Burden to Bury

Wherein Eugene Levitt is a normal librarian who happens to be the (co)guardian of a rather peculiar, very special teenage girl.

Once a Legend

Legends never die, but somebody's going to.

Weekend Friend

Jensen St. Clair is an elusive enigma. Or so she thinks. With summer in Seattle winding down, Jensen is keen to kick off her junior year at Claremont University with as minimal chaos as possible to compensate for her post-breakup antics last academic year. But between balancing social events, her double-major, and co...

Where Wildflowers Grow

𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨, 𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛... 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜. Mia Bennett is running - from her past and from secrets too dark to face. She lands in Wildflower Valley, a tiny town in Canada with a population of just 4,000...

Mind and Matter

Emerson Castell loves facts. Enjoying the how and why of everything, she never fails to let her obsession seep into every aspect of her life, including her relationships - or lack thereof. Leo Caruso is no stranger to a busy social life, but after his emotionally absent father ships him off to live with his grandparen...

The Zamboni Driver

After a career-ending fight, ex-professional-hockey-player-turned-Zamboni-driver Chase Cassidy has never looked back at the sport. He's perfectly content cleaning the ice between periods and chatting with fellow staff members, and running a pub outside of the arena. Spencer West, who's just come out of a toxic relati...

Pieces of You and Me

Jamie's one wish this year is for school to give her a fucking break. Unfortunately, fate has other plans in store. [Extended summary available inside] -ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈ Dual POV, Mature (18+) CW: Explicit content and language, brief mentions of emotional abuse and cheating, brief mentions of homophobia/biphobia

Eclipsed

18+ | steamy, angsty rock star romance with a touch of humor THIS IS A SPIN-OFF SEQUEL TO "A SLIP OF THE HAND." It can be read as a stand-alone, but it does contain major ASotH spoilers. ***Proceed with caution! This blurb contains spoilers for "A Slip of the Hand"*** It starts at a wedding. Fiercely independent Seat...

Caught Cold(ON PAUSE)

**On pause until after ONC!** Haunted by his childhood of abuse and addiction, MMA fighter Cain "Rage" Blackwood has built walls around himself-except when it comes to Cassie Davenport. What started out as Cain trying to find refuge with the familiar face next door, quickly becomes an unbreakable bond. Cassie has kept...

The Laws of Chemistry

Casey James, a third-year bioscience graduate student, has her double life down to a science: pipetting by day, pole dancing by night, with neither world bleeding into the other. But both lives have lost their spark, and she's starting to crack under the monotony of it all. When brilliant new faculty member Dr. Zach M...

A Muse Her

*WATTYS WINNER 2024* Mateo has a terrible, awful crush on Maia Jefferies, the painfully beautiful best-selling novelist who lives next door, but he promised himself he'd never fall for the kindness of a woman like her. Not again. He's been down that road and was left looking like a fool with a broken heart for someon...

#WitchcraftWednesday | ✔

[ONC 2023 and Wattys 2024 winner!] Drug dealer Nathan just can't be bothered to care about some of the stranger things in his life. Like the spellbook he found, complete with working magic and all. Okay, fine, maybe he tried one spell, and maybe that ended with his curtains on fire. Lesson learned: leave forces you d...

Taking the Field

[Book 1 of the March Forward series] Jessica Welling has spent her life playing by the rules-until one reckless decision shatters everything. Forced to leave her old life behind, Jessica transfers across the state to Arcana High, home to one of the best marching bands in the state. Determined to rebuild her future, sh...

Self Control

Eyes on your girl. Always. © taryn SPORTS ROMANCE.

Paper Bridges [ON HOLD]

When indie singer-songwriter Elara Quinn's heartfelt songs start to gain unexpected traction, the last thing she expects is to go viral-and to catch the attention of Ryder Hayes, the magnetic front man of the world-renowned rock band Endless Fall. To fan the flames of their skyrocketing public interest, Ryder's team s...

How The Chicken Little Nuggets Won It All

Cameron Shaw, a former rising star in baseball, has one goal in life: to coach professional ball. As the current graduate assistant for the esteemed Saint Helena University baseball team, he has the next twenty years of his life planned to the last detail, and he intends to follow that plan, no matter the cost. On top...

Wren & The Static.

Fame is a poison most would drink happily despite the warning of a slow, and miserable death. ▍ AN ORIGINAL STORY ╱ romantic melodrama! ❪ multiple oc's ❫ written by april PEARLJARS © 2025

Mixed Signals

[Updates every Saturday at 10 AM EST][18+] Ellis Sutton, the sweet and caring Instagram influencer, has never felt the need to be romantically involved with a man despite her online fame. Everything seems fine until a two-week fling one summer when a handsome cowboy shakes things up. Thoughts of him won't leave her mi...

Check and Chase

I have three rules as a student physical therapist: no dating hockey players, no getting involved in team drama, and absolutely no falling for my brother's rival. But when Chase Mitchell─star forward and notorious heartbreaker─lands in my clinic with a busted knee weeks before playoffs, all my rules are put to the tes...

Unexpected

[best friend's brother/ rockstar] After a nasty breakup, romance writer Joanna Wilson travels to her best friend's parents' beach house for a much-needed escape and an opportunity to write a new book. The last thing she expects, though, is to find rock star Gabriel Morales - aka her best friend's older brother and lif...