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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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Renee Lowell has mastered control. As a successful gallery curator, she builds her life the way she installs an exhibition—every piece deliberate, every emotion framed. But when the enigmatic artist Nico Adler arrives with a collection that feels more like confession than canvas, her orderly world begins to crack. Their first meeting is friction—her composure against his chaos, her precision against his passion. Yet something about him unsettles her in the best possible way. His art is raw, messy, alive. It dares her to look at the spaces between what’s safe and what’s real. And ...

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 ...

When electrician Katie Larkin steps into the crumbling Lyric Theater, she expects bad wiring—not the quiet intensity of playwright Cal Whitmore. Sparks fly the moment their professional worlds collide: her precision against his passion, her guarded humor against his relentless curiosity. What begins as banter between circuits becomes something charged, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. Katie has spent her life proving her worth in spaces that underestimate her—on job sites, in relationships, in her own reflection. Cal’s reputation for perfection hides his fear of failure, a fear ...

Before dawn in the quiet Vermont town of Maple Crossing, Lydia Cole opens the doors to her beloved Harvest Moon Bakery. Her cinnamon rolls are legendary, her wit is sharp, and her confidence—well, that’s still rising. When a sleek corporate café opens across the street, Lydia braces for battle. What she doesn’t expect is Mason Reid, a marketing consultant with a crooked smile, a soft heart, and a plan to help her business survive. Mason has built his career on rescuing brands, not falling for the people behind them. But Lydia is nothing like his clients. She’s warm, stubborn, and ...

Marketing powerhouse Sloane Harper has spent years perfecting her armor—sharp heels, sharper wit, and an untouchable reputation built in the glass towers of New York. But when the agency’s new creative director, Ethan Voss, challenges her ideas in a boardroom full of executives, something dangerous sparks to life. He’s confident, infuriating, and far too good at reading the woman beneath the perfection. Their partnership begins as professional rivalry and evolves into something neither of them planned: an undeniable connection that blurs every rule. As deadlines turn into late nights ...

Claire Donovan doesn’t do permanence. As a travel nurse, she’s perfected the art of leaving before anything can fall apart—new cities, new contracts, clean slates. But when a housing mix-up forces her to share an apartment with Luke Abrams, a firefighter sidelined by injury and stubborn optimism, her temporary stay begins to look dangerously like home. Luke’s life has been rebuilt from the ashes, literally. He’s done pretending he’s fine when the mirror still reflects scars—on his body and somewhere deeper. Claire, with her guarded humor and soft-spoken resilience, reminds him...

Makeup artist Elena Vargas has mastered the art of confidence—for everyone but herself. On camera, she’s bold and magnetic, a rising beauty influencer known for her sparkle. Off camera, she’s still the woman who avoids her own reflection. When she’s hired for a major men’s grooming rebrand, her newest client turns out to be Will Archer, a charming former model with a jawline made for lighting tests—and a knack for breaking her focus. What starts as a professional partnership soon blurs under studio lights. Their chemistry is impossible to hide, especially when a behind-the-...

When travel influencer Emmie Ward arrives at Coral Bay Resort, she expects ocean views and brand deals—not a man who looks at her like she’s the sunrise itself. Behind the camera, she’s curated a perfect life. But perfection feels lonely when you’re never in the picture. Enter Colin Marks, the resort’s new general manager—organized, unflappable, and allergic to influencers. From the moment they meet, sparks fly like summer storms. He calls her “the influencer” as if it’s a warning. She calls him “Mr. Spreadsheet.” Yet somewhere between their verbal sparring and forced ...

Corporate strategist Nadia Lane can negotiate anything—except her own feelings. When her ex’s wedding invitation lands in her inbox, complete with a plus-one line she’d rather leave blank, she does what any self-respecting, spreadsheet-loving woman would do: drafts a fake relationship contract. Her chosen partner? Caleb West, her company’s head of security and a man who looks like temptation in a tailored suit. Caleb agrees to play the role, on one condition: Nadia must stop hiding behind self-deprecating jokes. What begins as a favor soon turns into something dangerously real. ...

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 ...

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, ...

Molly Benton doesn’t believe in fairytales—she believes in compost, weather patterns, and things she can control. When she’s tasked with transforming a vacant city lot into a community garden, she expects dirt under her nails and red tape in her inbox. What she doesn’t expect is Ben Wilder—the city’s endlessly optimistic project manager who sees potential where she sees weeds. He’s sunshine to her careful shade, persistence to her precision. And when the long hours and late nights start blurring the lines between professional and personal, Molly finds herself growing roots she...

Rachel Harris has built her life on being the perfect professional—calm under pressure, crisp in presentation, and absolutely in control. But when her quiet school counseling job pairs her with Cole Bennett, a fitness instructor with a soft heart and a stubborn belief in kindness, her careful world begins to shift. What starts as a professional partnership soon blurs into something neither of them can ignore. Cole doesn’t see Rachel the way she’s been taught to see herself. Where others find flaws, he sees strength. Where she hides behind work, he offers stillness. And where she fears...