He left Hollow Creek chasing the spotlight. She stayed-and survived the dark. When Nathan West, a rising Hollywood star, returns to his small Pennsylvania hometown just days after Christmas, everyone assumes he's home for the holidays. No one knows the truth: fame cost him everything he loved. Hannah Collins never planned to see him again. Now twenty-six, living with her parents, and raising her one-year-old daughter, she's rebuilding a life shattered by a past no one knows about. Not the town. Not her friends. And definitely not the boy who once promised her forever. As snow falls and old memories resurface, Nathan is forced to face the life he missed-and the woman who became stronger without him. But some wounds run deeper than regret, and love doesn't erase the scars of survival. © 2025 V. Noire. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction created by the author. Please don't copy, repost without my permission.

In her mid-twenties, and married to an ever-absent surgeon, Elsie Hewitt-Langston finds herself quietly crumbling under the weight of postpartum depression (PPD) after a year of bringing her firstborn son to life. Once filled with promise, she now views her marriage dripping towards unmet expectations. And her husband? He's gradually withdrawing. Yearning for tenderness, understanding and care, Elsie chooses a quiet escape when thoughts of separation loom in her mind, leaving both child and husband in hope of remembering who she was . . . and who she might still become. © 2025 ellalbooks

This isn't your average magic adventure. In the beautiful and peaceful settlement of Eldenmar, Mandana, sixteen-year-old Lady Ivy lives as the youngest of the ruling Varrin-Bosch family. Despite being nobility, Ivy holds herself as less significant than her siblings. She's not an heiress like her eldest sister, Sylvia, not training to be a knight like her only brother, Bram, and lacking in the confidence and quip that her other sister, Sorrel, proudly claims. But when a tyrannical prince threatens the peace and livelihood of the Mandana continent, and Ivy comes to discover that she has powers unheard of in this world, she realizes that she might be the key to stopping him. Second book in a series of Mandana tales. Reading Book 1, "Lady Feline", is not necessary to read this (which is why I'm currently updating both simultaneously). Serves majority as a standalone.