He's a doctor who saves lives. She's a dancer who sells fantasies. Loving her is a professional suicide mission, but the craving is stronger than my conscience. One stolen look. Two shattered lives. A secret that could ruin them both. Sloane Asher has a secret, and it's hidden behind the velvet curtains of Nocturne. To pay for her sister's medical bills, she wears the mask of Hera. To everyone else, she's just another law student. Until he walks in. Dr. Nathan Brooks is the city's most elite trauma surgeon. He's the golden boy of LA, the Senator's son, and the man who has spent years being the "responsible" one. He's also her best friend's brother. He's not supposed to want the girl behind the mask. She's not supposed to fall for the man who represents the life she's trying to survive. ⸻ 🔥 Dark. Addictive. Sinful. Worship Me is a forbidden age-gap romance about control, surrender, and the line between love and destruction.

Moving to a new city was supposed to be Ariana's fresh start-not the beginning of a story she never wanted to live. After losing everything she worked for, Ariana accepts her childhood best friend Emma's invitation to stay in her home while rebuilding her career. Emma and her husband, Noah, seem to have the kind of marriage everyone dreams of-filled with laughter, trust, and quiet love. They're happy. They always have been. At first, Noah is simply the kind husband helping his wife's best friend settle into an unfamiliar city. Late-night conversations, shared coffee, and small acts of kindness mean nothing... until they start meaning everything. Neither of them is looking for love. Neither of them wants to betray the person they care about most. So why does every stolen glance feel impossible to ignore? As the days turn into months, Ariana and Noah fight feelings they never asked for, while Emma remains blissfully unaware that the two people she trusts most are waging a silent battle against their own hearts. Some stories begin with heartbreak. This one begins with happiness.

Delaney Kane has loved Carter Reed for as long as she can remember. He's her brother's best friend, and that's always been the problem. Things only got more complicated when Delaney expressed her feelings for Carter. But he didn't feel the same. Heartbroken, Delaney tried to move on and put him behind her, vowing to never look back. But now, years later, she's back in her hometown, and there's no avoiding him. Carter Reed has always been focused on one thing-becoming the fire chief, just like his father. Distractions weren't an option, especially not in the form of his best friend's little sister. But now that Delaney's back, she's impossible to ignore. She's no longer the young girl who confessed her feelings for him all those years ago-she's grown into a stunning, confident woman. And no matter how much he tries, he can't escape the fire still burning between them. As sparks reignite, the tension between Delaney and Carter builds. The question is-how long can they resist the heat before everything they've tried to bury comes to the surface?

After years away, Summer Reed returns to Pine Ridge to rebuild her life in the farmhouse her grandmother left behind. She expects memories, small-town gossip, and a fresh start-not to fall for Luke Dawson, her brother's best friend and the man she's secretly loved for years. But Luke is a single father with a past he's still healing from, and Summer has her own history waiting at her doorstep. Between old feelings, new beginnings, and a town that believes everyone deserves a second chance, they'll have to decide if some love stories are worth finding their way back to.

When Sloane McKenna built her career as one of New York's most sought-after celebrity stylists, she did it the hard way-no shortcuts, no handouts, and no one to catch her if she fell. Control has always been her safety net. It's how she survives. So when she lands her first feature film as Costume Designer on a production in South Grove, North Carolina, it should be everything she's worked for. It would be-if the man running the film wasn't the one she never forgot. Three years ago, Gavin Buxburry was just a stranger at a wedding. One night. No expectations. Now he's the acting head of a billion-dollar studio... and pretending like they've never met. Gavin has no room for mistakes. With the weight of his family's company on his shoulders, everything-and everyone-must remain exactly where it belongs. Including Sloane. But long days on set and even longer nights make distance impossible, and the tension between them begins to shift into something far more dangerous than either of them planned. Because Sloane didn't build her life by depending on anyone. And Gavin doesn't let people get close enough to matter. Not until staying away becomes harder than giving in.

She came to South Grove to disappear. He never expected she'd be the one thing he couldn't ignore. After fleeing an abusive marriage, Lily Carrington has reinvented herself in the quiet beach town of South Grove, North Carolina. With a new name, now Ellery Townsend, a secluded cottage by the ocean, and a dream of opening her own bakery, she's determined to build a life that's finally hers. No past. No lies. No one looking too closely. Cash Connolly is a grumpy, guarded CPA with no patience for complications-and no shortage of women trying to change his mind. But when a quiet, stubborn baker walks into his office needing help with her books and pretending she knows what a profit and loss statement is, she throws off his rhythm in all the wrong ways. And maybe all the right ones. But Ellery's past isn't finished with her. As sparks fly and trust builds, the truth she's worked so hard to bury comes back with a vengeance. And when the man she thought she escaped finally finds her, it will take everything-including the one person she never expected-to protect the life she's just begun to believe she deserves.

