to be read completed
38 stories
Rope My Heart  A cowboy second chance romance Book1 in Whispering Pines series by KerryKennedyAuthor
KerryKennedyAuthor
  • WpView
    Reads 6,659
  • WpVote
    Votes 287
  • WpPart
    Parts 52
Jackson "Jax" McCoy, a rugged cowboy with a heart as vast as the Whispering Pines Mountain range, has dedicated his life to running his family's ranch. Years ago, Jax's heart was broken when his high school sweetheart, Lily Mae Thompson, left Whispering Pines to chase her dreams in the big city. Despite the passage of time, Jax never truly moved on, burying himself in work and the solitude of the mountains. Lily Mae, now a successful event planner, finds herself back in Whispering Pines to organize a charity rodeo for a local cause. The last thing she expects is to run into Jax, the man she never stopped loving. Their reunion is filled with tension, unresolved emotions, and the undeniable spark that never faded. As Lily Mae navigates the challenges of her career and the memories of her past, Jax wrestles with the pain of old wounds and the hope of new beginnings. The breathtaking beauty of Whispering Pines Mountain becomes the backdrop for their journey of forgiveness and rediscovery. Will Jax and Lily Mae find the courage to let go of the past and embrace a future together? "Rekindling the Cowboy's Flame" is a heartwarming tale of second chances, love, and the unbreakable bond between two souls destined to be together.
Still Mine by MarieMiria
MarieMiria
  • WpView
    Reads 8,397
  • WpVote
    Votes 360
  • WpPart
    Parts 42
The worst kind of love is the kind that stays after you leave. 💔 Eric Mercer built himself from nothing. No family. No safety net. Just the agency, the man who mentored him, and the borrowed family who set a place for him at their table like he belonged there. Then he fell in love with their daughter. Mia Vaughn was his trainee. Then his wife. Then the closest thing Eric had ever had to a home. Until three days changed everything. What happened while Eric was away is something neither of them talks about. Not to friends. Not to family. Maybe not even to each other. Whatever they lost, their marriage went with it. Two years later, they still work in the same building. Still pass each other like strangers. Still share a marriage certificate neither has ended and a house neither has managed to sell. Professional contact. Zero personal. Until Malcolm Sinclair puts them on the same mission. A compromised asset. A small city in Mexico. One safehouse. And three officers. Eric. Mia. And Jonah Carter-the man she chose after him. The man who knows exactly whose estranged wife he's been sleeping with. And isn't apologising for it. Three weeks is a long time to share four walls with the woman you married too fast and lost too slowly. A long time to pretend you don't remember how it felt when she still reached for you. A long time to watch another man make her laugh and wonder when she stopped doing that with you. And an even longer time to avoid the one thing neither of you has been brave enough to face: Maybe what destroyed you wasn't that you stopped loving each other. Maybe it was that you never did. Some things don't stay buried just because you stopped digging. Some things claw their way back on their own. And some loves don't know when they're supposed to die. ⚠️ This book will contain explicit sexual content between consenting adults (18+), crude language, trauma and pregnancy loss
Paint A Picture (Left #2) by ooolmmm15
ooolmmm15
  • WpView
    Reads 42,709
  • WpVote
    Votes 1,589
  • WpPart
    Parts 20
Brynlee and Keegan Parker are all grown up. With Bryn in her last year of college, and Keegan climbing in the modeling world, everything seems perfect. Then Keegan reveals that she's moving in with her boyfriend, leaving Bryn and Macy to find another roommate. What happens when Colin Archer, Bryn's childhood love, knocks on their door looking for a place? ***This is the second book in the Left series. I would recommend reading Mommy's Little Secrets first since there will be appearances from characters and references from the book.***
Zaya by ihidethisapp
ihidethisapp
  • WpView
    Reads 45,863
  • WpVote
    Votes 1,462
  • WpPart
    Parts 14
Alina Book 2 NOT a standalone!!! ----- The treasure has been hidden, now the hunt is on. Alina Lombardi has disappeared. Stripped of her identity and locked away, the young girl has fallen victim to a sick obsession at the hands of her brothers; the new leaders of the Russian Bratva. The Ivanov brothers will do anything to keep their little rabbit, their Zaya safe. But how safe can one really be with the likes of them? Will Alina's dwindling spirit heal the wounds of their past, or only feed the fire that fuels their insanity? Her adoptive family, the American-Italian mafias, saved her from the clutches of the Ivanovs once before. But can the Lombardis do it again? In a twisted game of rivals, lies, and greed, is family, love, and new friends in the most unlikely of places. But how many players really are there?
