Historias de Romance
Dramas cortos, novelas por entregas y audiolibros: adictivos en minutos, inolvidables por días.
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North of Forever
Ten years after her first love vanished without a word, cafe owner Nora Calloway gets a sixty-day eviction notice from a faceless billion-dollar developer - and then Eli Vance walks back through her door, claiming he is only there to survey the harbor. He is lying: the reclusive billionaire buying her town is him, and saving what is left of them may cost him everything he built.
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The Billionaire's Contract Bride
She signed for the money. He signed for revenge.
Say Yes Again, For the Cameras
Izara Amestoy has spent seven years holding the Ferrywell — a pile-and-plank dance pavilion on the water at Ondine Bay — together with epoxy and stubbornness, and one November storm undoes all of it. A televised heritage grant offers a full restoration, but only to engaged couples, so when Emrys Quennell steps off the early ferry the same afternoon, Izara offers her ex the worst deal of both their lives: six weeks of fake devotion, filmed. Between the show's honest architect who falls for her for real, a rival contestant with a jeweler's receipt, and a lien release that proves Emrys never left her for the reason she believed, Izara has to decide whether she wants the building saved or the truth told — and learn, too late for a script, that she cannot have one without the other.
Devil's Cold Paradise
Juno Pellerin returns to Paradise Basin, the glacier resort her grandfather built and her family lost, to work for Sevrin Adlerhorst — the man the valley calls the Devil, whose brother died in the slide the world says Juno greenlit. She takes the contract to prove her signature on that fatal sign-off was forged; he signs it to make her confess. What they find instead is a third man, a mortgaged deed, and a brother who was sent up the couloir to die — and by the time the north face lets go, the only person either of them trusts is the one they came to ruin.
Penalty Minutes
Ilmari "Mars" Kaskinen has led the league in penalty minutes three years running, which is the only reason the Sable Harbor Kingfishers keep him — until a new general manager staples a sixty-minute conduct cap to his contract and sentences him to community-service hours with the 5 a.m. ice crew. Clemency "Clem" Pelletier works Gate 3 as the arena's penalty box attendant, drives Doris the Zamboni before dawn, and is quietly drowning in the arrears on her grandmother's shop, Pelletier Edgeworks; when a burst pipe in the team billet lands Mars in the room across her landing, she takes his rent money and his ridiculous deal: teach him how to sit still. He falls first, all the way, before she can admit she is the anonymous voice behind "Two Minutes for Everything," the town column that has been reading his hands for two seasons. By the last game the secret is public, her credential is pulled, he is sitting on fifty-eight minutes with a fractured orbit no one on the roster knows about — and the only way either of them keeps anything is if the enforcer refuses, once, to drop his gloves.
The Vineyard Inheritance
Nora Calloway returns to Harlow's Bend to sell the vineyard she never wanted, only to find its books, its vines, and its future tangled up with Eli Reyes—the first love she abandoned when she chased the city. As her grandmother's will forces them into one last harvest together, Nora must decide whether the roots she tore up can grow back, or whether some seasons only get one chance.
Every Bell in Ambervale
Tamsin Achterberg comes to Ambervale with ninety-nine stairs, four dead bells, and eleven days to prove a hundred-year-old carillon is worth saving. Cyrus Quintanilla, heir to the foundry that cast those bells, wants the tower gone — his father died inside it, and he has spent twelve years believing the failure was his family's fault. As the centennial ring closes in, an old ledger, a hidden sixth bell, and a grandmother's fading memory force them both to choose between the story they inherited and the one they could ring for themselves.
The Long Way Back to Harbor Row
Orla Quintrell comes back to Quillan Harbor for three days and a signature, and finds that her grandmother Ottilie left her the Cordage Building at 9 Harbor Row with a codicil attached: forty percent of it belongs to Bram Hallick, the boatwright who has kept the roof on for eleven years and hasn't spoken her name since the night she said she'd write. Neither can sell without the other, the eastern pilings under Slipway Nine are condemned, and the town ordinance gives them until Lantern Days to prove Harbor Row is still a working waterfront — while a hospitality developer quietly buys up Ottilie's debt. Between house calls, a half-finished 1968 sloop called the Halcyon Belle, and a sea chest of letters that never reached her, Orla and Bram have to decide whether the long way back is a route they're both still willing to sail.
