Savage Revenge on the High Seas
So there I was, cabin 712 on the Stella Atlantica, ten days of paid work between Lisbon and Rio, thinking I had the world's best luck.
Romance stories
Romance stories. Romance stories, from quick reads to long series. Reads run 24 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Logic of Willow, The Quartz Quill and Salt Night. Readers usually start with “The Honey Pot at Dawn” and “Boots and a Tent”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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61 62 The Last Wave
The last guest left around eleven.
63 The Edge of the Pool
The order came through on a Tuesday, which is how these things always go.
64 The Wrong To-Go Box
Dorian Freemont, 34 years old and gainfully employed as a software developer, stood at his kitchen counter eating cereal at nine in the…
65 Last Call for Sloan
The breakup was three weeks old when I finally walked into McGee's alone.
66 The Borrowed Notes
Oliver Brice landed in Reykjavik on a Friday in late October, thirty-four years old and feeling every single one of them.
67 The Ferry Reckoning
You know what used to kill me about Krissy?
68 when the engine stalls, we listen
I'm Iris Marten, twenty-four, and I've been hauling parts for Hartwell's Auto out on Route 9 for three years now.
69 The Groom Who Never Showed
Every wedding I plan teaches me something about love.
70 Brushwork Arrangement
I finished the novel on a Tuesday in October, which sounds more significant than it was, because after eleven months of getting up at six…
71 The Indigo Wait
I hadn't been back to Lembeke in twenty-six years.
72 The Cartographer’s Promise
The ferry gets in at eleven on a Thursday, and I'm standing on the dock by eleven-oh-five with two bags and a coffee I already regret…
73 Just One Night Before I Go
I turned thirty-five at midnight, and I spent the last hour of my thirty-fourth year wiping down a bar that was already clean.
74 Rooftop Secrets and Midnight Lies
Midnight in July in Port Cressida is a lie.
75 The Empty Birdcage
I was twenty-eight and three months into my job at the Alpine Archive Lodge, which meant I had finally gotten good at pretending I knew…
76 One Last Round
I was three days into a slow week and one drink into a Tuesday when I saw Billy Hanson at the end of the bar, and I want you to know my…
77 The Bell Tower Date
My cousin Sheena has been telling me for years that I'm set in my ways.
78 The Wednesday Dress Code
The bride was twenty-six, which she told me three times during the fitting the day before the wedding, as though I might forget between…
79 The Last House on Meridian
My name's Axel Donovan, I'm twenty-eight years old, and at the moment you're reading this I was probably elbow-deep in a box marked…
80 The Rooftop Bees
The rain starts at nine on a Tuesday night, and by ten Walter has a bucket in the middle of his living room floor.
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Logic of Willow, The Quartz Quill, Salt Night, Plum Chronicle