For nine years, Lena Carter loved Ethan Hale. She stood beside him when he had nothing. She believed in him when no one else did. While he built his empire, she gave him loyalty, patience, and the best years of her life. She thought she was waiting for a proposal. Instead, she discovers the truth. The late nights. The hidden messages. The woman he chose instead. For the first time in nine years, Lena stops waiting for Ethan to choose her. Instead, she chooses herself. With one phone call, she agrees to an engagement she once refused - an arrangement with the one man Ethan hates most. His most powerful rival. Now the countdown begins. Fourteen days until Lena walks away from the man who wasted the best years of her life. Fourteen days until she becomes someone else's bride. Ethan always believed Lena would never leave him. But the woman who loved him so fiercely in her younger years isn't the same woman anymore. And by the time he realizes what he's lost... it may already be too late.

"And on our 9pm news, we will be covering the internet sensation that is Tyler Reign, the NHL's most decorated player to ever disappear without a trace..." Imagine my shock turning on my TV to the news channel, just to see my fiancé's face staring back at me. The man I knew as plain, quiet, wonderful David. Three years together. An engagement ring on my finger. And apparently, an entire life he forgot to mention.

The heart monitor in Operating Room 4 beeped steadily, a stark contrast to the chaotic panic echoing through the hospital hallways. Dr. Inaya stood under the harsh surgical lights, her gloved hands resting over the chest of the city's most formidable corporate titan. She didn't need to look up at his face to know every line of his features. She had spent years trying to forget them. Zayan. The last time they were this close, he had shattered her world, leaving her to drown in a sea of unspoken words and bitter misunderstandings. Now, years later, the ruthless billionaire was bleeding out under her hands, his life hanging entirely on her precision. She had built a brilliant career on her ability to fix the broken. But as she gripped the scalpel, her eyes hardening above her mask, Inaya realized a devastating truth. You can stitch a heart on an operating table. But you can never stitch the years lost to regret. ⚠️ THIS IS MY ORIGINAL WORK. DO NOT COPY

He cheated. He lied. And he thought I'd never find out. For three years, I gave everything to my marriage while my husband, Nathan, secretly gave his time, affection, and promises to another woman. Then I found the proof. And from that moment on, something inside me changed. I didn't confront him. I didn't cry in front of him. I didn't let a single word slip. Nathan never noticed. To him, I was still the same loving wife who trusted him completely. He had no idea that every smile, every quiet dinner, and every ordinary conversation was hiding a truth he wasn't supposed to know. While Nathan continued living comfortably, believing his secret was safe, I quietly began rebuilding the life I had sacrificed for him-my career, my confidence, my independence, and the woman I used to be. I wasn't planning a scene. I was planning my exit. And when the time comes, Nathan won't get a warning. He won't get an explanation. He won't even get the chance to watch me fall apart. He'll simply wake up one day and realize that the wife he thought would always be there... is gone. Not broken. Not begging. Not waiting for him. Just finally free. And by the time Nathan discovers what I knew all along, I'll be far beyond his reach.

A week before heading off to college Eric Grayson breaks Nora Dempsey's heart when he ends their relationship. Years later they reunite when Eric returns to their hometown to take a job at the clinic where Nora is employed. As they spend time together feelings that had been buried rise to the surface, leaving them to wonder if maybe they should give love a second chance.

Hollywood Tales Book #1 For two years, the world watched us fall in love. Our romantasy series became a global obsession and suddenly everyone was interested in us. Interviews went viral. Edits got millions of views. Fans called our chemistry once in a generation and swore no one could fake the way he looked at me. I believed it too, the spark in his eyes, the passion in his touch, the care in his words. While we dated secretly for a year. Until a grainy image of his lip locked with an Ex went viral and I overheard him in a private meeting telling the producers he couldn't do this anymore. That he couldn't keep pretending to be interested in me. And suddenly I didn't know which moments belonged to the show and which ones never existed at all. But one thing was clear, I was just a part of his performance.

