafia Capo, always had a convenient excuse for his betrayals.

Any trace of another woman was scrubbed clean.

Exhausted by the gaslighting, I planted a lipstick in his car just to see how deep the deception went.

When I confronted him, he put his phone on speaker.

The whole family stepped up to cover his tracks.

My brother claimed it was misplaced by my best friend. My be...

My husband abandoned his asthmatic daughter in a freezing shed because she allegedly "scared" his mistress's dog.
"It's just an hour," he said.
But by the time he opened that door, he had lost his daughter, his wife, and his mind.
Read to find out how a broken mother takes her ultimate revenge.

I sat alone at our engagement dinner, having waited for eight long hours.

When my phone finally buzzed, Jasper sounded rushed.

"Lira? I'm so sorry. Things went sideways on my end. Your parents didn't stick around, did they?"

I stared at the melted ice in the champagne bucket.

"No," I said, my voice hollow.

He sighed. "Let's push it to next week, alright? I'll call your parents tomorrow and ex...

After six years of marriage, Celia's name appeared only on a confidentiality agreement.
On the night of their anniversary, through the glass she saw her husband Arthur, their daughter Léonie, and Diana—the socialite with "only five months left"—dining together. She asked for a divorce, and got only one sentence in return: "Play your part as Mrs. Winston."
Every step after that was hard: her accoun...

Chase Harrington hadn't willingly spoken to me since I hit puberty and got fat.

So, when my childhood best friend actually handed me a Diet Coke on the morning of our Yale alumni interviews, I should've known it was a trap. Instead, my stupid heart fluttered. I thought he still cared.

I drank it.

When I woke up, my hair covered the hardwood floor.

Sloane Kensington, the undisputed queen bee of...

My attempts to marry Ethan Ward had been derailed exactly seven times.
The first time, Peyton threw him a "surprise" party, and he was too hungover to make our City Hall appointment. 
The second time, she got into a minor fender bender and hysterically convinced him her neck was broken. He rode with her in the ambulance. 
The third time, right as we were signing the papers, she swallowed a bottle ...

The second the graduation ceremony ended, my parents took us all to the nicest restaurant in town.

They said they wanted to properly celebrate having "two graduates" in the family.

Pierce, my boyfriend of four years, showed up last with a huge bouquet of champagne roses in his arms.

I'd just gotten up from my chair when he walked right past me and handed the whole bouquet to my friend Brooke. "...

For seven years, I believed Julian Reed was the love of my life. For six months, I believed he was helping me overcome my crippling fear of heights.
Every terrifying climb, every glass skywalk, every humiliating panic attack—I endured them all because he promised it was for our future together.
I never questioned why he recorded my worst moments. I never imagined my fiancé, my best friend, and eve...

For seven years, Elena Voss believed the boy she raised was her own — and that a loveless marriage was simply the price of motherhood.

She was wrong. Her real son didn't die at birth. He was taken, swapped for another woman's child, and now his blood is the only thing keeping the boy who replaced him alive.

When Elena demands the truth, her husband's family doesn't deny it. They silence her — a ...

When Detective Grace Beckett went undercover to investigate Javier Cruz, the feared crime boss of Del Sol City, by befriending his daughter, she expected a strict, by the book mission. What she didn't expect was to become actual friends with said crime boss' daughter...and then proceeding to fall for the very man she swore to put behind bars.

Grace has reason to believe Javier Cruz murdered her ...

I was Russia’s unstoppable champion, untouchable in the ring and the heir to my parents' billion-dollar company.

But in a single day, my whole world shattered. My career was ruined in front of hundreds of flashing cameras, my family's empire was torn down, and I was left holding my dying mother on the floor, betrayed by people I had trusted the most.

Then Dimitri Rossi walked into my life like t...

Scarlett DuBois has spent her life wearing flawless corporate armor. As an ambitious sports agent fighting to inherit her abusive father’s legacy firm, the last thing she needs is a distraction—especially in the form of Liam Knox, the brooding, trauma-scarred hockey star who made her high school years a living hell. Liam is one bad press headline away from losing his career. Scarlett is drowning...

She died in an icy pit at the end of the world — and opened her eyes again with exactly three days left before the catastrophe.

