cor·ner·stone /ˈkôrnərˌstōn/ noun an important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based. Wendy Durant has loved her husband, Atlas, longer than she hasn't. 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, slowly, Atlas began to pull away. Wendy did everything she could to keep their marriage from unraveling-juggling the house, the kids, and all the quiet, 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 used to think we were the definition of couple goals. You know-the annoying kind that finish each other's sentences, post mushy anniversary captions, and make single people gag. Yeah, that was us. My husband, the love of my life. My partner. My soulmate. My... lying, cheating bastard. I walked in one night, still humming the song he sent me that morning, and found him busy. And by busy, I mean balls-deep in someone who clearly didn't know her right foundation shade. I broke. Cried till I couldn't breathe. Because that was my man, my home, my whole damn world falling apart on our Egyptian cotton sheets. But then I wiped my tears, looked at him-pathetic, naked, stammering-and realized something beautiful: heartbreak makes you dangerous. He begged. Oh, he sobbed. Promised me the world, said it meant nothing, said I was everything. So I smiled and said, prove it. And he did. Bought me cars, jewelry, houses-signed every last property in my name. My name, not ours. I let him grovel, let him believe forgiveness was for sale, and every time he kissed my feet, I made him dig his grave a little deeper. Love made me soft. Betrayal made me rich. And when I finally walked out, I didn't even slam the door. I just left him there-kneeling in the ruins of everything he thought he owned.

James & Sophie *DUAL POV* For years, I kept my feelings locked away. He unlocked them with one kiss. He said he wanted me. He said it was only us. He also said we had to keep it a secret. I thought love was worth the silence, until I overheard him talking about how he really felt about me. Now I have a choice: stay shattered, or rebuild myself without him. And this time, I won't break. TW: Mental Health, Bullying

Imagine Realities Book 7 Havenwood #1 I'm a single mother or it feels so. Because Eren the guy I went on a few dates with, lost my heart to and accidentally got pregnant by. He's been here, but not actually here, not mine. And almost two years later. I realised actions alone can't always be loud. Especially when I see him with a woman he never told me about. Broken Promises do hurt, but Unspoken Promises? They hurt the same or worse.

She was his coworker. She was his close friend. She was his cousin. These were all things I knew. There were just a few crucial components to their connection of which I had been unaware. She had been his crush. And now he was hers.

Gigi has always wanted one thing she could never have-Landon. Quiet. Unshakeable. Untouchable. For years, she's been the punchline of whispered jokes and cruel labels. Promiscuous. Reckless. A sl*t. A woman who doesn't know how to be loved, only used. And maybe that's how she learned to survive-by owning the brand the world burned into her skin. Until Landon. For one fleeting moment, he sees her. Wants her. Holds her like she's more than a rumor. But when tragedy strikes their circle of friends-Mark and Rachel's marriage imploding under the weight of betrayal-Gigi finds herself accused of the unthinkable. Manipulation. Infidelity. Of being the reason another woman's life fell apart. And this time, the voices aren't just strangers. They're her friends. Including the man she loves most. Landon turns on her, his words cutting deeper than any lie ever could. Whore. Homewrecker. Mistake. And with him goes the last piece of her she ever thought was worthy of mercy. But when the truth surfaces-when the lies unravel-can Gigi escape the brand that's defined her for years? Can she ever believe Landon that she's the woman beyond her body-worthy of a breaking heart?

Emma Warner a 21 year old beautiful woman whose dream is to be a photographer falls in love with a charming man Asher Darcy. Asher Darcy a 24 years old hardworking man who will do anything to set up his own business for the love of his life Emma. The only motto of his life is to secure a future for his love and provide anything she wants. But while doing so he is losing her. He had her but she is slipping away. Will he be able to get her back?

---A betrayal to grovel to redemption romance -- June and Dylan had spent half their lives loving each other. Their individual stories, a web of densly intertwined threads since childhood. But a gut-wrenching betrayal and its unexpected consequences unravels it all in an instant, leaving them both irrecovably changed in the process.

They say time heals everything. But time has done nothing to the wound I gave myself. I still remember the last time I saw her - at our spot, the little tea stall by the seaside cliff. Her eyes filled with questions I never answered. Her silence louder than my betrayal. She stood there, wearing the bracelet I gave her, unaware I was about to break her heart in ways she never deserved. I left her. I left Riddhima to marry someone else. For reasons I thought were right. For reasons she could never understand. And in leaving, I buried the only part of me that was ever alive - Riddhima. But fate is cruel. It didn't just punish me with her absence. It punished me by keeping her alive... but erasing me from her life. She jumped. She fell. She almost died. But she lived. And now... she doesn't remember my name. She looks at me with the eyes of a stranger - the same eyes that once held galaxies just for me. And I? I live every day in the wreckage of my own choices. A king in glass walls, surrounded by everything - except the only thing that ever mattered. This time, I won't stop. I'll fight every memory she lost, every wall she builds, and every piece of pain I caused. Because I lost her once. I won't lose her again. Not even if I have to make her fall in love with me all over again.

𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 2 . . . 𝒞𝒶𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑜𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓀𝑒? Once a bright-eyed dreamer, Mila Young is now a determined woman in the corporate grind. It's been seven years since Heath McConnell shattered her heart. Still wearing her heart on her sleeve, she hides pain behind her smile, but she has a vow: never to let anyone break her heart ever again. So, when her past comes rushing back, everything she believed she'd buried resurfaces. Yes, that's right. Heath is back... tall, brooding, and still infuriatingly handsome. Powerful and haunted by his past mistakes, he is now a billionaire and her new boss. Their history? Painful. Their chemistry? Unforgettable. Mila wants to despise him, yet seeing him again makes her heart race, everything about him ignites old flames, especially when Heath claims to have changed and has one mission in mind: to win her back, no matter the cost. She wonders if she can resist him, but more importantly, can she trust him again? As buried emotions surface, can they heal their shattered hearts? Or will the scars of yesterday keep them apart forever? A second chance awaits, but only if Mila dares to love again.