Delia Prescott is a best-selling author hiding behind a pseudonym. To the world, she's the wild-child daughter of a powerful publishing empire wasting away her inheritance. In reality, she's the highest grossing author that saved the family name. Running a thriving bar and chasing inspiration across the world (and across the bar), Delia's determined to live life on her terms, even if it means hiding the truth from everyone she loves. Gabby Andrews has spent years carefully building walls around her heart, trading risk for safety after too many painful cracks to her heart. She's convinced love is a story for other people, choosing to stick within the walls she's built and the emergency department where she works. Until she walks into Delia's bar and meets a woman who makes her wonder if she's been hiding from her own unwritten story and potential happy ending. Gabby feels like a story Delia was always too afraid to write: vibrant, kind, and alarmingly real. Is Delia ready to step into the light, and finally write a story under her real name, and is she prepared to announce to the world the true identity of her pen-name? Is Gabby ready to make the leap and try for love one more time and be her honest self in the process? Will her work schedule cause another rift in her chance of connecting to someone again? Maybe in finding each other, there is a story they never knew was there to write... together.

𝗔 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸. One, scarred by heartbreak so deep it reshaped her entire being. They call her Ms. Cold Stone. Thirty-three, cold hearted, distant, a quiet storm of confidence and tireless work. The other, a soul who learned to smile through the echoes of yesterday's bruises. Twenty-eight, an extroverted vessel of joy. Yet beneath the glow, imperfections linger, because perfection has never been the truth of anyone, has it? They stand as opposites, yet mirrors in subtle ways. What unfolds when two worlds collide? ------ "𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴" "𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵" "𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵" "𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦, 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨"

If I needed to, I'd break every bone in my body just to feel her love. It's so soft and pure. It's not something you just throw away. She's not someone you just throw away. - Stella Perez.

Vivienne Winters-Crawford has always had everything. The penthouse childhood, the private schools, the kind of money that fixes problems before they even start. But now, fresh out of college with an art degree in one hand and independence in the other, she wants to experience being on her own. So she moves out. No staff, no safety net, just a cramped two-bedroom apartment and a roommate she's never expected. Aveline Parker is a ghost of a girl who prefers silence to survival. Grey eyes, jet black hair, and a presence that slips through rooms without a sound. No one knows what she's been through, except Estelle, the woman who gave her a job, a room, and a reason to stay. Aveline doesn't talk much. She doesn't trust. She just survives. When Vivienne answers an ad for a roommate, she never expects the other room to belong to a girl who barely speaks. But there's something magnetic about Aveline. Something quiet and aching. And despite the silence, despite the walls, things start to unravel. One moment at a time. One scar at a time. This isn't a love story born out of ease. It's a love story built in the healing. In the light that comes after the dark.

Callie comes right out of a break up that left her questioning a few things. The only thing she doesn't question is whether or not to tell her parents about this. They warned her about dating a bi-woman and Callie surely won't admit that they were right. A little desperate to figure out what to do when her parents visit for New Years Eve and expect to meet her girlfriend, Callie gets run over by a stranger who might need her help just as much. But is fake-dating really what Callie wants and needs right now? She's over being in relationships that don't work but she doesn't really have any other choice. Her life gets complicated though, when she figures out that her fake relationship might spark up real feelings. up real feelings.

Nova Astrid has been acting since she was 13, and ever since her acting career started, she's been in intense competition with Milani Zaffrid; the spoiled rich girl who gets every tv role Nova works her ass off for. Nova works hard to avoid talking to Milani, which is hard considering they go to the same high school, and they've both been cast as rival characters in the same tv show. Unfortunately, it gets even harder for Nova when the co-writer Matt Davison loves their "off screen chemistry" and decides to make Nova's character Milani's character's love interest. Their intense rivalry gets in the way of their acting ability, and are forced to fake date as practise for the show, and get more comfortable with each other. Let's hope this doesn't awaken anything in them.

"The hardest part about moving on is not whether it's the right time but whether you are doing the right thing in doing so." Fifteen years after manirahan sa Canada, bumalik si Carmen sa Pilipinas pagkatapos ng trahedyang nangyari sa asawang si Helene. Depressed and isolated, nagpasya siyang umuwi para hanapin ulit ang kanyang sarili. Sa kanyang pagbabalik, makikilala niya si Michelle-isang single mother who was in the process of being legally separated from her husband. Hindi maganda ang una nilang pagkikita pero habang tumatagal at lalo nilang nakikilala ang isa't-isa, lalong lumalawak ang pagkakaunawaan nilang dalawa. Kaya ba niyang magmahal ulit tulad ng binigay niya para kay Helene o tatalikuran niya ang nararamdaman para sa katahimikan ng lahat? All rights reserved. No part of this work may be published, distributed, extracted, re-utilized, or reproduced in any material form, including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use other than this publication, unless otherwise permitted by the author in writing. This is a work product of my mind, heart and soul. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either drawn from the author's fertile imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. ©Maybe Next Time July 2019

After being left on the doorsteps of an orphanage at age four, Thalia Davis spends most of her life there. The few foster homes she had, never lasted more than a few months at best. Now an adult and trying to leave the past behind, Thalia's world is turned around by someone she would usually never think twice about. Mackenzie Jace is a kind and giving soul. Still reeling from a heartbreak that feels too fresh, she moves to a new town after being transfered to its fire department. She spends her time fighting fires or taking out her frustrations at the gym. In comes a woman who can either heal or destroy what's left of her. Cover By @HerNikolai