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If It Had Ever Been Enough by Carrjk15
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Katherine and Cole find each other before either understands what they're carrying. Katherine believes she has found her soulmate and builds her life around that certainty. Cole struggles to name what he feels or what he's capable of giving. Neither recognizes how deeply the past is shaping their choices. By the time betrayal arrives, the foundation they trusted begins to fracture. Told through alternating timelines and perspectives, If It Had Ever Been Enough explores love shaped by unresolved trauma and what happens when devotion turns into something harder to survive. Not everything that feels like love is.
The Woman He Abandoned  by Ophelscott05
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He promised he'd be there. I believed him. But when the pain came when my body was tearing itself apart to bring our child into the world, he vanished. No calls. No messages. No trace of him. I screamed his name between contractions, holding onto a promise that was already broken. In the end, I gave birth alone. And when I finally made it home, exhausted, bleeding, and desperate for answers... I found divorce papers waiting for me. Just like that, my marriage was over. He thought this would destroy me. He thought I would fall apart. He was wrong.
True Blue: A Second Chance Romance by midnightbluewriting
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Dr. Indiana "Indie" Miller never believed in fairy tales. How could she? Everything she accomplished was paid for with blood, sweat, and tears. Emancipated at sixteen, she attended medical school while juggling three jobs-and now she's completing her oncology residency. She never allowed herself the hope of being someone's first choice. Until her favorite patient introduces her to her grandson. Teddy Williams is everything she never dared to dream of. He's kind, steady, and completely devoted to her. Two years later, deeply in love and on the verge of an engagement, they're preparing to move across the country for Indie's dream job. Then Nana Ellie passes away. Without the woman who adored Indie there to shield her, Teddy's overbearing family begins crossing boundaries, convinced Indie isn't the right woman for him. But his childhood best friend-and ex-girlfriend-Lily? She's perfect. They grew up together. Their mothers are best friends. To everyone else, it looks like the perfect second-chance love story. But Indie is in the way, and the family does whatever it takes to make sure that she feels unwelcome. As the pressure builds and the disrespect becomes impossible to ignore, Teddy finds himself caught between the family he was raised to put first... and the woman he loves more than anything. He chooses wrong. And he loses Indie. Quickly, he realizes his mistake and discovers just how deep his family machinations go. Will it be too late to prove to Indie that she is his one and only choice? Because Indie Miller is done waiting for a fairy tale. This time, she's going to make one for herself. TROPES: ⚠️ OW drama ⚠️ emotional manipulation ⚠️ GROVEL ⚠️ strong but kind FMC ⚠️ gentle giant MMC ⚠️ no cheating ⚠️ HEA with original couple
The Unpleasant Thing by dariatrowan
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I used to love those movies where the guy's ex, The One That Got Away, comes back to town, and he's unable to resist her even though he's taken. I was even dumb enough to cheer for the star-crossed lovers. Now that I've lived that particular scenario, I'm about to find out what happens to the abandoned girlfriend after the two love birds get together. Coming soon!
𝐴𝓈 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 by RavenAfterDark
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Iris Mercer was never meant to be loved. Not in that marriage. Not by a man like Elliot Graves. It was supposed to be an arrangement. It became a year of shared silence that was never empty, of touches that were careful not to want too much, and a love that grew anyway, stubborn and deep. Then Elliot forgot her. The accident took the year that belonged to her. It left Elliot with memories of another woman, a different life. A life before Iris. He remembers nothing of the marriage that changed him. Iris remembers it all. She watches her husband move through their home in a body that knows her but a mind that does not. She hears Elliot's voice form another man's words. She grieves for a love that existed only in a single, stolen year, because some kinds of love are not repeated. They are built once, and lost forever. This story contains explicit intimacy, strong language, emotional trauma, and themes of memory loss, manipulation, and familial abuse. Intended for mature readers only.
Emilia's Eviscerated Easter by morallyblackcupid
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Pastels hide stains better than you'd think. Emilia Hunt built her life on soft things - spring mornings, pretty smiles, fresh starts. Easter was her holiday. Rebirth. Renewal. Resurrection. Too bad some things refuse to stay buried. When a woman from her husband's past begins circling, old cracks split wide open. Secrets rot beneath polished floors. Lies bloom where trust once grew, and Emilia realizes something profound. Some marriages don't need saving. Some need ending. This Easter, Emilia isn't the sweet little bunny everyone remembers. She's what comes after the resurrection.
ZID by persist06
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I loved her first. She married him anyway. Ten years later, she showed up at my door, broken, betrayed, begging for help to leave the husband who threw her away. She thinks I'm being kind. Helping an old friend. She doesn't know I've been waiting. She never knew how I loved her. Never knew I watched her wedding from the back of the church. Never knew she was the reason I buried my heart so deep even I forgot where. Now she's back. Vulnerable. Trusting. Asking the one man who never stopped wanting her to help her walk away from someone else. This time? I'm not letting her go.
Loving a Lie by morallyblackcupid
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They call my husband the embodiment of cruelty. Demetri Ferraro was forged for control, vengeance, and bloodshed without conscience. Strangers murmur cautions about what he might do, forgetting I sleep inches from him nightly. If only they could witness what I have. There's a terrifying authenticity to our marriage. With me, he's attentive to the point of reverence. I wear his fingerprints like brands. His vigilance wraps around me, reflexive as breathing. I trusted him completely because betrayal seemed impossible. That was my undoing The merger of our families cost me things I didn't know I was losing. I salvaged only the skating rink-solitary hours on pristine ice before dawn or after midnight. The architecture of my future was more elaborate than I comprehended. The truth doesn't announce itself with confession. It arrives without remorse, manifesting as inevitability, as though questioning his constructed reality was never an option. I don't doubt that my husband loves me. For the true terror of Demetri Ferraro isn't found in shadows or violence. It's in how he determined I belonged to him, by systematically eliminating any alternative path.
This is it by Mp_Books
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GREY & IVY DUAL POV *A betrayal - Grovel - redemption novel * Grey plans the perfect proposal to the woman he almost lost, he believes he's finally earned redemption. But when an unexpected call from his childhood friend Celeste, drags him back into the chaos he swore he'd left behind, everything spirals. A lie told in desperation. A kiss caught on camera. And a single photo that destroys everything. Ivy is left humiliated under the glow of fairy lights meant for her engagement, she's forced to confront the painful truth: love isn't always enough to erase what's been done. Meanwhile, Grey fights to prove that what Ivy saw isn't the whole story, and that sometimes, the truth isn't captured in a frame. TW: body shaming
Once Was a Mistake, Twice Was a Lesson by Adams26
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I forgave him once. Six years of marriage. One affair. And I believed in second chances. For two years, I thought Daniel had changed. I believed in us... in the life we were rebuilding. Until a message from a stranger shattered everything. A house. A hidden life. A woman he never wanted me to know about. And the money I helped him earn... quietly funding it all. The first betrayal was his mistake. The second? My lesson. This time, there's no forgiveness. No excuses. No going back. Because some betrayals aren't meant to be survived they're meant to set you free