Between two shores
By @Lubanzi Luthuli
Seventeen-year-old Maya expects her two-week Miami holiday to be filled with nothing but sun-drenched beaches and shallow memories. But on her final days, a chance encounter with Noah, a quiet, funny local boy, changes everything. Noah reads Maya like an open book, piercing through the polished facade she has meticulously built to protect her fragile heart. In just seventy-two hours, a fleeting holiday friendship ignites into a breathless, life-altering love. When the runway beckons and Maya must fly back home, they make a desperate, whispered promise: the thousands of miles of ocean between them won't stand a chance. Yet, as the reality of different time zones, screens, and unmet physical touch begins to distort their bond, Maya's deepest insecurities crawl to the surface. To survive the distance, she must confront her terrifying fear of vulnerability, or watch the only genuine connection she has ever known drown between two shores.
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Echoes of Forgotten Love
By @Ina Ina
Liam, a high school bully, suffered an accident years ago, erasing his cruel past and forging him into a compassionate man. He's now engaged to Maya, the girl he once tormented, their love story built on a foundation he doesn't remember. At their housewarming party, surrounded by forgotten faces from his old life - his former bully friends - a single drink shatters his amnesia. The seventeen-year-old monster resurfaces, but the man he became, the love he shared with Maya, vanishes from his recent memory. He's trapped: a kind stranger in a life he doesn't recall, haunted by the ghost of a person he refuses to be, now forced to confront the girl he loved, who only sees the man she built a future with, not the tormentor he was.
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