A man who believes he lost the love of his life. A woman who believes she'll never be chosen. A little girl who simply wants a mother. Five years ago, Brian Garcia was abandoned by the woman he loved, leaving him to raise the daughter he never knew he had. Since then, his world has revolved around one little girl... and the one woman who never left. Mylie Wise has always been Addie's constant-her safe place, her favorite person. Quietly and selflessly, she's helped Brian navigate single fatherhood while hiding one impossible secret: She's been in love with him for years. But Brian was once engaged to her identical twin sister. Loving him has always felt like the ultimate betrayal. Just when Brian begins to believe happiness might finally be within reach, the past returns with one heartbreaking request that changes everything. Now Brian, Mylie, and Addie must face a question no one is prepared to answer: Is motherhood defined by blood... or by the person who chooses to stay? If Ever is a deeply emotional story of love, forgiveness, family, and second chances-not only for broken hearts, but for the people who discover that sometimes the truest family is the one we choose.

Childhood rivals turned corporate competitors, and then more. She's brilliant, fierce, and utterly impossible. He's infuriating, magnetic, and knows exactly how to push her buttons. Summer and Lawrence have spent years one-upping each other-until a high-stakes international assignment forces them into close quarters. Seven countries. Endless temptation. And a forbidden heat that neither can resist. Can they survive the allure of desire, the thrill of competition, and the memories that haunt them... without losing themselves-or each other?

He's a doctor who saves lives. She's a dancer who sells fantasies. Loving her is a professional suicide mission, but the craving is stronger than my conscience. One stolen look. Two shattered lives. A secret that could ruin them both. Sloane Asher has a secret, and it's hidden behind the velvet curtains of Nocturne. To pay for her sister's medical bills, she wears the mask of Hera. To everyone else, she's just another law student. Until he walks in. Dr. Nathan Brooks is the city's most elite trauma surgeon. He's the golden boy of LA, the Senator's son, and the man who has spent years being the "responsible" one. He's also her best friend's brother. He's not supposed to want the girl behind the mask. She's not supposed to fall for the man who represents the life she's trying to survive. ⸻ 🔥 Dark. Addictive. Sinful. Worship Me is a forbidden age-gap romance about control, surrender, and the line between love and destruction.

Tommy Harding has been Rosie Novak-Donovan's best friend since they were four years old. Quiet. Steady. The only person who's never once flinched at her. She kissed him once at a lake bonfire and told him it didn't count. He said "yeah." Neither of them has mentioned it since. ❤️ Now he's Birch Harbor PD. Real badge. Real uniform. And Rosie - FBI daughter, criminal justice degree, academy starting in September - is back in town for the summer and trying very hard not to notice that her best friend grew up when she wasn't looking. 👮‍♂️ Tommy's not the quiet kid who let her win arguments anymore. He's six foot something of small-town cop who could have anyone in Birch Harbor and most of them have tried. He chose Sarah. Sweet, easy, uncomplicated Sarah. The kind of girl who doesn't argue about badge jurisdiction or report parking violations or make his jaw tight every time she walks into a room. The safe choice. The smart choice. 🔥 Tommy Harding has always been smart. Except when it comes to the girl he's been pretending not to love since he was five years old. 🤍 A Birch Harbor story. Friends to lovers. One summer. One badge between them. Two people who know everything about each other except the one thing that matters. Can be read as a standalone but a better experience when read with Where You Left Me and Where You Found Me. 🤍 ⚠️ Content warning: this story contains explicit sexual content between consenting adults, strong language, and underage drinking. All explicit scenes observe the legal age of consent in Michigan. Trigger warnings will be posted before relevant chapters. Reader discretion is advised.

🎸🔥 West Holden is the frontman of The Drift. Sold-out arenas. Platinum records. Magazine covers. The kind of man who makes women lose their minds-and their underwear-in the same breath. 🎵 Offstage? He's a single dad with a talent for turning his life into a disaster. Enter Adeline Laurent. Sharp. Stubborn. She's been cleaning up after West Holden since she was fourteen, and somehow she still hasn't learned to walk away. Now The Drift is heading on tour, and for the first time, there's nowhere for either of them to run. She's not his girlfriend. She's not family. She's just the woman who's always been there. He writes songs that make the whole world fall in love. He's never written one about her. Not yet. 🎵🖤 tropes: cruel hero | rockstar | single dad | unrequited love | she fell first, he fell harder | found family | forced proximity | the grovel is EARNED 🔥 POV: dual first person setting: Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles 🌴 ⚠️ trigger warnings will be posted at the beginning of each chapter. this story contains mature content including explicit sexual scenes, strong language, alcohol abuse, drug references, grief, drowning references, parental abandonment, emotional neglect, and themes of guilt and self-destruction. all characters 18+. 🖤

