Best Romance Stories & Novels Collection

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

"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 ...

“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...

“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...

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...

She gets into the wrong car and spills all her deepest secrets to the wrong person. By the time she realizes her mistake, it's already too late.


For ten years, Lucy Knowles has been hopelessly in love with her best friend, Owen Brooks.
She's stood by him through everything. She's been his shoulder to cry on every time his cheating girlfriend shattered his heart.
Seven times in a row, Lucy...

She was born to run. He was born to rule. Their bond was never supposed to exist.
Luna Vale has one goal: win the Moon Games.
Five years ago, the Games took her brother, Victor, in front of fifty thousand silent spectators. They called it an accident. Luna has never believed it.
Now she's fast enough to win and stubborn enough to try. She'll burn the whole world down for the truth.
Then she meets ...

Adele Valerith thought she had married the Alpha she loved.
Instead, she discovers that she was only a piece in a political bargain.
Tristan Blackthorn married her to unite their powerful packs. His secret agreement with his fated mate, Lilith Veyra, was to reject Adele after the merger and make Lilith his Luna.
But Tristan made one mistake.
He fell genuinely in love with his Luna.
Before he can d...

Genius scientist Ruby Anderson needs a divorce from billionaire Owen Knight—a husband who doesn’t even know she exists. But when Ruby secretly enters his world under a hidden identity, family betrayal, stolen identities, and dangerous attraction turn their cold paper marriage into something far more complicated.

"In my defence, I thought he was someone else. In my further defence, have you met Reid Callahan?" Willow's boyfriend Mark cancels on our anniversary… again, and calls her deadwood in bed over the phone in earshot of others. Now she has something to prove. So, she let herself into his apartment. Dark room, no lights, she strips naked crawls over his naked body whispering “Hello Lover” She will sho...

A year ago, elite figure skater Elena Vance was the crown jewel of national athletics. Then came the terrifying jump, that ended with a surgical steel holding her right ankle together. Now, battling chronic pain and terrifying anxiety, she’s returning for one last shot at the World Championship qualifiers. She has zero room for error and zero patience for distractions.

Julian Cruz: star center an...

Ethan Hayes was supposed to be Hargrove Academy's next star goalie. Full ride. NHL pipeline. The golden boy.

Three days before pre-season, a car accident puts him in a coma.

If he doesn't report, Hargrove pulls the scholarship his family can't afford to lose. So his fraternal twin does the only thing she can.

Emery Hayes quit hockey two years ago after they told her she was too small, too fragi...

Once, I was a gymnast who knew exactly what it felt like to fly.
Until one mistake sent me crashing down and cost me everything.
For years, I stayed away from the arena. Until an opportunity came along and brought me onto the ice.
The problem?
I could not even skate.
To make matters worse, I was paired with Joseph Morgan, a figure skater known for being cold, perfectionistic, and completely unwill...

Gloria had never thought kissing a complete stranger would be the easiest way to escape a scandal.

But there she was—running from a crowd of gossiping eyes, desperate to get away before the whispers swallowed her whole.

Then she saw him.

A stranger.

Tall, composed, and completely unaware that Gloria was about to drag him into the biggest lie of his life.

She didn't know his name.

She didn't ...

Aria is a fearless detective with one mission: bring the ruthless Mafia King, Damien Voss, to justice.

Damien is cold, powerful, and feared by everyone who crosses his path. When Aria becomes his most dangerous enemy, their lives collide in a deadly game of revenge, secrets, and forbidden attraction.

She wants to put him behind bars.

He wants to make her pay for a death she never truly caused.
...

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...

One murder. Two dangerous secrets. One detective she should never fall for.

The man died at the table beside mine. His last words were meant for me.

I witnessed his murder in a quiet tea shop, and before the police arrived, I made one mistake that could cost me everything: I lied.

Detective Adrian Cole is determined to uncover the truth, but he doesn't know that the dead man and I share a past ...

My sister's killer was buried three years ago. So why did I find a photograph of him standing outside my apartment last night?

I'm Vanessa Cole, an investigative journalist who has spent three years trying to uncover the truth about my sister's unsolved murder. The police called it a dead end. I refused to believe them.

Then a stranger broke into my apartment, left a warning on my desk, and dis...

Charity Southwell, a world-class figure skater obsessed with control, meets Cole Ramsey, a reckless hockey captain destined for the NHL. Their rivalry turns into attraction, and eventually love, but their relationship is tested by betrayal, mental struggles, career pressure, illness, grief, and devastating family losses.
As Charity learns to let go of her need for perfection and Cole learns what i...

