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Reign Caldwell did not come to Miami to dance. She came to disappear. Chicago had taken enough from her. She left with a single bag, a bruised past, and a promise to herself that she would never give another person the power to decide who she became. Miami was supposed to be temporary. Velvet Gilt was supposed to be a paycheck. Neither stayed simple for long. Behind the velvet curtains and flashing lights, the club operated by rules that were never written down but never broken. Money moved fast. Secrets moved faster. Every woman inside learned how to survive, and Reign had always been good at that. Trusting people was harder. Then there was Reid Harmon. Steady where everyone else seemed hungry. Patient in ways that made her suspicious. He appeared week after week without asking for anything she knew how to give. The more she learned about him, the more dangerous he felt to the walls she had spent years building. But Reid was not the only complication. The women of Velvet Gilt became something she never expected to find. Friendship. Loyalty. Understanding. In a world that demanded pieces of them every night, they somehow found ways to keep each other standing. And just when Miami began to feel less like an escape and more like a life, old shadows started creeping into the edges of the picture. Because some pasts stayed buried. And some never stopped looking for you. Bitter Gilt is a dark romance about survival, desire, chosen family, and the cost of reclaiming yourself after everything that tried to define you. Set against the glittering nightlife of Miami, it explored what happened when a woman stopped running and started choosing her own future. Nobody leaves clean. Not everyone leaves. ©️ Relle H.

The strange grief of getting everything you ever wanted. After years of filming stories in her bedroom, sacrificing weekends, and chasing a dream nobody around her fully understood, Melani Carter earns a full scholarship to Oracle Film School in London. A new city. A new life. A chance to finally become the person she's always wanted to be. And somehow, it works. London gives Mel everything she hoped for: friendships that feel like family, a boy who sees her beyond the stories she creates, and a version of herself that feels more real than ever before. So why does going home feel impossible? Because maybe the hardest part about chasing your dream isn't leaving. It's realizing you might not want to go back.

A Dancer's Prescription- Part II When everything was going good, what happened between lavika and Reyansh that they ended up taking divorce? Why Reyansh let his love go away from him? Is this the ending of there story? Many questions in the minds and a single reply to them, to know the answers of your question, read the chapters. Lavika Raichand, his love, left Kashi and shifted to Rajasthan just to be away from him. Reyansh Singhania, a successful cardiologist, left his everything behind and in end lost his love as well.

❓ How far would you run to escape a life that isn't yours? ❓ Can you truly build a future when you're still hiding behind the armor of your past? ❓ When family expectations and real love collide... what are you willing to sacrifice?

Married to escape. Loved without expecting it. Born to reclaim a legacy. Liana Sterling wasn't meant to inherit anything until the truth revealed everything Now she must fight her family her past and the lies that shaped her But she's not alone Alexander Wynn has been waiting to love her and he'll burn the world before he lets her fall

"Some palaces are built with marble... others are built on secrets." Aarohi never dreamed of becoming the bride of one of the country's most powerful families. Aryaveer Rathore never intended to let anyone close enough to break the walls around his heart. But fate has other plans. Thrown into the magnificent yet mysterious Rathore mansion, Aarohi soon discovers that behind the glittering chandeliers and royal legacy lies a family haunted by betrayals, hidden truths, dangerous enemies, and wounds that never truly healed. Every smile hides a secret. Every promise has a price. And every step she takes brings her closer to a truth that could change everything. As love begins to bloom between two hearts from completely different worlds, they must face impossible choices, family rivalries, heartbreak, and storms that threaten to tear them apart before they ever get a chance to be together. Will love be enough to survive in a world where trust is the rarest luxury? Or will the palace that brought them together become the very reason they lose each other? ✨ A story filled with slow-burn romance, family drama, emotional healing, unexpected twists, unforgettable characters, protective love, laughter, heartbreak, and moments that will make you smile one chapter and cry the next. Enter the palace... but be warned. Once you step inside, turning back won't be easy.

