Molly had a great job, a serious boyfriend, and a quiet life in San Francisco. Then Bruce's stepsister thought it would be hilarious to fill out the internal transfer form on Molly's work laptop while Bruce watched. By the time Molly saw the confirmation email, the visa was already processing. The contract was signed. There was no undoing it. She was moving to London. When she demanded Bruce fix what his sister broke? He asked her to apologize. To Crystal. For being upset. So Molly left a note on his kitchen counter - Good Joke! - and got on the plane.

Twenty-six years ago, Elise McNeil's life fell apart in a hospital room. While she struggled through labor with their son, her husband Bernard Carpenter was nowhere to be found. Neither was her best friend, Jasmine Daniels. By the time Bernard finally arrived, Elise already knew the truth. The betrayal destroyed her marriage and shattered the life she thought she was building. Forced to start over, Elise rebuilt herself from the ground up. Raised her son, Isaiah, started a successful event-planning company, and learned to survive without depending on anyone else. Love became the last thing on her mind. Then she met Julian Mercer. After losing his wife, Maureen, to a long illness, Julian spent years emotionally frozen in grief. Before they could build the family they dreamed of, she was gone, leaving him trapped between memory and loneliness. Now Maureen's family wants an elaborate memorial event filled with wealth, prestige, and appearances. But Julian wants something far more meaningful. He wants people to remember the woman she truly was. When Elise is hired to coordinate the event, an unexpected connection begins to grow between two people who thought love belonged in the past. What begins as understanding slowly turns into friendship, attraction, and something deeper neither of them expected. But old betrayals do not stay buried forever. Family tensions, jealousy, grief, and unresolved wounds threaten to destroy the fragile happiness they are only beginning to find. Because sometimes the life you rebuild becomes more beautiful than the one you lost.

Avery Green grew up next door to Luke Hart. He was always there. Choosing her. Loving her. He wasn't subtle about it. She just didn't process it the way she should have. Avery had a habit of misreading things. So she laughed when she shouldn't have. Pulled away when she shouldn't have. And somehow turned something real into something she couldn't make sense of. Luke didn't stop choosing her. Until one day, he had to. When Avery finally started to understand what had been right in front of her the whole time... it wasn't as simple as it used to be. Some things take too long to say.

Before Marlowe Ackerman goes away to Brown University, she does the bravest thing she's ever done. She confesses to her best friend, Oliver Abbott, that she is in love with him. And Oliver breaks her heart gently. To him, Marlowe is his safe place. His best friend. The one person who has always been there for him. His feelings for her have never changed, and he is certain they never will. At eighteen, Oliver is desperate for a fresh start after years of being the awkward, gangly dork. Parties, girls, fraternity life, reinvention-he wants everything he thinks college is supposed to give him. But once he gets there, nothing feels right without Marlowe. While she thrives at Brown, Oliver falls apart. He fails classes, wakes up hungover, surrounds himself with the wrong people, and slowly realizes the reason his feelings for Marlowe never changed is because he has loved her all along. But he's too late. When he goes to tell her, he finds her in bed with her boyfriend, Sam. Jealousy and heartbreak make him spit ugly, cruel words he will regret for the rest of his life. Marlowe ends their friendship for good. Ten years later, Oliver has changed. He is a history teacher at their old high school, a wrestling coach, and a man who has spent a decade learning from the worst mistake of his life. When he hears that Marlowe Ackerman is coming back to town for their high school reunion, Oliver knows better than to think he deserves a second chance. But he wants one. Not just to tell Marlowe he still loves her. To show her he has become someone worthy of loving her the way she deserves. He was her almost. Maybe now, he can be her always.

When Emi's husband forgets his phone one morning, it only takes a few messages for everything to fall apart. She returns the phone in the middle of a board meeting and walks away from the life that she thought was happy and secure. But after the fallout comes reality. The money isn't there. The stability wasn't real. And starting over with two kids in her mother's one-bedroom apartment is a lot harder than leaving was. As Emi rebuilds from nothing, turning a quiet passion for ikebana into something more, she begins to understand that just like the flowers, she needs space, support, and patience to come into her own. Her husband thinks she'll come back because there's no way she can do it all alone. But, he's wrong, about more than one thing.

