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The Stories People Stay Up to Finish

Neighbors who crossed the wrong line. In-laws who thought nobody was watching. Women who were told to smile through it, and didn’t. Here you’ll find true-to-life payback stories and full romance novels, told one chapter at a time and free to read on your phone.

New this week

Three new novels, each starting with a woman who has every reason to stay quiet and decides she’s done.

Candlelit tables and harbor lights glow behind a woman in a green dress, a red baby cardigan peeking from her bag, as she faces him in Better Left Unsaid.

Better Left Unsaid

Her fiancé wants her to fake their engagement through his mother’s retirement lunch. Celia walks out instead, with a pregnancy test he knows nothing about, and the next morning she meets a man on a half-built library bus who is losing a fight with a screwdriver.

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At a lamplit worktable, a curly-haired woman holds a tiny brick wall above her cardboard bakery as a man walks out behind her in His Loss, Her Secret.

His Loss, Her Secret

Maren never told her ex-husband she was pregnant when he left. Seven years later their daughter wants to meet him, and a job designing a Christmas window puts Maren beside a man who notices exactly whose work it always was.

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Wine glasses and gold candlelight catch a smiling woman in burgundy, chin on her hand, as a stubbled man leans close above the city in One Name Between Us.

One Name Between Us

Nadia refuses to stand beside her ex and lie for him at the bank. Then a hotelier walks into her frame shop with an old photograph, and the name he mentions belongs to the one man who never knew he had a daughter.

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Justice stories

True-life accounts, told first-hand, of HOA boards, bad neighbors, light-fingered coworkers and family members who pushed one time too many.

More romance

Finished one and want another? These novels are free from the first chapter to the last.

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