beach-town novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “beach-town”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

• She Hid Them in Her Lighthouse Cove Cabin, They Asked Her to Stay
  

  When two Korean stars arrive undercover in Lighthouse Cove, Mara Larkin offers them shelter, not surrender. But the more Hyunjin and Chan see the woman beneath her sharp jokes and guarded heart, the harder it becomes to keep their growing love from turning her carefully built life into another secret.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  40 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Four STARZ Members Came to Hide, Then Fell for the Cat Café Owner
  

  When four members of STARZ rent a cabin beside Missy's cat café for a quiet writing retreat, their private rules and strict NDAs complicate a scorching attraction to the 49-year-old owner. Missy must decide whether to risk her hard-won independence for a love that can only work if all five of them choose honesty over secrecy.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  40 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Ten Years of Public Breakups, Then He Ran After My Bus
  

  He proposed on a microphone at the Maine Lobster Festival, she said no into the same microphone, and it was their tenth breakup in ten years, all in front of the same friends. Now a wedding, a house and a bus ride stand between them and an eleventh.

  dramatic · contemporary · misunderstanding

  40 chapters published

• My Substitute Wife Is Not on the Return Manifest
  

  A Coast Guard pilot signs away his marriage without reading it, then leaves his wife on a dock in a storm to fetch the ex who vanished on their wedding day. She has a week before she leaves for Rotterdam and a name on a vehicle log that she did not earn.

  military-base · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Brought His Assistant On Our Honeymoon And Gave Me A Separate Room
  

  Five years after the wedding, Tripp finally takes Rochelle on their honeymoon, and brings his assistant and a separate room for his wife. The room was chosen on purpose.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Excluded Me From the Family, So I Built a New One
  

  Susannah finds her husband's secret group chat planning to keep her out of the family photos at the engagement party she is hosting in her own cottage. She doesn't confront him: she changes the locks, and Friday she is the one who decides who comes through the door.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• You Are the Waves, You Are the Wind
  

  The internet's biggest vlogger couple fights in court for sixty million followers, and a hundred thousand people watch the wife give it all away to keep her daughter's face off the screen. Then she finds out who really filmed her worst night.

  contemporary · female lead · beach-town

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Locked Out of Gran's Secret Room, I Wore What Was Inside
  

  When her aunt, her fiancé and her cousin change the lock on her dead grandmother's hidden room the week after she trusted them with its secret, Newport heiress Octavia Tillinghast drops her ring in a champagne glass and goes in by sea, with a harbor launch captain who takes her orders.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

• My Alpha Shamed Me at His Victory Feast, So I Took His Coast
  

  Mercy Beal is put aside at her wolf Alpha's victory feast, says two words, and walks out with her father's buoy; she takes back her Down East harbor from his cousin in a fight on the wharf, and when his proof of glory comes to her dock, it is her dead brother's tooth.

  contemporary · female lead · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

• I Tried to Evict My Three Tenants, So They Moved Into My Bed
  

  Marit Isaksen sells her late grandmother's Astoria house and serves eviction notices to the three men who rent it, because she wants all three and can't choose. They refuse to leave and refuse to be split.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• I Discharged Two Shrimper Brothers, Then Took Them Both Home
  

  On the last day of her twelve weeks with them, a Charleston physical therapist learns that two shrimper brothers have each asked her out for the same Saturday, signs both discharges, and writes her address on the back of each.

  medical · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

• She Jumped Into His Pool and Blamed Me, So I Left Him
  

  Valerie calls her boyfriend's childhood friend a giant infant, and at the Rainsford family's Hamptons party that night the friend jumps in the pool and says Valerie pushed her. The boyfriend says he's got her. She walks out, and his older brother has the footage.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Left in the Sand, Found by the Sea
  

  Her mafia boyfriend leaves her at a desert gas station to chase a canyon sunset with another woman, so she cancels everything she paid for and takes a bus to the sea.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Merman Who Wouldn't Sing, The Tears He Saved For Me
  

  Marnie Dunphy buys a battered, scarred merman for $400 and thinks she scored a bargain. Every scale he presses into her hand is a vow, and the man who sold him cheap knew it.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• When He Finally Found Her, She Was Already Married
  

  Declan Hargrove spent six years searching for the wife who vanished a week after their secret wedding. He finds her on a Maine pier, holding another man's daughter, introduced as another man's wife.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Brother, My Wife, and Their Son
  

