In the heart of Chicago, Seher Sandhu, a young mother haunted by her past, embarks on a journey of rediscovery. As bonds form, promises are made, and hope blossoms, yet circumstances force Seher to confront crossroads once more. She battles insecurities and safeguards her daughter from life's uncertainties. When an unexpected encounter in the city's heart leads her to a serene connection, it sets the stage for a life-altering choice that could forever change her world. What would Seher do? "Blessing in Disguise" unfolds a tale of love, heartbreak, and redemption, reminding us that sometimes, giving love a chance is the path to unexpected blessings. "The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it." - Nicholas Sparks

Once a happy dancer under the open sky, she suddenly found herself surrounded by a glass globe. Undeterred, she made it her world, bringing resilience and optimism. But gradually, they took away her strength, and the once-vibrant dancer became a lifeless twirler within the glass. Now, she spins without purpose whenever the globe is shaken-a tale of stolen joy. Delve into Ariel's story to understand the toll of giving without seeking in return. Excerpt: "𝑺𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆, 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚," 𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒎𝒊𝒙 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒎𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆. 𝑭𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 "𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆," 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅. 𝑨𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒆. 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒉𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅, "𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅." 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒛𝒆𝒏.

He didn't understand love. She never believed she deserved it. Ronan Brennan has made his choice: build a life that's honest, build a business with meaning, and build a family he can protect-with everything he has. Love? That's off the table. He doesn't need it. He just needs someone to walk beside him. Meera Pandey has spent her life fading into the background-until the day she became the only safe space for a little girl who stopped trusting the world. Now, all Meera wants is to hold on to the one person who feels like home... even if the world doesn't make it easy. He sees strength in her silence. She sees gentleness in his storm. A quiet friendship. An unexpected offer. And a chance to build something real-from the ruins. Set in the world of The Placeholder, The Caretaker is a heart-achingly tender story of fragile beginnings, found family, and a love that doesn't come loud-but stays for good.

cor·ner·stone /ˈkôrnərˌstōn/ noun an important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based. Wendy Durant has loved her husband, Atlas, longer than she hasn't. He was her first kiss, her first love, her forever. Together, they built a perfect life - married after high school, raised two beautiful boys together, and were still blissfully in love. Until, slowly, Atlas began to pull away. Wendy did everything she could to keep their marriage from unraveling-juggling the house, the kids, and all the quiet, invisible labor no one thanks her for. But when Atlas fails to show up to their final resort therapy session, Wendy makes a different choice - she stops waiting for him. Determined to take her life back, Wendy gets a job, rediscovering her independence and finding unexpected freedom in a world where she no longer carries the weight for both of them. While she flourishes, Atlas unravels. He watches everything that matters slip through his fingers-his wife, his sons, the family he thought he was protecting by keeping his fear to himself. But to heal their fractured marriage, Atlas will have to face the real reason he pulled away... And what does it have to do with his brother's late wife, Carrie? A marriage-in-trouble second chance romance. No cheating, HEA always.

In Grace River, Georgia, the Carter name is a curse. The only legacy Charlene Carter was born into was violence, addiction, and ruin. So, when she drives recklessly at eighteen, hits the mayor's son and leaves him bleeding out in a ditch, no one is surprised - least of all Charlie. Seven years later, she's out on parole and back in Grace River, face to face with the wreckage she left and the boy she almost destroyed. Even after all of these years, Weston Callahan can't stop loving Charlie, but he sure as hell won't forgive her. Now, West is a cop in a department that's way too cozy with the local MC. He's chasing shadows of meth labs, of missing women, and of Charlie Carter. He wants answers. She wants redemption. And in Grace River, nothing stays buried forever.

PAUL I cheated on my fiancée. Sophie and I were building our future. In love, happy, peaceful. Then she found a lump in her breast and I made the worst choice: I numbed my fear by sleeping with someone else. My worst mistake and my biggest regret. Now I see Sophie around town with him. She's radiant and laughing with people who actually show up. I'm trying to learn how to be a man who does. If she lets me, I'll spend the rest of my life proving I can choose her when it's hardest. If she lets me... SOPHIE I thought the promise was in sickness and in health. But he buried his fear in someone else. On the same night, I walked into a bookstore and meet the gentle giant owner who invites me to his book club full of misfits. I'm laughing again, I smile more than I ever have, I heal my heart. My ex says he can learn to stay, but my bookstore owner keeps showing up like it's as easy as breathing. I don't know what the future holds; I don't know if I'll win this battle against cancer, but I do know I'm done wasting time on people that love only when it's easy. CALLUM She came in to Rivers & Rhodes Bookstore and asked for books with happy endings only. I gave her a recommendation, an invitation, and an offer of friendship. Now, this beautiful brave woman is completely under my skin. I'm not here to win a competition against him. I'm here because choosing someone, second by second, is the only way I understand love. Content Warnings: on page cheating, emotional and physical infidelity, cancer, mentions of vomiting, bleeding, surgery. Please be advised.

Grant Walker has dedicated himself to providing for his wife and daughter by running his family's construction company in small-town Tennessee. But when his childhood best friend returns to town with her teenage son, everything Grant thought he knew begins to shift. What unfolds is a story of buried secrets, emotional betrayal, legal reckoning, and ultimately, personal redemption. As Grant's life begins to crumble, he must decide what kind of man he wants to be, and what love really means.

Lina and her husband Mark are stunned when she gives birth months early while visiting her parents, and she's forced to stay behind with her fragile newborn while he returns home to work. It appears that they've made the best of a terrible situation, but when she and the baby can finally return home, everything feels wrong. Her job has shifted out from under her, parenting turns her marriage inside out, and her gifted parrot has learned some mimics that she can't make heads of tails of. As Lina struggles to navigate the complexities of being a mother outside the NICU, she begins to suspect that while she was absent someone stepped into the space that was supposed to be hers alone. She tackles the mystery one step at a time while trying to focus on her baby's changing needs with the help of a calm and helpful mentor the hospital assigned to them. One by one, the things people tell her and her parrot's insistent voice fill her life with doubt, until the only voice that still feels real is hundreds of miles away.

Eduardo is finally trying to pull his life together after years of hyper focus on his work. His past trauma draws him to help a new friend do more than tread water as he attempts to fight the tides of life that he used to believe would eventually pull him out to see.

She was his coworker. She was his close friend. She was his cousin. These were all things I knew. There were just a few crucial components to their connection of which I had been unaware. She had been his crush. And now he was hers.