This story is has been taken off Wattpad and will be published on Amazon towards the 2nd week of November.It has been sent off to the editor with additional chapters for the final cuts. Blurb For twenty years, she built her life around Ronin - the man she met in university, the father of her son, the partner she thought she knew. But one winter afternoon, a chance glimpse through a café window shatters everything she's clung to. Reeling from betrayal and years of quietly diminishing herself, she walks away from the home they shared, from the son who doesn't understand, and from the woman she's become. As she tries to rebuild a life on her own terms, she must face the hardest truth: she has always been second best in Ronin's heart and maybe in her son's, too. Tender, raw, and unflinching, Second Best again is the story of a woman learning to choose herself, even if it means starting over with nothing but her own name.

He was once a god of light. Now he's the king of shadows. And she's the human girl bound to his soul... the one he's willing to sacrifice for someone that he's been chasing for centuries. As a human abandoned in the fae kingdom of Caltheris, Zaysa doesn't expect kindness. Especially not from him: Hyperion, the dark fae king with silver eyes and a past covered in stardust. He's cold. Untouchable. And yet, from the moment they meet, he won't let her go. But love is never what it seems in a realm built on magic and lies. Especially when you find out you're soulbonded to a man who's willing to kill you to resurrect someone else.

One minute, I was living my best single life. The next, I was forced into a wedding dress and dragged down the aisle to marry a man I had never met. I expected an 85-year-old with a retirement plan. What I got? A six-foot-four mafia king with scars, tattoos, and a face that belongs on a "most wanted" poster. Plot twist: He's kinda hot. Now, I'm a mafia wife with zero training, a habit of running my mouth, and a brand-new crime lord husband who looks like he wants to strangle me or kiss me at all times. And me? I can't decide if I want to escape... or stay just to drive him insane.

When Sebastian makes a mistake, he doesn't do it by half, no, he blows the word betrayal out of the window and up in to space. If messed up families got Guinness World Records, the Mayflowers and the McCabe's homes would be littered with them!

Bread, grass, and rose. Plain, common, and uselessly fragile. The girl Solin was, who loved Aurik from the moment she met him, died when she heard his description of her. A new woman rose from the ashes. Two years later, Solin returns to the city of Tibalt, where the high society of the Kingdom of Aivieria gathers during the autumn, winter, and spring seasons. Widowed and carrying the knowledge that she will likely discover the mark of her mate within a year, Solin intends to use her last few months of freedom to enjoy herself before she settles down. The escort she chooses for her new, excitingly wild life? King Aurik, the man who ended her old one. And he's certainly not enjoying himself (ask Solin if she cares). It's about time the world was reminded that roses have thorns.

Emily thought she had the perfect life, the perfect husband. For years she believed in the life they had built. When she catches him betraying their vows, everything begins to unravel. Finding her inner strength, Emily moves forward, building a new future. Trent single-handedly destroyed everything that was important to him. He wants nothing more than to make things right with his wife, but how can you even begin to repair something so broken?

❛You all must have heard that a ray of light is definitely visible in the darkness which takes us towards light. But what if instead of light the devil is seen in the darkness?❜ ✧ AVAYAN SINGH RATHORE, A twenty eight years old handsome, but arrogant and short tempered man. Apart from anger he has no other emotion. For everyone he is the chair person of 'Rathore Group of Construction', but in actuall he is a Mafia King, The Mad Wolf, whose name is enough to make the world tremble but no one knows the face behind this dangerous name. He never thought that a girl would suddenly come into his life and with her arrival, he would be able to feel the beats of his dead heart, he would be able to feel the emotion of love in his hate-filled dark life. ♡ NITYA SINHA, A twenty two years old beautiful, sweet and innocent girl. She lost her parents and her stepmother has made her life hell. She wanted to sell her for money. She has a lot of love for everyone in her heart but she never got anyone's love. But she never thought that someone would come into her life who would love her the way she always wanted. ✧ The story of two broken souls who healed each other through the feelings they had for each other.

Prologue Prayagraj! The city of Sangam! The city where "their" lives stumbled upon each other, and every heavenly entity froze to witness their extraordinary confluence. Meet Arjun Singh Shekhawat,a single glare from him and you would know what the phrase "cold shivers" actually means.A twenty- six year old man with a face so beautiful that would even put the angels to shame.Tall? Absolutely. Muscular? Without a doubt. Arrogant? You bet. An ACP officer? Check that off too. He was all business, all the time. But life had a surprise in store for him - one that was about to challenge his tough exterior in ways he never saw coming. And then there's Avani Shree, a twenty year old med student who knows her way around a hospital as much as she knows her way around a sarcastic retort.Dare to mess with her or her loved ones and you would find yourself in hell- her hell. Behind her cool and playful exterior is a brain of Maa Sarswati, strength of Maa Durga and temper of Maa Kali,she has all the power to burn you down to ashes. When fate tosses ACP Arjun and Avani together, it's a clash of personalities like no other. Their witty comebacks turn into a game of tag that's about to lead them somewhere they've never been before. But wait, here's the twist: With every sarcastic remark,curse and heated glance towards each other,they are also about to exchange something which is "beautifully stupid". Amidst the dangers lurking around and the dark shadows of the past- a rose is blossoming.A rose so beautiful and pure that the thorns growing with it- on it is slowly losing its significance. But, could this be true? Are thorns that easy to be outshined by a single rose?Or are they going to evolve into something far more dangerous and agonizing? And so begins a tale of unexpected bonds and hearts that refuse to be ignored. Get ready for a journey that'll make you smile, laugh, blush and maybe shed a tear or two. Because some stories do start with- a kick at first sight.

Exes aren't supposed to end up as best friends. Exes-turned-bff's should never have a one night stand. Dexter and Hadley do.