Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
In lieu of this holiday of love, I’ve found some beautiful romance books that you can find on both Wattpad and Radish Fiction. Wattpad is known more for it’s fan-fiction, but if you look deep enough, you can find some new and well-written romance novels on there. Radish Fiction is mostly about romance, but it does have some novels there that aren’t exclusively about romance.
But, just to sate some appetites, here are some novels that I’ve found on both websites/apps:
Note: All books that are mentioned here are completed works. The Wattpad novels will be hyperlinked in the title, while the Radish Fiction app will have to be downloaded for access, as the stories are for a more mature audience.
Wattpad
Just Press Send (Summit University Book 1) – NikkiPierceBooks
When a freshman college student drunk texts all five of her crushes their own boyfriend pro/con list, she finds her quiet year turned upside down as she navigates the world of first love.
Eighteen-year-old Nat falls for five different boys during her first month at school, but never openly admits her crushes. Instead, she keeps a list of each boy’s pros and cons on her phone, the most logical thing to do for list-making, highly organized Nat.
After being roped into interviewing the school’s star hockey player, he dares Nat to tell her crushes how she feels and how could she ever back down from a drunken dare? But, the sober light of morning leaves Nat with a pounding headache, questioning her sanity when she sees three messages awaiting her response: the hot guy she met at a concert, the kind guy from orientation week, and the perfect guy from lit class.
Now Nat must confront her feelings for these boys face-to-face, or her chance at love will pass her by. In this story of firsts, what happens when Nat just presses send?
Kiss and Tell – Hubrism
(This book is part of a series that can be read as a standalone, but the author has a book on her profile detailing how to read the series here.)
Cata, a Venezuelan immigrant set on a full time position at the company she interns for, and Gabe, her rival in school and at work, must pretend to fake date to ruin his brother’s wedding in exchange for the job-until things start to become too real.
Cata ran away from Venezuela after her older brother was killed during protests, leaving behind her parents and twin sister. Now a senior college student of mechanical engineering in Orlando FL, she has her eyes set on a full time position at the company she interns for. There is only one obstacle: Gabe.
Gabe, the campus babe, has it all. The girls in school pine for him, he’s the best student in the entire mechanical engineering graduating class and is poised to snatch that full time position from Cata. Finding a job after graduation isn’t his biggest concern, though. Turning his brother’s wedding into a major rebulú is.
When Gabe breaks up with his girlfriend, he needs a new date to the wedding. Cata is the perfect candidate. As the only girl in campus who hates him, she will never confuse fake dating for the real deal and for Cata this is the perfect opportunity to bring him down. Until suddenly Gabe discovers a secret that could bring all of Cata’s plans crashing down on her.
Fake dating only works if you don’t kiss and tell, and things are about to get real for them.
Sugar Rush (Paid Story) – hepburnettes
Social-recluse Parker Collins doesn’t expect to cross paths with the girl whose life he ruined years ago. But in a cold world that’s left him bitter time and time again, maybe she’s all the sugar he needs.
When Sugar Pearce moves into apartment 2B, the last person she expects for an upstairs neighbour is Parker Collins, her high school crush. But he’s hardly the popular golden boy that she remembers; now he’s a quiet, hard-working lawyer who doesn’t like company and doesn’t date. So when Sugar keeps running into him, at work and in their steamy apartment laundry room, she can’t help but feel that fate is giving them a second chance at love. But is she ready to face the secrets that pulled them apart all those years ago? Is he?
Whistleblower – ToastedBagels
A journalism major gets tangled up with the beloved quarterback of her university’s football team when she uncovers a scandal involving his coach.
(Currently free to read, will be published by Wattpad Books in 2021!)
Laurel Cates is a people-watcher. She’s determined to get through college without stepping on any toes or causing a scene, and so far, it’s going pretty well. But when Laurel uncovers a scandal involving the head coach of Garland University’s beloved football team, she knows she has to do the right thing.
Even if her classmates don’t believe her.
Even if her boss tries to fire her from the side job she desperately needs.
Even if the heart-of-gold quarterback, Bodie St. James, seems hell-bent on hating her for writing the article that got Coach Vaughn put under criminal investigation (a feat which proves difficult when Laurel and Bodie wind up in the same group for a class project in BIO 108: Human Sexuality).
Radish
The Fairytale Series – Simone Shirazi
A series of novels by author Simone Shirazi, The Fairytales Series chronicles the life and romances of the rich elite, starting with the series Once Upon a One Night Stand, leading to Arabian Nights, Dryland, and Roses & Thorns. Each book is technically a complete work, though Once Upon a One Night Stand and Roses & Thorns are still ongoing.
Once Upon a One Night Stand is the first book, and the chapters end at Chapter 51. The chapters after that are about the students after college.
The latest novel, Roses & Thorns, ends at Chapter 36, though the story is continued on to show the lives of the characters after the fact.
The best way to read the series are to read all of the books until their actual end, and then go back and read the newer chapters. This means you would read Once Upon a One Night Stand until Chapter 51, and then read Arabian Nights, Dryland, and Roses & Thorns (up until Chapter 36). After finishing those, then you would go back to Once Upon a One Night Stand starting with Chapter 52 onwards, and Roses & Thorns from Chapter 37 onwards.
This doesn’t mean you have to read the entire series, but each book is connected. A good way to better understand how to read the series is on the author’s website here.
The Lady Knight – Moni
As the first Lady Knight of Monrique, Lady Juliette Van Helsing regularly deals with criminals of all sorts who threaten the peace and security of her country. When a string of brutal murders among the nobility take place in quick succession, leaving behind one puzzle after another, she begins a race against time to find the murderer.
Along the way, webs of lies, betrayals and greed are unravelled, and at each turn, she finds her old beliefs and assumptions being questioned. In the midst of all this chaos, will she be able to fulfill her duty, and mayhap, find love?
Not in My Wildest Dreams – Jamie Hollens
It really sucks to be in love with someone who sees you as nothing more than a friend. Darcy Owens knows this from personal experience. From the moment she met Sean McKenna as a shy ten-year-old, he’s owned her heart. So when he asks for her help with an important construction project, she can’t say no.
Building a boutique hotel on Boston’s waterfront is a career-making opportunity, and Sean needs Darcy’s interior design expertise. She’s incredibly talented, and there is no one he trusts more. He knows he can always count on his childhood friend, but doesn’t know why he’s thinking about her tight skirts and blue eyes instead of tight deadlines and blueprints.
When Sean and Darcy’s excitement about their work turns into an entirely different kind of excitement, it’s a sexy surprise. But they soon realize that building a new relationship is more challenging than building a new hotel, especially when life-long habits and old insecurities create cracks in the foundation.
There are plenty more where those came from, but comment below if you’d like more! Happy Valentine’s Day!
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