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Isla Skye by TheSallyB
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Meet Wyatt Shore. Playboy, millionaire. A man that hides a dark past he's tried so hard to bury. Then, along comes Isla Skye, unravelling everything he thought about love. What happens when Wyatt's past rears its ugly head? Will he get to keep the girl that he's head over heels for?
The Echoes of Us by salvusanima11
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There was a time when Althea Isabelle Reyes believed love could survive anything. She gave him her heart. She carried his child. She dreamed of growing old beside the man she thought would never let her go. Instead, he became the reason she learned how heartbreak could feel like mourning someone who was still alive. So she left. Not because she stopped loving him, but because loving him was slowly destroying the woman she used to be. For two years, she built a life from the ruins he left behind. She learned to become both mother and father to their little girl. She buried every dream they once shared and convinced herself that some loves are never meant to be found again. Then fate-cruel, relentless fate-placed him in front of her once more. Only this time, the man standing before her was no longer the man who shattered her heart. Lance Gabrielle Villanueva had spent two years searching for the woman he lost. Two years carrying the weight of his regrets. Two years becoming the man he should have been from the very beginning. But apologies cannot erase betrayal. Regret cannot return stolen years. And some scars don't disappear simply because the person who caused them has changed. Now, he is willing to spend the rest of his life proving that love isn't spoken through promises. It's proven through patience. Through sacrifice. Through showing up every single day. But how do you trust the same hands that once let you fall? How do you believe in forever when forever was the very thing that broke you? Perhaps some loves never truly die. Perhaps they simply become echoes-lingering in the quiet corners of our hearts, waiting for the day we find the courage to listen again. This is a heart-wrenching story of love, betrayal, redemption, forgiveness, and the impossible journey of learning to trust the person who once taught you how to live without them.
"Love on the Edge" by Gunj40
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Lucas Bennett lived in boardrooms and balance sheets - a world of precision, strategy, and control. Emma was warmth, laughter, and every unpredictable thing he never planned for. Somehow, against all logic, they worked. Until Claire , his assistant & most trusted employee, destroyed everything they had. Emma had heard enough. Believed enough. And without a single raised voice or broken dish, she simply left. The silence she left behind was deafening. He had rebuilt failing companies. Recovered from losses that broke lesser men, but, for the first time in his life, Lucas Bennett didn't know how to fix something. He had lost Emma Now came the part nobody prepares you for. Becoming someone worth coming back to.
Thorn and Sadie: Till Death Do Us Part by TraceyMacdonald531
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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.....
The Mafias Princess  by roseyzoa
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" W..what are you-" " Do you want me to show all those people who you belong to the easy way or the hard way?" He says deeply, a dark look in his eyes as he looks down at my lips then back to my eyes. I feel my heart start to beat insanely fast at his close presence, the smell of his expensive cologne intoxicating me, almost like he was trying to lure me into his lips. • Sofia Novikov, youngest daughter of the Russian Mafia leader was kept away from the public eye her whole life. Her sister Anastasia Novikov however was always in the spotlight. With her perfect figure and personality everyone adored her. She was the sunshine and could do anything you could think of, she was everything any girl wished to be. What happens when ruthless and cold hearted Italian Mafia leader Connor Agosti is to be arranged in a marriage with one of the Novikov sister?
UNFAITHFUL HEART by Gunj40
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Seraphina Hayes always believed she would recognize betrayal if it ever came near her marriage. She imagined it loud. Obvious. Unforgivable. She never imagined it would look like this. Like her husband smiling at another woman the way he used to smile at her. Like late-night messages that weren't inappropriate - just intimate. Like emotional comfort slowly being outsourced. And she definitely never imagined standing outside a glass office in downtown Los Angeles... Watching her husband hesitate before pulling away from another woman's lips. The kiss wasn't hungry. It wasn't desperate. It was worse. It was familiar. And in that single second - She realized she had already been replaced emotionally long before that moment happened. She didn't scream. She didn't storm in. She simply turned... And walked away from the life she thought was unbreakable. Sequel of the novel tilted 'Unfaithful Promise' is out. Do read
Split by TheSallyB
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Danny Verdago - recruited straight from the Military and trained to become a highly specialised undercover operative. For eight years, he's devoted his life to a single case- one that has demanded everything and cost him more than he ever imagined. What Danny never planned for was Tia. For the past four years, she's been his wife, his rock, and the one constant in a life built on secrets. She's the reason every sacrifice has been worth it and the reason he's ready to walk away from his career. Now, one final undercover deployment, the climax of everything he's worked for stands between Danny and the desk job that promises a future beyond the secrets and the double life. But as the operation hurtles toward its end, Danny is dragged deeper into the life he's spent years trying to keep separate. With the case closing in and the stakes higher than ever, he faces an impossible choice. How far is he willing to go to finish the mission he's sacrificed so much for? This time, the price of success won't be measured in years, careers, or half truths. It could cost him Tia, the family they've dreamed of, and everything that truly matters to him.
✔️ The Affair  by Sariena_Writes
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She was 24, a broke student working nights at a bar. He was 52, a powerful lawyer with a wife, kids, and a life already built. It was supposed to be simple-just stolen hours in hotel rooms, a secret no one could ever know. But secrets have a way of bleeding into the light. Clara thought she could handle being the other woman. She thought she could survive on stolen kisses and whispered promises. But she didn't expect to fall in love. And she never expected how dangerous love could be.
Hidden & Held by elizahawkinsauthor
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He helped her believe in forever, then he used her trust against her. Phoenix Lane has spent her entire life proving herself. She's built a reputation on hard work, long hours, and never letting anyone see her struggle. For months, Jackson was the one place she could rest. The man who brought her coffee, helped renovate her dream duplex (even though he didn't have a handy bone in his body), and convinced her that maybe she didn't have to carry the weight of the world alone. When she discovers Jackson came to Cascadia with an agenda. One that put her firm, her career, and everything she had confided in him directly in the crosshairs. Phoenix was never supposed to be part of the plan. Until she was. Now she is suspended without pay, her most vulnerable client is in danger, and the man she trusted most is standing on the wrong side of the damage she is still trying to contain. The problem? Jackson knows exactly what he did. And he is not leaving until he finds a way to deserve her forgiveness. Hidden and Held is a slow-burn emotional romance about a burnout heroine who stopped believing in second chances, and the groveling hero who is determined to become the reason she starts again.
Before You Go by NiningGay1978
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Adrian Cole asked his wife for a divorce on a Tuesday morning. He had his reasons - two years of gray, of going through motions, of convincing himself that what he felt was incompatibility and not just a man who forgot how to tend to the most important thing he had. Sera looked at him across the kitchen table. She said okay. She didn't cry. She didn't fight. She didn't ask him to stay. And that one quiet word - okay - turned out to be the thing that broke him completely. Because he had spent two years waiting to feel something. He just didn't know it was going to be this.