Falling in love with your childhood friend is troublesome, especially when he treats you like his special someone but he falls in love with another girl. All I can do is hide my feelings for him for our friendship's sake and to make him happy with his true love. But what is this? After I left and decided to move on from my feelings for him, he suddenly appeared in my life once again after so many years. Will the feelings that I thought I forgot will come back? Can he seek the feelings that I hide from him for so long?

Lana and Marco Rossi's blissful newlywed life is shattered when a mysterious woman shows up, revealing a secret that could tear their love apart, she's carrying Marco's child. LANA: I fell in love with Marco Rossi on a flight back home. He was an older man with authority and power, owning a law firm in New York. It was love at first sight, and before long, we were married. I never regretted the decision, until the day I came home from work and found a pregnant woman in our house, claiming she was pregnant with his child.

Jenna Bradshaw's life looks perfect from the outside-a comfortable home, a successful husband, and two grown children. But beneath the surface, her world is crumbling. Over decades of quiet sacrifices, Jenna has lost herself, her voice drowned out by a loveless marriage, dismissive children, and the judgment of her husband's elitist family. She has become invisible in her own life, a shadow of the hopeful young artist she once was. When her best friend Sasha tragically dies in a car accident, leaving behind two foster children, Jenna is forced to confront the harsh truths of her existence. While taking on the care of Leah and Dylan, Jenna begins a journey of self-discovery and renewal, reigniting her passion for art and finding strength in her independence. However, her decision to walk away from her marriage is met with resistance from her husband, Troy, and their children, who fail to see the quiet pain she has endured for years. As Jenna builds a new life, she learns to confront her past, embrace her grief, and reclaim her identity. Along the way, she discovers that resilience lies in allowing herself to be vulnerable and in daring to demand the love and respect she deserves. Will Troy learn his lesson or is this goodbye forever?

Kingsley is a genius-one of the brightest young minds in England. With perfect grades, natural talent in sports, the ability to play three instruments, and fluency in five languages, she seems like the ideal daughter. But beneath the surface, she's a prisoner of perfection. Her father is determined to shape her into the perfect heir, demanding she mirror her older sister, the golden child everyone adores. But no matter how hard Kingsley tries, she can never escape her sister's shadow. Constantly compared to the girl who can do no wrong, Kingsley is left to struggle with crippling anxiety and the harsh belief that she'll never be enough. The love her father has for her sister only deepens her resentment-both toward her father and her siblings, including the brothers who seem to love her less with each passing day. Her mother's silence only adds to the suffocating isolation. She says nothing as Kingsley's father relentlessly insults her, while his manipulative words continue to tear her apart. The there is him. The man who has caused all her trauma.

Piper Clark married her best friend. And no, not in the way brides always say at their wedding. She married Lucas Vega because he needed a green card. Days before graduation, Piper's college best friend, Lucas, discovered he was being deported. Everything he had worked for, everything he dreamed of, would come crumbling to the ground unless someone intervened. So Piper did. Six years later, they are living separate lives, having hardly spoken to one another since that fateful courthouse wedding all those years ago. But then a call from ICE has her on a plane, heading back to California and her husband, a man who traded his glasses for an Armani suit and his lithe form for a six pack. Now, they've got to put on the show of their lives and pretend the past six years have been nothing but marital bliss. But something new is brewing between these best friends and Piper is starting to wonder if she's acting at all.

I thought our arranged marriage had turned into love for both of us. I discovered how wrong I was the day I gave birth to our premature son and found my husband taking comfort from another woman. The woman he loved.

My cousin always referred to us as the bad jokes, as in...a blonde, a brunette and a redhead walk into a bar. I'm the blonde, and this is my story. When I was 18, a psychic told me to watch for the man with two hearts. That didn't make much sense, so I lived my life, not thinking about her fortune for my life. Then I met Wyatt and we fell in love. Until his ex-fiancee came back to him, and he chose her. Her heart. My heart. Two hearts. He's back, trying to explain things to me, trying to win me back and in the meantime, I'm also dealing with a stalker. But Wyatt's helping with that problem. Unfortunately, he's causing another problem: he's not taking no for an answer.

Magdalen (Maggie) Copella lost her parents at a young age. She only had an estranged sister she had not seen in over a decade and a bitter grandmother left in this world so she poured herself into her modeling career. That was until she received word that her only known living relatives had died. The big surprise came in the shape of a darling little niece, Greer Copella, needed a home. She didn't even know the child existed and she wasn't ready to give up her career. She was on a mission to find the child's father and that's when Maggie knew she had been missing out on so many things in her life. Her priorities change and one day she has to again say goodbye to the last of her family. Question is, will Greer's father let her go so easily? Her journey to learn more about her sister and grandmother's lives leads her down a path that could cost her everything, including her life. She learns just how one man killed her sister slowly and how she had been on the same path but didn't even know it. Magdalen (Maggie) Copella: Mid-twenties fashion model Diara Copella: Magdalen's late older sister and mother to Greer Greer Copella: Magdalen's eight-year-old niece. Asher Bianchi: Greer's father and Magdalen's nemesis. Armando (Skip) Bianchi: Asher's younger brother. Sylvia Bianchi: Asher's mother. Victoria Mason: Magdalen's best friend. Gloria Hawthorne: Magdalene's late grandmother. Jack Calabresi: Crime boss and Gloria Hawthorne's sworn enemy. Hector Calabresi: Jack Calabresi's father and former crime boss. Tony Calabresi: Son of Jack Calabresi Edited by @hannahbananalc Copyright © 2020 by Grace Madden All Rights Reserved.

The last thing Valencia expected was to crash into Damien's life--- literally. Riddled with the guilt of almost costing Damien his life, Valencia agrees to nurse him back to health by living with him for 6 months. But living with an arrogant, handsome stranger might be harder than she expected. ____________________ I had my back turned to him, so I couldn't see his expression. But his breathing was heavy and hot against my skin. He placed hard kisses on my back with his hand wrapped around my stomach to hold me in place. I gasped at the warmth of his kisses. "Why do you own something like this?" He asked coldly. "I-I bought it for a date," I stuttered out. A small bite on my back made me shoot up with a small yelp. "You were going to wear this for some other guy?" Damien's voice dripped with jealousy. "And what if I was?" I mocked, indulging in the stinging I felt where his lips touched. "Then you need to be punished," he said in a low voice. MATURE: Depictions of sex, violence, and profanity #1 in Books #1 in Cute #1 in Comedy #1 in Funny #2 in Hot #4 in Love #5 in Drama

Have you ever been taken for granted around the holidays? Everything falling on your shoulders and no one helps or expresses their appreciation? This year, I was done being overlooked. And I let it be known in no uncertain terms. Then everything fell apart, and I had to put myself back together.