Contemporary-romance Stories

Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option. ***** Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her... Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault. [[word count: 50,000-100,000 words]]

[This story will become free on June 15th 2022] In the sequel to When Best Friends Kiss, Liam is faced with the life Alex has built without him. Can their love survive when they've become so different? ***** Fresh out of university and settled into a new apartment, Liam and Alex are ready to start their life together. While Alex finds passion in journalism and has more friends than he can count, Liam is frustrated with his photography and awkward around Alex's LGBTQ friends. Seeing the life Alex has built without him, and how different they've become, Liam finds his insecurities resurfacing and mental health spiraling downwards. After the time they've spent apart, do Liam and Alex really belong together? Or will their love story end before it starts its next chapter? (Sequel to When Best Friends Kiss.) [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]

Reese is managing a busy life with his job, his three little girls, and a hole in their lives where their mother used to be. Margot is back home with her family after an international adventure, trying to find her place in midlife after a painful divorce. Will attraction be enough to overcome their complicated situations? What about when fate throws them another devastating curveball?

All the Feels Reading Event: Enter the spiral If "just one more chapter" sounds familiar... this is for you. From February 23-March 1, we're rewarding 15,000 readers with Coins simply for spiraling into romance. 📖 Read the stories from the All the Feels Reading List 📖 100 minutes → 100 Coins 💰 200 minutes → 200 Coins Whether you're here for butterflies, tension, drama, or full-blown obsession-the more you read, the better your chances. Go ahead. One more chapter won't hurt. [2022 Wattys Winner] When love cynic Madison Watson starts university, she vows to follow three simple rules. One: Work out at least twice a week. Two: Get an internship. Three: Stay away from men. But after a chance encounter with three guys in the dorm halls, Madi's enlisted to transform a shy and love-sick hopeless case into the perfect boyfriend. Unbeknownst to her optimistic accomplices, she's out to prove a hypothesis of her own - love is a construct, and heartbreak is inevitable. ♡ A college story about first love and first heartbreak, reflecting on the ins and outs of dating in the age of technology. Achievements: 2022 WATTY WINNER (New Adult and W by Wattpad Books Award) Featured on Editors' Picks by @wattpadexplorer (Apr 21) #1 in The Siren Awards 2020 (user run) #1 in The Creator's Choice Awards 2020 (user run) Best Protagonist in The Creator's Choice Awards 2020 (user run) Ranks: #2 collegestudent (Sep 20) #1 contemporary romance (Feb 21) #3 newadult (Feb 21) #1 collegestories (Feb 21)

In the world of live radio, silence is the enemy. But for Riv and Bea, it's the only thing they have left. Beatrice "Bea" Pineda was the undisputed "Sunshine Girl" of the Manila events scene, until a very public, very viral breakdown at a high-end gala left her career in ashes. Desperate to escape the flashing lights and the "it-girl" expectations, she retreats to a place where no one has to see her face: DZFM 101.5, a fading community radio station that smells like old archives and freshly brewed barako coffee. But there's a catch. The man running the soundboard is the last person she ever expected to see again. Riven "Riv" de Leon is no longer the boy who shared headphones with her in the college library. He's now a man of few words, a single father to a space-obsessed six-year-old, and a producer who guards his silence like a fortress. Five years ago, he ghosted Bea without a word. Now, he's her boss, and his only rule is simple: "Strictly professional tayo, Bea." As the two are forced to co-host The Moonlight Shift, their "Grumpy x Sunshine" bickering becomes an accidental overnight sensation. The listeners can't get enough of their tension, but behind the mic, the static of the past is getting harder to ignore. Between late-night pandesal runs, helping a little girl build a cardboard rocket ship, and fighting to save their station from a corporate buyout, Bea begins to realize that she didn't just come here to hide. She came here to be found. In a city full of noise, can two broken hearts find a frequency they can both call home?

Lyra Ashford knows one thing about love: If it doesn't hurt, it isn't real. As a Creative Director in Manhattan, she can command multi-million-dollar brands with a single presentation- but she has never been able to command her own heart. Callum Reed is different. A therapist with too much patience. A man who doesn't get jealous. A man who never answers anger with anger. A man who stays. And that is exactly why Lyra wants to run. Because what if gentle love isn't a gift- but a test she was never taught how to pass? When a past filled with fire comes roaring back into her life, Lyra is forced to choose: Return to the kind of love that makes her feel gloriously, destructively alive- or hold on to the man who might be too gentle for a brutal world. But there is one thing she doesn't realize. Gentle love does not mean it cannot leave. And when Callum finally stops chasing her- Lyra may already be too late to learn how to love without destroying everything in her path.

