Contemporaryromance Stories

Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option. ***** Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her... Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault. [[word count: 50,000-100,000 words]]

Bella's life was simple, safe... predictable. Until Grayson, her husband's younger brother, showed up. He's dangerous, irresistible, and everything Damian isn't. Every glance makes her pulse race, every touch sets her skin on fire. They're not supposed to want each other-but desire doesn't care about rules. One stolen kiss. One secret touch. One night that changes everything. Safe marriage or forbidden obsession... which will she choose?

[This story will become free on June 15th 2022] In the sequel to When Best Friends Kiss, Liam is faced with the life Alex has built without him. Can their love survive when they've become so different? ***** Fresh out of university and settled into a new apartment, Liam and Alex are ready to start their life together. While Alex finds passion in journalism and has more friends than he can count, Liam is frustrated with his photography and awkward around Alex's LGBTQ friends. Seeing the life Alex has built without him, and how different they've become, Liam finds his insecurities resurfacing and mental health spiraling downwards. After the time they've spent apart, do Liam and Alex really belong together? Or will their love story end before it starts its next chapter? (Sequel to When Best Friends Kiss.) [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]

The QB, Summer and Me is a new story in The QB and Me universe. Dallas and Drayton spend their summer after high school together. Eleven weeks before they go their separate ways for college. She's heading to California. He's staying in Texas. From lakehouse getaways to midnight rides, it's a summer full of love, uncertainty, and a secret that could change everything. Set during their final summer before college, this standalone novella exists outside the events of the film franchise and offers a fresh, romantic glimpse into Dallas and Drayton's story.

He is cold, cunning, and calculated-everything she never expected. She is brilliant, graceful, and unshakable-everything he didn't anticipate. A marriage built on strategy. A husband who wants control. A wife who refuses to break. In a world of power, pride, and unspoken grudges, hearts can be weapons, and love can be dangerous. How far would you go to win someone... or to hold onto them? Because You Were Mine is a story of desire, deception, and the tension that burns quietly between two unstoppable forces.

Alexander didn't cheat. He just gave someone else his attention, his laughter, and the smiles that used to belong to his wife. And she watched him drift - not to another woman's bed, but to her presence. Her laugh. The way she made him feel seen in a room full of people. Everything he found in someone else - Zara had been giving him all along. Eight years of marriage. One little boy who loved them both. And Zara standing in the middle of it all - wondering when she became the woman he stopped choosing. She warned him. Three times. The first - he dismissed her. The second - he called her jealous. The third - he called her insecure. So she stopped warning him altogether. And stopped waiting. Love wasn't enough... and now it might be too late.

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One month. One city boy. And the one girl who refuses to play by his rules. ​Ruhaan's life has always been about the next big thing-the next deal, the next party, the next flight out of Mumbai. But when his journey takes him to the peaks of Manali, he finds himself standing still for the first time. ​The reason? Ishani. ​Ishani is a mystery wrapped in layers of wool and silence. She doesn't seek attention, and she certainly doesn't seek him. She treats Ruhaan like a passing tourist-someone who will be gone soon. ​Ruhaan was supposed to be a temporary guest in her world. But a temporary stay isn't enough to understand the girl who looks at the mountains with more warmth than she looks at him. ​With a single text to Veer-"Staying in Manali for the full month"-Ruhaan deletes his exit strategy. ​The flight back to Mumbai can wait. The city can wait. For the next thirty days, Ruhaan has only one goal: to stop being a stranger and start being the person she finally lets in.

In the chaotic halls of Toronto Memorial, Dr. Liam Vance lives for the adrenaline of the ER. He heals what he can see: bleeding wounds and broken bones. But when a trauma case brings him face-to-face with Dr. Elara Sterling, the hospital's most enigmatic psychiatrist, he realizes some wounds don't bleed. He races against time; she masters the art of waiting. He saves lives; she saves souls. Between late-night shifts under the Canadian snow and the high-stakes tension of the trauma ward, two worlds collide. Can a man who fears losing control fall for a woman who reads every thought he tries to hide?

The colony watched them grow up together. Paper airplanes over the boundary wall. Eleven years of school steps and the specific, unspoken language of two people who have been beside each other long enough to stop noticing they're necessary. Then a complaint is filed on a Tuesday. One word from the wrong person. The story passes from house to house - it doesn't require facts, only the machinery of: I heard. Did you hear? They say. Arjun Malhotra leaves at twenty-two and builds an empire in the decade that follows. A fortress that cannot be entered. Riya Sharma leaves for Geneva. She builds herself smaller. The full version of herself managed down into something that does not ache. Ten years pass. His brother's wedding. Lake Como. A gate. She walks through it and he feels the decade collapse. Not gradually. Not with a process. Simply: stops. What follows is what two people build when they've been given back the decade they were owed. A plan in sixteen chapters. A South Delhi apartment with a neem tree on the balcony. Three children who become theirs. A threat from the past that isn't finished yet. And the slow, methodical work of two people learning to build each other. ⸻ ✦Second-chance romance. Slow burn. Delhi & Lake Como. A man who built walls instead of doors. A woman who never stopped knowing how to find the entrance.✦

She was never supposed to fall for her own husband. Aanya Mehta believed in practicality. In deadlines, sketchbooks, and keeping her heart at a safe, reasonable distance. Marriage was a contract - a sensible one, but a contract nonetheless. Rohan Singhania was supposed to be a stranger she shared a flat with. He wasn't supposed to learn her chai order by the third day. He wasn't supposed to save the window seat for her every single morning. He wasn't supposed to look at her like she was something worth staying for. But Mumbai is a city that has a way of pulling people together - in crowded trains, in monsoon rain, in kitchens at midnight - and Rohan is the kind of man who notices everything. The way she hums when she's focused. The way she laughs a second before everyone else gets the joke. The way she looks out of windows like she's always looking for something. What happens when the life you agreed to starts feeling like the one you'd have chosen anyway? What happens when the man you married starts feeling like home? And what happens when the world decides to pull him six thousand kilometres away - right when you finally figure out you can't breathe without him? Every Morning With You is a slow-burn, deeply romantic story about two people who were given each other and chose each other anyway. About love that doesn't arrive all at once but builds - in shared meals, quiet evenings, stolen glances, and one very important cup of tea. It tastes like two sugars and a little more milk than looks right. It tastes like home.

