Slow Burn Stories

97 Stories
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UTHANDO NE GINTSA
UTHANDO NE GINTSA
Miss_Rikhotso
Reads 31.5K Parts 56
When a teenager falls in love with a hustler from the hood,but she has to endure the judgement from family and friends because of the age difference
slow-burn dark-romance adventure +5 more
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uGULUVA.
uGULUVA.
Naledi M.
Reads 28.7K Parts 103
He found his come back through BDSM and he meets a sub that changes him into being a better man with the same personality. He thought his ex-wife killed his spark but it turns out she didn't. WHO IS THIS MAN? UNGENO: MY SISTER’S HUSBAND PART 2.
dark-romance fantasy slow-burn +5 more
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Arranged Hearts
Arranged Hearts
TumiMolapo
Reads 8K Parts 36
Amantle always believed and trusted her in father, so much so she built her business under his mame. But when he dies suddenly, everything unravels. At the reading of the will, Amantle learns the chilling truth. Years ago, her father had already created her fate. To claim her inheritance and her businesses back, and to avoid a far deadlier fate Amantle must marry a...
slow-burn enemies-to-lovers betrayal +9 more
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uMpathi We Nhliziyo Yami
uMpathi We Nhliziyo Yami
ThatiBayneWrites
Reads 7K Parts 32
Phekolo's life changes forever when her uncle makes a decision to sell her off to an unknown family to close a business deal. Will she adjust to her new life, or will she come back home just like her cousin did? Will she ever be loved, or is it all a dream that'll never happen...
romance betrayal slow-burn +4 more
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FINDERS KEEPERS
FINDERS KEEPERS
AmandaAmoh
Reads 5.4K Parts 56
On the evening of her wedding, Liyana Zungu discovers that her fiancé has betrayed her with her best friend. Humiliated but unbroken, she shocks everyone by marrying his older brother instead—Snazozonke Khoza, the feared ex-convict and enforcer behind one of KwaZulu-Natal's most powerful families. Their marriage begins as revenge. Love was never part of the deal. But...
slow-burn betrayal revenge +4 more
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Umthunywa Wegazi
Umthunywa Wegazi
Angela Mhlakaza
Reads 4.5K Parts 26
He kills without mercy. No feelings. No mistakes. he is death in human form… until he falls in love. Now, the man who never hesitated must choose between the life he knows and the woman who makes him feel. Because in his world love is a death sentence...
dark-romance slow-burn romance +1 more
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UMKHEHLO
UMKHEHLO
NomfundoMbhele
Reads 4.3K Parts 70
A secret child, an unforgotten past. It all comes back knocking on the day that Khanya plans to bury it all.
slow-burn Drama
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Falling for the off-limits professor
Falling for the off-limits professor
S Harrison
Reads 3.3K Parts 20
I stupidly fell for my rude off limits professor.
slow-burn dark-romance professor +1 more
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The Goddess Next Door
The Goddess Next Door
Lesego Sediane
Reads 3.2K Parts 54
Dakalo, a young woman from Venda, carries the scars of her father’s betrayal and the burden of raising her son Lutendo under the watch of a toxic mother who blames her for everything. With her father in prison and her dreams on hold, she clings to survival until a cashier job at Woolworths in Thohoyandou offers a fragile new beginning. One weary day, a handsome...
thriller magic adventure +2 more
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The Day I Became His Wife
The Day I Became His Wife
Siyamthanda_Nala
Reads 3.2K Parts 58
A powerful Zulu family dynasty where tradition, reputation, and family loyalty are everything. Two wealthy families have been close for generations. Long ago, they made a promise: their children would one day unite the families through marriage. Some promises unite families. Others destroy them. Which one will theirs become?
romance slow-burn enemiestolovers +1 more
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LIGHT BEYOND THE HORIZON
LIGHT BEYOND THE HORIZON
PMaMchunu
Reads 3.2K Parts 60
A young lady named Khanyisa , falls in love with an ex-convict. He is the most broken and scary man ever but everyone has a soft spot for someone right? He wasn't broken beyond repair.
