foun·da·tion noun a basis (such as a tenet or principle) upon which something stands or is supported. Birdie Buchanan has always felt wrong in this world. Sensitive. Different. Odd. Weird. Too much. Until she moved to Mercy Ridge and met Liam Durant. Liam's never seen Birdie as strange, he sees her as brilliant and beautiful, exactly who she is meant to be. When Liam's absent father was trying to earn back his family's trust, Birdie steadied him. When Birdie's senses overwhelm her, Liam is there to quiet the world. They were each other's foundation. Then college changes everything. Birdie is swallowed by loneliness and the exhausting effort of trying to fit into a world that refuses to understand her neurodivergence. Every whisper, every stare, every cruel joke pulls her further from the one person who ever made her feel safe. Liam feels so far away, thriving in his new world she doesn't belong in. Liam is putting on a good front as the rising college basketball star with the NBA in his sights. He doesn't want anyone to know that he's completely breaking under pressure. He's failing all of his classes, the sport that once defined him has become a prison he can't escape, and his teammates slowly reveal just how cruel they can be. Liam tries to take it all on his shoulders, remembering the future he has planned for him and Birdie. When a prank meant to humiliate nearly becomes a tragedy, Liam is forced to face the truth of what his silence has cost nearly cost him. But will it be too late for Birdie? No cheating. Guaranteed happily ever after. BOOK 2 OF THE MERCY UNIVERSE. BOOK 1: CORNERSTONE BOOK 2: FOUNDATION BOOK 3: COMING SOON

Ophelia learned early that survival is quieter than hope. As the Tyrant King's wife, she lives beneath a crown that was never meant to love her. She walks his halls with care, speaks with restraint, and offers kindness the way others offer shields. Every smile is deliberate. Every silence is chosen. She does not dream of affection only endurance. She believes she is living on borrowed time. The king she is bound to, rules without mercy, without warmth, without explanation. His distance is constant. His gaze unreadable. To Ophelia, he is cruelty refined into discipline a man who could end her life with a word and chooses, inexplicably, not to. She tells herself this is indifference. She tells herself this is disgust. She tells herself it means nothing. Because believing otherwise would be dangerous. She does not see the restraint in his stillness. The care hidden in his control. The way his voice softens when hers falters. The way his hands disappear behind his back when she flinches so she never has to fear them. Ophelia believes love is a weakness she cannot afford. She convinces herself that whatever grows in her chest is gratitude, not longing. Habit, not attachment. Anything but the truth she refuses to name. What she does not know what she cannot imagine is that he loved her the moment he saw her. That his silence is fear. That his distance is devotion. That every boundary he keeps is a promise not to frighten the woman he would never forgive himself for hurting. He does not ask for her love. He does not demand her trust. He hopes only that one day she might look at him without fear. That she might sit beside him and stay. That she might see him as something other than the monster the world made him. And as Ophelia slowly falls for the man she believes will never love her, she does not realize that the most dangerous thing in his kingdom is not his crown but how deeply, hopelessly, he already belongs to her.

Penelope Woods - Age: 20 - Occupation: Electrician - Interests: Rugby It was little things at first, things I didn't even consider to be an issue. Questions here and there about what I was wearing, or how I wore my hair. We were members of the same rugby club. Best friends turned lovers, living in domesticated bliss, until cracks in our foundation presented themselves. Invites Jack didn't extend and when questioned, he just shrugged and said it was a work thing, that he thought I wouldn't be interested. He'd look sheepish, apologize and we'd move on. He'd whisper words in his sleep that I couldn't quite decipher but when he called out someone else's name during the throes of passion, I could no longer live in denial. So, I let Jack go. I've been raised to love and accept people as they are. I don't know how to be anyone but me. But sometimes even shallow cuts by the ones you love the most cause the deepest wounds and I need to learn to love myself again. Jack Monroe - Age: 24 - Occupation: Consultant for my family's Business - Interests: Rugby, Peneolpe and appeasing family :( I have known I've loved Penny from the very moment she launched herself into my arms after winning the grand final 3 years ago. Penelope is so kind, patient and fun. She is also loud, boisterous and very much the tomboy. When we're in the privacy of our shared home or our rugby world, those things don't matter. However, in my other world, with my well to do family and my role as a consultant for my family's business, unfortunately appearances do matter. Or, so I thought. Will Jack realise he truly loves Penny, warts and all, before it's too late? What does Penny think of the possibility of being with Jack again? "For me to even consider accepting love from Jack again, he'll have to be prepared to take me as I am."

Calliope works nights as a nightclub waitress. One fateful evening, she rescues a man and later discovers she's pregnant with his child. When he returns, she finds him again and tells him the truth. What she doesn't know is that he is Ilya "Constantine" Zadorov, a Russian undercover operative, acting as a feared mafia leader. Faced with the revelation, Ilya takes her in, but coldly. No affection, no favors, only enough to keep her safe. But Calliope sees through the distance. A mansion full of luxury feels emptier than the apartment she once called home. Quietly, she leaves, convinced he won't care. Alone and carrying her child, she returns to her apartment, leaving the nightclub behind for a steady convenience store job. Months later, Ilya returns from a mission to find his mansion empty. As he searches for her, he finds Calliope with another man, cradling a newborn. A fire ignites inside him, burning everything in its path. Can Ilya reclaim her... or has it already gone too far?

