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Cameron's first love is baseball, but when he falls for a softball player he can't be with, he realizes he's signed up for more than he bargained for. Between teaching baseball to a rag-tag team of kids and pursuing his dreams of coaching professionally, he shouldn't have feelings for Norah. But attraction is hard to fight, even when pasts and pain threaten to hurt him even more than they already have.*******Cameron Shaw, the quiet and reserved assistant for an esteemed collegiate baseball team, has one goal in life: to coach professional ball. After one wild, unforgettable kiss on a dance floor with a stranger, his dreams are at risk of crashing down all around him. Again.Fun-loving Norah Young has two goals. First, to prove to her coach that she can be a starting player on the Saint Helena University softball team. Second, to find out why the stranger at the bar left her standing alone after the best kiss of her life. Infatuation turns to hate when he leads her to believe that he wants nothing to do with her.As the baseball assistant and a student athlete, Cameron and Norah aren't supposed to be together, but they can't seem to stay away from each other. Especially when Norah wakes up hungover in Cameron's bed, only to find out that he coaches a team of kids who don't know the first thing about baseball.While Cameron silently endures the chronic pain that stole his baseball career, Norah aims to figure out what it was that stole the promising young player's talent and smile, without getting too close to him. But they can't seem to stay away from each other, no matter how hard they try. FEATURES:Women in sportsChronic pain and disabilityGay rep in sportsSteamy, but not spicyForbidden romanceHe falls firstGENRES:Contemporary, college sports romance, new adultMarked mature for language and a few steamy scenes.…

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When her estranged sister is involved in a near-fatal car accident, twenty-five-year-old Jordan Friedman finds herself the temporary guardian of her eight-year-old niece, Cory, who she has not seen since she was a toddler. To make things easier for everyone, Jordan moves Cory into the house she shares with her two eccentric and very opposite housemates. As the four girls navigate growing up together, Jordan struggles to balance caring for Cory, managing her comatose sister's affairs, and continuing to scrape by with her wedding photography business. The longer Cory stays with her, the more Jordan struggles to stay afloat. But Cory has nowhere else to go, and after six years of silence between them, Jordan is determined to do right by her sister, even if it means wedging a hesitant foot in a door that closed long ago.In the midst of tragedy, the four girls navigate growing up together and discover what being a woman truly means through heartache, a stray cat, and the unexpected truth behind the Womanhood Theory.***Rated mature for recreational drug use, suicide, and passive suicidality.***Main prompt: The door that closed to you many years ago has reopened, and now it's up to you to take a chance once more. (120)Additional prompts:You return home late one night only to find it's no longer your house. Nothing is as it seems. (56)A group of people wake up with no memory and find themselves adrift on an old steam passenger liner. The name? Titanic. (42)A famous singer and their pilot crash land on a tropical island. With no one else around, survival isn't their only challenge. (47)It's not a mystery - it's the walls. They hold secrets, but what are they hiding? (66)»You're wonderin' why half his clothes went missin'.« - Taste, Song by Sabrina Carpenter (124)»I've got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane.« (127)…

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There's no bond like a girl and her first dog. And, once it's all said and done, there's no loss like it, either.Hugo has lived a long, happy life with Bay, his one and only human. When their time together comes to an end, Hugo watches Bay's life unfold from an afterlife designed just for dogs. While Hugo watches from Dog Heaven, Bay makes a grief-stricken wish from the heart and Hugo vows to answer it for her, even if she doesn't know it.Forced to watch the rest of Bay's life unfold from a distance, Hugo plots to bring joy back to her, and he knows just how to do it.Content warning: pet lossONC 2024 entry, prompt 24: A wish made from the heart is always answered, sooner or later.Total word count: 23,049Recognition:- 2024 Open Novella Contest Shortlist- Contemporary Lit Experimental list- Ambassador's Slice of Life list- Ambassador's Reads list- Featured in February 2025 Ambassador's Recommendations…