Grumpy / Sunshine Stories
Explore our collection of 74 amazing stories tagged with grumpy / sunshine. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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Ink and Ecstasy
Author:Eleanor Thorne
In a town of cobblestone dreams, 19-year-old poet Elara found her muse in the most forbidden place: the arms of the brooding, 42-year-old bookstore owner, Julian. Their connection, sparked over dusty pages and whispered verses, ignites a passion that threatens to burn down his carefully curated world. Every stolen touch between the shelves, every secret kiss in the back room, is a line in a dangerous new poem. But when their secret affair is discovered, they must decide if their story is a fleeting stanza or a love epic enough to risk everything for.
The Aetherium Cipher
Author:April Sims
Framed and imprisoned in a supernatural black-site, Kael discovers he is no mere human. He is a Nephilim, a half-angel, and a living weapon. After a bloody escape, he is bonded to the Aetherium Cipher, an ancient artifact that grants him a System of immense power. Now, hunted by a technocratic cult that worships fallen angels, Kael must join a secret order of holy warriors. His first mission: protect a beautiful, crippled heiress who is the key to the Cipher's ultimate power. From the frozen wastes of Alaska to the haunted ruins of Ukraine, Kael must embrace his celestial fury or watch the world burn.
Artisanal Lust
Author:Lynn Garrett
Chloe is a bartender who slings beers and shots. Julian is a mixologist who crafts cocktails with scientific precision. Forced together in a high-stakes competition, their rivalry is as bitter as his artisanal bitters. But when the night ends, insults turn into desperate, angry passion on top of a bar. Now, a shocking business proposal forces them to collaborate, turning their one-night explosion into a slow burn of clashing wills and undeniable lust. Can they build a future together, or will they burn each other down first?
The Engineer of Inconvenience
Author:Mildred Baker
When bureaucratic incompetence creates a fifteen-second hell on the highway, a retired systems engineer is pushed to his limit. His wife's life depends on him getting home on time, and the state won't listen to reason. Armed with a plywood sign and the personal phone numbers of the men responsible, he decides to make the problem personal. He will dismantle their comfortable lives, one phone call at a time, until the gears of the city grind to his will.
Whispers on Paradise Key
Author:Jeff Austin
To recover from a mysterious illness, an overworked assistant is sent to her billionaire boss's private island. But the tropical paradise holds a dark secret: strange noises from a non-existent attic, a reclusive novelist, and the handsome, guarded pilot who warns her that not everything is as it seems. Trapped between her powerful boss and the pilot who makes her feel alive, she must uncover the island's ghostly secret before a looming hurricane reveals a truth more terrifying than any spirit.
The Thaumaturge's Gambit
Author:Elias Thorne
A cynical 21st-century detective is murdered, only to awaken in the body of a nobleman investigator in an alternate Victorian-era world. In this Anglo-French Empire, magic is a rigid science controlled by the Church, and his new partner is a powerful, by-the-book sorcerer. Tasked with solving impossible locked-room murders, he must use his modern forensic knowledge to reinterpret the very laws of thaumaturgy. As he untangles conspiracies that threaten to drag the empire into war, he finds himself in a deadly game of wits against a beautiful, ruthless sorceress from a rival empire, where one wrong move could shatter both his cover and his new reality.
Beneath the Crimson Lace
Author:Vivienne Thorne
To secure his empire, ruthless billionaire Damien Blackwood buys a wife. He expects compliance, not defiance. Elara, his new bride, is a beautiful enigma who refuses his lavish gifts, including a stunning crimson lace gown for the biggest gala of the year. He thinks it's a game; a test of his will. But when the abrasive fabric tears at her fragile skin, revealing a painful, hidden truth, the dress becomes a symbol of his brutal ignorance. Now, he must unravel the woman he thought he owned, and soothe the scars he inflicted, before his gilded cage shatters them both.
Echoes of a Bruise
Author:Francisco Crawford
He was a king forged in ice, his empire built on ruthless control. But when his bright, unassuming assistant is left bruised and broken, the ice shatters. In the quiet moments of tending to her wounds, a terrifying, possessive rage awakens within him. He'll keep his voice calm and his touch gentle, but in his mind, he's already burying the one who hurt her. He will burn the world to the ground to keep her safe, and she'll be the one to light the match.
Where the Silence Speaks
Author:Hazel Reed
Running from a life she no longer wanted, artist Elara Vance's car breaks down on the edge of the one-horse town of Havenwood. She's rescued by Julian Croft, a quiet, reserved carpenter twice her age with a past etched into the lines on his hands. He offers her shelter, a safe haven from the storm, but his guarded heart is a fortress she never intended to breach. In the quiet rhythm of his small-town life, amidst the scent of sawdust and the laughter of his young daughter, Elara discovers a love that doesn't need loud declarations, but speaks in silent, steady gestures.
The Shadow Baron's Bargain
Author:Judd Carlson
To save her family from ruin, proud socialite Seraphina Veridian strikes a devil's bargain with Mr. Thorne, a mysterious, sinfully wealthy baron from the city's dark underbelly. He is a Shadow Fae, a creature of nightmare her world despises. His price for her family's salvation? She must polish his savage edges and shepherd him through the glittering, treacherous ballrooms of high society. But as she guides the 'monster' through their world, she finds a dangerous passion that could cost her more than just her reputation—it could cost her heart.
Shatter the Ice
Author:Seraphina Gray
Elara Vance is the ice queen of Northwood University, a beautiful, untouchable bully who reigns with a silver tongue. Caleb Sterling, the campus's golden boy, has always despised her. But a forced partnership reveals the cracks in her frozen facade. He sees fear in her eyes, a terror she hides behind cruelty. The more he pushes, the more he realizes her reign isn't one of power, but of desperation. And he might be the only one who can save her from the secrets that threaten to shatter her completely.
The Crowbar Contract
Author:Lexie Thorne
Art student Ellie Vance just wanted to survive college and win the heart of the campus golden boy. But after impulsively saving the university's most dangerous outcast, Dane Blackwood, from a brutal attack, she's offered an irresistible deal. He'll use his bad-boy expertise to deliver her dream guy on a silver platter. The only price? Following his every rule. As their lessons in seduction blur into late-night confessions and stolen moments of heart-stopping tension, Ellie discovers the man she's supposed to want and the man she's starting to crave are two very different people. And the danger Dane saved her from is far from over.