Free Forbidden Love Novels — read online
The wrong person is always the right story. These serials are built on lines that shouldn’t be crossed — the brother’s best friend, the rival house, the man she’s promised to hate — and the ache of wanting someone the world has ruled off-limits. Add a triangle where every choice costs something, and you get chapters that end with your heart in your throat.
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My Stepfather and His Friends
Tessa hears her stepfather and his three oldest friends talking about her through the thin den wall. She walks in, takes their whiskey and tells them to say it to her face.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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Used While I Pretended to Sleep
Roxy stops swallowing her sleeping tablet, and the night her stepfather and his three oldest friends come into her room, she keeps her eyes shut.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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Every Man Who Loved Me Left Hating Me, Only My Father Knows Why
Five men asked to marry Lucia Pesaro. Each went into her father's basement smiling and came out looking at her like she was rotting. Now she is going down there herself.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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After Being Accused as a Mistress, I Married My Ex's Uncle
Cora Ellwood was slapped, stripped of every gift and branded his mistress in front of two hundred guests, and her boyfriend swore he had never seen her. The man who watched it all from the doors offers her a wedding ring, and a seat where her ex will have to call her Aunt.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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They Called Me Barren. They Picked the Wrong Wife
On Christmas Eve her mother-in-law toasts her husband's ex-girlfriend's baby at Maggie's own table. For five years the Rowans called Maggie barren and she kept her husband's secret. Tonight she stops.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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A Secret in Her Father's House, A Pregnancy Neither Can Hide
When Alana, 26, goes home to her father Henrik, their hidden attraction becomes an affair neither will end. A pregnancy makes the secret impossible to keep, and Alana must decide what she wants for herself.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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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
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Taken in My Sleep by My Stepfather David and His Friends
Three days before her wedding, Zelda wakes in a snowed-in cabin with her ring in a cereal bowl and her stepfather David and his three oldest friends at the table. They took her in her sleep. She set the terms, and she has until Friday to decide who she walks out with.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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A Paper Plate at My Own Table
At Thanksgiving her mother-in-law hands her a paper plate and calls her the help, while her husband laughs. She owns the house, the china and the company that pays for all of it, and by Monday she starts cancelling.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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He Calls It Love, She Sees It as Home
After years kept close on her stepfather's remote Montana ranch, twenty-two-year-old Iris asks Jack the one question nobody ever answered, and he says he will teach her himself. He calls it protecting her. She calls it home, until she opens the safe he never let her near.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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Dirty Dreams
Kenna hears her stepbrother and his three friends describe what they would do to her through the wall. Hours later they sneak into her room, sure she is asleep, and she keeps her eyes shut.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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My Dad's Best Friend Moved Into My Spare Room After His Divorce, and the Promise He Made My Father Lasted Four Days
Lori's father asks his newly divorced best friend to bunk in her spare room and promise never to touch her, and the promise lasts four days.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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My Don Husband Wants Two Wives
My husband the Don announced his second wedding over the Sunday lamb, in front of twenty capos. I put the dish down, walked out, and found his bride on my doorstep at midnight.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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I Faked Sleep for My Stepbrother's Friends, but Nobody Was Fooled
Callie lies in her childhood bed pretending to sleep while her stepbrother and his three friends spread her legs and touch her in the dark. She thinks she is getting away with it. Every one of them knew she was awake.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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The Wrong Twin at the Wedding
My groom sent his identical twin to marry me. I had loved the twin since high school, so I let him.
contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy
24 chapters published
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Claiming The Spare Twin
On the night the pack names her golden twin the future Luna, the Alpha looks past his chosen queen and up at the window of the twin everyone calls defective.
forbidden love · female lead · fated mate
24 chapters published
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Winter in London Without You
Verity loses her baby in a taxi and her husband hangs up on her, so she walks out into a London winter with twelve pounds. Then she finds out who built the husband she thought she knew.
contemporary · female lead · redemption arc
24 chapters published
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They Threw a Baby Shower for His Mistress in My House
Claire comes home a day early on her anniversary and finds forty guests, pink balloons and her husband's pregnant mistress wearing her dead mother's necklace in her own foyer. She takes the necklace back and throws everyone out, and then the police tell her the house is no longer hers.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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She Discovers Their Secret, She Chooses Their World
Taken in as a child by mafia don Sergio Giordano, Élise Johnson thought she knew her place in his house. Then she learns he and his second, Marco Volkov, share women, and the pull she feels for both men has to be either fled or followed.
forbidden love · female lead · dark romance
24 chapters published
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Body Checked by My Straight Captain
Everyone on the Lakemont State hockey team knows their captain is straight. Then he falls asleep against the team's fastest, loneliest winger on the overnight bus, and he is wide awake.
contemporary · forbidden love · male lead
24 chapters published
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Put Your Cock Inside and Stir to Relieve My Pain, My Gynecologist!
