Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

Harry Potter took the title of 'War Hero' after the Second Wizarding War and accepted an Auror position alongside Ronald Weasley. While they are off, rounding up the wanted Death Eaters, Hermione Granger and Penelope Burton return to Hogwarts for their eighth year. The trials for the discovered Death Eaters begin and in the midst of the trials, Draco Malfoy is forced to return to Hogwarts as the countdown to his trial begins. While Hermione is busy being Head Girl and Ginny is busy being Quidditch captain, Penelope goes into her eighth year expecting school to be her only worry. That is until she catches the eye of Hogwarts's most hated student. But somehow, even in the center of the madness, it began to feel like a breath of fresh air. [post-war] [8th year] Warning: Language, Violence, and Death [started: January 11, 2021]

One summer day in Hyde Park, Emilia collides-literally-with James Phelps. What begins as an unexpected near-accident quickly turns into a quiet spark: a shared picnic, a smile too long, a glance that lingers. Neither of them expects the moment to matter. But it does. Emilia is curvy, clever, guarded-still healing from a past that taught her love comes with pain. James is charming, open, and perhaps a little too eager to protect the ones he cares about. Together, they learn to navigate what it means to fall in love not with fireworks, but with stillness. With honesty. With choice. From warm London evenings to tender nights under starlight, from quiet fears to whispered vows-this is a story of two people learning to trust again. To begin again. To build a life that feels like home. Because some love stories start with chaos. Ours started with a bicycle.

When James Phelps loses a bet to his twin brother, the last place he expects to end up is in a baking class. Especially not one led by Juliet-a magnetic, curve-hugging culinary goddess who can melt butter (and men) with a single smile. What begins as sweet chaos in the kitchen turns into something deeper, hotter, and utterly unforgettable. From smoldering lessons to stolen kisses, teasing glances to full-blown desire, James and Juliet discover that chemistry can be messy, delicious... and utterly life-changing. This is a story about seduction, laughter, loyalty, and the kind of love that doesn't fade when life gets real-it just gets hotter. Warning: This story contains explicit sexual content, adult themes, and mature language. 18+ recommended.

After years of quiet grief and whispered longings, she finally leaves London for the calm waves of Bournemouth, hoping to heal. The last thing she expects is James Phelps - kind, shy, hiding heartbreak of his own, and carrying dreams he's too scared to speak aloud. What begins with laughter in a supermarket aisle slowly unfolds into late-night talks, gentle touches, and a desire neither of them can deny. Together, they learn to trust again, to hope again, and to build a love as steady and wild as the tides themselves. But as the past resurfaces and the future comes faster than they imagined, will they find the courage to embrace the family and forever they've always wanted? ✨ A slow-burn, emotional, steamy romance about second chances, chosen family, and a love that feels like home. ⚠️ Content Warning This story contains explicit sexual content, mature themes, and detailed intimacy between adult characters only.

••• I don't want your body but i hate to think about you with somebody else ••• If I had to pinpoint the exact moment when my ordinary life turned into the complete messy shit show that it is now, i would probably narrow it down to the time my best friend Carl Gallagher told me he had a girlfriend.

When Aria finds herself waiting up at night for her boyfriend to show up, pieces of the puzzles begin to fit. She questions everything; his loyalty, trust and love. A girl's best-friend is the one you trust the most, the one you confide in, get advice from and definitely not the one who sleeps with your boyfriend... In order to get revenge, she makes a call to a special someone who she knows would crush him; Miles Alexander. And in the midst of it all, he becomes the one she never expected to fall for. *Cover designed by: @grace.poff / @daddypuffen*

(bxb) Axel Hunter hates Will Anderson. The two don't exactly see eye to eye, though that's to be expected of the two most popular boys in their high school, both extremely competitive and sarcastic. So, when the baseball team vandalizes the basketball team's state trophies, they catch the attention of the principal once again. As a punishment, the principal and coaches force the two teams to spend time together at a far-away camp during their spring break-"team bonding," they called it. Axel knew he wouldn't last at this so called camp, not when he's forced to room with Will Anderson, and especially not when he starts to become somewhat bearable.

Peyton Montgomery is blessed -or cursed; depending on how you view it- with seven older brothers. Well, technically she is two minutes older than her twin, Sebastian. All of her brothers are extremely protective of their baby sister, to the point where she can't even look her first kiss in the eye any more! Needless to say, Peyton is struggling to find a guy to stick around long enough to date. Stupidly, she finds herself drawn to none other than her brother's best friend. This cannot end well. Especially considering that her new interest, Elijah Antonelli, is known around town as 'bad news', her brothers will simply not allow her to date the local bad boy. Things are about to get really interesting...

"Wait!" I yelled. "I have knock-knock joke." "Go, quick." "Knock knock." "Who's there?" He asked. "Cows go." "Cows go who?" He asked. "No, cows go moo," I said. "Taaa daaa!" "Okay, now get out of my way," he demanded walking past me. "No, wait-" I was cut off by Dylan throwing me over his shoulder. He scooped me up so easily as if I didn't weigh much. His arm was strong holding my waist securely and his shoulder was comfortable under my stomach. Once upon a time, there was a normal girl going through High School. She had really rich parents and she got everything she wanted. Everyone loved her because of how sweet she was. She was completely healthy as well so she lived happily ever after! Wait! Cut! That is not my life story at all! Let me tell you the real story... Once upon a time, there was an awkward 17-year-old girl going through High School. She had never met her parents and had to live with her idiotic older brother, William Johnson. They were not rich at all. They didn't even have a house to sleep in. Most people in her school hated her because of how sweet and bubbly she was but she was just trying to make them happy. And let's just say she had a very deadly disease as well. Now that is the life story of me; Naomi Johnson. And I don't believe in two things; 1. Happily ever afters 2. Hope Because I can't just hope that my life will be happily ever after because I know it's not.