Love Neglected

She never asked for his money. She only asked for his love. Brilliant engineer Sadie Holbrook thought her marriage to the aviation magnate was solid, until the stepsister she helped hire stepped between them. Patrick swears the late-night strategy sessions and closed-door meetings are strictly professional. Sadie tries to trust the husband she loves… until Alyssa drops a positive pregnancy test and names Patrick the father. Faced with an unforgivable betrayal, Sadie does the one thing his analytical mind never calculated: she walks away and devotes herself to her passions. Now, the ...

She was his wife. He just forgot to love her. Claudia Kingston spent eight years standing beside a powerful man who slowly stopped seeing her. In his world of ambition, influence, and control, she became invisible...until the night she realized she no longer recognized her place in his life. So she did the one thing he never expected. She left. No warnings. No second chances. Just divorce papers and silence. Lucas Kingston has built an empire on control and winning. But nothing prepares him for losing the one woman who never asked for anything… except to be loved out loud. Now she’s ...

Some pumpkins rot. So do boundaries. Hannah Mercer married the man she loved. Unfortunately, his family came with a pumpkin farm, a thousand autumn traditions, and absolutely no concept of boundaries. For nine years, Hannah has kept Mercer Farm running while her husband, Luke, gets praised for carrying on the family legacy. She organizes the festivals, solves the disasters, keeps his mother happy, and tells herself this is what being part of a family looks like. Then Brooke Dalton comes home. Luke’s childhood best friend. His mother’s favorite almost-daughter-in-law. The woman everyone ...

For twenty-five years, Cheryl has laughed off the fact that her husband's family still seats her at the kids' table. Then one empty chair makes the joke impossible to tell. Every holiday, Cheryl arrives with the dishes everyone expects, the things everyone forgot, and the answers everyone assumes she'll have. Then she takes her usual seat twelve feet away from her husband. She has never made a scene about it. Until Thanksgiving. There is an empty chair beside Tom. He sees it. He sees her. And he sits down anyway. For the first time in twenty-five years, Cheryl stops smoothing things over. ...

Ruth was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. Pale, frail, and withdrawn, it was clear to Maggie that Ruth had seen and experienced things that no 11-year-old should have to, that she's been conditioned to "see no evil, speak no evil". Ruth is in desperate need of help, but can Maggie get through to her and unlock the harrowing secret she carries? Through love, reassurance, and patience, Maggie starts to unravel Ruth's painful past - a past defined by cruelty and abuse.

At just 10 years old, Kirsty has already suffered a lifetime of heartache and suffering. Neglected by her teenage mother and taken into care, Kirsty thought she had found her forever family when she is fostered by Pat and Mike, who she comes to see as her real mum and dad. But when Pat has a heart attack and collapses in front of her, Kirsty's foster family says it's all her fault. They blame her temper tantrums for putting Pat under stress and they don't want Kirsty in their lives anymore.

Rebecca Sullivan has spent years being the woman everyone can count on. The capable wife. The loyal daughter-in-law. The invisible force behind her husband’s family empire. And apparently, the woman Andrew Sullivan can always afford to disappoint. Because Heather needs him more. Heather is fragile. Heather is alone. Heather deserves another chance. And every time Andrew has to choose between the wife who can “handle anything” and the woman who supposedly can’t, Rebecca already knows who will come first. Even when Heather takes what Rebecca earned. Even when Rebecca is humiliated for...

He let another woman haunt the space between them. Now he has to clear it himself. Natalie Bennett used to love Halloween. It was their holiday—the terrible haunted houses, crooked pumpkins, scary movies, and traditions she and Chris built over eleven years of marriage. Then Chris stopped showing up. His career became more demanding. His evenings disappeared. His weekends belonged to work. And when his beautiful coworker Simone started texting late at night, calling him her “work husband,” and giving him the admiration he clearly enjoyed, Chris insisted Natalie was making something ...

At just 10 years old, Kirsty has suffered a lifetime of heartache. Neglected by her teenage mother and taken into care, Kirsty thought she had found her forever family when she was fostered by Pat and Mike. But when Pat has a heart attack and collapses in front of her, Kirsty's foster family say it's her fault. Kirsty is still reeling from this rejection when she comes to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley. She acts out, smashing up Maggie's home, and even threatens to hurt the baby boy Maggie has fostered since birth.

Ruth was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. Pale, frail and withdrawn, it was clear to Maggie that Ruth had seen and experienced things that no 11-year-old should have to, that she had been conditioned to 'see no evil, speak no evil'. Ruth is in desperate need of help, but can Maggie get through to her and unlock the harrowing secret she carries? Through love, reassurance and patience, Maggie starts to unravel Ruth's painful past.

My Husband's Golf Obsession Ruined Our Marriage He built his easy life on her unpaid labor. She’s about to tear it down. Every marriage has its rough patches. Natalie Mercer’s has golf. Golf on Saturdays. Golf on Sundays. Golf on holidays. Golf tournaments, golf bar tabs, golf equipment, golf excuses. While her husband lives like a carefree bachelor in khakis and country club polos, Natalie is left doing the actual work of marriage, motherhood, and keeping a life together. But Scott’s neglect isn’t the worst part. The worst part is discovering that while Natalie has been carrying ...

When grief leaves Claire alone, it’s the scent of lilacs—and a small boy with big blue eyes—that begin to heal her heart. Six weeks after losing her beloved husband, Claire is adrift in a world that no longer makes sense. Her days are orderly but hollow—until an unexpected visitor appears in her backyard, drawn by the lilacs Claire planted years ago. Tommy, a precocious seven-year-old with a difficult home life, stirs something in Claire that she thought was gone for good: purpose, connection, and love. As their unlikely bond deepens, Claire must decide how far she’s willing to go...

How to Heal the Invisible Wounds, Reclaim Your Worth, and Stop Living in Comparison Parental favoritism doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like being “the responsible one.” The quiet one. The one who learned not to need too much. The one who adapted, waited, fixed, and carried the emotional weight no one else noticed. And long after childhood ends, its impact remains. If you grew up feeling less chosen, less protected, or quietly compared to a sibling, this book was written for you. Recovering from the Pain of Parental Favoritism is not about blaming parents or rewriting...

She was invisible in her own marriage. He was a ghost who'd never been seen. Megan Hartwell has spent eleven years being the perfect wife—raising three children, managing a pristine Dallas home, and pretending not to notice that her husband stopped seeing her years ago. She fills her days with lists and routines, her nights with silence, and tells herself this is what marriage looks like. She's almost convinced herself it's enough. Then she starts to feel something in her house. A presence. A warmth in empty rooms. The sense that someone is finally, impossibly, watching. Eli Navarro died ...

Heal the invisible wounds of childhood emotional neglect and quiet chronic self-doubt with this gentle self-help guide. When you grow up with unseen emotional needs, the resulting emptiness can silently derail your adult relationships and self-worth. This compassionate, reassuring roadmap helps...