I spent sixteen years believing my father died in a car accident. My mother repeated the story so often—the wreck, the missing body, the grief—that it…

  When my stepmom made me her maid of honor, I thought we were finally becoming a real family. But moments after her vows, she handed me…

  One ordinary morning, I stepped outside and froze. A “Just Had a Baby” sticker adorned the back of my boyfriend Eric’s car. We had been together…

  A month after my breakup, I was finally moving on when I saw my sister handing cash to my ex-fiancé, Richard, the man who had shattered…

  I thought my marriage was perfect until my best friend, Layla, showed up unannounced with a VHS tape. “Just watch this,” she said. Minutes later, I…

  Everyone in my family knows I’m the unofficial event planner — weddings, showers, birthdays, you name it. Everyone except my brother’s fiancée, Sarah. From the moment…