What we're reading in TLS this week:

Can you believe we have already reached the halfway point in the year and there are still more fics to discover?! We brought you a list of some old and new favorites to keep you out of the heat. However, we can’t be held responsible for a different kind of heat that evolves! We hope you enjoy them, as much as we do. Be sure to let the writers know where you saw them featured. Enjoy!

For our American followers, have a safe and happy 4th!

♥ Nic & Six

 

A Compendium of Thoughts by ItIsRaining
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6878388/1/A_Compendium_of_Thoughts
After Edward is struck with a serious illness, Bella offers to give  him a  ride to school every day. His musings on life are priceless and  unique.  Based in its entirety on a true story.Twilight - Rated: M

A May to December Romance by Positively 4th Street
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6632226/1/A_May_to_December_Romance
My name is Isabella Swan and today, I signed a contract that would  put  me in the steel tight clutches of a man I didn't know, for four  years. A  girl's gotta pay for college somehow, right? AH. Come meet  'Sugar  Daddy' Edward.Twilight - Rated: M

A Thousand Leaves by BellaSunshine  
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6276284/1/A-Thousand-Leaves
Isabella Swan grew up as the best friend of Alice Cullen, younger sister  of Edward Cullen, who was never nice to Bella despite her being an  "honorary Cullen." Everything changes when Edward is sent to prison for  the murder of Bella's mother. Rated M

Bare Naked, Bone Deep by belladonnacullen
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7706082/1/
Bella has a fetish. Edward has a passion. What happens when fine art   meets full frontal? An Ivy League romance with a twist. Rated  M

Burn by Compass54
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8999279/1/Burn
"I'm going up to see that bastard right now and ask him if he feels good about what he's done! I might even punch him for the hell of it!" Uh oh, and now their offices are going to be right next to each other! She wants nothing to do with him. He thinks she's wonderful. Danger and mystery will bring these two together so their love can ignite. Rated M

Burning Saints by LayAtHomeMom 
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12547589/1/Burning-Saints
As this saint burns, so will burn my soul should I betray the oath of Omertà. I enter alive and will have to leave dead. Rated M

Contractually Bound by LyricalKris
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9193694/1/Contractually-Bound
She'd cost him everyone he'd ever loved. Surely a few months of marriage wasn't too high a price for her to pay in compensation. Rated M

Crash by author-insert-self
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12518080/1/
High school senior, Edward Cullen, finds himself stranded in the Canadian wilderness with his Muslim classmate, Isabella Bajea. (Yes, Muslim.) Will our heroes learn to see past their prejudices and work together to survive? Of course they will. This is an HEA. The real question is: Will I manage to pull off this obvious piece of propaganda? I sincerely hope so. Canon couples. Rated M

For the Summer by Camoozle
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5934882/1/For-the-Summer
Every year Bella waits for the 'Pay Checks' to roll into her sleepy river town and every year Edward's hers, just for the summer. AH, AU, OOC, B/E Rated: Fiction M

Indecent Proposal by pattyrose
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8164847/1/Indecent-Proposal
Edward's heart was broken by the girl he's loved for almost a decade.  Drifter Bella wanders into Forks aimlessly one hot summer day. When  their paths cross, he proposes a scheme to get them both their deepest  desires. But things aren't always as they seem & Fate can have other  plans. Rated M  

Man Behind the Mask by drotuno
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11066141/1/Man-Behind-the-Mask
What you see isn't always what you get. By all appearances, Masen lives  the life of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. He's living the dream that has  turned into a nightmare because his life - and his reputation - is not  his own. There must be more to life than tour buses, groupies,  paparazzi, and slimy record producers. Rated M

Perdition by MeteorOnAMoonlessNight
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12363612/1/Perdition
If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? I had to do it to save him. Rated M

Six by Sarge's Girls
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12042869/1/Six
Sixth sense: a special ability to know something that cannot be learned by using the five senses. Humans use 10% of their brain, but it's been proven that those with a sixth sense use more. Some wish to harness that power. With a target on us, sixxers are hunted as we try to stay hidden, blending in with the average world around us...when we are anything but average. AH ExB Rated M

Summer Rain by Ninkita
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12428019/1/Summer-Rain
She walked in, with her attitude and a polka dot umbrella. Whatever else I expected this miserable, rainy night, it definitely wasn't this. Rated M

That Cowboy Dream by LadyLetters
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12313852/1/That-Cowboy-Dream
Bella is having second thoughts about the wedding to her childhood sweetheart when a chance meeting sees her spending a sizzling night with cowboy Edward. The wedding is called off but not before Edward finds out the truth. Pregnant and alone, will Bella ever find Edward again or will he fade to a cowboy dream? AU. Canon Pairings. ExB. Weekly updates. Rated M.