Recovery Stories

She always wants what she's not allowed to have, and she always gets it. Addy's getting bored with the status quo. At school, she's a popular golden girl with a drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend. At home, she's an anorexic in quasi-recovery, struggling to push her feelings below the surface. On top of all that, she now has to deal with her boyfriend's cousin, Max, who has dedicated his time to annoying her, and who also happens to be very easy on the eyes. When Max begins to realise that Addy needs help, the lines between them are blurred. He drives Addy crazy in every way possible, and soon she's addicted to his touch and the fire she sees in his eyes. But Addy has sacrificed so much for control, including her relationship. If she keeps going with Max, she could lose it.

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION Everest is the most popular boy in school. He's handsome, wealthy, and captain of the football team-he has the world at his fingertips, but he's desperately unhappy. And when those feelings become too much to bear, he tries to take his own life. On the surface, Beverly's different from Everest in every possible way. She's quiet, shy, hard working, and keeps to herself on campus, focusing on her schoolwork and her part-time job, distracting herself from her less-than-perfect upbringing. When Everest returns to school after his attempt, he's in more pain than ever. Discarded by his friends, he draws little empathy and too much attention from those who surround him. But when Beverly and Everest meet unexpectedly in a dusty corner of the old library, they discover together just how rich life can be when given the freedom to just be yourself.

The global phenomenon has arrived! Streaming globally now on Prime Video. Dive into exclusive English translation of Spanish story with over 110M reads. --- Halsey, a cheerful optimist, and Luke, a guarded cynic struggling with trauma and addiction, seem like opposites who should never fall in love, but they do. As Halsey tries to help Luke heal from his painful past, their relationship brings him hope and happiness. Then life takes an unexpected turn, testing whether love can truly overcome deep scars-or if some wounds are too much to heal. An international bestseller about love, trauma, addiction, and the impact these have on relationships-now in English! Translated by Mark Harris

He was trained to be perfect. Perfect vocals. Perfect choreography. Perfect smile. After years of endless practice and sacrifice, the comeback stage was supposed to be the moment everything paid off. The lights were blinding, the music was loud, and millions of fans were watching. Then he fell. One shift in his knee turns the most important performance of his career into a moment no one will forget. An injury forces him away from the stage he spent his entire life chasing, leaving behind the cheers, the cameras, and the spotlight that once meant everything. But behind the polished performances and flawless smiles, the truth begins to surface: fame has a cost, perfection is fragile, and even the brightest idols can break. When the spotlight fell, everyone saw the fall. No one saw what came after. ______ (IDOL AU)

Trying to cope with the loss of his parents and older brother after a horrific car crash is the hardest thing Bhodi Phelps has ever done. It doesn't help that he's autistic, struggles to read people, and often asks the wrong questions at the worst possible time. Bhodi is convinced he can survive on his own, he's nineteen after all, but he isn't really surviving. He's drowning in grief. Then he sees his brother's face staring back at him from a stranger. Firefighter Jayco Brennan may look exactly like Clayton, but he is his own person, and he isn't prepared for the road Bhodi is about to pull him down. When Bhodi's uncle Reid arrives and realizes how badly his nephew is struggling, he strong-arms his way into Bhodi's life and starts trying to fix everything. Bhodi sees it as one more person taking away his choices. Jayco steps between them, hoping to bridge the growing divide. What he doesn't realize is that while he's trying to save Bhodi and Reid from losing each other, they may be exactly what he never knew he needed. Through chess games, terrible jokes, and a series of unexpected trades, three stubborn men discover that family doesn't always come from blood. Sometimes, it's something you build one trade at a time.

Finn is an omega who has spent years trapped inside a rut house, abused and treated as nothing more than a possession. When he finally escapes, he has nowhere to go, no one to trust, and wounds that run deeper than the ones people can see. Simon Montrose is an alpha who knows how to handle problems. As the family's quiet "clean up man," he's used to fixing messes and making threats disappear. Emotions aren't his strength. Protecting people is. When Simon brings Finn home, the Montrose pack is faced with something they've never had before: an omega in their all-alpha household. Can Finn learn to trust a family built on power? And can Simon prove that not every alpha is something to fear?

