Enter Stacy McMahon: 24-year-old fashion student turned actress. She's just landed her first major role in a not-so-insignificant movie. Annnd, she's co-starring with her celebrity crush. Olivia Bryant: 23-year-old former child star with a major case of RBF - and an attitude to match. She hates being second to anyone, and will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Did she mention she's got a co-star? Great.

When Karlie's estranged father suffers a heart attack, she reluctantly returns to her hometown in Pennsylvania, only to find herself confronting the ghosts of her past. Upon her return, she finds herself face-to-face with her super-secret-I'll-kill-you-if-you-tell-anyone high school crush. What's even more jarring, is the fact that she had just been admiring the woman checking his vitals before she realizes she already knows her. As Kaia Thomas stares back at her, all the feelings she had for her high school best friend come rushing in. As old feelings resurface and unexpected connections emerge, Karlie must navigate the complexities of her past while grappling with the possibility of a future she never imagined.

After losing her job and her girlfriend, it's time for Annie Abraham to admit defeat and move back in with her parents. She has hardly been back to her tiny Montana hometown since the unforgettable summer before her senior year of college, when she agreed to babysit for Laurel Jacobs. Annie didn't expect to fall in love back then, and she never thought that after all this time she'd still be in love with the woman she walked away from when she was twenty-one. Laurel Jacobs has never gotten over Annie Abraham. It's been almost a decade since their fling and she can't move on. She has her kids to think about - at least, she tells herself that's why she hasn't been on a single date since Annie left. Her life was different back then: when they met, she was in the middle of a divorce with two young kids and no idea how the future looked. Now she owns a bookstore, her kids are growing up, and she's too busy for romance. Annie thought she would have more time to settle back into life in Deer Pines before being confronted by the love of her life, but she's not that lucky. After all this time, she's back for good and Laurel is the first person she sees, when she has just spent seventeen hours on a train and she's desperately in need of caffeine. It's the first time they've seen each other in eight years and it isn't long before all those old feelings come rushing back to the surface. They weren't buried as deep as they thought they were. A lot has changed since they last saw each other, more than either of them realize, but life hands out second chances for a reason. The first time they fell in love, the timing was wrong. Now's their chance to make it right. © Elle Carrigan 2023

Tessa Blake likes things simple: clean layouts, crisp deadlines, and a boyfriend who's been her best friend since college. What she doesn't like? Camden Price-her boyfriend Noah's childhood best friend and living proof that loud, obnoxious energy drinks can take human form. So when Cam crashes their quiet weekend plans with a smug grin and a new girlfriend, Tessa prepares for another evening of pretending to tolerate him. She definitely doesn't expect Harper Rhodes. Harper is calm, self-assured, and infuriatingly observant. An independent photographer with a quiet voice and a sharper lens, she notices things most people miss-including the cracks in Tessa's carefully arranged life. What begins as forced double dates turns into long conversations, unexpected laughter, and a slow unraveling of everything Tessa thought she wanted. As her long-term relationship starts to feel less certain and Harper becomes harder to ignore, Tessa is forced to ask herself: What if the person she can't stand leads her to the person she can't live without? Sometimes your "plus one" is the one.

Marcelina is determined to prove to her father that she can be a leader and more at her family's marketing agency, Voxel --- love is not in the cards for her. Meanwhile, Lorian, a creative graphic designer is struggling to get by with an unstable financial status, a clingy ex and her boss's entitled princess who hates Lorian for no reason. When a sudden major opportunity arises that would benefit the company, they are forced to put their differences aside and work together. Collaborating is easy, but sharing an office, isn't. Sparks fly, and unexpected feelings start growing but they know better than to mix love with work and making sure the lines don't blur.

28-year-old Lauren Milligan has what some would call a picture-perfect life. She's newly married; her husband has just received a promotion, and they've just moved into a beautiful new home. Everything on paper shows that Lauren should be happy. But when she meets Elle Harper - the stunning, sharp, and unexpectedly magnetic fiancé of her husband's best friend from college - everything in Lauren's life starts to fracture as she is forced to confront the life she's built versus the life she truly wants.

Fresh out of college, Nora Hawthorne has one simple goal: savor a carefree Italian holiday before "real life" begins. Dragged into a glittering boutique by her friend, she collides-literally-with a woman who seems carved from steel and secrets: Victoria Rossi, the millionaire and the CEO of her own company, and whose name is whispered with awe and fear. Victoria is cold, commanding, and impossible to read-and yet, something in Victoria's gaze softens when it settles on Nora. Nora tells herself it was nothing. A strange, fleeting moment she'll never have to think about again. Until fate intervenes. She discovers that she's been hired at Victoria's company, forcing them to meet again. Can the warmth of one heart melt the ice around another? Or will the feeling Victoria felt towards Nora be able to tear down her walls before they even have a chance to crack?

(GXG) Not the soft lovey story you're expecting ;)

Alexandra Carmichael is the school's most popular it girl. Captain cheerleader, filthy rich and way too pretty for her own good. Everything changes when she meets one Emily Lockhart... ---------------------------- TW (mentioned only in one or two chapters): depression, anxiety, self harm, emotional abuse. Also, lots of smut🫡

Dakota Carson and Olivia Grace Sterling have almost nothing in common-different majors, different goals, and different worlds. The only things tying them together are their shared student dorm and a circle of mutual friends. In a world full of deadlines, parties, and emotional minefields, Dakota and Olivia must figure out where their friendship fits-and whether it's strong enough to survive the change.