She was 24, a broke student working nights at a bar. He was 52, a powerful lawyer with a wife, kids, and a life already built. It was supposed to be simple-just stolen hours in hotel rooms, a secret no one could ever know. But secrets have a way of bleeding into the light. Clara thought she could handle being the other woman. She thought she could survive on stolen kisses and whispered promises. But she didn't expect to fall in love. And she never expected how dangerous love could be.

Mica Paul has spent fifteen years loving the one man she could never have, Reese McKeenan, her best friend's boyfriend. From the boy who politely rejected her in high school to the man who chose her best friend, Reese was always just out of reach. But when a devastating car accident kills two of their closest friends and leaves the survivors shattered, Mica makes a choice that costs her everything. To honor a dying promise, she lies under oath, protecting a secret that wasn't hers to keep, and becomes the town's most hated woman overnight. Abandoned by her friends, vilified by strangers, and viciously blamed by the only man she's ever loved, Mica flees with nothing but guilt and a broken heart. Five years later, she's forced to return home to say goodbye to her dying father. The wounds haven't healed. The hatred still burns. Especially Reese's. Their reunion ignites old resentments, buried passion, and a dangerous chemistry neither can deny. Hate turns to heated nights and stolen touches, but when long-buried truths about the night of the crash finally surface, revealing betrayal, affairs, and lies far deeper than Mica ever imagined, Reese's world collapses. The woman he spent years destroying may be the only one who ever truly protected him. Now the man who ruined her life is on his knees, desperate to prove he was wrong. But after everything he's taken from her, her reputation, her friends, her peace, can Mica forgive the love of her life? Or are some mistakes too devastating to overcome? He was her first love. She was his biggest regret. And this time, he'll fight like hell to make her his forever... if she'll let him.

I left my husband two years ago. Unfortunately for me, Damien Blackcrow doesn't believe in things like divorce. Or boundaries. Or laws. Or sanity, honestly. That's why we worked so well together. Until we didn't. Until he got caught in a compromising position. The problem is Damien Blackcrow never understood what the word leave meant. Not when we were married. Not when I moved out. Not when I filed the papers. And definitely not now. The bigger problem? The Crimson Saints MC practically built Crimson Bay's darker corners in blood. People here know when to look away. They know which roads not to drive after midnight. And Damien? My ex-husband-the club's enforcer-keeps showing up looking at me like divorce was just another word for foreplay. Which would be less of a problem if his role didn't come with access to all kinds of extracurricular activities. Like stalking. Black roses on my porch. Masked men outside my windows. Dead women turning up around town. Now Halloween week in Crimson Bay feels less like a holiday and more like a countdown, and the more blood spilled between us, the harder it becomes to tell whether I'm running from my ex-husband... or remembering why I married him in the first place. Note from Graves This isn't a sweet love story. It's a campy Halloween nightmare full of obsession, biker violence, stalking, push and pull, and a woman celebrating her favorite holiday with a body count.

Ellie met Ryder at a local bar. She was with friends, he was with his MC brothers. He charmed her in ways she had not expected. She thought they were enough. But what's the one thing an MC brother could do to make it permanent? It's the one thing he's not willing to do. His first girl didn't read into it. She thought they were just having fun until the "right one" came around. He was going to ask her to be his 'ole lady. Before he could, she broke it off. Now, he has no plans to ever have a woman on the back of his bike again. The Sibling Series Book #1 Past The Betrayal (Kaia & Beast) Book #2 Unseen Connections (Jack & Cyber) Book #3 A Second Chance At Love (Drake & Sara) Steel Riders MC Crossovers: Book #4 Good Enough (Ryder & Ellie)

What are you doing here all alone? I was going crazy looking for you for the last fifteen minutes. What the hell, Ella? You know I hate it when you disappear on me like that." Jerking me towards him, he caught me in a very tight hug, almost cutting off my air. "Hey, did you just sniff me?" I gasped. "I did. Your smell calms me," Mason husked. Pushing him away, I looked up at him. "Your heart is racing," I rasped as I placed my hand on his chest, feeling the hard plane of his chest under the smooth fabric of his shirt. "Were you really panicked?" I smiled mischievously. "What if one day I leave you?" Before I could finish the sentence, he had me pinned against the wall, his head buried in my hair. "I would find you even if I had to go to the pit of hell," he said. "And what if you can't find me?" I asked. "I will kill myself because I can't imagine a world without you by my side," he replied without hesitation. My husband loves me. Even when his family pressured him to choose. He chose me, he chose us. After 10 years of marriage, when I couldn't give him the family we had dreamed of under the starry sky, with his head resting on my lap, he never once made me feel inadequate or less. We were enough for each other until her. The evidence was devastating: late-night "work" calls that lingered too long, hotel receipts, photos that made my stomach drop. When did he let go of my hand? When did he break the promises he made with me? He hasn't changed; he still can't keep his hands to himself, he still looks at me with the same intensity, same passion, same love. So why? Why did he do it? I always believed our love was different-untouchable, forged in the kind of devotion that poets write about and time cannot erode. But I guess I was wrong. #Strongfemale #Owdrama #Cheating #Marriageintrouble #Affair #Betrayal #Possessive #Jealoushero