In her last life, Chloe Wren was shoved into the freezing water by the best friend she trusted, Isabella. Her boyfriend Derek simply watched, then reached over and took the other woman's hand. The betrayal had been planned all along. As the bitter cold and a tide of hatr...

Claire Bennett has spent years perfecting the life everyone envies.

She married her high school sweetheart at nineteen, stood beside him as he climbed the ranks to sheriff, and learned exactly how much makeup it takes to hide what happens behind closed doors.

No one sees the bruises.

No one hears the threats.

No one knows what Grant Bennett is really like.

Until Claire finds a USB taped benea...

I’ve already lived through the end of the world once.

Ten long years of scavenging for supplies, fighting tooth and nail. I watched people I trusted stab me in the back the second there was something to gain. I died surrounded by a horde of zombies, and the only thing I figured out before I went down was this: I’d been an idiot from start to finish.

Then I opened my eyes. There were still fiftee...

At five years old, Seraphina Ardyn disappeared with her twin brother.

At ten, she was found barely alive.

She came home expecting her family to be grateful she had survived. Instead, she discovered they had adopted another girl while she was missing, and Elara had become the princess of the family.

For fourteen years, Sera has been treated like an unwanted burden while Elara gets everything she...

In the werewolf world, denying your mate usually means an agonizing death. Fortunately, I already died once for Alpha Kaelen Blackwood.

After waking up in my past, I stop desperately chasing him.

He bans me from his Ascension Ceremony? I simply pack my bags and head for the neutral lands.

He growls that my wolfless scent ruins his packhouse? I move out the same night.

Soon enough, I publicly a...

I wasted five whole years of my youth chasing Gerald Darkmoor, the Alpha heir of the Darkmoor Pack.
On the very day I was supposed to marry him, standing there in my white bridal gown, I accidentally overheard a conversation between Gerald and his friend.
"Gerald, are you really going to marry Elowen?" his friend asked, sounding skeptical.
A dark shadow crossed Gerald's eyes.
"Of course. The Warde...

When our commercial jet began its plunge, my captain husband looked between me and his secret lover, feigning agonizing indecision over the last emergency flotation vest.
 
This time, I shoved the vest straight into their hands.
 
In my past life, Kian had put on a torturous show of weighing his options before strapping that very vest onto my pregnant body.
 
He had chosen to stay behind on the pl...

They burned me alive in a corporate lab. Then I woke up ninety days before the world ended.

Six years in the wasteland taught me one brutal truth: the fiancé I trusted sold my power to Apex, signed the order that locked my family outside the gates, and left them to die. Now I'm back in my younger body, with my whole family still alive and ninety days to make sure they stay that way.

I know what'...

The night of my coming-of-age ceremony, Elodie asked us to sit around the bonfire and talk.

Elodie was my adoptive parents' real daughter. They had brought her home three months ago.

She smiled at me across the fire. "Wren, which academy are you choosing?"

Before I could answer, the four boys I grew up with spoke first.

One by one, they held up acceptance receipts. All four said Silverhaven.

...

Wait. I was this close to going full caveman on my incubus, and you're telling me the store sent the wrong one?

I'd bought an incubus online, hoping for one really good night with him.

But he said no. Every single time.

I racked my brain trying to tame him. Besides plotting to steamroll him into it, I'd even gone so far as to contact customer service.

The poor little chat rep just kept apologi...

“Your brother’s death was an accident. Stop digging before you get yourself killed.”


Scarlett was a powerful young werewolf and the captain of Mooncrest High’s figure-skating team, with a place on the national team almost within reach. Then her twin brother, Darkridge’s star hockey player, died in a mysterious crash during a nationwide championship.

The academy called it an accident. Scarlett...

Zavia is a control freak who lives by structure, rules, and careful plans. But when she falls for the one man she swore to keep at arm’s length—her new boss, Nicholas Wade—she is forced to face a truth she has avoided for years: life and love cannot be controlled.

Will she break the rules she has lived by for twenty-three years, or walk away from the one thing that could change everything?

Eighteen-year-old Emery Collins has spent most of high school wishing people would notice her. Curvy, insecure, and usually hidden beneath oversized clothes, she watches Northbridge High’s popular crowd from the outside, convinced that if she could just become one of them, maybe she wouldn’t feel so invisible.