Synopsis: Limerence is not just a love story. It's a series of misfortunate events that lead us to becoming. It's a story about recognition. About what happens when the universe orchestrates something too precise to be coincidence, when two people meet not by accident but by design. It's about a reckoning and the rupture that follows. It's about reverence. Set against the backdrop of soft nights and silent mornings, of city lights and heartbeats in dark rooms, Limerence follows a bond that blurs the line between fate and fantasy. Their love exists in fragments, in glances, in silence, in the ache of what can't be said. It's intimate, disarming, and deeply human. But love, like seasons, shifts. And sometimes the most profound connections are the ones that leave us. They haunt us. They shape us. They teach us how to hold on and how to let go. It's also a reflection on the quiet betrayals that unfold in the name of friendship. On the violence that lingers in the rooms where someone should have already left. Sometimes the people we tether ourselves to begin to rot the very places meant to hold love. And by the time we realize it, we've already bruised the hands reaching out to save us. This is a story for anyone who's ever touched something sacred, fleeting, and real. Even if only for a moment. A song for every soft ache, illusion, and unraveling. Limerence: Reverence and Ruins - the soundtrack. Listen as you read: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/limerence-the-soundtrack/pl.u-38oWXB4uPpDdPJ4 Disclaimer: Although this story may resemble real people and events, certain details have been dramatized or altered in language to create a version of reality as poetic and beautiful as it once felt. Some locations have been changed, and names have been intentionally left out. This story was never meant for the world to fully understand. Only for two people. And only they will ever know the truth that lingers quietly in Paris.

Morgan has signed up for a group holiday to Thailand, hoping to meet new people. After missing her flight and the initial information shared with the rest of the group, she is helped out by 21-year-old Dean Carter. The two become inseparable, doing everything together, making memories they never will forget. However, when the trip ends, they return to their separate lives, promising to stay in touch; Dean heads back to Manchester, while Morgan returns to New Jersey. Morgan eventually enters a relationship, leaving her with little time-and a boyfriend who forbids her from contacting Dean. Three years pass before the relationship ends; facing reality again, she realizes how much she misses Thailand. She decides to revisit the cities from the itinerary they had mapped out on their bucket list three years earlier. While traveling on her own, she suddenly runs into someone she recognizes.

Josie McCall and Timothy Matthews were in love. Until, they weren't. It's been two years since their breakup, and Tim is a dedicated university student. He's been buried in books and homework since that dreaded day, and he's had little time to focus on his romantic life. With graduation just around the corner, he's worried about his future and what it will hold - or possibly, who. Josie is a diehard romantic. Her whole life she's pined for "The One". The one who will make everything okay, the one who can take her flaws and find the beauty in them. And now that she's engaged to Nathan, she's found it - or so, she tells herself. One day, Tim and Josie find themselves reconnecting, and as much as they don't want them to, old feelings resurface. Told from different times of their lives together, Tim and Josie's journey in and out of love is left with one question: When it feels like first love stays with you forever, was their breakup a mistake? AWARDs • 1st in Romance | The Eonia Awards • 2nd in Teen Fiction | Coffee After Dark • 2nd in Romance | Grande Awards • 2nd in Teen Fiction | Quotidian Love Awards • 2nd in Teen Fiction | The Moonshine Awards • 3rd in Young Adult | The Aspirants Award • Best Title | The Moonshine Awards Cover by @katherineWitherspoon

She's a girl of ice and ambition, with a mind for fashion and a heart that moves to its own rhythm. Moving to Montreal for a fresh start; only to find that some things don't stay buried. There, she meets Shane, the magnetic captain of the Voyageurs team. Calm, commanding, and achingly real, he's the one person who makes her world feel steady in a life that's always been unpredictable. They quickly became friends. But she's carrying a secret, A past that refuses to stay silent. Someone she can't forget. Someone who left a mark she thought she'd escaped. In a city of lights, ice, and rivalry; every glance, every touch, every decision carries weight. Love, ambition, and old ghosts collide And she wonders whether some secrets are meant to stay buried, or if they'll come back to claim her heart. I don't own Heated Rivalry book's or the series' characters. ❗️I DON'T OWN HEATED RIVALRY BOOK'S OR THE HEATED RIVALRY SERIES' CHARACTERS. ❗️ It's written according to those sources. Book (Heated Rivalry): Reid, R. (2019). Heated rivalry. Carina Press. Book series (Game Changers series): Reid, R. (2019-2022). Game changers (Book series). Carina Press.