Arabella thought she had the perfect life. A loving fiancé. A future she couldn't wait to begin. A man she trusted with her whole heart. But she felt the distance and tries to Bridge the gap. That's the night she walked into his office and found him kissing another woman. Heartbroken, Arabella flees, only to be struck by a car moments later. When she wakes up in the hospital, everyone believes she's lost her memory-including the man who shattered her world. Maverick is devastated, desperate to make things right, and willing to do anything to earn back the woman he loves. What he doesn't know is that Arabella remembers everything. The betrayal. The lies. The kiss. And she's not ready to forgive him. Pretending to have amnesia gives Arabella the perfect opportunity to watch the people around her reveal their true colours. But as Maverick fights to prove that one terrible mistake doesn't define his love for her, the line between revenge and forgiveness begins to blur. Because some wounds run too deep to heal. And some loves refuse to die. TROPES: - OWD - Cheating (kiss & inappropriate work relationship) - Fake amnesia - Grovel

Aria Callahan already survived the worst day of her life. Three years ago, the Army knocked on her door and told her her husband was gone and that he had been killed in action. The love of her life was reduced to a folded flag and condolences that never felt real. Everyone told her to move on. She didn't. Instead, she built a career as a nurse. She learned how to save strangers while quietly carrying a grief no one could touch. Chase was more than her husband. He was the boy who chose her when the world didn't. The man who promised forever before war stole him away. Then the impossible happens. Chase is found alive in New Zealand. But he isn't the man who left. Now he's Will. He has no memory of Aria. No memory of their life. And he's married to the woman who helped him heal after escaping unspeakable captivity. As pieces of his past begin to surface, three hearts are caught in a battle between memory and love, loyalty and choice. Aria must decide if she can survive watching her husband love someone else. Will must face the truth of who he was... and who he has become. Because sometimes love doesn't die. It waits. And this time, losing him again might destroy her for good.

Danny Verdago - recruited straight from the Military and trained to become a highly specialised undercover operative. For eight years, he's devoted his life to a single case- one that has demanded everything and cost him more than he ever imagined. What Danny never planned for was Tia. For the past four years, she's been his wife, his rock, and the one constant in a life built on secrets. She's the reason every sacrifice has been worth it and the reason he's ready to walk away from his career. Now, one final undercover deployment, the climax of everything he's worked for stands between Danny and the desk job that promises a future beyond the secrets and the double life. But as the operation hurtles toward its end, Danny is dragged deeper into the life he's spent years trying to keep separate. With the case closing in and the stakes higher than ever, he faces an impossible choice. How far is he willing to go to finish the mission he's sacrificed so much for? This time, the price of success won't be measured in years, careers, or half truths. It could cost him Tia, the family they've dreamed of, and everything that truly matters to him.

Before Marlowe Ackerman goes away to Brown University, she does the bravest thing she's ever done. She confesses to her best friend, Oliver Abbott, that she is in love with him. And Oliver breaks her heart gently. To him, Marlowe is his safe place. His best friend. The one person who has always been there for him. His feelings for her have never changed, and he is certain they never will. At eighteen, Oliver is desperate for a fresh start after years of being the awkward, gangly dork. Parties, girls, fraternity life, reinvention-he wants everything he thinks college is supposed to give him. But once he gets there, nothing feels right without Marlowe. While she thrives at Brown, Oliver falls apart. He fails classes, wakes up hungover, surrounds himself with the wrong people, and slowly realizes the reason his feelings for Marlowe never changed is because he has loved her all along. But he's too late. When he goes to tell her, he finds her in bed with her boyfriend, Sam. Jealousy and heartbreak make him spit ugly, cruel words he will regret for the rest of his life. Marlowe ends their friendship for good. Ten years later, Oliver has changed. He is a history teacher at their old high school, a wrestling coach, and a man who has spent a decade learning from the worst mistake of his life. When he hears that Marlowe Ackerman is coming back to town for their high school reunion, Oliver knows better than to think he deserves a second chance. But he wants one. Not just to tell Marlowe he still loves her. To show her he has become someone worthy of loving her the way she deserves. He was her almost. Maybe now, he can be her always.

They say we have the perfect life. A powerful surgeon. A respected doctor. A beautiful home. A child. And a marriage everyone admires. Our marriage was never built on love. It started with a mistake. However I wouldn't dare to call our son a mistake... We live together. We share a life. But we are not really together. He is cold, distant, and always in control. Everyone respects him. Everyone admires him. Even me. But he has never loved me. And sometimes... I wonder if he ever will.