♥️ A Promise of Forever 🫂 (By Lunarasapnis) Love was never meant to be simple for Anya and Kishor. Their hearts found each other beneath a sky full of whispering stars, but destiny wrapped their lives in secrets older than their own bloodlines. When a dangerous legacy resurfaces, the couple is thrown into a whirlwind of hidden ancestral codes, silent watchers in the shadows, and the powerful Elder's Council who holds the key to Kishor's past-and their future. With Meera and Arnav by their side, Anya and Kishor's journey through forgotten family ties, misleading clues, and perilous traps that test their courage, loyalty, and love. Every truth they uncover brings them closer to danger... but also closer to each other. Through tears, fear, sacrifice, and unbreakable connection, they fight not just for survival but for the life they dream of-a life where love is louder than shadows. As the trials end, destiny finally opens its arms. the struggle they face to get close to the arms, opened for them. Some love stories are written in the stars- but theirs is carved into heritage, sealed in trust, and fulfilled with A Promise of Forever.

She was supposed to be temporary. A quiet week. A music video. A goodbye at the airport. He's used to headlines, cameras, and love that fades when the tour ends. She's used to small, safe, and staying out of the spotlight. But when a stolen kiss at the airport turns into a media storm, he has a choice: protect his image... or protect her. He doesn't do things halfway. Not his career. Not his risks. And definitely not love.

Being a woman in the society Ameera lives in isn't so easy. Every choice is judged, every small misstep remembered, and criticism follows her even when it is undeserved. Especially Growing up with a father whose control shaped her fears as much as her faith. But some limits were not made to be obeyed Follow the journey of Ameera as she manages to break and go beyond all the boundaries set for her as a female and fight for the rights she deserves, all while finding her true love and the people she gets to call family forever. The Life She Chose is a story about womanhood, belief, love, and the courage it takes to live honestly in a world determined to silence you.

Bella's life was simple, safe... predictable. Until Grayson, her husband's younger brother, showed up. He's dangerous, irresistible, and everything Damian isn't. Every glance makes her pulse race, every touch sets her skin on fire. They're not supposed to want each other-but desire doesn't care about rules. One stolen kiss. One secret touch. One night that changes everything. Safe marriage or forbidden obsession... which will she choose?

I once told someone, in my best Devdas voice and with the utmost seriousness, "One day I'll write a book for you before I die." She looked at me, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Write it in a language I can read. Otherwise, I'll come kick your grave. Kameene, yeh kya likh ke mar gaya? Mujhe bhi padhni thi." (You scoundrel, what is this nonsense you wrote and then went and died? I wanted to read it too!) That should give you an idea about the heart of this story. Set in the 2010s Canada, between chai and snow, this is the story of Alizey and Zayan. Zayan didn't believe in marriage. Alizey believed it was sacred. He thought love was like mist, meant to be felt, never seen. She thought he sounded like an overdramatic Victorian novel. They didn't marry for romance. They married for a plan. The arrangement was simple. The feelings were not. What began as a practical agreement, two adults negotiating boundaries, rent, and kitchen duties, slowly turned into something far more unstoppable. Because love, when it finally arrives, doesn't knock politely. It walks in silently and stays. This is a story about marriage before love. Trust before desire. Surrender before confession. And the confounding realisation that sometimes, you don't choose your life partner. You just discover you already have.

He's quiet, guarded, and impossible to read. She fills silence with words she hopes he'll hear. Separated by thin walls, the growing tension between them becomes impossible to ignore. But when another girl wants him too, someone is bound to get hurt. Updated weekly

Harper I didn't mean to fall for him. He was just a transfer student with sharp eyes and a closed-off smile. Arrogant. Private. Infuriatingly impossible to read. The kind of boy who doesn't exist online. The kind who flinches at cameras. The kind who carries secrets like they're stitched into his skin. I knew better than to get close. Because people like him don't crash into your life by accident. They arrive with consequences. And when the truth finally comes out- When the world decides who he really is- I'll have to choose between the man I fell for and the crown that was always waiting to take him back. Max They sent me here to disappear. No title. No protection. No mistakes allowed. Just a borrowed name and a life I was never meant to touch. Then there was her. Harper Quinn doesn't bow. She doesn't look away. She sees through every defense I've ever built-and doesn't care who she's supposed to see instead. Loving her was never part of the plan. But some things can't be controlled. Not loyalty. Not desire. Not the moment you realize you'd burn a kingdom down before letting it take her from you. I was raised to inherit a crown. I just never expected it to cost me the one thing that felt real. A royal exile. A love that was never meant to exist. And a secret powerful enough to destroy them both.

Verity has spent years perfecting the art of hiding her soul. A global pop sensation, an actress since childhood, a woman admired by millions - and truly known by no one. For eight years, she remained loyal to a relationship where she learned how to adapt instead of feel. When fate forces her to relocate to South Korea and live under the same roof as Joon-woo - a member of the biggest boy band of the decade - the carefully constructed calm she built around herself begins to crack. Joon-woo sees more than he should. He understands her without words. And for the first time in years, Verity feels safe enough to be herself. Between them, something unplanned begins to grow - quiet, intimate, and dangerously real. Verity finds herself torn between loyalty to her past and a love that no longer asks her to hide who she is. And when the media start linking their names together, the line between private and public disappears. This is a story about love born where pretending ends. About choices that hurt. And about what happens between your thoughts.

