What do you call a 26-year-old woman trying to make it as an artist in a world run by deadlines, AI, and luxury branding? Someone who's barely making rent, still hasn't had her first kiss, and has been hopelessly in love with the same boy since she was sixteen? You call her Piper Collins. Once the quiet girl who loved her friend in silence, from airport meet-cutes to high school popularity. He was her person, her safe space... just never hers to keep. Now, ten years later, fate threw them back together. He's no longer just Nick-he's Nicholas Verlice, heir to a business empire and her new client. Their friendship is starting to look a lot like something more. And Piper's only rule? Don't fall for him again. But with every stolen touch and lingering glance... that's getting harder to remember.

I loved her first. She married him anyway. Ten years later, she showed up at my door, broken, betrayed, begging for help to leave the husband who threw her away. She thinks I'm being kind. Helping an old friend. She doesn't know I've been waiting. She never knew how I loved her. Never knew I watched her wedding from the back of the church. Never knew she was the reason I buried my heart so deep even I forgot where. Now she's back. Vulnerable. Trusting. Asking the one man who never stopped wanting her to help her walk away from someone else. This time? I'm not letting her go.

Leighton Katmere chose to jump off the roof of the tallest building on campus at 3:04 a.m., but she didn't choose to be saved. Ronan Fitch was everything Leighton didn't trust, rich, reckless, gorgeous, and infamous for never taking anything seriously, but the night he pulled her back from the edge, he didn't leave. He kept showing up, he kept choosing her, and somehow, in a house full of chaotic frat boys, a very grumpy cat, and late night pancakes, Leighton started to feel something she hadn't felt in a long time: Safe. And when he found the list, scribbled like to her future self, full of small, impossible things she never thought she'd live long enough to do, Ronan decided they were going to start crossing it off. One by one. But surviving the night doesn't erase what came before. It doesn't fix the scars Leighton hides under sleeves, or the rumors that cling to Ronan. It doesn't stop the people who still think they get to touch her life, and when the campus finally shows its teeth, Leighton realizes safety can be taken as easily as it's given. Ronan wants her anyway, patiently, like he's not afraid of the messy parts, quiet promises and a hand held tight enough to keep her here. Leighton doesn't know how to trust a boy like him. She doesn't know how to be someone's choice, but with every item they cross off, she gets closer to the scariest one of all: Being happy. Even if it's just for a little while.

He left town to chase the NHL dream. He came back six years later to find the girl he ruined... raising a little boy with his blue eyes. Everyone in Wilmington once thought Royce Bennett and Olivia Wells were the kind of love that lasted forever - best friends turned soulmates, golden boy and small-town girl, the couple everyone envied. Until Royce got drafted. One plane ticket. One devastating goodbye. And Olivia was left alone to pick up the pieces of a life he shattered without ever realizing what he was leaving behind. Now Royce is back - older, colder, and one hit away from losing the career he sacrificed everything for. With his body failing, his mother dying, and the spotlight finally fading, Wilmington is the last place he wants to be. Because Olivia Wells still lives there. And she's no longer the soft-hearted girl who begged him to stay. She's guarded. Angry. Beautiful in ways that make him ache. And hiding a secret that changes everything Royce thought he knew about the night he left. The worst part? No matter how badly he broke her... the second they're in the same room again, it still feels like theirs was the kind of love that could ruin lives. Some first loves don't end. They wait. And when they come back? They demand everything.

My life is not a movie... And I am not a main character. Main characters are: • pretty • skinny • effortlessly likeable • mysterious in a cool way • the kind of girls boys fall in love with on sight • the kind of girls who don't spill tea in their bags • the kind of girls whose hair doesn't frizz the second it rains I am none of the above. I'm the girl who walks into college late, gets stared at for all the wrong reasons, and immediately embarrasses herself in front of the hottest boy alive. I'm the girl whose best friend is the pretty one. The girl who smokes under the desk because she has no coping skills. The girl who daydreams about fictional romances because real life feels... empty. And honestly? It's not just college that's a mess. Home isn't safe. My parents aren't the warm, supportive type - more like the type you avoid breathing near. So I escape the only way I know how: maladaptive daydreams, imaginary boyfriends, and pretending my life could be something cinematic. Then Finley Mason walks into my film studies class. Beautiful. Untouchable. Completely unaware I exist. He's everything I'm not. Everything I'll never have. Everything I can only love in my head. But the thing about life is... sometimes the scenes you never planned are the ones that change everything. This isn't a movie. But it might still be a story.

