slow burn novels

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

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• He Asked Me To Wait, I Asked For A Divorce
  

  On the second day of her marriage, a Navy wife is asked to hold down the fort for fourteen months, and says no before the captain finishes the question.

  military-base · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Died for His Lover, Then Returned to Win His Trust
  

  After dying in a church while mourning the medical student who took a bullet for him, mafia don Dante Rossi is sent back to the day they met. He gets a second chance at love, but only if he stops treating Javier as someone he can possess and learns to stand beside him instead.

  medical · romantic comedy · redemption arc

  40 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Left Me to Die. Now I'll Survive Without Him!
  

  He threw her out of the escape truck to save his mistress and her son. Now she wakes sixty days before the zombies come, with a farm, a spring and a shovel.

  survival · female lead · rebirth

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Kept Me Secret Seven Years, Then Proposed to Her
  

  For seven years the boy next door loved me in secret and never said it out loud. Then he stood up at a garden party and proposed to my best friend.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Let Them Think She Was His
  

  A stranger walks onto a Wyoming ranch with a two-year-old who has her husband's gray eyes, and Abby Renner's husband doesn't say a word. He has been letting the whole county think the girl is his, and he has a reason he won't give.

  contemporary · female lead · secret baby

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Took the Heirs' Emblems, Then Became Their King
  

  A slack-off from another world wakes as the doomed Phoenix heir and must win three rival clan heirs' emblems before his scheming cousin steals everything. His new system copies their bloodline magic through the night, and the more he saves them, the harder they fight to be his consort.

  misunderstanding · redemption arc · royal palace

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Husband Called Me His Mistress on Livestream
  

  A streaming crew storms Leigh's Chicago apartment and a stranger wearing her husband's ring slaps her on camera. When he walks in and says he has never seen her, she lets him, because everything he owns belongs to her family.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  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

• The Silence Between Us: A Vow to Return
  

  She found her husband at their anniversary restaurant with the colleague who has been slowly taking her seat beside him. She sat down on his left and refused to give it up.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Hard Version of Staying
  

  She restored her mother's seaside guesthouse room by room, and the husband who kissed her shoulder every morning. Then, the day she took a pregnancy test after four years of trying, she saw him with her best friend.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Ten Years of Public Breakups, Then He Ran After My Bus
  

  He proposed on a microphone at the Maine Lobster Festival, she said no into the same microphone, and it was their tenth breakup in ten years, all in front of the same friends. Now a wedding, a house and a bus ride stand between them and an eleventh.

  dramatic · contemporary · misunderstanding

  40 chapters published

• My Groom Walked Out, So His Brother Took His Place
  

  My groom walked out in front of two hundred guests, so his cold younger brother took the ring from his pocket and asked me instead. I said yes, and we had until Election Day.

  contemporary · female lead · marriage of convenience

  32 chapters published

• They Let Me Bleed Out for My Sister's Show
  

  Ivy Garrick lay bleeding under a collapsed shelf while her father downgraded her emergency call to keep her sister's livestream running. She took a scholarship, took her name off the family emergency list, and found out the whole clinic runs on her blood.

  contemporary · female lead · fated mate

  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

• They Took His Inheritance, He Claimed Three Alpha Mates
  

  Transmigrated into a doomed omega's body, Max has one chance to stop his stepmother and stepsister from stealing his fortune: turn the three alphas they sent to ruin him into his devoted mates. When the men learn Max was the one who saved them as children, their pursuit of Linda becomes a fierce fight to protect him instead.

  romantic comedy · inheritance war · palace intrigue

  40 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Best Friend Redeemed My Fiancé, So I Gave Her the Wedding
  

  Every time Bridget got jealous, her fiancé gave her best friend a day with him. When the friend asks to be the bride for a day, Bridget hands over the dress and boards a plane.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  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

• You Are Not Rejecting Me
  

  When her twin rejects her mate, Nia says she'll do the same with hers, the Alpha's younger brother. He walks in on the packed bags and says she's not rejecting him.

  contemporary · female lead · small-town

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Hockey Captain's Secret Obsession Wasn't Me?!
  

  Lila Ferris has fed the cold hockey captain sports drinks for a year, and the day she starts hearing his thoughts, they are all about a girl who isn't her. At least that is what she believes.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Gave Me Fifty Dollars to Live, I Left Him with Nothing
  

  Every Sunday her rich husband makes her draw her week of money from a silver bowl, and today he deeds his stepdaughter a seaside villa. Roz has seven days and one phone call.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Saved the Heir, Then Won His Heart
  

  After his alpha lover frames him and helps imprison a billionaire, a betrayed omega lawyer rescues the innocent heir and sets out to reclaim his family's fortune. Their fight for justice awakens a fated bond neither of them expected, but trust is harder to win than a court case.

  contemporary · inheritance war · fated mate

  56 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

• I Secretly Read Every Love Letter He Wrote Me, Then He Stopped Writing Them
  

  For three years Miles Ferris slid a letter into Clara Mercer's campus mailbox, and for three years she read every one in secret and let the whole college believe she hated him. Then he wrote her one last line, and she has sixteen days before he leaves the country.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• On Halloween My Husband Bet I'd Never Leave Him So I Stopped Waiting
  

  At the Halloween party, her husband smashes a pie in her face to win an old bet that she would never leave him. So she walks out, and her family's money walks out with her.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

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• My Husband Used My Fortune to Support His Mistress
  

  On her sixth anniversary Hannah sits at the head of the table in her own hotel and lets her husband lecture her about family, while the lobby clock ticks toward the minute the bank freezes every account he has been draining.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• On Halloween, My Husband Chose Her Family Over Ours
  

  At her own Halloween party, seven months pregnant in a red superhero suit, she watches her husband walk in with her friend on his arm and announce his real family. She throws him out in front of every guest.

  contemporary · female lead · romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Everyone Used Me for Free, So the Billionaire Taught Me to Send the Bill
  

  Jo Pennock grew up an orphan who was taught that being fed was a debt, so she gives away her cakes, her recipes and her savings. When her best friend and boyfriend thank her for the money from a stage, the hotel owner in the white suit asks her to say the number again.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  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

• Six Rooms at the Lake, But None for My Parents
  

  Jenna booked a six-bedroom lake house for the Fourth of July so her parents could finally have a holiday. She arrived to eighteen of her husband's relatives in the yard and every room taken.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free