New and improved version of Kiss and Tell is now published by W by Wattpad Books under a new name "As Long As You Love Me". The book is available for order now, link in the chapter inside. As Wattpad reader you can access the original version- Kiss and Tell right here! *** Cata and Gabe are college and internship rivals. But when Cata's visa renewal is rejected, will their fake-dating-to-marriage-of-convenience turn into the real thing? *** Cata is a Venezuelan immigrant who left home after her brother was killed in a political protest. Now a college senior, she has her eyes set on a full-time position at the company where she interns so she can stay in the US. There's only one catch: Puerto Rican Gabe, aka the campus babe. Gabe has it all, and he's poised to snatch the coveted full-time position for himself. But when Gabe breaks up with his girlfriend and needs a date for his brother's wedding, he and Cata strike up an arrangement: a fake date for a very real job. It's all fun and games until Cata's visa renewal is rejected, threatening to bring all her plans crashing down. Will their fake-dating-to-marriage-of-convenience turn into the real thing? [[Word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Jill Caldwell ©2020-present marianna leal / hubrism. This body of work is available exclusively on Wattpad. If you're viewing it on a different website or under a different username, it has been illegally stolen and you may be at risk of malware. Please notify the original author.

Beneath Quiet Silk follows Kang Jiwoon, a serious and hardworking young man whose life has been shaped by poverty, abuse, and survival. Orphaned early and adopted by someone who treated him as a burden rather than family, Jiwoon grows up carrying deep psychological scars especially around food, after years of trauma disguised as care. He trusts only what he can earn for himself, working relentlessly through exhaustion just to survive another day. But after a tragic accident on his way home from work, Jiwoon awakens in the body of Ren Haewon, the missing youngest son of a powerful noble family in a historical world, presumed dead after vanishing for months following an assassination attempt. Suddenly surrounded by silk robes, lavish halls, and a family that never stopped searching for him, Jiwoon is thrust into a life of privilege he never asked for. Yet beneath House Ren's wealth lies political danger, buried conspiracies, and unanswered questions about Haewon's disappearance. As his mother's gentle care terrifies him, his brothers' fierce devotion confuses him, and court physicians begin to notice wounds no one can see, Jiwoon must navigate not only a deadly world of assassins and secrets but also the terrifying possibility of being loved. Haunted by the past, hunted in the present, and trapped between survival and belonging, Jiwoon's journey becomes one of healing, brotherhood, and uncovering the truth behind both his new life and the scars he carried from the old one. In a world draped in elegance, where silk conceals both power and pain, one broken boy must decide whether home is something he can finally claim... or something he was never meant to keep.

At twenty-seven, Sienna, Camille, Naomi, Jade, and Harper have everything under control. Successful careers. Carefully planned futures. Strong families. A friendship that has survived university, demanding jobs, heartbreak, promotions, and every bad decision in between. The only thing they no longer trust is romance. So they make a pact. For three years, until they turn thirty, none of them will date. No secret relationships. No returning to an ex. No distractions. They will focus on their careers, protect their friendship, and prove that love is not necessary for a woman to build a complete life. It should have been simple. One by one, all five women break the pact. And none of them admits it. Each believes she is the only traitor. Soon, flowers are blamed on clients, thoughtful gifts become corporate rewards, family introductions are disguised as business meetings, and respectable men with serious careers are forced to pretend they are consultants, vendors, neighbours, and complete strangers. The women may be experts in law, architecture, media, business, and technology, but when it comes to hiding love from one another, they are absolutely terrible. As the three-year deadline approaches, their careers are thriving, their relationships are becoming serious, and the lies are growing impossible to maintain. Because falling in love was never the real problem. The real problem was believing they had to hide it. Fifth Avenue is a clean adult romantic comedy about five successful women, five good men, one impossible promise, and the beautifully ridiculous chaos that follows when friendship, ambition, family, and love all collide.