Three days before her wedding to the son of one of the most powerful....and most corrupt....real estate dynasties in the state, Wren Delacroix runs. Not with a plan. Not with a destination. Just a stolen envelope of evidence that could burn the Crane family's empire to the ground, and a desperate need to belong to herself again.

She lands in Fell's Ridge, in the clubhouse of the Iron Vows MC, and...

Maya Carter spent years being mocked and underestimated for being a woman in college football, but after fighting her way onto an elite team and becoming the one player capable of challenging her brother’s arrogant best friend and star cornerback, Jace Williams, she finally proves she belongs,until she is framed for destroying the team’s prized trophy, and Jace unexpectedly protects her, drawing t...

My name is Evelyn Blackwood. I am the only daughter of the Blackwood Pack and my mother Margaret's sole chosen heir.
The territory of Greyhaven, the family assets, and those deeply rooted ancient alliances—they would all fall onto my shoulders sooner or later.
To secure my future reign and shut the greedy mouths of our branch families, my mother brought back three boys from a rogue shelter.
She sp...

Six months ago, a deadly dose of ricin was secretly dropped into my drink. The toxic substance has been relentlessly destroying my body ever since, and my time is nearly up.

Today, my physical strength has completely faded, leaving me with only seventy-two hours to draw breath.

On the brink of my impending death, I gave in and consented to give my remaining kidney to my sister. Overflowing with ...

What would you do if the Resonance Test matched you 100% with a species that had been extinct for centuries?

My grandmother died owing 1.2 million.

By the time the debt collector showed up at her funeral, I was out of options. Then three strangers appeared and paid off the entire debt on the spot.

The price? I had to enroll at Aurelis Academy, the most powerful magic academy in the world.

...

After five years of mopping floors at Harrington Tower, I finally had enough saved for my son Theo's heart surgery.

I got off work early that day, folded my new paycheck in half twice, and tucked it into my inside pocket. I practically ran the whole way to the hospital. I wanted my husband, Beckett Reid, to be the first to know.

The door to the family lounge wasn't shut all the way, and I could ...

My boss was mid-meltdown when I started texting my online boyfriend to complain about him.

"Does anyone here actually use their brain before they submit something? This proposal is a joke. Pull this kind of crap again next week and the whole team loses their bonus — and honestly? Start updating your résumés."

Adrian's eyes moved slowly around the table. People stopped breathing.

Mine dropped to...

I found out I was pregnant the same week our savings hit zero.
I didn't tell my boyfriend, Jovan. He was already hauling bricks all day and running deliveries half the night. One more thing on his shoulders, and I was scared it would break him.
So I said nothing. Just started picking up more work.
A friend got me a serving job at a private club downtown. Cash tips, she said. Pour tea, carry trays,...

The husband my family had picked for me barely spoke and never cracked a smile.

So I decided to mess with him.

I pinched his butt, nipped his Adam’s apple, and ran my hands over his chest.

Grant Whitmore’s ears went red with outrage. His face stayed as cool and proper as ever.

Until one night, when I came home from partying.

He spotted the hickey on my neck, and his eyes went red. “Who did th...

My mother-in-law got pregnant at fifty-nine.

She had diabetes and high blood pressure, so I talked her out of keeping it. I thought I was saving her life.

I never imagined that months later my husband would die in a car crash, or that his parents would never get pregnant again, no matter what they tried.

They said I'd wiped out their family. So they put weed killer in my water.

My organs shut ...

On the night of my college graduation, Sloane Callahan, the biological daughter my Mafia family had only recently brought home, asked me what I planned to do next.

Before I could answer, my four childhood friends spoke up one after another.

One by one, all four showed me documents proving they were moving to California.

Then Graham Whitmore, heir to one of Chicago's most powerful Mafia families...

"Do I seem like an idiot to you princess?" he sassed taking another agonizingly slow step towards me.

"N-no." I stuttered out a blabbering mess, unable to think straight with his sudden closeness.

"Do I have to show who you belong to again Bella?"

"I-don't know." I whispered out too far gone within the eyes of the silver eyed God like boy standing before me.

"Then why do you defy me princess, ...

Diana was only four when her family was brutally wiped out, leaving her with nothing but fragmented memories of that night. Raised by a secret biker club, she was trained to become a human weapon, beautiful enough to lure powerful men into traps and deadly enough to finish the job.

