Some secrets are built into the very walls we inhabit. When a young woman enters the legendary, labyrinthine manor designed by a reclusive genius, she expects a masterpiece of design. Instead, she finds a house that breathes with shadows and whispers of a past that refuses to stay buried. In a house designed for silence, the truth is the loudest thing of all.

Kiara Dempsey is one of the very best architects in the world. She is beautiful, smart and in her own way a hopeless romantic. She could not wait to meet her human, the one who was for her, the one she was made to love. Kieran King is a multibillionaire and a workaholic. He is the opposite of Kiara in that he isn't looking for love and it isn't something he looks forward to. He is indifferent about love. The world has a weird way of making things work and this was one of those scenarios.

"I can love you better than the way I loved him.... I just need time to have my better me." 21st of febuary 2017 #JustWriteIt

**In 1960, the perfect wife is built the same way the perfect house is built - with invisible walls and silent foundations.** Evelyn Sterling has spent ten years mastering the art of disappearing in plain sight. She wears the emerald silk her husband chooses, smiles at the right moments, and keeps her voice soft enough not to disturb the men discussing empires over cigars. Arthur Sterling is building a legacy - a five-hundred-acre estate that will make the valley bow. Evelyn is simply expected to arrange the furniture once the roof is on. Then Julian Vance arrives. He is young, rough-edged, and dangerously honest. The architect Arthur hires to design his monument doesn't believe in Doric columns or impressive facades. He believes a house should breathe. That it should let the light in. That silence can be designed. While Arthur demands columns that project power, Julian and Evelyn begin building something else entirely - hidden in the blueprints, tucked behind library walls, sealed inside dead space that doesn't exist on any permit. A room where the world stops. Where her husband's voice cannot reach. As the Blackwood estate rises from the earth, so does the dangerous, electric understanding between the architect and the woman he was never supposed to see. Every stolen conversation over curling blueprint paper, every measured glance across the ridge, every secret they carve into the stone together pulls them deeper into a love that cannot be permitted to exist. Because Arthur Sterling always wins. And the house he is building is meant to last forever. In a world of load-bearing lies and hidden voids, how long can two people keep something this real... invisible?

Will Travis Remember his past? Or will he forever forget with his love easy to bloom yet early to end?. How will they meet eachother again?. Who's that girl? Who's she in travis life?. Will Travis knows the truth?.

The Space Between Us Not everything between two people is meant to stay empty. Rubi, 25, has always been good at staying where she feels safe. As a junior architect, she understands how to shape spaces-how distance, light, and structure can make something feel right. But when it comes to people, she has never known where she belongs. She has been close before. Just never chosen. Never stayed. Until Elian. A senior architect who doesn't say much, but notices the things she tries to hide-her hesitation, her quiet way of holding back, and the ideas she never fully trusts. With him, the space between them doesn't feel empty. It feels... possible. But not all distances are meant to be crossed. Because Vira has been standing closer for much longer- and she's not ready to step aside. Between unspoken feelings, shifting boundaries, and the fear of repeating the same story- Rubi is faced with something she has never truly done before: closing the distance... or learning how to live with it.

She was hired to design a house. What she didn't expect was the client. Alexander Javier Gomez is a powerful CEO who looks at her like she's someone he's been searching for. The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the connection between them-or the strange feeling that they've met before. Then secrets begin to surface. A house that feels familiar. Memories that don't belong. A past no one will talk about. And one question she can't stop asking: Why does it feel like everyone knows something she doesn't?

Yusuf Mahmud has spent his life designing buildings that can withstand time, weather, and weight. Love, he discovers, follows no blueprint. When the Nigerian architect accepts an international project, he never expects it to change his life forever. There, he meets Elena Ward, a gifted American interior designer whose warmth challenges everything he thought he knew about fate. Despite differences in culture, faith, and the doubts of those around them, they build a marriage that feels unshakable. Then tragedy enters their home. Grief settles where laughter once lived. Words begin to mean different things. Silence grows louder than love. As old wounds reopen and unfamiliar voices creep into their marriage, Yusuf finds himself fighting for a relationship he no longer understands. Until one morning, a knock at the door changes everything. Far from home, separated from his family, and trapped inside a system that has already decided who he is, Yusuf must confront a painful question: How do you prove the truth when the people you love no longer recognize it? Cross Border is a deeply emotional novel about love that crosses continents, the quiet ways grief reshapes people, the price of misunderstanding, and the extraordinary strength it takes to forgive when forgiveness seems impossible.

ARCHITECT OF YOU - BOOK II Concrete Lines Six months have passed since the look that never meant anything-and somehow meant everything. Evan Brooks should be celebrating. His team just pulled off the impossible, winning a project everyone thought was already lost. The future finally looks bright. So why does every victory seem to bring him closer to the one person he should keep his distance from? Cole Shaw is still impossible to understand. Brilliant. Infuriating. The kind of man who can spend hours criticizing a parking garage and somehow leave Evan thinking about him long after the conversation ends. A train ride home. A birthday neither of them quite acknowledges. A gift so small it should mean nothing-and yet refuses to leave Evan's hands. The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the quiet moments hidden between deadlines, teasing remarks, and professional boundaries. And when admiration starts feeling dangerously close to something else, Evan is forced to confront a truth he's spent years avoiding. Because some lines are drawn in concrete. And some are slowly disappearing beneath his feet. But if Shaw is finally stepping closer, why does it still feel like neither of them knows where the line ends? ✦ MM Romance ✦ Boylove ✦ Gay Stories ✦ Slow Burn ✦ Boss × Employee ✦ Workplace Romance ✦ Found Family ✦ New York City ✦ Green Flag ML ✦ Emotional Addiction Guaranteed

The Wife He Ruined By RuinsAndRoses He ruined her name. Her marriage. Her career. Everyone believed the lie-that Jane Sinclair was jealous, unstable, and desperate to destroy the people closest to her. So she disappeared quietly, carrying the weight of a betrayal she never deserved. But when hidden files begin to surface, Jane discovers that her downfall was never an accident. Someone stole her work. Someone betrayed her from the inside. And someone powerful has started searching for the truth. Now, the wife they ruined is no longer staying silent. As long-buried secrets begin to unravel and dangerous names emerge from the shadows, Jane is pulled into a world of lies, ambition, betrayal... and a man who may know far more about her past than he should. They took everything from her. Now she's coming back for the truth. And this time... she won't be the one who loses. © Copyright Notice This story is an original work by RuinsAndRoses. All rights reserved. Do not copy, repost, translate, adapt, or reproduce any part of this story without my written permission. Please respect my work and creativity.