Freshstart Stories

📚 NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE, KU AND PAPERBACK! Read now: US: https://a.co/d/0bmGM6Gy UK: https://amzn.eu/d/0bgAYaPB CA: https://a.co/d/09CpG1Df AU: https://amzn.asia/d/0eoasoCN IN: https://amzn.in/d/0jjun1kc MX: https://a.co/d/0bEnUjYI BR: https://a.co/d/02cybMIk ___________ 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲. Nora is good at surviving. She has been doing it her whole life. She knows which silences are safe. She knows how to make herself small enough to go unnoticed. She knows how to hold a life together with nothing but routine and patience and the quiet, unshakeable belief that if she follows the rules, nothing will fall apart. She has never asked for more. She has never believed she deserved it. It isn't a big life. But it is hers. And it is stable. And stable is everything. 𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲... 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁. Suddenly, the life she carefully built begins to crack. Uneven. Unpredictable. Wrong. For someone who has always survived by knowing what comes next...that is the most dangerous thing of all. Because if she can't predict him-what comes after? And if she leaves... 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼? ___________

Nellie Davis has finally shaken free of the life that was slowly shrinking her. Plus-sized, stubbornly kind, and done apologizing for taking up space, she's pouring her heart, savings, and far too much caffeine into a small bakery of her own. The ovens are warm, but business is not, and her hard-won hope is beginning to falter. Then a little girl with a crown of unruly curls and a guarded father step through her door. Their arrival feels oddly fated, their presence disarming. And as they return, again and again, Nellie starts to rediscover pieces of herself she thought she'd lost and stumbles into a story far bigger than the one she set out to write.

After leaving her emotionally abusive fiancé, Emilia Monroe returns home to start over. But when she meets Knox Wilder, her brother's best friend, she begins to wonder if everything she lost led her exactly where she was meant to be.

The first installment of BCD series.

Cassie ( Cassandra)Valo just finished her junior year of high school and senior year is about to start. Cassie lives in a small rural town in Arizona where everyone knows each other. Cassie's boyfriend died in a drunk driving accident 6 months ago on her 17th birthday. Cassie hasn't dated anyone since. Her family moves to sunny Los Angeles, California. Leaving her old life behind in Rose. Cassie navigates grief, new friendships, love triangles , new school, new situationships and a new life. Will Cassie finally learn that it's okay to move forward? or Will she keep up with patterns from the past and keep moving backwards?

Lady Evelina Ashbourne was known throughout the kingdom as the perfect noblewoman. Beautiful, kind-hearted, graceful, and talented, she possessed every quality a man could desire in a wife. Yet despite her devotion, her husband-the powerful Duke Damien Blackwood-never spared her a glance. For five long years, Evelina endured a loveless marriage. While society mocked her as the duke's unwanted wife, she continued to fulfill her duties without complaint, hoping that one day her sincerity would reach him. It never did. When the duke finally asked for a divorce to make room for the woman he truly loved, Evelina surprised everyone. She agreed. Without tears. Without arguments. Without looking back. Leaving the capital behind, Evelina settled in a distant province and began a modest trading business. Armed only with her intelligence and determination, she transformed a small shop into a commercial empire that spread across the kingdom and beyond. Five years later, her name was known everywhere. Nobles sought her friendship. Merchants fought for her favor. Princes crossed borders to meet her. And powerful men who once ignored her now competed for her attention. Including the duke who had thrown her away. But Damien's regret came far too late. The woman who once loved him with all her heart no longer belonged to him. Now, surrounded by admirers and standing at the peak of success, Evelina has no intention of returning to the past. After all... Why choose the man who rejected her when the entire kingdom wants her instead? "The day he let her go was the day the kingdom began falling in love with her."

Petra Holt has spent two years rebuilding herself into a woman with boundaries, routines, good boots, and a nervous system that only occasionally tries to flee the premises. Then Viktor Falk walks into her first meeting. Viktor: former colleague, current professional hazard, and the man Petra has mentally filed under Do Not Open Unless Supervised By A Therapist. Unfortunately, he is also her new research lead. His desk is in her sightline. His conclusions are annoyingly good. His face has, offensively, improved. And he keeps acting happy she's there, which is both suspicious and bad for office productivity. Petra's plan is simple: trust the raw notes, document everything, never be alone with his theories, and absolutely do not notice his shoulders. A sharp workplace romcom about old damage, fresh starts, found family, creative agency chaos, and the terrible inconvenience of a man sitting across the table like he isn't the reason you needed a two-year hiatus.

Ivory just moved to the small town of Willow for a fresh start. All she wanted was to begin her new year in college and find an area where she could harvest some deadly roots. Little did she know, she would be able to find some in this small town in more ways than one.

