Free Contemporary Romance Novels — read online
Modern cities, modern hearts, timeless trouble. This is the big shelf: contemporary romance in every flavor — sweet, soapy, steamy, dramatic — told in short serialized chapters built to end on a hook. Pick a cover, read the free first half, and see why "one more episode" is the whole point of this place.
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Wrong Girl, Right Alpha
On her eighteenth birthday Nora begged her mate not to reject her in front of the whole pack. He called her the wrong girl and walked away, and the Alpha crossed the hall to mark her before the rejection could kill her.
contemporary · female lead · age gap
48 chapters published
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My Stepfather and His Friends
Tessa hears her stepfather and his three oldest friends talking about her through the thin den wall. She walks in, takes their whiskey and tells them to say it to her face.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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The Don Played Broke to Test Me, So I Left With His Baby
Joanna Mercer spent eight months paying off a fake debt beside the man she loved, and he let his sister hand her pills to end their baby. When the Don reveals it was all a test, she says no and walks out with the child.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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Severed Ties: Rise of the Silver Wolf
On her eighteenth birthday her whole pack crowds around her twin sister's golden wolf, and her own wolf never comes. When her parents hand her a paper that cuts her out of the family, she signs it with her own blood.
contemporary · female lead · fated mate
48 chapters published
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I Let My Sister Have the Man Who Broke My Heart
Reborn on the day her mother makes her choose a husband, Gemma hands her jealous sister the cheating mafia heir who ruined her and takes the sickly Miami heir everyone says will die young.
contemporary · female lead · dark romance
32 chapters published
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He Signed the Divorce Without Reading Page Nine
At their tenth anniversary party Trevor announces his mistress is pregnant, and Claire hands him divorce papers. He signs without reading page nine, which takes back every formula his company runs on.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
48 chapters published
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At a Charity Auction, My Husband Sold My Best Friend the Seven Days He Promised Me
Bethany's husband promised her seven days to move and open her new shop. At a charity gala her best friend buys those exact seven days, and he walks onstage with a packed bag while two pink lines sit in her purse.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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Used While I Pretended to Sleep
Roxy stops swallowing her sleeping tablet, and the night her stepfather and his three oldest friends come into her room, she keeps her eyes shut.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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Every Man Who Loved Me Left Hating Me, Only My Father Knows Why
Five men asked to marry Lucia Pesaro. Each went into her father's basement smiling and came out looking at her like she was rotting. Now she is going down there herself.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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My Fiancé Let Her Ruin Our Wedding but Insisted It Was Just a Joke
Darcy stood at the altar ready to marry the man she had loved for ten years, until her best friend tore off her veil and the whole room laughed. She walked out, and she is taking back every penny and every laugh.
contemporary · female lead · revenge
24 chapters published
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Her Husband's Favorite Guest
On her fifth anniversary, Lydia watches her husband pull her cousin onto his lap and play their wedding song for five hundred people, while two heartbeats sit in her purse. She did not come to be erased.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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Wedding Eve Goodbye
The night before her wedding, Elin overhears her cold fiance whisper a lullaby to his assistant: sweet dreams, my little wolf. She walks out in front of every guest, and learns the song was never his to give.
contemporary · secret parentage · misunderstanding
24 chapters published
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On Thanksgiving, My Husband Left Me 7 Months Pregnant at a Highway Rest Stop
Seven months pregnant, Piper is told to wait at a turnpike rest stop while her husband drives back for his first love. She does not wait, and by midnight she is in labor and he is the one who has to chase her.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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The Man Who Can't Let Her Go
Three years after she walked out of her marriage, Lydia Winthrop pushes into a party and is kissed in the dark by the husband who never signed the divorce. The friend who carried every message between them has been keeping something from both.
dramatic · contemporary · misunderstanding
24 chapters published
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Merciless Contract: The Syndicate's Unwanted Wife
On her eighteenth birthday Gemma Albertini is traded to the Sandrelli syndicate's heir, who whispers that she is a rat he will throw back into the gutter in three years. He has no idea she was sent to the altar to die by his hand.
contemporary · female lead · dark romance
32 chapters published
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My Regretful Ex-Husband
Four weeks pregnant, Wren cooks her husband dinner and gets divorce papers instead. She signs, refuses his money and walks out with the test result in her pocket, and he has no idea why she never fought.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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They Left Me Out of the Family Pack Chat, So I Left Them Out of My Future
Imogen finds a family group chat called "No Imogen, No Drama" on her cousin's forgotten login, and learns the father she lent $38,000 for his heart paid for a wedding instead. She stops paying and shows up Sunday in person.
