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One Night in Nashville (formerly The Layover) by midnightbluewriting
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Minutes before Mariah gets married, her maid of honor shows her a viral video. In it, a woman tells the internet about the magical night she spent with a handsome stranger in Nashville-and asks for help finding the man she believes is her soulmate. Mariah happens to know exactly where he is. He's waiting at the end of the aisle for her. After creating a viral moment of her own, Mariah spends the next two months hiding from the unwanted fame that turned the worst day of her life into a public spectacle-and transformed her into the infamous Burn It All Bride. Then she meets a gruff, devastatingly handsome stranger on a flight who has absolutely no idea who she is. With him, she doesn't have to be the heartbroken bride millions of strangers think they know. She can just be Ivy. And the quiet Texan beside her becomes Tex. When an emergency landing strands them for one night in the city Mariah has cast as the villain in her story, she is determined to make the best of it with the man who is already making Nashville feel different. As the attraction between them becomes impossible to ignore, they agree on three rules. One night. No real names. No promises beyond morning. And no chance of ever forgetting each other. They walk away the next morning believing their perfect night will remain exactly that-a beautiful memory neither of them is allowed to chase. Mariah is still rebuilding the life her cheating fiancé destroyed. And Tex... Tex is trying to start over after betrayal cost him everything he worked years to create. Until fate brings them together again on Beaumont Ranch, and the stranger Mariah promised to leave behind becomes impossible to walk away from twice. Some nights break your heart. Some nights heal you. And some nights change you forever.
The Twin They Hid  by BenjaminVelvet
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Elara Vale has lived in the shadows for three years, quietly competent, fiercely intelligent, and unbreakable while pretending to be her glamorous twin sister Alessia in a loveless marriage of convenience to powerful businessman Adrian Wolfe. When Adrian's first love returns and the truth explodes, Elara's carefully built world shatters. But she refuses to break. With steel in her spine and secrets of her own, she'll face the pain, reclaim her identity, and decide whether the man who never truly saw her deserves a second look or if a new, steady presence offers the trust she's always craved. Heart-wrenching betrayal meets quiet triumphs in this unforgettable story of resilience, love, and the courage to stop hiding.
The Forgotten Heiress by ameliaaa_thisside
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An alternate universe of The Moretti Heiress. (Can be read as a standalone) Everyone assumed Serena Moretti had it all. The powerful father. The four brothers. The mansion. The name that made people step aside when she walked into a room. What they didn't see was the girl who ate alone. Who stopped asking for things at six years old because the answer was always nothing. Who learned to patch up her own wounds because no one was coming to check. The Morettis didn't lose their daughter. They just never looked at her long enough to find her. Some things are worse than being abandoned. Being forgotten is one of them. #1 out of 1.18k : onlygirl #1 out of 23.4k : familyproblems
Unfaithful Promise ( sequel to Unfaithful Heart) by Gunj40
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I was the woman he loved. She was the woman he could never refuse. I stopped competing with Veronica the day I understood the truth: Adrian hadn't just let her into our lives, he'd built her a home inside the spaces meant for me. For two years, I was Claire Monroe. The safe and steady one. The woman Adrian Cole never had to worry about because she never made a scene, raised her voice, or asked for more than he was willing to give. Understanding. Patient. Reliable. I wore those words like armor, never realizing they were the very reasons he felt free to look away. And while I stayed quiet, Veronica Steele, the grieving family friend, the woman who wielded her sorrow like a blade, quietly took everything that should have been mine. Not his heart. No. Something worse. His presence. His attention. Every late-night conversation, every cancelled dinner, every moment he chose to be somewhere I wasn't. I learned the cost of that choice on the kitchen floor of our apartment, my body folding in on itself, my appendix rupturing as I whispered his name into a voicemail he wouldn't hear until it was too late. Adrian. Please. I need you. He was with her. Of course he was with her. I survived the surgery. But lying in that hospital bed, staring at the empty chair beside me, I finally understood something I should have known all along: There was no reason left to stay. So I stopped waiting. And only then, only when the door had already closed, did Adrian finally see the truth. But seeing and losing never happen in the right order. "Unfaithful Promise" is the story of a man who realized what he had only after he had nothing left to hold, and a woman who finally decided she would never again be someone's second choice. Some people don't recognize love until they're standing in the ruins of it.
Split by TheSallyB
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Danny Verdago - recruited straight from the Military and trained to become a highly specialised undercover operative. For eight years, he's devoted his life to a single case- one that has demanded everything and cost him more than he ever imagined. What Danny never planned for was Tia. For the past four years, she's been his wife, his rock, and the one constant in a life built on secrets. She's the reason every sacrifice has been worth it and the reason he's ready to walk away from his career. Now, one final undercover deployment, the climax of everything he's worked for stands between Danny and the desk job that promises a future beyond the secrets and the double life. But as the operation hurtles toward its end, Danny is dragged deeper into the life he's spent years trying to keep separate. With the case closing in and the stakes higher than ever, he faces an impossible choice. How far is he willing to go to finish the mission he's sacrificed so much for? This time, the price of success won't be measured in years, careers, or half truths. It could cost him Tia, the family they've dreamed of, and everything that truly matters to him.
