Best Lovesick Fool Stories & Novels Collection

He wasn’t searching for love.

He wasn’t ready for him.

But some things—like family, and falling—happen when you least expect them.

When Ezra Anderson's sister dies, he inherits three young children and a crumbling rural property he's nowhere near prepared for. Overwhelmed, heartbroken, and freshly dumped, Ezra turns to the one person he shouldn't: Sebastian Brown—the gentle, steady Omega child ...

There is nothing Iris loves more than curling up with a ridiculous werewolf romance, laughing her head off at every over-the-top, cringey scene and swooning at the shameless smut. But one night, partway through an e-novel by a mysterious "Author 456", she chokes on a Doritos chip, dies, and wakes up inside the story as the doomed heroine. Now she’s trapped in a medieval werewolf afterlife with biz...

I was twenty when I met him.

He was nobody then. Just another wannabe actor running errands on set. But I knew the second I saw him.

Nobody knew I came from money. I hid who I was and clawed my way into becoming his assistant.

A year later, he asked me out.

"Give me sometimes," he said, holding my hand. "When I win Best Actor, I'll announce you at the ceremony."

I believed him.

I begged my b...

My sister Elora and I fought over Kyle for over a decade.

In my first life, I got my wish and married him. Everyone said he cherished me, letting me manage all of Iron Wolf Pack's internal affairs. I worked myself to death, day and night. As I lay dying, he coldly told me the truth: "I never loved you. YOU were the one begging to marry me."

In my second life, I gave the chance to my sister Elora...

On the day I was diagnosed with terminal cancer, my boyfriend traded our six years for a two-million-dollar check. He said he had to marry the woman who saved his life.
The irony? I was the one who held his hand in the rubble.
In the chemo ward, I met the disgraced heir to a fortune, Finn. "Two dying people," he smirked. "What's left to lose?"
I wiped blood from my lips. "Everything they took from...

When my boyfriend of three years won the student body presidency, I rented out the entire bar to celebrate. But when I came back with the cake, I heard deafening jeers from the private room.
"I bet ten grand I can get her to ditch the engagement her family arranged and elope with me before graduation."
"That uptight bookworm? Sweet-talk her a little and she's wrapped around your finger."
"Guess wh...

I graduated college with Owen, my childhood best friend, and we finally started dating. He said we should keep it secret for a year first, didn't want things getting messy with our parents being so close if things went south. Once we hit that one-year mark, we'd go public and get engaged. I believed him. It's been eight months now, keeping it secret the whole time.

Meanwhile, my dad got offered a...

On my eighteenth birthday, I made the worst mistake of my life—I kissed my stepbrother while he was drugged and half-asleep.

The next morning, he was gone. Just a credit card and a note: "Happy birthday."

I ran. All the way to California. Five years of hiding.

Then my mother died, and Julian Langford dragged me back to face him. I thought I could keep lying. Keep pretending my daughter's father...

I'm Riley. Orphan. Motorcycle mechanic. And the biggest fool in Texas.

For ten years, I thought oil tycoon Colt loved me. His adopted daughter by day, his woman by night. I actually believed his whispered promises in the dark.

Then I watched him announce his engagement to someone else.

"Your father saved my life. You're my responsibility," he said when I confronted him. Like I was some charity ...

When my parents forced me to donate my organs to my sister, I didn't refuse or run away. I just quietly signed the surgical consent forms, willingly giving my kidney to Vivienne, their beloved daughter.

A few months ago, my sister was hospitalized with kidney failure. The doctor said she needed a transplant. My family's first thought was me—the backup daughter they'd kept around all these years.
...

I gave up five years of my marriage for nothing.

My son is dead. He died on his fifth birthday, waiting for his father to come home. But instead of his dad, a car accident took him. And his father? He was a thousand miles away, with another woman.

For five years, I put up with my husband's coldness and his family's constant humiliation. I thought having a child would melt his icy heart. I was wr...

I met Joseph at Columbia and fell in love. What he didn't know? I wasn't just some ordinary girl. I was Angelina Romano—only daughter of Vincent Romano, Chicago's legendary Mafia King.

My father gave us two years. Two years for Joseph to prove his love and loyalty. If he passed, I'd reveal my identity and we'd inherit the Romano empire together. If he failed... divorce.

I hid everything because ...

One million dollars. Twelve months. One cold stranger of a CEO I don't love.