When Diana fought for the freedom she was promised, the club marked her for death. Wounded and running for her life,...

When a desperate bride is traded away as "collateral" at the altar by her bankrupt fiancé, she is forced into a high-stakes, twelve-month fake marriage with the cold billionaire who put her father in prison.
$5 million. 12 months. One rule: play the perfect wife.
Adrian Cole is cold, ruthless, and heir to the empire that destroyed everything I loved. I am supposed to hate him. I am supposed to de...

She is Europe's most beloved innocent star

He is the world's most hated football god.

One desperate kiss changes everything.

ZIZO

They call me an arrogance-fueled nightmare. A reckless Brazilian star who races Ferraris and breaks the rules. They don't know about the quiet graveside promises, the hospital visits, or the grief that seems to have made my mind it's home. I don't care what the Br...

Wanting someone so badly has never felt this forbidden, yet I'm dying to be buried in that sin.

I've never craved someone the way I crave him.

I have seen the way he looks at me, caught somewhere between hate and disgust—or perhaps something more than either. Maybe I'm only fooling myself into believing there's something hidden beneath his anger.

He loathes me. He curses me, says I'm the reason...

“You can marry my brother, Aurora. But don’t pretend you’ve forgotten who marked you first.”

Seven days before my coronation as Luna of the powerful Moonshadow Pack, my darkest secret returns in the form of Kaelen Blackwood—the ruthless Alpha of Dark Moon Pack, my fiancé’s younger brother, and the man whose mark I have spent three years desperately trying to hide.

I am Aurora Thorne, and I have ...

My husband thinks I married him for power.
I wish that were true.
I’ve loved Austin Thorne for ten years. I’ve worn his ring for three. Now I’m giving our marriage an expiration date.
Three more months. I fight for control of my family’s empire. Then we divorce—whether I win or lose.
There’s just one problem: winning the deal that could secure my future means going up against my own husband.
I can...

You know you're getting cheated on when your strictly private husband accidentally goes live on Instagram at midnight.

The camera showed Chloe—the newest streamer signed to his company—wearing cute fluffy ears, blushing under the neon lights of a late-night gastro-pub. Ethan's voice boomed in the background, laughing softly: "Look at this cute little foodie."

In five years of marriage, I had nev...

"Mrs. Cole, your bone cancer has reached the terminal stage. The tumor has caused irreversible damage to your left leg. We advise immediate amputation, followed by aggressive treatment."
The doctor slid the medical report across the desk, his expression grim.
"And if I don't?" I asked, my eyes glued to the report.
"If you don't, your condition will deteriorate rapidly." The doctor paused. "You sti...

When I was ten, my parents faked a messy divorce and turned my life into a sick reality show.
They split up me and my twin sister, Romy. She got the Alpine mansion and my mother's luxurious lifestyle.
I was dumped in a moldy basement, scrubbing diner plates and clinging to my physics books to survive my father's "gambling addiction." 
For eight years, I starved to pay off his staged debts. Then, ...

I was ranked first in my class, which made me this year's valedictorian.

Years ago, my dad served overseas, and a war correspondent wrote a story about him. He cut the article out and kept it in the inside pocket of his old jacket for twenty years.

I read it for the first time when I was twelve, and ever since then, I'd wanted to be a reporter like that.

But I almost turned down Northwestern's ...

My mother gave me her kidney. The price was my husband.
As the orderlies wheeled me toward surgery, Mom gripped my hand and begged through her tears: “Promise me you'll divorce Ansel. Your sister needs him.”
My husband had already signed the papers. “Give me one year,” he said. “Once Tam's back on her feet, we'll get remarried.”
I survived the operation. I signed away my marriage. Then I vanished ...

I was the orphan Hayes Holt pulled from the foster system, the girl he raised for eight years.
In my past life, I drowned in his suffocating tenderness, mistaking his guardianship for love. When he brought Josie Rowe home and announced their engagement, I snapped.
I threw a hysterical fit, screaming my unrequited love until the scandal bled into every gossip rag in New York.
My reward was his col...

On the day Carter and I remarried, our son Finn had been in the hospital for forty days.

The line at City Hall was long. Carter spent the whole time with his head down, texting, wearing a smile I hadn't seen on him in years.

The person on the other end was Wren Dalton, an art student getting by on a scholarship and part-time jobs. She'd turned Carter down three times. When he sent her a full set...