Especially to Rhett Callahan.

Star quarterback. Most popular guy in school. And the bo...

In November 2029, a sudden cataclysm swept across the globe. A mutated virus reduced millions to mindless zombies, while devastating storms and bitter cold raged across the continents. Old world currency and laws crumbled completely. Genetic awakening warped both humans and wild animals. To survive, survivors hunt zombies and mutated creatures in exchange for rewards issued by the safe zones.

Bef...

Five years ago, Lucia Delgado told her idol exactly how much she admired him, but Jeremiah Scherbatsky, the tennis champion she'd worshipped for years, looked straight through her and walked away.

She was humiliated and she never forgot that day.

Now Lucia is one of the country's best professional players, and she's going to the Olympics. Then the committee adds one more thing to her preparation...

To them, to him, I was nothing.
I was just an omega, always reminded of my weakness.
He’s told me countless times I was disposable. A body to use when he needed and a soul to break when he was bored.
He was my mate and he should’ve been my safe space, my escape. Instead, he was my hell and torment.
He fucked me, marked me, and pawned me off to the clutches of death. Just when I thought I had seen ...

I fell in love with Adrian Hale when I was fifteen.

I loved him in secret for six years. The purest year of my life was the one I spent at his grandmother's bedside—a volunteer no one knew about, asking for nothing in return. When a fire swallowed his car in Aspen, I pulled him out. It cost me every color in my world.

He proposed in my hospital room. "Marry me. I'll take care of you for the rest...

It was Valentine's Day when my fiancé, Gavin Pierce, took me out to that survival course in the Catskills — him, me, and Riley Harper, the girl his family took in when she was fourteen, after her parents died.
I'd asked for a table at the Gramercy Tavern. He'd said he hated standing in line for a reservation, that he wanted to do something that actually got our blood moving.
So he booked the three...

After I discovered my boyfriend, Julian Vance, was cheating on me, my anxiety spiraled out of control.
It got so bad that I would wake up in the middle of the night, pacing the entire house barefoot just to make sure he was still in the guest bedroom.
To pacify me, Julian had a custom tracking bracelet made. "This way, you can check where I am anytime," he said.
But this very bracelet became the c...

“You’re nothing without me, Maren. Who else would ever want a broke repairwoman with a sick mother?”

My ex was right about one thing. I had nothing left.

For five years, I loved Asher, the man I rescued when he was on the brink of death. I worked myself to exhaustion, poured my savings into our future, and believed that one day, he would finally make me his wife.

Instead, I discovered he was Va...

Two months before the cataclysm, Olivia Sterling wakes up from three years into the apocalypse.

Last time around, she clawed her way through an Echo-infested Manhattan for three years — from a nobody no one gave a second look, up to second-in-command of a survivor stronghold — and then she woke up again on the night the boss dropped dead. This time is different. She remembers the day the ash rain...

She was made into a weapon before she was old enough to understand what that meant. Estella Alveris—witch, demon hunter, survivor—has spent years building a life on her own terms, hiding her power behind a bookstore counter and a carefully maintained mask. But when her past arrives at her door in the form of the sister who was complicit in her childhood nightmare, Estella's careful world begins to...

BOUND TO THE ALPHA
She was supposed to be a leverage chip. Instead, she became his obsession.

Hannah thought she was just building a career as a corporate accountant. She had no idea she was cleaning dirty money for the deadly North-East Rogue Syndicate—until federal agents knocked on her door. Trapped between testifying and keeping her medical-resident sister safe, Hannah becomes a target. Befor...

I've spent six years building a name nobody can take from me Jo Sabre, the independent circuit's hardest worker, finally signed to the biggest wrestling company in the country. Then a photo shows up in my gym bag: me at six, blowing out birthday candles I don't remember lighting. It should be an old picture. The paper says otherwise.

Somebody's been watching longer than I've been famous enough t...

She came to prove he was a murderer. She never planned to want him.

Three wives have died inside the Ashford house. One drown and two fall from the stairs. Nobody in town has ever asked why.

Ivy Calloway knows better because her cousin was wife number two.

So she takes a housekeeper's job under the roof of billionaire Dominic Ashford, with a false name, a hidden recorder, and one mission: get...

