Contemporary Romance Web Novels & Reject Stories

Rhea Reynolds walks in on her husband of 10 years, Henry Reynolds, getting engaged to his first love, Hannah Collins, on their anniversary. He serves her divorce papers with a cold-blooded “I don’t love you anymore” confession. Hit by the devastating betrayal, Rhea’s entire world takes a shattering turn, especially when her only son, Kayon, rejects her too and chooses another woman as his new mom. Rhea gave Henry and Kayon everything, but they effortlessly discarded her like she meant nothing to them. Heartbroken and humiliated, Rhea is forced back to the life she abandoned for Henry, her family, and the Rossi, whom she cut ties with years ago. Now, she’s broken beyond recognition, barely hanging by a thread, and seeing the world through red. But when Lucian, her childhood friend, comes running to save her, she sees a flicker of hope. Lucian Foster swears to help her get back everything she lost. Her honor, her respect, her empire, the years she wasted living a painful lie with Henry. Together, they’d make Henry grovel at Rhea’s feet and realize she was much more than the wife he reduced her to. But what Rhea didn’t know was that beneath Lucian’s unyielding support lay a heart that has craved Rhea’s love for years. When Rhea comes back from her pain and rise into her true formidable self, Henry tries to crawl back. Henry now wants a second chance, while Lucian feels this is his only chance to finally get the woman he’s always loved and make her his. Will Lucian finally let Rhea know his feelings for her and take his chance at forever, or will Rhea risk her heart again for the return of the very man who broke her into pieces?

To save her family from drowning in debt, college student Emilia Jones makes a desperate choice. She becomes the secret hook up companion of Charles Reed, a rich and mysterious man who pays her well to keep their arrangement private. Their rules are clear: no feelings and no one can ever know. But everything changes when Emilia walks into her new classroom… and sees Charles standing at the front of the room. The man she meets in secret is now her professor. As forbidden feelings grow and Charles’s dark secrets start to come out, their hidden arrangement begins to fall apart. Emilia soon realizes that falling for her professor could cost her everything.

I gave up my life, stayed back home, and be his wife as he requested yet when his ex returned, he didn't think twice before tossing me aside like I was never meant to exist in his world. With tearful eyes, I knelt before Kyle, my knees hurting “Please don't do this to me. We've been together for too long for you to do this! Don't do this to us, don't throw me out of your life!” I begged, with my lips quivering, and my eyes digging into Kyle’s, hoping all this was just a joke But he looked me dead in the eyes and said, “You never meant anything to me, Selene. I’ve always had someone I love. K9 Leave already!” His cold voice sounded, and in that instant, I felt my world shatter. “You can't do this to me! Please! Kyle!” I screamed all into deaf ears.

After catching her boyfriend, Ian, kissing her younger sister, Ruby, Clara Jones walks away from her family and spends the next year trying to rebuild her life. But when her mother begs her to come home for Christmas because her father is sick, Clara knows exactly what she is walking back into: the family that chose her sister, the ex who betrayed her, and the perfect couple they have become. There is only one problem. Clara refuses to show up alone. With the help of her best friend Mandy, she finds Henry Silva, a gorgeous Brazilian chef and YouTube sensation with two million followers—and hires him to be her fake boyfriend for Christmas. Henry agrees, but he has three rules: Clara does exactly what he says, nobody can know their relationship is fake, and most importantly, she cannot fall in love with him. Clara thinks that last rule will be easy. Then Henry walks into her parents' house, charms her family, makes her jealous ex look insignificant, and proves that the shirtless chef everyone is obsessed with is much more than a pretty face. As the fake relationship becomes harder to fake, Clara finds herself caught between the revenge she came home for and the feelings she never expected. Because Henry was supposed to be her fake boyfriend. She just never expected him to become the man she might actually fall for.

