cor·ner·stone /ˈkôrnərˌstōn/ noun an important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based. Wendy has loved her husband Atlas since she was twelve years old.. 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 Atlas pulled away. Wendy did everything she could to keep their marriage from unraveling-juggling the house, the kids, and all the 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.

I wanted a baby. I really, wanted to have a baby... It wasn't an option of wanted one right now, given my super-hot boyfriend already knocked me up... I was going to have a baby. I just had to tell him... Need to tell him. Enter the problem. My stepdaughter. I loved her. She hated me. Absolutely normal. She was daddy's little angel and could do no wrong in his eyes. She didn't want a sibling... Like she had a say in it. Back to my super-hot builder boyfriend, more correctly, my super fine baby daddy. I had to drop the B-BOMB. Shouldn't be too hard, right? Ugh, maybe... We weren't not trying to get pregnant, but we weren't trying either. We were just having a lot of sex. Great. Mind-blowing sex! Legs shaking... kind of sex! I thought he'd be happy about it.. I thought she'd get over it.. I thought maybe after nearly eight years together, he'd put a damn ring on it. You see my point? Tantrums. Fighting. Tears. One hell of a night later, and no one seem to have seen my point.

"I still love you, but...I'm just not in love with you anymore..." Amanda has been married for four years to Colin, the love of her life. When he tells her out of the blue that he's fallen in love with someone else, Amanda is devastated and stunned. With love and support from family and friends, Amanda picks herself up, and begins to discover new things about herself and the world out there, like Tristan Remington, her cold, but oh, so sexy boss... Colin realises all too soon that his new life, post-divorce, isn't all that great. His beautiful, perfect girlfriend isn't making him happy, and he misses Amanda desperately. There's only one thing to do --- win back his ex-wife. Will Amanda take back her ex, or will she take a chance on the new man in her life?

𝗛𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵-𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀. DELANEY WHITMORE has spent her entire life coming in second. Second to a mother who chose addiction. Second to a father who moved on without her. And always, always second to her perfect half-sister, Siena. So she walked away from it all. And for the first time, someone chose her first. LACHLAN ROWE was everything Delaney had never dared dream of-intense, passionate, hers. Together, they built a world where they were the only ones that mattered. Until the real world bled in. When Lachlan lost his job, desperation led him to a new identity: Rafe Wilde, a masked cam boy with a body the internet couldn't get enough of. The money rolled in. The secrets piled up. And the man Delaney loved began to disappear behind a screen. She believed in him. She chose him. But now, he chooses them. And Delaney is back where she started-second best. 𝐀 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧, 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞. For fans of morally gray men, soft-hearted girls turned steel, and second chances tangled in secrets.

Zara Foster couldn't be happier. She's graduated from Law school, gotten her first job, bought her first apartment and the love of her life, her boyfriend Alexander has just proposed. Everything seems to be perfect when Alex's best friend Heather moves back into town. With her boundaries repeatedly ignored and her fiance's attention elsewhere Zara has to decide if her relationship is worth fighting for or if walking away with her head high and her dignity intact is the best thing for her future.

(WARNING: This is my first story btw. Some parts may be cringe or toxic, but I don't feel like changing anything at the moment) I watched as he frustratingly ran his hand through his jet black hair as he let out an loud sigh. "Axarii I do not have the patience for your childishness. I can no longer trust you therefore we're getting an divorce." He stated. That just ended my mood. "What! That girl doesn't even look like me, are you fucking blind? My boobs are not even that big! Just imagine Winston and I together, that's impossible." I screeched out and grabbed onto him. I mentally cursed at myself as I felt tears threatening to escape from my hideous eyes. I'm an ugly crier. He roughly pulled his arm out of my grasp. "I want you and your things out of here by tonight and at the company to sign the papers in the morning." "You can't be serious! How can you not believe me, your own wife over some damn fake pictures?" I looked at him only to see him blankly staring at me, not responding. I roughly wiped my eyes before any tears could escape. He would not see me cry. "I'll go but you'll just have to throw away or burn the clothes that you bought for me because I don't need anything from you." I mumbled as I turned away and headed for the stairs. "I don't need a wife that claims she has love for me when all she wants is to be around other men instead of her own husband." I continued to walk up the stairs, not bothering to reply to what he said, not bothered to wipe the tears knowing that he cannot see them. **** #2 ex - March 2024 #12 dominate - September 2023 #6 funny - November 2024 #1 darkness - November 2023 #5 plottwist - November 2023 #2 exwife- November 2024