At thirty, Seren Whitlock is the woman everyone applauds. An award-winning creative director, Seren has built a life wrapped in elegance, reputation, luxury campaigns, boardroom victories, magazine interviews, and golden trophies. To the world, she is brilliant. Untouchable. The kind of woman who wins. Her best friend, Elodie Maren, has built her own beautiful life too. A respected designer and gallery owner, Elodie turns grief into art, lives in a city apartment filled with quiet memories, and is loved deeply by her devoted fiancé. After losing her parents young and her grandmother at twenty, Elodie found family in Seren's home in loud dinners, warm arguments, and the people who never let her feel completely alone. From the outside, both women seem to have everything. Then Seren suddenly quits her job and returns to Elodie's life, claiming she only wants to rest. At first, it feels like old times. There is laughter in the gallery after closing, teasing over bad coffee, family dinners full of chaos, and the comfort of two best friends remembering who they were before success made them tired. But slowly, the truth begins to show. Seren forgets familiar streets. She misses appointments she planned herself. She hides hospital visits beneath designer sleeves. She faints in the middle of a private exhibition. And the woman who once controlled every room begins losing control of herself. Glass Laurels is a mature, emotional novel about friendship, romance, family, ambition, illness, comedy, and the quiet heartbreak behind a life everyone applauds. It is a story about successful women who learn that achievement cannot protect the heart, love is not always enough to save someone, and sometimes the most fragile things are the ones that shine the brightest.

Everyone thought Aveline Hart was lucky. Beautiful, fair-skinned, hazel-eyed, intelligent, and deeply loved by her family, she seemed to have the kind of life people could only dream of. She was the beloved daughter, the excellent student, the graceful girl who smiled even when the world was unkind. But being almost perfect came with a price. People admired her, then judged her. They praised her, then searched for her flaws. Friends became strangers. Kindness was mistaken for arrogance. Silence was mistaken for pride. No matter how carefully Aveline lived, someone always found a reason to hurt her. In high school, she once had a quiet crush on Theodore Hayes, the boy everyone admired. He was intelligent, serious, respected, and one year older than her. To Aveline, he was impossible to reach, so she buried her feelings and moved on with her life. Years later, Aveline is thirty and working at a research center. She has achieved success, but love and friendship have never stayed. Around her, people still judge, whisper, and misunderstand her. She begins to believe that maybe the world will always be against her. Then Theodore returns. Now a respected university professor, Theodore Hayes is no longer just the unreachable boy from her past. He is calm, mature, and certain of what he wants. When their lives cross again, he sees the pain behind Aveline's smile and the loneliness she has hidden for years. And unlike everyone else, Theodore does not leave. As he slowly enters her guarded heart, Aveline must learn whether she can trust a love that feels too sincere to be real. But Theodore is not interested in a temporary romance. He wants her future, her broken pieces, her quiet fears, and the life she never believed someone would choose. A heartfelt romance about family, friendship, healing, and a woman who spent her life being misunderstood-until one man finally chose to stay.

Some alarms ring too late. Some hearts never stop answering. Kieran Ashford lives his life running toward danger. As a rescue captain, he faces collapsing buildings, highway disasters, chemical fires, flooded tunnels, and emergencies where every second can decide who lives and who dies. To his team, he is a fearless leader. To the people he saves, he is a hero. But behind his calm voice and steady hands, Kieran carries wounds no one can see. Dr. Mira Langley knows what it means to fight death from the other side of the sirens. In the emergency room, she saves strangers with blood on her gloves and fear in her chest. She is strong, brilliant, and guarded - a woman who has learned that not every life can be saved, no matter how hard she tries. When disaster keeps forcing Kieran and Mira into each other's path, their worlds begin to collide. He enters the danger. She waits to bring the victims back. Between smoke, sirens, trauma rooms, and sleepless nights, something fragile begins to grow between them. But love is not easy when both hearts are carrying old pain. As emergencies become more dangerous and Kieran's rescue team faces one life-threatening mission after another, Mira begins to understand the true cost of his uniform - the brotherhood, the sacrifice, and the fear of loving someone who may not come home. Then one rescue goes terribly wrong. Kieran is trapped beneath a collapse, fighting for his life, while Mira is forced to face the possibility of losing the man who has become her safest place. A gripping rescue romance filled with danger, heartbreak, brotherhood, healing, and hope - The Hollow Alarm is a story about heroes who run toward disaster, the people who wait for them, and the love that teaches them how to come home.

