Road to Her Heart
I'd been running the same route up to Deerbone Lodge for ten years, give or take, and I could drive that last stretch of gravel blindfolded.
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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Romance stories, ranked by readers
81 82 The Jazz Vet
*This one came from the idea that not every romance is forever, and that's okay.
83 The Watchmaker's Wife
The mushrooms were winning.
84 The Cartographer's Second Map
Tracie found out about the money on a Thursday.
85 The Library Shift
The job came to me through a guy at church named Dale, who said the community college out past the highway was desperate for a night…
86 The Off-Key Reunion
The plan was simple enough.
87 The Last Picture Show
Vikki Leonard parked her car at the edge of the old drive-in lot and sat there a moment with her hands on the wheel.
88 The Subwoofer Above
Tucker was under a pickup at the shop when his phone buzzed on the workbench.
89 Hidden Hands, Open Hearts
Valentina tunes her cello in the empty event hall and thinks about strangers.
90 Seam Wax and Synth Waves
I'd been on the ship for eleven weeks when I decided I was done pretending the passenger lounge was my scene.
91 Last Whiteboard
I was thirty-seven years old, three years out of my divorce, and sitting in the IT wing of St.
92 The Morning List
My wife Paula makes a grocery list like she's planning a military operation.
93 Renovation Heat
I teach swim lessons at a public pool in a town where the fog burns off by ten and everyone over forty has a surfboard in the garage.
94 Under the Overpass
Elliot had worked the night shift on the bridge toll booth for five years now, and he had come to think of the city as a thing that…
95 Lyrics of the Heart
Megan had been driving for four hours when the trees finally opened up and she saw the lake.
96 Stairwell Beat
I was up on the roof of the old broadcast building with the sun cooking the back of my neck, welding a bracket onto the satellite dish…
97 The Revenge Tour
Celina found out about the other woman on a Tuesday.
98 The Thursday Arrangement
The drive up to the Rivenbark Lodge takes about an hour from my apartment, and I know every mile of it by now.
99 The Right Mistake
Lena texted me on a Thursday: Sparrow's Roost, eight o'clock, I have news.
100 That Morning in Zagreb
Beryl woke up with her mouth tasting like a bus station ashtray and a headache that started behind her eyes and went all the way down to…
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Logic of Willow, The Quartz Quill, Salt Night, Plum Chronicle