Elizabeth Bell can't escape her past. No matter what she does: changing her name or her looks. It's her handsome ex-husbands face on a magazine that haunts her every day. The nightmares of her past continue to torment her, and it gets worse when she comes face to face with the devil himself. -------------------- "You don't have a girlfriend right now." "That's right," Blake said sounding bored. "Everyone is wondering if that's because you aren't over your ex-wife, Elizabeth Bell." When he said that I froze. The last thing I wanted from this interview was for him to bring up my past life. Although I changed my name to Rose Matthews, I still freeze every time someone mentions that name. I try so hard to forget my past before I was Rose but when you have so many people constantly bringing it up you can't escape it. Blake's answer brought me back to the present. "No! Honestly, I was glad to be out of that marriage. It was a burden, constantly having to be married to her. I don't have a girlfriend because I want to be able to enjoy the single life for a while. Since I was tied to someone for so long, I just want to have some freedom in my life." He said honestly. I felt France and Jay each grab my hand. I felt my heart break again. I didn't think that was possible. My heart is already broken into a million pieces and somehow he was able to break it even more... ---------------------- Can Elizabeth and Blake learn to love each other again? Or will their past catch up to them?

Maliyah Davenport built a new life in Florida after escaping an abusive relationship. But when a family crisis brings her back to Boston, she decides to stay for good. Working as the director of a domestic violence program, she's finally finding her footing-and maybe something more-with Boston Police Detective Reed Morrison. Reed is charming and protective, but when things start to feel serious, he pulls away-ending things just before Maliyah's dangerous past catches up with her. Now everything has changed. Reed knows what he almost lost, but Maliyah has learned that some people only fight for you when it's convenient-and she's done fighting alone. She deserves someone who will stand and fight for her. Can Reed prove his love is real, or will Maliyah's shadows be too much to overcome? 📚 Reader Note 📚 Shadowed Scars will be available in full on Kindle Unlimited beginning January 12. The novel is available for preorder now on Amazon here: https://a.co/d/4mg8Rbd

*** All places and people in this story are fictional. Any similarities or parallels to real people, places or events is purely coincidence! Enjoy reading :) *** Vince Griffin is all work and no play.Running his company takes every spare second of his life and that is the way he prefers it. He has no urge for a wife, children, or a family. That all changes when he arrives in Grant County Kentucky to do development research and meets Grace, a tired woman caring for her handicapped daughter and aging grandmother. They, and the other hardworking people in this tiny town, teach Vince that there are things other than work and that sometimes, love comes first.

"She laid on him like she owned him. They weren't mates. We were mates. But still, here she was claiming to the world that she possessed what was mine." Amelia Lovecraft, she meets her mate for the first time after longing for many years. What happens when she learns her so called mate already has a lover? A story about two mates, finding love for each other even after breaking the bond. •I don't own any of the pictures used in this story• 1M reads (29th September 2021) THIS BOOK IS MEANT TO ONLY BE ON WATTPAD Impressive rankings No.1 #fightforlove 26th June 2021 ❤️ No.1 #doctor 🦋 No.1 #rejection ✨ No.1 #sadness 💔 No.1 #wattpadromance 🥰 THIS IS A FREE BOOK ON WATTPAD. PLEASE DO NOT PAY FOR MY WORK ON OTHER WEBSITES. IF YOU FIND "LOST WOTHOUT YOU" ON ANY OTHER PLATFORM, IT IS STOLEN FROM WATTPAD.