romance slow-burn Romance
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Ink on His Skin
Ink on His Skin
MissAuthor
Reads 3.1K Parts 21
Naledi Khumalo is hired to tell the story of a man who refuses to be known. Bhekizitha Zulu is power wrapped in silence a man whose past is written in scars, ink, and blood. As Naledi uncovers his life, she uncovers herself and a truth that threatens to destroy everything between them. Because some love stories are written in ink. Others are written in pain.
mature strongfemalelead sexualcontent +7 more
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The Arrangement Wife
The Arrangement Wife
justt_oarabile
Reads 2.9K Parts 40
Lethabo Molefe has always dreamed of building a successful career and finding love on her own terms. But when her struggling family becomes connected to the powerful Mokoena family, she finds herself caught in an arrangement she never asked for. Khumo Mokoena has spent his entire life living according to expectations. Marriage was supposed to happen for love, not...
romance slow-burn drama +1 more
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Phakathi Kwezwe Ezimbili
Phakathi Kwezwe Ezimbili
Koki_28
Reads 2.8K Parts 44
Phakathi Kwezwe Elimbili (Between Two Worlds) follows a young woman who has always lived by her own rules—careful, guarded, and certain about the kind of life she wants. But one encounter in the city begins to challenge everything she thought was simple. A man she cannot easily understand keeps appearing in her world, and what starts as annoyance slowly turns into...
dark-romance romance betrayal +4 more
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ALIFI UMNIKAZI ESAPHILA
ALIFI UMNIKAZI ESAPHILA
Chwanelebhinca
Reads 2.7K Parts 31
Sbanisikababa grew up watching her mother suffer in the name of love. Love did not pay the bills. Love did not put food on the table. Love did not save them from the shame of poverty. From a young age, she promised herself one thing. she would never marry a broke man. Beautiful, ambitious, and dangerously determined, Sbanisikababa dreams of becoming the wife of a...
slow-burn mystery romance +3 more
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NKOSENHLE:HIS BRIDE
NKOSENHLE:HIS BRIDE
Angela Mhlakaza
Reads 2.6K Parts 21
Nkosenhle falls for Thuthuka not knowing he’s not the one. Before she can escape the heartbreak, she learns something worse: she’s been chosen to marry his twin brother, Ntuthuko. Torn between walking away or accepting the forced future....
enemies-to-lovers slow-burn romance +2 more
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IN THE SHADOWS OF YOU
IN THE SHADOWS OF YOU
Vee_Sangos.
Reads 2.5K Parts 95
Dr Ziphozenkosi Mthembu is a calm highly skilled trauma surgeon who thrives under pressure and never loses control in the operating room. Emotionally reserved and private she keeps her life tightly guarded until one powerful patient disrupts everything she thought she could contain.
dark-romance romance slow-burn +3 more
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The Treaty Bride
The Treaty Bride
booksbylihlem
Reads 2.4K Parts 9
Thandeka Phoswa never asked to become a bargaining chip. Lwazi Bhungane never wanted a wife chosen for him.
slow-burn enemies-to-lovers dark-romance +8 more
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A HEART OF A MAID
A HEART OF A MAID
OlwethuDoyi
Reads 2.3K Parts 49
A young girl that finds out that her mother has passed away and that she had to take over the job her mother was working at. Which was being a maid. The man requested that she takes over her mother's position because she was the only person he trusted.
romance slow-burn thriller +2 more
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Yithi Ozulu
Yithi Ozulu
Chwanelebhinca
Reads 2.3K Parts 24
Hidden by her low status, she never expected to be seen until she emerged victorious in the Battle of the Village Maids. Her prize? A life of service in the royal heart of the kingdom, and a chance to reunite with the prince who once captured her heart in secret. ​But royal love is a dangerous game. Cast into exile by a formidable Queen Mother, Olwemihla finds...
royalty magic mystery +3 more