Just one night, just one time. ELENA I always believed Adrian was the one for me. Even when life kept us busy, we were happy. He showed his love in his own quiet ways, and I trusted that. I believed in us. Or maybe... I believed in the version of us I had built in my head. Until one night, a folder filled with secret messages shattered everything I once trusted. ADRIAN I thought I had everything. A woman I loved. A thriving career. A child we were about to welcome into the world. But one temptation from my past nearly destroyed everything I had built. Two years later, our marriage still stands. But forgiveness doesn't erase betrayal. And time doesn't always heal. Yet... could we ever truly come back?

I allowed myself to look past my intuition and distrust of a certain someone and their interactions with my fiancé ... I mean ex-fiancé. I chose trust in him over distrust of her at every crossroads his choices created, and now I'm lost. Maybe breaking it down again, piece by piece will help me look at the big picture logically. Maybe then I can feel less illogical pain and find my way back to myself again. A story about a relationship breaking down because of broken boundaries and a breakdown in communication.

Emily thought she had the perfect life, the perfect husband. For years she believed in the life they had built. When she catches him betraying their vows, everything begins to unravel. Finding her inner strength, Emily moves forward, building a new future. Trent single-handedly destroyed everything that was important to him. He wants nothing more than to make things right with his wife, but how can you even begin to repair something so broken?

A dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast... When Sonja's father sells her to settle a debt, Sonja vows to escape by any means necessary. It doesn't matter who she hurts. She wants her freedom, no matter the cost. They call him "The Beast." With cruel eyes and a body covered in tattoos and horrific scars, he's everything Sonja feared as a little girl. But Sonja doesn't care if he's a monster...as long as he's her monster. [The story you are about to read is intended for readers age 18+ due to its sexual content and language. It may not be appropriate for all audiences. Please read at your own discretion.]

Needles lives his dream, a member of the Broken Demons MC and runs the tattoo shop owned by the club. He's watched his brothers settle down and start families and he can't help but wonder when it'll be his turn. Molly is the black sheep of the family. After making some poor choices her parents have had enough and send her to live with her aunt for a while. Will she return to the life she doesn't fit into or can she finally find where she belongs?

Rachel's heart broke ten years ago. The man she wanted never saw her. She was never on his radar. So she moved on--or tried to. He was her best friend's brother, after all; escaping him was impossible. Instead, she built a life. Married another man who promised her the kind of love she'd stopped waiting for. But promises shatter easily. When Rachel discovers her husband's infidelity, the illusion of her happy ending crumbles. Mark was never the man who saw her. And the miserable truth is--the only man who ever did, abandoned her while her world fell apart. Now she's a new mother to her cheating, abusive husband's daughter, surrounded by friends who refuse to let her break... including him. Roy. Leroy. The man she weaved fantasies around since she was thirteen. So when he finally looks at her--really looks at her--and promises the kind of love she once dreamed about, Rachel lets herself fall. Completely. Only to learn she was never going to be his first choice. He had twenty years to hear her. Five months to claim her. And one night was all it took--for him to destroy her instead.

Once, she was his whole world - the one he promised to cherish forever. But when trust wavered and faith shattered, he turned his back on her, leaving her heart in ruins. What followed was unbearable - heartbreak, humiliation for sins she never committed, abandonment by her parents, and the cruel whispers of friends and neighbors. Unable to endure the torment or the betrayal of the man she loved most, she left everything behind - her home, her city, her country - determined to rebuild herself. Eight years later, she returns not as the fragile girl she once was, but as a strong, confident doctor - cold, composed, and unbreakable. Fate intervenes when she is forced to save the very man she once fled from - the man who had destroyed her, now lying on the brink of death. He had spent those eight years in regret, searching endlessly for the love he lost - only to find her when he least expected it. Now, given a second chance, he is determined not to lose her again. As he struggles to win back her heart, she battles with the scars of her past. Can he truly earn her forgiveness after such betrayal? Will she ever trust him again - or will the walls she built around her heart keep him out forever? Come, witness their journey - of pain, redemption, and love reborn against all odds.

"How dare you!!!" She screamed And... Slapped him hard across his face. But she had no clue who she was messing with or how easily he could destroy her. His lips curled into a dark smirk. Without a word, he fired his gun into the air and barked, "Start preparing for the goddamn wedding." Before she could even process what was happening, he hoisted her over his shoulder and stormed straight to the mandap set up for her cousin's wedding. Slamming her down, he hissed, "That slap just made you my wife." In one brutal motion, he filled her hairline with sindoor, sealing her fate in the most explosive way possible. Her life was no longer her own-𝘐𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘴. 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝟖+ | 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 | 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫

Copyright © 2025 by Bookish Dae Caspian Stone, a grumpy mafia king, finds his world irrevocably brightened by Ayla Evans, a sweet and sunny bookseller. In a devastating strategic move to protect her from a rival, he betrays her, shattering her heart and trust. His plan spirals into chaos when someone he trusted the most betrays them,.

Copyright © 2025 by Bookish Dae Adam, a reformed ex-convict who built a honest life as a mechanic, is blissfully married to Zara, the love of his life who sees only the good in him. However, his world shatters when a series of cruel, undermining comments from his father in law, Robert, finally push him over the edge, causing him to unleash his own deep seated insecurities onto Zara in a devastating verbal attack.