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I spent twelve years loving Mason Hayes. Twelve summers. Twelve birthdays. Twelve years of almosts. The problem wasn't that he didn't know. The problem was that he did. He just never realised what it was costing me. When Mason arrives at our annual lake house vacation with a girlfriend on his arm, I finally understand something I should have learned years ago: Sometimes loving someone isn't enough. So I leave. And for the first time in his life, Mason has to figure out what it means to lose me. A grovel-to-HEA romance about unrequited love, heartbreak, and finally choosing yourself.

[This story will become free on June 15th 2022] In the sequel to When Best Friends Kiss, Liam is faced with the life Alex has built without him. Can their love survive when they've become so different? ***** Fresh out of university and settled into a new apartment, Liam and Alex are ready to start their life together. While Alex finds passion in journalism and has more friends than he can count, Liam is frustrated with his photography and awkward around Alex's LGBTQ friends. Seeing the life Alex has built without him, and how different they've become, Liam finds his insecurities resurfacing and mental health spiraling downwards. After the time they've spent apart, do Liam and Alex really belong together? Or will their love story end before it starts its next chapter? (Sequel to When Best Friends Kiss.) [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]

Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option. ***** Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her... Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault. [[word count: 50,000-100,000 words]]

𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘦 - 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. .｡ﾟ+..｡ ﾟ+..｡*ﾟ+ 𝙎𝙚𝙝𝙖𝙟 𝙆𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙤𝙧 ❝ Maybe I'm a little dramatic, a little impulsive, and a little too emotional-but at least you'll never have to wonder what my heart feels." ❞ She is beautiful, loud, and unstoppable chaos-a girl whose heart always speaks before her mind can stop it. 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙧𝙪𝙙𝙝 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙠𝙝𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙩 ❝ If my silence ever confuses you, watch my actions. They've always been more honest than my words. ❞ He is calm, composed, and effortlessly in control-a man who would rather show his loyalty every day than speak about it once. ── 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 ── ❝ Two opposite worlds collided so quietly that neither realized they were falling hopelessly in love. ❞ He lives by logic. She is chaos itself. Falling in love was never part of the plan. .｡ﾟ+..｡ ﾟ+..｡*ﾟ+ ♡ TROPES YOU WILL LOVE ♡ ↬Billionaire CEO × Chaotic College Girl ↬Opposites Attract ↬Slow Burn Romance ↬8-Year Age Gap ↬Fake Relationship ↬He Falls First (But Denies It) ↬Pure Desi Family Drama & Laugh-Out-Loud Rom-Com .｡ﾟ+..｡ ﾟ+..｡*ﾟ+ It was supposed to be simple. A temporary arrangement to fool the world. Instead, it became a truth neither of them was ready to face. Welcome to Sehaj and Anirudh's story. 🎀 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦: This story is written in Hinglish (English narration with natural Hindi dialogue) to give you the full desi rom-com experience! ✨

# **Crimson Hearts at Redwood University** Leaving home was never supposed to change **Amara Williams'** life forever. At just eighteen, the brilliant Nigerian scholarship student arrives at the prestigious Redwood University determined to prove that hard work-not family connections-can build a future. Armed with nothing but her dreams, endless curiosity, and an elegant red jumpsuit that marks the beginning of her new journey, Amara is ready to embrace university life. There is just one problem... The girls' dormitory is full. Instead, she's assigned to **Apartment 407** in the boys' residence, where three strangers are about to change her life in ways she never imagined. There's **Ethan Knight**-the witty billionaire's son who hides his lonely heart behind teasing smiles. **Kelvin Adebayo**-the quiet, disciplined student who always seems to appear whenever Amara is in trouble... while secretly carrying a mission that could destroy the trust between them. And **Zara Bello**-Amara's hilarious Nigerian roommate whose talent for stealing snacks, creating chaos, and turning ordinary days into unforgettable adventures quickly transforms Apartment 407 into a place that feels like home. As friendships deepen, rivalries ignite, secrets begin to surface, and unexpected feelings bloom, Amara soon discovers that Redwood University is hiding more than lecture halls and beautiful maple trees. Someone is watching. Someone knows who she is. **A heartwarming campus romance filled with laughter, mystery, unforgettable friendships, slow-burn love, family secrets, and the kind of found family that stays with you long after the final page.**

A college. Two strangers. Countless unspoken moments. Between loyalty, distance, and time, one question remains~can love survive when it blooms out of season?

