Contemporaryromance Stories

Ellie Brooks came back to Brookhaven carrying a life she hadn't planned and a heart she hadn't protected. She didn't expect to find Caleb Harlow still standing exactly where she'd left him - older, steadier, and carrying the weight of a daughter who needed more than promises. Caleb didn't expect Ellie to return either. Not after the way she left. Not after the years it took to build a life that wouldn't collapse if she did. They don't fall back into love. They circle it. Carefully. Reluctantly. Knowing what's at stake this time. Brookhaven remembers their history - the almosts, the silence, the years they spent pretending the other wasn't the one thing that never quite let go. And as Ellie and Caleb edge closer to something real, they're forced to confront the truth neither of them can avoid anymore: Love isn't reckless when it's right. It's deliberate. But choosing each other means choosing everything that comes with it - the child watching them, the past that refuses to stay buried, and the kind of commitment that doesn't offer an easy exit. The Long Way to Us is a slow-burn, deeply emotional story about coming home, choosing love without guarantees, and discovering that the bravest thing you can do is stay - even when it would be easier to walk away.

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]]

𝓘𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓲𝓭𝓼𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓬𝓸𝓯𝓯𝓮𝓮, 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶. 🌸 Rom com • Comfort romance • Safe love ⋇⋆✦⋆⋇　 He is the sky. She is the earth. He is calm. She is chaos. He is grounded. She is sunshine. He is a chai lover. She is a coffee lover. He is an introvert. She is an extrovert. They are poles apart. Yet somewhere between bookshelves and coffee cups, they find each other- and eventually, they fall in love. Despite being opposites, one thing becomes common between them: love. Equal. Quiet. Intense. 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 is a story that will make you giggle, smile, blush, and feel butterflies flutter with every page you turn. 📚💗✨

In a world where logic and art collide, Alexandra Fainter, a meticulous calculus teacher who finds sanctuary in the predictable safety of the coordinate grid, meets her ultimate anomaly in William Noa Bennett, a visionary architect who treats blueprints like poetry. What begins as a literal jump-start in a faculty parking lot evolves into a year-long integration of two parallel lives as they navigate the messy, non-linear mathematics of the heart. As they build a future that neither could have designed alone, they discover that love is an irrational number-infinite, non-repeating, and impossible to simplify. Their journey proves that while equations can be solved, a life built together is a timeless proof that when the foundation is solid, you can build infinitely upward.

In glittering Bangkok, retiring supermodel Rianna Davis, a Black American from California, seeks a quieter life after a decade on the runway. A celebratory night out leads to an impulsive one-night stand with charismatic playboy Boonchai Boonmee-unaware of his connection to her longtime boyfriend, Arthit Boonmee. As engagement bliss and family introductions unfold, an unexpected pregnancy sets off a chain of secrets, coercion, and forbidden desire. What begins as a dangerous game of blackmail spirals into an intense, addictive affair amid Bangkok's elite circles-risky encounters, whispered threats, and stolen moments that blur guilt, passion, and power. With jealous rivals, suspicious allies, and mounting family pressures closing in, the web of deception tightens. Loyalties fracture, reputations hang in the balance, and one explosive truth threatens to shatter everything. High-stakes erotic thriller of betrayal, obsession, and taboo chemistry set against Thailand's dazzling, unforgiving cityscape. © _RelleLebby_// R. L.

She didn't come to Ashby Lake to rest. She came to remember who she was. Bunny Malone is running from burnout, grief, and a life that stopped feeling like hers. Ashby Lake was supposed to be temporary-a quiet place to breathe. Then there's Caleb Prescott. What unfolds is a slow, tender summer of shared moments, unexpected laughter, and a love that grows quietly... until it changes everything. Lakeweed is a cozy, emotionally rich romantic novella about new beginnings, courage, and falling in love when you're finally ready to feel again.

Ada hati yang bercakap tanpa kata, dan cinta yang bermula dengan doa. Nurul Ardini Haniyah diam, peka, menyimpan lautan perasaannya dalam jurnal. Dzarif Ilyas bergurau dengan dunia, tetapi bersujud panjang dalam kesendirian. Lautan dalam Diam-kisah di antara dua jiwa yang bertemu bukan melalui kata, tetapi melalui keikhlasan dan adab, cinta yang bermula dengan Allah dahulu.

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?

Three years ago, Daniela left without knowing how to stay. And Megan learned how to survive without her. Now, years later, life has moved on-or at least, it pretends to have. Megan is older, steadier, trying to build something new from the pieces of her past. She has friends who know her scars, a future she's carefully planned, and a heart that refuses to forget what it once loved. Daniela is back in the same city she ran from, carrying regrets she never learned how to unpack. The move that broke everything shaped her into someone stronger-but not someone unmarked. When their paths collide again, old wounds reopen. So do old feelings. This is a story about first love that never really ended. About distance, timing, and the words that were never said. About finding out whether love can survive becoming strangers- and whether some endings were never truly endings at all. Some loves fade. Some just wait.

