Best Contemporary Romance Novels Novels & Stories

After a team building event, my colleague, Matthew Wells, gives me a ride to the company so I can work overtime. That very night, his girlfriend throws a fit and claims I'm a homewrecker who tried to seduce Matthew. She even produces edited photos of us being intimate. The company's management speaks to Matthew and me—he claims I regularly harass him and pushes the blame on me. The management labels me as a troublemaker and fires me. My apprentice tries to speak up for me but gets bullied and sidelined. Ultimately, she quits out of depression. I charge over to the company to seek justice for my apprentice but accidentally get pushed down a staircase during an argument. I land with my head on the ground and die on the spot. When I open my eyes again, I'm reborn and taken back to when Matthew's girlfriend starts throwing a fit.

"No, way! I don't want Heaven to marry that guy Tita, Tito!" I'm kinda shock when Ethan spoke, I didn't expect him to speak like that. "And I don't want Ethan to marry that girl Tita, Tito!" Mom and dad look disappointed. "Why are you always against each other's marriage? Are you two--" I don't know why I suddenly think of this right now but I don't care anymore! "W-We have a relationship! I love Ethan that's why I don't want him to marry another girl!" I turned my gaze to Ethan, he looked shock but then he suddenly held my hand. "Y-Yeah, Heaven is right, mom! We love each other that's why I don't her to marry him! The girl I want to marry is Heaven!" "WHAT??" "I thought you two are just friends..." "Best friend..."

Jacob Gordon was the only surviving male in a family of playboys and heartbreaker. Everyone in his family expected him to follow the footsteps of his father and ancestors; to wreck every girl’s heart! However, he’s different! Except for the women in his family, he couldn’t co-exist with a woman, until Blair Cuizon entered into his life. She pretended to be man just to get the job…and his heart!

Lina has spent years hiding one secret. She is in love with her best friend’s cousin. Mick was never meant to be hers. He was off limits. Untouchable. And Lina made sure her feelings stayed buried where no one could see them. Until one night. One bad day. One lonely decision. One drink that turned into too many. And suddenly… Mick is right in front of her again. He’s not supposed to be here. Not this close. Not looking at her like that. What starts as a simple conversation turns into something neither of them planned… and one night changes everything. Now Lina is left with a question she can’t escape: Was it just a mistake… Or something she’s wanted all along?

Zeke and I always said we'd be best friends forever since we were pups. Everyone always assumed we'd end up as mates but we laughed it off. So when we both turned 18 and the string of destiny snapped into place tying us together, I was over the moon. But Zeke telling me he'd never mate with a mutt like me. Now my worst enemy Chris and I have a plan. "What if…we fake dated?" "What?" "Nothing would really piss Zeke off more than not only you saying no to being his breeder than also making him think we're getting each other's rocks off." "You in?" I stuck my hand out. "You got it, boyfriend."

Aliyah Rhodes has three rules: 1. Don’t stop. 2. Don’t look. 3. Don’t get involved. She breaks all three when she finds Dominic Blackwood bleeding out in her alley at 11:47 PM. She saves his life. He pays her tuition. She says don’t follow. He buys her building. She says don’t touch. He kills the man who tries. Dominic Blackwood is a billionaire. A don. Wanted for triple homicide. He doesn’t make threats. He makes promises. _You’re safe. That’s the only rule that matters._ Aliyah’s broke, pissed, and done being owned by anyone. But $260K says she’s already his. And his aunt wants her dead. He won’t let her go. She won’t say thank you. Neither of them runs. *Owned by the Don* is a dark, open-door romance where debt is a weapon, “no” is a dare, and love looks a lot like surveillance.

Aria Vale was raised to be invisible in a powerful family that never wanted her. At her elite university, she survives on scholarship and intelligence, quietly nursing a lifelong crush on Adrian Blackwood—her childhood best friend and the campus golden boy she has loved from afar for years. On graduation night, Aria finally gives herself to him, believing her feelings are returned and that’s love. That single night ruins her life. Aria walks in on her stepsister in bed with the man she trusted most. Adrian turns his back on her, she is left pregnant, and her family casts her out in shame. With nowhere to go, Aria disappears and survives with the help of Julian Cross, a kind doctor who protects her and helps her rebuild her life. Five years later, a global medical crisis erupts, and the only person who can stop it is Dr. Aria Vale, now a respected scientist. Adrian, now a powerful CEO, must work with the woman he once destroyed, unaware that the child she is raising is his. Julian stands firmly at Aria’s side—not just as her protector, but as the man who helped raise her son and heal her wounds. As the crisis stabilizes, the real battle begins, not for power or control, but for Aria’s heart. Caught between the man who abandoned her and the man who stayed, Aria must choose between a love that shattered her and a life that finally kept her safe.

I’ve been in love with my brothers’ best friend since I was fifteen. Now, at nineteen, watching Enzo Rivera fuck another woman by his pool is killing me inside. Enzo is the star linebacker of our college team, a heir to the legendary Rivera football dynasty, and completely off-limits. My four overprotective brothers made sure of that—their innocent little sister is not to be touched. Especially not by him. But I’m done waiting. Tired of hearing him ruin other women through the walls of his mansion while I ache for him in the guest room next door. So I did something reckless. I asked Enzo to give me private dirty lessons. I lied and told him it was so I could seduce one of his teammates. He doesn’t know the truth—that every filthy lesson I begged for is really for him. That I want his hands on me. His mouth. That big cock I’ve fantasized about for years. I want him to teach me everything. . .and then break every rule with me. What starts as stolen touches and dangerous “practice” quickly turns into raw, addictive passion. But Enzo is hiding his own dark secret: beneath the football legacy his father demands, he’s living for underground street racing, the one thing that truly sets him free. One lie. One forbidden touch. Nights of pure pleasure. And everything could explode—our families, his future, and my heart. He was supposed to teach me how to seduce someone else. Instead, he’s teaching me how it feels to be completely ruined by the only man I’ve ever loved. A scorching forbidden brothers’ best friend romance packed with jealousy, filthy lessons, family secrets, and dangerous passion.

Am sorry Eric but my heart belongs to someone else. To another man and he is none other than your dad. So we can't have anything between us. I really love him. I told Eric finally after going into circles the all day. You know he also....... Shut up you bitch!!!! He vexed out on me before l could continue the sentence.

✧𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐕𝐄𝐈𝐋 𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐘 ✧ Step into these ancient halls and pray you survive. Rival houses hunger for blood. Fated bonds twist into curses that destroy you. Deadly trials lurk in every shadow, ready to devour your magic, shatter your loyalty, or claim your soul forever. Only the strongest endure. In a world where witches and werewolves are sworn enemies, Serena Blackthorn is the broken outcast no one wants. Starved of love, blamed for her family's tragic ruin, and cursed with a volatile power that could destroy the fragile peace between their races. When she's thrown into the deadly halls of Eclipsed Veil Academy, she collides with Darius Vanguard: the ruthless, silver-eyed Alpha heir who hates witches and sees her as nothing but a threat to his pack. As ancient prophecies unravel, deadly trials test them, and betrayals cut deeper than claws, Serena must decide if she'll surrender to the Alpha who keeps breaking her or unleash the Eclipse Veil and burn their entire world down for the one man she was never meant to claim. Dark Academia | Reverse Harem | Enemies | Action Packed | Secrets | Power | Spells