contemporary · female lead · revenge
24 chapters published
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Sacrificed To The Don They Now Regret
When her adopted sister blinds the Don's sister at a charity dinner, Livia Santoro is the daughter her family hands over. The family that sent her away still has a plan for her, and it is buried in her suitcase.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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On Halloween, My Husband Chose Her Family Over Ours
At her own Halloween party, seven months pregnant in a red superhero suit, she watches her husband walk in with her friend on his arm and announce his real family. She throws him out in front of every guest.
contemporary · female lead · romance
24 chapters published
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He Sent Me the Green Dress, So I Took His Company
On their tenth anniversary Tilda Reyburn gets a green silk dress from her husband, the dress her father's mistress wore, and she walks out of his celebration dinner. Then he tells everyone she is unwell, and she takes the company he runs on her vote.
contemporary · female lead · revenge
24 chapters published
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Five of Us at Christmas, But They Only Got Four Cookies
Her husband ordered custom Christmas cookies for the five of us, and Joanna finds four names in the box and a note that calls her the help. She walks out and dials a number she has carried for five years.
contemporary · secret parentage · female lead
24 chapters published
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Divorce While I'm Pregnant? Fine, Let's Sign It!
Twenty-five weeks pregnant, Greta walks into a dessert shop and finds her billionaire husband feeding another woman. She signs his divorce papers on the spot, never knowing his whole company runs on her signature.
contemporary · single parent · female lead
24 chapters published
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My Husband Kissed His Girl Best Friend in Front of 200 People, So I Filed for Divorce
During the World Cup semifinal, my husband's girl best friend jumped into his arms and kissed him on every screen in the pub, and he told me not to make a scene. I made one. Then I found out what else of mine he'd given her.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published · Watch the drama
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After Being Accused as a Mistress, I Married My Ex's Uncle
Cora Ellwood was slapped, stripped of every gift and branded his mistress in front of two hundred guests, and her boyfriend swore he had never seen her. The man who watched it all from the doors offers her a wedding ring, and a seat where her ex will have to call her Aunt.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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They Called Me Barren. They Picked the Wrong Wife
On Christmas Eve her mother-in-law toasts her husband's ex-girlfriend's baby at Maggie's own table. For five years the Rowans called Maggie barren and she kept her husband's secret. Tonight she stops.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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My Husband and My Best Friend Betrayed Me on Our Wedding Day. Twice.
Valeria lost her baby the night she caught her first husband in bed with her best friend. On her second wedding day, her new husband says the same woman sat in the wedding car with him last night. This time she acts before the car turns the corner.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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He Switched Partners. I Switched Countries.
Hours before Olympic registration closes, a pairs skater hears her fiancé tell his friends he has switched partners. At 11:59 she signs a partnership of her own, for another country.
contemporary · female lead · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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The Don Saved Me From the Ice, Then Buried Me in the Sea
The night before her wedding, a mafia heir's prank on his pregnant fiancee ends with her locked in a diving cage on the seabed. A stranger cuts her out, and she lets the whole coast think she drowned.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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The Heiress Who Refused the Family Key
The day before her wedding, Cecelia finds her fiancé's marriage certificate to his best friend hidden under her veil. She decides to walk down the aisle anyway.
contemporary · secret parentage · female lead
24 chapters published
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I Secretly Read Every Love Letter He Wrote Me, Then He Stopped Writing Them
For three years Miles Ferris slid a letter into Clara Mercer's campus mailbox, and for three years she read every one in secret and let the whole college believe she hated him. Then he wrote her one last line, and she has sixteen days before he leaves the country.
contemporary · misunderstanding · female lead
32 chapters published
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My CEO Boyfriend Kept Me Secret and Gave My Promotion Away
Tamara Whitby spent twelve years as the girlfriend nobody at Hollister Group knew about, until her boyfriend gave her promotion to his favorite employee and drove past her on the curb with the favorite in his car. She quit both in front of forty coworkers, and then a rival CEO offered her the job she was owed.
contemporary · female lead · revenge
24 chapters published
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Discarded Housewife, Chosen by Her Protector
At the gala that was meant to be her husband's triumph, the future Alpha toasts his fated mate and hands his wife of six years her divorce papers. She signs in front of three hundred guests, and a rival Alpha she has never met is the only one who steps toward her.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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Unwanted Shewolf
On her eighteenth birthday, the wolfless sister her Alpha brothers never wanted walks to the Moon Goddess and offers her life of her own free will. The Goddess accepts, and the Alphas who forgot her birthday learn what she has just taken.
contemporary · female lead · fated mate
24 chapters published
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A Secret in Her Father's House, A Pregnancy Neither Can Hide
When Alana, 26, goes home to her father Henrik, their hidden attraction becomes an affair neither will end. A pregnancy makes the secret impossible to keep, and Alana must decide what she wants for herself.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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They Mocked My Curves, So I Married the Billionaire Bartender
Her brother planned to announce her engagement to a man who mocks her body, so when the bartender takes the microphone and says she's marrying him, she walks across the ballroom and says yes.
