Cozyromance Stories

Thirteen stories. One city. Halifax comes alive through love, loss, and second chances. From retired sailors to bookshop dreamers, each tale connects hearts in unexpected ways. Discover hope, heartbreak, and everything in between.

A FICTIONAL STORY

When Oscar Piastri sculpts a man out of snow to save his grandmother's failing café, he never expects the impossible to happen. But the next morning, his sculpture is gone-replaced by Lando, a beautiful stranger who remembers only his name and the feeling of Oscar's hands shaping him into existence. As winter tightens its grip on their small town, Oscar and Lando must keep a dangerous secret: Lando may be made of snow, and warmth could destroy him. Between baking family recipes, helping the community, and navigating feelings neither of them planned for, Oscar is forced to confront a terrifying question- What happens when you fall in love with a miracle that might melt away? A soft, magical winter romance about hope, belonging, and loving something fragile anyway.

Eden Guilbert didn't move to Finland to fall in love. She moved to start over - quietly, carrying a child and a life she was determined to build on her own. She wasn't broken. She wasn't searching. She just wanted peace. Ville Valo wasn't looking either. What begins as coffee and conversation slowly becomes something steady and unshakeable - a love built in winter silence, late nights, shared breath, and chosen family. Told through soft moments and years of life lived fully, In the Quiet We Chose Each Other is a gothic, slow-burn romance about love that doesn't rush, doesn't demand, and never leaves. Sometimes the greatest love stories are the quiet ones.

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.

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. 📚💗✨

Sadie Cavelliane's life runs on one thing: pumpkin spice latte from Lover's Lake's most beloved coffee shop, The Mellow Bean. So when the café is suddenly bought by a powerful construction company and set for renovation, Sadie does what any reasonable woman would do-she starts a protest. Enter Maximillian Lucas: calm, infuriatingly handsome, and the CEO responsible for threatening her caffeine-fueled happiness. Their clash turns into witty banter, a latte duel, and an unexpected partnership neither of them planned. But Max is hiding a secret. Four years ago, in this very coffee shop, Sadie unknowingly saved his life with nothing more than a conversation and a cup of coffee. Now that fate has brought them back together, Max must decide when to tell the truth-and Sadie must face the fear of being loved as a memory instead of a choice. A cozy, slow-burn romantic comedy about coffee, protests, healing, and choosing love in the present.

In Starling Bluff, lost things have a way of finding their way home. Hope West is used to being the one everyone relies on. At twenty-eight, she's balancing a quiet life in a small coastal town, caring for her aging father, running an online vintage shop, and keeping her magic...mostly under control. When a simple spell meant to help her father find his misplaced keys goes spectacularly wrong, Hope becomes an unexpected magnet for everything that's been lost...packages, pets, people, and unresolved feelings included. As chaos quietly unfolds around her, Hope finds herself drawn to Evan, a steady, kind firefighter who seems to appear exactly when she needs him most. But with magic misbehaving and Valentine's Day looming, Hope can't shake the fear that what's pulling him closer might not be real at all. My Spellbound Valentine is a cozy, magical love story about caretaking, trust, and learning the difference between what's found by force...and what chooses to stay. This is book one of the Starling Bluff series

Golden Hours & Her Smile is a tender WLW romance about falling in love in the quiet moments-when the world slows, the light turns warm, and a single smile can change everything. Elena lives in the in-between spaces of life, where she observes more than she speaks and feels more than she shows. Aria carries a warmth that feels effortless, the kind that draws people in without asking. Their paths cross during late afternoons and lingering sunsets, where conversations stretch and silence feels safe. As golden hours become shared rituals, Elena begins to realize that it isn't just the light she's waiting for-it's Aria's smile. The story unfolds gently through unspoken feelings, almost-touches, and the slow understanding that love doesn't have to be loud to be profound. Soft, intimate, and quietly emotional, Golden Hours & Her Smile is a story about choosing presence, finding comfort in another person, and discovering that sometimes the most beautiful love grows where you least expect it-right as the sun begins to set.

Daisy Moore has spent her entire life being perfect. Perfect grades. Perfect résumé. Perfect daughter. But even diamonds crack under pressure. When she gets a rejection from her dream company right before graduation, her carefully planned life falls apart. Desperate to escape the suffocating expectations, Daisy makes one impulsive choice: a last-minute ticket to a 5SOS concert. Maybe revisiting the band she secretly loved before she "grew up" is exactly the reminder she needs that she's still allowed to feel alive. Loud music. Lights. A temporary escape. What she doesn't expect is to end up face-to-face with Ashton, the brown-haired, green-eyed drummer who's fighting his own quiet battles behind the spotlight. When Daisy's world collides with Ashton's, one spontaneous night turns into a chain of moments neither of them saw coming... moments that change everything.

