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  • Manuscript of Love by celestephung
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    Set in post-war London, 1945, this is a slow-burn romance between Caroline Rosawells - a quietly guarded field nurse turned memoirist - and James Calloway, a tailor who tracked her down years after she saved his life in France, having recognized her name on the cover of her published memoir. Caroline lives with Hazel, the retired headmistress of the orphanage where she grew up, and works at the Marylebone Community Clinic alongside her closest friend Penelope. Her publisher and dear friend Samuel Austen lives four doors down. James lives four doors in the other direction, above his family's tailor shop. What begins as Thursday afternoon visits to drop off clinic linens becomes something neither of them can ignore - though Caroline tries harder than most. She is warm, perceptive, and extraordinarily practiced at keeping her own feelings at arm's length. James is patient, devoted, and quietly certain, asking her to dinner four times without complaint, reading her memoir twice before he ever knocks on her door, and dropping a lit cigarette the moment he hears her footsteps in the park because he knows about her asthma. The romance unfolds against the backdrop of post-war London - the rationing, the rubble, the strange quiet of people trying to remember who they were before everything - witnessed and gently conspired over by Penelope and Sam, who place a running wager on when the two will finally stop pretending. It is a story about survival, about the particular difficulty of wanting things for yourself after years of being useful to everyone else, and about what it means to be truly known by another person - damaged ears, wartime ghosts, locked drawers and all. It ends, twenty years later, with Samuel Austen burning a letter at Caroline's gravestone, beside the stone of the man who could not outlive her. But between the green door and the churchyard, there is a life - full, warm, and entirely worth the waiting.
  • Never Ending Romance by La_jae0
    La_jae0
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    A not so good girl but not so bad girl meets (Georgia) meets a boy that everyone knows as the popular bad boy that every girl wants (Leo) they start off as enemies and become lovers, Leo doesn't want to admit it but he can't live with out her, but along comes some trouble with things trying to break them up. Family, friends, peers, and distance. Hopefully one day they can learn to truly be together or learn to live without each other.
  • My dearest Claribel by martiuzzuzza
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    just a lovesick teen, vincent, talking about his lover? friend? acquaintance? even he doesn't know. she's a mystery. but he oh, so loves her.
  • Desire That Lies Beneath Anger by icyskyup
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    Was it all coincidences or could it all be fate? Vanessa harding and Justice Meyer. Two nearly identical personalities. but when the two of them have a not so happy collision on the street one night, its only just the beginning for them Will they continue to hate each other or will fate continue its ways with the two of them?
  • Those Alluring Lies by _thisgirlwrites_
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    "I wouldn't dare break my promise to you, that alone would be a sin; your image has been tattooed upon my eyes. You're all that I want to see in that dull world of Stardrop," he whispered. Lilian thought she would live a life of loneliness when her parents passed away when she was only thirteen years old. She thought she'd never be truly happy and spent the rest of her life selling fruits in her village market. But everything changed when she met a handsome traveler and he made her feel so complete. What will happen when it turns out the traveler is a prince and he has to return to his kingdom. Will he forget his promises to Lilian and if he does will Lilian move on?
  • SHE TOXICATES ME by Yayajoy1
    Yayajoy1
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    Alex and Anna both work at a marketing company,with Alex being the boss he hates lazy and clumsy people Anna being the definition of everything Alex hates. What becomes of Anna when she works with the arrogant Alex in the same company # from enemies to lovers