The Golden Hour by theodoradarlingxx
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In emergency medicine, the golden hour is the crucial sixty-minute window after a traumatic injury-the brief span of time when the right care can mean the difference between life and death. Dr. Mason Carpenter lives for that hour. At St. Mary's Trauma Center, he is the golden boy of the Emergency Department. He's brilliant and calm under pressure. He's also addicted to the adrenaline, the thrill, and the absolute rush of saving patients knocking on death's door. At home, he's a devoted husband to his high school sweetheart-the love of his life-Honey. Or, he used to be. Honey Carpenter has loved Mason since they were fourteen, when he was the gangly boy with hearts in his eyes who stumbled through asking her out for ice cream. She stood beside him through medical school, residency, crushing debt, sleepless nights, and every sacrifice it took to build the life they dreamed about. Now Honey is pregnant with their first child. And Mason is married to his work. He misses ultrasound appointments, pregnancy milestones, and the baby shower. Worst of all, he is never there to support Honey through an increasingly difficult pregnancy. No matter how many times she tells him she is lonely, exhausted, and afraid, Mason gives her the same answer. "They need me." But Honey needs him too. As her pregnancy progresses and she feels something is deeply wrong, her doctor dismisses her symptoms as first-time-mom jitters. Her husband is too busy saving strangers to see his own wife fading away. Until Honey collapses at home and is rushed into Mason's emergency room, fighting for both her life and their daughter's. Mason must reckon with what he was chasing, what he ignored, and what his absence may cost him-the woman he loves more than anything. Now, the golden hour belongs to Honey. And Mason may already be too late. 💛 Marriage In Trouble 💛 Grovel 💛 High School Sweethearts 💛 No cheating 💛 Workaholic Doctor MMC x Neglected Pregnant Wife FMC 💛 Redempti
NEVER THE RIGHT TIME by TheSallyB
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When good girl Lottie Dawson has one of those moments with a complete stranger, she's forced to walk away without even knowing his name. Fate isn't done with them though. Not by a long shot. But, Lottie has been through a lot since that day, she doesn't look at the world the same way. Can she forgive his past and overcome her own fears to give him a chance?
WHERE WE LANDED by TheSallyB
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Will Lottie get her happy ever after? Find out what happens next in Where we landed....
Heir of Silence by LiteraryLoveAffair_
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Four years ago, Natalia Moretti disappeared. No goodbye. No explanation. Just silence. Once the youngest princess of the Italian mafia, Natalia was raised to obey-to smile, to submit, to accept a future chosen for her. Instead, she chose herself. Now she's back in New York. Her parents are gone. Her brothers rule the Moretti empire. And the boy she once loved-the one who thought she betrayed him-has become a man shaped by power, pride, and unfinished heartbreak. Natalia returns different. Stronger. Untouchable in ways no one expects. She's built a life of her own, far from the shadows she was born into-and she carries a secret that could change everything. As old feelings resurface and fate pulls her back into the orbit of the man she never forgot, Natalia must decide how much of her heart she's willing to risk again. Because love in their world is never simple. And some secrets aren't just dangerous- They're legacy-changing. Heir of Silence is a slow-burn mafia romance about first love, second chances, and the quiet strength it takes to protect what matters most-when the whole world is watching.
"Rewrite Her Destiny: When a Woman Knows Her Worth."    by unknownperson1818
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She loved him with all her heart. He made her a bet. Sara Isabella Aiello was once a woman who believed in love-until the man she trusted shattered her world. Alessandro Marco DeLuca, powerful and ruthless, played a dangerous game with her heart, never realizing that the one woman he took for granted would be the one to bring him to his knees. When she walked away, she thought she had left him behind forever. But fate had other plans.Now, she is back-not as the lovesick girl he once betrayed, but as a mother, a fighter, a woman who has learned her worth. With Luca Romano, her childhood best friend and the man who truly loves her, by her side, she is ready to write her own future. But Alessandro doesn't let go easily. His obsession with her has only grown stronger, his jealousy burning as he watches her choose a life without him. And when secrets unravel-when the past collides with the present-Sara must decide. Will she fight for the love that should have been hers? Or will she rewrite her destiny and walk away, choosing a love that was always meant to be? A story of betrayal, revenge, love, and power. Because a woman's heart is not a game, and Sara Isabella Aiello is about to prove it.