Widow Stories

ORGINALLY A 'PAID' STORY. NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** Jake Bryant, a disgraced Chicago detective, inserts himself into the police investigation of his murdered best friend to protect the woman he loves - his friend's widow. ***** Jake Bryant, a former Chicago PD detective, rushes home after his best friend is killed. Determined to find the murderer, he starts his own investigation into Tom's death. However, the case is complicated by the involvement of a motorcycle gang, drugs, and Jake's feelings for Tom's widow. But Jake has bigger problems when the police set the killer free- who then decides to silence Tom's family as well. Now Jake is faced with the ultimate dilema. Does he trust a broken system to protect Tom's family? Or does he seek his own brand of justice? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

Arnav Singh Rajput had stopped believing in love the day his marriage shattered his world. Now, his life revolves around two things-his empire and his little son, Ayush. Emotions are a luxury he no longer allows himself. Paridhi Singhania had loved once-and lost everything. A widow holding onto her husband's last wish, she smiles through her pain, refusing to let her past break her. Love, for her, is a chapter that ended long ago. Two broken souls. Two different pasts. One unexpected bond. When destiny brings Arnav and Paridhi together, it isn't love that connects them, it's responsibility and a child who unknowingly becomes the thread tying their lives together. But somewhere between silent care, shared pain, and unspoken emotions, hearts begin to change. And when love comes knocking again. Will they answer it? Or will the past hold them back forever?

In Arizona in the Wild West a young woman finds herself alone, hurt beyond repair but still working and leading her farm in a world full of burly men. Can she keep herself standing, with the help of her kind but enigmatic Indian foreman? And while she does... can she find the people responsible for her being alone in the first place? I really hope you enjoy my new book! Do leave me a star and a comment when you read, it's the interactive nature of this platform that I love so much and keeps me writing!

Bucky Barnes and Yelena Belova established as a couple healing from their individual pasts of torture and murder. Post-Endgame and TFATWS series. Read trigger warnings in Author's Notes, some dialogue translated in Russian. Maybe redundant once Thunderbolts comes out in May... READ and REVIEW! ONESHOT!

Subliminal // an act of functioning outside the area of conscious awareness but acting to influence one's thoughts or feelings // He never knew he claimed her but his heart knew she was only his. She never knew she was his but her heart knew she was only his. They never knew they belongs to each other but their heart always knew it. Cover credit- @misseditor101

Adhira had come to believe she was fate's favourite. Every happiness that one could only dare to wish for had been laid at her feet. She was raised in a family that understood her heart, nurtured her mind and gave her the finest education in every art she chose to learn. And when for the very first time, her heart fluttered for a man, Vikram Rathore, the King of Mehrangarh.. fate did not deny her that love either. Instead, she ended up marrying him and became his queen. She believed her life was perfect until that very fate turned cruel and took everything away from her, stripping her of every fragment of happiness she had ever known. Now pregnant with her late husband's child and the kingdom's potential heir, she finds herself torn apart between her heart's desire for peace and her sense of safety for her unborn baby. Raised to rule, Adhira was far from naive. She knew all too well that her child's safety was in question as Vikram's younger brother, Rajveer ascended the throne. And she would take any measure necessary to protect the little life growing within her. Whether it meant marrying Rajveer Rathore to secure her position... or killing him. [Zero usage of AI!]

Book 3: Finding Love Trilogy More than forty years have passed since Terrance "Terry" Presley lost the love of his life-Elvis Presley. A year after the death of their daughter, Lisa Marie, Terry finds himself utterly alone, haunted by memories and heartache. With the world having moved on, Terry remains trapped in the quiet echo of a love that once lit up the stage-and his soul.

When a young warrior princess and her father first moved from North Caroline into their new home in the small town of East Angel, Maine, it was supposed to be the last house on the last street of the last neighborhood in town. So last thing they expected to find was an abandoned gothic manor lurking next door to theirs. Or to meet the strange inhabitants that reside within and call the manor home. Now our fearless heroine and her new spooky ghostboy friend take on a terrifying worlds of ghosts, monsters, homework, and school bullies. Aadhyavi and Milo: Ghost Detectives (YEAH!!) is a coming of age fantasy horror/horror parody following an episodic format, each chapter being a self contained adventure that still furthers the relationships of the characters and the world around them.

