**THE BROKEN BENEFACTOR** War doesn't end when the plane lands. Lance Corporal **Ethan Raye** comes home from Syria alive-but barely. Once a proud Marine with a future, a fiancée, and a body he could trust, Ethan is now trapped inside pain, nightmares, rage, and a disability he never asked for. The battlefield took pieces of him. The silence at home threatens to take the rest. His fiancée, **Charlotte**, promised to stand beside him. But love looks different when the man who returns is no longer the man who left. Then comes **Valerie**. After a chain of family tragedies destroys the life she was trying to build, Valerie is forced to drop out of college and return home to save the family house and the land her parents sacrificed everything for. Taking a job as a healthcare worker is supposed to be survival. A paycheck. A way to keep her family from losing the last thing they have left. She never expects Ethan Raye. He is wounded, angry, guarded, and drowning in secrets. She is exhausted, determined, and carrying burdens no one sees. Every day she cares for him, Valerie learns that some pain does not bleed where people can see it-and some men are not broken because they are weak, but because they have been strong for too long. But Ethan's past is not finished with him. Secrets buried before the war begin rising. Charlotte's love may not be as steady as it seems. Valerie's heart becomes the one place Ethan starts to feel human again. And when suffering, loyalty, guilt, and desire collide, one question becomes impossible to ignore: Can a woman fighting to save her own home help a wounded soldier find his way back to his? **He lost himself for his country. She helped him find his way back home.** A gripping **military romance**, **wounded hero romance**, **caregiver romance**, and emotional **interracial romantic suspense** about sacrifice, survival, forbidden feelings, family secrets, and the kind of love that finds you when life has already torn you apart

One night of lustful bliss collides their world's royally. What will happen to Alara and The Royal, Caelion, when a baby gets involved?

For three years, Estella James has been hopelessly in love with Sebastian Phan. The problem? He's her friend. Or at least... she thinks he is. When senior year begins, Estella finds herself caught between late-night texts, lingering glances, almost-confessions, and moments that leave her questioning everything she thought she knew about Sebastian. As feelings grow stronger and the line between friendship and something more begins to blur, Estella must navigate the chaos of senior year, complicated friendships, family drama, and the possibility of getting her heart broken. Because falling for your best friend is hard. Trying to figure out if they're falling for you too? Even harder. Started: October 16, 2022 Ended:

She came to Gwangju to outrun a version of herself she no longer recognized, carrying nothing but a sealed envelope and the particular courage of a woman who had learned that wanting something openly was its own kind of risk. The letter was never meant for him. He was leather and silence and the kind of history that made people lower their voices when his name surfaced in conversation. He was also twenty, younger than her by two years, and carried in those years a compression that made him seem older in the ways that mattered and younger in the ways that hurt. He read what she wrote to another man, and instead of mocking her, he handed it back with two fingers and told her the other man did not deserve it. What followed was not a love story that rushed. It was built in back alleys behind soup restaurants, in the weight of phone calls that arrived after midnight, in the vibration of a motorcycle between her thighs and the particular freedom of moving fast enough that the past could not keep pace, in the slow and terrifying process of learning that the walls they had constructed were not decorative-they were load-bearing, built against real things, and opening a door in them for another person required a courage neither of them took lightly. Gwangju was alive with drama, tension, grief, and warmth, and the city did not protect its people from consequence. Friendships cracked under pressure. A past she believed she had outrun arrived with the calm of someone who had never accepted her leaving. Love arrived through the wrong door and refused to leave quietly. And not everything that broke was put back together the way it had been before. This was a story about what happened when two people who had survived real things finally encountered someone worth surviving for. It was mature, unhurried, and deeply human, and it did not look away from the cost of becoming someone who could actually be loved.

{The Keepers Series 1} {hockey romance x bwwm} Iyanuade: I've known Raphael since he was a bright and charming kid. He's like a little brother to me, and I'd do anything to protect his smile. Raphael: I never saw her as just a friend or an employee, only as the woman I wanted. And now, I'll stop at nothing to claim her - even if it means pretending to be weak, vulnerable, and in need of her protection. But when a reckless night changes everything, Iyanuade is determined to maintain their professional and friendship boundaries. However, Raphael, the charming hockey captain, has other plans. He'll do whatever it takes to make his beautiful Iyanu his. As the lines between protection, passion, and friendship blur, can Iyanuade resist the temptation, or will she succumb to her desires and risk everything?

Han Jisoo did not make mistakes. He planned, he executed, and he did not stop until the thing he was chasing had been brought to its knees. Four years of calculated movement across continents, four years of shedding every softness he was born with, and he was finally close enough to the truth about his mother's death to feel it in his bones. He was not supposed to acquire a variable. She was not supposed to be there. Sable Mercer had no intention of becoming anyone's complication. She came to Seoul on her own terms, chasing distance and a byline, and she would have left the same way if the wrong street at the wrong hour had not placed her directly in the path of a man with nothing left to protect and a situation that demanded an immediate solution. She was not passive, she was not manageable, and she was not staying quiet about any of it. She did not choose this world. She would survive it anyway. But quiet was no longer the most dangerous thing in the room. Somewhere behind them, a woman who claimed what was hers had noticed. And what she claimed, she would not release without a fight that none of them were prepared for. Her jealousy was neither small nor soft. It was precise and well-built. The trail moved from Seoul to Hong Kong, from Tokyo to Macau, from Macau to Paris. A Korean mafia enforcer whose entire existence had been constructed around a single purpose. A Black woman from Memphis who was in the wrong place and refused to be erased because of it. A former boyfriend with secrets that restructured everything she thought she understood. A possessive love that had curdled into something dangerous. ©️ _RelleLebby_//R. L.

For years, peace was something they had to fight for. And for years... they kept it. Yoongi Min and his wife, Brionna, built a life rooted in love, strength, and survival after escaping a past that nearly destroyed them. Their home was filled with laughter, their children were growing, and the chaos that once haunted them had finally gone quiet. Or so they thought. Because obsession doesn't just disappear. It waits. It watches. And sometimes... it evolves. Now older, wiser, and living their own lives, the Min children never expected to become part of a past they barely remember. But when strange messages begin to surface-messages that know too much-Laneiah realizes someone is watching her. Studying her. Getting closer. And this time... it's not about Yoongi. It's about his daughter. As secrets resurface and tension builds, Brionna and Yoongi are forced back into a fight they thought they ended-only now, the stakes are higher, and the target is someone they would do anything to protect. Because whoever is behind this... Isn't just obsessed with the past. They're ready to rewrite the future.

I married him to save my father He married me for revenge He thinks i killed his sister I think he's a monster We're both right But we're both stuck in this marriage.

She's a bold sweetheart-the kind of fan who can make friends with anyone, always cheerful, always giving people their flowers. But she's also known for her "menace energy" in the fandom-fun, wild, unapologetic. Then came one unlucky encounter: a world-famous idol, a little sarcasm gone wrong, and one comment that hit too hard-"Ratchet." She didn't hesitate. One punch. One shocked Taehyung. But here's the catch-no one saw it. No cameras. No screaming fans. Just her best friend and the other BTS members standing there, stunned. Now it's their little secret. And the more they cross paths, the more the tension shifts. Will they stay enemies? Turn into friends? Frenemies? Or something dangerously close to love?

She ran away to escape the man she was supposed to marry. He never knew she was the woman he was meant to marry. Now Zinhle Khumalo was hiding behind a new life, while Mandla Dlamini was falling for the mysterious woman who had no idea who he really was. One secret. Two hearts. And a marriage neither of them knew is already waiting for them.