Slow Burn Stories
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The Uncle’s Wife
Reads 358
Parts 40
Lerato backed away, her heart hammering against her ribs. Every step he took forward, she took one back until the cold marble of the feature wall pressed against her spine. She was trapped. "Lungelo..." she breathed, her hands coming up weakly against his bare chest. He didn’t stop. He leaned in, his lips brushing hers in a slow, deep kiss. He pulled back just an...
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Seduction by design
Reads 317
Parts 10
Seduction by Design is a contemporary romance novel filled with passion, emotional tension, healing, and self-discovery. The story follows Sivunesihle Zondi, a confident and extroverted interior design student whose vibrant personality hides deeper fears of heartbreak and loneliness. Her carefully controlled world changes when she meets Mqhele Zulu — a mysterious...
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KINKY N : THE STRIPPER
Reads 307
Parts 11
Khethiwe Neoo Lefika, known by her stage name Kinky N, has spent years building a life far away from the pain of her past. By night, she commands attention on stage with her confidence, beauty, and charisma. By day, she carries the scars of a life few people know about. Behind the glamour and bright lights is a woman fighting to escape the shadow of an abusive...
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Forbidden desire
Reads 267
Parts 27
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,...
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My Heart, His Chapters
Reads 260
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...
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The Life Of Mrs. Mbatha
Reads 236
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...
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Lethokuhle: Behind the spotlight
Reads 218
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.
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Whispers Of His Ruin
Reads 195
Parts 17
Liora is invited into Kael’s world after designing a piece that catches his attention. She thinks it’s an opportunity—exposure, success, freedom. But Kael does not “hire” people. He studies them. He tests them. He owns their time before they even realize it. At first, he ignores her presence. Then he starts interfering in her work. Then in her life. Then in her...
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WHERE I FOUND MYSELF
Reads 195
Parts 16
Life has a strange way of leading us home. Through loss, laughter, unexpected detours, and the people we never saw coming, we slowly discover the pieces of ourselves we thought were gone forever.
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The Rebel 2: The Path To Her
Reads 195
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?
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Secrets Beneath the Land
Reads 148
Parts 15
When lawyer Luyanda Dayimani returns home to defend her family in a bitter land dispute, she expects to face the powerful Mbovanes as enemies. She does not expect Sibusiso Mbovane — calm, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. As buried secrets rise from the soil of the Wild Coast, Luyanda and Sibusiso are pulled into a forbidden love that could heal two families or...
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The Billionaire Who Claimed Me: Our Love Is Destined Forever
Reads 108
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...
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Entanglement
Reads 94
Parts 24
"A masterfully written, slow-burn romantic thriller packed with high-stakes drama, secrets, and the devastating cost of desire. In the world of the elite, the truth is the ultimate casualty."
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Love by contract
Reads 92
Parts 7
Realeboha Mofokeng's life takes an unexpected turn when she is forced into an arranged marriage with Malakai Mokoena, a feared and powerful gangster whose influence stretches far beyond the streets. What begins as a strategic alliance between two families is nothing more than a business agreement, leaving both Realeboha and Malakai emotionally distant. As they...
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He Knew My Silence
Reads 82
Parts 14
Thando has already survived what should have broken her. Once a devoted member of her church, her faith was shattered by a betrayal too heavy to name—a violation that left her carrying shame that was never hers to bear. Now, she lives quietly on the margins, tucked away in a shack, trying to stitch together a life that feels almost safe. Almost new. Until varsity....
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When It Felt Like Us
Reads 78
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...
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When You Erase Someone In Ink They Return In Blood
Reads 69
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...
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The way they saw us
Reads 52
Parts 2
To the internet, Simhlele and Muzi are the perfect couple. People love the life they share online but behind the cameras, things are not as perfect as they seem and when someone becomes obsessed with their relationship, everything slowly falls apart.
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Love beyond bloodline_But I did not have to find out that way!
Reads 51
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...
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Gogontle.
Reads 46
Parts 7
The day Gogontle Mofokeng caught her husband in a rather compromising position, changed her life in a way she nor her sons ever saw coming. Realizing too late that divorcing him would cause a domino effect of turmoil, she is now forced into an uncomfortable life that she can’t seem to stay afloat in. With her eldest son acting out and a nonexistent ex husband,...