A virgin nurse with a cramp that only a toy can ease is caught red-handed by the gynecologist she has loved since she was nineteen, and he is her brother's best friend. He answers her confession with six words: take off your panties.
medical · dramatic · contemporary
24 chapters published
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He Hid His Secret Wife So I Stole His Sister's Boyfriend
Willa takes two buses to a private hospital for a second opinion on her small baby and walks into the wrong room: her baby's father, laughing with his pregnant secret wife. When his sister offers her a price to vanish, Willa names the one thing the sister loves.
contemporary · female lead · love triangle
24 chapters published
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My Fiancé Called Me Boring, So I Slept With His Uncle
Sadie Brannigan hears her fiancé and her best friend through a butt-dial and picks the one man in the bar nobody dares sit near. In the morning he walks into her engagement party as the family's uncle.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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My Stepsister Moved Into the Guest Room at Thirty
Robin Moreau, 31, is a night-shift ER nurse who has kept her mother's new stepdaughter at arm's length for two years. When Flora Hallam, 27, loses her apartment to a fire and moves into Robin's guest room, the first night ends in a hallway with a towel and nowhere to look.
femme x femme · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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The Life I Chose
At our wedding rehearsal my fiancé carried his adopted sister to the ER, then called to say she was nineteen weeks pregnant with his baby, and that I should cancel the wedding, explain it to the guests and quit my job to look after her. I laughed and said sure. Then I walked into the rehearsal dinner and put him on the big screen. It was my thirtieth birthday, and a man I'd made a bet with eight years ago was on his way to my door.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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The Seat They Never Saved and the Offer I Finally Took
Stranded overnight at the airport, Lena watched her boyfriend wrap her best friend in blankets and hand her own sandwich away. Then the one man who had never lied to her held out the passenger seat of a rental car.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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Excluded and Uninvited
Three men in orange jumpsuits drag Caleb into an alley while his girlfriend and best friend freeze at the mouth of it, doing nothing. He walks out of their lives, and then they tell everyone he ran.
dramatic · contemporary · love triangle
24 chapters published
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Shattered Illusions: The Wife He Left for Dead
On their third anniversary Mireille Peabody waits by cold candlelight while her husband lights up the harbor for his first love. When he shoves her onto the marble and walks out, she signs the divorce papers and disappears.
dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage
24 chapters published
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Trapped by Them
Twenty-four-year-old Larissa lies on an exam table as the teaching case for her father's best friend, the doctor she has secretly wanted for two years. Then one of the masked interns speaks, and it is the stepbrother she has not seen since their parents married.
medical · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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My Stepbrother Is My Secret Master
For two years I've been a masked stranger's blindfolded, collared pup, and I've never seen his face. Then I move into my new stepmother's mansion, and her son has my Master's voice, my Master's blindfold, and a seat at the front of my classroom.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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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
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They Stole Her for a Breeding Den, She Chose the Alpha Who Let Her Leave
A small, timid werewolf is taken from a bakery lot by five men of a crime family who mean to breed her at the full moon, and one of them unlocks the door and lets her walk out.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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I Slept With My Fiancé's Hot Uncle
Twelve hours before her engagement lunch, Keeva hears her fiancé and her best friend on a call he never meant to make, then takes a stranger upstairs and finds out at noon he is her fiancé's uncle.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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The Stepsister Who Followed Me Through the Shrine Gate
Hinata is summoned through her family's shrine gate to be a kingdom's saint, and her new stepsister Mai grabs her hand and is dragged along as baggage. The saint's bath may only be attended by household, so Mai washes her back.
femme x femme · forbidden love · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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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
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My Husband Never Touched Me, So the CEO Doctor Took Off His Gloves
Pamela's husband never touched her in a year of marriage, and now her body burns at a stranger's fingertips. The doctor her company sends her to is its germophobe CEO, who hasn't touched anyone in four years.
medical · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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Three Wolves, One Irresistible Pull
The Chancellor gave General Brenna Furnival a price: marry the Alpha who burned her border, or lose her army. She named the old Trial of the Hearth instead, and two Alphas went to their knees before she said a word.
dramatic · female lead · love triangle
24 chapters published
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A Life Beyond Us
Three years into her second marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Maura overhears a drunk classmate tell a rooftop full of women the wildest thing she ever did, and her husband was in it.
contemporary · female lead · love triangle
24 chapters published
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Examined by the OB-GYN CEO
Married a year to a man who never touched her, Claire Dunning shakes at the brush of a stranger's hand. The doctor her family sends her to wears a three-piece suit, sits on the 47th floor and signs her paychecks.
