Dahlia is heading home for Christmas for the first time in two years. Much to her disappointment, her brother's best friend, Jade, will be joining her on her 10 hour drive home. Rivals since they were children, the two are going to convince Dahlia's parents that the two are dating, just to get a rise out of them. Dahlia can't stand Jade, but will the time they spend stuck in a car together, change all of that? He was probably right. I think if mom and dad thought we were together, it'd send them off the deep end. Right now, I wanted to give them a giant shove. "Hmm," I narrowed my eyes at him. "You'd fake it with me?" His lips tipped up. "Oh I wouldn't have to fake much with you, doll." Thank you to @ashley_mariex for my beautiful cover.

Kiernan and Montana aren't looking for complicated in their Chicago summer, but somehow complicated has found them. [co-written with @w1ldflow3r] [extended summary inside]

Since I was a kid, making it into the World Hockey League was the ultimate goal. No relationship could match my first love, and after my rough childhood, I wasn't putting my heart on the line. When Bellerive makes a successful bid to move the California Crows, I find myself stuck in the middle of the Atlantic with an organization that knows almost nothing about hockey. And that includes my new trainer, Sawyer Tucker. At ten years my senior, she thinks she's too old for me, but I think she's the hottest woman I've ever seen, and she's about to test all my rules of the heart. Content concerns: discussions of past abuse/trauma, loss of a parent

[18+] PR rising star Sienna Stuart has spent years perfecting her image, but her first big client - a recovering metal band with a brooding frontman - threatens to undo it all. Devon McCall wants nothing to do with fame, filters, or the woman hired to reshape their image, but when a month-long tour throws them into close quarters, sparks fly. As Sienna's polished persona begins to crack, she'll have to decide what's more terrifying: losing control, or being truly seen. [2x featured story] [extended synopsis inside] Copyright 2024-2025 | Taylor Romagnoli [moonraess]

Nathan Callie Genovese is everything to me. Always has been, always will be. And no divorce decree will tell me otherwise. She thinks she knows what happened between us, but she's got no clue. She's as stubborn and loyal as she is beautiful so I know she never would have left on her own, and I gave her the out she wanted. Even though I'll alway love her, I don't regret it. Now, I see our girls on Wednesdays and every other weekend and I go to bed alone every night in an empty penthouse wondering if the life I gave up was really worth all of this. It's not. I never really thought is was. But I was giving Callie what she wanted. Callie I was born with a resentment you only get by being the youngest child and only girl to the largest and most powerful Mafia family in all of the US. And Nathen Stone was the only one who could ever calm the wild in the way it needed. Quiet, confident and sensitive. He was the perfect husband until my father got his claws into him. Now, he's the most sought after defense attorney for organized crime families. As our girls grew up, so did his list of enemies, and when I wanted out, he wouldn't budge. In the divorce, I got the girls and the house, and he got my family and all the comes with that, good or bad. I'm the black sheep now, and avoid my dad and three older brothers at all costs. But when the unthinkable happens and our daughter is kidnapped, they're the only ones I can turn to. We all have to work together to bring her home.

Gavin lost his ability to walk after a police raid went horribly wrong. He falls into a deep dark hole, unable to accept his new reality. His parents decide to hire a helper, the daughter of good friends of theirs, Georgia, who volunteers with disabled people. But Gavin's heart is completely closed off. Can Georgia help him find happiness again, or can no one reach him?

In the mystical realm of Melvera, a brutal war erupts between witches and shadow shifters. Amidst the chaos, Lady Calina loses her entire family and is robbed of her freedom, forced into a life of servitude. Completely isolated and convinced she will never regain what she has lost, Calina is prepared to risk everything to bring down the new king of shifters and witches. But her assassination attempt doesn't go as planned. Among the royal shifters is a third prince, a hidden ally she never knew she had, a shifter who claims they are destined to be together. Now, Calina faces a heart-wrenching choice: can she let go of her thirst for revenge, or will it consume her entirely?

K9 deputy Mac Tullman and his furry partner Rego are going on their first vacation in years with a group of fellow officers and their spouses and a few others friends. The promise of turquoise waters, sandy beaches and females in bikinis sounds awesome to his overworked mind but he may get way more than he bargained for when he purchased the ticket in the form of a deeply wounded chestnut beauty with ethereally green eyes. For Brenna Malloy the scars are healing, both physical and emotional. Partially due to the stubborn love of her self appointed brothers and their families dragging her back into the world that harmed her so badly including taking her on a Carribean vacation. It's been two years since that fateful day, she is slowly learning to enjoy the world again but she still wonders if she will ever learn to trust again much less allow herself to feel love.

Theo Wedgeworth always thought her grandmother was a formidable woman, but it wasn't until she offered to babysit the eighty-year-old widow's fruit farm, in the tropical climes of Far North Queensland, that she learnt just how extraordinary Edna Jennings truly was. Indeed, all the women in Theo's family evoke admiration in their own individual way, and so when the opportunity came around to support the matriarch, and perhaps gain a little self-esteem along the way, she threw herself at it. Far from the usual routine of her humdrum city life, Theo quickly finds herself in way over her head and knee deep in horticultural purgatory. Learning skills she never thought herself capable of, and going into battle with poisonous toads and her tween self's arch nemesis, Luca Antonelli, the stunning scenery and stifling daily workouts aren't the only thing leaving her breathless.

When Corinna Evans' mother is sent to prison, Corinna has nowhere else to go so she moves back in with her father and his family. Determined to make it through these last few months of school, she only wants to keep a low profile and get by but someone keeps getting in her way. Tyler Flynn has been best friends with Corinna's brother forever and she's never liked him. What happens when her feelings start to change? And will her family ever forgive her for her past?