Where You Ruined Me by MarieMiria
MarieMiria
  • WpView
    Reads 55,121
  • WpVote
    Votes 1,225
  • WpPart
    Parts 58
Book One in the Ann Arbor series: Where You Ruined Me 🏒 🏒 College romance. D1 hockey. Pre-law rivals. He falls first. She doesn't even notice. They have history. Just not the kind he wanted. She's been immune to his charm since she was fourteen. Wolfe Novak-Donovan - junior, pre-law, D1 hockey, biggest fuckboy on campus - has met the one girl the Wolfe Novak-Donovan effect doesn't work on. And now she's on his campus. Frankie Lowe - freshman, scholarship kid, couldn't care less - doesn't do hockey players. Doesn't do Donovans. And she's currently got her eyes on the one guy on campus who hates Wolfe most. Enemies to lovers. Except she doesn't think about him enough for them to be enemies. That's the whole problem. The Donovan men don't just fall. They fall stupid. It's genetic. 🖤 📖 Complete standalone - no prior reading needed. ⚠️ Explicit sexual content between consenting adults (18+), crude language, underage drinking, and one fuckboy's entire operating system being dismantled by a girl who could not care less. MM x
Where You Waited for Me by MarieMiria
MarieMiria
  • WpView
    Reads 15,438
  • WpVote
    Votes 460
  • WpPart
    Parts 30
Tommy Harding has been Rosie Novak-Donovan's best friend since they were four years old. Quiet. Steady. The only person who's never once flinched at her. She kissed him once at a lake bonfire and told him it didn't count. He said "yeah." Neither of them has mentioned it since. ❤️ Now he's Birch Harbor PD. Real badge. Real uniform. And Rosie - FBI daughter, criminal justice degree, academy starting in September - is back in town for the summer and trying very hard not to notice that her best friend grew up when she wasn't looking. 👮‍♂️ Tommy's not the quiet kid who let her win arguments anymore. He's six foot something of small-town cop who could have anyone in Birch Harbor and most of them have tried. He chose Sarah. Sweet, easy, uncomplicated Sarah. The kind of girl who doesn't argue about badge jurisdiction or report parking violations or make his jaw tight every time she walks into a room. The safe choice. The smart choice. 🔥 Tommy Harding has always been smart. Except when it comes to the girl he's been pretending not to love since he was five years old. 🤍 A Birch Harbor story. Friends to lovers. One summer. One badge between them. Two people who know everything about each other except the one thing that matters. Can be read as a standalone but a better experience when read with Where You Left Me and Where You Found Me. 🤍 ⚠️ Content warning: this story contains explicit sexual content between consenting adults, strong language, and underage drinking. All explicit scenes observe the legal age of consent in Michigan. Trigger warnings will be posted before relevant chapters. Reader discretion is advised.
