falling-into-you

Love, Lust, and Jealousy.It's a story Cora knows all too well - not because it's her own, but that of her character in Illicit Affairs, the murderous romance that's about to take Broadway by storm. It's her crowning achievement, her pride and joy, and she's its figurehead - the alluring, sultry, and mysterious leading lady.She's almost ready for opening night. She's perfected it all - how to angle herself when she kisses him so that the stage lights hit their bodies just right; the way her lips are supposed to feel on his, soft at first and then increasingly wanting. There's just one tiny problem. As their first performance looms, she's still not sure if she has the willpower to convincingly play lover to a man she hates.Or if she can keep doing it once she realizes what she's feeling for him isn't hate anymore.♡ featured in @Romance's chicklit reading list and @NA's romance list ♡★ Started: November 15th, 2021★ Completed: May 22nd, 2022…

falling-into-you

Amelia Allen feels stuck. To an outsider, her life must look beautiful. She has a steady job, a relationship, and several years of her twenties left to figure out what more she wants out of life. But nothing is as shimmery as it appears from the surface, and her boyfriend's increasing hostility leaves her feeling trapped within the confines of her own life---too scared to stay where she is but even more scared to run.Everything changes when a stranger disappears.When Amelia finds out that a girl she went to school with has gone missing, she decides to show up at the search party, only expecting it to impact her life for a couple of hours. But there she meets Henry, who's sweet and charming and impossible to stay away from. And as she gets pulled deeper into his world and the mystery of his cousin's disappearance, the entangled truths about everything around her start to emerge. Hearts are broken, dark secrets are exposed, and people's true colors are revealed.But amidst all of the chaos, Amelia slowly starts to find something else: herself. »»-----　♡　-----««✧ Started: June 7th, 2020 ✧ Completed: October 11th, 2020✧ Rewrite Started: August 2022✧ Rewrite Completed: October 2022»»-----　♡　-----««♡ previously featured in @Romance's Featured Romance Stories list ♡…

falling-into-you

Chicago, IL. January 1992.When Jenny Adler shows up to her first day at a new job, she hopes it can be as simple as it is on paper - a few short months of doing paperwork and answering phone calls before she moves on to the next thing. It was never supposed to be anything more than a mere stepping stone, never meant to be significant. But no matter how fast she runs, the past clings to her like a shadow and having to constantly see the woman she wants to forget forces her to confront the uncomfortable truths she's been trying so hard to ignore. Meanwhile, a new friendly face slowly coaxes her into opening up and for the very first time, she starts to believe that humans aren't as inherently broken as she thought them to be. What she intended to be just a tiny blot of ink on the pages of her life ushers in the beginning of a brand new chapter and makes her challenge her beliefs about what it means to be a woman in a man's world, if love truly can be found in the most unexpected and darkest places, and what to do when you realize that you've turned into the very thing you swore you'd never become.Their future was a tragedy waiting to be written, a tale of endings that came too soon after beginnings. But there was a life before the dark, a life so full and hopeful it later felt like but a dream.»»----------««♡ featured in @NA's general + historical fic reading list ♡»»----------««♡ Started: May 17th, 2021♡ Completed: October 31st, 2021…

falling-into-you

✧ prequel to The Search for Lily Myers → read that one first! ✧ 7:04 p.m. Wednesday, September 2nd. No one knows it, but at this moment, three things are certain: Lily Myers is about to disappear,Liam Duke is about to have his heart broken,and Henry Caruso is about to meet the love of his life. But Liam wasn't always the confident boyfriend, Lily wasn't always the troubled girlfriend, and Henry definitely wasn't always the loving cousin. So how did they get there? It's kind of a long story.»»-----　♡　-----««✧ Started: October 26th, 2020✧ Finished: April 29th, 2021»»-----　♡　-----««✦ A/N: Hi friends! Even though this story is a prequel, it is intended to be read as a follow-up to The Search for Lily Myers, so make sure you go read that first! There are major spoilers in this book for that story, so I definitely don't recommend reading this one first. Nothing in this book should be 18+, but I will try to put a trigger warning at the start of the chapter if I think it might be helpful to do so.…