Lachlan and Meadow were best friends...in elementary school. All communication stopped in middle school, and she never knew why. Meadow wasn't ignorant; Lachlan was good-looking, rich, and popular, everything she wasn't. It doesn't take a genius to understand why he wanted to find new friends. Now it is senior year, and Lachlan has something to say to Meadow. But Meadow isn't sure if she can ever trust the boy who ghosted her all those years ago. Unfortunately, she is the yearbook photographer and is forced to photograph the football team. Specifically, the star quarterback. She can't avoid him forever. Lachlan is the reason Meadow doesn't trust anyone and has built her walls so high. Will he be the reason she tears those walls down?

[upcoming: may 2026] ⌞sports romance x second chance⌝ ──────── he hit her with a basketball in high school, years later, fate hits them harder when they meet again but now...as exes ────────

Weekly Updates Ten years ago, Simon Bennett was the nerd everyone laughed at - especially her. Now he's a successful tech CEO, armed with confidence. When a delayed flight forces him face-to-face with the cheer captain who made his teenage years unbearable, he's ready for closure... not chemistry. She doesn't even recognise him. But as old memories unravel and hidden grief comes to light, a hilarious, awkward, slow-burn romance begins - proving that sometimes love shows up long after the final bell rings. A romantic comedy about second chances, healing, and falling for the last person you expected.

I once told someone, in my best Devdas voice and with the utmost seriousness, "One day I'll write a book for you before I die." She looked at me, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Write it in a language I can read. Otherwise, I'll come kick your grave. Kameene, yeh kya likh ke mar gaya? Mujhe bhi padhni thi." (You scoundrel, what is this nonsense you wrote and then went and died? I wanted to read it too!) That should give you an idea about the heart of this story. Set in the 2010s Canada, between chai and snow, this is the story of Alizey and Zayan. Zayan didn't believe in marriage. Alizey believed it was sacred. He thought love was like mist, meant to be felt, not seen. She thought he sounded like an overdramatic Victorian novel. They didn't marry for romance. They married for a plan. The arrangement was simple. The feelings were not. What began as a practical agreement, two adults negotiating boundaries, rent, and kitchen duties, slowly turned into something far more unstoppable. Because love, when it finally arrives, doesn't knock politely. It walks in silently and stays. This is a story about marriage before love. Trust before desire. Surrender before confession. And the confounding realisation that sometimes, you don't choose your life partner. You just discover you already have.

Every summer, the island of Ibiza fills with people looking to become someone else for a season. For Marco, a bartender at a cliff-top bar in Sant Josep, that is exactly the point. For four years the island has given him what he needed most: anonymity, routine, and the unspoken agreement that nobody asks questions. Then Isla Voss walks in. She is a wealthy Dutch regular who comes to Ibiza for the light, not the parties. Quietly watchful, self-contained, and carrying something she has been carrying for a long time. She orders without looking at the menu. She tips without looking at the amount. She comes back the next evening, and the one after that. What follows is a slow, charged summer of cliff-top evenings, hidden coves, and candlelit dinners in the ancient walled town. Two people who are drawn to each other in spite of themselves, circling something neither of them is quite ready to name. But Marco is keeping a secret. And the longer the summer runs, the more the secret costs him. My Summer in Ibiza is a slow-burn literary romance set against the heat and beauty of the Mediterranean. It is a novel about the person you were before, the person you became after, and whether love can survive the distance between the two.

Amelia came to LA for a miracle surgery; she didn't expect to find a reason to stay. When she meets the charming Colby, she's terrified her disability makes her a "project" rather than a partner. But as secrets are outed and a grueling recovery begins, Colby proves he isn't exploring haunted houses anymore-he's exploring a future with her. A heartwarming story of resilience, Welsh grit, and a love that transcends the "noise" of fame.

She sent one message... And instantly wished she hadn't. He had 500,000 followers. She was never supposed to be noticed. But he noticed her. Dana...divorced, a mother of four, in her early fifties- wasn't looking for love... Not online. Not anymore. Paulo was everything she wasn't.... Young, admired, followed... And completely out of reach. What started as a mistake... Turned into conversations she couldn't walk away from. Messages became habits... Habits became feelings... And feelings became dangerous. Because some connections aren't meant to be real... And some people aren't meant to meet. In a world full of followers, reels, and hidden truths... One notification might change everything. Or destroy it. In a world full of messages... one reply can change everything. © 2026 Lunakyliedreams All Rights Reserved

Kritika moves to Noida to build a life of her own, not to fall for anyone. Abhimanyu is older, healing from a past that still hurts, and not looking for anything new. But life brings two people together not when they're ready, but when they need each other the most. As quiet moments turn into something deeper, timing, old wounds, and Rehan's spoken feelings make everything far more complicated than either expected. A tender slow-burn about Kritika and Abhimanyu- two hearts falling for the right person at the wrong time.