RomanceToo Late to Love YouRomanceToo Late to Love YouFor the first year of their marriage, Amelia Hart Vale believed she had found a home in Adrian Vale. He was gentle, protective, ambitious, and certain that providing for her was the same as loving her. But during their second year, work consumed him. He missed dinners, anniversaries, hospital visits, promises, and the small conversations that once made Amelia feel chosen. Adrian never cheated. He never struck her. He never stopped loving her. He simply stopped being present. Amelia fought for their marriage until waiting became more painful than being alone. By the time Adrian finally understood what his absence had done, she had already begun building a life that no longer depended on him coming home. When divorce is spoken aloud, lawyers enter their marriage and separation terms are placed before them. But leaving is not the only door Amelia wants to know how to open. As Adrian fights to rebuild what he neglected, buried Vale family secrets, forged documents, corporate manipulation, and generations of control turn their private pain into a public weapon. Now Amelia and Adrian must decide whether their marriage can become something neither of them has known before. A home where love is present, freedom is protected, and staying is a choice rather than a sentence.New story · 1 savedOngoingPeek inside
Mystery & ThrillerThe Man They BuriedMystery & ThrillerThe Man They BuriedMira Voss loved her husband. Not perfectly. Not blindly. But truly. Elias made her coffee too strong, stole the blankets, remembered every small thing she forgot, and promised they would grow old arguing about the same harmless habits. Then Elias dies unexpectedly. His body is identified. His family mourns him. On Tuesday, Mira watches the man she expected to spend her life with lowered into the ground. On Friday night, her phone rings. ELIAS. She answers. At first there is only breathing. Then the dead man says her name. Mira tells herself grief can make the mind cruel. But the calls return - never on schedule, never often enough to become normal. The voice remembers private jokes, unfinished conversations, the side of the bed she sleeps on, and secrets nobody else should know. Then one call tells her not to go home. Hours later, someone breaks into the house. As Mira investigates, the husband she thought she knew begins splitting into two men: Elias, the man who loved her, and Elias, the man with a second phone, hidden transfers, a locked storage unit, an unknown woman, and a file on someone who had supposedly been dead for years. Elias is not alive. But before he died, he prepared for death. And someone is still following his instructions. The most dangerous question is no longer who is pretending to be Elias. It is which calls Elias planned - and which ones came from someone else.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Contemporary RomanceMy Crush Is Dating My SisterContemporary Romance · Second Chance RomanceMy Crush Is Dating My SisterWren Hollister has loved Jonah Pryce for eight years. She finally decides to tell him the truth when he returns to their coastal hometown, only to discover that her beautiful older sister, Celeste, has reached him first. Now Jonah is dating Celeste, their struggling family inn depends on the boatyard he intends to sell, and Wren is expected to smile while helping their relationship survive. Then the lies begin to crack. The sister Wren has spent her life protecting is hiding something. Their mother has secrets of her own. And the man Wren thought chose someone else all those years ago may never have made that choice at all. As an engagement turns into a wedding and old betrayals surface, Wren must decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice to keep her family together. Because sometimes losing the person you love is painful. But discovering they might have loved you all along can destroy everything.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
YA RomanceThe Boy Who Keeps Saving MeYA Romance · Romantic SuspenseThe Boy Who Keeps Saving MeWren Castellano arrives at Larkspur determined to uncover what really happened to her mother ten years ago. She expects secrets. She does not expect the accidents to begin again—or for Ezra Vale, the guarded boy who keeps appearing whenever her life is in danger, to become the person she trusts most. But Ezra is hiding something too. As Wren follows a trail connecting her mother’s death to Larkspur’s most powerful family, every answer exposes another betrayal: missing evidence, staged accidents, buried witnesses, and people who chose silence because the truth cost too much. Even Ezra’s love cannot protect their relationship when Wren discovers how much he knew and how long he kept it from her. To survive Larkspur, Wren must learn the difference between being saved and being controlled, between forgiveness and forgetting, and between loving someone and letting them decide for you. Because this time, finding the truth is only half the fight.