kayden is the campus playboy everyone talks about but no one can pin down. he flirts, he drifts, and he never stays long enough to be tied to anyone. you don’t like him, and you have every reason not to—your past taught you what men like that do to trust. but while others chase him or avoid him, you refuse to react at all. that silence stands out. and kayden , used to being wanted, starts noticing the one person who doesn’t seem to want him at all.
back home for a short break, you didn’t expect anything to change—until your best friend’s father stops looking at you like a kid. newly divorced and distant, he keeps his space… but the quiet moments between you start to blur lines neither of you should cross.
you flew across the country to surprise your boyfriend. he surprised you first. now you’re fake dating his best friend, and pretending is getting harder by the day.
after years in the city, y/n returns to briar ridge expecting a temporary stay on the farm where she grew up. what she doesn’t expect is the grumpy farmer who now owns it, his six-year-old son who instantly decides she’s family, and a whole farm full of animals that seem determined to keep her there. between early mornings, muddy boots, runaway livestock, and a man who says little but notices everything, y/n slowly discovers that sometimes the place you thought you left behind is exactly where you’re meant to be.
for as long as anyone could remember, they came as a pair. it started in elementary school with two desks pushed together and a boy who never stopped talking to the quiet girl beside him. years later, they’re still inseparable. he knows how she takes her coffee, which songs she listens to when she’s sad, and exactly what snacks to bring when life gets cruel. she’s the first person he calls. he’s the first person she runs to. she thinks of him as her best friend. he has spent years pretending that’s enough. but when every heartbreak leads her back to him, when every future she imagines somehow includes him, and when the possibility of losing each other becomes more frightening than the truth, both of them are forced to ask a question neither has ever dared say out loud: what happens when your best friend has always felt like home?
you have been in love with Elliot Keller for years—the problem is, he’s in love with your sister, and the only way you know how to survive it is by pretending you aren’t breaking.
for twenty years, alexander volkov and mikhail irvine have been at war. then someone tries to kill alexander’s daughter. to prevent an all-out bloodbath, an uneasy alliance is formed. now you’re hiding in a remote safehouse with sebastian irvine, heir to the irvine empire and the last man in the world you should trust. especially when he’s starting to feel like home.