Since escaping an uncomfortable home life where her mother married her bully's father, Marissa thought she was done accepting betrayal. Until she walks in on her boyfriend sleeping with someone she considered a close friend. To make matters worse, she has to keep holding things in because her pseudo-sister is in a high-risk pregnancy and her husband is her ex's best friend. After enduring months of holding things in to keep the peace, she's faced with the ultimate betrayal: they're naming the baby after her cheating ex. As if that wasn't enough, her manager had lied to her about a promotion, and her incompetent subordinate was now her boss. Done with being everyone's pushover, Marissa decides to take a step back from the friends who betrayed her, quit her toxic job, and find a lucrative job in the company of her dreams. The catch? She will have to work under her childhood bully, turned stepbrother, Gideon. And as an added stipulation, she'll need to go back home for Friday night dinner every week. Now she'll have to decide if her career is worth returning home and facing demons she'd been keeping at bay for almost a decade.

Nora is good at surviving. She has been doing it her whole life. She knows which silences are safe. She knows how to make herself small enough to go unnoticed. She knows how to hold a life together with nothing but routine and patience and the quiet, unshakeable knowledge that things could always be worse. She has never asked for more than she has. She has never believed she deserved it. It isn't a big life. But it is hers. And it is stable. And stable is everything. Then one day, it isn't. When the life she has held so carefully together begins to crack, Nora finds herself facing the one question she has never had an answer to. If she leaves, where would she go? Warning: This story uses mature language and scenes. © IcecreamSundae5. All rights reserved.

Bianca grew up acting like they all wanted her to. Fitting into the pattern and preparing to be shipped of come her sixteenth birthday. She did it all, because she still believed it would all be worth it when sh met the one. Her mate. The one person designed for her. But Him? He Can't Be her Mate. She wouldn't allow it. She'd rather run away from everything she had ever known, than allow him to get to her. He has more resources than anyone else in their world and a mate is the one thing he has needed to feel whole these last ten years. Bianca will run. But what will happen if he catches her?

Iris Anderson is living every woman's dream, red carpet premieres, a hit TV show, and the face of a new luxury campaign. But behind the flashbulbs, her marriage to Ezra, the love of her life, is crumbling. When she caught him cheating, everything breaks. Except, nothing can break publicly. Tied to contracts and image deals, Iris must keep the facade alive for one more year. As she pours herself into her role with haunting brilliance, she finds herself spiralling into buried memories, the trauma she never faced, and the secret she thought she left behind six years ago. Meanwhile, Ezra, haunted by guilt and quietly losing the life he built, is determined to make things right. But redemption isn't romantic. It's messy, it's hard, and it might be too late. And as whispers of the past threaten to surface, Iris must decide if healing means forgiveness, or if letting go is the only way forward.

Trope: OW Drama / Girl Best Friend / Puts OW first Brian O'Connor checks off every single checklist in Sara Wakefield's list of her dream man. The only problem is? Sara is not the only woman in Brian's life. Sara is left playing second fiddle while Brian prioritises his single mom "bestie" and her 1 year old son. How long can Sara keep up feeling like the outsider in this little cosy trio?

I lied. It was a mistake. Now my mate hates me. Can I blame him? For readers: *I will update as I please. Don't be rude about it. Thank you. *I do my best to proofread before publishing, but some typos and errors will slip through. Feel free to point them out! *Comments, active engagement, and helpful critiques are welcomed. *Mean, unnecessary comments that attack me, personally, or other commenters will be ignored and deleted. *I'm not a spicey writer. I rather use my word count for plot, character development, and GROVEL!!! *Most importantly, I hope you enjoy the little world I'm creating.

Is it better to live in a beautiful lie or the ugly truth? I'm not so sure anymore. Not now after finding myself on the other side of beautiful lies. There was a time I thought I was the one - HIS one. Turns out, I'm only second . . . . . . to her. For readers: *I will update as I please. Don't be rude about it. Thank you. *I do my best to proofread before publishing, but some typos and errors will slip through. Feel free to point them out! *Comments, active engagement, and helpful critiques are welcomed. *Mean, unnecessary comments that attack me, personally, or other commenters will be ignored and deleted. *I'm not a spicey writer. I rather use my word count for plot, character development, and GROVEL!!! *Most importantly, I hope you enjoy the little world I'm creating.

In a bustling metropolis, a seemingly perfect couple enjoys a life filled with love and success. However, beneath the surface lies a dark secret. When one partner embarks on a dangerous affair with a close friend, the facade of happiness begins to crumble. As the betrayed partner uncovers layers of deception, shocking revelations shake their world to the core. An enigmatic former lover reappears at a crucial moment, forcing a reevaluation of love and loyalty. In a gripping tale of passion, betrayal, and the quest for self-discovery, "Pear-Shaped Marriage" delves into the shadows of desire and the lengths one will go to reclaim their heart. Will they emerge stronger from the wreckage, or will the secrets of the past consume them?

She always dreamed of meeting her mother's family... she just never thought it would be like this. She finds herself separated from her mate yet again, and she's desperate to get back. But her family doesn't want to let her go... In the woods far below, Tristan is facing his own challenges. An all-out war between the woodland packs. And the Lykaia, in the center of it. Second Book in the 'Fated Series,' sequel to Winter Wolf.

This is the unedited version Amara Dawson grew up in the Red Moon pack. It's the only pack she knew and despite being their female Beta, she never felt at home. When her life crumbles in front of her, she runs the first chance she gets and ends up at the border of Alpha Roman's pack. Finally being free of the chains that bound her, she quickly embraces the person she has always wanted to be. Alpha Roman has lived a life of success; feared by his enemies but loved by his pack, he's the strongest alpha in his part of the world. Being 26 and not yet having found his mate, he wonders if his dark soul was always meant to be alone, shunned by the Moon Goddess due to a part of him he never asked for. Yet when the seemingly carefree Amara shows up at his border he's entranced by her. His soul calls out to her, but when her soul answers back he knows there a lot more to the little she-wolf, more than she herself knows.