contemporary novels

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

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• The Anniversary Dinner He Gave to Her
  

  On their tenth anniversary, Lydia finds out her husband has given her dinner, her ring and her inheritance to his brother's widow, and she walks out in front of the whole restaurant.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

• Day Seven I Signed It
  

  His wife bet five thousand dollars he would crawl back in three days and gave another man his key. He gave himself seven.

  contemporary · male lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Wanted by My Three Bosses
  

  After ninety minutes in a marble lobby, Daphne Birchall is about to walk out of her dream job interview when the three founders step off the elevator and all three want her to stay.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Pregnant for His Lover's Cure, I Sent Him a Jar and Divorce Papers
  

  Camille learns her billionaire husband got her pregnant so the baby's cord blood could cure his lover, her adopted sister. At his birthday party she sends him a dark glass jar and her signed divorce papers, then walks out thirty weeks along.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Asked Me To Wait, I Asked For A Divorce
  

  On the second day of her marriage, a Navy wife is asked to hold down the fort for fourteen months, and says no before the captain finishes the question.

  military-base · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Twin Was Meant to Die at Sixteen, So They Spent Me
  

  The pack threw a farewell supper for Brynn's dying twin and told Brynn to skip her own sixteenth birthday. She took off the silver chain her father made her swear never to remove, and her twin began to fail.

  contemporary · female lead · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Chose Her, So I Faked My Death
  

  Imogen finds a second wedding ring, a signed blame contract and a secret safe in her husband's study on their fifth anniversary. She has three days to die, and a baby to protect.

  dramatic · bodyguard-romance · contemporary

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Don's Pregnant Wife Ran to His Enemy
  

  Elena signs her divorce papers while her husband's first love sleeps in his shirt in their bed, then runs for New York carrying the Don's heir. The only man waiting for her on the platform is his worst enemy.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Disowning My Mafia Family After They Chose A Liar
  

  Nerina Brancato asks questions until the gap closes, and the mafia family that took her back keeps choosing the sister who lies. She has her name struck from their ledger and walks out, and the man waiting across the city already knows why they wanted her.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Put Our Love on Pause, Then Married Her Behind My Back
  

  Every time they fought, her boyfriend said "we're on a break" and went out with his coworker. This time he married her, and the florist who delivered the congratulations lilies learns she may be the only legal wife in the room.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Husband, My Sister: A Secret Betrayal
  

  At her daughter's third birthday party, Laura's seven-year-old reads a heart-emoji text from her own sister on her husband's phone, and a tablet shows three years of secret payments. She walks out with both kids in front of thirty guests and finds that the secret is not the one she thinks.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Filmed My Husband Cheating, So I Married the Brother He Fears
  

  Imogen plays the video of her husband and her best friend in her own bed to forty dinner guests, and walks out with a better offer from his dangerous half-brother. One year as his wife, his name, his protection and a front seat to her husband's ruin.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Staged My Funeral, Now His Wolf Howls at My Door
  

  For three years the most powerful Alpha on the West Coast loved Dr. Hazel Brennan loudly in public, until the woman he really wanted came home and Hazel was ordered to die on stage at the Luna ceremony. She drinks the poison, lets them bury an empty grave, and starts over, until his wolf collapses on her porch.

  medical · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Made Me Hunt For My Own Wedding
  

  Three nights before her mating ceremony, Sabine hears the secret pack link her mate, her brothers and her adopted sister have kept from her. They have moved the moon site so she will hunt for it and miss her own wedding.

  contemporary · female lead · fated mate

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 39 Weeks Pregnant, My Husband Refused to Make Me 1 Bowl of Soup but Made Her 101 Breakfasts
  

  At thirty-nine weeks pregnant, Maggie asks her husband for one bowl of soup and he says no. On the way to her last checkup, a text shows he has made another woman 101 breakfasts, so she walks into the school breakfast where he plays father to someone else's boy.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

• Every Song He Stole Was Mine
  

  Her husband divorced her at his album release party while his mistress sang her unreleased song in her dress. Joanna walked on stage and sang the rest of it herself.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Groom Chose His Mistress, Not Knowing I Was the CEO
  

  On her wedding night, Iris watched her groom walk his childhood friend to the guest room. By Monday afternoon, he would learn she was the CEO who signs his family's two hundred million dollars.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Vows of Treachery: Claimed by His Ruthless Brother
  

  For two years her husband played the hero who carried her out of a fire. Then she hears him laugh about it, exposes him in front of four hundred guests, and his ruthless older brother is waiting at the door.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Traded Me for My Sister Twice, But I Planned the Second Time
  

  She died once in a warehouse while two men rushed to save her sister. Reborn, she walks out on both of them and sets the trap herself.

  contemporary · female lead · rebirth

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Troublemakers Mess With the Wrong Girls
  

  When her grandmother hands the favorite uncle a house bought with her father's retirement, Jo and her mother, the two women nobody in the family dares cross, get the money back in public, with the help of the contractor the uncle never paid.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Chose the Wrong Daughter
  

  The crime family that lost Roz Rainey as a child finally comes to take her home. She is already running the docks, and she walks into their mansion with a briefcase and a plan.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Took Jude's Money, Ken Won His Heart
  

  After his boyfriend admits he was dating him for money, billionaire heir Jude Parker finds a steady ally in scholarship student Ken Bronze, who helps him rebuild his confidence. When a cruel misunderstanding drives Ken away, Jude must prove their love is worth more than his family's fortune.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · romantic comedy

  40 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Parents Begged for My Execution on Live TV
  

  Everyone Nina loves turns on her the moment she swallows a handmade ravioli, and she cannot see what they see. By the time her own parents beg for her execution on live TV, she has found out what she has been eating for them.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Said to Wait, But Our Baby Couldn't
  

  Willa was bleeding and her baby had stopped moving, and her husband was waiting for a birth coach in a group chat to tell him it was fine. She walked out on him, and she is going to make the coach answer in front of everyone she sells to.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Gave My Wedding to My Brother, Now They Need Me
  

  Miles walks into his own engagement party and finds his brother's name on the banner, his fiancee in a new ring and an $18,000 bill with his name on it. He takes the job overseas he once refused, and learns his family had been saving him for something worse.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• While I'm Unconscious, He's Still Saving His Mistress
  

  Carrie is left a nameless Jane Doe in an ICU for three days after a hit-and-run while her husband rides trails with his coworker. When she wakes and learns the hospital called him on the first night, she stops waiting for him to choose her.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free