friends to lovers novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “friends to lovers”. 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• He Slept With My Roommate, So I Moved In With the Hockey Captain
  

  Maggie carries a birthday cake up the stairs to confess her love and finds her best friend in bed with her roommate. The next morning the hockey captain offers her a room, and he has a reason he is not telling.

  contemporary · female lead · fake relationship

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Fired His Secret Heir, Then Begged for His Love
  

  Omega Su Ye secretly used his family's power to build his alpha husband's company, and is fired and handed divorce papers at the annual meeting. At home he finds calm legal adviser Lu Chen, whose marriage contract has four terms, one unread last page, and a love neither man planned.

  romantic comedy · contract marriage · romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Married Him for Love, Then His Assistant Became His Husband in Probation
  

  Billionaire heir Su Yu hid his name to be loved for himself, and his husband Shu Fan fired and dumped him in front of the whole company. Back at the family firm, his composed assistant Lu Chen agrees to marry him on probation, on one condition: Su Yu must win the annual gala award.

  romantic comedy · workplace romance · business empire

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Worst Friend Then You Can All Lose My Number
  

  I planned every trip, drove every mile and paid for every room, and my friends still voted me the worst friend of the group. So I cancelled the next trip in front of them and left.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Husband Cheated With My Best Friend, So I Took Them Both
  

  A novelist comes home early and hears her husband and her best friend plan how to tell her about their affair. Then they both ask her to stay with the two of them.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Their Father Called Me Family, So His Four Sons Made Me Theirs
  

  When the godfather who raised her announces she will marry a stranger from Chicago, Gemma Prestia answers in front of the whole table: she will take his four sons instead, and they follow her out into the August heat.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  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

• Love Is Blind, I'm Not
  

  For three years Margot nursed the man she secretly loved through blindness, and the night he proposed to her best friend he thanked the wrong woman in front of sixty people. This time Margot is the one who sees clearly.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Jealousy Game
  

  Every time I got jealous, my best friend won a day with my fiance, and my two oldest friends kept score. At dinner I finally took off the ring, and the game turned on the people who built it.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Claimed Hard by My Best Friend
  

  She was humiliated by the campus playboy while her best friend watched, and he vanished. Four years later he comes back covered in tattoos, runs a casino, and claims her in front of everyone.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Hockey Roommate's Filthy Desires
  

  Roxanne spent five years waiting for her best friend to see her. The night his new girlfriend outs her crush through the bedroom wall, she packs her bags and moves in with the hockey captain everyone calls the filthiest man on campus.

  contemporary · female lead · love triangle

  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

• Her Brothers Scented Me at the Gate, Now All Three Claim Me
  

  Lowen walks through her best friend's gate on Linnea's birthday and all three of Linnea's brothers scent her, say "Mine," and watch her faint. Pack law lets one of them keep her, and the Elder who made that law has been waiting for her for twenty years.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Matching Game. Everyone Knew The Answer. Except Me
  

  Five friends have one rule: everything is guessed, never said. On her boyfriend's birthday, Vicki is the only one at the table who guesses wrong, and the answer is her best friend.

  contemporary · female lead · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• His Baby Boy
  

  Perrin, a shy café barista with a soft side nobody knows, has been the friend of a billionaire CEO for fourteen months. Then Malcolm lifts his chin and calls him baby boy, and the man who looks after everyone turns out to be the one who cannot sleep without him.

  contemporary · male lead · age gap

  24 chapters published

• He Took My Prison Sentence, So Now My Secretary Is Mine
  

  A Houston shipping billionaire finds the best friend he blames for his brother's crash working as his new secretary, and pins him against the desk. Neither knows that the man who went to prison was never the driver.

  dramatic · contemporary · wrongful imprisonment

  24 chapters published

• My Roommate Slept Down the Hall, So the Billionaire Made Me Hush
  

  Teddy, a broke sophomore, lets a billionaire pay his tuition, and the billionaire collects at 2 a.m. against the kitchen island while Teddy's roommate sleeps ten feet away. His best friend and first love is coming back around, and what he has been hiding is the reason Teddy is in that kitchen at all.

  contemporary · love triangle · male lead

  24 chapters published

• 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

• They Canceled My Ticket, I Canceled Them
  

  For ten years Nora guessed what her four best friends wanted and paid for it. When they cancel her seat on the Labor Day trip, she cancels the house, the flights and every bill in her name.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Playboy Doctor Swore Off Love, Then His Best Friend Claimed Him
  

  New York's billionaire surgeon has sworn never to fall in love, but on his thirtieth birthday his best friend of ten years pins him to the study wall and stops waiting. In the morning Damon calls it a mistake; Elias gives him thirty nights to prove it.

  contemporary · male lead · dark

  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

• We Called It Therapy After Dark
  

  Her husband turns her sleepless nights into a hit late-night podcast, then dumps her on stage in front of 600 people. The only man who ever heard those nights first is the doctor who sits with her on the ambulance dock at 3 a.m.

  medical · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Last Wish
  

  The night I swallowed the pills, my husband promised to make every wish I wrote come true. A thousand days later, I learn who really did.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• This Time, I Won't Be His Dead Weight
  

  After the last exam, eighteen-year-old Abigail reads her childhood best friend's anonymous reply about the four years he lost because of 'that dead weight', decides she is the weight, and walks away. She has the wrong person.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Was Already Gone
  

  His best friend and the girl he has loved all his life announce they are together in front of forty people and a live audience, so Elliott walks out and starts singing the songs he wrote, in his own name.

  contemporary · love triangle · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free