Elara Vale has lived in the shadows for three years, quietly competent, fiercely intelligent, and unbreakable while pretending to be her glamorous twin sister Alessia in a loveless marriage of convenience to powerful businessman Adrian Wolfe. When Adrian's first love returns and the truth explodes, Elara's carefully built world shatters. But she refuses to break. With steel in her spine and secrets of her own, she'll face the pain, reclaim her identity, and decide whether the man who never truly saw her deserves a second look or if a new, steady presence offers the trust she's always craved. Heart-wrenching betrayal meets quiet triumphs in this unforgettable story of resilience, love, and the courage to stop hiding.

Lilah came to Mauritius looking for pieces of her mother. She never expected to find Easton. Six months after losing her mom, nineteen-year-old Lilah agrees to a tropical vacation meant to reconnect with the father she barely knows anymore. But when the trip she imagined quickly becomes something entirely different, she finds herself feeling more alone than ever. Until a pair of dark eyes catches hers across a crowded restaurant. Easton is confident, tattooed, effortlessly charming-and far too good at seeing through every wall Lilah has spent years building. What begins as stolen glances turns into teasing conversations, midnight adventures, secret touches, and one unforgettable connection neither of them was looking for. For a few perfect days, on an island thousands of miles from home, Lilah begins to feel alive again. But vacations have expiration dates. And when their connection becomes far more real than either of them planned, fear turns something beautiful into heartbreak. They leave Mauritius believing they'll never see each other again. They're wrong. Because some people are only meant to pass through your life. Others find their way back to you, no matter how far the tide pulls you apart. One island. One unexpected connection. And a love story that doesn't end when the plane takes off.

Maya Romero is forty. She rebuilt her life from the ground up and she's not about to let anything knock it over again. Benson Boone is twenty-four, fills stadiums for a living, and still goes to bed most nights feeling like something isn't quite right. Neither of them planned this. Life rarely asks permission. Iron and glitter. © IronandGlitter. All rights reserved. No reproduction, adaptation or translation permitted without the author's express permission.

"You're too much." George has heard it his whole life. From exes. From friends. From the voice in his head that sounds like all the people who left. Viva has her own pattern: falling for the wrong guys, losing herself, listening to her friends instead of her gut. When they meet at a coffee shop, it feels like something real. But real is messy. Real is George's hands always reaching for her. Real is Viva saying "not now" and watching his face fall. And real is four women telling George he's broken-until he starts to believe it. This is not a story about fixing someone. It's about learning that "too much" is not the same as "not enough." He's not using her. He just doesn't know how to love quietly. --- Tags: #toomuch #anxiousattachment #slowburn #contemporaryromance #emotionalhealing #mentalhealth #attachmenttheory #loveandtherapy #angstwithhappyending #wattys2025Quick Summary

Some stories are written to be read. Some stories are written to be buried. And some stories refuse to stay buried, no matter how deep the men in power dig. Kavya Singhania has built her career on one principle: the truth does not require permission. As a senior investigative journalist with The Indian Chronicle, she has exposed corruption in Kashmir, documented state violence in Assam, and survived a Taliban firefight in Kabul with a broken knee and a recorder full of testimony that powerful people would kill to silence. She is precise. She is relentless. She is exactly the kind of journalist that governments fear and newsrooms pretend to admire while quietly hoping she'll learn to be more... manageable. She will not. Arjun Mehra has spent a decade in the places the rest of the world has decided to forget. Aleppo. Mosul. Raqqa. Kabul. As a war affairs correspondent, he has been shot at, imprisoned, and shattered in ways that his composed exterior conceals with exhausting precision. He is not a idealist. He is not a cynic. He is something more dangerous - a man who no longer believes that the truth changes anything but continues to chase it anyway, because the alternative is to stop, and stopping means letting the darkness win without a fight. They have one night in common. Kabul. September 2021. Bullets in the dark. A dead man's voice on a recorder. A borrowed camera. Eight hundred meters between life and whatever waits beyond it. They don't speak of that night. Not to each other. Not to anyone. Because in their world, the things that connect you to another person are the same things that can be used to destroy you both. Three months later, they are seated across from each other in a sterile conference room in Delhi, assigned by their editors to collaborate on a story that neither of them requested. In the northeastern state of Manipur, something is happening that no one is calling a war. Ethnic violence has fractured the region into hostile territories.