"You don't mention this to Crystal,” Kyle murmured between my heaving boobs, his nose nuzzling my stiff tits as he drove his thick length into my drenched, clenching womanhood.

I dug my fingers into his shoulders, trying to shove him back. "Lying to my sister that her mate is f*cking the wrong one?"

He seized my wrists and pinned them above my head on the bed, then thrust deeper until my tight ...

Ninety-nine. That's how many times my family chose my sister over my life. The final time was three hours ago, on the exact day I was supposed to step out of the shadows and be inducted as the syndicate's first female Consigliere.

I was locked in our underground vault, choking on my own blood, while they hosted a lavish graduation party for Camilla upstairs. Out of everyone, only Julian—my fian...

Five years ago, nineteen-year-old Seraphina Vance watched her parents slaughtered in cold blood while three young heirs of the elite Blood Sovereign Syndicate stood silently in the shadow of the velvet curtains. Now she is back, operating under the forged identity of scholarship student Elena Sterling at the prestigious Obsidian Sanctum Academy. Armed with government wiretaps and a heart hardened ...

Lily moves to a small town after the tragic death of her only parent when she’s thrust into a deadly game between worlds. Out for a run one morning she stumbles across hunters hauling a large animal into a truck, but that isn’t all she finds. They’ve left behind an injured animal, who isn’t actually an animal at all. He’s a man she’s met once before but she can’t leave him to die alone in the wood...

“Know who you belong to.”

For three years, Levi had only one answer. Then a stranger asked her what she wanted.

She escaped the man who owned her and hid in the one place he would never look.

At 25, Levi has spent three years as mafia don Matteo Calderone’s obsession, controlled, punished and displayed. With a stolen ledger and forged papers, she crosses the river and becomes Lena Hart, a waitr...

Being Westbridge University’s first female quarterback is already hard enough without having to live with Kieran Vale, my brother’s arrogant best friend.
We can barely survive being roommates, so pretending to date should be easy, right?
Except somewhere between fake kisses, late-night arguments, and jealous glances, our fake relationship starts feeling dangerously real. Then a scandal threatens m...

“Stay away from the team, Mira.”
“I’m not afraid of you.”
“You should be.”
Mira Delgado was supposed to be a basketball player.
Until one humiliating fall during her first tournament earned her the cruel nickname “Whale Girl” and destroyed the dream she had worked so hard for. Now she hides behind her glasses, her notebook, and the cheerleading squad, determined to stay invisible.
But Mira has nev...

At the quarterly all-hands, during the raffle, my boyfriend won the company's two-person trip to Santorini.
The whole room was hooting, asking who he'd take.
I stood in the crowd, heart hammering.
The night before, in bed, I'd told him I was so tired, that I wanted to see the sea. He said once this busy stretch was over, he'd take me.
The old employee handbook said anyone dating someone from their...

My twin sister and I came back from the dead, and the first thing we did was trade mates.

Last life, we were sent off to be mated on the same day.

Juliet, soft-spoken and gentle, went north to Dane Halvorsen, the Alpha they call the Tyrant.

On their first bonding anniversary, he left her alone to spend his childhood friend's birthday with her instead. Juliet asked for one explanation. He said h...

My twin sister, Genevieve, caught the eye of a mafia don, Kael Rourke, at a charity gala.
Kael declared on the spot that she would be his wife, the donna of Rourke family.
But she was already deeply in love with her boyfriend.
When a ambush left the Kael in a deep coma, his cartel demanded their bride immediately. 
They believed a wedding would stabilize their empire and, by some old tradition, w...

He was the one man I was never supposed to love.

Nikolai Rozanov.

My father's foster brother and parents' best friend.

The man who taught me that monsters wear expensive suits and smile like saints.

I spent years loving him in silence.

Then, on my eighteenth birthday…

He kissed me.

What followed was a secret affair built on stolen nights, broken promises, and a love neither of us could eve...

Lila Vale has always been the slow one.

In a family where everyone is strong and fast, Lila is the one who never seems to measure up. She trains every morning, comes home with bruised knees, and works harder than anyone. Still, she always finishes last.

After six years of trying, she finally gets a chance to compete at the National Pack Championships. All she wants is to prove that she is not as...