Nine Weeks, One Ring, No Feelings
Solveig Marchetti runs the Ivory Line, an 800-foot funicular that has hauled the town of Perdita Bay up its own headland since 1911 — and it is two inspections away from being scrap. When Sorren Halloway arrives to close it, a lurching cable car and a badly timed newspaper photo turn them into the town's newly engaged sweethearts overnight, and they realize the lie is worth more than the truth: she gets a succession plan for the restoration grant, he gets the trust shares that vest after sixty public days and the votes to stop his father. They sign nine rules on the back of an inspection form, and they break every one of them, while each keeps a document hidden that will detonate the other's life at exactly the wrong moment.
The Rider's Second Flame
Sunniva Marrowlark tends the Emberwell, the great communal hearth whose flame keeps the cliff-city of Cindral Vault from freezing, and she coaxes the last dragon egg in the Reaches into hatching. The hatchling, Vyrrenne, does something no dragon has done in four hundred years: it splits its bond, taking its heat from Sunniva and its sky-sense from Kestrian Vohl, the grim Dragon-Rider whose first flame died in the Ashfall — which means the two of them must live, sleep, and fly inside a tether of two hundred paces or the hatchling guts out. As they discover that split bonds only ever fall on fated pairs, they also discover why the Emberwell has burned so long: the Vault has been siphoning dead dragons' flame into it, Kestrian's first dragon included, and the Ledgerwarden intends to make Vyrrenne the next fuel. The finale ends the siphon for good: the Emberwell is broken open into a hundred common hearths, the Sundering Nail is destroyed, and Kestrian and Sunniva choose each other out loud, with no fate required.
Load-Bearing
Marisol "Mars" Echeverría joins the reality build-off Last Standing for one reason: the prize money that can un-condemn her grandmother's Tarrow Island woodshop. The network pairs her with Auden Marchmont, the engineer who red-tagged that shop three years ago, then locks them in the same crumbling house with cameras in every room and a nondisclosure agreement that keeps him silent about what he actually found in those walls. Over sixty days of collapsing floors, storm nights, and a format twist that forces partners to compete for a single prize, the woman who swore she'd bury him has to decide whether the truth is worth more than winning — and the man who never bends has to break something on purpose for the first time in his life.
Partners in Crime
Special Agent Thomasin "Tam" Kirkbride built her career on the conviction of Emeka Vandersloot, the most gifted forger on the Eastern Seaboard. When a fake-of-a-fake surfaces in Providence, the Bureau hands her a partner she'd rather arrest again and a legend she can't refuse: two months undercover as an engaged couple of restorers at Cormorant House, where collector Anselm Varga-Ho is quietly turning forgers into fall guys. Between one bed, six weeks of proximity, and a mole inside her own office, Tam and Emeka discover that the lie they're performing is the truest thing either of them has ever done — and that saving each other will cost them the exact things they came in protecting.
Molten Point
Kess Vaillancourt has kept the Ember House hot shop burning in Fathom Point, Maine, since her mentor's stroke, but the mortgage has been sold and the furnace runs on borrowed time. When a quiet, capable stranger walks in offering to be her assistant for the Cold Coast Biennial commission, she takes the deal — not knowing he is Casimir Oyelaran, sent by his family's holding company to appraise the waterfront they intend to level. Over twelve weeks of shared heat, shared breath, and one impossible piece of glass, both of them have to decide what they're willing to burn down to keep the fire lit.
