What we're reading in TLS this week:

This week we have some newly discovered fics, some under-appreciated fics, and a couple of updates of some long-awaited favorites! We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do. Please let the writers know where you saw them recommended when you leave them some love in the form of a review. Happy Reading!

♥ Six Dlbfive

Cardigan by Curlywurl95

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14001996/1/Cardigan
Bella and Edward have been friends since college and Bells has always had a bit of a thing for him. One drunken night of passion leads to the two agreeing to a “friends with benefits” relationship. But what happens when their feelings for each other begin to get complicated? Based on the song Cardigan by Taylor Swift. Rated M 

Dinner with the Swans by fanficsR4nerds
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13995709/1/Dinner-with-the-Swans
The Swan Family is back together for the first time in years for a Holiday. Everything is picture perfect, until the youngest Swan, Bella, brings home a new boyfriend. Edward seems a little too good to be true to these skeptical Swans. Rated M

Finding Serendipity by kr2009
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8867486/1/Finding-Serendipity
Edward's breakfast errand ends in him stumbling upon something unexpected. He discovers that sometimes a simple good deed isn't enough. And sometimes, two homeless girls can completely change your life. AH. Rated: Fiction M

Malicious Compliance by MeteorOnAMoonlessNight
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13939468/1/Malicious-Compliance
When Edward heard his ex was talking trash about him, he decided to prove her right. Not even the sugar daddy whose arm she dangled on could stop him. Rated M

My Brother's Pet Vampire by ooza
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13835993/1/My-Brother-s-Pet-Vampire
There are many things that keep people awake at night. For Bella, it's her brother's angry pet vampire locked in the basement. Rated M

Quarterback Sneak by jayhawkbb
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8483034/1/Quarterback-Sneak
As a Seattle sports talk radio host, it's my job to give my opinion on the Seahawks new quarterback, Edward Cullen. But maybe I shouldn't have said what I did...you know, about his butt. Rated M

Salvation by AngelDarkness791
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14034413/1/Salvation
Bella's been Edward's maid for the past three years, but when his wife abandons him with their newborn daughter right before his impending tour with Ivory Kiss, he requests she accompany them as Angel's nanny. Bella is falling for the rocker who has become her best friend. When a tangled web of lies and deception arises, will Bella become his salvation? Age-gap romance. Rated M 

Shahrazád's Ghosts by maembe13
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13920618/1/Shahraz%C3%A1d-s-Ghosts
"Hello Edward. Have you missed me?" she whispered. She grinned the venomous grin of the predator as his scent drew her in like a moth to flame. "It's you and me now, forever." She was his sun and moon, his earth and sky. From now on, each newly birthed clone of her creator was hers to do with as she pleased. Would any oppose her? Sequel to The Remnants. Can be read as stand-alone. Rated M

Sin and Virtue by LayAtHomeMom
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13968749/1/Sin-and-Virtue
"Even angels have their demons." Rated M

Snowed In by thehighlanderprincess
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14035409/1/Snowed-In
"She noticed the footprints first. Something which was disconcerting considering the fact that she was in a secluded cabin, far off from another soul ..." Bella Swan is snowed in inside her cabin in the woods. While she wanted an escape from the real world as she worked on her latest true crime novel, this getaway quickly becomes more than she's bargained for. Rated M

The Mobster’s Son by Dyverse
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9919438/1/The-Mobster-s-Son
Edward grabbed me by my face and leaned in. “This is your new life now- our life now, Isabella. You love me, you love my son. Forget everything else- only this matters.” He was in the mob, he was a criminal, he was… the love of my life. How could he do this to me? I loved his child more than life itself- but Antonio was the mobster’s son, and I could never forget that. Rated M

Unspoken by Lilly Jill
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13958451/1/Unspoken
The truth often lies in words unspoken. For Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, both misunderstood in their small town of Forks, Washington, falling for each other amidst the silence is all they’ve ever known. Through life’s twists and turns, they learn that connections can be both born and broken in what is left unsaid. Rated M