I always thought we were destined to be together. A decade together and what seemed like the perfect love story. Until one day, it slowly started to unravel at the seams. I realized our "perfect" love story only looked so perfect because I was being complacent. Once I started to speak up for myself, the facade crumbled and it all came crashing down. This is my story.

Jane and Kaden's marriage was supposed to be forever. So were Louis and McKenzie's. A luxury Christmas trip to the Maldives with their closest friends should have been the perfect celebration of love. Instead, it became the moment both marriages collapsed. When Jane and Louis walk in on their spouses tangled together in betrayal, there are no screaming matches, no second chances, and no excuses allowed. They slip off their wedding rings, turn around, and walk away. Their silence becomes the loudest message they will ever send. Back home, Jane and Louis rebuild their lives with quiet determination while Kaden and McKenzie spiral under the weight of their own actions. Jobs are lost. Reputations crumble. The truth goes public. The consequences are relentless and unavoidable. But Jane and Louis refuse to let heartbreak define them. They choose healing, therapy, new connections, and a friendship rooted in mutual strength. They cheer each other on as they step into the dating world with newfound standards and self-respect. Slowly, they learn what real love looks like: steady, calm, and honest. Their exes learn something too. When trust is broken, there is no going back. When betrayal is exposed, karma does not hesitate. When silence speaks, it speaks the truth. Powerful, emotional, and ultimately uplifting, When Silence Speaks is a story of walking away from what hurts, protecting your peace, and finding courage in the quiet.

Prologue - The Beginning They said she was weak. They said she was unwanted, unloved, unworthy. But when Ji Yunxi opened her eyes in a body that wasn't her own, she learned the truth- she was bound to a System. A cruel, merciless voice whispered in her mind: > [Complete your missions. Cross the worlds. Face slap the fakes.] Every task seemed small. Protect a sibling. Pass an exam. Survive a night. But with every world, the enemies grew sharper, the betrayals deeper, the battles deadlier. Ji Yunxi, once a broken soul, became a storm cloaked in silk. A woman who smiled coldly as her rivals choked on their own schemes. And yet- through every world, through every face slap, through every twist of fate- he was always there. The tyrant in the high school hallway. The CEO in the glass tower. The general on the battlefield. The immortal above the clouds. Everywhere she went, he found her. Always stronger. Always watching. Always hers. She only wanted to finish her missions. But he only wanted one thing- Her. And in the end, when the final world comes, when her true mission is revealed... she will have to decide: Will she walk away, or will she finally admit that across a thousand worlds, his obsession became her fate?

cor·ner·stone /ˈkôrnərˌstōn/ noun an important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based. Wendy has loved her husband Atlas since she was twelve years old.. He was her first kiss, her first love, her forever. Together, they built a perfect life - married after high school, raised two beautiful boys together, and were still blissfully in love. Until Atlas pulled away. Wendy did everything she could to keep their marriage from unraveling-juggling the house, the kids, and all the invisible labor no one thanks her for. But when Atlas fails to show up to their final resort therapy session, Wendy makes a different choice - she stops waiting for him. Determined to take her life back, Wendy gets a job, rediscovering her independence and finding unexpected freedom in a world where she no longer carries the weight for both of them. While she flourishes, Atlas unravels. He watches everything that matters slip through his fingers-his wife, his sons, the family he thought he was protecting by keeping his fear to himself. But to heal their fractured marriage, Atlas will have to face the real reason he pulled away... And what does it have to do with his brother's late wife, Carrie? A marriage-in-trouble second chance romance. No cheating, HEA always.

