Maya fell for Ethan the moment he walked into her bookshop. Ethan was kind, loyal, and completely in love with someone else. When a marriage of convenience forces them together, Maya decides to win his heart-with warmth, laughter, and a thousand small kindnesses he never notices. She makes his coffee, learns his mother's recipes, and fills their glass house by the sea with hope. But Ethan's eyes are fixed elsewhere. Day by day, her light dims. Until one day, he finally looks up-and the woman who tried so hard is already gone. Now, winning her back will take more than a grand gesture. It will take a fight. A slow-burn romance about unrequited love, quiet heartbreak, and the long road to redemption.

It started with a key. A simple, harmless gesture or so he said. Christina was just his childhood best friend. The girl who "had always been there." The one he trusted. The one he couldn't turn away. And I tried. I tried to be understanding. I tried to be secure. I tried to believe that love meant trust. But how do you trust when another woman walks into your home like she belongs there? When she knows his silences better than you do? I'm not losing him in loud, obvious ways. I'm losing him in glances. In quiet moments. In the space where I used to exist. Now, we live under the same roof. Him. Me. And the girl who was "never supposed to be a problem." But the worst part? He still calls her his best friend. And I'm starting to feel like the other woman in my own marriage.

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

She has been reincarnated as a Luna to an Alpha that despises her. *** ALPHA THORNE met his mate a month ago, and she has already proven her greed, unfaithfulness, and cruelty. He will never love the evil woman but is forced to keep her by his side. When she gets in an accident, he wishes her dead. Little does he know that the moon goddess heard his prayers and made them come true. VICTORIA is a human dying of cancer. As she draws her final breath, she expects peaceful darkness. Instead, she awakens in a healthy werewolf's body. But not just any werewolf. She's a pack Luna. Victoria has been given a new chance at life. A healthy body and a powerful position. But she takes one glance at her leering Alpha and mate, who looks ready to tear her apart, and wonders if she was better off dying from cancer. She wants to escape the cold man but is on an entirely new territory. With no knowledge of the werewolf world, she's forced to live with a mate who despises her for unknown reasons. Her only option is to try and melt the ice in his heart, but this is proven a challenge because he thinks she's still the evil woman who once owned Victoria's body.

The Last Cabin Christmas I spent fourteen Christmases loving Carter Hayes. Fourteen winters. Fourteen trips to the same snow-covered cabin. Fourteen years of being his friend. The problem wasn't that he didn't know me. The problem was that he never saw me. When Carter arrives for our final Christmas at the cabin with a beautiful new girlfriend on his arm, I tell myself it doesn't matter. I've survived this before. But Sienna isn't like the others. She knows exactly how I feel about him. And she isn't afraid to use it. As the snow falls and old traditions begin for the last time, I realise something has to change. Because I can't spend another Christmas being someone's second choice. So this year, I choose myself. Even if it means leaving Carter behind. A friends-to-lovers, slow-burn romance filled with unrequited love, holiday angst, jealousy, heartbreak, grovel, and a happily ever after. ❄️ Friends to Lovers 🎄 Christmas Cabin Romance 💔 He Falls Second 😡 Mean Girlfriend Drama 🏔️ Snowed In ❤️ Grovel & HEA

"You were never meant to be my wife, Saanvi." "Don't worry, Reyansh," she replied quietly. "I was never planning to stay." Reyansh Malhotra never planned to marry Saanvi Rao. In fact, he made sure she knew that before the wedding even happened. When powerful families decide their future, love rarely gets a say. Forced into an alliance neither of them wanted, Reyansh offers Saanvi a deal the night before their wedding. Six months. Six months of pretending to be husband and wife. Six months until he divorces her and marries the woman he truly loves. For Reyansh, it is a simple arrangement. For Saanvi, it is a quiet sacrifice. Bound by a contract and trapped in the cold grandeur of the Malhotra mansion, Saanvi quickly learns that being Reyansh's wife does not mean being accepted as one. To him, she is only a placeholder... a temporary solution to a permanent problem. And when Rhea Kapoor-the woman Reyansh loves-walks back into his life, the fragile balance of their arrangement begins to shatter. But hearts are unpredictable. And sometimes the person meant to stay only for a while... becomes the one you cannot bear to lose. Because some contracts are easy to sign. Breaking them, however, might cost everything.

A Baby Between Us She wasn't the woman he loved. She was the woman carrying his child. Aria Bennett never wanted a billionaire's name, money, or family. But after one unexpected night leaves her pregnant, she's forced into a contract marriage with Damien Laurent-the cold, powerful heir who blames her for destroying the future he had planned with another woman. To Damien, she's nothing more than a responsibility. To his family, she's a gold digger who trapped their heir with a baby. Surrounded by hatred, humiliation, and a husband who barely looks at her, Aria has only one reason to stay: the tiny life growing inside her. But as secrets come to light and th we e woman Damien thought he loved begins to reveal her true face, the line between duty and love starts to blur. In a house built on lies, jealousy, and painful traditions, one question remains... Can a marriage that began with resentment become the love neither of them ever expected? Sometimes, the smallest heartbeat can change two hearts forever.

Daffodil was born into chaos - the unwanted daughter of a reckless biker and a bitter club girl. Cast aside, betrayed, and forced to survive a brutal childhood, Daffodil spent her early years fighting battles no child should face. Betrayed by the father she worshipped, humiliated by the boy she once loved, she learned early that love was a lie. When her only source of light, her baby brother Nate, comes into her life, Daffodil becomes both sister and protector. But one act of violence tears them apart from the only world they've known. Twelve years later, Daffodil has risen from the ashes. No longer the broken, lonely girl of the past, she has become a powerful, untouchable force - the head of a fashion empire, admired, feared, and envied. With Nate thriving under her fierce protection, Daffodil has built a life so dazzling that even her old enemies can only watch from afar. But when Blaze - the father who betrayed her - learns the devastating truth he was too blind to see, he comes searching for the children he abandoned. Torn between rage and the little brother who dreams of knowing his real father, Daffodil is forced back into the world that once destroyed her. A story of survival, vengeance, and healing, and most importantly about a woman who refused to stay broken - a woman who made the world bow to her strength, and who will never again let anyone decide her worth.

We were friends with benefits. Reed would stop by every time he was in Anchorage, and that was the extent of things, although I started to want more. Then he ended our arrangement, and I suspected there was another woman, but it wasn't until I overheard a conversation that I understood completely. He thought I was calling and texting because I couldn't take no for an answer. That wasn't my problem at all. Two blue lines were.

Emory thought her and Nathan's love was steadfast in the face of their families life-long rivalries. That they were devoted and happy. After leaving their hometown behind they'd found their new beginning and a chance to let their love flourish. But running away doesn't always mean overcoming, and their peace is destroyed when outside pressures lead Nathan back home and astray from the life they were building. Romeo & Juliet Inspired Perceived betrayal(s) by the h Actual betrayal(s) by the H TW for cheating: The cheating tag applies to the betrayal by H. There will be emotional cheating as well as a kiss between H and OW.