Tara Yummy, a bold, high-energy California YouTuber known for her big mouth and glamorous lifestyle, is challenged to spend a week living like a rural farmer. Enter Rob Rausch, a quiet, grounded farm boy, who laughs at Tara's antics and barely understands her world. What starts as a week-long video challenge becomes a journey of mutual discovery, clashing personalities, playful banter, and unexpected romance. As Tara struggles to adapt and Rob learns to open up, sparks fly-culminating in both of them realizing that they're more alike than they thought.

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?

Jamie Brown spends his mornings covered in flour and chocolate, running his tiny bakery on a rainy corner of town. He's quiet, shy, and far too good at pretending he's fine, even when his heart feels a little lonely. Then Eli Rivera walks in. A boy with paint on his hands, a sketchbook full of dreams, and a smile that feels like sunlight after a storm. Every morning, Eli orders the same brownie, and every morning, Jamie tries not to fall a little more in love. When a forgotten sketchbook and a hidden note start a secret exchange between them, their worlds slowly blend together one brownie, one drawing, one confession at a time. But falling in love means letting your heart be seen, and Jamie isn't sure if he's ready to step out of the shadows, even for the boy who feels like home.

Cafe du coeur is a heartwarming middle-grade romance-mystery set in a cozy Paris café. 24-year-old Clara Beaumont runs cafe du Coeur on rainy Rue Amélie, serving dairy-free pastries amid fairy-lit charm. One stormy day, mysterious businessman Julian Moreau arrives in a black raincoat, leaving behind a notebook full of café sketches and clues about a hidden wartime key tied to her grandmother Lucille. As they uncover love letters, a silver key, and family secrets from 1944-chased by shady relic hunter Victor in the gray hat-their own sweet romance blooms through rooftop escapes, Seine adventures, and stolen kisses in the rain. With fun side characters like artistic Sophie and wise locals, the story blends gentle suspense, Parisian magic, and timeless love for 13-year-old readers. Perfectly clean, exciting page-turner ending in springtime promises.

Charlotte is escaping expectations. Matthew is searching for lost music. They first glimpse each other on a train to Birchwood-and spend a spring circling each other in a village where dahlias bloom in colors no one predicted and time moves slower than anywhere else. She's staying with her grandparents, planting tubers that won't reveal themselves until August. He's researching a forgotten composer's piano manuscripts, hoping the quiet will help him finish his dissertation-or maybe remember how to create something of his own. They keep almost meeting. A glance on a platform. A near-miss on a village street. A moment in the forest where their hands brush reaching for the same pair of binoculars. In Birchwood, nothing is rushed. Not the seasons. Not the garden. And not two people slowly discovering that what they've been running toward might be each other. A cozy slow-burn romance about finding where you belong.

"Intrusive past lives! Making me jump and ruining the moment." Things have not been going well for Shreya since she started going to culinary school on another continent; kitchen screw-ups, barely passing grades, and un-replied job applications. On the brink of giving up and going back home, she surprised herself by thinking she could turn things around and do it all. Except those thoughts feel weird... as though separate from herself... And why are they obsessing over how she might like her annoying (but surprisingly sweet) rival-turned-friend Karthik? What was going on? ============ Story completed! Apologies for the grammatical mistakes and typos.

Merideth has "lived" a long time, setting herself up in a cozy cottage outside a small town in rural America, and working to aid her fellow vampires when they turn. She's formulating a type of blood mixture that allows her peers to feed without needing human blood. She exists quietly and uneventfully with her goats and her garden. Until one night a young friend comes to her in distress. She finds herself crossing paths with the sweet and sunny Poppy, who just might be the tonic she needs to bring life back into her un-death! This is a sweet and cozy vampire tale with older women vampires!

When a single mom and a widowed father agree to live like pioneers for a hit reality show, their on-screen marriage feels like part of the act... until it isn't. Between chopping wood, raising children, and sharing stories by lamplight, something real begins to take root - something neither of them was ready for. Because sometimes the hardest thing to survive isn't the wilderness. It's falling in love for real. ✅ Fully written | 📅 Updates every Sunday until complete

When Aanya Joshi escapes the noise of city life and heartbreak to reopen her grandmother's sleepy hilltop café in Sonagiri, she only wants peace, books, and maybe the occasional customer. What she doesn't expect is Neil-grumpy, quiet, fiercely kind, and followed everywhere by his snoring dog, Ginger. He has his own reasons for hiding away, and none of them involve falling for the girl who makes saffron chai taste like home. But over cups of cinnamon, whispered memories, and snow-dusted mornings, something soft begins to bloom between them. Sometimes, the quietest love stories are the ones that last.