Renee Fischer has had nothing but bad experiences with men. She moved to a new town, started therapy, and is trying to become a much better version of herself. Then she meets a man who makes her feels special, important, valued. Until he doesn't. He's just like all the other men in her past. She should have known better. Renee had never been able to find the right man. Will she ever have a happily ever after, even if it's not the typical kind? Lucifer "Flynn" Ramirez had been raised around toxic women for years. His mother, his wife, the bunnies at his club. Nothing but heartbreak and broken pieces. He won't let one in again, not after his wife left him for someone else. She had been chaos. Then he met her: the soft looking, soft feeling little waif-woman. She slid her way into his life, his arms, his bed,.....even his daughter's heart. But he couldn't have that. No woman would ever have that much power over him again. So, he makes a choice that breaks everything. And he's left realizing that was the one woman he didn't want to leave his life. Can he change enough to be who Renee needs him to be? The follow-up story Moving Forward. **MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY. Check the triggers and tropes on the Author Note. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**

Elsa did her duty. She accepted the arranged marriage and was now pregnant with her husband's heir. But others did not want her to succeed. After being accused of betrayal by her husband's people, she leaves to the only place left to go: another cold cage. Or is it? Alessandro accepted the arranged marriage out of duty. She was a wife who would provide him an heir. But when proof is brought to him by a friend that has one of his men backing the betrayal, he believes the wrong people. He sends her out, but soon realizes he made a mistake. And now he has to figure out how to get his wife, and his child back, from the La Regina Nera. ***This will be a darker story. Mature audiences ONLY!!

Is it better to live in a beautiful lie or the ugly truth? I'm not so sure anymore. Not now after finding myself on the other side of beautiful lies. There was a time I thought I was the one - HIS one. Turns out, I'm only second . . . . . . to her. For readers: *I will update as I please. Don't be rude about it. Thank you. *I do my best to proofread before publishing, but some typos and errors will slip through. Feel free to point them out! *Comments, active engagement, and helpful critiques are welcomed. *Mean, unnecessary comments that attack me, personally, or other commenters will be ignored and deleted. *I'm not a spicey writer. I rather use my word count for plot, character development, and GROVEL!!! *Most importantly, I hope you enjoy the little world I'm creating.

Lana thought the hardest part of joining Grant's family would be getting his mother to like her. She was wrong. It starts with a welcome folder. Then a spreadsheet. A joke at dinner. A rule that somehow applies to her son and nobody else. And through every small humiliation, Grant offers the same reassurance: I'll handle it. Three years later, Lana has stopped believing him. Then a man she hasn't seen since high school walks into her yoga studio and calls her by a name no one has used in 16 years. Oren remembers the girl Lana used to be. More dangerously, he notices the woman she has become. And as the story she's been telling herself about her marriage begins to unravel, Lana discovers that sometimes the person who leaves isn't the one who walks away. Sometimes it's the one who stays-and watches you disappear.

Maya fell for Ethan the moment he walked into her bookshop. Ethan was kind, loyal, and completely in love with someone else. When a marriage of convenience forces them together, Maya decides to win his heart-with warmth, laughter, and a thousand small kindnesses he never notices. She makes his coffee, learns his mother's recipes, and fills their glass house by the sea with hope. But Ethan's eyes are fixed elsewhere. Day by day, her light dims. Until one day, he finally looks up-and the woman who tried so hard is already gone. Now, winning her back will take more than a grand gesture. It will take a fight. A slow-burn romance about unrequited love, quiet heartbreak, and the long road to redemption.

In the quiet corner of my heart, he was my forever. He was my shadow, my secret keeper, my unspoken promise the boy who whispered "always" under starlit skies and made me believe in a love that could weather anything. Our trio with vivacious best friend Cecilia felt unbreakable. Until the day Caleb vanished without a word. No goodbye. No explanation. Just a space where my entire world used to be. For four agonizing years, I pieced myself together from the shards he left behind, carrying the ghost of his touch and the unanswered questions that haunted my sleepless nights. Then, in the glittering ballroom of a luxury hotel, fate delivers the cruelest twist: Caleb-older, devastatingly handsome, slipping a ring on the finger of one person who knew what he meant to me. Watching him get engaged to another woman hurt me, but realizing that the other woman was the same woman on whose shoulder I had cried multiple times destroyed me. But I would kill myself before I let them see the wreckage of my ruins. So instead of walking away quietly, I moved toward them. Plastering a smile on my lips, I lifted my wine glass and congratulated them. Congratulated myself because for years my heart was in his captivity and in this moment he had finally set it free. The exact moment I stopped loving Caleb Montaign. Now to me he was somebody I used to know. Three hearts, one forbidden Love

Based off of a Facebook suggestion, that was based off a Facebook Reddit-like post. My husband allowed his mother into our lives like she was more important than me, his wife. I finally had enough when he actually put his hands on me, defending her. Now, I had to bide my time to get away. My resources are limited, but my will is strong. And I. Am. Done.

Fifteen years of marriage taught Hannah Hayes that love wasn't always loud. Sometimes it was found in shared coffee, quiet mornings, and the comfort of knowing someone would always come home. Until one day... he didn't. When Travis walks away after a devastating argument, Hannah believes he just needs time. She has no idea that a single accident will erase the life they built together. Miles away, a stranger arrives at his hospital bedside. Beautiful. Caring. Convincing. When Travis wakes with no memory of his past, she claims to be the woman he loves. While Hannah searches for the husband who never came home, another woman is rewriting his future-one lie at a time. How do you fight for someone who doesn't remember you? And when the truth finally surfaces, will love be enough... or has the life they built already slipped away?

Valerie fell in love with a big biker hunk. She couldn't believe her luck, being an older woman and all. But the relationship turned out to be more work than it had been worth. When do you realize it's time to walk away? Ox fell in love with an outsider. He knew he couldn't keep her away from the MC for too long because the MC was his life. But he didn't realize how much his MC life was resistant to letting an outsider in. Until he made a mistake that had the woman he loved walking away without looking back. Can he repair the damage not only he, but his MC and blood family, caused her? Or will she pick someone better, safer?