Highheatromance Stories

On a storm-torn night in Castillonia, two daughters are claimed by one family-one born pale and failing, the other a Black infant rescued from the wreckage of a foreign ship. To save their lineage, the D'Arcennes hide the sickly newborn and raise the rescued child, Maelys, as heir. Twenty-two years later, Maelys stands beneath the chandeliers of Solenir's glittering court, chosen as a potential bride for Crown Prince Laurent de Castillon. Their attraction is immediate-intellect, wit, and defiant grace ignite a scandalous spark. But whispers hiss through silk: foreign, unsuitable, impossible. When Elara-the hidden trueborn-arrives in disguise, the court becomes a crucible of rumor and knives. A kidnapping, a great hearing, a kingdom's breath held between truth and ruin. With assassins in shadows and tradition wielded like a blade, Maelys must outplay courtiers who would rather see her vanish than rule. Love, loyalty, and identity wage war beneath painted ceilings. To claim her fate-and a future for her kingdom-Maelys must become more than the girl who was switched. She must become the queen who chooses. ©️ _RelleLebby_ // R. L.

One night. That was all Lena Ryker allowed herself when she moved back to Coronado, California-grieving, exhausted, and desperate to be closer to her brother after their father's death. A night of heat. A night of reckless, nameless passion. She never expected those steel-grey eyes to haunt her. To burn into her memory like a bullet she couldn't dig out. It was supposed to mean nothing. Until she learns the man she gave herself to-without names, without promises-is her brother's team leader. Lieutenant Knox Calder: off-limits, unreadable, and impossibly dangerous. Now, all Lena can do is ignore the pull. The way he watches her. The way he already knows her body better than any man ever should. Everything about him should warn her away. But that night already happened. That line's already been crossed. Now, tension brews beneath every glance. Heat simmers where silence stretches. But something else stirs beneath the surface too. Something watching. Waiting. Lena tries to move on, to keep her secrets buried and her desires in check. But the danger doesn't knock first. It slips in quietly. And when it finally shows its face-nothing, and no one, will be the same.

One night. No promises. No names. Just desire. In a luxury Los Angeles penthouse, two strangers cross paths beneath the glow of a city that never sleeps. She's trying to forget. He's trying not to feel. What begins as a kiss turns into something deeper-hotter, wilder-something neither of them expected but both secretly needed. They swore it would be only one night. But California nights have a way of leaving scars... and memories that refuse to fade. A short, steamy, and emotional one-shot about passion, timing, and the fire between two people who were never meant to stay.