Down-on-her-luck Aubrey gets the job offer of a lifetime, with one catch: her ex-husband is her new boss. *** Aubrey Whitlock's life is turned upside down after her divorce, leaving her an unemployed, broke, and single 29-year-old. A chance meeting with her ex throws her for a loop again when he makes her an offer: come work with him as his assistant. Now a self-made billionaire, Bryce Roberts is just as infuriating-and good-looking-as he was the first time around. Their marriage was disastrous, but their chemistry is stronger than ever. Will they ever mend their relationship, or will it be nothing more than a heated game of seduction? And what will happen when Bryce discovers the secrets Aubrey has been keeping from him after all this time?

She came for a carefree summer. She didn't expect him to be there. He was her first crush-until he ruined it. Now he's back, living under the same roof, acting like she's still off-limits... until someone else gets too close. And suddenly, he cares a little too much.

📖 **Crest Bay Series Book 3** 🔥❤️ ‼️She doesn't do jocks. ❌He doesn't do second chances. Pixie Duval has rules. No athletes. No feelings. No cocky basketball players with easy smiles who think they're God's gift. She broke those rules once. One summer. One boy. One mistake she's spent two years trying to forget. Now she's at SDSU and he's everywhere. Same campus. Same friends. Same team she's been assigned to manage for her new job. Theo Lawson isn't happy to see her. She ghosted him without a word. Left him wondering what he did wrong. And now she's back, acting like he's just some jock she has to tolerate? Nah. Two can play that game. She thinks he's forgotten her. He wants her to think that. She hates that he's hotter than she remembered. He hates that she still gets under his skin. One summer that changed everything. Two years of silence. Shorebreak: the wave that hits without warning and knocks you off your feet. ⚠️⚠️ MATURE CONTENT ⚠️ 🔥 Spicy (very explicit) 🍺 Underage drinking 🍃 Weed 🚗 DUI mentions 🧠 Mental health 18+ only. You've been warned. 💜

Liam and Lexi fall in love before they ever meet. When they see each other, the bond between them doesn't hesitate. It snaps into place-unmistakable, permanent, and consuming. A mating bond neither of them can deny. Their connection solidifies in pieces-voices in the dark, shared confessions, laughter that feels intimate. Liam chooses Lexi openly. He builds a life beside her, shares a bed, a home, a future that feels real in his hands. He loves her with devotion, with tenderness, with the certainty of someone who knows she is his. And still-Knox is always there. Knox is Liam's best friend, his brother in everything but blood, the one he has protected since childhood. For a long time, Knox's pain is loud and needy, and even as he begins to heal, Liam doesn't know how to stop making room for him. So he keeps inviting him in. Into their home. Into their routines. Into the quiet spaces where Lexi thought it would finally be just the two of them. Liam never sees it as choosing Knox over Lexi. To him, it's loyalty. Habit. Love that existed first. To Lexi, it feels like being mated-yet never fully alone with her mate. This is a story about a bond that is unbreakable-and a boundary that keeps being crossed. About loving someone who means well, but doesn't realize that presence can be a kind of betrayal. About learning that choosing your mate isn't a single decision-it's something you have to do every day, especially when the past keeps knocking at the door.

Dr. Indiana "Indie" Miller never believed in fairy tales. How could she? Everything she accomplished was paid for with blood, sweat, and tears. Emancipated at sixteen, she attended medical school while juggling three jobs-and now she's completing her oncology residency. She never allowed herself the hope of being someone's first choice. Until her favorite patient introduces her to her grandson. Teddy Williams is everything she never dared to dream of. He's kind, steady, and completely devoted to her. Two years later, deeply in love and on the verge of an engagement, they're preparing to move across the country for Indie's dream job. Then Nana Ellie passes away. Without the woman who adored Indie there to shield her, Teddy's overbearing family begins crossing boundaries, convinced Indie isn't the right woman for him. But his childhood best friend-and ex-girlfriend-Lily? She's perfect. They grew up together. Their mothers are best friends. To everyone else, it looks like the perfect second-chance love story. But Indie is in the way, and the family does whatever it takes to make sure that she feels unwelcome. As the pressure builds and the disrespect becomes impossible to ignore, Teddy finds himself caught between the family he was raised to put first... and the woman he loves more than anything. He chooses wrong. And he loses Indie. Quickly, he realizes his mistake and discovers just how deep his family machinations go. Will it be too late to prove to Indie that she is his one and only choice? Because Indie Miller is done waiting for a fairy tale. This time, she's going to make one for herself. TROPES: ⚠️ OW drama ⚠️ emotional manipulation ⚠️ GROVEL ⚠️ strong but kind FMC ⚠️ gentle giant MMC ⚠️ no cheating ⚠️ HEA with original couple

