Hannah is visiting Allie in New York, Dean is visiting Garrett in Boston. After Garrett's win, Hannah sends him a congratulatory text, and at the encouragement of Allie, the conversation gets spicier. Garrett, coached by Dean, responds in kind. Who will break first? Story told from the perspective of Hannah and Garrett, with small interludes from Dean & Allie's POV.

Hannah Wells is 37 weeks pregnant with twins, exhausted, emotional, and absolutely over being pregnant. While her fiancé, hockey star Garrett Graham, is away during a road series before the Stanley Cup playoffs, Hannah ends up labeled high-risk after falling down her porch steps and bruising her hip. Garrett immediately goes into overprotective mode, insisting she stay home and rest while their friends keep an eye on her. But Hannah hates sitting still. Determined to reclaim even a tiny bit of independence, she sneaks out for ice cream while Garrett is still on the road-only for him to catch her in the grocery store. Their argument is filled with bickering, teasing, and the kind of love that only comes from years together. Garrett is terrified something could happen to Hannah or the babies, while Hannah struggles with feeling trapped inside her own body and tired of everyone treating her like glass.

request Open! -Garrett Graham -Dean Di Laurentis -John Logan

In chapter 16 of The Deal (Off Campus 1), Hannah and Garrett have their first kiss, initially motivated by a dare. Their kiss is interrupted by Dean. Hannah, mortified, then kisses Dean to throw him off of the scent of her desire for Garrett. The next chapter (17) describes Hannah and Garretts lingering desire for each other following that kiss, but I have always wondered, what would happen if they had an opportunity to finish that kiss and address the Dean interruption? So I wrote one. Enjoy!

This is a story of obsession that feels like protection, dominance that masks fear, and longing that survives even when love fails. In this book, Ates love too fiercely and say too little. Mercan feel too deeply and wait too long. Between them lie moments that could have changed everything but didn't. Graveyard confessions, late-night drives heavy with unsaid truths, stolen touches that linger longer than words, every story captures a fragment of a love that was never simple. This book is not about happy endings. It is about almosts, afters, and what remains. For readers who believe that sometimes love don't fade they fracture, and live on quietly inside us. Purva Narang ~

When Alaia married the billionaire, Agastya Singhania, she was okay to be stepped in a loveless marriage. She knew from the start that she'd always be the Unloved Bride but then what about the soft corner that she's going to develop for her husband? Will she ever be loved even if she loves him with all her heart? Will she ever be enough? How can she be okay with the fact that her husband is still in love with his girlfriend who's dead?

Deception, betrayal and secrets but when the truth peels out of the compromise, will she still think of him as the tortured hero of her story? Or as the tortured villain who shattered her heart?

𝔅𝔯𝔬𝔨𝔢𝔫 𝔅𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔢 𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 #2 𝐶𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 ═════ ✥.❖.✥ ═════ Nitya Heer Tiwari had always been the strong one-the loyal friend, fierce and protective to her core. But when tragedy strikes, her life is shattered, leaving her a mere shell of who she used to be. Wracked with self-hatred and haunted by the past, she's lived in isolation, barely holding on. Now, an old threat resurfaces, threatening to destroy the last pieces of her fragile sanity. Desperate, she makes a choice she never imagined-striking a deal with the one man she vowed never to fall for. Aman Mehra. Flirtatious, charming, and irresistibly charismatic, he's the man everyone calls the "golden-retriever energy." But Nitya knows better. She's seen what lies beneath the surface, and she's sure she could never love someone like him. After all, the devil you know is better than the monster lurking in the shadows. Their agreement is simple: a marriage of convenience. He gets out of an unwanted engagement, and she gains his protection. But can a deal with the devil ever truly stay just business? A marriage of convenience. Or is it really? ═════ ✥.❖.✥ ═════ 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 🎀 𝙒𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 🔞⚠️ This book contains mature content intended for readers aged 18 and above. Reader discretion is advised.

Anaya Raheem's life was never hers to choose. Forced into marriage with the cold and distant businessman Zayan Ali Khan, she endured years of silence and loneliness, believing their bond was nothing more than a cruel fate. After their marriage, Zayan disappeared abroad for work, leaving her to carry the weight of their union alone. But when Zayan returns, everything changes. Anaya is pregnant with his child-something neither of them were prepared for. The tension between them escalates as Zayan, now back in her life, remains as distant and cold as ever. Anaya, meanwhile, struggles with anxiety , caught in a whirlwind of confusion, guilt, and fear for the future of her child. As Anaya battles between her growing feelings for Zayan and the harsh realities of her situation, will their fragile connection survive the weight of the past, or will the light of love fade forever?

"I have spent my life being nobody's first choice," she whispered. "Then let me be the one who changes that," he answered, steady and impossible. She's a young woman fighting for a new beginning. London is her escape plan, her clean slate, her chance to outrun a past that never learned to let go. He's a man who swears love is a myth. His life is structured around power, precision and the safety of staying untouchable. Then he sees her. One moment. One look. And the man who doesn't believe in love falls with catastrophic velocity. She was never supposed to matter. He was never supposed to feel. Yet here they are, locked in an unexpected merger of fate by a marriage of convenience and chaos. When the woman who's only ever been second choice becomes the one he can't look away from... When the man who built walls now risks dismantling them for her... Is this a temporary alignment of circumstances, or destiny executing a long-term strategy? A story about breaking patterns, reclaiming worth, and discovering that sometimes the heart rewrites the entire plans. • Cover Credits :- @melbourne778