5 years after rejecting his mate Daisy, Archer Clairmont comes back home to his pack and the multi-billion dollar corporation his family runs. He's finally willing to submit to his father's archaic and old-fashioned ideas about the fated mate bond. But instead of the unimportant and dorky mate he left. . . after making it very clear he found her shifter heat embarrassing. . .he finds a woman so powerful and protected she's practically running the whole company. Not to mention she has his father wrapped around her little finger. . . (Archer is 30 and Daisy is 27)

Katya Clairmont has survived the worst and rebuilt her life around three things: her son, her best friend Jax, and her independence. Taking a job at Kingston Lux Holdings is supposed to be practical-a paycheck with the added bonus of working with the company's celebrated women's foundation. Instead, it drops her straight into the path of Sinclair Kingston, the impossibly intimidating CEO who mistakes her strength for scheming and her mishaps for flirting. Sinclair built an empire by controlling every variable, every risk-especially his heart. Katya is the one woman he can't file neatly away: infuriating, vulnerable, and impossible to ignore. When sabotage from his past threatens her career and her reputation, Sinclair must decide if loyalty to image is worth losing the only woman who's ever made him want more. A story of sharp banter, stolen glances, found family, and second chances-Sinners & Saints is where power, passion, and redemption collide.

Saint Kingston has never stayed anywhere-or with anyone-for long. The youngest Kingston heir lives for noise: champagne toasts, adrenaline highs, and the next easy thrill. Until Aria Navarro. Brilliant, guarded, and quietly devastating, Aria saw straight through his charm...and still let him in. Until one mistake convinced her that Saint would always choose chaos over commitment. Now she's in Dublin, building a new life and guarding a secret that could rewrite both of theirs. When Sinclair Kingston sends Saint across the ocean to run the new European division-and the newest Sinners & Saints-Aria's carefully rebuilt world begins to crack. He's determined to prove he can be the man she needed all along. She's done believing in promises. But redemption isn't about grand gestures-it's about showing up on a Tuesday.

He thought betrayal ended his story. She's about to show him it's only the beginning. Canyon Kelly Built a billion-dollar tech empire from nothing. He survived abandonment, success, pressure-and thought he'd finally found stability in a ten-year relationship with the woman he was about to marry. Until he walked into his office late one night... and watched his fiancée in the throes of passion with his best friend and business partner. Weeks later, at what should've been their engagement brunch , Canyon exposes their affair in front of everyone. The world expects him to fall apart. Instead, he points to the one woman he never truly stopped missing: Lucía Navarro. His childhood best friend. The girl who once sketched him in secret. The light he didn't realize he'd lost until it was gone. Lucía wants nothing to do with Canyon's scandals-or his sudden need for a wife. Seven years ago, he stood by while the woman he loved humiliated her, shattering their friendship beyond repair. But when Canyon asks for one last favor, she agrees... because part of her heart never let him go. What starts as a marriage of convenience becomes something far more complicated. Canyon remembers every detail she never thought he noticed. Lucía begins to see the man she loved hidden beneath the one she left behind. But old wounds run deep-especially when Canyon drags her back to the place where everything fell apart. When Lucía's past pain crashes into Canyon's present regrets, their fragile connection shatters. She runs-again. This time all the way to Dublin, to the sister who helps rebuild her spark. Canyon crossed an ocean once to expose a lie. Now he'll cross it again to fight for the only truth that matters. She was always his light. This time, he's not leaving without her.

He lives by rules. She breaks them just by existing. Atlas "Priest" Adams is the president of the Saints of Retribution MC-a brotherhood of former soldiers who hunt the worst monsters hiding in plain sight. He believes in control, silence, and distance. No titles. No promises. No babies. Attachments get people killed. Dr. Indigo "Blue" Thorne isn't looking for danger. After a brutal night in the ER, she finds solace in a bar-and in a man who promises nothing beyond one night. She agrees to his rules because she doesn't want forever. Neither of them is telling the truth. What starts as a no-strings arrangement turns into something deeper, even as Priest insists Blue is temporary. Then the past comes roaring back. When his brother's widow arrives at the clubhouse pregnant and desperate, Priest's silence and half-truths destroy everything Blue thought she understood. So she disappears. Months later, fate drags them back together in an ER bay-where Priest sees the woman he lost... and the child she's carrying. Now Priest must face the consequences of the rules he hid behind, the words he never said, and the woman he never claimed. As secrets unravel and danger closes in, he'll have to decide whether love is a weakness- -or the one thing worth bleeding for. PRIEST is a dark, emotional MC romance about control, miscommunication, and the cost of loving halfway-featuring a hardened hero, a strong heroine, betrayal, redemption, and a hard-won happily ever after.

After having a miscarriage and being asked for a divorce by her husband. Elizabeth builds her life from scratch. She disappears to a new country where she builds a new life and flourish in her career. Now three years later she returns to her home town with a bag full of surprises for everyone. But truth be told Elizabeth is not the only one with surprises. When Dilton her ex husband notices she is back all truth is revealed and her life takes unexpected turn. Join Elizabeth on her journey and find out what life holds for her.