(rivals to lovers, small town, sports) [WATTYS 2024 GRAND PRIZE WINNER] (Season 3 coming soon) After a devastating Olympic loss puts her career in a downward spiral, an aging skier returns to her laid-back mountain hometown to rediscover her love of her sport and instead finds herself falling for a rival athlete. *** A year away from what might be her last chance to win Olympic gold, twenty-seven-year-old alpine skier Juniper James shocks everyone by announcing she won't race this year. Returning to her mountain hometown hoping to rediscover the spark that once drove her to World Cup glory, she instead crosses paths with the rival who shut her out of the podium at the last Olympics. For Summer Li, nothing is more important than skiing. At twenty years old, she has already won Olympic silver, but an accident has left her desperate to get back on her skis before the world learns the extent of her injury. She came to Crystal Peaks to lay low while she recovers. The last thing she needs is the woman she once idolized hanging around asking questions. Both struggling with career lows, Juniper and Summer have more in common than they think. Even as they push each other, sparks begin to fly, but Juniper blames Summer for her slump, and Summer isn't going to let a relationship distract from her recovery. And only one of them can win the gold medal. This inconvenient attraction seems on a course for disaster from the start. But these are women who face the impossible every day, and there's a magic in the mountains that can thaw even the coldest hearts. *** Cleat Cute meets Delilah Green Doesn't Care. *** Season One complete at 90k words. Season Two complete at 90k words. Season Three coming soon!

In Dr. Wren Sinclair's seminar, nothing is surface level. Not the texts. Not the questions. Not the way she looks at Casey Rivers across the table. Casey is in her third year at Everett University, in a relationship that's expected. But the more time she spends in Sinclair's office discussing repression and longing, the harder it becomes to ignore her own. What begins between the lines of literature starts bleeding into real life. And once the tension shifts from intellectual to intimate, there's no pretending it's just academic anymore. *Slow burn* *some domestic abuse*

Valerie Stone is a visionary, a billionaire, and a terrifying boss. She can negotiate a merger in her sleep, but she can't name her daughter's favorite color. ​Chloe Davis is her executive assistant. She is underpaid, overworked, and currently heartbroken after her girlfriend dumped her for being "married to the job." ​For six years, the dynamic has been simple: Chloe knows everything about Valerie. She knows her coffee order, her ex-husband's trigger points, and exactly how to calm down Valerie's son during a panic attack. Valerie knows nothing about Chloe. Not her dreams, not her heartache, and certainly that Chloe is into women. ​But when a crisis forces the Ice Queen to rely on her assistant for more than just spreadsheets, the walls begin to crumble. Valerie is about to discover that the woman holding her life together is the only mystery she can't solve-and the only one who can melt the stone around her heart.

Helena Pierce has it all. A company built from nothing, wealth, a best friend who knows her better than she knows herself, and a brother who would move mountains for her. On paper, her life is flawless. But perfection doesn't fill the emptiness. Helena is lonely and love has never come easily, and when it did, her need for control always pushed it away. She rules every part of her life with iron precision, and that same power keeps her from letting anyone in. Helena doesn't know how to surrender - and maybe, deep down, she fears what would happen if she did. ❁ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ ˋˏ༻❁༺ˎˊ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ ❁ June Holloway refuses to back down. Words are power, and behind a screen, she wields them all. Declared deaf at six, though she had struggled to hear long before, she controls her world from home, safe from the noise and chaos she can't fully navigate... but safety has a price. She has her work, a best friend who never leaves her side, and a brother who would give his life for her. Yet love has always been complicated. Speaking, hearing, connecting - it should be simple, but for June, it's a battle she fights again and again, never easily won. Even so, she keeps trying. Even so, she refuses to be silenced. ❁ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ ˋˏ༻❁༺ˎˊ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ ❁ Since June starts working for Helena, things begin to unfold and feelings grow quietly, almost unnoticed. Both hide behind screens, careful and measured, yet there is a pull between them they can't ignore. Every word, every message lingers a little longer, makes them think a little more. Neither is ready to admit how much they want it to go further. Helena doesn't know June is deaf, and could that secret change everything between them? #1 under #lesbian 1/9/26 #1 under #wlw 1/11/26 #1 under #sapphic 1/12/26 #1 under #girls 3/15/26

At twenty-two, Hailey Parker is a single mom just trying to survive her new job as a secretary at the elite Bailington Academy. She's messy, bright, and full of heart-everything Professor Ellena Thorne has worked hard to shut out. Ellena is brilliant, reserved, and emotionally off-limits after a painful divorce. But when Hailey crashes into her world-literally-what starts as irritation turns into something far more complicated. Two women. One impossible attraction. And a slow-burn journey toward love, laughter, and maybe even healing.

LA, 77th district. Stef Foster is the Captain of Police. She and her husband are trying to conceive. Desperate to have a child they go through IVF together. Embryo transfer day comes and there, she meets Lena, a beautiful and temperamental woman, here for the very same reason: a baby. Little did they know that this day would mark the beginning of an infinite bond between them. AUTOR NOTE: No time to post every day, so I post the whole thing all at once. Enjoy :) TRIGGER WARNING: mention of violence, murder, kidnapping, sex scenes, strong language, cheating, miscarriage, IVF... DISCLAIMER: I do not own "The Fosters", Stef and Lena's characters or anything else mentioned in the show. A few elements are inspired from "Jane The Virgin" and "The L Word" as well.

Spencer Hanks doesn't do commitment. Even if her brother swears that someone's going to come along and knock the air out of her chest one day. Commitment isn't for her. Besides the neighbor that catches her eye has a son who's got a dad so obviously nothings going to happen there. Not that she would even want that. Allie Stone loves her son and always wants him to be happy. Even if that means moving away from her happy place with him and his dad. Except maybe she ends up finding something she didn't even know she was missing. (Wlw story about two women whose lives change in ways they didn't imagine once they enter each other's lives.)

Ashley Davis had to say goodbye to the life she had known when she quit her nursing career and ended up as a receptionist at a prestigious financial company. She thinks this new job is going to be boring and uneventful until she meets Kori Casden, a closed-off higher-up at the company who happens to be 13 years her senior. As Ashley starts to get to know Kori, she begins to fall for her, despite Kori having a past that has led her to seem emotionally unavailable. Little does Ashley know, that Kori is falling for her too. Will there be one too many obstacles that get in the way of love between the two women?

Independent Sequel of Tangled Tracks on Side B. Ranked: #1 wlw (Sep-23)

Second chances are rare diamonds in the rough, as is allowing oneself to truly be happy. Will Noah and Milan push through their pains of the past to grab the priceless gem by the hand? Or will the tests put to their love prompt it to slip through their fingertips, letting the opportunity pass them by? See for yourself in the sequel to "Lose To Win"... ~~