Born into slavery, Lena Wells escapes in search of freedom-but instead finds a Union camp overflowing with runaways, soldiers, and the man whose gaze she can't seem to forget. What begins as stolen glances soon becomes forbidden touches and passionate, secret kisses. But war has a way of claiming everything, and when Julian is called back to his regiment, Lena is forced to let him go. Four years later, Lena has built a fragile new life in Philadelphia-a seamstress by day and a devoted mother by night, determined to protect the child who carries the face of the man she lost. Julian Dennis, wounded and discharged, is living in the same city rebuilding a life that no longer feels like his own. When a chance assignment brings Lena into his home that he shares with his mother-who has hired her to sew a few dresses-the past collides violently with the present. One look at Lena's little girl sends Julian spiraling. She looks like him. She acts like him. And the timing is undeniable. Yet Lena insists the child isn't his. Now Julian is torn between hope and heartache, while Lena clings to the truth she's carried alone for years. As long-buried emotions resurface and new wounds open, both must confront not only the ghosts of the war, but the powerful forces of society, race, loyalty, and love that threaten to keep them apart. Because sometimes the war doesn't end on the battlefield- Sometimes it finds you again, exactly where you're trying to start over.

He's the football star she absolutely should not want. You see, Malaina Chastain has her life perfectly planned. Pre-vet track, 4.0 GPA, complete STEM requirements. And absolutely, positively, no distractions-especially not football players. But when she's assigned to tutor running back Choi Seo Joon in organic chemistry, her carefully controlled world starts to unravel. He's patient where others are pushy. Thoughtful where others are thoughtless. And he looks at her like she's more than just the perfect student everyone expects her to be. There's just one problem: she's supposed to be getting back together with her ex, Cooper - the safe choice, the expected choice, the one her family and friends have already planned her future around. Between debutante ball practices with the wrong guy, stolen moments with the right one, and a viral video that exposes feelings she's been trying to deny, Malaina has to decide: keep being perfect, or start being happy. Because sometimes the biggest risk isn't falling for the wrong person. It's falling for the right one. ✨ A clean slow-burn college romance about finding yourself, defying expectations, and discovering that home isn't a place-it's a person. ✨ Updates on Friday (and more often when I get free time)! Enjoy the Spotify playlist. Find it by searching for the playlist name: Fourth Down Chemistry Throwback Playlist. 🏈 College Football Romance | AMBW | Forced Proximity | Forbidden Romance | Found Family Trigger Warnings: minor character with terminal illness, mention of death

Lucy is twenty-one and already exhausted from trying to prove she belongs. A demanding internship in a male-dominated field. A long-distance relationship that feels like it is quietly fading. A mother fighting cancer in another country. Everyone expects her to be strong, capable, grateful. No excuses. No breakdowns. No pauses. Then reality shifts. After encountering a strange light in an alley, Lucy begins to experience the world differently. The city hums beneath the surface. Emotions glow. People seem closer and further away at the same time. The more pressure she feels, the more unstable everything becomes. At first, she blames stress. Burnout. Anxiety. But when love fractures and the world around her stops responding the way it should, Lucy realizes she may have stepped into a hidden layer of existence, one that operates on a different frequency. And once you shift out of tune with reality, finding your way back is not as simple as turning up the volume. Some frequencies are hidden. Some are learned. And some can change everything. The Hidden Frequency is a continuing series. New chapters every week.

Suzhou Love Story A Japanese man. A Chinese woman. Two lives that were never meant to cross-until they did. Wang Xiaomei left her hometown of Nanjing to start a new life in Suzhou. Ryo Hasegawa, quiet and reserved, came from Nagoya, Japan. Neither of them expected to find anything in this city- maybe just a job, some silence, a little peace. But when they met in the quiet massage parlor where they both worked, something shifted. A spark. A silence that echoed deeper than words. And someone else noticed. Chen Meiling, a Chinese woman who worked with Ryo, had been watching him, too. Quietly. Secretly. From somewhere deep in her heart. In Suzhou-a city of canals and stillness- three hearts begin to drift, crossing paths in ways no one expected. Some love arrives gently. Some love strikes like lightning. And some love... leaves a mark that never fades.

When Akhile's life is cut tragically short, she's given a second chance by a rare blood moon, as she awakens in the body of Princess Cora. But her new life is complicated - betrothed to Nathaniel, the ruthless heir, while falling for his brother Norman's charming warmth. As Akhile navigates the treacherous world of the Redcliffs, she must choose between duty, power, and love, knowing that one wrong move could destroy everything. Caught between the hearts of two brothers and a dynasty built on mystical history, Akhile begins to realise something unsettling: The blood moon that brought her there...may not have been a coincidence. And the Redcliff family may know more about death, and rebirth, than they have let on.