Amara Hale agrees to an arranged marriage to save her family from ruin. Lucien Blackwood agrees because the union benefits his name - nothing more. They meet for the first time after the wedding. To Lucien, the marriage is a contract with clear rules: no love, no expectations, no attachment. To Amara, it is survival. Forced to live under the same roof, she slowly falls for a man who refuses to see her as his wife - while he battles feelings he never planned to have. A slow-burn romance about duty, distance, and falling in love with the one person you were never meant to love.Amara Hale - Female Protagonist Quietly strong, emotionally observant, and resilient. Enters the marriage out of necessity, not hope.

Annie and Noah lock eyes from across the room, and her stomach drops. Except, when Noah approaches, he's nothing like Annie expected. Hot? Yes. Built like a Greek god? Definitely. But also solid and funny and just warm enough to begin thawing the ice around Annie's sweet and all-too-self-aware heart. Their evening together ends abruptly, and Annie's ready to write him off, until Noah appears as one of only a handful of students in her Advanced Fiction Writing class. She can't fight her attraction but knows better than to trust anything given as freely as Noah appears to give... everything. Caught between what her heart wants, and her head knows, Annie does what she does best when backed into a corner -- she writes. ✿ "You're not going to buy me dinner first?" He just clicked his tongue in response, teasing, and suddenly I was thinking about his tongue and finding somewhere quieter, and all the things he could do, with that tongue, somewhere quieter. Suffice to say, I was not thinking very clearly. "What did you think I was asking about? Surely your mind didn't go elsewhere?" I felt his breath on my neck as he spoke, and the awareness of how close we were pooled low in my stomach. "Somewhere quiet sounds good." He grinned, and my stomach did another unhelpful flip as I realized he had a dimple. One, singular, dimple. "I know just the place. Come on." He held his hand out, and it closed over mine, warm and reassuring. Then he started to weave through the crowd, tall and confident, headed straight for the entrance. I couldn't help it. I followed. ✿

What happens when the secret you've kept for seven years gets exposed in a single moment? Elianna Bennett thought she had it all figured out-a quiet life on Bainbridge Island, a beautiful daughter, and a love hidden across oceans. Seo Jae-hyun, global K-pop idol and main dancer of SE7NTH WAVE, has spent seven years living two lives: the perfect performer on stage, and a father in secret. One careless moment during a livestream changes everything. Now the world knows. The fans are watching. The media is digging. And the daughter they've protected for seven years is caught in the crossfire. This is a story about the price of hiding, the courage it takes to be seen, and what happens when love refuses to stay secret anymore. ©️ R. L.

Wealth always comes with its own disadvantages. In Sienna's story, those disadvantages are attractive assassins, cold-hearted CEOs, a few heart-stabbing betrayals, and a thirst for revenge. Almost a year after her Father's disappearance, Sienna discovers a truth that could change her life. No matter the choices she makes, everything seems to take her towards sharing the same fate as him. Old connections rekindle, and sparks of tension grow stronger between Sienna as she navigates the real world- corrupted, twisted, and dark.

Fiona, a publishing assistant in New York City, dreams of a European vacation. She's been on the Air B&B waiting list for three years, hoping to go on holiday to run a small-town bookshop on the Scottish coast. When she receives notice, just weeks ahead of her thirtieth birthday, that she's next on the list - her best friend Jazmyn encourages her to take the plunge and book the trip of her dreams. What she finds when she arrives is a charming seaside town brimming with character, a bookshop filled with secrets - and the Scottish man of her dreams. *Cover Design by Violette @theendofeverything03 *NaNoWriMo 2019 Project *Ongoing Work-In-Progress, 2019-2020. *Second Place Winner, The Butterfly Awards - Chicklit, March 2020 *Third Place Winner, The Romantic Dream Awards - Chicklit, March 2020 *Short Lister, The Warrior Awards, March 2020 Stacie Eirich @spacetodream

"They say these are killing me. The pills. The liquor. They see the empty bottles and the scattered tablets and think I'm just another soul lost to addiction. They think they know. They don't. It's not the pills. It's not the liquor. They're not the cause - they're just the symptom. It's him." The world knows Jacob Spencer as a superstar -headlines, sold-out arenas, flashing cameras. What they don't know is that fame means nothing when the only person who ever truly saw him has walked away. But before the fame. Before the ego. Before the silence. There was a time when they were just two teenage boys - young, carefree, and hopelessly in love. This isn't the story of how it ended. It's the story of how it all began. Review readers wanted 💙 Hi, I'm Tristan Heart, author of the new adult gay romance Mine Blue, His Hazel Green. I'm looking for a few readers who would like a free e-copy and, if you choose, leave an honest review after reading on Amazon 🤍 If you enjoy emotional queer romance, first love and soft slow-burn stories, this one might be for you. To join: DM me READER on Instagram @tristanheart That's it 🤍