Becky For three years, Carter Stewart was the perfect boyfriend and fiancé...until a few weeks ago. Late nights, cancelled dates, and strange phone calls begin to overshadow our wonderful, happy life together. I let it slide at first; my vision clouded by trust for this man. That is until one message, one lie, and finally, one confession brought everything I thought I knew crashing down around me. While I'm picking up the pieces of my shattered life, Carter starts popping up all over the place, acting like the man I always thought I knew. I desperately try to hold onto the logic of leaving him, but soon, I learn that everything is not as it seems. Carter One random, stormy afternoon, a gorgeous woman and her dog came stumbling into my perfectly ordinary life and made it into something extraordinary. Now all I want is to do more-to be better for Becky Duchamp. Only, in my jumbled attempts to make those improvements, I made stupid choices that hurt her. I wish I could take it all back, but I can't. Now I have to live with the consequences and let her go...or I can do everything in my power to win her back. Personally, I've never been a fan of consequences. **** An extra angsty, sometimes humorous, small town romance about two imperfect people who might just be perfect for each other.

-Completed- We were married for a year. It was a dream marriage, and my husband was a dream man. Unfortunately, someone from his family was deadly set on destroying our lives. And, one day, when I was not expecting, everything was gone. My husband kicked me out of our home. He humiliated me in the worst possible way. Told me to never dare show my face again in front of him. He divorced me like I was nothing. Now... Tags: HEA, grovel, happy ending, marriage, divorce, regret, forgiveness Main couple: Nicholas and Rebecca No cheating. No other women or men. Celibate. Besotted hero. Besotted ex-husband. Grovel. Happy ending for the main couple. Second chance. Divorce. Separation for week/months. Possessive. Mine. Strong language. Sex scenes. Chapters: 20-25 chapters with epilogues "How can I, babe? How can I leave, how can I leave? Babe, don't ask me to leave. I know I don't deserve the time of your day. But I can't stay away my love. I can't. Please, If you have any mercy to spare me, I will take it. Anything you want to give me, I will accept. Just don't ask me to leave... Rebecca....!" Just read if you like HEA and forgiveness.

He married her. He loved someone else. She loved only him. Seven years of marriage. One child. Zero confessions. When the woman he once loved returns, everything Suhani tried to bury threatens to resurface. The truth. The heartbreak. The night that changed everything. But sometimes, love doesn't come with fireworks. Sometimes, it waits in silence-until the moment you finally look back. We hit ✨ #1 India #1 angst #1 angstwithhappyending #1 trending #1 arrangedmarriage #1 secondchances #1 adorable #1 emotionalromance #1 marriage-of-convenience #1 loveaftermarriage #1 unrequited love #1 trianglelove #1 exgf #1 hidden love #1 heartbreaking #2 slowburnromance #2 grovel #2 familysecrets #2 slowburn #2 marriagedrama #2 desi #3 lovetriangle #3 other woman #4 womensfiction #5 pregnancy #6 adorable #7 Wattpad #7 womanpower #8 forcedmarriage #9 selfdiscovery © Kiara Gilbert. All rights reserved. This work is protected under DMCA and international copyright law. Do not copy, repost, translate, or adapt any part of this story without explicit written permission. Unauthorized use will result in immediate DMCA takedown notices, reporting, and, if necessary, legal action. I appreciate every genuine reader, please respect the time, effort, and creativity that went into this work.a-

Book 4 in The Dark Knights series Thorn - My wife is dying....So when I make her a promise, to make losing me easier on her...I break my best friend's heart in the process... Will she ever forgive me? And what will she say when she finds out I've been in love with her, since the day we met.....

In rain-soaked Dublin, Aoife begins to unravel the life she thought was hers, discovering that love, identity, and belonging are not given - they are claimed. *** Aoife Brennan planned the perfect night to celebrate the life she thought they were building together. But when the clock strikes midnight, she discovers that some truths don't come crashing down - they unravel, quietly. Set in the rainy corners of Dublin, The Placeholder is a story of love mistaken for fate, and the quiet ache of being someone's almost.