Two Hundred Years to Say It
Solveig Marchetti-Nwosu keeps the Sunline: nine hundred amber lanterns that hold stored daylight and hold the two-hundred-year peace between Ambergate's humans and its vampires. On the eve of the Concord's renewal, the lanterns start failing and the Concord sends Ossian Kirkbride — its last living signatory, and the man Solveig believes murdered her father — to negotiate, waking a fated binding that physically tethers them together. Forced into one house, one investigation and one impossible truce, they uncover a plot to forge the city's stolen daylight into a weapon, and Solveig must decide whether the vow that chained her to her enemy is a sentence or the only thing that was ever hers to choose.
A Bargain Made in Thorns
Ashenmarch is walled by the Briar, a living thorn hedge grown from a bargain struck three centuries ago, and Idonea Brackwater is one of the briarwrights licensed to prune it. When her shears bleed a Heartthorn that shouldn't exist, the Thorn Court sends its Debt-Keeper, Ossian Thray, to audit a balance the city has never once been asked to pay — and Ida buys herself forty-one days with a counter-bargain that binds her wrist to his in living thorn. What they find in the Registry of Bargains is a forged page, a tithe paid in Brackwater women, and a debt that was settled two hundred years ago; what they find in each other is the one thing the Ledger cannot price, and only one of them can pay to close the account.
Snowbound with the Grumpy Alpha: A Forty-Day Claim
Sunniva 'Nivi' Halloran is smuggling her newly presented brother out of Concord territory when black ice puts her truck in a ravine on Vondrak land, and the alpha who digs her out — Rurik Vondrak, grief-locked, scent-blind, universally feared — discovers she is the only living thing he can smell. With a census rider three days out and Toby's name already inked into the Ledger of Assigned Names, Rurik declares a false courtship, binding them to forty days under one roof and one set of watching eyes. What starts as performance becomes a real bond, and the bond becomes evidence — because the poison that stole Rurik's scent came from Nivi's mother's formula, and the Magistrate who used it is coming to take the pack, the boy, and her, lawfully.
Burn Scar: The Alpha I Was Sent to Destroy
Thessaly Ardaugh comes to Ashfall Ridge to explain three impossible uphill burns and leaves with a secret that ends careers: the Kettleback Pack runs the hotshot crew, and their alpha, Malachy Deverow, walked into a flame front to keep her alive. The scar on her palm turns out to be a tether laid by a dying wolf twenty-two years ago, a half-bond that is now eating her from the inside and that, by Concord law, is a capital crime for the man on the other end of it. To survive it she has to choose between a lawful Warden who can make her legal, an alpha who will die before he claims her, and the truth that the fires burning the West's packlands have been signed off by the same institution that promised to protect them.
The Widow's Ledger
Signy Draskovich weighs grain at 3 a.m. in a scale house on the Twin Ports harbor, and for six years her ledger — Book Seven — has quietly recorded the difference between what the Draskovich family declared and what it actually shipped. When her husband's debt comes due, his mother trades Signy in marriage to Casimir Ostrovan, the harbor pilot who inherited the family that everyone says put Emeric in the canal. Forced into the same house, the same name, and eventually the same side, they follow the numbers in Book Seven to the person who really signed the order — and Signy learns the last entry in her own ledger lists her as collateral.
Off the Clock, On the Record
Iolanthe "Yola" Vetterli arrives at The Ostrander with a ninety-day mandate, a signed conduct rider that makes one HR complaint career-ending, and no idea her employer already intends to gut the building. Ottoline "Otto" Sarkis-Reyes has run the hotel's nights for six years and has been quietly giving away forty rooms a night under a ledger nobody's opened since 1927. What starts as a rule — nothing after 2 a.m. counts — becomes a secret relationship conducted in stairwells, out-of-order rooms and blind spots, until the same paper trail that could destroy them turns out to be the only thing that can save the hotel.
The Kestrel Letters
Odalys Ferrer-Quist runs the Kestrel III, the final "mail by the pail" route on the Great Lakes, hauling letters up the sides of freighters on a rope for crews who won't touch land for months. When Meridian Freight sends surveyor Ansel Brandvold to ride along for a fourteen-day viability audit, Oda hides the ledgers that would end the argument in an afternoon — and Ansel hides that he's been to Halcyon Point before, and that he took this job to come back. Between them sits the town's Dead Letter Room and forty sealed letters from 1961 that prove the only thing worth auditing is what happens when a message finally lands.