Book 2 to Flamebound They thought the fire had gone out. They were wrong. Years after the Hollow War, peace blooms across the Veil-thanks to Queen Layla, the girl who walked through fire and built a future from ash. But when strange magic begins to poison the roots of the Veil itself, her daughter, Elara, discovers a truth more terrifying than war: something ancient is stirring. And it's been waiting for her. Born of light and shadow, Elara never asked to carry the legacy of flame. But as the world begins to fracture again, she must choose-between who she was raised to be, and the strange, powerful force awakening inside her. With her sisters at her side and old allies rising once more, Elara sets out to uncover the truth behind the Veil's corruption, the mysterious Whispering Blade, and the name that has begun to echo across the land: Vaelith. Lightborn is the breathtaking sequel to Flamebound-a story of daughters and legacies, of magic and memory, and of one girl who must decide whether to seal the darkness away... or become the light that changes everything.

🌕 Moonborn Hearts A rejected omega. A second chance bond. A war that changes everything. Luna Rayne never expected her sixteenth birthday to destroy everything she believed in. When her best friend-and fated mate-Jace, rejects her in front of their entire pack, Luna's world shatters. Branded as worthless for being an omega, she flees Ashmoon with nothing but a broken bond and a heart full of silence. But the Moon isn't done with her yet. Crossing into forbidden territory, Luna stumbles into the arms of Alpha Kael of Crescent Fang-a fierce, mysterious leader with secrets of his own. When a second chance mate bond ignites between them, Luna must choose: run from fate again... or embrace the power within her. As whispers of war rise and Jace returns to claim what he so easily cast aside, Luna discovers a gift that could tip the balance-one no one ever expected from a girl like her. This is not just a story about mates and magic. It's about becoming the wolf they said you could never be. Rejection made her a ghost. Love made her a fighter. But choice made her legendary.

[Completed] Yan Zi, a botanist and author, accidentally transmigrated into her own historical novel as the notorious villainess. She meets Xu Kai, the handsome Co-Commander of the Imperial Military Guards, who is attracted to her during their dangerous missions together. However, knowing that she will not have a happy ending as a villainess, Yan Zi refuses to fall in love with Xu Kai. But somehow after escaping an unexpected intruder attack, watching the stars under the waxing moon, and spending a sweet and sweaty night together, everything starts to change. Start: April 14th, 2020 End: July 25th, 2020 - Cover belongs to the rightful owner(s). "Hilarious, smart, entertaining, and wickedly tender... This novel is stuffed with memorable characters, fizzling with deliciously acidic humor. A great read that will make you cheer, laugh, and cry!"

Falling out of love with someone is one thing. Falling out because of a midlife crisis where you discover he's cheating and has been for months? Months that he's been lying about where and who he's with, and leaving you to be a married single mother. That's a whole different thing! And EJ is done. She packs up her kids and moves home. When sparks fly in the initial meeting of her and the contactor, they both feel it. Until others who want them for themselves try to pull them apart. Follow along on this journey of self-discovery, friendship, and love.

He made me his ol' lady. I thought it was because he'd finally seen me as more than my brother's little sister. Until I heard him talking with his ex, I didn't realize he was with me out of guilt, that he'd promised to protect me. So I ran and didn't look back...until I had to go back to find him waiting for me.

April I fight fires for a living-but I've never felt more burned than I did that night. As a forest ranger, I live on the edge of danger and calm. My body is strong, my will even stronger, but that doesn't mean I'm unbreakable. I thought love-real love-would see through the scars I keep hidden beneath my uniform. I thought Ellis saw me. Understood me. But all it took was one careless sentence. One drunken confession echoing through a baby monitor, turning a celebration into a battlefield. He humiliated me in front of everyone-my friends, my chosen sisters, myself. And now I'm standing in the ashes of something I thought would last forever, wondering if I've been lying to myself about what love really looks like. Ellis I was drunk. Stupid. Thoughtless. It was just a conversation. Boys being boys, joking around in a room where I thought no one could hear. But they did. She did. And I said things I can't take back. I don't even recognize the man who said them-because that man humiliated the strongest, most loyal, most incredible woman he's ever known. April is the kind of woman who runs toward danger. Who holds broken branches like they're bones and brings people back from the edge. And I crushed her with words. Now I'd do anything-everything-to take it back. But the damage is done. And I'm not sure I deserve to be the one who tries to fix it.