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The Everlasting Love by Toffeemond
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"In a second, this overwhelming feeling he always had around her crashed through him and it felt like taking a deep breath for the first time in almost two decades. This was what he felt for her. This was the unhealthy obsession that had no ground nor reason but just existed from the moment he first laid eyes on her. His father had called it the Oswald curse, the way the men in the family only loved once and hard." -- June Dylan spent half of her life in prison for a crime she didn't commit. Seventeen years behind bars, a lifetime, her children's whole life. Determined to make up for all the time lost, she moves back to the town that had opened the gate to hell all those years ago. Thomas Oswald is cursed. Cursed to love that woman with every fiber of his being and seventeen years apart didn't change that fact. However she wants nothing to do with him now. Fortunately, they have two children together whom have her entire devotion.
What We Choose - PREVIEW ONLY by midnightbluewriting
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*PREVIEW ONLY* Available on Kindle and Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCPX775Y 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 met the gentle giant owner, who invited me to his book club full of misfits. I'm laughing again, I'm smiling more than I ever have, and I'm healing my heart. 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 who love only when it's easy. CALLUM She came into 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.
His story by LizLeo19
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A very short cheating story, exclusively from the cheaters POV. Unable to cope with his guilt after his wife's miscarriage due to a car accident in which he was driving, Noel Mello feels it easier to confide and forget himself with a stranger. This is their story, from his POV, consequences and all.
The Playgirl's Lover ✓ by Elizabethjaybooks
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A sequel to The Player's SideChick (This book is not a standalone-read the first book to fully experience the story.) **** He destroyed everything that ever mattered... including her. Now, haunted by the wreckage of his own making, he's on a path of redemption. She was the one thing he never meant to lose, and the one thing he's determined to fight for. This is his story. His regret. His grovel. And maybe... his second chance. But winning her back won't be easy. She's no longer the girl who loved him blindly. She's stronger now, guarded, and not willing to be anyone's second choice, not again. He'll have to prove he's changed. That the man who broke her heart is gone. This isn't just about forgiveness. It's about healing, redemption, and a love that refuses to die, no matter how many times it's been burned. This is the final chapter of their story.
Law, Lies, and Love Affairs by JanePeden
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Stephanie Morgan will not let anything derail her career as a top international lawyer. So when she comes face-to-face with the one man she hoped she'd never see again, Stephanie has no choice but to double down on her lies... Because if he finds out the truth, nothing will ever be the same again. ***** Six years after a weekend fling with her law school nemesis, Michael Wellington, Stephanie is hiding a secret that could change the lives of many. The last thing she wants is for Mike to find out. Groomed for success from the day he was born, with a powerful family whose wealth and influence go back generations, Mike is everything she's not. His charming arrogance makes him the last person she wants to deal with, even if she can't deny the attraction between them. So, as Stephanie takes the world by storm as one of the most successful international lawyers, she keeps up the lies and the facade that she started with her twin sister all those years ago... But what will she do when the house of cards comes crashing down? [[word count: 80,000 - 90,000 words]] Cover designed by Jenna Conrad
Hidebound by Apagewithani
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After a close call Hex is back on parole and Poppy couldn't be happier. The Darlings spend their time making wedding plans and briefly ignoring the turmoil that's about to turn their lives upside down in the form of illness and enemies. Will this be the final straw for Hex? And will Poppy be strong enough to stand by him? Follow along as Hex and Poppy's love continues in the third and final book of the bound series. Hidebound: Unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention. *mature & language warning*
Homebound by Apagewithani
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It's been two years and Hex has served his time but with the restrictions of parole and his mothers illness weighing heavy on his shoulders will he be able to persevere? Or will it all come crashing down; resulting in him being sent back to Hellbound and leaving Poppy at the mercy of his enemies. Is Hex truely ready for the outside world? And is Poppy ready for the storm he will bring with him? Follow along as Hex and Poppy's journey continues in the second book of the bound series. Homebound: On the way home; homeward-bound. *mature & language warning*
Hellbound by Apagewithani
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In a world where 'Soulmates', otherwise known as Darlings have the exact same branding over their heart's given to them by the government as babies you'd think there would be less heartbreak but some don't ever meet their Darlings, usually due to a death so they couple with someone else who never found theirs either, known as a Platonic. Poppy Hart is twenty two and running out of time to find her Darling. When she fails to do so, she is assigned a Platonic, her best friend West who has also lost his Darling. Three years later when the government allocate Poppy a job at Hellbound Maximum Security Penitentiary as a guard, she discovers her long-lost Darling is violent inmate Hex Rose and everything she thought she knew is turned upside down in a matter of seconds. *mature & language warning*
A Cold Wind Blows (Forgotten series, #3) by AMLKoski
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Book three of the Forgotten series ~ Weakness is not allowed in the Mountain packs. Living in the mountains, away from civilization and away from the eyes of mundanes. The Mountain packs are harsh and brutal. Shifter against shifter. Pack against pack. Wolves against wolves. All fighting for the same thing. Survival. Azrael Thorn was a powerful Alpha. He had taken his title by force, as tradition dictated. Power and authority of the Alphas and shifters who had challenged him and lost radiated off of his tall, bulky frame. He was dangerous and he was everything an Alpha of a Mountain pack should be. Yet he had no mate or family to call his own. But a mate who could not stand the bitterly cold winters or the brutality of the pack would not produce strength. It would only bring weakness. Weakness is not allowed in the Mountain packs. ~ If the pain stops, it means you are dead. Lace Owens is underestimated at every turn. Her small and delicate built matches her name but the power of defeated enemies hang off her heavily. A power and an authority that would bring many men to their knees if they sensed it, hangs off of her like an oppressively dark cloud but she hides it carefully. Unwilling to let anyone see just how powerful she has become. Her skin is marked with a painful past and she has turned a thing of cruelty into a thing of beauty with her blade. Swirling patterns adorning her skin, hiding the cruelty among her willing pain, her only comfort against the world around her. If the pain stops, it means you are dead. ~ Two world collide as Azrael and Lace form a bond and spiral down into unfamiliar territory where Azrael is shown that strength doesn't always come from size and Lace learns that love can spring from even the most painful places. Together they show the werewolf world a long held belief still stands strong. Weakness is not allowed in the Mountain packs. ~
The Mistress and The Legal Wife by BlissGlorious
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Juliet falls in love with Mia, her sister's husband. Mia is critically ill and is unaware of their affair. Juliet doesn't know she is dating her sister's husband. When she learns the truth, it shatters her but she's still fallen for Jansen, Mia's husband. She is confused whether to consider her feelings for Jansen or to let him go.