Melt Me Down: The Billionaire I Was Hired to Destroy
Ondine Kavanagh shuts down dying companies for a living, and she's good at it because she fights for the people on the way out — which is why Ashcombe Partners sends her to Marrow Point to liquidate Kilnbright Glassworks before anyone can mount a defense. The floor's most infuriating gaffer's assistant, Rye Locke, blocks her at every turn, argues with her in the dark, kisses her like a dare, and never once mentions that he is Emrys Adeyeye-Locke, the invisible owner who bought Kilnbright two years ago and has been learning it from the hot end up. When the truth detonates in front of the whole town, Ondine has to decide whether the man she fell for is another suit who lied to her — and whether the skills she uses to bury companies can be run in reverse fast enough to save one.
On Call
When 26-year-old Bellamy Ntuli dies during a network outage in the Ardenmoor General emergency department, interim medical director Dr. Ravenna "Ven" Sotiriou becomes the named subject of a sentinel-event investigation led by Wilhelmina "Mina" Achterberg — the woman she slept with, anonymously, six weeks earlier. As Mina digs, the evidence stops pointing at Ven's judgment and starts pointing at Sightline, a quietly installed triage-staffing algorithm the hospital's new corporate owner has every reason to bury. Their affair is the one thing that can discredit them both, and the only thing keeping either of them upright while the people who wrote the algorithm decide which of them to burn.
The Heir of Ravenmoor
Marlowe Quill talks her way into Ravenmoor Lodge to write its hundred-year feature, only to collide with Idris Halloran, the surly groundskeeper who wants her gone before the first snow. When a storm strands them together, she uncovers a portrait that proves the estate's vanished heir never vanished at all — and that the steward tightening his grip on the family fortune has every reason to keep the truth buried. What starts as a war of barbs becomes the one alliance that can save a name neither of them was supposed to want.
Burn Me Cold
In Hallowmere, a city stacked on top of its own graveyard, Kindlers burn the dead clean and Wardens of the Quiet walk them home — and the Accord forbids the two orders from so much as brushing hands, because a bonded pair can crack the veil. When four hundred souls go missing from the ledgers, hearth-witch Thessaly Ndukwe is chained to Warden Ozren Vasilek, a man who hasn't felt warm in nine years and would prefer to keep it that way. What they find under the city is not a thief but a leash: the Accord was forged by unmaking a pair exactly like them, and the Provost intends to do it again — which leaves Thess and Ozren one impossible choice, break the Seal or be it.
One More Century to Ask
Nika Bevk has brought ships into Trieste since 1613, and under the Anchor Law of the Roadstead — the port's vampire polity — she is owed one Asking per century: one mortal she may offer eternity, who then belongs to her forever. She let 1926 lapse and swore never to own anyone the way her maker owns her; then Nevio Cattarin, fourth-generation keeper of the Faro della Vittoria, finds her face in his great-grandfather's logbook and refuses to be afraid of her. When the Roadstead's harbormaster writes Nevio's name in the ledger to be Asked at dawn on the solstice, Nika learns that the lighthouse her keeper has been winding all his life is the ward over the stone that anchors every vampire in the port — and that saving him means renouncing forever the only power that could keep him.
The Nightjar Clause
Constance "Stanzi" Okoro-Lindqvist lost her literary career to one devastating review and rebuilt it in the dark, writing steamy bestsellers as the anonymous Nightjar. When the Vellum Prize shortlists Nightjar under a clause requiring the winner to appear unmasked, Stanzi must judge her own secret book beside Anselm Duquesne — the critic whose byline ruined her, who has spent three years quietly defending Nightjar to a publishing world that sneers. Fourteen days, one shared desk, one storm, and a truth about that review that will cost them both everything they built to survive it.
Read 2:47 AM
She texted the wrong number. He answered anyway.