After a steamy night of passion with a stranger, Lesra is finally ready to throw away her old carefree habits to become a surrogate to a couple who cannot conceive. But what happens when the same stranger she slept with is the father of the surrogate baby she will be carrying? Tensions will run high in this story of lust, lost and the true meaning of a mothers love.

**WINNER of The People's Choice Watty Award** Finn Harlow met his soulmate in kindergarten, but fate wasn't kind and she ended up marring his best friend. After years of watching in silent agony, he's certain he's met a girl who can finally mend his broken heart--until he finds her in the arms of her lover. In walks Holden Drake; dark, mysterious, and dripping in confidence. All the things Finn wishes he was. He promises to turn Finn into a modern-day Casanova and offers a guarantee that no woman will leave Finn again. But something about Holden doesn't seem right and the deeper Finn pries, the more he stumbles into a world of sex and scandal, leaving him forced to decide if he will risk it all to chase his first love, or succumb to the invitation and join Holden's club.

Emily found solace in a small mountain town five years ago, though after running into an amnesiac on the side of the road, her old life makes a resurgence. ***** Emily has been hiding from her past for five years in a remote mountain lodge - until the night she nearly runs over an injured man on the side of the road. North has amnesia, and while he recuperates at the lodge, he and Emily can't seem to ignore the growing chemistry between them. There are just two problems: without his memories, North doesn't know who he really is or what he's left behind. And Emily can't risk leaving her safe haven to face the world she's hiding from once his memories return. Content/Triggering Warning: this story contains scenes of sexual and physical abuse, violence, sexual content, and mentions of suicide and mental health. [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Lily Taylor

After parking the car and getting out to lock it foot steps padded across the pavement to a blue door knocking three times was followed. The door opened and it revealed a woman, who was once smaller but now her body was more pronounced with curves: her bust was bigger, and her hips wider, thighs thicker, but face still as beautiful. She lost none of her glamor but in fact it was enhanced with the curves. There was a shine in her cheeks but dimmed, and her eyes lost the beautiful gleam that was once in them on the daily basis. "Baby, who's that?" The one on the outside of the door heard the very familiar voice and his eyes widened when the man's voice he knew since he was younger came around the corner. Catastrophe exploded as the two men were battling throwing fists. "Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!" The female who answered the door yelled. That voice didn't help anything until a cry came from the room stopping the entire fight. "Mamma!" the baby boy cried running over to his mother's legs holding on tight. The woman knelt down and picked the boy up. That stopped both the men allowing them to separate. A woman appeared from out of the kitchen with a baby on her hip. Then another boy around the same age came around the corner and held onto the first woman's leg looking at the intruder. He looked at the man then the woman, "Mamma who's that man?" The intruder looked at the boy at the first woman's feet then at the boy in her arms and realized his most detrimental mistake in his life. He left his family.

The chain of hearts is longer than we can all imagine. Hearts that have been broken, hearts that belong together and hearts that simply need fixing. But they are always linked together somehow. This applies perfectly to Asia Henderson, whose life is turned upside down when she is introduced to her roommate's boyfriend, the last person she thought she would ever see. BW/WM INTERRACIAL PAIRING.

Knox Reid has the ingredients for a great life. He's got money, looks, and the best career a man like him could ask for. And yet, he's still not happy. Behind closed doors, Knox has got a secret that no one knows about--he wouldn't dare tell a soul about it--and it's mentally and emotionally draining him. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aiden Richter is an artist on the come up. What better place to help her get her art out there than Grotesque, one of the biggest art agencies in America? When she gets to Grotesque, she's intrigued by the agency's handsome chairman and the charming way that he carries himself... *Unedited Story*