dual lead novels

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

• She Played His Perfect Girlfriend, He Couldn't Let Her Go
  

  Mara Bell is paid $15,000 a month to be the devoted girlfriend of Cain Rourke, the man the whole city fears. When his first love comes back and he ends the contract, Mara cheerfully takes her severance and leaves, and Cain starts to wonder what he lost.

  contemporary · romantic comedy · fake relationship

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Left Her Cheating Fiancé, Then Met the Mafia Boss Who Wanted Her
  

  After her fiancé's betrayal plays on a screen in front of sixty guests, 22-year-old Ariella walks out and into the path of Dominic Falcone, a 40-year-old mafia boss who wants her near. She chooses his dark, consensual world on her own terms, until the man she left turns out to have sold her.

  dark romance · dark mafia · age gap

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Raised Us on Our Dead Parents' Settlement, So We Crashed Her Gala
  

  A banquet server asks the matron who raised her three orphans where their dead parents' settlement went, into a live microphone at the matron's own gala; her two sisters, one of whom sold her out, join her to take the woman down at the state's child-advocacy award.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  40 chapters published

• He Dropped Three Women in One Night, Then We Took His Estate
  

  At his betrothal ball the Marquis ends his marriage, his mistress's lease and his ward's freedom in one speech; the three women he dropped share one stove, learn he never read what ruined them, and take his estate together.

  female lead · manhwa romance · palace intrigue

  32 chapters published

• The Wild Heir and His Icy Bride
  

  Back from two years abroad, a trust-fund brat learns he was married off in his sleep to a spotless, ice-cool CEO eight years his senior. He shows up in ripped jeans to disgust her. She writes him a score.

  contemporary · romantic comedy · age gap

  3 chapters published

• The Wild Heir and His Icy Bride
  

  Back from two years abroad, a trust-fund brat learns he was married off in his sleep to a spotless, ice-cool CEO eight years his senior. He shows up in ripped jeans to disgust her. She writes him a score.

  contemporary · romantic comedy · age gap

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• After My Best Friend and I Transmigrated Into a Book, the System Made Us Seduce Each Other's Husbands
  

  Two best friends wake up as the doomed human brides of two dragon princes. To go home with a billion dollars, each has to win the other's husband before the Blood Moon, when the book says both brides die.

  misunderstanding · female lead · royal palace

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Silence Was Not Forgiveness
  

  Nolan watches his wife pull his lover's makeup wipe from the car door, tuck it in her purse and say nothing. She is not forgiving him. She has been waiting fourteen months for him to confess something worse.

  contemporary · romance · dual lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Swimming in My Goddaughter's Stockings
  

  In diving class, his goddaughter bends over, brushes against his crotch, and her bikini string comes loose in the water while her father—his best friend—reads the newspaper twenty feet away.

  contemporary · forbidden love · age gap

  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 Best Friend's Stepmother's Niece Is Off Limits
  

  Noor Haddad, 28, caters her best friend's family reunion and corners the stepmother's niece, Lark Delacroix, 25, in the walk-in cooler at midnight. The whole family says Lark is off limits like a cousin, and Noor is not related to any of them.

  femme x femme · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Demon General Is My Ex's Little Sister
  

  Rin Tachibana walks into the enemy camp under a white flag and finds her ex's little sister pouring tea in armor. The Demon General is Kaede, the hero is coming to kill her, and neither woman has any intention of letting that happen.

  femme x femme · forbidden love · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Stepsister Who Followed Me Through the Shrine Gate
  

  Hinata is summoned through her family's shrine gate to be a kingdom's saint, and her new stepsister Mai grabs her hand and is dragged along as baggage. The saint's bath may only be attended by household, so Mai washes her back.

  femme x femme · forbidden love · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Poker King Returns
  

  A world champion hiding as a waiter in a small Reno casino drops the tray when the man he once reported for money laundering comes back to take the casino and the woman who took him in.

  dramatic · contemporary · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Stepbrother I Hate to Love
  

  A nerdy student's volatile hockey-playing stepbrother is secretly obsessed with him, and a drunken setup draws them into a coercive sexual dynamic.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

• My Loser Daddy is a Big Shot
  

  A broke night driver and single dad marries a CEO to save her company, with his seven-year-old daughter playing matchmaker, while he hides that he leads a secret group that takes down untouchable men.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• Double Life of a Cell Block King
  

  Reed Westerfield goes to prison on purpose to find the proof his stepfamily stole his company. He comes out a king of the cell block, marries a stranger's daughter and hides who he is, until the proof names his own father.

  dramatic · contemporary · marriage of convenience

  24 chapters published

• Pretty Baby
  

  An escort takes a fake engagement with a billionaire single father to find the daughter stolen from her at birth, and the girl is his child too.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

• Ace! The Golf King's Reconquest
  

  A world-ranked golfer who walked off the course the day his wife died is a groundskeeper raising their baby alone. When the champion who took his title mocks him on camera, he hits one shot that starts his way back.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

• Return of the Reaper
  

  A retired assassin who promised his dying wife he would never kill again takes the vow apart with his bare hands when a crime family steals his six-year-old daughter.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• The Rhythm of Our Feelings
  

  The golden girl of an elite ballet academy has hated me for two years. Now our parents are married, we share a bathroom, and she wants me out of her house and into her bed.

  dramatic · femme x femme · contemporary

  24 chapters published

• Crown of Hidden Scales
  

  The crown that was supposed to choose a prince flies into the hands of his betrothed, and the scales she has hidden her whole life show in front of the court. The man ordered to burn her at dawn wears the other half of the crown's answer under his gloves.

  female lead · royal palace · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• He Used My Blood Then Chose Me
  

  When the powerless eighth prince Seo Min-jun tries to use woodcutter-raised Han Seo-jun’s priestly blood to find the Eyes of God, Seo-jun agrees to guide him only on the condition that they restore the vanished temple and seal the shinigami gateway together.

  redemption arc · fantasy romance · romance

  32 chapters published

• My Online Crush Swore He Wasn't the Idol, Then His Song Sang My Secrets
  

  On opening night of our little town's summer play, the man in row F had the face of the most famous singer in the country. That night he messaged me: "It was me. I'm not him."

  contemporary · forbidden love · idol romance

  24 chapters published

• Marry the Vampire King Save the World
  

  Princess Sabrina must marry her centuries-old vampire enemy Damian to forge the final key sealing the demon lord's portal, but as they trade blood and dark magic across enemy courts, the bond they brew to save the world begins to feel more permanent than either intended.

  dark romance · royal palace · forced proximity

  2 chapters published