childhood friends novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “childhood friends”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Diary That Held the Votes Against Me
  

  In front of her whole culinary class, the boy next door cuts off the bangs she's hidden behind since her mother died, and the class steward reads out fourteen votes against her.

  contemporary · female lead · childhood friends

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Told Me to Stay Away, So I Left and He Followed
  

  At the senior photo Hazel Dunning hears her childhood friend tell her to stay away from him. She accepts a school across the country, and the voice she trusted turns out to be a recording her best friend played on purpose.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Everyone Had a Key but Me
  

  For three years the Don gave her his bed and never a key. The night she finds his childhood friend letting herself in with her own, Claire walks out and takes a job across an ocean.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Ninety-Nine Wishes, One Broken Marriage
  

  Jo promised her dying friend ninety-nine wishes. By the ninetieth, her surgeon husband has packed his closet and left her the papers.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Reborn to Leave Her Behind
  

  In his first life Alec told on the girl next door and she poisoned his milk ten years later. Reborn on application day, he finally looks away. Then she starts to remember too.

  contemporary · redemption arc · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Dumped My Groom and Married My Childhood Crush in 30 Minutes
  

  Thirty minutes before her wedding, Annalise learns the ceremony is a bet her fiancé planned with his friends. She calls the one man who never made her a joke, and marries him in front of the whole town.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Borrowed My Surgery Fund To Leave Me Behind
  

  Four people she grew up with borrowed the money Mara Ostrow saved for her heart surgery and left for Lisbon. Now she has two weeks to get it back, and a stranger is at her door who thinks she is already dead.

  medical · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Skipped Thanksgiving Because of My Family's Favoritism
  

  Elliot's four best friends tricked him into switching colleges so they could keep their fragile new favorite close. He leaves for a sealed storm-research center a thousand miles away, and the one dinner they all swore never to miss is the one he skips.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• No Seat for Me at This Table
  

  Five plates, four sets of cutlery, and none for her: Gianna's Sunday-dinner pact held for everyone but her. So she takes her mother's table and leaves them with an empty kitchen.

  contemporary · female lead · childhood friends

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Childhood Friend Fired Me for His Girlfriend. I Took My Millions With Me!
  

  Jessamine built the software that runs her best friend's company, and every year he grinned and gave her three paid days off. The Monday his new girlfriend gets her job, he fires her in front of the whole floor, and Jessamine walks out holding eleven percent of a company that just got a forty-eight million dollar offer.

  contemporary · female lead · childhood friends

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Is CEO/Actor, She Is Actress
  

  Tang Wenxin became an actress only to stand opposite Lu Haoran, the CEO and star she has loved since childhood. Now she is the comatose brother's wife, and she goes to him with a price: the lead role for one night.

  dramatic · contemporary · misunderstanding

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Graduation Trap
  

  On their fifth anniversary she overhears her husband promise his first love he will keep his wife trapped in her marriage for life. She drops her ring into a champagne glass and walks out, straight into the one man everyone says she helped destroy.

  contemporary · female lead · childhood friends

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Goodbye to the Love I Lost Eight Years Ago
  

  Eight years ago she pushed away the boy she loved to save his future and hid her cancer. Now he is home with a pregnant fiancée, and the mother who begged her to let him go wants her gone again.

  medical · contemporary · misunderstanding

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• After My Four Childhood Friends Abandoned Me, I Inherited a Mafia Empire
  

  At her grandfather's grave, the four friends she grew up with hand back their pins and walk away from the girl everyone calls slow. An hour later the lawyer tells her the whole Lucchesi crime family is hers.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Never Wanted a Female Gamma, So I Built the Pack That Beat Theirs
  

  Zosia Dzurenda was trained since six to dig her pack's graves and carry its dead, until the two friends she grew up with cut her out in front of the whole hall. She walked out with her father's shovel, and a year later her own pack of castoffs is the one to beat.

  contemporary · female lead · childhood friends

  24 chapters published

• I Left Long Before You Looked
  

  Everyone in Pell Harbor calls Wyatt Pruitt slow, and the girl who promised to always wait for him laughs along. The night she breaks her last promise, he blocks her and boards a train 2,000 miles west.

  contemporary · male lead · childhood friends

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Sixty Days Left, So He Asked the Deacon's Son for Every One
  

  Cooper, a mechanic with sixty days to live, walks into the office of the rich pecan heir he has fought with for years and asks for every one of them. Jonas says yes in front of everyone, and the secret he keeps could save Cooper or cost him the only thing he asked for.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · love triangle

  24 chapters published

• The Wolf Prince Hid His Mate, So the Lords Wanted His Crown
  

  The Crown Prince of the wolves has hidden for two years that his fated mate is the commoner bodyguard who now shares his room. The lords who killed that bodyguard's father are about to find the proof.

  bodyguard-romance · forbidden love · male lead

  24 chapters published

• My Straight Best Friend Thinks It's Bro Stuff
  

  Tang Zhiyuan wakes with a fever in his best friend's bed for the third time this term and thanks him for being such a good bro, while the whole corridor bets on which semester one of them cracks. He thinks the pool is about his GPA. 竹马 · 直男 · 年下 · 攻受 · 双洁 · 1v1 · HE · 受视角为主，攻视角四章.

  contemporary · romantic comedy · male lead

  24 chapters published