***Book 1 of the Soulmates Series*** In the middle of an intergalactic war for freedom and rights, there exists a distant technologically militant planet called Gav'yx, where next to becoming a soldier, finding your soulmate is everything. So much, that the first thing all Gav'yxians see upon their birth, is the image of their future soulmate on the exact day and in the exact place they're destined to meet them. However, on a futuristic earth - now called Uniterra - the idea of finding one's soulmate is a belief held by very few. Especially when it comes to seventeen-year-old Lane Nishimura, a pessimistic student in the extremely competitive space training program at Unity High, struggling with keeping the secrets of his very mysterious and dark past, his mental health, self-esteem, and slew of trust issues caused by years of failed friendships, bullying, and sub-par romances that's left him all but giving up on the idea of there ever being someone out there destined for him. And then along comes Zuuro; a lovestruck alien from the planet Gav'yx, who's long dreamed of the day he'd finally meet Lane, and of getting what would surely be his happily ever after. However, as he soon discovers, finding romance with Lane is not as easy as he assumed. Because not only does Lane not know he and Zuuro are destined to be together, but due to almost losing everything in his last breakup, and to what he's sure is just another trick being played on him by his half-brother, Darin, he's extremely reluctant to open himself up and risk getting close to anyone again. Will Lane allow love to prevail, or will his mistrust and the secrets of his past doom them before it's even had a chance? Find out, in The Foreigner & The Pessimist, the first installment in the all new Soulmates series.

In a world of the wealthy and the ruthless, the truth is the most dangerous weapon. Adelaide Brightwood is a penniless orphan who earns her place at an elite school for millionaires' children through nothing but her brilliant mind. To her corrupt, powerful classmates, she becomes the perfect target for bullying. In this brutal environment, her only support is a small circle of close friends: a loyal roommate and two starkly different boys - the cold, mature Adam and the charming Edmond. Both secretly begin competing for her heart. Everything changes the night the body of Adelaide's school tormentor is found on campus grounds. The penniless girl instantly becomes the prime suspect. As the police close in and the elite's secrets start to surface, her friends' loyalty is put to the ultimate test. One of them will go as far as a desperate lie to protect Adelaide - while the real killer still walks free. In a school where everyone is hiding something, Adelaide must uncover the truth before she ends up behind bars herself. How far will you go to survive in a world of lies?

He looks like he has everything under control. She's barely holding hers together. Samantha Carter has spent years convincing everyone and herself that she doesn't need anyone. Until the past she buried starts resurfacing in ways she can't ignore. Adam Williamson doesn't explain himself. He never has. But when it comes to Samantha, his silence starts to reveal more than words ever could and not all of it is safe. Between unspoken feelings, buried secrets, and a mistake that refuses to stay in the past... some connections aren't meant to be broken. And some truths should have stayed hidden.

ATTN CURRENT READERS: My book will be going through major editing sometime in the near future! I've decided that I'll go through a mass edit once I finish the book and possibly delete it then, and repost once I've finished my novel! But for now please enjoy my first ever attempt at writing a book :) Thank you everyone! __________________________________________________ Former wild child and VepStein media's heiress, Katherine "Kitty/K8/KATE" is a pastry decorator at a local spunky bakery by day, and models for those of the more wicked nature, at night. She dreams of ditching the odd themed photo-shoots, and opening up her own retro bakery someday in the City. Luckily, her father compromises with a proposition to set other propositions, up to such standard. So what happens when your, MEGA-RICH, absentee father forces a down-to-earth, eclectic and recovering addict daughter to take over his empire? Well, you hire a more than capable guy to do all the work for you---Duh. Kitty's next few months are filled with avoiding italian bad news bears exes, NOT FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE TEMP, and winning her father's golden proposition. WARNING: Lotsa profanity, some chapters pertain to drug-addiction/drug-recovery/sobriety, including alcohol, tobacco, marijuana etc etc. Oh, and a bit of naughty bits here and there too! ;) thanks so much. x -

An ongoing weekly anthology by bestselling author J.L. Weil. Each week a new chapter will be posted for this NA Paranormal Romance about, you guessed it, a witch and a vampire.

