Best Romance Stories & Novels Collection

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...

I made Sebastian Grant date me for a year because I'd saved his life.
Even though he couldn't stand me, I pressed myself against him when he tried to leave, traced my fingers down his chest when he turned away.
When his friends talked trash, I left marks on his neck and sent him out where everyone could see them.
Then an anonymous text arrived: [I'm the one you saved that day. Not Sebastian.]
Th...

The housekeeper’s daughter just locked me out of my own Bentley.

"Bob, drive," Ella Brooks—the school's untouchable Queen Bee—ordered my chauffeur. She leaned into her boyfriend, Ryan Harrington, shooting me a look of fake pity. "My family already pays her tuition. Charity cases don't get free rides."

A bunch of kids nearby laughed, always eager to kiss up to the fake heiress. Ryan glared at me ...

My uncle cut off my allowance the moment he spotted my new tongue piercing. That night, I found a stranger online asking how to make his friend’s “gold-digging girlfriend” leave him. I told him to send her money. Minutes later, $8,888 landed in my account—from my uncle’s best friend, Adrian Foster, the handsome, buttoned-up man who thought my uncle was my boyfriend. The stranger was him. The gold-...

In my family, there's a rule: any woman who reaches thirty without getting married must return to the family estate and have her marriage arranged by the Council of Elders.
When I told Dominic Moretti about this, he was sitting on my desk flipping through financial reports.
After hearing me out, he let out a derisive laugh.
"Is the Bennett family some medieval royal house? A bunch of old men get t...

“Hunters don’t fall in love with vampires. They kill them.”

Sadie Mercer left her Hunter clan behind years ago, determined to build a normal life instead of inheriting a war that was never hers. Working multiple jobs while helping solve supernatural crimes, she’s finally found her place… until she discovers an unconscious man bleeding on her doorstep.

Vasiliy Dobrev is the last Pureblood Count, ...

I stopped letting people get close to me a long time ago. It was cleaner that way. I would not hurt anyone, and no one would get the chance to hurt me.

Ryder Kane never got that memo.

I am not here for his smile, his charm, or the way half the city seems to be in love with him. I am here because guarding him pays well. One contract covers two years of tuition. I protect him, finish the job, get ...

“Sit your ass down, princess. Hockey isn’t for you!”

Vesper smiled.

“Hockey isn’t meant for me, or you just don’t have the balls to watch a girl defeat you?”

Soren Vance hates her attitude.

He hates her stubbornness.

And he definitely hates the way his wolf reacts whenever she gets close.

Vesper Cross was never supposed to play hockey. Her father made sure of that.

But when the team needs ...

For twenty-one years, Jordan has lived as a man, bound to a lie, hiding her female omega biology and fighting tooth and nail in the men's professional hockey league. Her biggest obstacle has always been Caleb, her fiercest rival on the ice and the arrogant alpha heir of her pack.
Until the mate bond snaps into place.
Caleb knows his wolf is losing its mind over his lifelong enemy, struggling with ...

On my coronation night, my beloved Alpha placed the Luna’s crown upon my head and declared before everyone, “From this day on, you are my Luna.”

When I awoke, I lay in a ruined room without windows. My wrists were scarred from cuts, and my account held nothing but debt.

Worse, my wolf had vanished along with my husband.

Searching for him, I entered a man-eating parking garage, walked into a mon...

The Quarterback. The Placekicker. The Tight End. The Wide Receiver. The returning Cornerback. Boys who play together, stay together—on and off the field. And Virgin Marni Rose is the untouched toy they've vowed to share.

And ruin.

For the first time—together.

Meet the Sins of Blueridge High. A pack of beautiful football gods who rule their school and hunt and defile virgins for sport—down to...

I can see other people's net worth.

The day my boyfriend learned he was the long-lost son of the richest man in this city on the East Coast, he came home and lied to my face.

"The DNA test didn't match," Caleb Foster said with a sigh.

Above his head, his net worth climbed past $14 million.

I did not expose him. I only smiled and said, "Don't worry. As long as you can take hardship, there'll al...

