A Lockwood Creek Next Generation Book 2 Nix Chambers never meant to lose the girl he loved. Trip West never expected to find someone worth fighting for. And Delilah Reilly never imagined one heart could belong to two different futures. Some people believe love only comes once. Others believe in second chances. But when the past refuses to stay buried and the future asks for everything...Someone's heart is going to break. Start Date: July 2026

Christina went to sleep twenty-two and free. She woke up twenty-seven, traumatized, and married to the man she hates most in the world. Kayne Blackwell. To her, he isn't a husband. He is a massive, tattooed stranger wearing the face of her high school bully. She doesn't remember falling in love. She doesn't remember the wedding. She is trapped in a marriage she doesn't remember choosing. Kayne isn't interested in patience. He is cashing in a debt. He saved the only friends she trusts in this strange new reality, and now the bill has come due. The price? Her cooperation. He has forced Christina into a twisted deal of mandatory therapy and inescapable dates, desperate to spark a memory of the obsession they shared. He claims he wants to help her remember. Christina suspects he just wants to own her. But as the sessions get darker, she begins to fear that the only thing worse than forgetting... Is finding out why she fell for the villain in the first place. This story is part of a series but can be read as a standalone.

He thought betrayal ended his story. She's about to show him it's only the beginning. Canyon Kelly Built a billion-dollar tech empire from nothing. He survived abandonment, success, pressure-and thought he'd finally found stability in a ten-year relationship with the woman he was about to marry. Until he walked into his office late one night... and watched his fiancée in the throes of passion with his best friend and business partner. Weeks later, at what should've been their engagement brunch , Canyon exposes their affair in front of everyone. The world expects him to fall apart. Instead, he points to the one woman he never truly stopped missing: Lucía Navarro. His childhood best friend. The girl who once sketched him in secret. The light he didn't realize he'd lost until it was gone. Lucía wants nothing to do with Canyon's scandals-or his sudden need for a wife. Seven years ago, he stood by while the woman he loved humiliated her, shattering their friendship beyond repair. But when Canyon asks for one last favor, she agrees... because part of her heart never let him go. What starts as a marriage of convenience becomes something far more complicated. Canyon remembers every detail she never thought he noticed. Lucía begins to see the man she loved hidden beneath the one she left behind. But old wounds run deep-especially when Canyon drags her back to the place where everything fell apart. When Lucía's past pain crashes into Canyon's present regrets, their fragile connection shatters. She runs-again. This time all the way to Dublin, to the sister who helps rebuild her spark. Canyon crossed an ocean once to expose a lie. Now he'll cross it again to fight for the only truth that matters. She was always his light. This time, he's not leaving without her.

I was the woman he loved. She was the woman he could never refuse. I stopped competing with Veronica the day I understood the truth: Adrian hadn't just let her into our lives, he'd built her a home inside the spaces meant for me. For two years, I was Claire Monroe. The safe and steady one. The woman Adrian Cole never had to worry about because she never made a scene, raised her voice, or asked for more than he was willing to give. Understanding. Patient. Reliable. I wore those words like armor, never realizing they were the very reasons he felt free to look away. And while I stayed quiet, Veronica Steele, the grieving family friend, the woman who wielded her sorrow like a blade, quietly took everything that should have been mine. Not his heart. No. Something worse. His presence. His attention. Every late-night conversation, every cancelled dinner, every moment he chose to be somewhere I wasn't. I learned the cost of that choice on the kitchen floor of our apartment, my body folding in on itself, my appendix rupturing as I whispered his name into a voicemail he wouldn't hear until it was too late. Adrian. Please. I need you. He was with her. Of course he was with her. I survived the surgery. But lying in that hospital bed, staring at the empty chair beside me, I finally understood something I should have known all along: There was no reason left to stay. So I stopped waiting. And only then, only when the door had already closed, did Adrian finally see the truth. But seeing and losing never happen in the right order. "Unfaithful Promise" is the story of a man who realized what he had only after he had nothing left to hold, and a woman who finally decided she would never again be someone's second choice. Some people don't recognize love until they're standing in the ruins of it.

