Sad Romance

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining links to Kenna’s daughter.

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

Joshua and Lauren are the perfect couple. Newly married, they're wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As Lauren's disease progresses, Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with his future - a future without the only woman he's ever loved. He's so consumed with finding a way to avoid the inevitable ending that he never imagines his life after Lauren. But Lauren has a plan to keep her husband moving forward. A plan hidden in the letters she leaves him. 

At the altar, Zarayah can’t help but wonder if she’s making a terrible mistake… Keeping her husband-to-be’s secrets from her family wasn’t the first gut-wrenching decision she had to make. Choosing to go through with the wedding after learning what Zaire has done leaves Zarayah with a bad taste in her mouth. But surely it’s too late to call things off when they’re standing at the altar together… right? Backing out would embarrass her family—and herself. So she goes through with the marriage and things go from bad to worse. Their honeymoon cruise is a disaster and her ...

Letting go is not a process that comes naturally to us. In a world that teaches us to cling to what we love at all costs, there is an undeniable art to moving on - and it's one that we are constantly relearning. In this series of honest and poignant essays, Heidi Priebe explores the harsh reality of what it means to let go of the people and situations we love most - often before we are ready to - and how to embrace what comes next.

A heart-wrenching new novel from best-selling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can't bring ourselves to see coming. 

In the small coastal town of Clearwater, Aston Carter is looking for a fresh start. After moving here with his mother, he’s struggling to find his place, haunted by the loss of his father and unsure of where he fits in the world. Everything changes when he meets Eli Taylor—an introverted young man who is wrestling with his own inner battles, torn between crushing family expectations and the pull of his heart. Aston and Eli’s connection is undeniable, but it’s complicated by secrets, fears, and the pressures that threaten to tear them apart at every turn. As they navigate friendship,...

Previously published as Kiss Me Goodbye: A Romance Novel by Emily Bold; Translation by Katja Bell. "A captivating new voice in paranormal and historical romance! Emily Bold weaves a fine web of engaging characters and exciting action." – Tina Folsom, International Bestselling Author of the Scanguards series Lauren has everything she ever dreamed of: a loving marriage, two wonderful daughters, close friends, and a caring family. But when a devastating diagnosis turns her world upside down, time suddenly becomes far too short for all her dreams. On a warm summer night, Lauren gathers her ...

Dark romance, high stakes, and plot twists abound in this YA thriller that's perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover. What you don't know can hurt you.... It’s been months since the accident that killed Ella’s best friend, Hayley, and Ella can’t stop blaming herself. Now Ella is back at school...

She’s running from the past. He’s chasing his future. Neither expected love to catch them. Married. Widowed. Alone—by twenty-one. Mac has lost everything, and the only way to survive is to keep moving. Taking a job as a personal chef for a touring band isn’t glamorous, but it’s freedom. An escape. Dean is a rising star with no time for distractions. Music is his world, and love has no place in it. But Mac isn’t just another face in the crowd—she’s a storm he never saw coming. Life on the road is unpredictable, and so is the pull between them. But some pasts don’t stay ...

About the Fall I thought I had almost everything. Good looks. Parties. Girls whose names I never learned. Life was easy... or at least it looked that way. I never let anything get close enough to matter. Then Miranda. She didn’t flirt back. Didn’t care who I was. There was a quiet sadness in her, like she was already halfway gone. And for reasons I still can’t explain, I couldn’t walk away. One winter night, in the middle of a snowstorm, I found her sitting alone. I sat beside her. No words. Just shared silence, cold air, and something beginning between us. What grew between us ...

I love him, but I love him too. She loves me, but I love my boo. What do you do when you are torn between two lovers? Do you choose sides, or do you keep them both? In love and war, two is company, but three is a crowd. In Somebody's Sleeping in My Bed, access has been granted into the minds of four sensational authors from Major Key Publishing as they navigate what happens when just having one lover isn't enough. Get ready to be on the edge of your seat as you go on a ride filled with sex, love triangles, and heartbreak that is sure to leave your pulse racing and your mind reeling.

Tess is a fat girl who’s tired of feeling invisible. Desperate to be seen, she makes the bold choice to leave America behind and fly to the Caribbean. The problem? Her hot friend Becky is coming too… At first, it’s more of the same. Becky gets all the guys. Becky gets all the attention. Although Tess is used to playing second string, this trip changes everything. When Tess meets Mark—a soft-spoken, sweet-talking Rasta—she feels sexy for the first time in her life. Mark sees her. Wants her. Loves her. Caught up in a whirlwind island romance, Tess makes another bold decision. If ...

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. ...

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Calliope "Callie" Palmer is one year fresh out of a relationship with a heartbreaking end. Since deciding to focus on herself and her bakery, the last thing Callie is looking for again is love. When her best friend recruits her for a photoshoot with her fiancé, Callie has a feeling she's being set up. Her initial apprehension is replaced with immediate attraction when she lays eyes on the handsome Thane St. Thomas.

You want to know the secret to everlasting happiness? Never fall in love. That was the wisdom my father imparted to us James boys after our mom died, and it’s a piece of advice that’s served me well. Until dear old Dad asks me for a favor over Sunday brunch. No big deal, right? I love making my old man happy. Except this “favor” is a lot more complicated than picking up his dry cleaning. Dad wants me to marry and provide a few heirs for the James empire, and he’s even done me the courtesy of handpicking my bride-to-be. Lucky me.

Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction, and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. The people we love can let us down badly. Since we are inevitably disappointed by love, wouldn't we be better off without it? No, says Carrie Jenkins. Instead, we need a new philosophy of love, one that recognizes that the pain and suffering love causes are a natural, even a good part of what makes love worthwhile. It's time we liberated love.

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 ...

Anna, a total theater kid, is less pretty and popular than her lookalike twin, Katie, but she doesn't let that get her down. She has two goals for junior year: she wants to become a major player in her high school's drama department, and she wants her best friend to become her boyfriend. And then an accident changes everything. She's sidelined from acting, and she seems to be losing the guy she's crushing on. What's more, this whack dude from her past--someone she'd like to keep her distance from--keeps trying to reconnect. Anna may have to rethink the role of "Anna." Maybe it's time she ...