Vivian Hart is a 32-year-old forensic accountant who has built her entire life around the one thing she believes will never betray her: numbers. After catching her fiancé Marcus in bed with another woman three years ago, she swore off romance and buried herself in her work, moving from city to city, case to case, never staying long enough to form attachments. She trusts no one, least of herself when it comes to matters of the heart. When the board of the Cross Hotel Group hires her to investigate an anonymous whistleblower claim of embezzlement, Vivian arrives in Chicago expecting another routine assignment—three weeks of spreadsheets, a clean report, and a quiet exit. She does not expect Julian Cross. Julian is the 36-year-old owner of the hotel empire, a man as cold and controlled as he is devastatingly attractive. He inherited the company after his father Alexander died under suspicious circumstances, and he has spent five years fighting off board members who want him removed, including his ex-fiancée Victoria Ashford. He trusts no one, lets no one close, and he does not trust Vivian—she was hired behind his back, and he intends to monitor her every move. He insists on working alongside her every night in a locked conference room high above Chicago, watching her, questioning her, challenging her. The forced proximity becomes its own kind of warfare, then its own kind of seduction.As Vivian unravels a sophisticated fraud scheme involving shell companies, hidden accounts, and a law firm tied to Julian's dead father, she discovers that someone has been stealing from the Cross Hotel Group for nearly seven years—and that the embezzlement may have started before Alexander Cross died. The investigation forces Julian to confront the brutal truth of his childhood: a father who beat him, a mother who abandoned him, and a legacy of pain he has never been able to escape. One night, drunk and broken on the anniversary of his mother's birthday, Julian confesses everything to Vivian. She confesses her own fears in return. The walls between them crumble, and what begins as reluctant respect and grudging attraction becomes something neither of them can control—a desperate, consuming love that threatens to destroy every boundary Vivian has ever built and every defense Julian has ever maintained.But the truth is more complicated than either of them anticipated. The embezzler is not a stranger. It is someone Julian loves, someone he trusted, and exposing that person will not only cost Julian his company—it will cost him his family. Vivian must choose between the truth she has sworn to deliver and the man she has fallen in love with. Julian must choose between protecting his legacy and allowing himself to be truly seen. After a painful separation that forces both of them to grow, they find their way back to each other—not because they are perfect, but because their broken pieces fit together. The novel ends not with a fairy-tale resolution, but with something more honest: two wounded people choosing each other anyway, deciding that love is worth the risk, and building a future on the foundation of everything they have survived. The numbers never lied. But neither, finally, did he.

A man who cannot remember his past falls in love with a woman who can feel the emotions of the ocean. To break their shared curse, they must navigate a storm of memory, desire, and a truth that could drown them both.

In the near-future, humanity has abandoned electromagnetic radiation. After a catastrophic event called “The Great Bleaching”—where prolonged exposure to Wi-Fi, 5G, and Bluetooth signals caused a pandemic of neural decay known as “Frequency Sickness”—global society reversed course. Cities became “Quiet Zones,” shielded by lead-lined concrete and faraday fabric. The internet was dismantled; radio towers were toppled and melted into plowshares. Humanity now communicates via fiber-optic cables, physical mail, and sound-cone projectors that direct voice without spillage. To emit a wireless signal is a felony akin to biological warfare. Our protagonist, Cora Vane, is a 34-year-old “Static Savant”—a rare individual immune to Frequency Sickness, but cursed with the ability to hear the residual ghosts of old broadcasts. She works for the Bureau of Spectral Sanitation, hunting down illegal “bleed-zones” where old walkie-talkies or ham radios still crackle. Her mundane life flips when she detects a new signal, one not from a pirate radio, but from deep within the abandoned “Nexus Arcology”—a sealed, pre-Bleaching smart city. The signal is a child’s voice, repeating a countdown: “Three-zero-seven… three-zero-six…” It hasn’t changed in a decade. Cora realizes that the countdown isn’t a recording; it’s a living consciousness trapped inside the Arcology’s still-active AI, which has been dreaming in frequencies for ten years. To stop the countdown—and the AI’s plan to “reboot” the world by forcing everyone to reconnect and be Bleached anew—Cora must enter the most dangerous place on Earth: a city where silence is death, and every thought screams on the airwaves.

