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WIDOW'S FIRE by RuthieJane7
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She burned once. Now, she burns everything. Amara Wright had the fairy-tale proposal. The devoted husband. The ultrasound photo of triplets on the fridge. Everything a woman could want ,attentive, generous, endlessly patient. Six weeks after she gave birth, he was gone. So were her children. So was every dollar of her trust fund. The police call it abandonment. Her family calls it a breakdown. No one believes the truth: the man she married never existed. He was a name built to get close to her, drain her, and disappear ,exactly as he'd done to other women before her. With nowhere left to turn, Amara buries the woman she used to be and builds someone new. Someone patient enough to trace a predator through shell companies and stolen identities. Someone cold enough to sit in a car and watch her own children play in a stranger's yard ,and wait. Someone capable of winning a game she never agreed to play. But every step closer to getting her children back is a step further from the woman she was before he arrived. And if she wins this, she'll have to find out whether there's still someone worth going home to on the other side of it. The Widow's Fire is a slow-burn revenge thriller about the architecture of a con, the cost of survival, and what's left of a mother when everything else has been taken. Broken women don't disappear. They sharpen.
While I Waited (available on Selar ) by GladySmith22
GladySmith22
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He said three years. No baby. Just us. I believed him. Then she showed up. His "cousin." Carrying a child with his eyes. Our parents already knew. Both sides. They smiled at me for years while they hid it. When I found out, they blamed me. Said I should've tried harder to keep him. Now he's sick. And suddenly they all need me to stay. They think love will make me forget. They're wrong.
Golden Heights by purpleheart_author
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Sebastian Vale was a powerful businessman, respected philanthropist, and patriarch of one of the country's most prestigious families. Then he died and another family appeared. For nearly thirty years, Helena Vale and Marianne Rowan had both believed they were Sebastian's wife. Neither knew about the other. Between them are eight children, two completely different lives, and decades of carefully hidden lies. When Sebastian's death exposes financial problems, seized properties, and a complicated will, both families are forced to move into Golden Heights, an exclusive villa left equally to all eight children. But sharing blood does not make them family. The Vales resent the Rowans for being proof of their father's betrayal. The Rowans resent the Vales for being the family Sebastian publicly acknowledged. Their mothers can barely tolerate each other, while the children remain distant, professional, and sometimes openly hostile. As the scandal spreads through high society and more of Sebastian's secrets surface, the two families must live under the same roof while dealing with careers, reputation, inheritance, and a truth none of them asked for. Sebastian spent his life keeping his families apart. In death, he leaves them trapped together inside Golden Heights.
A VENGEANCE CLAUSE ;THE HEIRESS BEHIND THE DESK by PsundrahPayne
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She took the job to destroy him. She never planned on falling for him first. Elena Voss was seventeen when her father's empire collapsed and he didn't survive the fallout. Ten years later, she knows exactly who to blame: Damian Cole, and the family name that ruined hers. So when a position opens up as his executive assistant, she doesn't hesitate. New name. New face. One goal ... get close enough to find the proof, and burn Cole Industries to the ground. Damian Cole doesn't trust easily. He's buried himself in work and walled off everything else since his father died, carrying a guilt he's never spoken aloud. His new assistant is infuriating, unshakable, and the first person in years who doesn't flinch when he pushes. He tells himself it's nothing. He's wrong. As the lines blur between duty and desire, Elena unearths a truth far messier than the one she came for ,one where neither family is innocent, and the man she's falling for might be the only person who could understand exactly what she lost. But secrets built a relationship on a lie can only survive so long before they collapse it. When the truth comes out, it doesn't just threaten her heart. It threatens everything ... his company, his name, and any chance they have left. Some debts can't be paid in ruin. Some can only be paid in truth.
While You're Gone by Emalin123
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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?
Piecing It Together - EXCERPT - NOW ON AMAZON by MackenzieMadden
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THIS IS AN EXCERPT ONLY. This story is now on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, and Paperback. In a world where Gracie has never felt like she belongs, finding a home with Braxton and his family has been like finding an oasis. Until the past walks back through the door, reminding her that people can change their minds and history is impossible to compete with. When Gracie walks away, Braxton's got a choice. Fight for the new love he's found or take a chance on the old one that never had a chance to bloom.
Fear of becoming her ( Full story available on Selar and Kobo) by VickyAdams
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At Eleven Maya made a promise to God: She would never become her mother. She would never be the woman crying behind thin walls. Never be the wife abandoned in her own marriage. Never raise a child alone. Never become a single mother like her So when Darius slipped a ring on her finger under the Atlanta lights, she believed she had escaped that fate. But love can rot slowly. What begins with late nights and small lies grows into humiliation, betrayal, and a husband bold enough to bring another woman into their home - while their son watches. Terrified of becoming a single mother, Maya stays longer than she should. She endures. She hopes. She waits for the "good days" to return. They never do. When she finally leaves, silence follows. Until the man who once replaced her suddenly remembers he has a wife - after his reckless lifestyle leaves him sick and alone. Now his mother is begging her to return to the house she once fled. But Maya isn't the same woman who walked out. This time, she's not coming back to save her marriage. She's coming back to end it. A gripping story of betrayal, endurance, and the painful strength it takes to choose yourself - even when it means becoming the very woman you once feared see
HATING HIM  by Creesey1234
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Piper Dolan I never knew love could hurt this much until I met him. He took away everything,I went against my morale for him and gave him everything but in return he gave me nothing. Because of him I lost a part of my self. I hate him for making me do it. And I am going to spend my life Hating Him. He is going to pay for everything. For my innocent baby.