Starting-over Stories

At Thirty, most people are settling into their lives. For Nicole, life was just beginning-because she finally had the keys to her own front door. After a decade lost in the suffocating shadow of a controlling relationship, she walked away with nothing but a two-year0old son, a small car, and twenty dollars in her pocket. The world told her she was too late to start over. He told her she was to weak to survive without him. But they didn't know about the night shifts. Between the antiseptic-smelling halls of a nursing home and the quiet, box-filled rooms of a new house, she began to build a sanctuary. From the grueling 16-hour shifts as a CNA to the midnight glow of nursing school textbooks, The Reclamation of Thirty is a story of a woman unlearning a decade of lies. It's a journey of reconciling with her past, reclaiming her mother's help, and realizing that "starting from zero" is the most powerful place a woman can be.

She is a good friend of his old teammate and mentor. She gets invited to the start of the new season in Qatar. Not only to support her friend, but also to get away from it all. He is a protégé of the big Valentino Rossi. It's his 3rd season in MotoGP and there are high expectations. But he misses something, he needs someone he can rely on. Someone who's honest and someone who knows how it works. - A fanfic on Marco Bezzecchi, with mentioning of all of the academy boys, some girlfriends and MotoGP riders. I do not own or know any of them, I create my own characters, based on what's known and what's public. I don't want to offend anyone with this book.

When Adeline's mother passes away, everything changes. Her father decides it's time to leave behind the quaint countryside, their old farm, and the only home she's ever known to move closer to her grandparents in his hometown. At first, Addie is reluctant to leave everything she's ever loved behind. When she arrives in the city, she feels completely lost in a place that doesn't feel like home. Until she meets three brothers. All so drastically different that she doesn't even realise they're related at first. A flirty playboy with a love for electric guitar. A logical photographer with a notion for anything mathematical. A dinosaur-loving golden retriever of a guy with a passion for baking and a talent for being completely oblivious. Despite their differences, they can all agree on one thing: Adeline is unlike anyone they've ever met. And maybe, somewhere she believes she'll never get used to, Addie might just find something she never expected. Anything could happen. Word Count: 5339

After losing her apartment, her best friend, and the future she thought she wanted in the span of a week, Kit Martin is forced to start over. Armed with an unfinished resume, a bruised heart, and exactly zero life plans, she moves into a cramped apartment with Hiro-a baker, restaurant worker, occasional Pilates instructor, and the most confusingly kind person she's ever met. The building is old. The walls are thin. The neighbors are loud. But between shared dinners, unexpected friendships, and the strange comfort of people who ask nothing from her, Kit begins to wonder if getting her life wrecked wasn't the end of her story. Maybe it was the beginning.

After thirty-two years of marriage, Dana believes she understands love: loyalty, sacrifice, and endurance. But when a childhood friend reenters her life, forgotten parts of herself begin to awaken. Gabriel offers conversation without judgment, presence without demand - and a mirror to the woman Dana once was before duty shaped her choices. As friendship deepens into something undeniable, Dana must confront painful truths about her marriage, her past, and the quiet ways she has disappeared within her own life. Caught between history and possibility, she faces an impossible question: Is it ever too late to choose happiness?

Love wasn't supposed to feel like this. Fricelda "Fria" Vergara thought love meant holding on, that if she loved hard enough, forgave enough, and became exactly what he needed, Anjo Lorenzo would finally love her the way she deserved. But love should never feel like walking on eggshells. It shouldn't feel like waiting for an apology that never comes. It shouldn't feel like forgetting who you are just to survive. For years, Fria convinced herself that she was lucky to have him-until the night she realized she was only surviving him. With a suitcase full of fear and a heart that doesn't know how to beat without him, she runs. But leaving isn't the hardest part. It's the nights where the silence feels heavier than his words ever did. It's the memories that don't leave, the scars no one else can see. It's learning how to exist after breaking free. And when Anjo finds her again, whispering promises that sound dangerously like love, Fria must make a choice. To fall back into the arms that once destroyed her. Or to finally choose herself-even if she doesn't know how. 💔 A deeply emotional, raw, and gripping story about survival, healing, and finding your way back to yourself after losing everything. 🔹 Read now if you love: ✔️ Toxic love stories that leave a mark ✔️ Characters who are broken but fighting ✔️ A slow-burn journey of healing and self-discovery ✔️ The kind of book that lingers in your heart long after the last page 📖 Start reading Chapter 1: A Bruise No One Can See now.

