"My husband wants an open marriage" is a sentence people type into a search bar for two very different reasons. Some of you mean it literally. This page is for the other group, the ones looking for the Elysian Sparrow novel with that title, and the short version is: it's finished, it's 104 chapters, it's published on several reading apps, and NanoReads isn't one of them.
What we can do is tell you what the book is from its own listings, without making anything up, and point you at the serials on our shelves that do the same job.
Julie says yes. That's the mistake.
Julie and Ryan can't have a child. Ryan's answer is to ask for an open marriage so he can have one with someone else. Julie agrees because she wants to keep her marriage. The next day he brings his secretary home, which confirms what Julie had suspected for a while: the affair was already happening.
She ends up in a bar, where a stranger named Luke offers to play her boyfriend and turn Ryan's arrangement back on him. (MoboReader's cast list names the hero Lucas Martinez; the other listings call him Luke.) GoodNovel's summary adds a public humiliation at a company event, Ryan getting more brazen, and Luke turning out to be a powerful CEO. That's the billionaire part of the billionaire tag.
Verified: Elysian Sparrow · GoodNovel, NovelFlow, MoboReader, NovelCat, AlphaNovel · 104 chapters on GoodNovel · completed · rated 18+ · tags: Drama, CEO, Forbidden Love · not on NanoReads.
There's also a published ebook. Amazon sells a Kindle edition subtitled Fake Her Boyfriend, listed as Book 1 of a series called Billionaire Love Triangle Romances, and Goodreads lists editions subtitled New Beginning and I Want a Divorce. If the title you remember had a colon in it, it was probably one of those.
Why the open-marriage request is a clever setup
In most cheating romances the wife is the wronged party and the story is about her getting out. Julie has a different problem: she agreed to the rules. Ryan's secretary is allowed. So is Luke, and that's the point of him. A fake boyfriend inside an open marriage breaks nothing Ryan can complain about. The husband wrote the loophole, and the heroine walks through it.
That's why it reads as much like a fake-dating book as a divorce one. The shelf below has plenty of wives who leave. None has a husband who gave her written permission first, which is the one thing Sparrow's book has that ours don't.
Content and heat
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Rated 18+ on GoodNovel; how explicit, we haven't checked
From the listings
- Infidelity by the husband, with his secretary, early and on the page
- Infertility as the reason given for the open marriage
- Public humiliation of the heroine at a work event
- Pregnancy in the epilogue, per GoodNovel's listing (small spoiler: it ends with Julie and Luke's wedding)
💍Six wives who caught him, filed by what they did next
All billionaire serials →29 of the 194 English novels in our catalog carry an affair tag, and 7 open on a husband's betrayal. Nobody on our shelf gets an open-marriage request, so these are ranked by how much of Julie's setup they share: another woman who can give him a child, a public humiliation, a powerful man who takes her side. Each is filed by what she does next.
-
She takes the billionaire's dealThe Doctor's Orders
Surgeon Lena catches her husband with a pregnant nurse, and he holds her research grant over her head. Then billionaire patient Lucian Rexford offers a deal. The pregnant other woman makes it the nearest match to Ryan's "I need a child" excuse.
Start it free → -
She lets a rival see her fallThe Five Star Betrayal
Chloe is publicly humiliated at an awards night when her husband is caught with her own sister. "Our marriage was just business," he says. Rival billionaire Julian watches it happen and offers an alliance. It's the same public-humiliation beat as Julie's company event.
Try the first chapter → -
She walks out and builds her ownHis Biggest Mistake
On their anniversary, at the tower's grand opening, her husband credits the building Elara designed to his young protégée. She walks out, signs the divorce papers and teams up with his rival, billionaire Leo Martinez. The public humiliation, the younger woman and the powerful man on her side are all Julie's story.
Read chapter 1 free → -
She takes the moneyMy Husband's Other Life
He forgets her birthday and buys his assistant a penthouse with their savings. Isabella moves the fifty million to her own account, leaves the divorce papers on his desk and starts a rival firm. A federal agent complicates the revenge. The most satisfying exit on this list.
Read chapter 1 free → -
She goes to work for his rivalBreaking the Rules
Her husband kisses his PR manager on live TV after she built the engine that won him Monaco. She drops the ring in his trophy and becomes chief engineer for Leo Ryder. The husband scrambles to win her back. She's done.
Open the first chapter → -
She starts from nothingHis Painted Lies
Seraphina walks in on her husband with his pregnant muse, then loses her home and gallery to a cruel prenup. Paris, rain, one box of belongings. The bleakest opening here, for readers who want the rebuild to take a while.
Read chapter 1 free →
If it was the fake-boyfriend half that hooked you, Kiss Me, Fake It is a month-long fake relationship with a billionaire in Paris. Can't decide? The read-next quiz picks one in four questions.
Straight answers
Can I read My Husband Wants an Open Marriage free?
The first chapters, yes, on GoodNovel, NovelFlow and the other apps listed above. After that they charge coins. Full free copies on mirror sites aren't authorised by the author. Our reading apps comparison covers how the coin systems work.
Is it finished?
Yes. GoodNovel marks it completed at 104 chapters. The romance ends in a wedding.
Is there more like it?
Our other title pages in the same register: The Divorce He Never Saw Coming and The Ex-Wife's Billion-Dollar Comeback. The second-chance romance hub has the wider shelf, and the forbidden romance list leans into the "she shouldn't, and does" side.