grumpy sunshine novels

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

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• 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

• Merciless Contract: The Syndicate's Unwanted Wife
  

  On her eighteenth birthday Gemma Albertini is traded to the Sandrelli syndicate's heir, who whispers that she is a rat he will throw back into the gutter in three years. He has no idea she was sent to the altar to die by his hand.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Replaced His Groom, Then Begged for His Mate
  

  Felix Ride, a secret omega billionaire who built Rowan's fortune, is publicly betrayed when Rowan swaps him for his own stepbrother Casper under the wedding veil. Felix sets out to ruin the men who used him, but the gentle omega he was meant to hate turns out to be his fated mate.

  fated mate · fantasy romance · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Her Fiancé Sent His Twin, She Chose the Brother She Loved
  

  At her engagement party, strategist Nadia Bell learns her fiancé has sent his identical twin to stand in for him. The twin is the man she has loved for seven years, and one reckless night at a hospital bedside leaves them secretly married.

  female lead · romantic comedy · hidden marriage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Mate Cut My Brand Off, So the Outcast Wolf Claimed Me
  

  Her fated mate cuts her brand in front of the whole valley and the pack turns its back. The one outcast nobody speaks to stands for her, and the silver mark that rises under his hand turns out to be the first real bond in sixty years.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• She Played Sweet for Her Boyfriend, He Learned Who She Really Was
  

  Everyone mistakes Nika for a gentle pushover, including the possessive mafia heir she dates. When his father orders a hit on the man she was hired to protect, the world's top assassin has to show her hand.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Cheered for His Office Crush, Then Left Her Husband Behind
  

  Vivian is so over her distant husband that she cheers when he shares a tequila shot with their glamorous coworker. Then the company demands a signed disclosure of every relationship in your reporting line, and her boss is her secret husband.

  contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Chased the Campus Heartthrob, Then His Friends Came After Her
  

  Sabrina spends 99 days winning over sharp-tongued Caleb Johnson, but when his first love returns, his plan to dump her puts two handsome rivals in her path. Sabrina came for the thrill of a conquest, and she may discover that the people she wants are not prizes to collect.

  contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Kept My $11,200 as a Gift, So a Biker's Dog Took My Side
  

  Joni gave her boyfriend $11,200 and he called it a gift. Then a tattooed biker's chocolate Lab knocked her flat on the sidewalk and refused to leave her side.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Sold Me to the Crippled War God, So Why Was He Standing in My Father's Barn on Two Good Legs
  

  At the church supper where her boyfriend announces he is marrying her stepsister, Odile Thibodeaux learns her father has sold her to the parish's feared, supposedly ruined war hero, and drives to his house alone to find a whole man who never agreed to anything.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• The Village Fell, So the Serpent God Woke and Kept Me
  

  Ellory, the worst swordsman in a hidden forest village, wakes the serpent god bound beneath it and is claimed by the furious, starving creature who mistakes him for the lover who chained him.

  forbidden love · redemption arc · male lead

  24 chapters published

• Fake Dating My Rival at the Awards
  

  A very short clip of Tang Mo's smile cracking hits forty-one million views, and two managers dare him and his coldest rival Shen Yichen into ninety days of fake dating before awards night. Terms: Tang runs the cameras, Shen runs the door. 娱乐圈 · 对家变情人 · 假戏真做 · 攻受 · 1v1 · 年上 · HE.

  contemporary · fake relationship · male lead

  24 chapters published

• My Fish Pond Has One Very Loyal Customer
  

  Lu Qing's fish pond has not had a customer in a year, until a cold-faced stranger in an expensive jacket tries to buy every fish in it, and falls asleep on the bank. He comes back every Saturday. 年上 · 种田 · 甜文 · 攻受 · 双洁 · 1v1 · HE. 受视角为主,中期有攻视角。

  contemporary · romantic comedy · male lead

  24 chapters published

• His Cat Stole My Underwear, and He Kept Every Pair
  

  For a month, Teddy's underwear has been vanishing from his balcony one pair a night. When he catches the thief, a one-eyed orange cat, and chases it into his grumpy neighbor's apartment, he finds every pair washed, folded and labeled with a date.

  contemporary · romantic comedy · male lead

  24 chapters published

• Intensive Perreo Course
  

  Yazmín signed up for a perreo class to stop feeling like a log in bed. The instructor's live demo has her on all fours in front of everyone—and her ex, the one who dumped her, walks in just in time to see it.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  12 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Big, Hard New Medicine
  