“You were born without a wolf, Brill. You were never meant to be my mate.”

Those were the words Adrian Voss used to reject me—the Alpha heir I had believed was destined to love me. He severed our Mate Bond in front of everyone, leaving me humiliated, heartbroken, and with nowhere to belong. Then my own Pack cast me into the wilderness, expecting me to die.

But I survived.

I’ve spent my life bei...

I was born to end wars, not start them. At least that's what the prophecy says.
Dragon, werewolf, witch. Three bloods no one thought could mix, sealed the moment I hatched because nine clans were terrified of what I might become. Now I'm just Ravenmoor's favorite joke, powerless while Lilith rules the school like the devil she was born to be, and she's made it very clear she hates me.
Then Lucien ...

When Jake Savage walks out of prison, the man he used to be is long gone. Now known as Wrath, he carries a debt to Rancid and a reputation forged in blood. His road leads to Reading, Pennsylvania—straight into the clubhouse of the Road Warriors MC, where violence is currency and loyalty is law.
Love was never part of his plan. But when danger closes in, Wrath does the only thing he’s ever been sur...

"I yield." Two words that cost Sienna everything and bought back the only man who ever made her want a future worth staying for.
Sienna has spent months running from the Yosemite pack, hiding the one secret that could get her killed: she's an unclaimed female Alpha. When West-Slope's Alpha, Henry, catches her mid-rescue during a vampire attack, captivity turns into an attraction neither of them ca...

Some houses don’t have exits. Just doors that look like them.

Roxy never wanted her mother’s new life.

She certainly never expected to find herself living under the same roof as Dorian Sinclair—the powerful billionaire who now calls himself her stepfather.

Calm. Controlled. Unreadable.

Dorian sees everything, including the secret Roxy wishes she could erase.

After he catches her witnessing so...

Trigger Warning - This fictional work contains moments of violence, assault, near sexual assault, and verbal/emotional abuse. Please be aware that they are brief and not overly graphic. Please read only if you are comfortable with this.

She stays perfectly still, lifting both hands to rest against my chest, her fingers clutching the soft fabric of my shirt. Her breaths come quick and shallow. ...

I was born an Alpha.

Unfortunately, everyone seems to think that means I should act like a lady.

My father wants me in dresses, behaving politely, studying harder, and staying out of fights. The racing world wants me to prove that a woman can survive on a track built for men.

And I’m tired of proving myself to people who already decided I can’t.

Then my father gives me an ultimatum: raise my g...

“Get in the coffin, Nomon. This time, you belong to me.”

Alaina is the Hunter Association’s deadliest weapon—a fearless woman hiding a lethal secret. To earn the antidote keeping her alive, she must tame Nomon, the ancient vampire progenitor who once treated humans as nothing more than livestock.

Two thousand years old, ruthless, arrogant, and impossible to kill, Nomon has never bowed to anyone....

I thought I had the perfect husband—until I discovered he was cheating on me with my own stepsister.
Then I learned our marriage agreement was a lie, and Eric had secretly sabotaged my chances of becoming a mother while protecting Isabella.
I had trusted him, endured painful treatments, and believed we were building a future together.
Now, every promise felt like another cruel betrayal.
Heartbroke...

My best friend Sophie has a rich dad, a romance-novel addiction, and Daddy’s black card.

I have student loans and three part-time jobs.

So when Sophie decided to live out every love story she’d ever read, she hired me to play the villainess.

The mean girl who corners the class genius? Me. The spoiled heiress who won’t leave the campus heartthrob alone? Also me. Ten bucks per cringey text. Cash ...

The day we moved into the new estate on the hill, every bedroom had a name next to it. The master suite for my parents. The east wing for my brother, Luca. And the best room in the house, the south suite overlooking the Hudson, was labeled Sofia's Room. My name wasn't anywhere. Out in the hallway, a workman was screwing brass nameplates onto every bedroom door. None of them said Chiara. Ten years ...

