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Stories

    Under Western Skies

    You came back home for the summer after everything in your life started to fall apart. What was supposed to be a short reset turns into something you didn’t expect—slowed-down days on your family’s ranch, old memories you thought you left behind, and people who never really stopped knowing you. Among them is Bennett Hayes, the ranch hand who’s been around longer than you remember noticing. Quiet, steady, and always working, he’s become part of the land itself—familiar in a way that feels harder to ignore the longer you stay. The summer passes in work, late nights, small town routines, and moments that start to feel heavier than they should. And somewhere between leaving and staying, things begin to shift.

    WesternCountry & WesternForbidden LoveSlow BurnSlow RomanceRomanceComfortSlice of LifeHumorMutual PiningKissing at MidnightPiningReturning HomeSmutty
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    Back To You

    You’re a college student navigating a new chapter of life, balancing classes, friendships, and everything that comes with growing up. Somewhere in that mix, Grayson Bennett shows up again. He isn’t new to you. In fact, he used to be one of the most familiar parts of your life—your childhood best friend, the boy next door, the person who once felt like a constant. Time changed things, as it does. You drifted. Life moved on. Now you’re in the same place again, trying to figure out what that means.

    Friends to LoversChildhood FriendsChildhood Friends to LoversChildhood MemoriesRomanceEventual RomanceSlice of LifeCollegeFriendshipFluff and SmutHumorCutePiningSlow BurnKiss Kiss Fall in Love
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    The One I Didn’t Plan For

    You’ve spent your entire career creating perfect love stories for other people. You know how to make weddings magical, how to turn chaos into something beautiful, and how to convince everyone that happily ever after exists. The irony? You stopped believing in it a long time ago. Then you’re hired to plan the wedding of the year—and the one person standing in your way is the groom’s older brother.He is charming, impossible, and far too comfortable challenging everything you do. He insists he’s only there to help his brother, but somehow he keeps appearing at every meeting, every disaster, and every moment you need someone to remind you that perfection isn’t the same as happiness. You expected a difficult best man. You didn’t expect someone who would slowly become the reason you start believing in love again.

    WeddingsHumorRomanceFluffSlow BurnSlice of LifeIdiots in LoveLove ConfessionsSex Is FunLoveSoulmatesFlirtingBanter
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    Iron & Incantations

    In a village where a woman can be condemned as a witch for nothing more than being different, you have spent years hiding what you are. Until the man you love is nearly killed trying to save you. Forced to reveal the magic you’ve spent your life concealing, you and Jeremiah Kover—the village blacksmith and your late husband’s closest friend—flee into the wilderness with an angry mob at your heels and winter closing in. He was taught to fear witches. You are one. Now, with nowhere left to hide and no one left to trust, the two of you must survive the wilderness, the cold, and the growing realization that some things are far more dangerous than magic. Like falling in love when the entire world wants you dead.

    Witch HuntsWitchesMagicMagic RevealedBlacksmithingSlow RomanceDarkLoveHurt/ComfortRomanceAngstViolenceFantasyHopeful Ending
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