Welcome to St. Francis International School. Isang school kung saan nabubuo ang mga pangarap, unang pag-ibig, at mga lihim na kayang baguhin ang buhay ng isang tao. Akala ni Ariana Celeste Reyes ay ordinaryong school life lang ang naghihintay sa kanya. Pero paano kung ang taong una niyang minahal... ay hindi pala ang taong nakatakdang manatili? At paano kung ang lalaking hindi niya inaasahang papasok sa buhay niya ang siyang handang ipaglaban siya hanggang sa huli? Sa pagitan ng pagkakaibigan, pag-ibig, family expectations, at mga pangakong hindi lahat natutupad... May mga pusong kailangang pumili. Dahil minsan... Hindi ang unang minahal ang nagiging endgame. Kundi ang taong patuloy kang pinipiling mahalin. Welcome to St. Francis International School. Where every hallway tells a story... And not every love gets a happy ending.

I was the perfect wife for twelve years. Smiling through the cold nights, the missed anniversaries, and the silence that swallowed our marriage whole. Dominic was powerful. Busy. Untouchable. Until the photograph shattered everything. My husband leaving a private clinic with another woman... and a little boy who carried his name, his eyes, and the tenderness he never gave me. Receipts. Payments. A birth certificate. Years of lies folded into proof while I stood beside him in diamonds, playing the fool for his family, his empire, and his reputation. They all wanted me quiet. His lawyers wanted my signature. His mistress wanted my life. But betrayal doesn't break a woman, it sharpens her. I'm done being the perfect wife in the photograph. Now, the man who silenced me for years will learn exactly what happens when I finally speak. A marriage-in-trouble romance of lies, power, revenge, and the fire that rises from ashes. Warning: High angst, slow-burn justice, and a heroine who stops begging and starts burning it all down.

Catherin has three things she can always count on: bad luck, terrible timing, and Mr. Noodles, her judgmental cat who somehow has his life together better than she does. At twenty-nine, Catherin is determined to prove that she's a perfectly functional adult. Unfortunately, life has other plans. Between disastrous dates, workplace chaos, embarrassing accidents, and well-meaning friends whose attempts to help usually make everything ten times worse, Catherin can't seem to make it through a single week without creating a new catastrophe. But no matter how spectacularly things fall apart, Catherin always finds a reason to laugh. Because sometimes life doesn't need to be perfect to be worth loving. A funny, chaotic, and heartwarming story about friendship, dating, adulthood, and one very opinionated cat.

When Jaxsper Finn's best friend submits him to the reality show, I'm With The Band, he expects to spend three weeks awkwardly coexisting with three famous brothers. What he doesn't expect is Aiden- charming, vulnerable, and just as trapped by the cameras as Jaxsper is. As their connection deepens under constant surveillance, Jaxsper discovers that reality TV is anything but real. Every moment is filmed, edited, and packaged for consumption. And when their secret relationship threatens both Aiden's carefully managed career and the show's explosive storyline, Jaxsper faces an impossible choice: protect what they have by fading into invisibility or fight for visibility in a world that isn't ready to see them. This story takes place in the year 2000- a time when MTV still played music videos. Music came on CDs that you bought at the mall. Mix tapes were still a love language. LiveJournal was where you wrote your feelings. AOL Instant Messenger was how you stayed connected. Welcome to the year 2000. A story about privacy, performance, and the price of being seen-or choosing not to be.