When I signed that fake marriage contract, all I wanted was to save my failing business. Adrian Blackwell was cold, distant, impossibly perfect—he needed a fake girlfriend to fool his grandfather, and I needed money. It was just a transaction. Nothing more.

But every night as I lie next to him, I clutch that blue and si...

Ten years ago, eight-year-old him nearly died under wolf claws trying to save me. Ten years later, when I gathered the courage to return to this town, that little hero had become a dangerous man.

"We're strangers, remember?" The eyes that used to be gentle only for me now looked at me with cold indifference.

But why does he hold me tight every time I'm in trouble? Why is his skin burning hot and...

I'm Isadora Dubois, a Victoria's Secret supermodel who was supposed to marry Thomas, the "prince" of the Sterling family.
But from the moment I laid eyes on his uncle Alexander, I knew I'd picked the wrong man.
By the pool, he emerged from the water, droplets cascading down his perfectly sculpted abs. That devastating mature man magnetism—broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist, muscular forear...

When I woke up, there was a stranger beside me. He said his name was Kieran, took care of me gently, answered every question with patience. My wolf was dormant, but my heart raced every time I saw him.

"Are you my mate?" I asked.

He was silent for a long time. Finally: "Just rest for now."

The days that followed felt like a dream. He made breakfast, walked with me, kissed me under moonlight. We...

Twelve years loving Griffin Hart. High school: he's the hockey star, I'm the freak with a camera.

NHL All-Star, dirty hit before playoffs, right hand ruined, career over. Fiancée dumps him publicly. Teammate steals his position and his girl.

Three months later I find him in an abandoned rink. My mom can restore 70% function to his hand. Price: let me film it.

I thought I could stay detached, ju...

I stood outside Jake's door with homemade cookies, planning how we'd fix our three-and-a-half-year relationship after this fight.

The door opened. A strange girl wearing my vintage T-shirt smiled at me. On the coffee table, the couples subscription box I'd ordered lay open, massage oil gleaming with intimate promise in the sunlight.

"Jake surprised me with these last night," she chirped. "We had...

"I married you for power," he said with a smile.

She believed him.

But the warrior who spent four years bleeding on frozen battlefields, who lost everything and survived on memories of her alone—he's been playing a very different game.

Sometimes the biggest lie is pretending you don't care.

Audrey Hepburn thought she had found her happily ever after. At twenty four, she fell deeply in love with Izo Whitmore, an older, powerful billionaire known for his wealth, charm, and philanthropy. Despite whispers about their age gap, nothing could shake her devotion. Two years of passion and promises led to the wedding of her dreams.

‎But her fairy tale shatters on their wedding night. Under th...

“If the butler stares at you too long, I’ll pluck his eyes out.”
“If the chauffeur smiles at you sweetly, he’ll soon have no face.”
“If any man lays a hand on you, I swear, I’ll cut them into tiny pieces.”

Caligo has made these threats more times than I can count—threats I always brushed off as dramatic and a little unhinged.
Until the day a designer complimented my post-partum body while measuri...

Six years of obsessive devotion to her Alpha, only to witness his wedding to another woman!

Raven had sacrificed everything for Asher, only to be completely abandoned at his most important moment. Even more cruelly, she was framed for harming his new Luna and exiled to the deadly borderlands.

With her heart turned to ash, she drank the Love-Erasing Potion without hesitation.

"If I can't have tr...

Four years ago, I gave birth to triplets—three wolf pup babies with golden eyes.

From that moment, I knew my life had changed forever.

For four years, I've lived like a fugitive, hiding with my children in the most run-down corner of Brooklyn, running a pathetic little coffee shop. Every full moon night, I had to hold down their trembling little bodies with all my strength, keeping their wild na...

"I love you, Caitlin," he murmurs against my neck, his breath coming in hot, ragged bursts as his hands explore my body, setting every nerve alight with raw, desperate need. But which one is it tonight—Daniel with his soft, lingering touches, Ryan's brutal grip that leaves bruises blooming on my hips, or Patrick's powerful thrusts that own me completely?

I'm Caitlin Morrison, a cutthroat lawyer j...

"I hate you! I hate you so fucking much! You're nothing but a monster who caged me!"

When Catalina Santos screamed those words, he grabbed her throat, blue eyes blazing with destructive fury:

"Hate me? You fucking owe me."

The gentle protector who'd shielded her for fifteen years had become the vengeful beast destroying her. Because of betrayal. Because she chose to love another man. Because th...

I was broke. My startup had two months left.

