Sometimes rumors are just rumors…but sometimes they’re true.

Rachel Garwood doesn’t want to be attracted to Sean King. He isn’t her type, and since he’s never paid her any attention, she’s probably not his either.

Unfortunately for her, there’s something about him that she just can’t resist. So when Sean invites Rachel to his house party, she’s determined to uncover if the rumors she’s heard about him are true.

Sean isn’t like most other college guys. He loves to pleasure his partners, and the stories have spread across the campus. It should be a good thing, but he’s tired of women using him. And he doesn’t want that to happen with Rachel.

But when Rachel confronts him, Sean’s forced to make an impossible decision: turn her away and reject her…or show her the rumors are true and have her disappear once she gets what she wants. Either way he plays it, he could lose her.

Stuff like this sure wasn’t in his college brochure.

She’s unable to resist him…

After returning home due to her father’s illness, Elise Phillips reunites with her college friends, including Luke Long. Luke was a player back then, and Elise had always prided herself on not being another notch on his bedpost.

Luke is still gorgeous though, and he knows it. And he checks all her boxes—intelligent and sexy with muscles and a hard body.

Following a night of beer and shots, her resistance runs out, and he finally does check her box. And Elise knows that it can never happen again.

Luke had always thought of Elise as the pretty girl that was friends with his roommate’s girlfriend, but now she’s all grown up. When their night of passion rocks Luke’s world he realizes he must have her again.

The two enter a friends-with-benefits relationship with the agreement that they’re just going to have fun.

But all that changes when Luke steps in to help Elise, and now the player she avoided is the person she doesn’t want to live without.

For the fans of Friend with Benefits.

After meeting up with old friends for dinner, Elise Phillips is reunited with Luke Long.

She hasn’t seen him in ten years, but he’s still as gorgeous as ever.

In college, she managed to avoid him, but now, she gives in to her needs.

After all, it’s only a one-night stand.

One-Night Stand is about what happened between chapters Two and Three of Friends with Benefits.

He doesn’t do commitment. She’s his dead friend’s wife. They can never be more than friends.

Piper Stevens had already met—and lost—the love of her life. When she buried her husband, she buried her chance for a happily ever after…but also found a shoulder to lean on in Nate.

As a commitment-phobe womanizer, Nate Hall has never had a female as a friend, but he made a promise to his buddy before he passed. Take care of Piper.

And these days?  He can’t imagine his life without her.

Now, a year later, things Piper thought were long gone are beginning to come back.

Like her previously healthy libido.

Except she can’t picture dating someone in her husband’s place, nor can she sleep with a stranger either.

So, she turns to Nate. After all, he’s the perfect choice. He’s her friend but also a player. He cares about her but they’ll never fall in love…and she won’t get hurt. Not like she did when she lost her husband.

But sometimes the universe has other plans. Like bringing together two people who were meant to be together.

Sleeping with his friend’s little sister is probably off-limits. Getting her pregnant definitely is.

 Tiana Hall has plans. She’s going to go to grad school, get a great job, and then find a man and start a family.

Ty Morgan leads a great bachelor life. He has a good job, a nice home, and the freedom to do whatever he wants.

So, the two of them are on the same page when it comes to an evening of hot sex at her brother’s wedding. One night. No commitments. Simple … as long as her brother doesn’t find out.

Except this one night is about to turn into the biggest commitment of all. And there’s nothing simple about telling your friend you knocked up his sister.

Relationship status: it’s complicated.

An old crush and an old pain. Can they move on to find love again?

Five years ago, I had a secret crush on my neighbor. The problem was that we were both in relationships. That was, until I caught my boyfriend and his girlfriend in bed together.

Liam left his girlfriend, and I moved out, moved away, and moved on from my boyfriend without ever telling Liam how I felt. The pain was too much for both of us.

I never expected to see my old crush again after so many years. And I certainly never expected him to see me naked.

Getting over my embarrassment is just the first hurdle I must clear because my feelings for Liam are back and stronger than ever. But can I look at him and not remember my past? More importantly, can he look at me and not see his?

Faint was originally published in K. Bromberg’s Everyday Heroes World project.