**ALL ALONG** Lizzie Harper has spent the last three years convincing herself she's perfectly happy being Brandon Carter's best friend. Sure, he's ridiculously handsome. Sure, every girl on campus seems to want a piece of him. And sure, her heart does an embarrassing little flip every time he smiles at her. But Brandon is her best friend. Her safe place. The one person she can always count on. When a drunken kiss at a college party changes everything, the line they've never crossed suddenly disappears. Now stolen glances turn into lingering touches, jealousy becomes impossible to ignore, and the feelings they've both buried for years are impossible to hide. The problem? One wrong move could destroy the friendship that means everything to them. And Lizzie isn't sure she's brave enough to risk losing him. But Brandon is finally done pretending he only wants friendship. After all, how do you stay just friends with the girl you've loved all along? *College romance • Best friends to lovers • Slow burn • Jealous hero • First love vibes • Emotional tension • Happily Ever After*

For eighteen months, Samara has loved Luke wholeheartedly. She's ignored the uncomfortable feelings, swallowed her doubts, and convinced herself that Ari, Lukes sister's best friend was simply part of the package. Ari has always been there. Always taking up more space in Luke's life than any "friend" should. And every time Samara questioned it, Luke had an excuse ready. Ari was just blunt, Ari didn't mean anything by it. Ari was family. Ari had always been around. Then one recorded conversation is sent to Samara. TROPES: OWD Female Best Friend Sisters Best Friend Overheard (sent recording) TW: Body shaming - will be renaming this but needed to get this story out of my head

MONTANA He was the love of my life-until he left me standing in the wreckage of our marriage. Five years later, Jared Manelis is a world champion boxer, and the father of my daughters. The man he is today is galaxies away from the boy with blood on his knuckles who once promised me forever. Now a stranger, with the world at his fingertips and a talent for irritating me to no end. But when he's left fighting for his life after a championship match, everything changes. Suddenly, the man who broke me is back inside the walls I built to keep him out. Now he's asking questions we've both avoided for years; while our present battles to keep us apart, our past fights to be brought to the light and bind us together again. JARED Five years ago, fame, pride, and one stupid choice cost me my marriage-and the family I'd always dreamed of. Now I'm with a woman I don't love, have an ex who smiles at everyone but me, and a daughter too nervous to meet my eyes. Then I'm shot after the biggest night of my career-and all I can see is her. When death caresses your cheek, you know it's time to fight for what you want. So I force my way back into her world, where she can't ignore me anymore, and begin my fight for the truth, a chance to be us again. I'll remind her why she chose me all those years ago and show her why I'm worth choosing again.

When my friend set me up with one of her guy besties, I didn't expect much - even though she said we were perfect for each other. I wasn't looking for anything serious, but he swept me off my feet and showed me how perfectly suited we were. Until he failed to protect our relationship from her and my life was turned into an online spectacle of heartbreak and betrayal. TW: - TSTL Hero but no cheating - Reference to parasocial relationships with online content creators

The book will stay on Wattpad until June 30. ___________ Alessia had rules. She didn't do drama, didn't take nonsense from any man. Until him. For Cassian, she broke every one. A cliché, impossible mother in law? She handled it. Missed dinners because of work? She served herself double and waited anyway. Too tired to spend time together? She embraced the quiet hours alone. She forgot her limits, abandoned her rules. All for him. Until her. The one rule she couldn't break, the limit she couldn't cross. She saw him with her. Broken, she left and whispered a wish she never thought would come true: that she had never met him. The wish was granted. Alessia woke up and didn't remember him. But now Cassian is the one waiting. Running against time to be near her. Chasing every moment, following every rule, just so she might remember him again. And if she can't... Can he remember it all for both of them? ___________ Pre-order now: US: https://a.co/d/03DJ1zV4 UK: https://amzn.eu/d/0dRPZl4b CA: https://a.co/d/004NcV0P IN: https://amzn.in/d/0byDwPI7 AU: https://amzn.asia/d/06n3RZg5 DE: https://amzn.eu/d/0ddjKi9X IT: https://amzn.eu/d/0d3BQ0Ul