Veronica's husband stole her body before he ever raised a hand to her. While she lay unconscious from secret donor surgeries, Caleb and his mistress Ava were carving her up, piece by piece, and grooming her own daughter to call another woman "mommy." ‎ ‎When she finally wakes up broken, diagnosed with a degenerative organ-failure syndrome, and utterly alone, Veronica realizes the people who were supposed to love her had already decided she was easier to use than to leave. ‎ ‎So she lets them believe she's dead. ‎ ‎With a billionaire ex-classmate as her strategic husband, a new face, and a folder of evidence that could end Caleb's empire, Veronica rebuilds herself from the ashes of a marriage that nearly killed her. Every forged signature, every payoff, every cover-up gets fed back to the man who thought he buried her for good. ‎ ‎Then she walks back into his boardroom alive, on another man's arm, and watches twelve years of lies collapse in real time. ‎

Aria Kane thought the Moon Goddess had finally favored her when Alpha Kael Voss of the Shadowthorn Pack claimed her as his fated mate beneath the blood moon,his hand wrapped around her throat, his teeth grazing her neck while the entire pack watched in awe. One heartbeat later, he shattered her. “You are nothing but weak, weak filth,” he snarled, rejecting their bond in front of everyone before choosing the pure blooded Seraphina as his Luna for a political alliance. Humiliated, broken, and cast out like trash, Aria fled into the night with nothing but the burning scar of a severed mate bond. Two months later, she discovered she was carrying his twins. Five years on, Aria returns to Shadowthorn,not as the timid girl they discarded, but as a deadly rogue hunter with a reputation soaked in blood. She is raising two powerful five year old heirs who carry ancient shadow wolf blood and gifts that could destroy the pack. When a brutal war with the rival Crimsonfang Pack forces Kael to summon her back under threat of death, the rejected mate bond erupts violently between them. The same alpha who once humiliated her now looks at her like a starving beast, desperate to claim what he threw away. He will lock her in his chambers, knot her until she screams, and burn his own empire to possess her again. But Aria is done being anyone’s mate. She has secrets that could topple the Shadowthorn throne. Allies who betrayed her in the darkest ways. And two innocent children Kael can never have,unless he is willing to kneel, bleed, and destroy everything he once chose over her.

BLURB Elara has spent eighteen years at the bottom of her pack. She is an orphaned Omega with no wolf, and she scrubs the floors of people who step on her hands. On her eighteenth birthday the Moon Goddess gives her a mate: Callum, the Alpha's son and the only person who has ever been kind to her. Within minutes he rejects her in front of the whole pack and claims the Beta's daughter instead. Heartbroken, Elara runs into the night and collides with a brooding stranger who tells her to take her crying somewhere else. They trade insults. Neither can ignore the heat between them. Then an elderly man sees her face and calls her by a name she has never heard: Elara Vale. She is the stolen daughter of the most powerful Alpha on the continent, and the stranger is the Lycan Prince she was promised to at birth. Now Elara has a family she never knew, a sister who smiles while she plots, a fiancé she swears she hates, and a former mate who wants her back. Someone took her sixteen years ago, and they are not finished. She must decide who she is before the people who underestimated her take everything away again.

“Take me to the altar. Save me from this humiliation, and I will do anything you want.” Sonnet was the most hated Omega in her pack. Abused, beaten, and used as nothing more than a political pawn, she believed her wedding day would finally be her way out. Instead, her cruel fiancé abandoned her at the altar, condemning her to endure the worst public humiliation in front of the very pack that had tormented her all her life. Panicked and desperate, Sonnet fled through the corridors of the cathedral. Blinded by her tears, she collided with an enormous man whose presence radiated a dark and oppressive aura. Without thinking, she wrapped her arms around his neck, kissed him passionately, and begged him to become her husband for the duration of the ceremony. She took him for nothing more than a wealthy guest. She had no idea that he was King Salvador, the most ruthless, feared, and enigmatic Lycan King in the world. To her greatest astonishment, the ice-cold sovereign curved his lips into a smile as dangerous as it was deadly... then accepted. When Salvador walked toward the altar, Sonnet's entire pack was seized by terror. But Sonnet quickly realized that the King's help came with a price. He had not accepted her request out of compassion. The moment their lips met, his inner wolf roared a single word: Mate. Now bound to a man who rules entire kingdoms, Sonnet must survive the ruthless intrigues of the royal court. Can a broken Omega become the accidental Luna of an unmerciful King who refuses to let her go?

To the world, he's a stone hearted heart breaker... A tycoon who believes women are disposable.... Until she came into his life, fresh out of a heart break. Fired and homeless. This time he believes he is using her but he has no idea... Falling into his trap was her plan all along, because this time. He's the one being played.