Anthony Edward Stark once had someone at his side - his younger brother, Nicolas Victor Stark. But when HYDRA struck, Tony was left alone for years, believing he'd lost everything. Meanwhile, HYDRA reshaped Nicolas through brutal experimentation, awakening powers they intended to forge into a living super‑weapon

• exotic tea series - book three • where menaka and rishi make their butterfly pea tea together. © Suganthi Lakshminarayanan 2026

She found out her husband was cheating on the day he died. Because faithful husbands don't die in the other woman's bed. Over a year later she's content, she has her sons and her sister. Then she meets Mac and agrees to help him. It's just help, until it becomes more. Mac had never had a relationship that lasted more than a couple weeks. But there's something different about Olivia. But can he trust his feelings, even when he doesn't understand them.

Cyral Kaldr is known among SHIELD for being an emotionless girl with the most powerful resolve. She could fly higher than the limits of space, alter the reality around her, and change her form into any living creature she chooses. She's never known how to feel but when she meets the devilishly good-looking God of Mischief a spark of emotions go off in her. This girl demands to know more, and she'll get her way no matter what. This story is finished. It extends from Avengers: Assemble, Thor: Dark World, Iron Man 3, Captain America: Civil War, (Avengers: Age Of Ultron but charater is elsewhere), Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War.

In newly independent India, Shankar fights to give widows a second chance at life. One of the brides get abandoned at the altar, leaving him with a choice that will change both their lives forever. A marriage born from duty would soon become the greatest love of their lives.

IDLOVUKAZI EBUHLUNGWINI By Braveman "Marazo" Khanyile She woke up at 4:30am every day for 15 years. She built a hardware, she built a taxi business, she built a home. But her name was nowhere. She was just a wife who worked without pay. Jabulile Malinga is a 52-year-old woman from Ndwedwe, living in Umlazi Section V. When her husband Dumisani is killed in a robbery, she thinks her pain is over. But it is just beginning. Her brothers-in-law, Sifiso and Akhona, come to take her house, her taxis, and to take her as a wife through forced custom. The hardware workers, Lesley and Langelihle, tell her to go home and rest. The taxi drivers, Brian and Andile, steal her daily money. Her friends, Nomakhwezi and Lindiwe, tell her to endure. Her co-wives, Gugu and Nokwanda, watch her fall. But Jabulile has kept every receipt since 2008. Set against the real South Africa of today - where commissions expose police corruption, where champions like Zolani Tete are shot outside their homes, where four men are burnt alive in Dunoon by angry communities, and where women from March and March march in Durban and Shallcross because they are tired of hijackings, rape and kidnappings - this is the story of one woman who decides to stop enduring and start fighting. From workplace humiliation, to matric shoes with holes, to a court battle in Durban High Court, to learning to love again with Andile who brings flowers from his own garden, Jabulile rises. IDLOVUKAZI EBUHLUNGWINI is not just a novel. It is the story of every South African woman who works without pay, who is told "he is a man, understand your role," who is inherited like property, and who still finds the courage to say: "I am not property. I am a woman. I own my story." A must-read for every mother, daughter, and every man who wants to understand the pain and power of a woman. Writer: Braveman "Marazo" Khanyile.

## REBIRTH: GAENGSAENG Yeong-sik Han did not come to America searching for love. After losing every woman who ever felt like home, the Korean widower builds his life around one rule: **survive without needing anyone.** He works. He studies. He keeps his apartment dark, his routines strict, and his heart locked behind years of grief. Happiness is dangerous. Attachment always ends in loss. And love is a luxury he refuses to risk twice. Then Polly Bennett walks away from nine pounds of fish-and straight into his carefully controlled life. Polly is a vibrant Black bakery owner with flour on her clothes, laughter in her voice, and wounds hidden beneath every joke. After a former lover betrayed her, stole from her, and nearly destroyed the business she sacrificed everything to build, Polly learned how to turn pain into sugar, survival into success, and heartbreak into light. When she recognizes the loneliness Yeong-sik is determined to hide, she decides he needs a friend. He disagrees. But Polly does not disappear easily. What begins with shared bus rides, forgotten fish, and an unwanted friendship becomes late-night conversations, cultural misunderstandings, Korean language lessons, Southern desserts, and a love neither of them believed they could survive. But when Yeong-sik is called back to Busan to fulfill a promise, their future fractures across two countries. He cannot abandon his duty. She will not erase the life she fought to rebuild. Can two wounded hearts create one future without sacrificing themselves-or will grief steal the rebirth unfolding before their eyes? **REBIRTH: GAENGSAENG** is an emotionally powerful Korean and Black interracial romance about grief, healing, chosen family, cultural connection, second chances, and discovering that home is not always a place. Sometimes, home is the person who teaches you how to live again.

