What Will Be Series
Follow three stories of love, loss, and second chances
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Praise for Watch Over My Life
“This book has everything. Laura Ashley Gallagher does an excellent job of weaving all the elements together to create a page-turner that will have readers eager for her next novel, Losing Love, due out later this year.” – Booklife Prize
“Author Laura Ashley Gallagher has crafted a very emotive work of fiction with plenty of deep feelings, poignant lessons, and memorable moments to offer readers. I found the portrayal of protagonist Jessica and how she deals with daily life to be realistic and relatable, and it was used to strengthen the overall plot rather than being relied upon as a plot gimmick. This deepened the emotional resonance of the story as the plot took many unexpected twists and turns, but I was with the characters at every step and fully invested (and in tears) by the story’s end. Overall, I would highly recommend Watch Over My Life to fans of heartfelt emotional dramas, realistic characters with deep dimensions, and for contemporary romance fans everywhere.” – Readers’ Favorite
Book Summary
Watch Over My Life and Losing Love are both standalone books in the What Will Be book series and can be read in any order, but it is recommended that they are both read before If By Chance.
Jessica Connors has her life figured out – successful career, independent woman, and hiding a life-threatening illness.
She plans to keep it that way even when Jake Williams comes crashing into her life. As her brother’s childhood friend and now her boss, she despises everything about him. So, when she wakes up naked in his bed one morning, she wonders how she has ended up there.
Their one-night stand sets off a series of surprising events that will bring the pair closer than ever, and she gives away something she never knew he wanted.
Her heart.
Her life becomes everything she has dreamed of, but dreams don’t last forever. Somebody always wakes you eventually. And when Jessica wakes, it forces her to face a past that is haunting her, and secrets best left unspoken – secrets that will change both of their lives forever.
Trigger warnings: Grief, domestic abuse, cancer.
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Book Summary
Watch Over My Life and Losing Love are both standalone books in the What Will Be book series and can be read in any order, but it is recommended that they are both read before If By Chance.
When I was nineteen, I had a plan. Work hard, become a teacher, and spend the rest of my life with my childhood sweetheart, Nick. But here’s the thing with plans—they’re fickle. I didn’t plan for Nick to die that year, or all the choices I’d have to make.
Six years on, I didn’t plan to stumble into Alex Hale—the man with piercing blue eyes and a smile that makes me melt. I didn’t plan to fall in love with him. With his heat and passion, he reignited the fire I had lost.
But I made choices in my past that will jeopardize everything. It’s a past that taught me our words can hurt, but it’s the ones we don’t have time to say that can destroy us.
Trigger warnings: Loss of a loved one, grief, depression.
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It is recommended that both Watch Over My Life and Losing Love are read before If By Chance.
We have three rules:
One night.
No kissing.
No falling in love.
Memories can do different things to alter our perception of reality. Attached to those memories are strings, and each string holds the emotions we felt.
They can make us laugh and cry. They can anchor us. They can drag us back when all we want to do is run to the future.
Memories dance in the shadows. They cast doubts over everything we know is true. Memories can break down walls and build impenetrable barriers.
These memories I speak of; they’re not mine.
They’re his.
And I see his memories flicker beneath warm eyes.
He fights with it.
For me, he battles with a presence no longer here.
But I can’t compete with a memory.
Because his memory is her.
Trigger warnings: Grief, loss of a loved one, domestic abuse, PTSD, suicide, stalking, violence, assault.
The King Series
Welcome to the world of the King brothers – three irresistible men with a royal touch of arrogance, a hint of vulnerability, and hearts ready to surrender. Journey through a trio of standalones that explore the passion, struggles, and victories of these Kings in love. A thrilling romance series where power, love, and family loyalty collide.
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Book Summary
A decade of distance, a lifetime of secrets, and an attraction that refuses to fade…
Beth was only looking for one last night of adventure when she met Logan, just before her departure for an internship in London. The attraction between them was undeniable, and a wild ride on the back of his Harley was a temptation she couldn’t resist.
A decade later, a single mother and on the wrong side of an eviction notice, the last person she expects to come barreling into her life is Logan King. With him, he brings an offer of sanctuary from the abusive past she’s running from.
The catch? He’s now her very tempting neighbor.
