Free Contemporary Romance

She's given up on love after a heartbreak that changed everything. He's never believed in love at all. When Nora and Ethan meet for a disastrous first date, they agree they'll never see each other again. But fate and a new project at work has other plans. As irritation turns into laughter, attraction, and unexpected trust, they begin to wonder if the person they were determined to avoid might be the person they've been waiting for. Sometimes the worst first date can become the beginning of the greatest love story.

She's spent two years secretly loving her co-worker, convinced he'll never see her as anything more than a friend. But after Emma earns a major promotion, Daniel suddenly begins looking at her differently. As their friendship turns into something neither of them can ignore, office gossip, career fears, and hidden feelings threaten everything. Falling for your co-worker was never part of the plan but sometimes the love you've been afraid to confess is the one you've been waiting for all along.

She’s accidentally engaged to the perfect man everyone approves of but her heart keeps choosing his irresistible, chaotic best friend. When a fake engagement turns into real feelings, she must decide whether to follow the safe choice or risk everything for the love she never expected.

A guarded single dad hires a warm-hearted nanny to care for his daughter, never expecting her to become the person who brings laughter, healing, and love back into their lives.

He needs a fiancée to secure the biggest deal of his life. She needs money to save the family business that has been falling apart for years. The arrangement should have been simple: six months, one engagement ring, and absolutely no feelings. But Clara Bennett was never supposed to get under Ethan Blackwood's skin. She's warm where he's guarded, stubborn where he's accustomed to control, and completely unimpressed by his billions. Ethan has spent his life building walls around his heart, but pretending to love Clara begins to feel dangerously easy. Soon, the fake smiles become real. The accidental touches linger too long. And the billionaire who thought love was a weakness discovers the one thing money can never buy: the woman who has become impossible to lose.

Julian Black has spent twenty years running from what he is-a man forged in violence, shaped by trauma, and starved of anything resembling tenderness. He runs a private security empire that operates in the shadows, protecting the powerful and destroying their enemies. He's never wanted anything for himself. Until Elara. She's everything he's not-soft, unbroken, luminous. She works in his building, a junior architect with dreams she still believes in. She's the first person in twenty years who's looked at him without flinching. He should stay away. He should protect her from the darkness that lives inside him. Instead, he becomes obsessed. He watches her. He follows her. He learns everything about her. And when he finally speaks to her, he doesn't warn her away-he seduces her into the shadows. But Julian has secrets. Dark ones. And when Elara discovers the truth about what he really does, she'll have to decide: is he the monster she should run from, or is he the only one who can protect her from the real evil closing in?

Three years ago, Lena Park walked out of Nathan Chen's life without an explanation. She took his secrets with her-secrets that could destroy his empire. Now she's back in his orbit as the forensic accountant assigned to investigate his company. Nathan doesn't believe in coincidences. He believes in control, in revenge, in never letting anyone leave twice. He'll uncover why she left. He'll make her pay for the three years he spent obsessing over her. And he'll do whatever it takes to keep her this time-even if it means destroying the life she's built. But Lena isn't the same woman who ran. She has her own secrets now. And some secrets are worth dying for.

She had four days to save her family. She made a deal with the devil. Lena Vasquez walks into Elias Vane's office with nothing to offer but time - three years of her life in exchange for her family's survival. He owns half the city. He could have asked for anything. He asked for her presence. Her work. Her honesty. She thought that was the dangerous part. She was wrong. The dangerous part was finding out that the devil draws lines. That he tells the truth even when it costs him. That the man behind the reputation is someone she wasn't supposed to understand - let alone choose. He wanted her soul. She kept it the whole time. And gave him something rarer instead. Some bargains cost everything. Some teach you what you were actually worth all along.

Marcus Voss doesn't lose. He acquires, conquers, and discards. But when his new assistant walks in twelve minutes late and doesn't apologize, something shifts in a man who has never been denied anything. She's not impressed by his empire. She's not afraid of his reputation. And the more she resists, the more he can't let go. This is not a love story. Not yet. Maybe not ever. But it's the truest thing Marcus Voss has ever felt.

Theo Kim runs a failing independent bookstore in a neighborhood being devoured by luxury condos. He's stubborn, bitter, and still grieving a loss he won't talk about. Enter Clara Vance - the cheerful, relentlessly optimistic urban planner assigned to oversee his block's redevelopment. She's the enemy. She's also the only person who's noticed that every night, Theo folds one perfect paper crane and leaves it on the windowsill facing east. What she doesn't know: he's been folding them for three years, one for every day since his wife died. Clara is too bright for a man who's made a home in the dark. But she keeps showing up. And she keeps asking questions he doesn't want to answer.