She falls for her twin brother's best friend, but their forbidden romance is only the beginning. *** Vanessa Adams knows falling for her twin brother's best friend is a terrible idea. Matt Jones is brooding, irresistible, and exactly the kind of mistake she should avoid. But stolen kisses soon become stolen moments, and before long, keeping their relationship a secret is harder than denying the chemistry between them. Just when Vanessa thinks getting caught is the biggest risk, her brother's growing attachment to Matt and long-buried secrets turn everything upside down. Some loves are forbidden. Some secrets are impossible to outrun.

Some people spend their whole lives trying to make a name for themselves. Avery Carter spent hers trying to escape one. As the daughter of a Hall of Fame quarterback and the twin sister of one of the NFL's biggest stars, she's spent twenty-four years being introduced by someone else's accomplishments. So when she started making music, she did it under a different name, determined to find out if her songs could stand on their own. By day, she's a pediatric occupational therapist helping children find confidence in themselves. By night, she's Ava Simone, an up-and-coming pop artist playing shows across Chicago. Outside of the people she trusts most, no one knows the two women are the same. Especially not Micah Hendrix. As the NFL's newest franchise quarterback, Micah arrives in Chicago for offseason training carrying the weight of an entire city on his shoulders. The last thing he expects is to become obsessed with a local singer whose music feels like it was written just for him... or to meet Marcus Carter's effortlessly down to earth daughter and find himself falling for her, too. He has no idea they're the same woman. But when one song catapults Ava Simone from hidden gem to overnight sensation, the carefully separated worlds Avery has spent years protecting begin to collide. Suddenly, the life she built in secret is impossible to hide, and the man who's unknowingly fallen for every version of her will have to decide if love can survive the truth. Because sometimes the hardest person to be known by is yourself.

Eight years. Five of love. Three of marriage.
Seraphine Vale thought she had forever with Cassian Thorne. Until the plane went down.
Until she buried an empty casket.
Until she discovered the truth: Cassian was alive, living under a new name, with a new wife... and a child that should have been hers. He didn't die.
He replaced her. So Seraphine does the only thing left that still belongs to her.
She burns the last of her devotion and accepts an arranged marriage to the one man powerful enough to make the entire city look away from her shame. Dorian Blackwood. Old money. Cold blood. Quietly lethal.
The kind of man who never asks for what he wants , he simply takes it. Society whispers that he must be damaged to settle for a discarded widow.
Seraphine tells herself the same thing. This is survival. Convenience. Nothing more. She is wrong. Dorian has wanted her for years. Longer than she knows. He watched her love another man. He waited. And when Cassian finally destroyed himself, Dorian was already at the door with a marriage contract and a claim that leaves no room for escape. He does not offer soft promises.
He offers ownership. "You can keep your pride, Mrs. Blackwood," he tells her the night of their wedding, voice low against her throat. "But your body, your name, and your future are mine now. Try to run from that, and I'll remind you who you belong to." Cassian returns expecting guilt. Softness. The woman who once worshipped him.
What he finds is a wife who no longer flinches... and a husband who looks at him like something that should have stayed buried. High society is watching.
Old secrets are stirring.
And Dorian Blackwood has no intention of ever letting her go. He waited years for her.
He will not be patient forever.

A Good Girl's Guide To Being Naughty • • • Ivy Collins is a normal 21 y/o woman. Except for the fact she's a virgin ... or at least she was until she had sex with her university rivals hockey captain. After a quick (devastatingly quick) night with the man and being called a lousy lay, Ivy made a promise to herself that she wouldn't do it again ... sex that is. Who needs sex when all it brought was insecurities and more, and it wasn't even that good to begin with. Enter Asher Hudson, Ice Hockey captain, her brothers best friend and her best friends brother - triple trifecta of why she shouldn't get involved with him. But when he overhears a conversation Ivy has with her best friend, he gives her an offer she can't refuse. Well, she can, and she should, but why would she want to? Three months, she helps him with his grades, and he'll help her with her sex life. Only one rule, don't fall in love. Easy, right? He'll teach her everything she wants to know, and show her that sex can be fun, you just have to know how to do it right. And Ivy should refuse, after all he's the Ice Hockey captain, her brother's best friend and her best friend's brother - but what's the fun in that. Ivy knows she should say no, but she won't. And she won't fall in love, she can't. ••• Completed • First Draft - Edited. Watty2025 winner #1 in #Romance #1 in #Brotherbestfriend #2 in #bestfriendsbrother #2 in #icehockey

