forced proximity novels

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

• 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 to Win Her, Two Weeks to Leave Her
  

  Nolan Ridley spent ten years earning his place beside the director's daughter. Two weeks before the wedding he files for a transfer across the country, and she follows him.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Wards Don't Lie, and Neither Do We
  

  At a magic college whose wards chose them to stand watch together, an aristocrat who hides everything teases the boy next to her, and her wand lights up the truth in front of the whole hall.

  female lead · male lead · forced proximity

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Stranger Became My Stepbrother, Then Our Parents Divorced
  

  I left a stranger's bed in a blizzard before I learned his name, and ten weeks later he walked down my new stepfather's staircase as my stepbrother. We kept the rule until our parents' marriage fell apart, and then he was the one who couldn't.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

• I'm Still In Love With the Groom
  

  Annie flies to Colorado to be her best friend's maid of honor and finds the groom is the fiance who vanished by text six years ago, under a new name.

  contemporary · female lead · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Was Sent to Tame the Alphas, Then Made Them His
  

  Reborn in a werewolf novel as the omega villain his scheming stepsister is meant to ruin, Lucas gains a power that turns every night's pain onto the alpha. Three rival pack leaders want to claim him, but the harder they try to possess him, the more they kneel.

  forbidden love · royal palace · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Moved Into Their Mansion, He Chose All Three Brothers
  

  When Noah's mother marries a billionaire, Noah leaves the family bakery for a mansion and a bedroom shared with his three new stepbrothers, the three men he has secretly wanted for years. When they admit they want him too, he sets his own terms: he leads, they switch, and no one decides for him.

  dramatic · forbidden love · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Apocalypse: I Hear My Genius Husband's Sins
  

  With the dead at the stairwell door, the genius who will save humanity sends his wife down to hold it. She hears every lie he tells, and now she hears what he is hiding.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Left Him by Text, and He Kept Paying for My Father's Care
  

  Hannah Doyle ended it with Eli Garvey by text so his father would pay for her sick father's care. Two years later he is standing in the courtyard of the memory home, and her father asks him whether he has told her yet.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Gave My Room to Her, So I Took My Life Back
  

  Brooke paid for the housewarming and owns half the house, but her fiancé sent her to the wrong address on purpose so he could give her bedroom to his childhood friend on camera. She turns the car around, and the family that never needed to ask learns what it costs to guess wrong.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Wolf Who Saved Me Makes Other Alphas Submit. I'm Human.
  

  A human caseworker owes her life to the one Alpha whose name makes every other wolf go silent, and she's about to learn why they obey.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  48 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• "Call her Aunt." That was how my ex-fiancé found out I married his uncle.
  

  Two days before her wedding, Dessa sees her maid of honor's message pop up in front of ninety guests. She drops her ring in a champagne glass, spends the night with a stranger, and finds out he is the groom's uncle.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• One Kiss, the Billionaire's Bride
  

  A baker kisses a stranger in a hotel lounge to escape a suitor who wants a son and her resignation. The stranger owns the hotel and needs a wife in 26 days.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Registry Said I Was Single, So They Assigned Me My Husband's Boss
  

  Eleven months into her marriage, Willa gets a call from the marriage registry: she is single, and the government has found her a match. Her husband never filed the certificate, and the man assigned to her is the brother of the woman he is about to marry.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Hid His Changing, Then His Doctor Became His Mate
  

  When a dangerous condition makes Cavan Felix switch between alpha and omega without warning, the heir to Goldridge's throne must trust Fenny Fox, the beta doctor who once suffered the same disorder. Their arranged contract marriage brings them close enough to uncover the sabotage behind Cavan's worsening symptoms, but saving his crown means telling the pack the truth about who he is.

  medical · fake relationship · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Joined Midnight Rockers, Then Their Vampire Lord Claimed Him
  

  Desperate to pay his debts, Lucas takes a well-paid job managing his favorite band and moves into their dorm, only to learn its three charming members are exiled vampires. When they ask him to spend the night with them, his answer pulls him into their lives and the dangerous attention of the lord who cast them out.

  dramatic · contemporary · exile

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Trapped in You by Morrison Lee: Shadows of Our Love
  

  Sabine Ardrey hid her Alpha blood for three years to be loved as an Omega, and watched her mate hang her mother's ruby on another woman at a coronation. When a stranger Alpha arrives at dawn with her dead parents' caskets, he asks for her by a name only the Council knew.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Gave Me a Monthly Allowance, So I Took Back My Building
  

  Caterina Bellandi owns eleven wineries, and the cousin she trusted for twelve years just handed her a $3,000 envelope in front of the buyers. She owns the building they work in too.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Man Who Can't Let Go
  

  Three years after she left, Virginia walks into a dark VIP room and her husband kisses her like he never stopped, in front of the girlfriend his mother picked for him. She puts divorce papers on the birthday cake and tells him to sign.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Kitchen Renovation Crew Stayed Three Weeks Longer Than the Quote
  

  Her kitchen was supposed to be finished on April 3. The three men on her crew each found a reason to stay, and none of them knew the others had too.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• My Stepbrother Came Home for the Anniversary, and I Didn't Know Him
  

  Kaisa Mikkola hasn't seen her stepbrother in five years, since the night she called him a thief and he left, and when he walks into their parents' kitchen grown and furious they start the kind of fight that only ends in bed, until she learns who really took the money.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published · Watch the drama

• The Super Fixed My Sink, Then Everything I Hadn't Said Was Broken
  

  A 38-year-old woman who never asks for anything meets the 24-year-old super who fixes her sink and tells her exactly what to do. The sink never stays fixed, and the whole building knows why.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• The New Neighbor Mowed My Lawn the Week My Divorce Went Through
  

  The morning her divorce becomes final, the 23-year-old next door mows her lawn without a word and will not take a dollar. By nightfall she has left her bedroom curtains open on purpose.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Ex Sold Me for His Debts, Then My Brother's Enemy Claimed Me
  

  Willa's boyfriend drugs her with silver dust at the Midsummer fair and sells her to clear his gambling debts, on her own brother's land. The buyer who walks into the cellar is the one Alpha her brother has forbidden her to meet, and the bond snaps the moment he touches her.

  dramatic · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The World Never Ended
  

  Five years after her family and husband died in the apocalypse, Cora swallows the poison she has hidden. Then they walk in alive, and the apocalypse was a set.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Stepmother Sold the Farm, So I Married the Man Who Left
  

  Solveig's stepmother has sold the family farm to a sand company, so in front of the whole church Solveig names her late brother's best friend, home after six years, as her fiance, and he says yes.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

• The Aurora Borealis Keeps Its Lament
  

  Alba spent eight years chasing a genius who never looked at her, until a live TV host found her name inside a heart on his school shirt. Two weeks before the wedding she signs up for the far northern station, and he is already on the list.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Family Sent Me to the Lycan King to Die, So I Walked In Alive
  

  No she-wolf sent to the Lycan King has ever been heard from again. Saskia signs her own name in the ledger, her family is glad to be rid of her, and she walks into his keep alive with a knife in her boot.

  dramatic · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Called Me a Fraud, So I Walked Into the Don's House
  

  Branded a fraud on stage by the fiancé who stole her cure, a disgraced hematologist walks into a mafia boss's house to save the one man whose blood she has been reading for weeks.

  medical · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free