male lead novels

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

• My Wife Hid Me at Work, Now I Own Her Company
  

  For six years Russell Kemper was his boss's secret husband and her favorite person to blame. When she spends $150,000 on another man's party and his mother dies waiting for the same money, he walks out, and learns who really owns the company.

  dramatic · contemporary · inheritance war

  24 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

• 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

• She Left Me in Traction, Then the Will Made Me Her Boss
  

  My fiancée walked into my hospital room and told me she was going back to my adopted brother, her ex. I walked out on one good leg, and three days later the family's sealed will made me the owner of everything they thought I was only paid to clerk.

  medical · contemporary · male lead

  24 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

• I Slept With My Enemy, Now He Won't Let Me Go
  

  Neil Ashworth has fought Jude Halvorsen in public since they were eight. Locked in a boathouse office by his grandmother, he has to tell his worst secret: three months ago he slept with Jude, and he is carrying the baby.

  contemporary · male lead · secret baby

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Brother Called From the Ocean Floor, So I Hung Up
  

  The only man alive who can rescue a sub from 35,000 feet gets his younger brother's call for help in front of the whole Institute, and hangs up. He has heard this call before, and it killed him.

  contemporary · thriller · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Five Years a Fool, A Lifetime Apart
  

  Caleb Rutledge forgave his cheating wife once and spent five years as a fool for it. At her mother's birthday dinner he learns she has hidden a son with her lover the whole time.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Left Me at the Canyon, So I Came Back for the Wedding
  

  Caleb's fiancee drives away from a canyon park while he is taking pictures, and his best friend posts the proof online. A park ranger finds him in the dark, and the people who left him learn he is alive.

  contemporary · male lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• You Chose Another, Now Forget Me
  

  Rodrigo gave up his career, his name on a studio door and even his fatherhood for the surgeon he spent three years winning. On their fifth anniversary he watches her leave the table for another man and tells his lawyer to draft the divorce.

  contemporary · male lead · romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Stole My Fiancée, So I Took His Wife and His Company
  

  An hour after they pick up their marriage license, Miles's fiancée smiles and tells him she has been cheating all year. His best friend is the man in the café lot, and the best friend's quiet wife owns more of the firm than he does.

  contemporary · male lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• My Wife's Last Call I Never Answered
  

  The night his wife lost their baby alone on an operating table, an Austin architect declined her call five times from a concert in Vienna. A month later he learns what he missed, and that the woman he flew for answered the last one on purpose.

  medical · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Perfect Husband Act: Now My Wife's Sorry
  

  When Ethan fails the mission that brought him into his marriage, the system gives him three days to say goodbye. For the first time he plays the perfect husband, and his cold wife starts to wonder why.

  contemporary · male lead · romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Drone Who Claimed the Marshal
  

  Sold off live to the Ore Works as an unclaimed drone, a man who died once already stands up in front of forty thousand people and claims the empire's coldest Marshal as his husband.

  sci-fi · marriage of convenience · male lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Contract Over: You're Free to Go
  

  On their third anniversary his contract wife called him no one worth mentioning, so the tattooed father ended the deal in front of her whole world and took his son home.

  contemporary · male lead · contract marriage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Called My Death a Tantrum, So I Stayed Dead
  

  Ewan and his golden brother Pierce died in the same car crash, and a voice offered both a second life if they won back their family. Pierce took every drop of the family's love, and Ewan died unseen in his own bedroom while his girlfriend married his brother.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Called My Death a Tantrum, So I Stayed Dead
  

  Ewan and his golden brother Pierce died in the same car crash, and a voice offered both a second life if they won back their family. Pierce took every drop of the family's love, and Ewan died unseen in his own bedroom while his girlfriend married his brother.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  1 chapters published

• She Begged for Me Back After I Left
  

  Nolan gave away his entire affection score to save the sisters' favorite brother, and walked out alive on one percent. Now the only thing keeping him from being erased is how much the sisters really miss him.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Played Daughter-in-Law on a Pig Farm, So I Took Her Hospital
  

  Nolan's wife, the hospital director, skips his parents' holiday to play doctor and daughter-in-law on her assistant's pig farm. He doesn't fight. He drives there, and takes back everything she was only ever lent.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Wrote Their Love Story, So I Wrote Myself Out
  

  For three years Jasper has filmed and scripted the internet's favorite couple: his girlfriend and his best friend. When she hands him a ring that fits his friend's finger, he deletes himself from their channel and flies to Scotland, leaving them a final script they have never read.

  contemporary · fake relationship · love triangle

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• A Love Lost to the Years
  

  He crept out of bed to surprise his wife and found another man on his knees with his head in her lap. Kenneth walked out in his bare feet, and the secret she kept for seven years walked out after him.

  contemporary · male lead · revenge

  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

• They Ignored Me on My Birthday, So I Cancelled Them
  

  On his birthday, Miles is left in the second row of a log flume while his girlfriend and her friends take the front and shield themselves from the splash. He walks out, cancels everything he pays for, and takes a ride from a woman who has been filming them all day.

  contemporary · fake relationship · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• She Trusted a Fake Lie Detector, So I Left Her the Truth
  

  His wife's adopted brother calls himself a human lie detector, and she believes him over her own husband even as their son lies dying. By the time she learns the truth, Flynn has signed the papers and buried what she lost.

  contemporary · male lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Saved From Suicide, Sold Into a Lie
  

  The woman who pulled him back from the edge five years ago kept a secret in her drawer: his dead wife is alive, married to his brother, and raising a son.

  contemporary · male lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• I Was Her Servant for Five Years, Now She Begs Me to Stay
  

  Nolan Tierney spent five years as a servant in the Ashworth house so the fiancee who forgot him might remember. When she makes him kneel at her engagement party, he walks out, and she says he'll be back by Friday.

  amnesia · contemporary · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Girlfriend Slept With My Best Friend First
  

  At her going-away dinner his girlfriend announces, with a smile, that her first time was with his best friend, and a voice message sent to the wrong person says the game isn't over.

  contemporary · forbidden love · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Three's a Crowd: Quitting My Couple Channel
  

  For three years he wrote every loving line for his girlfriend and his best friend to say on camera. On the night their channel hits seventy million, he deletes himself from it and flies to Iceland.

  contemporary · love triangle · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Lover on Loop: Her Cruel Revenge Game
  

  Every ninety-one days Greer wakes up hating him again, and every time she breaks his painting hand. This is the last loop, and he has ninety-one days to find out why.

  amnesia · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free