Not Part of the Plan Six months after being humiliated and left at the altar, Olandria Carthen leaves Alabama behind for a charming vineyard town tucked away in South Carolina. Teaching preschool gives her the fresh start she desperately needs until an upcoming family reunion reminds her that moving on is much harder than pretending she already has. Nic Vansteenberghe is a devoted single dad raising his two little girls while helping run his family's vineyard. Between school drop offs, bedtime stories, and his family's relentless attempts to set him up, the last thing he wants is another blind date. His solution? A fake girlfriend. Her solution? A fake boyfriend. One simple arrangement. Six months. No strings attached. It should have been easy. Until pretend dates become real memories. Until vineyard sunsets, family dinners, and two little girls begin to feel like home. Until walking away becomes far more complicated than either of them expected. Because sometimes the best things in life... aren't part of the plan.

From Nic's POV Read this if you are obsessed with nics yearning. I am not following the exactness of the show, and I will focus on only nicolandria moments. Hope yall enjoy.

Olandria Carthen has dedicated her life to keeping her family's beloved soul food restaurant, Tasty O's, alive in Decatur, Alabama, but mounting debt, a shrinking staff, and the fear of losing everything her parents built have pushed her to the breaking point. Across the country, TikTok food reviewer Nic Vans has built a career on one rule: always tell the truth. When his visit to Tasty O's ends with a brutally honest review, Olandria's world begins to unravel. She blames the man who put her restaurant on blast, while Nic refuses to apologize for doing his job. But as fate continues to throw them together, they soon discover that first impressions don't always tell the whole story-and sometimes the most bitter beginnings can lead to the sweetest redemption.

olandria's next door neighbors are making a garage band. they sound awful, but the musician that helps them is good at least. (and it helps that he's hot too.) or: a story about a bunch of idiots in a garage band and the growing pains of senior year TM.

there are people you meet, and there are people your life seems to have been quietly moving toward.

✰【ENEMIES TO LOVERS】⥈【VAMPIRE FANTASY】✰ "WHAT IS FATED... CANNOT BE CHANGED" In a world governed by ancient vampire leagues and unspoken laws, Nic Vancarthen survives by precision, execution and distrust. A strategist by nature, he believes alliances should be clean, missions contained, and emotions kept in control. That belief begins to fracture the moment Olandria enters his path. Olandria blessed with beauty, skills and formidable power is unwilling to offer explanations for who she is or where she comes from. Her presence complicates Nic's mission and unsettles his instincts, drawing him into a web of half-truths, political tension, and forbidden forces older than the leagues themselves. As rival powers maneuver in the shadows and enemies close in, Nic and Olandria are forced into proximity neither of them asked for. Will they be able to individually accomplish their goals or let emotions take the reign? Who can truly be trusted when the past refuses to stay buried? The Vancarthens is a dark romance fantasy of bloodbound loyalty, forbidden power, and the fragile bonds that hold when the truth is the most dangerous weapon of all. WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS BOOK: ✔ FANTASY ✔ ACTION ✔ ADVENTURE ✔ PLOT-TWISTS ✔ SLOW BURN ROMANCE WORTH THE WAIT 18+

They were never supposed to work. Olandria doesn't do messy. Nic doesn't do rules. But when you're forced to share a space, lines blur... boundaries shift... and tension turns into something neither of them planned for. And the worst part? They might not want it to stop.

Olandria has hated Nic for as long as she can remember and the feeling has always been mutual. But when the line of hate starts to blur into something different, something new, what happens to the resolve of Olandria Carthen?

A one night stand that turns into something else

She doesn't believe in chasing love. Not when it never seems to stay. Olandria has built a life she's proud of-her boutique, her clients, her independence. She knows her worth. So when every man she meets disappears without explanation, she tells herself it doesn't matter. Until it starts to. Nic Vansteenberghe doesn't do relationships. He does control, business, and keeping things exactly where he wants them. So when a high-stakes deal depends on him having a stable girlfriend, he needs a solution-and fast. Olandria needs a fake boyfriend. Nic needs a perfect image. It should be simple. It isn't. Because the one man who keeps interfering in her life... is the same one who's been making sure no one else ever gets the chance. And the worst part? She doesn't even know she was already his.