Liana never imagined that saving her mother would force her to marry the one man she hated. Damon is feared in Country Golden. To the public, he is a powerful and respected business tycoon known for his strict sense of justice. But behind closed doors, another name is whispered in fear... Liana has known Damon since childhood, hatred has always been the only thing between them. when her mother is involved in a terrible accident, no hospital is willing to treat her because of the powerful enemy behind it. Desperate, she goes to Damon, prepared to give him everything in exchange for her mother's life. But Damon wants something money cannot buy. He wants her to become his wife. With her mother's life at stake, Liana accepts the deal. Overnight, the woman who swore never to belong to Damon becomes his wife. But marriage to Damon is nothing like Liana expected. He is arrogant, impossible to understand, and strangely protective of her. He secretly assigns men to guard her, makes sure her mother receives best treatment, manipulates circumstances to protect Liana’s career, and even keeps enemies away from her. Yet whenever Liana tries to understand him, Damon hides behind his usual teasing and cruelty. would a man who claims to hate her go this far to protect her? Liana begins to realize that their marriage may never have been a simple deal. There are secrets surrounding their past, enemies and truths her mother may be hiding from her. The man Liana calls her ruthless enemy may be the only person standing between her and the people who want her destroyed. But before Liana can uncover the truth, she must answer the question; Did Damon marry her because he hated her... or because he was seeing something? Let's find out.

A single night changes everything in Isabella's life. After her mate, Jace, rejects her, she begs her brother's best friend—Killian—to take her pain away. It was meant to be a mistake. They were supposed to return back to the way things were, but they couldn't. Everyday they yearn for each other, for another night of passion, but as a weak omega from a cursed family, Isabella's relationship with the Alpha's son is forbidden.

Blurb Serafina Ferraro was born from an affair and raised like trash nobody wanted to throw out. Her stepmother hated her. Her sister mocked her. And Nico Caruso, the man she gave up everything for, drugged her and tried to sell her body to his boss. "You belong to me," Nico snarled, gripping her jaw. "You are like a stray dog. You bite, so you get smacked until you learn to sit still." Then a stranger kicked the door open. "I could have sworn I heard a damsel in distress," Dante Valentino said, calm as ice. He is not a hero. He is the illegitimate son of a powerful family, with his own war to fight. He does not save her out of kindness. "Do you want revenge?" he asked. She trains. She transforms. She becomes the woman nobody dares to laugh at again. But when Nico crawls back begging for forgiveness, old wounds threaten to pull her under, until Dante says three words she never expected. "I want you." Then they take her from him. They should not have done that.

"I reject you, fatass." Dean Ashcroft says it laughing, in front of the whole pack, on the night the Moon Goddess herself picked them as mates. He doesn't even flinch. Just walks away and leaves Delaney Reeves standing there with a broken bond and a room full of people snickering behind their hands. She's done crying by the time she gets home. She's not the type. She goes quiet instead, and quiet means she's already leaving. She gets two steps off the porch before Dean grabs her arm hard enough to bruise. His mate isn't going anywhere, he growls, like he has any right to say that now. That's when the real bond hits her. Not with Dean. With the stranger standing on the porch, a man she's never met until tonight. Jaxton Cole. Alpha of Ashford Ridge Pack. Here for treaty business, not for this. Two Alphas. One woman. One bond breaks and another one lights up in its place, both in the same ten minutes. Delaney thinks the worst night of her life is behind her. She's wrong. Her body starts doing things that shouldn't be possible. Her mother's death wasn't the accident everyone always said it was. And a man who's spent decades chasing a grudge older than Delaney herself is done waiting in the shadows for what he thinks he's owed. Dean wants forgiveness. Jaxton wants forever. And something out there wants Delaney for exactly what her blood can do, whether she agrees to it or not. She's spent her whole life being decided for. Not anymore. She was never his to reject. She's about to make sure everyone remembers that.

Wren married into the Castellano name believing she'd been chosen. She hadn't. She'd been selected, the way you select livestock for good breeding. When she found the contract that proved her husband's mother had picked her for her clean medical history and nothing else, she didn't scream. She packed a bag, took the child growing inside her, and disappeared before anyone thought to check the nursery. Five years later she's Dr. Wren Calloway, the surgeon who rebuilds the faces of people who used to have power. She doesn't do it for absolution. She does it because control is the only thing that ever kept her safe. Then Sebastian Castellano walks into her clinic asking for a consultation under a false name, and recognizes her before she can get the door closed. He has spent five years hunting a woman who vanished without a trace, and he never once imagined she'd taken something of his with her. Now he wants back in, not just to the marriage he wrecked but to the son he never got to name. Wren isn't interested in giving him either.