My sister Vivian dated men the way other people taste champagne — a bright sip, then set the glass down before anyone could ask her to finish it.
Never enough to satisfy anyone. Never long enough to be held responsible for the empty glass.
When those men discovered one another, they did not punish her.
They chose me.
Attention I had never received became flowers, invitations, and late-night calls...

My father was thrown in the county jail, and my mother collapsed with illness. I went to beg my husband, Elliot Watt, to step in and save him. Instead, he made me choose.
"We've been married four years and you've never gotten pregnant. Now Paige is carrying my child, and the Watt line can't die out. I have to think of her and the baby."
"Either you stay on as Mrs. Watt in name only, move into the ...

Austin Sheffield—the all-powerful Lycan King, and the man who once made my heart nothing more than a wager.

When I overheard his lies with my own ears, I didn’t cry, beg, or try to hold on to him. I left behind everything he had ever given me and disappeared without a trace.

Six years later, I returned to his world under a new name, with my son, Sheldon, by my side.

I thought that if I was care...

Ten years into my marriage, I'd traded my paintbrush for a spatula and turned into Mrs. Holloway.

Ever since my sister Brooke moved in, my husband Bennett and my daughter Lucy had picked up a habit. Anytime Brooke and I disagreed, they put it to a vote.

On my birthday I wanted steak. Two hands went up for the salad bar Brooke liked. When I hadn't slept in weeks and wanted to see a therapist, the...

I hid my massive crush on Nolan Mercer for fifteen years. I wasn't his dream girl, so I kept my mouth shut.

Then a "Romance System" popped into my head and locked me in as his true love.

Game on. I stopped playing the nice girl. I forced him to marry me, and basically kept him trapped in my bed every chance I got.

Nolan despised me for it. I didn't care. I figured the System forced him to play...

Typically, brides swap bouquets for good luck when wedding motorcades cross paths.
But in Liam’s Southern hometown, they had a twisted tradition: they swapped brides.

When our limousines met bumper-to-bumper, Kinsley leaned right past me. She pressed a lingering kiss to my fiancé’s cheek.
"Hope you don't mind, Rachel," she purred with innocent malice. "I’m stealing your groom."
The groomsmen ho...

At Academy, the poor don't get second chances.

And I, Thea, am not only a scholarship girl struggling to survive among the elite—I'm also the biggest joke on campus: the girl her own boyfriend keeps as a stand-in for the woman he truly loves.

Reese once showered me with affection, making me believe I was special.

Until someone set me up and humiliated me in front of everyone, and he chose anoth...

After the tragic death of her four-year-old son, Amelia Carter’s perfect life begins to unravel.

Once adored by her husband, Amelia became the target of his quiet disgust after childbirth changed her body in ways she could not control. The man who once called her beautiful now barely looks at her without judgment. Every cruel comment, every cold stare, every reminder of the weight she failed to l...

Annabelle, a palace guard raised to serve as a princess's double, is sent in disguise to marry the mysterious Dragon Emperor, Azarax. But when she arrives in his empire, hiding her true identity becomes harder than expected. As Azarax grows suspicious of his secret bride, Anna is drawn into an ancient legend surrounding the lost power of the dragons. What begins as a political marriage soon become...

Every girl in my village dreams of the Choosing — the day the Dragon Emperor's court picks brides for the seven royal Wyrmlords, beasts of fire and fury who could burn a kingdom to ashes with one breath. I dream of surviving it and going home unmarried.

Instead, I get the one dragon nobody wants.

Rhyan doesn't breathe fire. He spurts water, in humiliating little bursts, while the court howls wit...

Five years ago, Aria stole a digital file from the powerful Sloane Empire during an operation, unknowingly taking evidence of their offshore criminal businesses. She vanished and buried her identity as the legendary Ghost, until someone exposes her.

Within hours, a $10 million bounty is placed on her head, turning her into prey for assassins and mercenaries. Aria realizes the Sloanes are behind t...

"Pay us five million dollars, or I'll tell the world your son is a rapist."

That was the blackmail demand my new neighbor threw in my face. When I refused to pay, she took me to court.