Lila Morgan had once been Jackson Deacon Hayes's whole world. His best friend's little sister. The girl who trailed after them in summer with scraped knees, bookish eyes, and a heart too soft for the kind of world he came from. The girl he loved in silence until one reckless, perfect night changed everything. Then he disappeared without a word, convinced leaving was the only way to keep her safe. Years later, Deacon is back, harder than he used to be, shaped by old violence, the military, club life, and the weight of choices he can't undo. He returns to find Lila no longer the shy girl he left behind, but a guarded, graceful woman carrying wounds he never meant to give her. Then he sees Jade. His dark features. Lila's green eyes. And the truth he can't outrun. Now the past Deacon tried to bury is standing right in front of him, and the woman he never stopped loving is caught in the middle of secrets, danger, and betrayal far closer than either of them expects. As old enemies circle and buried truths come to light, Deacon will do whatever it takes to protect Lila and the daughter he never knew was his. He left once because he thought it was the only way to keep Lila safe. This time, he's staying.

It was only supposed to be sex. One swipe. One match. One late-night conversation that should've ended where most dating app connections do - temporary, casual, forgettable. But Silas Navarro was impossible to keep at a distance. What begins as a friends-with-benefits arrangement built on sarcasm, attraction, and blurry boundaries slowly turns into something neither of them meant to create. Somewhere between canceled plans, 3 a.m. conversations, petty arguments, comfort food, and flirtation that feels too honest, she realizes she's fallen into the worst possible situation: loving someone who never promised her anything more. Now she's stuck in the in-between - not quite a girlfriend, not quite just a hookup, and not important enough to ask for clarity without risking losing him entirely. While balancing exhausting days as a teacher, nights spent curled up with her huskies Cherry Blossom and Isaac, and a growing ache she can't joke away anymore, she keeps finding herself pulled back to Silas. Even when he disappears. Even when he frustrates her. Even when he makes her feel like she's standing in line behind everyone else in his life. Because when he's good to her, he's impossibly good. Tender. Funny. Unexpectedly thoughtful. Dangerous in the way emotionally unavailable men always are. And the hardest part isn't wondering whether he loves her. It's wondering if she's been settling for third place the entire time.

What if the man you married never wanted you? What if you were the choice he settled for, the safe option instead of the desired one. Can a marriage survive when attraction was never part of the foundation?

Book 4 in The Dark Knights series Thorn - My wife is dying....So when I make her a promise, to make losing me easier on her...I break my best friend's heart in the process... Will she ever forgive me? And what will she say when she finds out I've been in love with her, since the day we met.....

In emergency medicine, the golden hour is the crucial sixty-minute window after a traumatic injury-the brief span of time when the right care can mean the difference between survival and loss. Dr. Mason Carpenter lives for that hour. At St. Mary's Trauma Center, he is the golden boy of the Emergency Department. He's brilliant and calm under pressure. He's addicted to the adrenaline, the thrill, the absolute rush of saving patients knocking on death's door. At home, he's a devoted husband to his high school sweetheart - the love of his life - Honey. Or, he used to be. Honey Carpenter has loved Mason since they were fourteen, since he was the gangly boy with hearts in his eyes who stumbled through asking her out for ice cream. She stood beside him through medical school, residency, crushing debt, sleepless nights, and every sacrifice it took to build the life they dreamed about. Now she is pregnant with their first child. And Mason is married to his work. He's missing ultrasound appointments, the gender reveal, the baby shower, and, most importantly, he's not there to support Honey - who's having an incredibly difficult first pregnancy. Honey feels her husband is drifting farther and farther away into the ED, and no matter how many times she tries to tell him she is lonely, exhausted, and afraid, Mason gives her the same answer. "They need me." But Honey needs him too. As her pregnancy progresses, her loneliness twists into something darker, but her doctor dismisses her symptoms as "first-time mom jitters." And her husband is too busy saving strangers to see his own wife fading away. Until Honey collapses at home and is rushed into Mason's emergency room, fighting for her life and their daughter's. Now Mason has to reckon with what he was chasing, what he ignored, and what it may cost him - the woman he loves more than anything. And he can't lose Honey. He won't survive it. 💛 Second Chance 💛 Marriage In Trouble 💛 No Cheating