Sad Drama

Plus One – A Fake Dating, Opposites-Attract Romance 💖 One night. One deal. One unexpected love story. 💖 Gerald Harrison doesn’t do relationships. As a sharp, no-nonsense businessman, his focus is on securing a major investment—and to impress his potential partners, he needs a polished, sophisticated date by his side. Asia Gates is bold, confident, and completely uninterested in playing the role of anyone’s arm candy. But when her sister’s injury leaves an unexpected job opening for a pretend girlfriend, Asia steps in, thinking it’s just easy money and one awkward evening. ...

I learned the sound of abandonment before I learned his real name. To the world, Caleb Jackson is a visionary brand strategist. To me, he was the man who bought me first editions, held me when I cried, and promised me a future by the sea. He told me our love was "complicated" because it was deep. He told me my anxiety was "intensity" that I needed to manage. For three years, I molded myself to fit the space he left for me. I swallowed my needs. I apologized for his silence. Then he went to Italy for a six-week "reset." While I was home caring for my dying father, Caleb was rewriting reality...

Nightfall is when my body turns against me. To the outside world, Michael Vane is the perfect husband. A wealthy architect. A protector. An anchor. To his wife, Stacy, he is the man who saved her from a storm five years ago and promised to be her shelter. But shelter can quickly turn into a prison. It starts with a scent. A missed text. A coldness in the bed that no amount of heating can fix. When Stacy discovers the truth—a digital trail of infidelity on an iPad left behind by mistake—her reality shatters. She finds messages where he mocks her pain. She sees photos of him draping her ...

Addie Royal never wanted power. Running a homeless shelter was her calling—until Ashton Rutherford proposed and swept her into the ruthless world of political Christianity. Under the tutelage of Ashton's mother Eva, a woman who built a dynasty from nothing, Addie learns to weaponize compassion, silence opposition, and justify wickedness in God's name. Ten years later, the empire begins to crack. Someone has been playing a long game, learning Eva's tactics and turning them into weapons. As the carefully constructed facade crumbles, three women—the architect, the apprentice, and the ...

He traded nineteen years for a season. She traded her grief for a balance sheet. I used to believe that nineteen years made a marriage indestructible. I believed that endurance was the highest form of love. I was the anchor. I was the fixer. I was the devoted wife who managed the home, the finances, and the ego of a husband terrified of getting older. I was wrong. It started with a gym membership. Then came the mood swings. The aggression. The cold, dead look in his eyes when he told me I was suffocating him. He called it a mid-life crisis. He blamed it on the stress. He blamed it on the "...

I used to believe that if something didn’t break loudly, it didn’t count as broken. That belief kept me married to a coward longer than it should have. We were the perfect couple. The renovated house, the successful careers, the beautiful son. But underneath the surface, we were rotting. While I was drowning in the invisible labor of keeping our lives afloat—managing a budget crisis, a toddler with night terrors, and a sister fighting addiction—Mark was feeling neglected. He didn’t ask for a divorce. He didn’t scream. He simply found someone else to make him feel like a King. ...

“Clever, light and as welcoming as an ocean breeze” (People), James Patterson “dazzles” (Publishers Weekly) with his classic romantic mystery, Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas, now celebrating twenty-five years with a beautiful new anniversary edition. A powerfully moving novel of love...

Centuries ago Thomas Dyersen left behind the information needed to find Sanctuary…the safe refuge where he once took his family…Now hundreds of years later another Dyersen is in great need of the information that Thomas Dyersen left behind. In the twentieth century the danger is not from someone close as what his ancestor faced…but an unknown threat…still unnamed but dangerous to all he loves. Fury of the Storm continues the ongoing story of family, friends, and strangers who come together at a time when the unknown is their greatest enemy…and their hidden sanctuary is their ...

I thought we were unshakable. I was wrong. Ethan and Chloe were the couple everyone envied. High school sweethearts, best friends, soulmates. They had a five-year plan, a shared apartment in Philadelphia, and a love that felt like concrete—solid, permanent, safe. Then came the internship in Los Angeles. It was supposed to be three months. Just one summer of long-distance to support Chloe’s screenwriting dream. But three thousand miles is a long way for a rubber band to stretch before it snaps. It started with missed calls. Then came the gaslighting. The accusations that Ethan was "...