Not Yet by MarieMiria
MarieMiria
  • WpView
    Reads 37,128
  • WpVote
    Votes 1,046
  • WpPart
    Parts 51
🎸🔥 West Holden is the frontman of The Drift. Sold-out arenas. Platinum records. Magazine covers. The kind of man who makes women lose their minds-and their underwear-in the same breath. 🎵 Offstage? He's a single dad with a talent for turning his life into a disaster. Enter Adeline Laurent. Sharp. Stubborn. She's been cleaning up after West Holden since she was fourteen, and somehow she still hasn't learned to walk away. Now The Drift is heading on tour, and for the first time, there's nowhere for either of them to run. She's not his girlfriend. She's not family. She's just the woman who's always been there. He writes songs that make the whole world fall in love. He's never written one about her. Not yet. 🎵🖤 tropes: cruel hero | rockstar | single dad | unrequited love | she fell first, he fell harder | found family | forced proximity | the grovel is EARNED 🔥 POV: dual first person setting: Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles 🌴 ⚠️ trigger warnings will be posted at the beginning of each chapter. this story contains mature content including explicit sexual scenes, strong language, alcohol abuse, drug references, grief, drowning references, parental abandonment, emotional neglect, and themes of guilt and self-destruction. all characters 18+. 🖤
Where You Found Me by MarieMiria
MarieMiria
  • WpView
    Reads 23,395
  • WpVote
    Votes 771
  • WpPart
    Parts 43
💔 WHERE YOU FOUND ME Book Two of the Birch Harbor Series. Can be read as a standalone but best enjoyed after Book One - Where You Left Me (Flynn & Ivy) 🤍 Brother's best friend · Second chance · Forced proximity Gracie Donovan spent half her life loving Owen Hale. Her brother's best friend. The boy at the kitchen counter. The man who kissed her like he meant it and told her it meant nothing. Twice. So she did what you do when you're tired of loving someone who won't love you back. She found someone who would. George is good. Safe. The kind of man who shows up with flowers and means it. Five years of easy and comfortable and nothing wrong. Nothing wrong is the problem. Owen Hale owns a bar, pours everyone else's drinks, and would rather break bones than ask anyone for help. Which is exactly what happens. Now he's broken and Gracie's keeping his bar alive and sitting in his office at midnight doing his books and everything they never said is louder than anything they did. She's got a ring on her finger and a wedding getting closer and a man who chose her when Owen wouldn't. He's got a bar and a secret he told his best friend on a floor at 1AM and a body that gave out before his pride did. Gracie Donovan already chose Owen Hale. Twice. He said nothing both times. She's done choosing. Is Owen finally ready to talk? ⚠️ Content warning: explicit sexual content, strong language, emotional trauma 💔 18+ · New Adult Romance © MM
Where You Left Me by MarieMiria
MarieMiria
  • WpView
    Reads 56,399
  • WpVote
    Votes 1,701
  • WpPart
    Parts 52
💔 WHERE YOU LEFT ME Book One - The Birch Harbor Series Second chance · Secret baby · Small town · He was Birch Harbor's golden boy. She was the mouthy kid from Maple Street. He never stood a chance. 🌊 THEN - Summer 2020 FLYNN DONOVAN remembers Ivy Novak. Camp. Skinned knees. Attitude problem. He didn't think about her twice. Then she walks back into his summer and she's not a kid anymore and he's fucked. Golden boy. Future cop. Cocky as hell. The kind of guy who smiles and girls forget their own name. Never had to work for anything. Ivy Novak is not easy. Eighteen. Sharp. Trailer park. Doesn't laugh at his jokes. Doesn't blush when he turns it on. Looks at him like he's a minor inconvenience. One summer. That's all it was supposed to be. He fell. Badly. Like write-love-letters-on-twenty-dollar-bills badly. (Flynn Donovan doesn't fall. Except apparently he does. Face first.) Then she ended it. Parking lot. January. Three words. There's someone else. There wasn't. 🥊 NOW - Autumn 2025 A bullet puts Flynn on leave. His mom gets sick. Birch Harbor's golden boy comes home. She's still there. Still mouthy. Still pulling pints at Owen's bar - his best friend's bar - like she didn't gut him five years ago. IVY NOVAK is not the girl she was at eighteen. Single mom. Two jobs. Raising her daughter, keeping her head down and her mouth - mostly - shut. She broke Flynn Donovan's heart five years ago. It broke hers too. 👶 And there's a kid. Four years old. Frog boots. Chicken nuggets. No filter. Blue eyes. His blue eyes. 🖤 He thinks she wrecked him on purpose. She knows she had no choice. The secret she's been carrying for four years is about to blow both their lives wide open. 💔 Two timelines. One secret. A four-year-old with a stuffed frog and a detective badge who's about to change everything. ⚠️ Content warning: explicit sexual content, strong language, emotional trauma, family manipulation 💔 18+ · New Adult Romance