Sixteen-year-old Jade Andrews has spent her entire life in Fairview - a town where everyone knows your name, but nobody knows the truth. Behind the quiet streets and perfect houses, Jade's world has never been safe. At home, she lives under the control of her abusive stepfather, learning to keep her head down, stay quiet, and never give anyone a reason to look too closely. At school, she has become invisible. Small, only 4'10", with long brown hair and dark eyes that have learned to avoid attention, Jade has spent years being the girl people whisper about, laugh at, and walk past. Fairview High has never been kind to her, and she has never expected it to be. Until Hunter Lockwood arrives at the centre of her world. Six foot five, captain of the rugby team, with blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, and a surname that carries as much power as his family's historic estate, Hunter is everything Jade is not. He is admired. Feared. Untouchable. The Lockwood family has always owned the biggest house, the most land, and the most influence in Fairview. Hunter is the golden son, surrounded by his four younger siblings and a legacy he is expected to protect. Alongside Noah, Xavier, Zach, and Luke, Hunter rules the halls of Fairview High. And for years, Jade has been one of their favourite targets. But when Hunter begins noticing the things everyone else ignores - the fear behind Jade's silence, the cracks in the perfect image she tries to maintain - he starts questioning everything he thought he knew. Because Fairview has always had secrets. And Jade Andrews might be the one person brave enough to expose them.

"Do you know what you're doing to me?" pause. "You're seducing me." To him, it's desire. To YN, it's a knife twisting in an already open wound. *** YN, a quiet, emotionally scarred young woman with no family left, stumbles into the luxurious world of her only remaining support-her successful best friend and her friend's powerful, cold, dangerously captivating husband, Kim Taehyung. What begins as protection slowly turns into temptation, obsession, and an irreversible emotional crisis.

Decisiveness was her best quality . . . Pearl Blakely has never been faced with a decision she can't make-or a situation she can't wind around her little finger. And that's not going to change now, not while she's in her senior year with her best friend Sonny and her twin Archie, and definitely not because a new boy has rocked up at school. Barney Young likes to observe, and he's learned the hard way that things aren't always how they seem. But, with his fresh start on the line, he can't afford to get caught in the same cycle he did last year. Observation uncovers secrets that no one knows they're keeping. And, sometimes, friends aren't only friends.

Por Suppakarn Jirachotikol spent ten long years learning a cruel lesson: status does not equal safety, and power does not guarantee kindness. Chasing what everyone told him was the best possible future, he chose the Duke of the Wolf Clan-the third most powerful ruler in the beast realm-only to find himself locked inside a gilded cage, broken, neglected, and abused until his body finally gave out. When he took his last breath, he expected only endless silence. Instead, he woke up ten years in the past. On the very morning of the Great Mating Ceremony-the day his whole life went wrong. Determined to avoid the same agony, Por decides he wants nothing more than a quiet, invisible life. To escape the eyes of the powerful and the pain they bring, he does the unthinkable: in front of the entire realm, he turns away from dukes and kings, and chooses the leader of the lowest-ranked clan of all-the Insect Clan, mocked, forgotten, and looked down upon by every soul. The crowd erupts in laughter. His own family calls him a disgrace, disowning him completely and casting him out with nothing but the clothes on his back. Por bears it all willingly. If this is the price for peace, he will pay it a thousand times over. But fate has a surprise waiting no one could ever have guessed. The quiet, gentle man he chose-Teetee Wanpichit Nimitparkpoom-is no ordinary clan leader. He is the last living heir and true King of the Ancient Dragon Clan-the oldest, strongest, and most feared lineage to ever walk the earth. For centuries he has hidden his true power, waiting for someone who would see him-not his crown, not his strength, but simply him. And Por, running away from pain, has just walked straight into the arms of the only being capable of giving him the love, protection, and home he never dared to dream existed.

Reisa has spent her entire life surviving the darkness. Now, with her little sister Emi depending on her, she must risk everything for the chance to escape it. But freedom is only the beginning. Haunted by the past and uncertain whom she can trust, Reisa must discover whether someone shaped into a weapon can choose a different path-and whether even the deepest scars can lead to redemption.

Kim Harin, aka Ashlyn is barely holding it together. She has temporarily moved to New York because of her dad's job, and life has never been nice for her. Her mother's control is suffocating. She has been bullied for most of her life. But like most teens, she slapped duct tape on her mess and doesn't care if she's not ok as long as it holds👍 One day, her whole life flips around when an evil weathergirl comes to kill her. She finds out that she's good at killing and is taken to a place called camp where she discovers that greek mythology is real. Her mother is a greek goddess, and this means monsters will hunt her for the rest of her life when being hunted by teenagers is hard enough already🤗 Now she must survive from monsters along with the usual amount schoolwork and teenagers. She will also have to decide whether to push a very persistent son of Demeter away or let him inside her defensive shell because he's simply too stubborn to leave.