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Billionaire RomanceHIS CONTRACT WIFE RAN AWAYBillionaire Romance · Contemporary RomanceHIS CONTRACT WIFE RAN AWAYEthan Calloway never planned to become a father. But when tragedy leaves his six-year-old niece, Sophie, in his care, the powerful billionaire suddenly finds himself fighting a custody battle he cannot solve with money, influence, or lawyers. Then Nora Hayes walks into their lives. She is supposed to help Sophie heal—not become part of the family. But Sophie trusts her. Ethan depends on her. And when his lawyers warn that his unstable home life could cost him custody, Ethan makes Nora an offer neither of them ever expected: Marry him for one year. It is supposed to be simple. A contract marriage. Separate lives. A stable home for Sophie. Enough money to save Nora’s struggling learning center. And when the year ends, they walk away. Except somewhere between school mornings, sleepless nights, family dinners, arguments, stolen kisses, and a little girl who begins calling them “my people,” the arrangement stops feeling fake. Nora falls in love with the family they accidentally created. And Ethan falls even harder. But Ethan has spent his whole life expressing care through money, protection, and carefully written agreements. So when their original reason for being married disappears, he makes the worst mistake possible. Instead of asking Nora to stay… he prepares another contract. Five more years. More money. More security. More promises written on paper. And not one honest sentence telling her what she desperately needs to know: Would he still choose her if Sophie never needed her? By the time Ethan finally realizes that love cannot be negotiated, Nora has already made her decision. The contract expires. Her wedding ring is left behind. And his contract wife runs away. Now the billionaire who could buy almost anything must learn the one thing money was never able to give him: how to make the woman he loves choose him freely.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Young Adult RomanceMy Tutor Is My Childhood EnemyYoung Adult Romance · High School RomanceMy Tutor Is My Childhood EnemySeven years ago, June Marlowe froze on live television. Theo Ashby laughed. At least, that is what June remembers. The humiliating clip turned her worst moment into a town joke, destroyed the friendship she once had with Theo, and made mathematics something she could barely face without remembering that stage. Now seventeen, June has built a new life around art. She has even earned a conditional place at the Calloway Institute of Art and Design in New York. There is just one problem. She needs a B or better in AP Calculus to keep it. And she is failing. Then her mother announces that she has hired the best student tutor in Port Calder. Theo Ashby. The boy June has hated for seven years. Their tutoring sessions begin with insults, rules written on graph paper, and a contract designed to keep everything painfully simple. No talking about Brain Bowl. No touching her sketchbook. Sessions are strictly math. And absolutely no feelings. But the more time June spends across the kitchen table from Theo, the harder it becomes to fit him into the villain she remembers. He notices when she is about to panic. He teaches her mathematics through animation instead of making her feel stupid. He protects her when no one is supposed to notice. And every honest answer between them creates another crack in the story June has believed since she was ten. Because Theo has secrets. He volunteered to become her tutor. He has spent years carrying the truth about what really happened on that television stage. And the anonymous reader who has faithfully supported June's secret webcomic for three years may be much closer to her than she ever imagined. As old footage resurfaces, buried family guilt comes to light, and someone begins manipulating their past for personal gain, June must decide whether she is brave enough to confront the moment that changed her life. Not only to save her future. But to discover whether the boy she spent seven years hating was ever really her enemy at all.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Coming of AgeThe Summer Before Everything ChangedComing of Age · Contemporary RomanceThe Summer Before Everything ChangedTessa Quinlan has spent four years believing one reckless text killed her brother. Now the Blue Heron Inn is being sold, the boy whose family took the blame has returned to Sandpiper Key, and Luke’s old phone has surfaced with a summer list he never finished. Eli Barrow did not come back for Tessa. He came back for the evidence his father was blamed for losing. But the deeper they dig into the night Luke died, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because someone else was on that boat. Someone Tessa trusts. And the powerful family preparing to buy her home may have spent years making sure nobody ever discovers what really happened. Between a crumbling family inn, an unfinished summer list, a love triangle built on buried guilt, and a secret capable of destroying two families, Tessa must decide whether uncovering the truth is worth losing everything she thought her future would be. Because sometimes growing up means discovering that the life you planned was never really yours. And sometimes the only way forward is to stop living for the person who never got the chance.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Young Adult RomanceWe Were Never Just FriendsYoung Adult Romance · College RomanceWe Were Never Just FriendsNora Vale has spent years believing there is one rule that can keep the most important person in her life from ever becoming another person she loses. Never date your best friend. Cal Hayes agreed to that rule when they were children. He also broke it in his heart almost immediately. For years, Nora and Cal remain inseparable, hiding behind friendship, inside jokes, birthday floor plans, rooftop debriefs, and a Pact neither of them is brave enough to question. Nora believes Cal is the one person who has never left her. What she does not know is that he has also been keeping the secret that could destroy them. Letters from the mother Nora believes abandoned her. A mother who never stopped writing. A father who made choices Nora was never allowed to know about. And Cal, caught between love and loyalty, convinced that protecting Nora means deciding which truths she can survive. When the secrets finally come apart, friendship is no longer enough to save them. College separates what childhood kept tangled. New relationships begin. Trust fractures. Family lies surface. Ambition turns dangerous. And just when Nora and Cal finally learn that loving someone does not give you the right to control their choices, injury threatens the future Cal has spent his entire life building. They have loved each other for years. But loving each other was never their hardest problem. The hardest part is learning how to stay without holding too tightly, tell the truth before fear edits it, and choose each other without demanding a guarantee that neither of them will ever leave. Because the rule was always a lie. They were never just friends.