Emma, a high powered attorney is always on the move too busy to see her marriage slipping through her fingers. Eric , her patient but frustrated husband is left feeling invisible. When Emma's best friend , Diana is thrown out by her own husband , Emma opens her home without hesitation . But what starts as a gesture of loyalty turns into a test of trust , desire and betrayal. Can a marriage survive when an unexpected guest crosses the line ?

I stayed when I shouldn't have. I stayed through half-listened conversations and promises that disappeared the moment someone else needed him more. I told myself I was overthinking. That things would change eventually. So I learned how to swallow my discomfort. My loneliness. My doubts. Until everything fell apart. Now I can't stop wondering why it took almost losing my life to finally understand what I already knew all along: I should've left him long ago. ............. Warning: This story uses mature language and scenes. © IcecreamSundae5. All rights reserved.

Before Marlowe Ackerman goes away to Brown University, she does the bravest thing she's ever done. She confesses to her best friend, Oliver Abbott, that she is in love with him. And Oliver breaks her heart gently. To him, Marlowe is his safe place. His best friend. The one person who has always been there for him. His feelings for her have never changed, and he is certain they never will. At eighteen, Oliver is desperate for a fresh start after years of being the awkward, gangly dork. Parties, girls, fraternity life, reinvention-he wants everything he thinks college is supposed to give him. But once he gets there, nothing feels right without Marlowe. While she thrives at Brown, Oliver falls apart. He fails classes, wakes up hungover, surrounds himself with the wrong people, and slowly realizes the reason his feelings for Marlowe never changed is because he has loved her all along. But he's too late. When he goes to tell her, he finds her in bed with her boyfriend, Sam. Jealousy and heartbreak make him spit ugly, cruel words he will regret for the rest of his life. Marlowe ends their friendship for good. Ten years later, Oliver has changed. He is a history teacher at their old high school, a wrestling coach, and a man who has spent a decade learning from the worst mistake of his life. When he hears that Marlowe Ackerman is coming back to town for their high school reunion, Oliver knows better than to think he deserves a second chance. But he wants one. Not just to tell Marlowe he still loves her. To show her he has become someone worthy of loving her the way she deserves. He was her almost. Maybe now, he can be her always.

When a ruthless former colleague returns to Emerson Publishing House, junior editor Natalie finds her career - and her secret feelings for her boss - put at risk, especially when he breaks their own no-dating rule with five devastating words: 'You complicate everything for me.' BOOK ONE IN EMERSON PUBLISHING HOUSE SERIES *** Natalie has worked too hard to lose her dream job now, not after fighting her way into one of the most respected publishing houses in the world. But when Danika, the colleague who once tried to sabotage her, returns unexpectedly, Natalie feels the ground fall from beneath her feet. To make things worse, Julian - her impossibly controlled, unreadable boss, and the man she's been secretly in love with for months - seems to welcome Danika back in with open arms. And when he takes their newest high-profile manuscript away from Natalie and hands it to Danika instead, it feels like a punch. Then one quiet moment outside the office changes everything. Julian steps too close, and confesses something he shouldn't. Now Natalie has to keep her job, protect her heart, and pretend she didn't hear the one thing that could ruin them both.

✨Sometimes the hardest part of surviving a fire is deciding what to rebuild.✨ ✨Five months after walking away from the shattered remains of her marriage, Machelle Richards is finally learning how to breathe again. In a brand-new home bought with the ashes of her old life, the panic is fading, her clinic is thriving, and interacting with her estranged husband is no longer a daily battleground. But physical distance hasn't erased the one terrifying truth she can't outrun: she still loves him. Brian Richards knows he broke their world, and he is spending every single day paying for it. Exiled to a downtown penthouse, the high-powered litigator has permanently traded his toxic ego for a grueling, relentless pursuit of redemption. He is a profoundly changed man with a single, unyielding mission: to win back his wife. He doesn't want his old life back; he is fighting to earn a place in her new one. Though they live under separate roofs, the devastating chemistry between them is as dangerously potent as ever. But love was never their problem. Trust was. As Brian meticulously proves his devotion across the boundary lines Machelle has drawn, she must face her deepest fear: Can she invite the man who burned her world to the ground to help her build a new sanctuary? Or will the fear of a second fire keep them apart forever?✨

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𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 2 . . . 𝒞𝒶𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑜𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓀𝑒? Once a bright-eyed dreamer, Mila Young is now a determined woman in the corporate grind. It's been seven years since Heath McConnell shattered her heart. Still wearing her heart on her sleeve, she hides pain behind her smile, but she has a vow: never to let anyone break her heart ever again. So, when her past comes rushing back, everything she believed she'd buried resurfaces. Yes, that's right. Heath is back... tall, brooding, and still infuriatingly handsome. Powerful and haunted by his past mistakes, he is now a billionaire and her new boss. Their history? Painful. Their chemistry? Unforgettable. Mila wants to despise him, yet seeing him again makes her heart race, everything about him ignites old flames, especially when Heath claims to have changed and has one mission in mind: to win her back, no matter the cost. She wonders if she can resist him, but more importantly, can she trust him again? As buried emotions surface, can they heal their shattered hearts? Or will the scars of yesterday keep them apart forever? A second chance awaits, but only if Mila dares to love again.