She preached "radical honesty." She promised she would never hurt him. Then she destroyed him without making a sound. Ethan thought he had the perfect relationship. He and Sophie were an institution—bonded by intellectual debates, Sunday morning rituals, and a chemistry that felt electric. Sophie wasn't just his girlfriend; she was his moral compass. She spoke eloquently about "emotional hygiene," boundaries, and the cruelty of betrayal. She swore that if the end ever came, it would be clean. She lied. It starts with a "pause." A request for space. A claim of an existential crisis. Ethan,...

A collection of five short stories - spanning 1200 to 2600 words each - depicting bad people in dark situations. Some receive justice for their horrible deeds, but not all, which is ultimately the worst crime. "For you can tell the badness in a man, if he carries the sickness responsible for doing wrong upon others. It's in the eyes. The shadows that do not wander off, but linger, staying and festering."

A totally gripping, heartbreaking and suspenseful read, that readers of Jodi Picoult, Jojo Moyes, and Emma Robinson will love. 💔🏡 She’s the child you love… but someone believes she shouldn’t be yours Katie loves her 6-year-old stepdaughter Maisie with all her heart. The time they...

Set in Blackpool, Lancashire. After emerging from a coma, Molly is thrust into a world of deceit, betrayal, and hidden truths. Haunted by amnesia, she struggles to piece together fragments of her past, clinging to the one person she trusts implicitly. Her previous marriage holds dark secrets of abuse and undisclosed conditions that remain shrouded in her lost memories. As a team of detectives races against time to unravel the mystery of her disappearance, Molly's husband becomes the prime suspect in her supposed murder. PC Carter harbours a gut feeling that Molly is still alive, sparking a ...

It was all so unexpected. And now, she needs to fight the greatest battle of her life. Shirley is preoccupied with her non-stop daily routine: her demanding job at a law firm, raising her 18-month son and maintaining her loving relationship with her husband... Shirley’s busy life is turned upside down when her mother, who lives in Australia, comes over to visit and receives painful news – she has cancer. This terrible discovery is just the tip of the iceberg for Shirley, with many more struggles ahead, that she must face. Against all odds, and despite the challenges in her path, she ...

Edward appears to be an ordinary mature college student studying forensic science, but behind his quiet exterior lies a dark obsession with the dark web.Addicted to its anonymity, Edward immerses himself in illegal chat rooms and unsettling content. His fascination with the shadows of the human mind begins to blur the lines between his online world and reality. When Phoebe, a fellow student, takes an interest in Edward, she has no idea he’s been stalking women at the college—and she might be next. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Carter and his team are investigating the suspicious death ...

Molly Chapman, a mother of three, finds her once-loving marriage falling apart. Struggling with her mental health and neurodivergence, she seeks support from her psychiatrist. To escape her troubled home life, Molly walks her puppy along the beach, where she encounters a handsome stranger. One night, after another fight with her husband, Molly contemplates taking her own life but falls from the sea wall under mysterious circumstances. Injured and in a coma, Molly wakes up with no memory of her life and a stranger by her bedside. As Molly questions her new reality, will she uncover the truth...

Four of the short stories in this collection (The Sad Picnic, Cats, At the Club, Saying Goodbye) were written over the last decade and appeared online on obscure websites. They are joined by nine new stories written for this anthology. “Where did do you get the ideas for stories?” That’s a question I get all the time. My stock answer is this: From everyone I meet, even you who has just asked me that question. Though unsatisfactory for some, that is the truth of the matter. Writers take what they see and hear and fashion it to create a stylized version of life. It’s as if when ...

About an 18 -23 minute read. It's Christmas... ...and someone's gonna die. She knew it. Dr. Ayers is stuck in Emergency for the holiday, again. And every year a patient doesn't make it through. Try as she might, the good doctor cannot stop death. Or can she? With the help of her nursing staff, Dr. Ayers treats her patients in a desperate attempt to keep them all alive. Will she keep death from invading the ER? Or will tragedy destroy the holidays? What are you waiting for? A brain aneurysm? Get yours today.

He was a prisoner of time. She was running out of it.Charlotte Pemberton has exactly ninety days to survive Blackwood Manor. Bankrupt, evicted, and exhausted from a lifetime of playing the perfect, agreeable daughter to a hyper-critical family, the decaying Cornish estate is her absolute last refuge.But she isn’t alone.The manor is occupied by an invisible, devastatingly powerful presence that wants her gone. Weaponizing the freezing drafts and shadows of the house, the entity expects her to run. Instead, Charlotte is simply too tired to be haunted. Stripped of her need to perform, she ...

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