An adventure waiting to be lived. Though young, this woman is starting her life afresh. She sets off on a journey through life and across the world. She struggles with everyday problems, but despite this, she tries to keep smiling and live life to the full! Finding her way, full of smiles and joy as well as tears and sadness, making mistakes, echoes of the past, making friends, travelling. A story that seems light-hearted at first glance, but decide for yourselves. May it be close to your hearts.

A woman finally leaves her loveless marriage for a life of freedom, only to have her plans upended when she falls for an up-and-coming rock star. 📖 New chapters released bi-monthly.

Liza Jane is a story of a woman who exact revenge on her cheating husband.

When Zoey turns 17 and is about to forced into a life of prostitution, she has no choice but to make a run for it. What happens when she makes to an island and meets a group who is willing to put everything on the line for her? Does she end up finding her happiness or does she get drug into a whole new mess of trouble? Read to find out her fate

After twenty-nine days, love was only the beginning. Ali and Joe took a chance on something that wasn't supposed to be possible. Now they're facing the reality of what loving each other truly means. Between kids, careers, distance, and a life that never slows down, staying connected isn't easy. Airports replace late-night texts. Video calls replace quiet moments together. And real life brings challenges neither of them could have predicted. As schedules collide and pressure mounts, Ali and Joe must learn how to fight for each other without losing themselves. Because love isn't just about how it starts-it's about the choices you make when things get hard. Can what they found in twenty-nine days survive the weight of everyday life? And what will they risk, sacrifice, and change to stay together? Sometimes love isn't a feeling. It's a decision-made every single day.

The confusion is overwhelming

Escaping her past, Sarah goes to live with her brother in a small town in Texas. Keeping to herself almost hidden is how she lives until she runs into handsome firefighter Dereck Wells.Literally. Dereck content with his life, but craving a woman to be by his side. He has given up on finding the right women in his small little town until he gets knocked over by a shy, sweet woman who is clearly in a hurry. Follow these two people as they conquer love, hardship, family, and dark pasts through there journey to finding one another. Save one another.

WARNING! HTTYD 2 SPOILERS!!!! The "Dragon Paint" series continues with the second chapter, "Starting Over". Paintsplash learns of a mysterious power inside her, one that she wishes she didn't have. What she sees she can't stop, and this starts to eat away at her sanity. Meanwhile, Hiccup and Astrid look for Eret, Skullcrusher, and their three missing dragons. Along the way, they deepen their romance and encounter some not-so-friendly acquaintances that threaten their very lives........

In the pulsing heart of the city, where neon lights danced with the shadows, a man named Marcus sat on a worn-out bench. The cool evening breeze played with the pages of the newspaper he held in his hands, but his eyes weren't on the headlines. They were fixed on the bustling street before him, watching as people streamed by like a river of forgotten faces.

''When I was eleven, my dad told me we were moving to the Netherlands for three years. I didn't speak English. I didn't want to leave Zaragoza. What started as a scary move turned into a crazy story full of new friends, gossip, heartbreak, and one girl who changed everything."

Tragedy plus time equals a second chance... In 1952, Dean Edmonds wishes he could start over. Trapped in a loveless marriage and a job he hates, he fears he'll never realize his boyhood fantasy of becoming an author. But his dream of a new opportunity turns into dark reality when a deadly car crash kills his wife and children... Nine years later, Dean has rebuilt his life with a new family and a successful career. Finally content with his world, a second car accident doesn't just rip the people he loves away... it sends him back in time and into the arms of his first wife and their crumbling marriage. Unsure how to endure his impossible scenario, can Dean live life better the second time around? Fate's Highway is a standalone sci-fi romance with a twist. If you like family dramas, speculative fiction, and Twilight Zone-style endings, you'll love Christine D. Shuck's continuum-bending tale.

Her boyfriend of four years is a twin. Sweet, caring, her perfect Prince Charming. His brother and friends, on the other hand, are wildcards through and through, when one thing leads to another she finds herself somewhere she never wanted to be. Right there in the middle of the two most datable guys in the country. Two famous guys. One lie. One girl with one heart. Two broken hearts, and no visible solution.

Imagine having to leave everything you know behind. Friends, School, Home welp thats what happened to Gabrielle Dixon. After the arrest of her mother and father she was sent to live with her half brother Dylin Gilbert who was her only living family willing to take her in. Bad news is Dylin lives in Round Rock Texas very far away from her home town of Cleveland Ohio. Being 16 Gabrielle use to doing whatever she wants when she wants and answers to no one guess she'll be leaving all that behind in starting over