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In order to save her dying mother, Harper is forced to marry a family bodyguard by her father and vicious stepmother. She eventually agrees and manages to save her mother. Harper and the bodyguard slowly begin to develop feelings for each other but she soon learns that her husband is hiding a deep secret. What could it be?

Charlotte Brown is struggling to stay under the radar at her new school. Being the new kid already draws unwanted attention. But being the new kid while hiding from her past as it follows her across the country is a whole other story. After the death of abusive stepfather, Charlotte Brown is moved across the country to stay with her grandparents and redo her senior year of high school. When the scars and trauma of her past are too hard to hide, she desperately seeks help from her college tutor. Holden Peirce looked like he could kill you... is actually a cinnamon roll. The student he is tutoring is hiding something. She is too smart to be failing math, and to jumpy to go unnoticed. She is afraid of Holden, that much is obvious. When an opportunity arises to get closer to her, Holden takes it. He has to figure out why this scared little bird is desperate to skip class, even if it puts her in close proximity to himself. Something is going on here, and it's not just curiosity that draws Holden in.

When Stella discovers there are secrets to her house she doesn't know where to begin. As she starts to uncover the truth about who she actually is, she has to figure out what happened her to family. Does she ever get the answers to the questions she has been asking? Can she ever feel whole again?Will she be able to find happiness even in the darkest of times? Will Stella be able to have the future she wanted with the guy she has always loved? Most of the journey leads Stella to finding love, creating a family, and uncovering the truth about the her family. Stella will grow to learn she can love and have a family that will love her no matter what. Leading Stella and her family to a new location to finally be able to over come everything in life and move on.

Fresh out of high school and ready for a new beginning, Lilly moves into her first apartment, eager to embrace college life. But her plans for a quiet start are thrown off course when she bumps-quite literally-into Ryder, a charming stranger she met at the airport. Their connection is instant, filled with stolen glances, butterflies, and late-night conversations. But just as Lilly begins to settle in, her past crashes back into her life. Her estranged brother, absent for years, suddenly resurfaces with secrets too dark to ignore. And when Ryder overhears a conversation that ties her family to something dangerous-something deadly-Lilly realizes she's not just running from memories. She's running from a threat she never saw coming. With her brother tangled in a web of lies and a mysterious girl lurking in the shadows, Ryder and Lilly must navigate a world where trust is fragile and the past is far from buried. As their feelings grow stronger, so do the dangers surrounding them. Will they uncover the truth before it's too late? Or will the ghosts of Lilly's past tear them apart-forever? +*+TW: STRONG LANGUAGE+*+

"No matter where, we bleed the same." ---------------------- Powerful, untouchable, and haunted by his past, KEIRON ROCCO doesn't play by anyone's rules but his own. His life is built on control-over his empire, his enemies, and his desires. He never expected her. ADELAIDE EVERHART has spent years trapped in a loveless marriage, bound by duty and appearances. Beneath her polished exterior lies a woman desperate to break free. When Keiron enters her life, he's everything she's been taught to avoid-dangerous, magnetic, and utterly irresistible. She's everything he didn't know he needed. But some ties are meant to break... and others are meant to bond. As their lives intertwine, Adelaide and Keiron find themselves in a world of lies, betrayal, and forbidden desire. She's his salvation and his ultimate weakness. He's her freedom and her inevitable downfall. Her savior. Her destroyer. Her undoing. Unexpected and inevitable, theirs is a bond that could shatter their worlds... and remake them entirely.

The story of bullying and romance and gangs. And abuse. It shows how any life can get out of hand. "My boyfriends father is choking me! Because I won't let him rape me!" Does she give in or not? "My family will be looking for you and me. They will come save me so you better let me go." "Your family isn't your family no more we hear that you have gone different paths is that not true. And before you lie. We have a lie detector here. And if anyone goes looking for you they will see your note that you will be gone for awhile." My fear started to eat at me. The overthrowing urge of vomiting came across my body. Does she get out or is she gone forever.

Pain, secrets, mistrust, and deception are huge themes in this book as we look at the life of a single mother of two who is trying to get her life together but is struggling. Her last relationship dumped her in a pit of poverty and pain so she vowed to not let herself trust and love again. But even she can't completely evade love as a handsome, rich suitor literally stumbles upon her and offers her the life her ex stole from her, the life she rightfully deserves. She doubts that she will be able to balance motherhood and a relationship. Will she confront the tragic past that broke her and learn to trust him? Will the suitor heal Mmampho or open her wounds further? Let's see how Mmampho navigates the love for her children and the love for the new man. *** written and completed: 2019 editing: 2024

Love, Happy Endings, Soulmates, these are the things we want and need in life, we want to get them, but it's easier said than done. Certain factors need to be considered. Relationships and Love need few unmaterialistic things, but sadly, Caden Ian Manchester and Fiona Guinevere Kings do not know these. Weighed with traumas and scars, they hid their true self from each other, but the past never stays hidden, and it gets revealed in the worst way possible. Fate plays it's course, and they are pulled apart. Faces from the past resurfaces. Secrets are spilled and their Love is ruined, but it's up to them to decide, will they go back to each other or will they chose to heal, separately?. Follow their Epic and Emotional story, and buckle up, it's a long ride, filled with crazy friends, Femme Fatales, Ex Lovers, Secrets, Families and Iconic Love. |EXTENDED SUMMARY INSIDE| A Spin off to Hold On. Can be read as a Stand-alone. Always and Forever Series |2|. Started writing: January 19, 2020. Finished writing: July 5, 2021. #3 in Caden as at 9th March, 2020.

Harper Evans moved all the way to Dorchester, Massachusetts from her small hometown in Texas, leaving her life and everyone she knows behind. Harper needs to figure who she is and she needs to do it on her own. Jordan Knights been away from his hometown of Dorchester, Mass for the past ten years. Coming back home hasn't been easy for him. His past is always lingering around every corner. All he wants to do is leave his past behind him and move on with his life. When a chance encounter brings Harper and Jordan together, they find they have an instant connection. Its undeniable. They fall fast. Until his past threatens to tear them apart and puts her new job in jeopardy. Can they make it work, even if they have to hide their feelings and their relationship? Will they survive if all they'll ever be is secret lovers?

Love and hate. Passion and Lust. Greed and retribution. These are all nothing but trivial emotions that can either make or break us. Harper got her heart broken once by someone she loved. What happens when that person comes back into her life after disappearing without a trace. Will she forgive them and work with them or will she seek vengeance and destroy her completely.