-Can be read as a stand alone- Heart: In the streets of Atlanta it is what many will die behind, and what many will get themselves killed trying to prove. But for some, heart comes naturally. It doesn't have to be proven, it is simply there from the start. It is the hunger to be the best. The determination to make it out better than they were when they came in. The will to play the game and never let it play them. It is everything they are. Until it's not. Marcus Katrell Daniels is the most infamous drug lord of the northern hemisphere. Operating for a decade, he is more than seasoned about the ins and outs of what it means to play the game. But Marcus wants out, and he wants out his way on his terms. When the fatal realities of life as a drug lord comes raining down into him, Marcus decides he wants to live life as a man he can be proud of. Most importantly, live life as a man deserving to be in the mere presence of one Jalyn Baxter. But as he makes moves to be done with the game, he must answer the question of if the game is done with him. Jalyn Baxter is on the rise to becoming one of the most acclaimed and sought after physical therapist in Atlanta; being recruited by the best for her extraordinary healing gifts. But Jaylyn's gifts of healing go beyond the training facilities and into those who she dares to love: even though her healing never quite reaches herself. On a journey to love herself, Jalyn finds herself trying to figure out if self-love is possible to do with someone else when Marcus Daniels enters her life sending everything spinning like the old records she sings to to escape her detrimental realities. Heart: In the confines of love it is the guiding factor that has the power to destroy all a person knows, but invoke a sense of faith a person never knew they had. For Marcus and Jalyn will it be the former that bring them to their demise or the latter that brings them to their Vindications of themselves and each other?

Rayna Lewis is new to the city of Chicago; She has no family, she only has one party animal roommate who forces her to go to a club. Little does she know that her trip to the club would change her life forever when she meets the second most fearing man in the underworld and he goes by the name of Zade Missu. Zade Missu is a man feared by many, but when his father reveals a secret ultimatum regarding his new position in the mafia he's stranded to find a wife. He vows never to fall in love with who ever he marries because the marriage will be business based. Those feelings change the moment he Rayna becomes his.

"How comes you aren't shy right now? You sometimes stutter around me." I smiled a little. "I'm not new to sex. I had an ex remember?" He nodded slowly. "Are you kinky?" I licked my lips. "Why did you ask?" He gripped my legs and yanked me closer to him. "Because I want to taste you. Will you be okay with that?" I froze a little. As much as I was used to sex, I've never been eaten before. "My ex didn't..." I trailed off. He smirked before slipping off the couch and onto his knees. _____________________________________ Being sentence to two years in prison was one thing. Falling for a correctional officer was a totally different story. __ Two years behind bars was supposed to be her punishment. But when Jess starts falling for the correctional officer assigned to her block, she learns that some lines aren't just crossed-they're burned. What starts as stolen glances and hesitant conversations turns into something deeper, something dangerous. Every moment together risks his career and her freedom, but some connections can't be ignored. In a place built on rules and secrets, Jess must decide whether love is worth breaking the ones that could destroy them both.

Mercedes has spent her whole life surviving. An abusive mother, a father she lost too soon, and a world that never quite had a place for her. University was supposed to be the fresh start. The clean slate. Then Jason carried her out of a classroom and everything changed. He is calm where she is braced for impact. Steady where she has only ever known chaos. And the crescent mark on her forearm that pulses warm when he is close is telling her something she is not ready to hear. Because Jason is not just a boy who noticed her bleeding. He is an alpha heir with a pack, a father who would rather she didn't exist, and a bond so old and so unbreakable that the witches who want to use it have been waiting years for their moment. Mercedes didn't ask for a mate. She didn't ask for magic or blood debts or creatures in car parks or any of the things that have followed her since the night Jason bit her and called it love. But she has survived everything else. She is not stopping now.

𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡. 𝐇𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭. She hides behind bold boots and brighter dresses, yellow loud enough to drown out the cracks in her heart. It almost works. Until the man her papa crossed decides to collect what he's owed. He doesn't ask. He takes. Tattooed hands. A ruler of empires built on blood. He closes the distance. She tries to keep it. But he's always liked the chase.

I don't do one night stands. I don't wake up in strangers' beds. I don't creep out of mansions at nine in the morning with my heels in my hand. And I definitely don't lose entire nights to alcohol and end up naked next to a man whose name I don't know. Except I did. All of it. **** "Do you have a boyfriend. A fiancé. A husband." "No." "Good." Just that. Good. Like it was information he'd needed and now had. **** Syrus King is dangerous, possessive, and used to getting exactly what he wants. I was supposed to be a mistake. A blackout. A bad decision. A name I'd never have to say out loud. But he found me. And he already knew things about me I'd never told anyone. **** ⚠️ Mature themes: violence, dark content. No explicit sexual content.

Sarah, a beautiful young girl who once dreamed of becoming a doctor, now leads a life filled with struggles, pain, and hardship all of which only grew worse after the death of her parents. James, a cold and ruthless businessman, always gets what he wants - whether through charm or force. He doesn't believe in love, and emotions are a game he refuses to play. But when fate begins to pull them toward each other, neither of them is prepared for the darkness that binds them. Can they survive what fate has planned... or will the past destroy them both?

"Be a good student, baby, and open your mouth for me." . . . In which 20-year-old Alyssa Silvestro decides to seduce her professor, who happens to be the older brother of her cheating ex-boyfriend. Revenge is best served cold, is what they say.

❝ 𝐈'𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭!.. 𝐈 𝐝𝐨❞ 𝐑𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨𝐯❦. ꧁꧂ 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐨 is known in the underworld for being one of the most feared and heartless assassins, in the night she is mysterious, seductive, fierce and fearless ,though at the broad daylight she is just a normal girl, daughter of Massimo and Elenor Romano, Italian mafia king and queen, but what happens when she is faced to do one of the most difficult missions in her whole life, kill the Russian mafia king, Ronan Volkov? Will she be able to do it? 𝐑𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨𝐯 a cold hearted man, king of the Russian mafia, everyone fears him when they hear his name. He is heartless with everyone except his family, he doesn't show his emotions, he is stubborn, if he wants something he will get it no matter what!

It was simple. He need a wife and I needed protection from a crazy stalker ex boyfriend. Now there is no going back. I'm his wife now and he is my husband His Donna. My Don. * * * * "I will burn this whole fucking city down if i have to," he declared. I snake my arms around his neck as his hands found their rightful place on my ass. "Do you promise?"