ʀᴇᴅ ʀɪᴅɪɴɢ ʜᴏᴏᴅ meets ꜱʜɪᴇʟᴅ ᴏꜰ ꜱᴘᴀʀʀᴏᴡꜱ in this romantic fantasy where a war widow is bound to an enemy general and thrust into a wild land of unknown monsters. ------------------ After her husband's death on the battlefield, Rosafiere DeGraaf is sent back to the gilded halls of her parents' estate. When a royal decree binds former enemies together, Rosafiere is chosen to wed a man of Kharvos--a land of ancient forests and unforgiving people. Far away from everything she has ever known, Rosafiere must navigate a society with customs that challenge her own and beliefs she thought to be fairytales. Coswald Fitzgerald is not the husband she would have chosen. Gruff, sharp-tongued, and fiercely protective, he resents the political match as much as she does. His silences weigh as heavily as his words and the savage strength he keeps tightly leashed only makes him more difficult to understand. They clash at every turn, but somewhere between wary glances, barbed remarks, and reluctant acts of kindness, something far more dangerous begins to grow. Old enemies linger in the shadows, unwilling to accept the fragile peace. Whispers of strange creatures stalking the wilds grow louder. And within the walls of her new home, resentment simmers among those who see her as nothing more than a symbol of the enemy. Bound by duty, drawn together by something deeper, Rosafiere and Coswald must learn to trust one another in a world determined to tear them apart. Because in a land shaped by war and ruled by ancient traditions, loyalty is hard won, trust is dangerous, and the smallest touch may be the greatest risk of all. Started: June 16, 2026

Set in an alternate universe, Anthony Bridgerton, a man determined to not fall in love with his future Viscountess, reunites with a crush from his adolescence, only to find she is a widow with a son. The ton will surely talk, but Anthony's heart cannot help but long for her. Can he marry her without promising to love her? ________________ This is a reimagined love story for Anthony Bridgerton of the Bridgerton book series by Julia Quinn and Netflix's show. Although I love Kate Sheffield/Sharma, this is just a fun little project that came about in my recent obsession with Bridgerton. PG-13 rating - there will be spice🌶️ (such as innuendos, intimate touching, kissing, and fade to black intimacy scenes) but nothing graphic. Minor language throughout. TW ❗️- mentions of restricted eating (limited rations) and weight loss because of it.

"I'm going to take care of you and the kids, Grace." Oh. I just...I get this feeling within me that just warms me throughout. "You already are, Joe." "I know, but I mean in a different way. I've been doing that as an outsider. I'd like to be a part of your family." "Joseph...you've been a part of our family for years. We've never thought of you in any other way." It's the truth. His eyebrows raise and he stares at me for a while. Then he nods. I smile gently and he kisses my cheek again then gives me a smoldering look. "Thank you." He brings one of my hands to his lips, pressing a kiss to it, his eyes still fixed on mine. My breath catches with the intensity there. "I love you, Grace." The sincerity in his words are as clear as day. All at once, I feel so incredibly grateful to have him in my life and I find tears springing up. His gaze softens as he sees them. Ordinarily I would try to hide this obvious sign of vulnerability, but I don't. There's no reason to with him. "I love you too." He smiles gently and then turns his head towards my hand still on his face, pressing a tender kiss to my palm. ~~~ This is an age gap interracial (bwwm) Christian romance that involves Joe, a widower, and Grace, a widow of six years and family friend. Joe has just lost his wife and Grace is there for him as he works through a grief that she is unfortunately familiar with. As the years go by and he continues to heal, their friendship develops into something more.

"I'm not qualified to raise a human." "It's fine, she's barely human anyway." ➽──────────────❥ Tony Stark never planned on having a kid. Then again, Tony Stark didn't plan a lot of things. Yet somehow, his life now involves a daughter with kinetic powers, six Avengers playing dysfunctional parents, and a kitchen that is constantly on fire. Aurora was never supposed to survive the reactor explosion that destroyed her past. But as the blue light beneath her skin grows more unpredictable, so do the shadows of where she came from. She was created for something far more dangerous than Tony realizes. For now, Aurora is just trying to survive the daily chaos of Avengers Tower. But between family dinners and secret investigations into her past, she's plagued by New York's most persistent problem: Peter Parker is exhausting. Spider Man is relentless. And neither of them knows how to take a hint (###) Ironman's daughter. (###) x peter parker.

𝑰𝑵 𝑾𝑯𝑰𝑪𝑯 a girl who lost everything moved to Brooklyn to start a new life only for her past to catch up with her once more. And as much as America wants to portray itself as the hero, it holds just as many twisted secrets and vile experiments. It's kids that face these horrible truths. Used and abused by the system. These people were supposed to protect the innocent, instead they manipulated them until they exposed the evil underneath. {MCU timeline with Andrew's Peter!}