Josette Wilde never imagined her happy ending would start with her house burning down. Once a hopeless romantic who believed in grand gestures and cinematic kisses, Jo learned the hard way that real life rarely follows a script. When the man she thought was her forever walked out the moment she told him she was pregnant, Jo was left to rewrite her story-this time as a single mother to a fearless little girl named Hannah. Years later, just as Jo lands the kind of job that could finally give them the life they deserve, disaster strikes-her home is destroyed in a freak accident, leaving her and Hannah with nothing but each other. With no place to go, Jo turns to the last person she ever expected to lean on: Mitchell Harris, her charming, fiercely protective childhood friend. He offers them a place to stay, and Jo accepts-grateful, but uneasy. She's been secretly crushing on him for the last couple of years, and living under the same roof only blurs the lines she's fought for years to keep in place. As Jo and Mitchell fall into an unexpected rhythm-shared meals, whispered laughter, stolen glances-the life Jo always dreamed of suddenly feels within reach. But just as her heart begins to hope again, the past shows up at her front door. Hannah's father wants back in, claiming he's ready to be a father and fix what he broke. Now, Jo is faced with an impossible choice: return to the familiar comfort of a love that once betrayed her, or risk everything on the man who just might be her forever-if she's brave enough to believe in a new beginning.

My twin sister is glowing on her wedding day, marrying the man I've secretly loved for years. Esmeray "Ray" Morales stood at the altar and watched her sister marry the man she loved. She was the quiet twin. The overlooked one. The shadow. And when Noah Sparks chose Elena, Ray left. Three years later, Elena is dead. Ray returns to care for her sister's son. To help Noah survive the loss. To keep her own heart buried beneath the guilt. But slipping into Elena's life blurs the lines she swore she'd never cross. And feelings Ray thought she buried start clawing their way back. Because love this forbidden doesn't fade. It festers. Warning ⚠️ this novel contains mature content

🏆 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 | She ran from her wedding the day she found out the groom was expecting a baby with someone else. Now, with a broken heart and no suitcase, she's starting over in London... Two men, one new life and a second chance she never saw coming. Isabella Solène Hart was supposed to be a bride. Instead, she became a woman who walked away from betrayal, from shame, from the version of love that left her undone. London offers her nothing but silence and strangers and that's exactly what she needs until it starts to offer more. A job at a luxury PR firm, a flat that slowly becomes a home, a local café with warm coffee and warmer smiles, a neighbour with a cat named Rufus and a shopkeeper named Robert, gruff, loyal, quietly becoming the father figure she never had. But nothing shakes her more than the two men who begin to orbit her new life. Skylar, the charming café owner with kind eyes, he makes her laugh again, makes her feel again, but when it matters most... he stays silent. And Sebastian, the enigmatic CEO with ice-blue eyes and power in every breath. He shouldn't be looking at her the way he does, he shouldn't know who she is, but he does and what begins as a spark quickly threatens to set fire to the walls she's still rebuilding. Now Bella must navigate more than just a second chance, she must decide what kind of love she's ready for and whether she can open her heart again without losing herself in the process. It's a story of loss, of starting over, and the two men who force her to face what love really means. Of heartbreak turned healing, of strangers turned family. It's not just about falling in love, it's about who you become when your world shatters... and you choose to rise anyway.

Delaney James was wearing Chanel the night her husband told her he didn't love her anymore. In an instant, her picture-perfect Manhattan life-complete with a brownstone on the Upper East Side, a blossoming career as a fashion journalist, and a devastatingly handsome, high-powered husband-shattered like glass under a stiletto heel. Heartbroken and blindsided, she does the only thing that makes sense: packs her bags and heads south to the small North Carolina town she swore she'd never return to. It's just temporary, she tells herself-a quiet place to lick her wounds and plan her next move. But South Grove hasn't forgotten her. The porch swings, the sleepy afternoons, the scent of honeysuckle on the breeze-it all comes rushing back. She reconnects with old friends, finds solace in morning coffee runs and barefoot walks along the beach where she once dreamed of escaping. And then there's Greyson McKinnie. The boy who broke her heart is now a man who carries his own scars. Their reunion is anything but smooth. Tense, electric, and full of history, their connection flares to life the moment they cross paths again. And this time, walking away might not be so easy. Now, torn between the career she built and the love she thought she'd lost, Delaney must choose: is the life she always wanted worth the price of the one her heart is just beginning to remember?