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Hannah Brooks was supposed to have it all figured out. As a confident lifestyle writer with viral essays about self-love, she’s made a career out of telling women how to thrive. But when her carefully built life implodes in a single headline, she escapes to her family’s lakeside cabin—armed with nothing but her laptop, her cat, and a silent promise to rest before everything in her life collapses for good. Adam Cole was once the face of a national fitness brand—until the cameras caught his downfall. Now, burned by scandal and stripped of fame, he hides out in the same sleepy lake ...

Jessie Ramirez has spent her adult life teaching other people how to fight—on their feet, in the ring, and through the bruises life leaves behind. As the head trainer at a downtown boxing gym, she thrives on precision, control, and the comfort of routine. But when former pro fighter Cal Bishop walks in with quiet eyes and a haunted past, he doesn’t just upset her training schedule. He upends everything she thought she knew about strength. Cal’s glory days ended the moment his career did. Now he’s rebuilding, one round at a time, in a gym that smells of sweat, disinfectant, and ...

Tattoo artist Mina Alvarez hides behind her ink. Her art is bold, her life carefully outlined, and after one brutal betrayal, she’s sworn off letting anyone draw too close. But when Eli Warren—an architect with quiet eyes and a grief he can’t quite build around—walks into her studio asking for a memorial tattoo, Mina’s steady world begins to blur. What starts as a commission becomes connection: late-night sketch sessions, the hum of the tattoo machine echoing like shared heartbeat, laughter that sounds dangerously like healing. Yet trust doesn’t come easily. Mina knows how to ...

In the heart of Los Angeles, designer Ava Morales has built her world from thread and determination. As the creative force behind a boutique that caters to every bride, every curve, and every impossible deadline, she’s learned to keep her emotions hemmed tight. Confidence is easy when it’s for someone else’s reflection—harder when it’s your own. Enter Julian West, the pragmatic investor with too-perfect posture and too many opinions about business strategy. When he steps into her studio, their chemistry is undeniable—and so is the clash between her artistry and his numbers. What...

Camila Reyes has spent her entire career proving that precision can protect her from chaos. As a plus-size aerospace engineer with a reputation for control, she’s built her world from equations, not emotions. But when the company assigns her to work with Luke Henderson—a confident, exasperatingly charming test pilot—her rules begin to unravel. In the high-stakes world of prototype flight testing, trust is more than a virtue—it’s survival. Camila’s equations don’t account for Luke’s steady grin, his quiet respect for her mind, or the way he calls her work “beautiful” ...

When screenwriter Maggie Holt is forced to collaborate with Hollywood’s golden boy, Aiden Brooks, her perfectly controlled life begins to unravel in the most unexpected way. She’s a plus-sized, fiercely talented woman who has spent years behind the scenes—writing everyone else’s happy endings but never daring to live her own. He’s the charming actor trying to prove there’s more to him than his movie-star smile. Their partnership is supposed to be temporary: rewrite the studio’s rom-com and move on. But between late-night script sessions, takeout-fueled debates, and stolen ...

Mara Dean once believed she was too loud for love—and too big for the stage. After a failed Nashville dream, she returns to her small hometown to hide behind bourbon jokes and self-deprecation. But when a charming new producer named Nick Tanner reopens the local recording studio, he hears something in her voice that refuses to stay silent. Their late-night studio sessions hum with tension—sarcasm as armor, banter as foreplay, harmony as confession. Nick believes in her sound even when she can’t, coaxing music from the places she’s buried her hope. As the summer deepens, so does ...

Tessa Moore has made an art form out of invisibility. As a high school guidance counselor, she spends her days fixing other people’s chaos while keeping her own heart carefully guarded. Blending in feels safe—until Owen Price, the new art teacher with paint-stained hands and disarming kindness, turns her steady world into something vividly, dangerously alive. Owen sees what others overlook: the humor behind Tessa’s restraint, the quiet strength beneath her softness, the beauty in her refusal to change herself to be loved. When their shared mission to help a struggling student pulls ...

Mara Cardenas didn’t come home to fall in love again—she came to flip pancakes, fix the diner her aunt left behind, and prove she could still stand in a kitchen without shaking. Harbor Point was supposed to be temporary: a stopover between heartbreak and the next big thing. But when the smell of fryer oil and salt air starts to feel like belonging again, Mara realizes she’s not just repairing a restaurant—she’s rebuilding herself. Dylan Rhodes never planned to stay either. The town handyman with sawdust in his hair and guilt tucked beneath his easy grin, he knows how to fix broken...

Painter Marin O’Leary came to Paris to disappear. Her career had fractured under quiet rejection, her heart under louder ones. In a tiny Montmartre studio that smells of rain and turpentine, she means to start over—or stop entirely. What she doesn’t expect is Luc Moreau, a photojournalist whose honesty feels like exposure and whose gaze refuses to turn away. When a storm drives him into her doorway, two artists collide in color, silence, and the dangerous tenderness of being seen. Their friendship begins in coffee and sarcasm, grows through shared mornings, and deepens into a slow, ...