Then Jasper Hayes—the neighbor kid who moved to England when I was ten—showed up with a contract: $500K investment for a green card marriage. Pure business. One to two years. Mutual benefit.

I signed. Told myself it was just a deal.

Until he started making breakfast every morning, remembering exactly how I take my coffee, staying up till 2 a.m. findi...

I spent three years chasing Caden Hartwell.

He's the future Alpha. I'm just the daughter of fallen warriors. He said I was too rough, not elegant enough, could never be Luna. For three years, I changed everything to be worthy of him—wore dresses, learned makeup, cut back on training. But our relationship stayed a secret.

Until that night when I walked into his family's study and saw him with ano...

I used to think love could save me, only to marry the bastard who dragged me straight to hell himself. Kneeling at 4 AM, scrubbing blood stains off the floor. Miscarrying my baby after his brutal beatings. Holding broken glass to my wrist in a strip club storage room—until, on his deathbed, my father transferred eight hundred million in assets to me. Now I'm sitting pretty in the CEO's office, roc...

I thought I was just Adrian Blackwood's contract wife. Nine months of playing the perfect Mrs. Blackwood, until I overheard that call.

"Three months left. Time to give Sophia an answer."

Sophia Bennett. Blonde, beautiful, always laughing with him.

So when the contract ends, he's choosing her.

Fine. I'm done playing nice.

Out go the pearl earrings, in come Mom's gold hoops. Conservative dresse...

Ethan drugged my wine and delivered me unconscious to his worst enemy—Dante Valentino, New York's most dangerous mafia boss.

I woke up tied to a stranger's bed, wearing nothing but a thin silk slip. Twenty years of childhood friendship, five years of business partnership—and Ethan sold me with a fucking note: "She's my best asset."

The worst part? The man who bought me is criminally hot.

Dante ...

I was on my knees outside the ICU, making my seventh call to my husband.

"Adrian, please. Dad's dying. He just wants one family photo. That's all he's asking."

"Baby, I know. I'm on my way, I promise."

Two hours later, my father died with his eyes fixed on the door.

And my husband's Instagram showed: at the exact moment I was begging on that hospital floor, he was at the Golden Gate Bridge cap...

They took everything from me.

My mate. My dignity. My future.

Olivere was not my sister, yet she always took what I wanted. Born to the powerful Beta of the Silver Moon Crest Pack, she was untouchable. And Stephan—my childhood love and destined mate—never wanted me to begin with.

We grew up together—Stephan, Marcus, Olivere, Juliet, and me. I devoted my life to Stephan, even saved him, but in t...

Five years ago, Aria was the Alpha's beloved daughter, deeply in love with Terry, the pack's strongest warrior.

When Terry lay dying from silver poison, Aria risked everything to find the life-saving moonlight flower in the forbidden Blood Moon Forest. But her half-sister Sera betrayed her—stealing the flower and pushing her off a cliff.

When Aria crawled back, broken and bleeding, Sera had alre...

Elena Martinez was an ordinary girl from Salem until her father's gambling debts caught up with him—debts owed to an underground vampire loan operation. When those pale, fang-bearing "creditors" showed up at her door, she learned that vampires were real.

The blood clan gave her a brutal choice: her family's death, or Elena would enter Crimson Rose Academy as a blood servant to pay the debt. To p...

She thought he was just an ordinary law student, until that bloody night—

Nurse Esperanza is five months pregnant, but she can't tell anyone who the father is. After three years of passionate love and one brutal breakup, she thought she'd never see Dante Santangelo again.

Until that early morning when she's urgently called to the VIP ward, only to find him bleeding on a hospital bed, surrounded ...

"Get out! I’m your sister!"
"Sister?" Alex let out a derisive scoff, his burning palm pressing against the small of my bare back, pulling me even deeper into his embrace. "A sister with no blood ties? That’s the very reason I’ve been waiting all these years."
I was once the most dazzling socialite in Washington, until I discovered I was a fake, a stand-in for the true heiress. I fled in panic, try...

Riley Matthews never imagined her first assignment as a sports journalist back in Texas would be covering the football team—where the star quarterback Mason Cole turned out to be the guy she'd had a massive crush on four years ago. And to make matters worse, he's her brother Chase's best friend!

"Chase's baby sister has grown up... and gotten beautiful." When Mason fixes those green eyes on her w...

They say some secrets are meant to stay buried.

I used to believe that too—until Roman Aldridge walked back into my life fifteen years later, no longer the broken thirteen-year-old boy I once held through his darkest nights, but a devastatingly handsome man who looked at me like I was his salvation and his damnation all at once.