contemporary · female lead · contract marriage
24 chapters published
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He Kept Me Secret Seven Years, Then Proposed to Her
For seven years the boy next door loved me in secret and never said it out loud. Then he stood up at a garden party and proposed to my best friend.
contemporary · secret parentage · female lead
32 chapters published
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He Sent the Helicopter for Her Dog
My grandmother died in my arms on a burning road, and my husband's rescue helicopter was four minutes away. He had sent it for his first love's dog.
contemporary · female lead · revenge
24 chapters published
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Taken in My Sleep by My Stepfather David and His Friends
Three days before her wedding, Zelda wakes in a snowed-in cabin with her ring in a cereal bowl and her stepfather David and his three oldest friends at the table. They took her in her sleep. She set the terms, and she has until Friday to decide who she walks out with.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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A Paper Plate at My Own Table
At Thanksgiving her mother-in-law hands her a paper plate and calls her the help, while her husband laughs. She owns the house, the china and the company that pays for all of it, and by Monday she starts cancelling.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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Bearing the Ruthless Alpha's Twins
The future Alpha mocked the wolfless girl by day and took her to bed at the party. She woke alone, pregnant, and swore he would never know. Seven years later he walks into her kitchen and meets his twins.
dramatic · contemporary · single parent
24 chapters published
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Five Hours a Year
Her husband gave her five free hours a year and billed the rest, even her father's funeral. She walked out, took a desk in San Francisco, and now he has to book her time.
contemporary · female lead · romance
24 chapters published
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My Fiancé Stole My University Acceptance Letter
Ciara Keogh spent sixty years married to a man who never once kissed her, and woke at twenty on the day he came to set the wedding date. She said no in front of both families, then found her stolen university letter in his briefcase.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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Not His Bride Anymore
Ainsley went to propose after seven years and lost the same rigged bet for the tenth time. The man who made her wait is not the only one who has been deciding her future.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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After My Miscarriage, My Husband Locked Me Out
Hannah comes home from the hospital in her scrubs, two days after losing her baby, and her husband shuts the door on her in front of his whole office. She walks away, and finds the house was never his to lock.
medical · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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My Selfish Sister: A Second Chance at Retribution?
Maeve was murdered by the sister she raised. Reborn on the day they chose their powers, she lets Britt take the Amplify System, takes Shrink for herself, and vanishes into a hidden miniature farm before five years of apocalyptic rain.
dramatic · contemporary · survival
24 chapters published
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He Calls It Love, She Sees It as Home
After years kept close on her stepfather's remote Montana ranch, twenty-two-year-old Iris asks Jack the one question nobody ever answered, and he says he will teach her himself. He calls it protecting her. She calls it home, until she opens the safe he never let her near.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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Dirty Dreams
Kenna hears her stepbrother and his three friends describe what they would do to her through the wall. Hours later they sneak into her room, sure she is asleep, and she keeps her eyes shut.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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He Missed Our Daughter's Birthday Again
Roderick walks out of his daughter's fifth birthday party for the boy his ex says is his son, leaving his pregnant wife to light the candles alone. Leah takes her daughter and goes, and he has to learn whose child that boy really is.
contemporary · female lead · redemption arc
24 chapters published
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They Fought Over Who Had to Keep Me
On her eighteenth birthday, Lacey's divorced parents argue over which of them is stuck with her while nobody sings. She walks out to her late grandmother's building, where the landlord has been waiting to keep her for real.
contemporary · female lead · age gap
24 chapters published
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He Bet My Life and Lost Me Instead
At a company retreat, Nina's partner fills her rescue inhaler with smoke to win a bet with his first love, then tells the paramedic it is all in her head. She plays the recording to the whole company and walks out for good.
medical · contemporary · female lead
32 chapters published
Completed · Every chapter free
Contemporary Romance Novels
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Stepdad and His Friends Bred Me During the Birthday Blackout
On my 24th birthday everyone bailed, even my mother, who was busy getting engaged to another man. My stepfather showed up with his two best friends and a cake. Then the lights went out, and I made a choice in the dark.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
48 chapters published
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The Team's Milk Cow
Harlow Dunmore, 25, bakes through the night at the national soccer team's World Cup camp and hides a condition that makes her leak milk. When the captain finds out at 2 a.m., the team's nine-game drought ends, and the whole squad decides she is their luck.
contemporary · female lead · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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Therapy Threesome
Mallory, 19, and her stepfather Wade, 39, sit stiffly on a therapist's couch until Dr. Thorsby decides the root of their fights is attraction and prescribes hands-on treatment. They both say yes, and then find out who paid for the room.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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