Evelyn Shen has built a flawless life from sleepless nights, impossible expectations, and a career she cannot afford to lose. As the manager of a prestigious hotel, she knows how to solve every crisis with a perfect smile. Yet behind closed doors, chronic migraines and insomnia reveal how close she is to falling apart. After the man she trusted betrayed her, Evelyn stopped believing that love could exist without a price. Her parents, however, are determined to arrange the respectable future they believe she owes them. When her worsening health brings her to Dr. Adrian He, a quietly perceptive traditional medicine physician, she expects a prescription, not someone capable of seeing through every excuse she makes. Adrian has also abandoned love after learning how easily promises can be broken. But when they discover they live in the same community, chance meetings gradually become shared meals, midnight conversations, and a tenderness neither is prepared to name. Just as Evelyn begins choosing the life she truly wants, her former boyfriend returns with the power to threaten her career, while her parents place their approval beyond her reach. Caught between the perfect future chosen for her and the imperfect happiness she has found for herself, Evelyn must decide whether protecting her heart is worth losing the one person who never asked her to pretend.

Nathaniel Cross had loved Celeste Arden long before she ever knew his name beyond the popular boy everyone admired. Fourteen years later, an unexpected reunion and one nervously requested phone number turn two familiar strangers into inseparable friends. Between awkward messages, demanding careers, family laughter and quiet acts of devotion, Nathaniel becomes the person who always stays. But when devastating loss leaves Celeste struggling to recognise her own life, friendship begins to feel dangerously like love. He fell first, from a distance. She fell later, with everything she had.

When up-and-coming fashion mogul Luna learns her company is on the brink of financial ruin, she strikes a business deal with self-made billionaire consultant Colton, who also happens to be her sworn enemy. Standalone in The Billionaire's Sweet Trouble series *** As the co-owner of a rising fashion company and daughter of a billionaire, everything appears to be going right for Luna Stavrakos. She's partnered in business with her dashing fiancé, Barry, and set for global expansion. But when financial challenges in the company pose a threat to their future, Luna desperately searches for a business consultant to navigate the storm. Who she doesn't expect to find is charming, strikingly handsome billionaire Colton Treble. The only problem? Colton is Luna's sworn enemy, and the last person Luna wants to work with. Colton's held a flame for Luna since college, even though he's buried it with playboy antics. When he discovers Luna is engaged to Barry, a man he knows has bad intentions, he promptly agrees to help save her business-and save Luna from her engagement in the process. As they're forced to work long hours together, their intense animosity shifts into something deeper. But with Colton lying about his true plan, will Luna get the fairy tale ending she's been chasing in business and in love, or will everything crumble around her?

Lady Sarah Emiline Lucia needs to hide her identity for fear that mobs will kill her and her family after her uncle-Napoleon Bonaparte-is exiled to Melba. She is sent to Hampshire, England, to stay with friends of her father. To stay safe, she must play the role of her maid while her maid assumes Lady Sarah's identity. Complications arise when she meets the very handsome man, and she suddenly wants him to look at her as a real woman, not a servant. Protecting her life, however, is more important than confessing the truth Gabriel Lawrence's pirate ship is almost captured, and this time it was too close. He and his crew need to hide for a few months in hopes that Napoleon's men who seek revenge will soon forget about him. During his stay at his aunt and uncle's in Hampshire, he meets his enemy's niece. Because she doesn't know who Gabe is, he will become close to her to see if she knows any more of her uncle's secrets. But the beauty of her companion, Miss Emmie, captures his attention, and her quirky personality keeps him wanting more. But her over-zealous nature for adventure places both of them in danger, and he's forced to play the honorable rogue. How can he protect them both when an unknown spy is always one step ahead...and wants Gabe dead? Content warning: This story contains a mild amount of violence, and a kidnapping scene... along with plenty of falling in love.