  On a company trip to the hot springs in the mountains, Dalia can no longer hide her insatiable condition, and she asks for help from the man who seems the calmest of them all. She never imagined he would end up dominating her like that.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  12 chapters published

• Snowed In With the Park Ranger Who Hates Rangers
  

  A blizzard strands retired musher Bea Lindqvist at a ranger cabin where the woman inside has a rule against guests and a stove with room for one.

  contemporary · survival · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Hockey Captain That Hates Me
  

  The prank was meant for the hockey team's worst bully, but it broke the captain's ankle, so the skater who did it has to be his assistant. He says he hates her. He keeps pulling her closer.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Breaking the Deal with My Hockey Bad Boy
  

  Melina has loved her stepbrother, the team captain, in secret for a year and writes it all into steamy hockey fan fiction. When his new girlfriend reads it aloud at a party, the captain's rival claims the story is about him and offers to be her fake boyfriend.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

• The Idol Wants One Exception to the No-Dating Rule
  

  Scandal-plagued idol Lim Ha-jun is handed a strict new manager whose first rule is no dating. Ha-jun wants exactly one exception, and it is the man making the rules.

  contemporary · forbidden love · male lead

  24 chapters published

• The Exiled Elf Prince Next Door Dies on Day Seventy
  

  Reborn as the farmer of her favorite slow-life game, Aoi finds the grumpy neighbor on Plot Two is the exiled elf prince who burns on Day Seventy. She has seventy days, one pear jam and a very sharp hoe.

  exile · female lead · rebirth

  24 chapters published

• Feed the Dragon Something New or Be Dinner
  

  A Tokyo line cook falls out of a grill fire into a dragon's mountain kitchen and is told to cook something he has never tasted by moonrise, or be dinner. She feeds him rice balls, and his hand shakes.

  female lead · forced proximity · fantasy kingdom

  24 chapters published

• The Billionaire's Match Is Three Percent
  

  Daria builds the matching model for a dating app, and when its new billionaire owner is announced as a 99% match for someone else, he asks her to run the two of them and the screen says 3%, so they date against the number.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Altarboy
  

  Thrown out on his eighteenth birthday, Kaz hides in the one place he knows by heart: the confessional of the church where he once served Mass. The caretaker who comes in at 1 a.m. to talk to the empty box has no idea anyone is listening.

  contemporary · male lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• He Was Mistaken for the Sword Saint's Heir, So His Strictest Senior Trained the Fake
  

  A lazy outer disciple is mistaken for the Sword Saint's secret heir because of a noodle tab, and the strictest senior in the sect, the only one who knows, decides to keep the secret and train him. The senior is hiding a fraud of his own.

  romantic comedy · male lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• The Rival Baker Shared My Oven, So the Whole Town Watched Us Pretend to Hate Each Other
  

  Lotte Zeman comes home to her grandmother's bakery to find the oven dead and one other oven in town: a brick Founders' Oven she must share, shift by shift, with the rival baker across the street. Then she learns the forty-year bakery feud was a show.

  contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy

  24 chapters published

• The Grumpy Neighbor Wants the Size 22 Girl Upstairs, and the Walls Are Thin
  

  Molly Hartigan is a size 22 audiobook narrator who records love scenes in a closet over the bedroom of her grumpy, impossibly hot neighbor. He has heard every word for months, and he wants every inch of her.

  contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy

  24 chapters published

• The Chief of Surgery Wrote the No-Dating Rule, and I'm Breaking It in His Supply Closet
  

  Gretchen Fairweather is a trauma fellow who has never broken a rule, and Kurt Hartmann is the Chief of Surgery who wrote the one rule that would end her career. One night in a supply closet, with a badge reader beeping outside, she breaks it anyway.

  medical · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Christmas Recipe for Romance
  

  When her uncle turns her late grandmother's free Christmas Eve feast into a $95 ticket, a small-town baker commandeers the only big kitchen in town from a grumpy chef who is selling it, and finds that the feast's missing recipes belong to his grandfather.

  contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy

  24 chapters published

• My Rival Is My Anonymous Hookup
  

  Tomoya Arisaka and Ren Kisaragi have fought over every ranking at Tsubame Beverages for six years. Then the stranger from the hookup app walks into the love hotel room wearing the company lanyard, and the only thing worse than the truth is that he wants more of it.

  contemporary · male lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published