"I've never stopped loving you, Vivian."

Those seven words shatte...

After Beth, the love of Kingsley’s life, left him, his world fell apart. Drowning in heartbreak, he vanished into obscurity… until Katherine found him and helped him heal. Her familiar aqua-blue eyes brought him peace and, eventually, love but secrets, lies, and the return of his ex-fiancée, Beth, tear them apart.

Realizing too late that Katherine was his true love, Kingsley tries to win her back...

I once believed fleeing my engagement would set me free, only to fall headlong into a web of betrayal spun by my closest friend and faithless lover.

Now, granted a second life just a week before that fateful wedding, I stand before the man I betrayed—Alexander Stone, the unyielding soul who ended his life in my previous existence, all because of me.

This time, I've sworn to mend what I shattered...

Paisley is the campus-recognized "Dating Queen," specializing in orchestrating perfect romances for her best friends—never failing. Until she encounters a mysterious rival—a love coach calling himself "TexasCoach," who's actually coaching her target crush on how to counter-flirt!

When the two matchmaking masters face off head-to-head, Paisley is shocked to discover that this legendary love guru i...

I sacrificed myself to save my kingdom, only to discover my "death" was the first move in a thousand-year-old game.
As Princess Isabella, I was offered as a sacrifice to the legendary Starmark Dragon. But Valerix, the beast who should have taken my life, looks at me as if I'm a long-lost treasure. He is both cruel and tender, tormented by a curse that only my touch can soothe. When assassins came ...

I slept with my patient.

Cody Ramirez. PTSD veteran. For two years, I took his midnight panic calls, held him through breakdowns, and stupidly thought it was love.

Until he recovered and coldly said: "You're no longer my doctor."

Fuck. I was just a tool.

Then I met street artist Zayne, thinking I could finally have a normal relationship. Found syringes in his bathroom and another woman's earri...

I had a 3-minute wedding night.
I married Dr. Zachary Palmer out of convenience. His golden hands are legendary in the OR, but in our bed? Let's just say it was a quick, humiliating failure. I was sure our marriage was a lost cause.
Then I saw him fight to save my father's life. I saw the tears in his eyes. I saw the man behind the surgeon.
Now he's determined to prove he can be the husband I need...

Centuries ago, the Kingdom of Drakmoor won a devastating war against the dragons—but victory came with a bloody price. To keep the dragon race imprisoned, humans must sacrifice one pure-blooded royal maiden to Dragon Valley each year, easing the searing curse that torments their enemies.

Rosalind, a lowly servant, never thought this brutal tradition would touch her life. She loved Sir Gareth, the...

Content Warning: Mature Themes!!
This book contains explicit scenes, graphic content, and potentially triggering situations that may be unsuitable for some readers. All characters depicted are 18 years or older. Reader discretion is advised.

On her eighteenth birthday, Sabrina's life is stolen from her. She was sold into marriage to Scott Wendell, a ruthless and powerful billionaire more than twi...

As a method actress, I believe in immersive research. But I took it too far at the wrap party. I got drunk and "studied" Ryan Herman—yes, the A-list producer—by tearing his shirt and coaching him through a kiss.
I was facing a lawsuit and career annihilation. His solution? A contract to be his fake girlfriend.
Now the world thinks I tamed Hollywood's untouchable bachelor. But I know the truth... u...

I was the mafia king's most treasured "little princess" - until the explosion that claimed my adoptive father and protector. Desperate, I clung to a man who wore his face, only to have him broadcast my desperate love confessions as a joke. The night I reached peak humiliation, the man who should have been buried in Sicily rose from hell.
Vincenzo Benedetti. My god, my ultimate sin. He shattered my...

I'm Veda, a designer getting crushed by my asshole boss Austin. Until I bought a mysterious vintage teddy bear at an antique market—and everything changed.

When I accidentally touched the bear, Austin lost it in front of our biggest client, blushing like a virgin! That's when I discovered this freaky telepathic connection—every touch I made, that cold bastard could feel it too.

The power dynamic...

I just wanted to meet my little brother's new girlfriend at Thanksgiving dinner. I didn't expect Crystal to accuse me in front of our entire family: "Scarlett's been seducing Phoenix! She's 31 and single because she's obsessed with her brother!" Worse yet, Phoenix was actually considering believing her. When Crystal started demanding my mom wash her underwear, I knew it was time to fight back.