Living alone can do a lot to someone, but will things be different for Asha? Changes can be scary, but maybe it's what exactly she needs. Maybe it will came from Rio, the guy who asked for her coffee. *** Disclaimer: - this story will have some Indonesian references - do not associate any places/characters mentioned to reality

"I've got powers too." - With a murderer on the loose, a love triangle at hand, and a speedster always there to save her, Lyra Evans can't seem to gain control of her life. With powers showing up her life seems to keep going down the drain. She needs help and she feels like she's drowning. But how come she feels like she's being held back, like someone's draped a hand over her mouth and like someone is messing around inside her head? Her powers are killing her without her even knowing it, and if she doesn't find a cure soon then all she would've ever known will be gone.

16 year old Chasity Armando lives a totally different life than her peers. She lives at home with an abusive mother and stepfather, being treated as a slave. While also taking care of her son. Although she has trouble at home, in school she's an excellent student. She makes sure to study hard and keep her grades up. She prays for a well paying career to give her son the life she never had. But that better life was coming sooner than expected. Her mother and stepfather tragically pass away . She's left by herself with her son. But little does she know she's about to meet her biological dad and her 6 brothers. Started: August 20th, 2023 Ended:

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.

🚂 60 Hours - Part One by vidsholani 60 hours. Guwahati to Mumbai. One train. One coach. Two strangers who had absolutely no business knowing each other's names. Kavya is running toward something she hasn't figured out yet. Neil is walking into something he thinks he has. They don't talk for the first hour. They don't mean to talk after that. But there's only one window. And three days is a long time to pretend someone isn't there. They will spend 60 hours in the same coach. They will share one window. They will arrive in Mumbai as strangers who are no longer strangers and don't quite have a word for what they are instead. 60 Hours. Updated every week. Slow burn. Real and grounded. Desi. No shortcuts. 🚂💛 This is not a love story. (Not yet.)

The Straw Hats land in Lvneel, where the Celestial Dragon St. Alphonse is trying to take over. The kingdom is already in tatters, due to the neglective king who still suffers from grief. Twenty-five years ago, a marine commander is positioned in Lvneel to monitor the kingdom. Paths cross when he meets Cosette, the princess of the country. Yet, tragedy strikes, and Cosette is dead. As Sanji's past is uncovered, the fate of him, his friends, and the country are in jeopardy. Will he come through victorious, or will fate bind him to its will? DISCLAIMER: I do not own One Piece, or its characters. Those belong to the great Eichiro Oda, and the anime studios Toei Animation, Funimation, and other corporations that also produce the show. I only own Cosette, the citizens named in Lvneel, and stuff that doesn't appear in One Piece. PLEASE SUPPORT THE OFFICIAL RELEASE, THIS IS ONLY A FANFICTION

She had never seen all her life. Now, she has the opportunity to be the subject of all of his art. ♡♡♡ Arthur's life had been lacking inspiration for a while now, even if he didn't want to admit it. But it seems that the principle called fate that Arthur had always thought was fake is, in fact, real. Because, just as he is leaving his apartment, he runs into a curly haired stubborn blue-eyed woman who is bound to change things. Odessa always found herself in a constant state of waiting. Waiting for the love of her life, waiting for her life to begin. She's getting tired of it. So, she moves an hour away from home into a new apartment complex to force something to happen to her. Little did she know that something that would happen to her would be a cold and stoic artist. At first, they don't like each other. He finds her to be too sweet and pretty for his liking, and she is disapproving of his constant rudeness. But, when things change in an elevator one night, neither of them can stop the feelings that begin to bloom. ♡♡♡ The sun is in her hair, the ocean is in her eyes, and they are completely focused on him. This must be heaven. She presses her lips to his, and he wants to remember this moment until he's old and weak. To capture it in the lense of his mind where no one else will find it. This woman loves him, and nothing has ever been more perfect. ♡♡♡

Ellie is a girl who was in highschool but something tragic happened to her family and she and her mother decided to live in an alienated place. Ellie had no hope that she would meet new people here but then she met someone, someone who changed her life completely and is full of secrets .

Sarah joins the wizard schools of Ravenwood, and the Spiral. she becomes a life wizard, and her journey begins...

Amelia Grace Deluca was on her way to success. she was the basic nerd. always trying to stay on top. she thought she was living her best life. her 4 year boyfriend her stable job at Stormont Veil hospital as a pediatric surgeon everything in her life is going great until she gets pregnant. on her way to tell her boyfriend Jackson the news 3 months after she found out. only to find he was in bed with her mom. " babe i'm home" she yelled as she walked in the condo. she got off early because she wasn't feeling good. "jackson?" "where are y-" "wha- what th- the fuck" she started crying "Oh shit. baby it's not what you think.." "fuck." her mom whisper yelled. "Amelia.. what- your bleeding?" Jackson looked concerned "NO. NO." she started screaming and balling her eyes out. then everything went black.. Read for more.

I wanted to help the people who are controlling my life by planning my own death. - Yse Laurentia dela Garza

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