Imani took the job for one reason. Money. Her father's gambling debts are swallowing everything her family owns, and the only job willing to pay enough to save their home happens to be inside the mansion of the most dangerous man in the city-a Russian Bratva king whose name is spoken in whispers. So Imani follows three simple rules. Keep her head down. Do her job. And never look the men of the house in the eyes. For months, it has worked. Until the day she is sent to clean the forbidden top floor. A careless mistake. A drunk mafia soldier. One gunshot that echoes through the study. The man who crossed the line drops dead behind her. And when Imani finally looks up... she meets the cold gaze of the man who pulled the trigger. Roman Volkov. The master of the mansion. The most feared man in the Russian Bratva. A man who notices everything. Except this time, he isn't looking at the body on the floor. He's watching her. Imani wants nothing more than to remain invisible, collect her paycheck, and keep her family from losing their home. But Roman Volkov has just found the only woman in his house who doesn't fear him enough. And once the Bratva king decides he wants something... Walking away is no longer an option

When ruthless mafia boss Enzo De Luca stumbles into the quiet life of Dr. Isabella Romano, their worlds collide in blood and fate. She saves his life after an ambush, but in doing so, she's pulled into the dangerous underworld he rules with iron and fire. What begins as an act of compassion spirals into a forbidden bond neither can resist. Torn between her oath to heal and his oath of vengeance, Isabella and Enzo must navigate betrayal, loyalty, and the price of love in a world where nothing is safe. When passion burns hotter than bullets, they discover that some connections are deeper than scars-bound by blood, and saved by love.

Melody Carter has built a life from nothing. Three years ago, she woke in a hospital with no past, no identity, no one searching for her. So she became someone new-a fifth-grade teacher with a fiancé who loves her stability, a carefully ordered existence where nothing threatens to unravel. Safe. Empty. Survivable. Then Lila walks into her classroom. The six-year-old looks up at Melody with absolute certainty and whispers, "Mommy." Every day. Without hesitation. Without doubt. Melody tells herself it's confusion. A mix-up. A child grasping at something she needs. But Lila knows things-the lullaby Melody hums without thinking, the stuffed animal Melody dreams about, moments from a life Melody can't remember living. And when the memories start returning in fragments-a laugh, strong arms, a man's voice saying her name like it matters-Melody begins to understand a truth more devastating than her amnesia: This little girl never forgot her. Everyone else did. Now Melody must choose between the woman she's become and the life she's lost-knowing that reclaiming one means destroying the other. Some reunions don't heal. They break open what was finally learning to survive.

Fifteen years of marriage taught Hannah Hayes that love wasn't always loud. Sometimes it was found in shared coffee, quiet mornings, and the comfort of knowing someone would always come home. Until one day... he didn't. When Travis walks away after a devastating argument, Hannah believes he just needs time. She has no idea that a single accident will erase the life they built together. Miles away, a stranger arrives at his hospital bedside. Beautiful. Caring. Convincing. When Travis wakes with no memory of his past, she claims to be the woman he loves. While Hannah searches for the husband who never came home, another woman is rewriting his future-one lie at a time. How do you fight for someone who doesn't remember you? And when the truth finally surfaces, will love be enough... or has the life they built already slipped away?

💔 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

Sophia Bennett was forced into marriage with Adrian Whitmore after an unexpected pregnancy. For five years, she stayed in a marriage where Adrian loved only their daughter and treated Sophia like nothing more than a responsibility. But when Adrian starts an affair and even their daughter begins to grow close to his mistress, Sophia finally decides to leave. Just when Adrian realizes the value of the wife he never loved, Sophia has already started moving on. And this time, another man is ready to give her everything Adrian never could. Now Adrian must fight for the woman he took for granted... before he loses her forever.