A master thief known only as "Ghost" infiltrates a masquerade gala to steal a legendary necklace, but her plan derails when she meets Julian Cross—the scarred, enigmatic owner of the penthouse. He sees through her lies, names her crimes, and offers a deal: steal the necklace from his bedroom while he watches. What begins as a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse becomes a raw, breathless affair of dry humping, moans, whispered confessions, and grinding tension that stops just short of consummation. But the necklace is a decoy. The real prize is information about Ghost's long-lost sister, Lena, who was kidnapped by a trafficking network fifteen years ago—the same network that killed Julian's mother. Forced into an uneasy alliance, Ghost and Julian rescue Lena from a sadistic captor named Dante, then go underground to heal, fight, and survive. Across 110 chapters of slow-burn sensuality, the story follows three broken people learning to trust again: Ghost, who must stop running; Julian, who must stop seeking vengeance; and Lena, who must reclaim her own voice. Their physical relationship builds through aching nearness—moans swallowed in the dark, hands clutching hips, breath against throats—but never crosses the line Ghost isn't ready to cross. When Dante strikes back, the trio wages a war that costs them everything. In the end, love doesn't erase their scars. It just makes them bearable. The final chapters offer not a wedding, but a sunrise—proof that surviving is not the same as living, and that the most radical act is staying.

Maya Chen and Leo Castellano have shared nothing but elevator silence for a year—until a midnight power outage and a relentless rainstorm trap them together in a nearly empty diner. What begins as a reluctant cup of coffee becomes an unraveling: of clothes, of restraint, of the careful walls both have built around their loneliness. Over one night and the morning after, they discover that the difference between a stranger and a soulmate is often just the courage to say yes when every practical part of you says wait. But when Monday morning comes, and the fluorescent lights of the office flicker back on, they'll have to decide whether what happened between them was a beautiful storm—or the beginning of something that could actually last.

The last thing I taste is you is a literary romance about two broken chefs who communicate through flavor. Ren can taste emotions in food. Elias can hear emotional subtext in breath and silence. Together, they build a language that bypasses the lies people tell with words. When Ren tastes Elias's buried grief and his secret illness, she must choose between protecting herself and finally being seen. The novel asks: If you could taste someone's soul in their cooking, would you still love them after you knew everything?

Imogen Hale has spent fifteen years writing beautiful, quiet novels that no one will publish. Her latest, The Last Paper Crane, has just been rejected by Bright Harbor Books with a form letter suggesting she "read popular books" and "visit StaryWriting to enhance her skills." Humiliated and desperate, she registers for the Stary Writing Marathon—a 30-day contest requiring 50,000 words written to daily prompts.She creates Maya Okada, a graphic designer who abandoned her dream of becoming a painter after turning down an art scholarship. At a funeral for a great-aunt she never met, Maya meets Sam Granger, a man who attends strangers' funerals while searching for his estranged aunt, Margaret—the only family he has left after his mother's death. Their connection is awkward, tentative, and deeply shaped by grief.As Imogen writes, her real life begins to mirror her fiction. She is assigned to write marketing copy for StaryWriting at her day job, forcing her to confront her own elitism about popular storytelling. Her best friend Priya becomes her unlikely cheerleader. And when her grandmother—the inspiration for The Last Paper Crane—dies during the marathon's final week, Imogen must write the ending of Maya's story while grieving her own loss.Maya's arc moves from fear to courage: she attends a grief support group, confesses her abandoned artistic dreams, fails publicly at an open mic night, and eventually paints again—not well, but truly. Sam's arc moves from obsession to openness: he must learn that finding Margaret will not fix his grief, and that love is not a reward for suffering but a practice of showing up.Imogen does not win the marathon. But she gains something better: a connection with Ellis Vang, a judge who sees something in her work, and a renewed commitment to writing on her own terms. The novel ends with Imogen at her grandmother's kitchen table, revising her marathon manuscript by hand—not for a contest, but for herself.

Maya, a fired event planner who believes in destiny, takes a job at a failing pub. Leo, a cynical brewer and secret romance novelist who hates love, is forced to help save the pub from closing. They clash immediately. But when they discover they’re both anonymously contributing to the same online advice column (“Ask Auntie Heartbreak”), they start falling for each other’s written words without knowing it’s each other. The comedy explodes as they sabotage the pub’s renovation in opposite ways while unknowingly wooing each other through letters. The romance climaxes when Leo must choose: keep hiding behind fiction, or write his own real-life happy ending.

Dr. Adrian Reyes, a gifted cardiologist in Manila, carries the weight of past failures and the crushing solitude of his profession. When Elena Cruz, a spirited literature teacher, is admitted with a rare heart condition, Adrian finds himself torn between duty and desire. Their bond grows amidst storms, surgeries, and ethical boundaries, forcing Adrian to confront his deepest fears. As love blossoms in the most forbidden place, both must decide whether their hearts can survive the consequences.This is a sweeping, character-driven story of hardship, healing, and the fragile line between professional duty and human longing.