A mother is not always the woman who gives you life. Sometimes, she is the woman who gives you everything else. When an independent woman chooses to adopt a baby girl and raise her alone, she knows society will question every decision she makes. But between lullabies, music lessons, scraped knees, and silent sacrifices, she builds a world where her daughter never has to feel unwanted. Years later, a single misunderstanding and the return of a forgotten past shatter a bond that once seemed unbreakable. As another generation unknowingly retraces the footsteps of the last, buried truths begin to surface, forcing a daughter to confront the difference between the woman who gave her birth and the woman who gave her a life.

Book 2 of The Grooms series. This book can read as its own. Abby's life was just getting started until she met him. Noah. The love of his life. He couldn't get enough of her. They plan their life together. Wanting to get married then have children. He was the CEO of his family's business. He loved her for her. Not some rich woman who wants to be noticed. Not for his money. Not for his fame. She got along with his family members except for his mother. When his mom met her. She never liked her. She hates that her son is with someone like her. A low life that's what she calls her. She wanted a rich woman for him not a poor innocent girl. An evil monster in law. Until one day Abby finds herself pregnant. She wanted to surprise him but his mom ruined it. Ruin for the both of them. These two are made for each other. Just full of drama. Two choices. One decision. { ALL RIGHTS RESERVED } Copyright ©2017

Loving Ellie Ellie Sinclair Matthews has loved Blake Weston as far back as she can remember. He had always been her best friend and protector, like a big brother. But somehow, she wasn't sure exactly when, her feelings of adoration turned into love. Not the kind of love between a brother and sister, but the kind of love a woman feels for a man. Ellie knew deep down Blake was the only man she would ever love. All she had to do was to get him to see her as a woman not as a little sister. All of that changed when she and her cousin were abducted from their train by a ruthless band of outlaws as the two of them were on their way back to Red Valley. Blake Weston was a US Marshall and most days he loved every minute of it. He and his partner John were working undercover in Angel Cooper's gang. The last person he expected to see on the train the Cooper gang was robbing was his childhood best friend, Ellie Matthews. The day continued to go south when Angel himself decided to take Ellie and another girl with them for "entertainment." How was he going to get them out safely? His work wasn't finished but he couldn't risk Ellie's life. And if he could save her from the gang, would be able to save her from him, or did he really want to?

Some people change your life all at once. Cassandra Emery Thorne does it one ordinary day at a time. Skylar Adrian Lawrence has spent months believing some mistakes are too permanent to recover from. Running Brewster is simple. Loving someone has never been. Then Cassie walks into his coffee shop with a camera around her neck, an endless collection of strange observations, and the unsettling ability to make even the most ordinary moments feel worth remembering. Somewhere between shared lunches, long conversations, quiet mornings and coffee that somehow always tastes better when she's around, friendship begins to blur into something neither of them ever planned. And for the first time in a very long time, Skylar isn't learning how to hold on to someone. He's learning what it feels like to become someone's home.

[friends to lovers] After having her heart broken, Lisa has sworn off men and now spends her time growing her business while living a celibate/single life. But when a charming vet with a heart of gold barges into her life, she'll need to decide if she's ready to open her heart and risk having it broken again. ... Bakery owner Lisa has sworn off dating after having her heart broken by the same man twice. Leaving a past full of bad choices and meaningless relationships behind, she now puts all her time and energy into making her bakery the best one in the city, all the while embracing the celibate/single life. The last thing she expects, though, is to have her plans shaken by Thomas, a charming vet with a golden heart and eyes full of mischief. He's got wanderlust in his blood and is trying to make the world a better place. She needs roots and stability to feel sane. He says life is simple, and that love is everyone's ultimate goal. She says he's a dreamer and that love will always find a way to mess with you. They have nothing in common besides the attraction that sizzles every time they are together. They say they're just spending time together and hanging out. They say they're just friends. But what happens when the lines of their friendship get blurred and they're forced to analyze how they really feel for each other and what they really want from life? **NOTE: This is book 2 in the 'New Beginnings Series' and can be read as a standalone.**