medical · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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Reborn as the Villainess's Bodyguard, I Refused to Stop at Bodyguard
Haruka wakes as the guard captain who will hold the axe at the villainess's execution, so she kneels in the cell and swears to guard her instead. Seraphine knows she will die and wants to live every one of the fourteen days.
bodyguard-romance · femme x femme · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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I've Died Here Before
For three years Addie always got her way with Holden, until the night he stands her up at the waterfront and a furious voice in her head says she has drowned there eight times already.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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I Signed Away Eight Million to Leave Him
My fiance proposed to another woman while I stood below the stage, and told four hundred people we'd ended things amicably. The next morning I signed away the eight million his family promised me and walked out. Then I found out why he did it.
dramatic · contemporary · misunderstanding
24 chapters published
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My Fated Mate Was the One Man I Could Never Have
Jessa Rawson would rather chew glass than clap at the Alpha's engagement party, because the man marrying a treaty bride is her fated mate. Then he rejects her in front of the whole pack, and she says one word that changes everything.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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Don't Touch Him! He's Not An Alpha, He's My Patient
Five years after my sister stole my mate, I came home with a Luna badge and a patient. That night she crawled onto his lap while my mother held my mouth shut and told me not to make a scandal.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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As the Roses Bloomed Beneath His Feet, I Buried Our Seven-Year Marriage.
Lena can see flowers grow around anyone who falls in love, and on her seventh anniversary roses cover her husband's feet when the rescue doctor sits down at their table. She asks for a divorce on the drive home, and he asks her to wait.
dramatic · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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Offsides - A Forbidden Summer
Katie spends a whole World Cup knockout match on her stepfather's lap, and the next day she stops sitting still.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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For Our 10th Anniversary, My Husband Gave Me a Green Dress and My Sister a Baby
On their tenth anniversary a hockey captain sends his wife the green dress she begged him never to send, and she finds her half-sister pregnant by him. She does not wait quietly: she posts the truth in front of the whole team.
contemporary · female lead · love triangle
24 chapters published
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The Love We Missed
On our seventh anniversary my husband asked for a divorce because even my breathing annoyed him. I said fine, sell the house, and took him to dinner, where a skillet nobody ordered came out of the kitchen from the brother who left town the week of our wedding.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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The QB's Nerdy Addiction
Hallie Vandiver keeps a 4.0, works double shifts and never dates an athlete, until she is hired to tutor the quarterback who has secretly been reading her anonymous column every night for two years.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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I Sat on My Stepfather's Lap All Match, and Mom Was Filming
Lainey spends a whole World Cup match on her stepfather's lap in the last row, six inches behind her mother. The seat was cut on purpose, and her mother never stopped filming.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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Forbidden Love Novels
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Stepdad and His Friends Bred Me During the Birthday Blackout
On my 24th birthday everyone bailed, even my mother, who was busy getting engaged to another man. My stepfather showed up with his two best friends and a cake. Then the lights went out, and I made a choice in the dark.
dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love
48 chapters published
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Therapy Threesome
Mallory, 19, and her stepfather Wade, 39, sit stiffly on a therapist's couch until Dr. Thorsby decides the root of their fights is attraction and prescribes hands-on treatment. They both say yes, and then find out who paid for the room.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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Taken While I Slept by My Stepbrother and His Friends
I heard my stepbrother and his three friends talk about my body through the wall. At 3 a.m. they locked themselves in my room, and I turned on the lamp. They hadn't come for me. They'd come to catch the man who'd been in my bed every night.
contemporary · thriller · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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I Locked My Professor's Office Door, and Left Belonging to Three Men
Hannah Eberhardt, a graduate student in Ann Arbor, turns the lock on her advisor's office door with two of his colleagues watching, and tells all three men she wants them.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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Learning to Be Driven
While practicing driving with my friend's dad, he insisted I had to learn sitting on top of him. The road was full of potholes, I kept bouncing against something hard, and everything was about to spiral out of control.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
12 chapters published
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I Wanted One Stepbrother, So All Three Claimed Me
Kenji, 18, has wanted his eldest stepbrother Leif since his first night in the house, and when the want bursts out in the laundry room it turns out the other two stepbrothers want him too, and all three have been keeping watch over his nights for months.
contemporary · forbidden love · male lead
24 chapters published
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Daddy-In-Law! I'm Stuck in the Washing Machine
Bent over the old washing machine with her body halfway inside, Marlene hears her father-in-law's footsteps and decides to stay stuck.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
12 chapters published
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Stranded in an Empty Hall With My Injured Roommate, I Slipped and Took His Towel With Me
Everyone went home for summer except Noah, who missed his coach, and his roommate Damian, who can't walk. Helping him to the shower, Noah slips on the junk food on the floor, grabs the only thing in reach, and finds out what the captain has been hiding all year.
contemporary · forbidden love · male lead
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