Pendant dix-neuf ans, Annabella, que tout le monde appelle Bella, a grandi avec deux hommes sur lesquels elle pouvait toujours compter : son père, Henry, et Zaack, son meilleur ami... mais aussi son parrain. Depuis la mort de sa mère, emportée par un cancer lorsqu'elle n'avait que cinq ans, Zaack a toujours été présent. Protecteur, rassurant, presque un second père. Puis, du jour au lendemain, il est parti. Deux années. Une mission militaire classée secret défense. Aucun appel. Aucune explication. Pendant son absence, Bella a traversé les pires épreuves de sa vie, et la personne dont elle avait le plus besoin n'était plus là. Aujourd'hui, Zaack est enfin de retour. Mais les retrouvailles n'ont rien de celles qu'ils avaient imaginées. Entre colère, blessures, culpabilité et secrets, les années ont tout changé... eux les premiers. Parce que parfois, les mots qu'on n'a jamais osé se dire finissent par tout bouleverser.

It's a simple ache, this yearning of mine, And it sits behind my ribs, breathing when I think about you. cover by @doewitch !! © flawsvme, 2026

When she comes home for summer, the one man who makes her feel safe is the one she can never have-her father's best friend, Frank Castle. Older, scarred, and fiercely protective, Frank tries to keep his distance. But in the hazy heat of long summers and stolen moments, forbidden desire begins to unravel them both. A slow-burn age-gap romance thick with tension, tenderness, and dangerous temptation. TW: heavy smutt, swearing, alcohol, cheating mentioned, age gaps, sex, slight violence.

There was something about the town of Ganford that made people stay. Maybe it was the burnt orange skies of the desert, or the state route that stretched across it. Everybody knew everybody. Everybody had their secrets. Lily Campbell spent 22 years of her life learning them. Ganford made people predictable. Except for one man. Foster Harrigan came and went with the seasons. The Campbells have been family friends with Foster longer than Lily could remember. After years of silence surrounding the mysteries of the town, Lily digs deeper, only to continuously run into the man who secretly ran Ganford.

Allie has lived next door to Jon for as long as she can remember. He's always been just... there, the quiet house beyond the fence line, the man who keeps to himself, the one who never quite joins the rest of the world. Now she's freshly twenty-one, and everything feels different. He's thirty-five, a retired actor who left Hollywood behind for a quieter life, and he still doesn't belong to anyone, or at least that's what he seems to want people to believe. But distance has a way of changing shape when you've spent years growing up just out of reach of someone.