Some inheritances are simple. This one isn't. When Claire and Elliot are named co-executors of an estate neither of them asked for, they're forced into proximity, decisions, and conversations they'd rather avoid. The house comes with history. The responsibility comes with pressure. And the person across the table turns out to be far more complicated than expected. As deadlines close in and outside opinions grow louder, Claire and Elliot must learn how to navigate shared responsibility without losing themselves-or each other-in the process. What We Inherited is a contemporary romance about emotionally competent adults, quiet tension, and the unexpected intimacy that grows when life is already in motion. Updates every other day.

Clara never planned to marry the wrong man. On the day she was supposed to walk down the aisle with the man she loved, she was left behind-without explanation, without closure, and with a room full of witnesses waiting for her to break. To stop a scandal that could destroy her future, Lucas Whitaker, the groom's older brother, makes a decision no one expects. He marries her instead. What begins as a marriage of convenience quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Because Lucas doesn't offer love. He offers protection. He sets rules instead of promises. And he keeps his distance even when silence becomes unbearable. Caught between the man who disappeared and the man who stayed, Clara is forced to navigate a marriage built on restraint, secrets, and unspoken tension. The truth behind the wedding day threatens to surface, and when it does, it won't just expose lies-it will test loyalty, control, and how much a person is willing to sacrifice to keep someone safe. Almost My Husband is a slow-burn romantic drama about survival, power, and the cost of protection. It is a story of quiet devotion, psychological tension, and a love that grows not from desire-but from discipline. Sometimes the safest love is the one that refuses to touch you.

Vihaan Singhania is a man built of glass and steel-cold in manner, flawless in discipline, and unshakable in purpose. At thirty, he already carries an empire on his shoulders. As the CEO of the Singhania Hotel Empire, he lives for deadlines, decisions, and duty. His family comes first, his work comes next, and everything else is noise. Love, in his world, is an inefficiency. A distraction. Something he has no space for. Elina Chaudhary is his opposite in every way. At twenty-six, she is a determined young doctor specializing in gynecology, still growing, still dreaming, yet already certain that her hands are meant to welcome life into the world. She is gentle with her patients, fierce about her goals, and deeply in love with the idea of love itself. With her friends, she is bubbly, dramatic, self-obsessed in the cutest way-laughter follows her like perfume. But in front of Vihaan, her colors soften. Her confidence quiets. As if his silence slowly erases her sparkle. When fate binds them in a marriage shaped by expectations rather than emotion, two strangers from different seasons of life are forced to share a future neither of them imagined. He treats her like a responsibility. She tries to become a home. Between boardrooms and hospital corridors, misunderstandings and unspoken feelings, something fragile begins to grow. Because some hearts don't fall in love loudly. They learn. They wait. They change. And sometimes, love doesn't arrive like lightning- it arrives like warmth, the moment work ends and the heart finally begins. © 2026 Where Work Ends, Love Begins by Miss Lily. All rights reserved. This work is a piece of fiction and the original property of the author. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, or shared in any form without written permission. Any resemblance to real persons or events is purely coincidental.

Amir is a 16-year-old trapped in a life that feels like it's closing in on him. With a bitter, emotionally distant father, a tired, overworked mother, and a cramped apartment that never feels like home, school and friends feel like a distant dream. He's lost, frustrated, and struggling to find his place in the world... until Nia moves into the complex. Friendly, witty, and full of life, Nia is everything Amir isn't - and everything he secretly needs. But when their younger brothers become fast friends, Amir and Nia are forced together in ways neither expected. As their bond grows, the pressures of family, school, and life threaten to tear them apart. Can they hold on to each other, or will the world around them break what's just beginning?

Cynical florist Elara believes love is a lie, destined to wilt faster than the peonies in her mother's shop. Her proof? A cheating dad and an ex who traded her for a girl named Sunshine. So when she accidentally sends a scathing, secret manifesto on the futility of marriage to the wrong email address, she's sure she's doomed the family business. The recipient? Oliver Weston, the groom in the society wedding of the year. But Oliver doesn't fire her. He shows up, shattered, calling her rant the most honest thing he's ever read. The perfect, gilded cage of his life is crushing him, and her words are the key. He calls off the wedding, trading a billionaire future for a minimum wage job in her chaotic, fragrant world. Thrown together, two skeptics of love discover something terrifyingly real growing in the quiet moments between thorny roses and delivery runs. But as their fragile connection deepens, the world they left behind attacks. A vicious ex-fiancée, a powerful family's threats, and a swirling scandal threaten to destroy the shop and the first true thing either of them has ever known.

