Slow Burn Stories

43 Stories
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Burn for you
Burn for you
Chwanelebhinca
Reads 318 Parts 23
When Siphiwekonke arrives in Johannesburg, all she wants is a simple job to help her sick mother back home. She moves in with her older sister - a woman surviving the only way she knows how, by selling her body in the night. But Siphiwekonke wants something different. Something clean. Something safe. So when a mysterious, well-dressed man offers her work as a live-in...
slow-burn dark-romance romance +7 more
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The Rebel_1
The Rebel_1
NonjabuloNsuntsha
Reads 251 Parts 57
THE REBEL: Book 1 - An outspoken girl returns home to changes only to fall in love with a stranger that will twist her life in a blink... Two crumbling worlds meet, two lovers hold on when it hurts. Will the forbidden love affair win against their families? - Join me in the humor, family secrets, broken bonds and test against fait and time. - WELCOME TO MVEVANE
slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance +3 more
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The Unexpected Harvest
The Unexpected Harvest
Wakawaka
Reads 226 Parts 24
The heart does not obey the law of the ancestors
slow-burn romance found-family +1 more
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My Heart, His Chapters
My Heart, His Chapters
InkByThabi
Reads 209 Parts 20
Ziphozenkosi arrives at varsity carrying a fragile heart and a shaky relationship with Thapelo, a boy from her hood who refuses to let go of control. Just as she begins adjusting to campus life, she meets Siphosethu — gentle, patient, and emotionally present in ways she has never known. What begins as innocent friendship slowly deepens into love, but Zipho’s past...
slow-burn Romance
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The Uncle’s Wife
The Uncle’s Wife
BeverleyLanga
Reads 208 Parts 29
She thought she made the right choice when she said yes to a man who offered her stability and respect. But in a house where everyone has a place-she finds herself drawn to the one person she should never want, her husband's nephew.
forbidden slow-burn romance +5 more
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Spin of Love
Spin of Love
Angela Mhlakaza
Reads 202 Parts 65
He knows the streets. She knows her dreams. They were never supposed to meet ,let alone fall in love. In a world where money comes before feelings, will love survive… or destroy them both?
slow-burn romance Romance
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The Life Of Mrs. Mbatha
The Life Of Mrs. Mbatha
KuhleNgunezi
Reads 185 Parts 13
Sandiswa Mbatha who goes by MaKhanyile to almost everyone who knows her, is a woman that had a tough time growing up but now she is living the life that most females want to have. The life of Mrs. Mbatha. The cars, the money, the fame... Everyone wants a piece of the high and powerful life of the Mbatha family. Sandiswa is always looking happy in public that everyone...
coming-of-age romance found-family +12 more
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Sweet Trouble
Sweet Trouble
Nobuhle_Sk
Reads 167 Parts 27
"With him, every rule I've lived by is meant to be broken." Jane Mbokane never planned to fall for Khathu Nethengwe, the charming yet arrogant boy she detested for years. What started as tutoring turned into lingering stares, stolen moments and a connection too strong to ignore.
slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance +2 more
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Love&Butterflies: A kasi love story
Love&Butterflies: A kasi love story
MissAuthor
Reads 147 Parts 10
In Umlazi, Lihle never thought a man like Thabiso would look her way. She's thick in the wrong places, with knocked knees and dark thighs the gossiping girls love to mock. But Thabiso isn't just any kasi gent he's the legend behind cash-in-transit heists and ATM bombings, rolling up in his GTI blasting Vum Vum by Brown Dash, dressed in Moschino and Diesel. Every girl...
slow-burn dark-romance betrayal +8 more
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Lethokuhle: Behind the spotlight
Lethokuhle: Behind the spotlight
storiesbyThandeka
Reads 138 Parts 36
Never thought the guy I met would be literally arranged to marry me. I mean, I'm a Hollywood queen. Singer. Model and an owner of multiple businesses. Now, getting married pulls me back in the life I already built for myself and my 7 year old boy. Realizing that money and fame don't bring happiness, I opted for the arranged marriage.
slow-burn second-chance romance +4 more
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Legacy of Four
Legacy of Four
Whispers_she_wrote
Reads 133 Parts 8
The Ndlovu legacy runs on wealth, wives, and the whispers of the dead. Love is forced. Loyalty is betrayed. Polygamy is power. And the girl they caged just learned how to use her teeth.
