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Summary: Nowadays, families come in all shades and forms. When 32-year-old pediatrician Edward meets the woman of his dreams, he gets more than he bargained for. She’s captivating, but complicated, with her unconventional variation of family dynamic. Does she come with more baggage—or people—than he can handle? Will he be able to keep his distance? Maybe things aren’t quite as they seem. Sometimes, it takes a village...

Summary:  In a heartbeat, Edward's life changed. What was supposed to be the joyful, life-changing experience, the birth of their daughter, turned into a nightmare. The love of his life, lifeless on the delivery table, as he held his daughter in his arms. The gift of organ donation was always his wife's desire. Bella was in the critical care unit at John Hopkins, praying for a heart transplant. What happens when years later Edward moves back home to Baltimore and enrolls his daughter in a dance class? Will the beauty in pink tights capture his heart? But what happens when he learns her secret?

Meet Edward Cullen, aka The Great Eight. He's the Captain of the Washington Capitals. He's one of the highest paid hockey players in the NHL but he's a little lonely. He fell in love once and thought she was the one. Until she broke his heart and walked away. Since then he's concentrated on getting his franchise a Stanley Cup.

Then Bella happens. She's quiet, intelligent, funny and beautiful. She knows nothing about hockey, and could care less that Edward is famous. She invites him into her apartment for a dinner, and eventually that blossoms into a relationship. She has goals of her own. International travel, keeping her family members safe, and excelling at her job as a research librarian.

She's independent and doesn't like to be controlled. He's a superstar who likes to spoil the women he falls in love with.

This story is rate R for adult themes and graphic language.

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I.M. Swan a best-selling author is on top of the literary world. After coming off her book tour for her latest book, she has begun her research for the next, a book on the Chicago Mafia. Spending hours in the library and courthouse, she is surprised to find out a most curious piece of information about the Don of the largest crime family. He is not the rightful heir to the family.

Aro Volturi planned and executed the complete destruction of the Cullen family. Wiping away any documentation or body of any evidence of the family from the face of the earth, or he thought so.

Edward Cullen was smuggled away with the aid of his faithful nanny, who kept him safe until it was time for him to take revenge for his family's death. Training and building a new, stronger family to take back what is rightfully his and executing the man who took his family from him.

One evening, as Edward is following one of Aro’s hitman, he witnesses him a young woman in the alley. Coming to her aid, he is mesmerized by her beauty and when he gets to know her, he is in awe of her intellect.

            Will Bella be able to survive with Edward’s help or will Aro get to her and silence her forever? E&B

Bella receives Christmas gifts from a mysterious person. Who is it? Will she return his affections?

Dr. Edward Cullen had it all. A job he excelled in, a high-rise penthouse apartment in the heart of New York city, and a wife he loved more than anything else in the world. Edward is called upon to perform life-saving surgery on a patient who cannot travel. He was excited to do it, until he found out where it was, the Arctic Tundra. It would require him to be away from his loving wife for at least two months.

Bella Cullen supported her husband and when he came home and told her someone needed him, she told him to go. Kissing him goodbye at the airport, he promises to be home soon, leaving his heart with her.

What happens when two months later when the plane Edward is on to come back home crashes? How will Bella survive without him? Wanting to give up herself until she finds out a piece of him still lives inside her.

Do Christmas Miracles still happen? Edward/Bella HEA

Could you ever imagine meeting the love of your life on the side of the road with a flat tire in the pouring down rain? And you didn't exchange numbers! Bella never expected to see him again until the night of her and her twin sister Alice's birthday party. Her life was never going to be the same, again.

Bella Swan, who is a world-famous singer and is touring the United States … she’s newly single and ready to mingle.

Edward Cullen is the quarterback from the Seattle Seahawks and has the biggest crush on Bella Swan and is teased relentlessly by his teammates. So much so, that he went to her concert when she was in Seattle to slip her a friendship bracelet with his number on it.

Romance and hilarity ensue …

Is this the beginning of their Love Story?