Before He Chose Me Louis loved Violet first. Everyone knew it. She was his soulmate, his future, the woman he was supposed to marry. He had already bought the ring and planned the life they would build together. But before he could ask her to spend forever with him, Violet disappeared without a trace. Months passed. Searches ended. Hope faded. And Louis was left with nothing but grief and the memory of the woman he lost. Isabelle was the only person who understood his pain. She had lost her best friend too, and somewhere between shared heartbreak and lonely nights, they became each other's comfort. When Isabelle discovered she was pregnant, Louis did what he believed was right. He married her. For three years, Isabelle built a life around a love she desperately wanted to believe was real. They had a home. They had a daughter. They had moments where she thought he loved her fully now. He did love her,but not in way she wanted. He loved her halfly,while the other was till with Violet. Then Violet came home. Alive. Changed. And still carrying the heart Louis thought he had buried. Now Isabelle must face the truth she always feared: she was never the woman Louis chose first. But this time, she has a choice of her own. She can keep fighting for a love that was built from someone else's absence... Or she can finally choose herself.

For three years, Elaris believed love was enough. Enough to survive the whispers about her past. Enough to build a future together. Enough to keep every promise he ever made. She was wrong. The man who swore to marry her became another woman's husband overnight. When she demanded an explanation, he begged her to wait, insisting it was only an arrangement to save his family's empire. Then, just days later, he looked into a camera and denied she had ever meant anything to him. That was the day Elaris disappeared. Years later, the woman he abandoned has built a life no one expected her to have. She wants nothing from the man who broke her, not his apologies, not his regrets, and certainly not his love. But some secrets refuse to stay buried. As the past comes crashing back into her carefully rebuilt world, Elaris must decide whether she will keep running from the life that once shattered her... or finally embrace the one waiting to choose her without hesitation. Because sometimes, love was never enough.

How does someone disappear? How do you start over where no one knows who you are? Where your past can't find you? Losing both parents a young age, then shuffled through the system, Gabby learned to stand tall and weather any storm. She didn't begrudge her past, rather regarded it as what made her strong, giving her the ability to face challenges rather than run away. With no attachments, after obtaining an advanced degree and licensing as a Nurse Practitioner, Gabby was on the hunt for new adventures. One took her to New York City, where she worked for a family she was certain was involved with the Mafia. She knew to ask no questions and made it a point to hear nothing. When the five-month assignment ended, she moved on to the next adventure: Boston. In Boston, she found something unexpected: a (grand)father figure. Caring for Bernard Driscoll, a self-made billionaire, was a dream come true. Conversations with Bernard were deep, he listened and gave advice like a grandfather. She genuinely loved him. It would have been a perfect assignment if not for his unredeemable grandson, Sebastian. Sebastian Driscoll was driven man, determined to make his grandfather proud by growing the family business. A phenom in business, his love life was a disaster. His penchant for dating fake women that were only after his wealth had driven a wedge between the two Driscolls. At his wits' end, Bernard set a plan in motion. After persuasion and a little coercion, he convinced Gabby and Sebastian to marry. In their mind, it was never meant to last, and love wasn't part of the equation. Until it was. But when Bernard's health failed and he passed, Sebastian changed into someone Gabby didn't recognize and their relationship imploded. After a disastrous dinner party, Gabby received a text photo of Sebastian with another woman. She was done. With public opinion painting her as the villain, Gabby used her New York connections to disappear without a trace.

Jane Sinclair runs the family bookshop, lives above it in contented independence, and has spent the past year building a careful conviction: that the newly arrived village doctor - starchy and correct with everyone else - is entirely different with her, and that the difference means something. Dr. Thomas Langley likes Jane enormously. He simply hasn't worked out yet what enormously actually means. She's warm, outgoing, and likes to argue - nothing at all like the composed, correct sort of woman he's always assumed he was meant to end up with. So when a beautiful, well-connected socialite arrives in the village for the summer, looking like everything he supposedly wants, Thomas is intrigued -- and Jane begins to think she may have misjudged her handsome village doctor.