COMPLETED "Let me see your face." Savage, fierce, unforgiving, the world of the Far North is nothing like the land of Dunes where Bessa was birthed. From the first moment Bessa's feet touch the Far Northern land she has to fight tooth and claw for her rightful place within a pack that holds strict to the Old Ways. She will face competition for space within her mate's heart that he has already given to another. Bessa will face a hunger that she never thought she would ever have to hunger for...Love. Bessa holds her own secrets that will test her Moon's gifts to the limit. Bessa from across the sea will captivate your minds and your hearts as she faces challenge after challenge to rise to the top. There is a reason they will call her Luna.

I loved her first. She married him anyway. Ten years later, she showed up at my door, broken, betrayed, begging for help to leave the husband who threw her away. She thinks I'm being kind. Helping an old friend. She doesn't know I've been waiting. She never knew how I loved her. Never knew I watched her wedding from the back of the church. Never knew she was the reason I buried my heart so deep even I forgot where. Now she's back. Vulnerable. Trusting. Asking the one man who never stopped wanting her to help her walk away from someone else. This time? I'm not letting her go.

A novel of heartbreak, betrayal, and the quiet courage it takes to choose yourself. Cassidy Morgan didn't mean to fall in love. She definitely didn't mean to fall for a married man. But by the time she discovered the truth, it was already too late. She believed him when he said he was leaving. She believed the lies, the promises, the stolen nights that always ended with him walking out the door. Until one public run-in with his perfect wife shatters the illusion for good... and Cassidy becomes the villain in someone else's story. Devastated and humiliated, she retreats home to the small-town safety of her family, where silence becomes its own kind of prison. In a place where everyone thinks they already know the truth, whispers are louder than facts... and healing isn't as simple as walking away. And Andrew isn't done with her. Not by a long shot. When her past refuses to stay buried and the narrative around her spirals out of control, Cassidy does the one thing she's never done before. She tells her story. What begins as therapy becomes wildfire. Suddenly the "other woman" has a voice-and people, thousands of them, are listening. Choosing Cassidy is told in a single POV from the perspective of the "other woman," who is also the heroine of this story. With the support of a fiercely loyal family and the people who refuse to let her disappear under the weight of someone else's judgment, Cassidy begins the difficult work of reclaiming her life, rediscovering the woman she wants to be... and maybe even finding a love that was never built on lies. This story is part of the Soundtrack Series, a collection of interconnected standalone novels set in the mountain town of Hawthorne Ridge. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own. This version is shared here as an excerpt. The full novel is available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited.

They were supposed to take on the world together. Bailey Brooks and Luke Carter grew up with the same dream , guitars in their hands, music in their bones, and a future that always included each other. Small-town kids with big voices and nowhere else to go, they left everything behind for Nashville believing love and music would carry them through whatever came next. But dreams don't always grow at the same pace. And sometimes the person who believes in you the most is also the one you push away. Years later, success has come at a cost neither of them expected. The life they once imagined together has splintered into silence, distance, and choices that can't be undone. When Bailey disappears from the spotlight without explanation, the world fills the quiet with rumors. Luke knows better than anyone that the truth is far more complicated. And far more painful. Because some songs never really end. They just wait for the moment when you're brave enough to sing them again. The Song We Lost is an emotionally driven second-chance love story about ambition, pride, grief, and the people who remain part of your story long after the music stops. Content Note This story explores emotionally heavy themes including: • grief and loss of a loved one • substance use and drug abuse • complicated relationships and marriage struggles • emotionally difficult life events Reader discretion is advised. For readers who prefer to review a more detailed list of content considerations, a fuller spoiler-aware guide will eventually be available on my website, once the book is complete.

COMPLETE When Sophie's marriage implodes in her face, she has no choice but to start over with her infant daughter Lou. Betrayed and jaded, Sophie is struggling to establish a life with her young daughter, while still bound to the man that chose another woman over his wife and child. When she meets Linc, a new vision for her future begins to appear.... but can their relationship withstand the forces against them? Faced with Sophie's controlling ex-husband and his jealous new wife, Linc has to fight to protect the burgeoning relationship he is building with Sophie and her daughter. For Linc, Sophie is so much more than a pretty face. Second best? A place holder? No, for Linc, Sophie was his everything.