But time has changed them both. Beth isn’t the same woman who walked into Logan’s tattoo studio all those years ago, and Logan has his own demons to contend with. Still, the smoldering passion that once ignited between them refuses to be extinguished and soon becomes a wildfire too powerful to ignore.
When the shadows of Beth’s past come back to haunt her, it threatens to shatter everything. But Logan is no stranger to a fight, and for Beth and her girls, he’s willing to go to war.
Trigger warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, emotional abuse, domestic violence/physical abuse, references to sexual assault, kidnapping, suicide.
Holly Ever After
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Book Summary
When enemies ignite, mistletoe isn’t the only thing catching fire.
Back in her hometown of Pine Falls after a heart-wrenching breakup, romance writer Holly is stuck with writer’s block and a cottage that reflects everything in her life… crumbling to the ground. To make matters worse, her brother’s irritating best friend, Sean, is helping with the renovations.
She’s despised him since childhood, but now she hates the way he hammers nails like something straight from a cologne commercial, those smug smirks, and the winks that make her heart race… just a little. And wait… is he… flirting with her?
When he starts looking at her in a way that’s more ‘unwrap me’ than ‘I despise you’, lines are crossed, boundaries are blurred, and nothing will ever be the same.
But how can she trust her heart to a man she’s sure is going to break it?
Throw in her crazy family, a surprisingly sexy Santa costume, a record breaking blizzard, and she’s got herself a Christmas to remember.
Skeptically In Love Series
Skeptically In Love is a steamy romcom series where love is messy, inconvenient, and entirely unexpected. Each book follows a couple who never meant to fall. While the books can be read in any order, they’re all connected through the Skeptically In Love podcast, with recurring characters.
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Book Summary
Sienna Blake knew attending her brother’s wedding meant facing the past she left behind—the old friends who chose sides, the city that never really felt like home, and the ex who moved on without looking back… who is now the best man.
She can handle it.
What she can’t handle? The endless questions about why she’s still single.
Enter Nathan Calloway. A chance encounter at an airport bar turns into an impulsive deal. For one week, he’ll be her perfect fake boyfriend.
The rules are simple: convince everyone, survive the wedding, and walk away unscathed.
But the longer they pretend, the more real it starts to feel. And as the lines blur between what’s fake and what’s undeniable, Sienna has to wonder—was this ever just a deal, or has she risked her heart on something real?
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Book Summary
After a family tragedy leaves Wes Turner as the unexpected guardian of his one-year-old niece, he’s drowning in responsibilities he never asked for. Running his auto shop is hard enough—raising a baby on his own? Impossible. Enter Lena Carter: a no-nonsense nanny with a soft heart and a past she keeps locked away.
From the moment she steps into his home, Lena brings order to the chaos, warmth to the cold walls, and a dangerous temptation Wes can’t afford to entertain. She’s supposed to be off-limits—his employee, his saving grace. But with every passing day, she becomes something more.
But Lena has rules. She has boundaries. Because falling for her boss? That’s a mistake she swore she’d never make. And when the lines between duty and desire blur beyond recognition, she has to ask herself: Is she just the nanny… or something more?
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Book Summary
Celeste Morgan never expected to see him again—the stranger who shattered her world in the dark. He was supposed to be a memory, a secret she could tuck away and never revisit. But fate has other plans.
Julian Blackwood is ruthless in business, dangerously controlled in the bedroom, and the kind of man who takes what he wants.
And now, what he wants is her.
Their chemistry is undeniable, their connection explosive, but when professional lines blur and emotions ignite, Celeste is left wondering if she walked into a dream or a trap.
Because Julian isn’t just powerful. He’s possessive. And in his world, once he claims something, he never lets it go.
And Celeste? She was his from the moment he touched her in the dark.
Jingle Belle
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Book Summary
Belle Brooks doesn’t believe in holiday magic or blind dates.
But when her best friends sign her up for the Twelve Dates of Christmas challenge on the Skeptically In Love podcast, she’s pushed into the worst date of her life… and a second chance she never saw coming.
Because the restaurant where it all goes wrong belongs to Miles Bennett. Her first love. The boy she left behind when she chased her career to New York.
What starts as an awkward reunion quickly spirals into something far more complicated. Between flour fights in the kitchen, Christmas Twister, and feelings they never really buried, Belle and Miles are forced to face the past and the possibility of a future.
She swore she was over him. He swore he had moved on. But Christmas has a way of making even the most skeptical hearts believe in second chances.