Some marriages don't end with betrayal. They end with silence. Y/N spent years waiting for her husband to remember the little things... birthdays, anniversaries, promises. He never did. Then someone else did. Jeon Jungkook. The best friend who never let her cry alone. The man who remembered every smile she had forgotten. Every gift. Every shopping trip. Every vacation. Every broken piece of her heart. He loved her... ...without ever asking her to leave her husband. But when Kim Taehyung discovers that the woman he has emotionally neglected finds comfort in another man's embrace, jealousy becomes more dangerous than rage. Because the arms that hold her when she cries... ...are not his. Now, one marriage stands on the edge of collapse. One best friend is hiding a love he'll never confess. And one husband must fight for the woman he only realizes he's losing when she stops waiting for him. In a story where no one is completely innocent and every choice has a price... Will love survive regret... or will someone else's kindness become the reason a marriage ends? This time, the biggest betrayal wasn't an affair. It was being absent long enough for someone else to become her safest place.

A heartwarming interracial billionaire romance about a single mother, a little girl who steals a man's heart, and a billionaire who discovers that the greatest inheritance isn't money-it's family. Filled with slow-burn romance, emotional healing, found family, adorable parenting moments, heartfelt proposals, and a well-earned happily ever after.

The Last Touch What if the person who held your hand was never the one who touched your heart? After losing faith in love, Selen never expected destiny to change her life again. But sometimes, the deepest feelings are born without a single touch. A story of love, distance, waiting, and one final wish... Because sometimes, one touch is enough to last a lifetime.

At nineteen, Abigail Carter leaves the rolling hills of eastern Kentucky behind when her family accepts a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to begin again in England. Everything is different. The history. The traditions. The weather. Even the way people speak. While struggling to build a new life, Abby accidentally meets Thomas Ashford, a disciplined young man serving in the King's Guard. Their worlds couldn't be more different-she's outspoken, stubborn, and raised on Southern hospitality, while Thomas is reserved, duty-bound, and sworn to put the Crown before himself. As friendship blossoms into love, life refuses to make things easy. Family emergencies pull Abby back to Kentucky. Royal duties keep Thomas in London. Public attention threatens their privacy. Cultural misunderstandings test their relationship. Career dreams clash with impossible choices. Sometimes love isn't defeated by villains... Sometimes it's challenged by real life. Together they'll discover that the strongest romances aren't built during perfect moments-but through sacrifice, forgiveness, and choosing each other every single day.

She measured her waist every morning. He measured his hope in months. The measuring tape won. Amara has spent her life controlling her body - measuring, restricting, sculpting - because she believes her worth lives in her waistline. When pregnancy forces her body to change in ways she can't control, she faces an impossible choice: let go of the identity she's built, or fight to keep it at any cost. Her boyfriend Alex watches her disappear into obsession. He begs her to stop. She hides. She lies. She works out in secret, wearing corsets at night, tightening the measuring tape until something finally breaks. This is not a romance. It's a reckoning. A story about muscle memory, inherited trauma, and the brutal difficulty of unlearning the beliefs that have become our identity. Because the body keeps everything - even the things we wish it would let go. 🕯️ Content warning: pregnancy loss, body image struggles, emotional distress. 16+ #Dark Romance#Psychological Fiction#Women's Fiction#Contemporary Romance#Emotional#Sad Story#Grief#Loss#BodyImage#Obsession#Love#Heartbreak#PregnancyLoss#Trauma#Healing#SlowBurn#Angst#RealisticFiction#Tearjerker#New Adult #Character Driven#Literary Fiction#Relationship Drama#Mental Health#Self Discovery#Emotional Rollercoaster#Dark Themes#Intense#Romance With Depth#Coming of Age#Family Drama#Mothers andDaughters#DomesticFiction#Infertility#Miscarriage#Grief and Healing