Fey is one of The Rebellion's best field operatives. At just 3 and a half inches tall, the 18 year old neko has spent the last 2 years outsmarting humans, and saving borrowers and nekos from cruel owners. Having once been forced to rescue herself, she's determined to make sure no one else has to survive the same way. She's good at what she does. Until a mission goes wrong, and she finds herself trapped in a nightmare she thought she'd escaped all that time ago. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~✩₊˚.⋆☾𓃦☽⋆⁺₊✧~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Paul, a 19-year-old human with a talent for stumbling into Rebellion business, has a habit of helping tiny people whenever he can. So when he hears that the neko he's slowly been befriending has been captured, he quietly makes it his problem. Will Paul make it in time before Fey finds history repeating itself? And for someone who's spent years rescuing everyone else, can she finally discover what it's like to have a safe place of her own?

Peter runs a bookshop where the days repeat and the solitude never asks anything of him. He opens early. He sorts shelves. He goes home alone. He likes it fine. Then Sara walks back in after years away, her five-year-old daughter Mia trailing behind her with a stuffed fox and too many questions. They knew each other once. Teenagers circling the same store without ever quite colliding. Now she's tired, fierce, and carrying more than she'll admit. Mia claims a reading rug. Sara starts staying longer. And Peter realizes the emptiness he'd grown used to was never comfortable at all. But Sara fought hard to stand on her own. And the closer Peter gets, the more she fears losing the ground she built beneath her feet. Until Tomorrow Comes is a quiet, character-driven story about love that arrives gently and leaves a mark. About the difference between being alone and being lonely. About what it costs to let someone in and what it costs not to.

Some heartbreaks don't shatter you, they unravel you thread by thread, until you're forced to rebuild the parts of yourself you once gave away. "The Version of You I Never Met" is a "Tribrid" book, part memoir, part emotional guide, part psychological blueprint for anyone who has loved someone who couldn't love them back the way they deserved. Blending raw storytelling with attachment psychology, this book explores the very anatomy loving an avoidant partner, carrying emotional weight for two, surviving emotional absence and walking away from a bond you wanted to кеер. Through a story blood-stained with devotion, confusion, imbalance, heartbreak and clarity the author dissects the hidden patterns behind avoidance, the cost of loving someone who hasn't healed, and the quiet, almost celestial strength it takes to choose yourself when choosing them costs too much. Its not a story about blame it's a story about limits, healing, and the power of understanding the truth even when it hurts. If you've ever begged for clarity or felt invisible in the arms of someone you loved, this book will feel like finally being seen. If you're learning to trust again, it will remind you that healing is possible, and that some endings are actually beginnings in disguise. For the heartbroken, the healing, the emotionally attuned, and the lovers who have always loved too much. This book is your mirror, your medicine, and your metamorphosis. It will break you, then rebuild you. It will explain him, then return you to yourself. It will hurt - then then it will heal. "He loved you, just not in the way you needed. You loved him, just not in the way he could hold."

The Spiral is an embracing invitation for a holistic healing journey leading to ultimate inner freedom. Updated every Sunday.

After a single moment changes everything, Lancelot is forced into a journey that tests far more than his strength. As old convictions shatter and invisible wounds refuse to heal, he must navigate the crushing weight of duty, loyalty, loss, and the expectations of everyone around him. Some battles leave scars that no magic can erase, and sometimes the hardest fight isn't against an enemy-it's learning how to keep moving when every part of you wants to stop.

Yuan Hong knows how to investigate crimes, face danger, and carry impossible responsibilities. What he doesn't know is how to stop blaming himself when Zhao Shaoshang gets hurt. A night of recovery, stubborn arguments, and accidental tenderness might finally force him to admit that Shaoshang was never just a partner.

Updated Tues, Thurs and Saturdays!! ​OBJECTIVE: HEAL THE PAST. STATUS: MISSION CRITICAL. ​Five years ago, a storm on a Michigan highway didn't just claim two lives-it permanently corrupted the connection between Ronan Callahan and Olive Wilder. Once inseparable, the "Captain" and her "Boss" were forced into a total system shutdown, drifting apart in the wake of tragedy. ​Now, their parents have forced a reunion: one summer in an isolated lakehouse designed to push them back into the same lobby. ​But Ronan is no longer the boy Olive remembers. He's the arrogant, untouchable king of his social circle, and he views Olive-the shy, hoodie-clad ghost from his past-as a liability. Olive, meanwhile, has retreated behind a firewall of severe social anxiety, finding her only true strength in the high-stakes world of competitive tactical shooters. ​As they are trapped together in the close quarters of the lakehouse, the distance between them begins to vanish. Old chemistry sparks with a dangerous, new intensity, and the boundaries they've built are failing. ​They came here to restart the game, but the summer heat is rising. They are discovering that some connections are too broken to be patched-and some errors are just the beginning of the crash. ​CONNECTION RE-ESTABLISHED. COLLISION IMMINENT. ​Can they clear the objective, or will they crash and burn before the timer runs out?

Some poems about mental health issues and healing