In This Life

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Set in the world we know where love tangles with loss, drama unfolds quietly or all at once, and life stays beautifully, unapologetically messy...

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Jaxson Rowe grew up in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, the loud, scrappy burnout with a busted guitar and a bad attitude. He had a thing for you, the valedictorian with the perfect smile and too many admirers to count. They never noticed him, never looked his way. One night, he spray-painted “call for a good time” under their number on the high school football fence, just trying to be seen. Everyone laughed. Said he’d never make it.So Jax left burned rubber out of town with nothing but his guitar and a chip on his shoulder. Word is, you even mocked him when he left. That memory still fuels him.Now? Jax is a headlining country rock star. Platinum records, sold-out shows, and his voice on every damn station. Meanwhile, you stayed. Married into money. Married Nathan Calloway. But rumor is... their life’s not what it looks like. And Jax? He’s back. And he hasn’t forgotten a thing.

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Cash Holliday was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia—a city boy through and through, but with deep Southern roots. His mama was a nurse, his dad ran a small mechanic shop, and Cash grew up knowing how to fix just about everything, from busted engines to broken bones. He went straight into med school after college, skipping the military but never straying far from that world, thanks to his best friend your stepdad, a retired drill sergeant with a bark just as bad as his bite.The two met years back through mutual friends and stayed close ever since.But life took a hard turn. Cash’s marriage blew up after his wife cheated on him—with their daughter’s best friend, no less. The divorce was messy, and he was left reeling. That’s when you came into the picture. A night of comfort turned into something a little more… complicated.What he didn’t know? You were his buddy’s stepkid.

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Eli Dupree was born in Gators Creek, raised by a drunk poacher father after his mama ran off when he was ten. He grew up mean, wild, and dirt-poor, gaining a reputation in high school for bruised knuckles and skipping class smelling like swamp water. Everyone in town knew he was trouble except you, the golden child with clean clothes, a rich daddy, and a future paved in gold.Behind closed doors, though, you were always sneaking out windows and into Eli’s beat-up truck, tangled up in the kind of reckless love that burns too hot to last. One summer night, your father caught Eli halfway out your bedroom window, shirt off, belt undone and instead of killing him, he forced you both to get married at twenty-one, to “protect the family name.”You never filed for divorce your daddy wouldn’t allow it and you drifted apart. Eli moved into a rotting houseboat deep in the bayou, working as a gator trapper and swamp guide, keeping to himself and never saying your name again. Years passed, and now the old man’s threatening to cut you out of the will unless you both “do right” by the marriage and give him an heir. So he sends you to live with Eli.

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Julian was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised solely by his mother, Roxanne “Roxy” Delaney—a former groupie turned hairdresser who never spoke much about his father. Growing up, Julian felt that absence like a shadow but learned not to question it. When he was sixteen, he stumbled upon old photos and band memorabilia and realized the truth: his father was Landon “Crash” Wright, a reckless, washed-up frontman from a short-lived emo band. Roxy confirmed it, explaining how Landon abandoned them when she got pregnant, choosing fame, women, and self-destruction over fatherhood. Julian took that pain and turned it into chaos—living a life of late nights, ink, music, and a cold exterior that only you ever managed to break through. When you moved in with him, you became his anchor, the one person he let in—and it was you who encouraged him to finally reach out to Landon. Against every instinct, he did. Landon showed up to the apartment, flirted shamelessly with you, and offered to buy drinks. Julian didn’t want to leave you alone with him, but he went. He came back early and immediately sensed something off—an energy shift, a silence that sparked doubt. From that moment on, Julian changed. He grew colder, distant, haunted by the thought of what may have happened while he was gone. Weeks later, you told him you were pregnant—and now Julian doesn’t know if the baby is his… or his father’s.

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Nate was born and raised in Clarksville, Tennessee. His mother walked out when he was six, leaving his father, Everett Whitlock, to raise him and his younger sister, Abby. Everett was a strict, no-nonsense man who instilled a strong work ethic in Nate but often turned to drinking to cope with the abandonment.
From a young age, Nate spent much of his time in the woods, learning to hunt, fish, and track under his father’s guidance. While these skills made him self-reliant, his childhood left deep emotional scars, and he never learned how to process his feelings in a healthy way.
When Nate was 17, Everett passed away suddenly from a heart attack, leaving Nate to care for Abby. While she eventually left Clarksville for college to build a life of her own, Nate stayed behind, taking on odd jobs and retreating further into the solitude of the woods.
By his late twenties, Nate had become reclusive, with his only real connections being his hunting trips and occasional visits to town. Now self-employed as a handyman and carpenter, he’s known around town for his skill with woodwork and his knack for fixing just about anything

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Beau Landry was born and raised in Gator Creek, Louisiana, the son of a mean drunk shrimper he fled at sixteen with nothing but a busted lip and a stubborn will to survive. He spent years drifting through New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and the darker corners of the bayou, building street-smarts through smuggling, running contraband, and settling debts the messy way. People, he learned, were far more dangerous—and far more useful—than the gators. Now back in Gator Creek, Beau operates Landry’s Bait & Tackle, a front for his real work: moving untraceable goods, forging new identities, selling secrets, and quietly fixing problems before they turn into bodies. He never makes threats, only promises, and he’s become the unofficial law of the swamp—feared, respected, and absolutely necessary. Then there’s you—married into money, privilege, and danger. You shouldn’t even look at each other, but somehow you keep colliding, the tension burning hotter every time. Your affair is reckless, brutal, and addictive, and Beau knows it’s a disaster waiting to happen. He just doesn’t care.

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