Lena Wray has made a career out of disappearing—behind her camera, behind humor, behind the quiet armor of a woman who’s learned to take up less space than she deserves. When a career setback leaves her reeling, she accepts a last-minute job photographing a mountain wedding, hoping distance might dull the noise of failure. Instead, she finds Grant Dawson—the best man with a talent for showing up exactly where she doesn’t want him to be. He’s disciplined, dependable, maddeningly confident. She’s skeptical, sarcastic, and not in the mood for charm. But when a storm traps them at ...

Kenzie McIntyre built a career on telling the truth—her own, mostly. As the witty host of a hit podcast, she’s made humor her armor and vulnerability her brand. But when a surprise invitation thrusts her into a celebrity charity marathon, the woman who jokes about “dying on-air” discovers there are tougher things than running: like letting someone see her stumble. Enter Noah Brooks, Olympic runner turned reluctant golden boy. What begins as a PR stunt turns into an uneasy partnership built on pace charts, playlists, and sarcasm. Kenzie expects judgment; Noah offers patience. She ...

Luxury hotel manager Juliet Raines runs her world with precision. Every second of her day is accounted for, every emotion tucked neatly behind the shine of her professional calm. Her plus-size body is polished armor; her competence is her currency. But when gruff travel columnist Theo Lockhart checks into her hotel—and her carefully ordered life—everything begins to unravel in ways neither of them planned. Theo’s job is to critique luxury. Juliet’s job is to embody it. Their first meeting is a battle of wits and wills: she’s all sharp heels and efficiency; he’s late, unimpressed...

Dahlia Reed has built her life on polish. As a luxury real estate agent, her success depends on flawless hair, poised smiles, and the illusion of control. Behind every perfect listing and curated interview is a woman terrified that a single crack will show too much. Then comes Logan Shaw—the rugged, unbranded builder whose hands are steady, words are few, and eyes seem to see straight through the walls she hides behind. When their companies partner on a multimillion-dollar eco-estate, Dahlia’s image collides with Logan’s authenticity in a clash of perfection and truth. On camera, ...

Claire Morrison lives by red ink and restraint. As a sharp, plus-sized editor at a Manhattan publishing house, she’s made invisibility an art form. Her work is flawless, her humor armor-thick, and her heart carefully proofread. When she’s assigned to debut author Nathan Cole—a viral sensation with charm to spare—she expects ego and clichés. Instead, she finds sentences that feel uncomfortably like secrets and a man who reads between her lines. Nathan built his career on pretending he wasn’t broken. The book is supposed to fix his reputation. But Claire’s relentless honesty ...

Interior designer Cass Morgan has spent years making other people’s homes beautiful while avoiding the one place that scares her most—her own reflection. After a painful breakup that left her confidence shaken, she swears off love and throws herself into work. When she’s hired to renovate a crumbling lakeside inn, she expects peeling paint, broken budgets, and long nights with too much coffee. What she doesn’t expect is Noah Bennett—a single dad determined to preserve the past, even as it threatens to trap him there. Noah isn’t looking for change. The inn was his late wife’s ...

Willa Crane has always trusted bees more than people. Her hives make sense—steady, purposeful, alive with order. Humans? They sting for no reason. So when charming but infuriating nature writer Reed Hawthorne strolls onto her honey farm with a notebook and a grin, Willa’s first instinct is to chase him off her property with a smoker. Reed wants to write a feature on her sustainable honey operation, but Willa’s not interested in becoming anyone’s headline. Especially not his. Yet the more time they spend together—bickering over bee behavior, trading barbs that sound suspiciously ...

Rowan Chase has spent her life building beauty for everyone else. As a brilliant architect, she creates cathedrals of glass and steel that dazzle the world—but no one has ever stayed long enough to see the woman behind the designs. When she’s paired with celebrated sculptor Julian Marks on a landmark cultural arts center, she expects friction. She doesn’t expect him to see her—the way she fills space, the way she holds it. Julian is everything Rowan distrusts: impulsive, intuitive, devastatingly sincere. His art is chaos made physical, while hers is order rendered in light. Their ...

Raina Kapoor doesn’t believe in fate. She writes horoscopes for a living, but her faith in the stars ends at the screen of her laptop. After a decade of playing it safe—professionally polished, emotionally guarded—her life takes an unexpected turn when Derek Wilder, a data analyst with a talent for order and an allergy to chaos, walks into her newsroom with spreadsheets and a mission to “fix” her beloved column. Their collision is instant. Her wit clashes with his logic, her heart with his rules. Yet beneath the teasing and debates about probability and planets, something starts ...

Ari Moreno has spent years teaching other people how to move while convincing herself she’s perfectly still. Once a rising star in the world of ballet, she now hides behind studio mirrors and oversized sweaters, choreographing joy for her students but refusing to step into her own spotlight. When retired pro-athlete Nate Carson limps into her class for “footwork rehab,” the last thing Ari expects is to feel her world tilt—again. Nate doesn’t know the first thing about pliés, but he knows what it means to start over. His career ended on the turf, and the silence that followed ...