Katherine Grace Yuzon, heiress of the influential businessman named Rodelio Yuzon and a rising writer in the Philippines, only ever wished for a simple life. But with great legacy comes a price-and hers is far from ordinary. With the wealth left by her grandfather, the growing fame as an author, and the secrets of her past, Katherine finds herself caught in a web of people and unexpected events which seeking to control over her inheritance, dreams and even her heart. Now, she's being tested-not only as Rodelio's rightful heiress, but as a writer, and also a woman fighting for her own love story. Will she be forced to choose between the life she wants and the love she's afraid to lose? Or will she risk everything, even her safety to hold onto both?

"Into the Shadows of Blackwood" takes place in a serene hamlet surrounded by an ancient forest, where a dark secret lies hidden. The townspeople are haunted by an enigmatic malevolent force, a nightmare they dare not acknowledge. Stepping into an abandoned mansion, Emily embarks on a journey of discovery when she stumbles upon a cryptic journal. Unraveling the tragic tale of Isabella, accused of witchcraft, Emily and her friends confront their own fears to liberate the town from the haunting presence. The story unfolds as a powerful testament to hope, unity, and the strength found in facing inner demons. This is a story that was inspired by the song In the Shadows by Amy Stroup. The pictures do not belong to me.

He was my brother's best friend. My first heartbreak. My forever what if Mae Ellison has always loved from the sidelines - her brother's football games, the quiet town she can't wait to leave, and the boy she was never supposed to want. Silas Bennett, her brother's best friend and the town's golden boy, was always untouchable. Until one lie changes everything. What starts as pretend soon feels too real, and beneath the Friday night lights, Mae learns that love can be the riskiest game of all.

One roof. Four guys. One Girl. And then there's a lockdown. Marco thought there's going to be fun days ahead in light of the new addition to their rented house. But it turned into a series of a living nightmare as they got stuck there in the middle of a lockdown. **A shorter version of this story was originally published as "Just One Of The Boys" from the anthology Outside Looking In** © 2020 @kathnappy This is a work of fiction. The characters and scenes in this story either are the product of the author's creative imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events and persons, living or otherwise, is coincidental and unintentional. Cover design made with Canva.

Warning to all the viewers about to view this content .It is specifically designed for people above the age of sixteen. It may include one or more of the following : language,sex and many more.... Though I do know not everyone reading will be above the age of sixteen because am not either..... I really hope you guys like this story line and lives you excited for more ..... My name is Nicole and I am going to attempt my first ever story..I really hope you guys will follow,like,comment and vote for me........ Axel is a handsome young man who lost his twin brother and best friend at an early age and that left him broken ...him and his brother Alec went through a terrible hardship when there mom and dad were getting a divorce and yet his mom was bearing another baby for him,she worn custody of all the kids but it still did not make up for the pain they had to go through because of the father's deceit. When Alec died in a terrible accident Axel never shed a tear and become this boy who is closed off to the world and hates the world and himself for the death of his brother..... Moxie is a young woman who has grown up with her dad,step mom and step sister.her mom died right after she had given birth due to heavy bleeding.she considers her step mom as her second mom but as for her step sister not much as a sister beacuse they both think they stole the attention off of them by there parents and don't seem to get along.moxie has a best friend by the name of calista.her and calista have been friends for the longest time possible ever since they were five.. Moxie and Axel have different ways on how they view the world will they ever come together and conjoin as one.....stay tuned to find out🥺