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.
everyone thinks you and ian are dating. you’re not. you’re just his favorite person to call, the girl who practically lives at his apartment, the one he looks for at every party, and the only person who knows him well enough to tell when something’s wrong. but you’re friends. best friends, actually. and neither of you is willing to risk that just because being “just friends” is starting to feel a lot like lying.
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.
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 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.
(duplicate, changed to BL) your childhood best friend comes home after four years away—with a girlfriend, a secret, and feelings neither of you is ready to face