  At Sunday dinner Cedric learns his wife and his brother have a seven-year-old son together, and his parents knew. He takes his daughter and leaves, and then learns why they never chose him.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Father Sold Me to His Oldest Enemy to Play House, and the Old Man Bought the Only Witness Against Him
  

  Thalia Mavrakis, 26, her father's closer since seventeen, is sold as a wife to the Old Admiral of the Anclote sponge docks, 63, after she refused to kill a man at a christening. She drives herself to his dock to warn him what she is, and he says he did not buy a wife.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Dad's Best Friend Said No Daddy Jokes, So I Made Him Say Yes
  

  In front of sixty people at the dock fish fry, Mona's ex says she can't be reached, so she walks the length of the dock and asks her dead father's best friend to dance. He takes her hand and says, "Not like this."

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

• He Rejected Me Out Loud and Kept Other Women, So I Never Answered
  

  Her father hands Rhiannon Etheridge to the Alpha of a hidden wolf island against a $140,000 note, and Doran Gaskill rejects her out loud in front of the pack and keeps other women in his house all winter. She never says the words back, and under the pack's oldest law that means he never got free.

  female lead · dark romance · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

• He Put His Ex First, So I Found My True Mate
  

  Isla paid for the whole Founders' Ten weekend, then found out the draw was rigged so her fiance could pair with his ex every round. She cancelled the weekend in front of the pack and walked out, and her silent wolf finally spoke at the gate.

  contemporary · female lead · beach-town

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Pushed Overboard Pregnant, I Crashed My Husband's Wedding
  

  Wesley kissed his pregnant wife's forehead and shoved her off the family yacht. Six days later she walks into his wedding to her best friend.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Maid of Honor Took My Groom, So His Best Man Took Me
  

  At the altar Kirsten's maid of honor lifts her veil, kisses the groom and says he is hers. The best man, the maid of honor's own fiance, takes the bride's arm, and the honeymoon tickets in his jacket are on her card.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• The Fake Medium Hooked a Real Ghost
  

  Dark first: a damp, obsessive ghost who is dangerous to everyone except one man. Ye Ming is a cold-reading fraud who sells grief for a living, until a real voice starts correcting his lies in a whisper and the more he lies, the more solid the dead man becomes. 清冷钓系受 x 阴湿男鬼攻 · 暗黑小甜饼 · 灵异 · 双洁 · 1v1 · HE · 攻受 · 受视角为主, 攻视角三章.

  contemporary · male lead · beach-town

  24 chapters published

• My Stepfather Lost Me in a Poker Game, Then I Cleaned Him Out
  

  The morning after his private poker game, Aimee finds the marker on the table in her stepfather's handwriting: "One month of Aimee." She doesn't wait for the two men who won her to come at noon. She drives to them first and trades her month for every secret he ever hid at that table.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Claimed by the Mer-Shifter Prince I Made Cry
  

  Minnie Marlow hides a chained, tailed man in her dead father's bathtub. When she wipes his tail he blushes so hard his tears turn into pearls, and the pearl she pocketed on the sand makes her something his court will drown her for.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Love, Betrayal, and Vengeance: My Second Life
  

  A single mother relives the night she forced the man who later drowned her and her son to marry her. This time, she says no—and lets him try again with an underwater camera.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  12 chapters published

• He Ignored Me 304 Times: I Divorced Him
  

  Pia begged her husband three hundred and four times to join her in fulfilling her father's last wish by the sea. He never showed up, and her father died alone.

  contemporary · female lead · beach-town

  12 chapters published

• Three Minutes in the Dark
  

  His girlfriend insisted on bringing her best friend on vacation, and the friend wore a thong just to provoke him. Every night at eleven the power goes out, and they have three minutes.

  contemporary · forbidden love · love triangle

  12 chapters published

• My Online Alien Merfolk is Real
  

  For two years Sorcha has talked to a lonely alien merman in a late-night chat. At 2:47 one morning he types that he is standing at her dock, and he is real.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• My Stepsister Is Photographing My Wedding to Someone Else
  

  Three weeks before Ivy Lanier, 28, marries a good man, her stepsister Romy Tillery, 26, arrives to photograph the wedding. In the first session Romy tells her to look at the one thing she wants, and Ivy's eyes go to the photographer.

  femme x femme · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free