In the quiet heart of Mississippi lies Rosedale, a town where the air smells of magnolia in bloom and evenings are marked by the soft tolling of church bells. Families gather on front porches to share laughter, children run barefoot through tidy streets, and neighbors speak with the ease of kin. It is a place untouched by time, bound by faith, and guided by the steady hand of its beloved Priestess. To step into Rosedale is to find peace, devotion, and the promise of belonging. But in a town where every life is tended, perfection has its price - and no one leaves once the bells have tolled. Twilight Fanfiction

Cambri has built her life on control-carefully planned, emotionally guarded, and untouched by anything that could throw her off balance. Love was never part of the blueprint. Until Junen. Younger, driven, and on the verge of a life-changing football career, Junen was never supposed to be more than a moment. But one unexpected connection turns into something neither of them can ignore-and everything they tried to keep separate begins to collide. When a hidden truth begins to surface in Cambri's own body, what starts as confusion quickly turns into something far more real. As pressure from family, public scrutiny, and their own fears threaten to pull them apart, Cambri and Junen are forced to confront what they truly mean to each other. Because some things can't be planned. Some things can't be avoided. And sometimes, the most unexpected beginnings lead to everything you never knew you needed.

After a real heated argument with her mother about reconnecting with her cousin Emily, she had run off deep into the woods in an attempt to calm down. She was sick of everyone telling her to get over the betrayal she felt when Sam had left her for Emily, it wasn't that easy, and she wasn't going to let it go. But this baby she found; she'll make sure they'll grow up knowing that someone was always going to have their back.

Lilith "Lily" Cullen was never meant to belong to their world. Carlisle found her as a child in the woods-glowing, alive, and tied to the forest itself. A dryad with a heartbeat, ageless but forever soft and small. While her vampire siblings stand tall and perfect, Lily is chubby, curvy, and the shortest of them all. Fragile. Delicate. Easily swept into tears. To the Cullens, Lily is not just family. She's theirs-their eternal baby, their obsession, their possession. But when Seth Clearwater, a Quileute wolf, imprints on her, everything begins to unravel. His love feels different: less suffocating, but no less consuming. And when Bella Swan arrives in Forks, her jealousy burns hot-because Edward Cullen doesn't spare Bella a single glance. His heart, like the rest of his family's, belongs only to Lily. 🌺A fragile flower caught between obsession and freedom. 🌺 A girl everyone loves too much to ever let go. 🌺 A bloom smothered in shadows, longing to grow.

Born into slavery, Lena Wells escapes in search of freedom-but instead finds a Union camp overflowing with runaways, soldiers, and the man whose gaze she can't seem to forget. What begins as stolen glances soon becomes forbidden touches and passionate, secret kisses. But war has a way of claiming everything, and when Julian is called back to his regiment, Lena is forced to let him go. Four years later, Lena has built a fragile new life in Philadelphia-a seamstress by day and a devoted mother by night, determined to protect the child who carries the face of the man she lost. Julian Dennis, wounded and discharged, is living in the same city rebuilding a life that no longer feels like his own. When a chance assignment brings Lena into his home that he shares with his mother-who has hired her to sew a few dresses-the past collides violently with the present. One look at Lena's little girl sends Julian spiraling. She looks like him. She acts like him. And the timing is undeniable. Yet Lena insists the child isn't his. Now Julian is torn between hope and heartache, while Lena clings to the truth she's carried alone for years. As long-buried emotions resurface and new wounds open, both must confront not only the ghosts of the war, but the powerful forces of society, race, loyalty, and love that threaten to keep them apart. Because sometimes the war doesn't end on the battlefield- Sometimes it finds you again, exactly where you're trying to start over.

** Picks up where The Edge of Hell (Mitchell Brothers Series Book One) left off** If there's one thing Declan Mitchell learned from watching his mama almost die from the heartbreak of losing his daddy to a war nineteen years ago, it was that a great and powerful love delivered an equally devastating heartbreak and suffering-the kind he had every intention of avoiding like the bubonic plague. And until traveling west to Idaho Territory and coming face to face with the mismatch-eyed, auburn-haired beauty, Wren McCrawdon, he believed he might succeed in carrying out his plans of never marrying. Molded by her traumatic journey west when she was twelve, twenty-four-year-old, accident-prone Wren McCrawdon's life on her family's ranch in Falcon Ridge, Idaho, is full of back-breaking work, beginning as dawn's first rays peek across the mountains and ending long after the sun sets when she can barely drag her weary bones up the stairs to her bedroom. But from the morning Declan Mitchell and his family arrive, her miserable existence becomes more bearable until tragedy strikes when all she sees are the harsh realities of loss and suffering. Concerned for Wren's safety and remembering how bitter the edge of misery was after his daddy died-Declan discovers he's willing to do anything he can to take it away from her... even if it means a marriage of convenience is the only suitable solution. There are only two problems: first, it's already apparent he's following in his mama's footsteps toward eventual heartbreak, and second he somehow has to convince Wren to agree.

willow swan was cast out by her own mother, the moment of her conception. though accepted by her relatives, her father disappears under the street lights of seattle. willow is thrown from one person to another before bella disappears from forks with the rest of her chosen family. so she remains behind, both sides of her family grieving for a missing member. time flows, willow grows, her families heal. that is until the cullens arrive back in town. bella was ready for willow to come home. although there was something her mother wasn't telling her.

For the price of eternal youth and beauty, Bella had faked her death only a day after returning home from Italy. She had left her friends, family, and even her past for the sake of Edward and her poor father was left suffering from her decisions. Dropped into a mindset that many believed he would never pull himself out of, Aurora, a young lost girl suddenly appeared and stole his heart. Feeling like this was the world's way of giving him a do over, he thought about turning her into the perfect daughter he had thought he could create out of Bella, but this time around he'll make sure she doesn't end up like her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Started ~ 10/03/21 Ended ~ 12/28/21 Book ~ 1 Series ~ My Fair Lady Status ~ Editing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"The Shifting Tides of Gracelyn Young" Born into a world that never fully embraced her, Gracelyn Young grew up between two worlds-one of wolves, and one of vampires. Marked by powers she never asked for and bonds she never expected, Gracie battles against cruelty, loneliness, and the pull of a destiny far bigger than she can yet understand. As she matures, her heart is torn between fierce loyalty and a haunting, ancient connection that whispers to her through dreams. With the threat of the Volturi looming once more, and love and loyalty colliding, Gracie must find her own path in a world determined to claim her. A story of bittersweet love, unbreakable bonds, and a power that even fate didn't predict.

She could feel the forest die when they returned. The forest had always been her friend. It was the one place that ever made sense to Ivy Swan - the rhythm of rain on cedar, the hush after a storm. The woods were alive to her. Every root, every gust of wind, every whisper through the ferns spoke a language she understood. It was how she breathed. How she stayed grounded. But that morning, the forest wasn't breathing right. The air was too still. The birds were silent. Even the river moved slow, like it didn't want to draw attention to itself. And Ivy felt it - the shift. It crawled up her spine like static, her pulse syncing with the cold ground beneath her feet. The energy wasn't natural. It didn't belong to Forks. It didn't belong anywhere she knew. Something foreign had returned. Paul Lahote X OC