Now, we are in a packed, live-streamed courtroom. Her daughter is crying on the witness stand in a neck brace, swearing my "heavily-muscled" son brutally attacked her in the backyard. Her sleazy lawyer is waving ...

"Iris — what secret are you keeping?"* The cold-blooded, savage drakon president pinned me against the wall, his eyes full of a dark fire slipping its leash. *"I've spent all this time hunting for the masked woman from five years ago — so why… why is my head full of nothing but you?"

I pressed a hand tight over the drakon scale in my pocket — the one I'd lifted off him back then — and backed away...

My mate, Alpha Grant, ran a pack in western Washington. A witch had cursed his wolf the day he was born, and he could never pick out a she-wolf's scent well enough to know his true mate.
He spent five years hunting for her. Every dead end wore him down a little more, until he finally quit.
That was the moment he chose me.
On our bonding night, he told me the real reason.
"Mara," he said quietly, "...

On our wedding day, my fiancé, Preston Vale, didn't come to walk me down the aisle. Instead, he brought Silas Rowan—the "unstable" son of his family's former driver.
"Walk through the ceremony with him," Preston demanded, wrapping his arm around his secretary, Lydia. "Consider it your apology for upsetting her."
Lydia smiled with practiced delicacy. "It's just a little joke, Maren. Don't be so dra...

On my birthday, my fiancé pushed me off a yacht to make another woman laugh.
Miles Hart was Boston's most notorious heir. I had loved him for three years. I had said yes when he proposed.
I nearly drowned as a child. And he knew I was terrified of deep water. I had told him I didn't want a birthday party at sea — he talked me into it anyway.
I had trusted him enough to step aboard. Even when I saw...

I was Sophie Langley, the only daughter of a modestly wealthy family.
Then I married Harrison Whitmore, the heir to a Manhattan dynasty.
Harrison was five years older than me, stern, private, and almost offensively rich. He had no scandals, no revolving door of women, and no hobbies beyond making money.
Conveniently, my favorite hobby was spending it.
The black card never declined. The couture nev...

For years, I'd covered everything for my mate's family. The house, the car, the bags, the clothes.

So when they planned a family vacation, I thought I'd finally earned a spot.

Instead, they booked tickets for the whole family, plus Sloane, the childhood sweetheart who never quite left my mate's side. Even the dog had plans.

I was the one they expected to stay home and keep working. They called ...

I died on the operating table. Down the hall, my husband was waiting for news that the woman he'd loved before me had received my kidney.
He'd made that day happen. He'd forced me to end my six-month pregnancy, then give what was left of me to a woman who was supposedly dying.
Just before I stopped breathing, he was holding her hand in another room, telling her, "It's over. We can finally be toget...

My ex-boyfriend wrote a hit song about me. He told the whole world I dumped him for being poor, painting me as the heartless ex who took nothing but his dog when I left.
I let him believe it. It was easier for him to hate me than to watch me decay.
A year later, he was on national television, his arm wrapped around a beautiful new starlet. When the host brought up our sudden breakup, Evan laughe...

Chloe Mei was raised to believe power destroys everything it touches. So she learned how to stay small. Quiet. Untouchable.
Wyatt Gravemont was raised to be powerful.
Heir to one of the most feared criminal empires in the country, Wyatt is precision honed into human form, cold, silent, and ruthless enough to inherit his father's throne. Love is a weakness. Mercy is fatal. Emotions are liabilities ...

Because of one woman's words, Naomi Pierce and her seven-year-old daughter are cast aside in a house where they once belonged, forced to swallow humiliation while the husband and son who should have protected them stand on the wrong side. This time, Naomi stops waiting to be chosen. She walks away from the man who failed her, lets go of the son who learned cruelty from the people around him, and t...

Everything at my cozy little inn was perfectly ordinary until the night I saw a dead woman stirring my soup.

Apparently, the Lantern and Lark has been home to six ghosts for years. They know every secret hidden in its walls, disapprove of my terrible love life, and are delighted when Alistair Crowe checks into room seven. He is a travelling necromancer with a sharp tongue, a dangerous reputation,...