found-family slow-burn betrayal +7 more
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Forbidden desire
Forbidden desire
TINOTENDAA
Reads 133 Parts 20
A young South African woman, Zola Petersen, lives a life of luxury in Italy but feels deeply alone as her powerful father is always away. Everything changes when she falls in love with Liam Ndrangheta her father’s closest friend, a mysterious and much older businessman with secrets darker than she can imagine. Their connection grows in silence and stolen moments,...
slow-burn coming-of-age dark-romance +1 more
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IF LOVING YOU IS A SIN (2022)
IF LOVING YOU IS A SIN (2022)
Yenzz
Reads 89 Parts 22
Athenkosi Kofi Boateng has it all. Money, fame, a good career in finance. However, watching his best friend fall in love shows him what his life is lacking. Will he choose to be someone's hero, or another's first love? After experiencing a literal fairytale, Lunathi Ngubo now faces a brand new world of money and power. Will her new world swallow her whole or can love...
slow-burn found-family romance +1 more
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The Rebel 2: The Path To Her
The Rebel 2: The Path To Her
NonjabuloNsuntsha
Reads 72 Parts 61
From The Rebel... This is Book 2 of the series. After the storm of emotions they succumbed after their fathers stepped in as a wall between them. The two try to navigate themselves while denying the heart of what it really wants. Can they win over their feelings for each other? Family or Us?
slow-burn enemies-to-lovers second-chance +4 more
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Two matches made in money
Two matches made in money
mbalieyy
Reads 68 Parts 5
A girl who wanted nothing to do with love and attachment with anyone comes across her match, both in beliefs and riches but they both fail to keep their feelings at bay for each other
slow-burn romance Romance
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When You Erase Someone In Ink They Return In Blood
When You Erase Someone In Ink They Return In Blood
LwandleS
Reads 50 Parts 19
Title: When You Erase Someone In Ink, They Return In Blood Author: Lwandle Lelo Shabangu ​ “I burned the pages, but the smoke smelled like your skin.” ​ Writing was supposed to be an exorcism, but for Lwandle Lelo Shabangu, the pen only carved the ghost deeper. ​When You Erase Someone In Ink, They Return In Blood is a raw, 150-page descent into the anatomy of a...
dark-romance magic slow-burn +1 more
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Love beyond bloodline_But I did not have to find out that way!
Love beyond bloodline_But I did not have to find out that way!
MsAuthor
Reads 44 Parts 10
“we don’t stay free at our homes, we pay with our mental healths”. My world felt heavy for me, even before I was old enough to carry it. I had seen and felt too much already. My home, where love should have been, was filled with pain and shadows cast by my single mother. “Perks of being a first born daughter”. Im going through counselling, years after escaping her...
trauma healing romance +2 more
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Bound By Fate, Tested By Pride
Bound By Fate, Tested By Pride
SindiswaNyawo
Reads 41 Parts 6
Forced into a three-year marriage contract to secure family shares, a fiery young woman is tied to a cold, powerful businessman she can’t stand. Their union begins with insults, power struggles, and public pretending, but beneath the constant tension sparks something neither of them expected. As they navigate luxury, betrayal, family pressure, and a honeymoon built...
slow-burn dark-romance enemies-to-lovers +3 more
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The Billionaire Who Claimed Me: Our Love Is Destined Forever
The Billionaire Who Claimed Me: Our Love Is Destined Forever
Star64966
Reads 39 Parts 5
Ten years ago, Wonder Williams—a bright, trusting girl from Kingsden City— married alliance was fixed by her parents and Charles Harrington's parents but tragedy happened. She lost both her parents in a car accident. Her uncle Alex betrayed her, her own family. He kicked her out of her father's house and properties to reclaim them - placed her and her siblings at the...
romance slow-burn mystery +2 more
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When It Felt Like Us
When It Felt Like Us
Eliot
Reads 36 Parts 6
In the quiet streets of Mahwelereng, where life moves slowly but emotions run deep, two strangers cross paths on an ordinary afternoon that turns into something neither of them expected. Adrian is a man who has learned to keep to himself. Focused, guarded, and shaped by a past he doesn’t talk about, he avoids complications — especially when it comes to people. Naledi...
enemies-to-lovers dark-romance slow-burn +9 more