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Contemporary RomanceMy Husband Is Running Against MeContemporary Romance · Marriage DramaMy Husband Is Running Against MeCamille Vale never thought the greatest threat to her marriage would be ambition. For twelve years, she and Adrian Vale have built a life together—and inside Valecrest Global, they have built two equally formidable careers. Camille is the executive employees trust when everything is falling apart. Adrian is the strategist investors call when millions are on the line. They have always been partners. Until the CEO announces his retirement. Five executives enter the race to replace him. Camille is one of them. So is her husband. At first, they believe they can handle it. They set rules. No confidential information at home. No using their marriage for advantage. No sabotaging each other. Whatever happens at work, they promise their marriage comes first. Then the rankings begin. One victory puts Camille ahead. Another puts Adrian above her. Soon the board is comparing them, employees are choosing sides, journalists are turning their marriage into a headline, and every professional decision carries a personal consequence. When Adrian publicly exposes a weakness in Camille’s proposal, she begins to wonder where being her husband ends and being her rival begins. When Camille receives an opportunity that could remove her from Valecrest entirely, Adrian realizes winning the CEO position may cost him far more than he expected. And when the competition narrows until only husband and wife remain, neither can pretend anymore. They both want the same chair. They both believe they deserve it. And only one of them can win. But this is not a story about cheating, betrayal, or discovering they never loved each other. Camille and Adrian do love each other. Deeply. That is exactly what makes the competition dangerous. Because loving someone does not erase ambition. Supporting your spouse does not mean wanting their dream more than your own. And sometimes the hardest person to lose to is the person you most want to see succeed. As boardroom battles become arguments at home, professional victories leave emotional wounds, and one devastating decision gives Camille the power to destroy Adrian’s chances completely, they must decide what kind of competitors—and what kind of spouses—they are willing to become. Because eventually Valecrest will have one CEO. And when the final vote is cast, one of them will walk out victorious. The other will have to go home with the person who beat them. My Husband Is Running Against Me is a corporate marriage drama about ambition, equality, communication, power, and two people discovering that a strong marriage does not require one person to become smaller so the other can shine.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Secret Baby RomanceHE NEVER KNEW ABOUT OUR SONSecret Baby Romance · Second-Chance RomanceHE NEVER KNEW ABOUT OUR SONEmma Shaw thought divorce was the hardest thing she would ever survive. Then, two weeks after her marriage to Ryan Scott ended, she discovered she was pregnant. She meant to tell him. Until she heard Ryan say publicly that becoming a father was the last thing he wanted while he rebuilt his life. After years of being the person Ryan always promised to come back to later, Emma believed him. So she disappeared. Nearly six years later, Emma returns with five-year-old Luke—the son Ryan never knew existed. She has no intention of telling him. But one school emergency ruins everything. Ryan walks into the principal’s office, sees a little boy with his eyes, his expressions, even the same nervous habit he has carried since childhood—and hears Luke say the words neither of them can ignore. “You look like me.” The truth comes out quickly. But discovering Luke is his son is the easy part. Ryan has already missed the first word, the first tooth, the first birthday, the first day of school, the fevers, the scraped knees, and five years of ordinary moments he can never get back. Biology may make him Luke’s father. It does not make him Dad. That is something Ryan will have to earn. And while Ryan struggles to build a relationship with the son he never knew existed, Emma is forced to face an uncomfortable truth of her own: she may have believed she was protecting her child, but she also made a life-changing decision for Ryan based on one sentence spoken by a broken man—and on all the wounds their marriage had already taught her to expect. Now they must learn how to co-parent without repeating the mistakes that destroyed them. How to separate anger from parenthood. How to let Luke love them both without making him choose. And eventually, how to decide whether the love that once failed them deserves another chance. Because this time, Ryan cannot keep promising he will come home when everything else is finished. If he wants his son and Emma he has to learn how to come home while life is still happening.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