💔 WHERE YOU LEFT ME Book One - The Birch Harbor Series Second chance · Secret baby · Small town · He was Birch Harbor's golden boy. She was the mouthy kid from Maple Street. He never stood a chance. 🌊 THEN - Summer 2020 FLYNN DONOVAN remembers Ivy Novak. Camp. Skinned knees. Attitude problem. He didn't think about her twice. Then she walks back into his summer and she's not a kid anymore and he's fucked. Golden boy. Future cop. Cocky as hell. The kind of guy who smiles and girls forget their own name. Never had to work for anything. Ivy Novak is not easy. Eighteen. Sharp. Trailer park. Doesn't laugh at his jokes. Doesn't blush when he turns it on. Looks at him like he's a minor inconvenience. One summer. That's all it was supposed to be. He fell. Badly. Like write-love-letters-on-twenty-dollar-bills badly. (Flynn Donovan doesn't fall. Except apparently he does. Face first.) Then she ended it. Parking lot. January. Three words. There's someone else. There wasn't. 🥊 NOW - Autumn 2025 A bullet puts Flynn on leave. His mom gets sick. Birch Harbor's golden boy comes home. She's still there. Still mouthy. Still pulling pints at Owen's bar - his best friend's bar - like she didn't gut him five years ago. IVY NOVAK is not the girl she was at eighteen. Single mom. Two jobs. Raising her daughter, keeping her head down and her mouth - mostly - shut. She broke Flynn Donovan's heart five years ago. It broke hers too. 👶 And there's a kid. Four years old. Frog boots. Chicken nuggets. No filter. Blue eyes. His blue eyes. 🖤 He thinks she wrecked him on purpose. She knows she had no choice. The secret she's been carrying for four years is about to blow both their lives wide open. 💔 Two timelines. One secret. A four-year-old with a stuffed frog and a detective badge who's about to change everything. ⚠️ Content warning: explicit sexual content, strong language, emotional trauma, family manipulation 💔 18+ · New Adult Romance

WHEN IT HURTS TO BE PERFECT The Hurt Series - Book 7 🩺💔 A spin-off set in a different place, but within the same timeline and character universe. Works as a standalone. ⚠️ Content Warning: Mature content, explicit scenes, strong language, family trauma, chronic illness (MS), includes ER scenes, surgeries, and references to serious injury and patient loss. Please read with care. Abandonment themes. 🔞 18+ only. © All Rights Reserved "Little shit. Infuriating, gorgeous, perfect little shit. She's going to ruin me. I'm going to let her." "I've been perfect for twenty-seven years. And I've never been more empty." 🥀 Josh Reid has been perfect his whole life. Perfect grades. Perfect career. Perfect son. Watching out for his little brother Marcus. Surgical resident at Johns Hopkins. The golden boy who never cracks. 👨⚕️✨ But perfection is exhausting. And underneath the white coat, he's drowning. Maya Chen doesn't believe in perfect. She's been taking care of herself since she was twelve - since her dad walked out and her mom was diagnosed with MS. She doesn't do relationships. Doesn't do need. Doesn't let anyone close enough to leave. 🖤 Then she walks into his teaching session late and looks at him like he's nothing special. Something in him cracks. He's her supervisor. She's his student. This could end both their careers. 🔥 But she sees through his performance. And he can't stop wanting her. "Tell me you don't want me." He can't. So she takes. Forbidden. Desperate. Inevitable. 💋 He's terrified of becoming his father. She's terrified everyone leaves. Maybe they can prove each other wrong.

~ 2021 WATTY'S SHORTLIST ~ "I-well, I..." I hesitated with my response. I wanted to let go. To not worry about what would happen in the future. I'd always loved staring into fires. It hypnotized me with its beauty and danger. It was so tantalizing to look at, but one little touch could destroy. I knew the heat between Tyler and I was similar. It started off small but it had only grown in the weeks he'd been here. We'd fed it unintentionally, and it had gone from an ember to a crackling flame. Every nerve in my body wanted to reach out and touch it, even though I knew I'd get burned. *************************************************** Pia Callahan always lived a carefree life with no worries. Her only responsibilities were to attend her college classes (sometimes) and keep herself fed (on ramen). When tragedy strikes, Pia is all of the sudden thrown into a whirlwind of change. She has to grow up and take on more responsibility than she could ever imagine: the custody of her best friend's son. Pia may not believe she is the best person for the job, but she is determined to do it. She'll trade in frat parties for PTA meetings and beer-bongs for apple juice. But what happens when the ruggedly hot motocross athlete Tyler Westwood shows up in her small town? Tyler lives on the fast track, never caring too much about consequences. You can't when your job is to do backflips through the air. Sometimes, you just have to send it and hope for the best. From the second Tyler meets Pia, he knows he wants her. But she is determined to ignore their bubbling chemistry. She has priorities now and a summer fling isn't one of them. Will Pia be able to stay away from Tyler? Or will she decide to hit the throttle? ***************************************************

After embellishing her resume, Valerie-a single mom-lands a job as an administrative assistant to the hottest, most entitled and obnoxious man she's ever met: Preston Cartwright, the CFO of the prestigious Cartwright & Sons Enterprises. Several years her junior, Preston is used to working hard, playing harder, and answering to no one but his father. A few mistakes early on leave him unimpressed with Valerie's work, and the uncontrollable attraction he feels towards her mostly just annoys him. He wants her gone, but Valerie is no pushover. She has had to fight for everything she has and sets out to prove Preston wrong. But when some suspicious activity on a project leads to Valerie and Preston working even more closely, heat flares between them, and Valerie is caught up in a delicious, dangerous seduction. Standalone in the Cartwright Brothers series

Normani Williams gave her heart to the wrong man-her son's best friend-and paid the ultimate price. Now a single mother raising her daughter alone, she's picking up the broken pieces of her life, one day at a time. She promised herself never again. No more secrets. No more shame. No more letting a man destroy her. Zane Carter has everything-NFL fame, money, women on demand-but none of it fills the void left by the woman he walked away from. Haunted by regret, he tries to forget her the only way he knows how: recklessly. But fate has other plans. When their worlds collide again in California, old wounds reopen, unfinished feelings rise to the surface, and nothing is as simple as it once was. With new opportunities, unexpected friendships, and a slow, burning connection with someone she didn't see coming-Normani must decide if she's ready to love again... or if the past is all that's left of them. 🖤~"She promised herself it would never happen again. But what do you do when the man who destroyed you is also the father of your child?"~🖤