They're rivals who happen to be on the same group. After an argument, she starts texting an unknown number about how much she hates him, not knowing that the person on the other side is none other than him. ***************************************************************************************************************** "Are you sure that boy isn't actually in love with you?" "Ace? No way! But there's something I have something to confess." "What is it, Areyna?" "Really?' "Yeah." Cover made by me. It's not perfect, but you can't copy it!

"You know, you don't have to tell me anything you don't want to." Lane locked eyes with Officer Casey in the mirror without meaning to. "But I'd rather you not lie to me, Miss Mills." Silence hung like a thick smoke as Lane's tongue stuck to the roof of her mouth. "I don't know what you want me to say. I'm sorry." The words were close to a whisper. They passed a gas station she didn't recognize. The inside was dark, like it had been closed for a long time. Lane's chest tightened. "Where are we going?" She asked finally, voice tighter than she meant it to be. That earned her a sharp and fleeting glance, the corner of his mouth turning up just a fraction -- like he was in on a joke she wasn't. "Don't worry. I'll get you where you need to go." ~ All Lane is trying to do is survive in a world that's already failed her. After a childhood spent bouncing between homes, a steady job, a place to lay her head, and a beater to take her from Point A to Point B were the small things she'd fought for. Lane was trying -- she really was. Her life was finally hers, and she intended to keep it that way. But of course, as the saying goes, "Men plan, God laughs." All it took was a glance. Lane froze. And then she ran. It wasn't supposed to be her problem. But the moment those eyes caught hers, she was thrust into a world she'd always tried to avoid. And she'll have to do more than stay quiet to make it out alive. ________________________________________ Completed ✔️ _________________________________________ PREVIOUSLY 'THE PRICE OF SILENCE' Title changed 06/09/2026 Highest Rankings: #1 - Resilience {08/06/2026} #1 - Witness {08/22/2026} #1 - Captivity {08/25/2026} #1 - Strength {09/24/2026} #2 - Hope {09/21/2026} #4 - Faith {09/10/2026} #5 - Taken {10/01/2026} #5 - Fear {10/04/2026} #9 - Control {10/01/2026} #49 - Crime {09/30/2026} #81 - Suspense {10/01/2026}

Callum Marquez has everything he once dreamed of. A captain's armband. A place at the heart of Valemont FC. A career that finally proved everyone wrong. And, most importantly, a life far away from the girl who once broke his heart. Or so he thought. Audrey Bennett has made a career out of telling other people's stories. As a culture journalist, sports is the one world she's always managed to stay away from... until she just so happens to get assigned to spend three months behind the scenes at Valemont FC. Which would be perfectly fine if the club's captain wasn't Callum Marquez. The boy she left. The man she never really forgot. Neither of them is the same person they were years ago, but the feelings between them haven't disappeared quite as easily as they hoped. As old memories resurface and the line between journalist and subject begins to blur, Callum has to decide whether he's willing to risk everything he's built for the one person he's never stopped wanting. And Audrey has to decide whether she's brave enough to stop letting the past-and the people who tore them apart-decide her future. Because sometimes, just like the game, ninety isn't enough. Sometimes, we all need a little extra time.

In a town where the high school football team rules the school, Amelia is just another face in the crowd. Sure, her dad is the football coach but Amelia's idea of "Friday night lights" revolves around studying until lights are out. Trying to impress her father who only knows football and her mother's high expectations, Amelia puts her head down and tries her best to satisfy them. After accidentally ending up at a party one night (without her mother's permission of course), Amelia finds herself thrown into the world of the infuriatingly gorgeous yet arrogant Zack Darrington. Zack was never part of a crowd. He's king of the city: the best running back in the state- if not the entire country. Flirtatious, cocky, and a skilled player in all senses, Amelia is not the type of girl he typically surrounds himself with. Everyone knows Zack Darrington. No one knows Amelia Hayes. Football is his world while she wishes it wasn't a part of hers. At first glance, these two couldn't be more different but deep down, they may be more similar than they think. Highest Rankings: #1 in Fiction #10 in Teen Fiction #3 in Sports #10 in Drama Book 1 in THE COACH'S DAUGHTER trilogy Can be read as a standalone Book 2 OUT NOW

After a sudden hiatus from social media, popular YouTuber Belinda Quincy feels like she has her mojo back and attempts to do something to make it up to her fans. But that's when a mystery girl's music video goes viral. Jealousy creeps in at all the attention the girl starts getting, and in a bid to do something that puts her back as the center of attention, she exposes herself to a cyberbully. Her secrets and personal life take no time in appearing on social media, and her life begins to fall apart. Despite having the boy that's been sending her flirtatious winks by her side, it still feels like everything is over. But what if she's keeping the cyberbully close and doesn't realize it until it's too late? Editors' Pick, July/September 2021. Featured by the Community Team. (Cover by @goldenways)