In a city that never stops, he learned to pause for her. A spilled coffee and a late morning - that's how Ananya's ordinary world tilts just a little ☕ Amid Mumbai's rushing streets, loud family laughter, and festival lights, she meets a man as calm as he is complicated. What begins with irritation slowly turns into soft glances, balcony breezes, and a heart learning to feel without fear 🦋 Between chai breaks, playful chaos, and quiet moments that stretch a second too long, love arrives the way it always does - unplanned, messy, and gentle 🤍 A warm Indian slow-burn where home isn't a place, but a person.

Tara Agarwal and Taruk Sharma are academic rivals , top of their class and constantly at each other's throats. She's brilliant, guarded, and wants nothing to do with distractions. He's charming, reckless, and hides a passion behind his playful grin. Their lives were never meant to intertwine. But a college trip, an unexpected strom, and a night that shatters boundaries blur the line between hate and something dangerously close to love. As buried secrets and broken homes begin to unravel, they're forced to face the truth. When Tara returns home to a betrayal she never saw coming, the fire she hides behind sarcasm and smudged eyeliner threatens to burn right through. Because some scars don't fade. And not even the loudest music can drown out the silence inside her. Enemies by fate. Lovers by accident. Hey! I'm Olivia and this story is really close to my heart. If you're into academic rivalry, slow burn, enemies to lovers, college drama, music vibes, and emotionally scarred characters learning to love You're in the right place. And feel free to vote, comment, and scream at the characters. I do that too.

"He's cute, gentle, sweet, and all good...... He's just MASHALLAH!!!!!! But his stares...... They're so deep, so 'intense'...... I shouldn't think in that way...... Because he's my teacher!", she wrote in her secret diary. He says, "She's God gifted!" She says, "He's one of the best and my favorite gifts from Allah! He's my Hibah!" His Princess: "Mr. Engineer! Promise me that we'll be friends with no complaints and no demands! Promise?" Her Mr. Engineer: "already we made it" His girl: "Alabiu!" Her man: "Alabu" • He's an expert in Maths - she's weak in it! • He's so friendly - she's little bit introverted! • She loves 'Mishti' (Sweets) - He loves 'Teto' (Bitter). • He's an Engineer - she's a Doctor! • She's his heart - he's her new dream! • She's his "Lil. Girl" - he's her "Mr. Big!" • He's her man - she's his girl! • He's her 'Dipu' - she's his 'Dustu' • He is her 'Mr. Engineer' & She's his 'Princess' "We keep it Halal! Our eyes do the kissing, not our lips(yet!) But in dreams? That's our little secret! We may not have each other in our arms right now, But we carry each other in our hearts and in every dua! We're not too close to make it haram, Nor too far to let our bond grow cold! Our love is pure, sacred, divine-halal! Alhamdulillah-it's not one-sided! It's a love gifted by Allah Himself! A love written by Allah, gifted from Him, and sealed with prayers! A love where no haram touch ever happened, But our souls hugged gently with Allah as the witness! It's not in loud confessions or bold actions. It's the kind where words aren't needed, Because our sacred, romantic eye contact Holds infinite, unspoken whispers of the heart! It's in that gaze-soft, deep, shy, and full of feelings That only we understand- And only Allah truly knows!" The Meeting Day: 6 Apr 2024 Realizing it's not just friendship but pure, halal LOVE: 26 Apr 2025 Wedding Day: "One day!" INSHA'ALLAH! Meeting in Jannah: "One day!" INSHA'ALLAH!(AMEEN!×3) Published:10/08/24

Butterflies mean many things: love and freedom, depending on each person's beliefs. They can also be seen as resurrection. A thousand butterflies represent nature, change, hope, and life-above all, resilience. They remind us that we can move from light to darkness, and from darkness back to light. Maritxu and Lynn go through a metamorphosis. Once inside the game of life, there is no way out. The caterpillar endures suffering, transforms, and emerges stronger-as a beautiful butterfly with thousands of colors. That is how we learn to fly.🦋

Lavender Sullivan is a relationship columnist with one tiny problem-she's romantically cursed (metaphorically). After a viral article turns her love life into a public disaster, her childhood best friend, Wes, comes up with a brilliant (read: completely insane) idea. Ten dates. Ten exes. One last shot at proving she's not a walking red flag. What could possibly go wrong? (Spoiler: Everything). Between awkward reunions, social media chaos, and a growing tension with the one person she swore she'd never fall for, Lavender's about to learn that love is less like a fairytale... and more like a very public, slow-motion car crash. Started: 14th February 2025 Ended: