Ellie Hayes has spent her entire life following the rules. Straight A's. Perfect attendance. A five-year plan leading to one dream: Yale Law School. Distractions have never been part of the plan. Then Noah Carter walks into Westbridge High. Within days, everyone knows his name. He's effortlessly charming, impossible to ignore, and somehow always the center of attention without even trying. To Ellie, he's everything she's worked her whole life to avoid. When a Government class project forces them to work together, their first conversations are filled with sarcasm, arguments, and clashing personalities. But as late-night study sessions replace heated debates, Ellie begins to see cracks in the confident boy everyone else thinks they know. What starts as constant frustration slowly becomes something neither of them saw coming. Because sometimes the people who challenge us the most are the ones who change us forever. Off the Record is a heartwarming and emotionally charged slow-burn romance about first love, impossible expectations, family, forgiveness, and discovering that the people we judge the quickest often have the stories we understand the least.

She spent four summers pretending she wasn't in love with him. Andrew Pierce was her brother's best friend, the boy next door - literally. Off-limits, oblivious, and completely unavoidable. By the time he finally noticed her, Anne had already learned to stop waiting. But some tides don't care about timing. Summer Tides is a slow-burn romance about childhood friends, adjacent beach houses, and the dangerous business of falling for someone who has always felt like home - across four summers, one ocean, and everything left unsaid.

A woman who spent years running from her past collides with the man who never forgot any of it. This is a mafia romance about trauma, faith in the midst of violence and corruption, and the redeeming power of love. About people caught between the lives they inherited and the ones they're fighting to choose. It begs one question... Can we break the cycles we were raised in, or are we forever shaped by the habits forced upon us? 𓆩❤︎𓆪 "You make me go crazy sometimes," he whispered, mint and heat brushing my face. "Am I really that bad?" I asked softly. "No," he growled, low and honest. "I am." 𓆩❤︎𓆪 !! CHECK TAGS !! action. Christian. dark romance. faith. Jesus. mafia. slow-burn. strangers again. tension. HEA. healing. ceo. WITSEC. billionaire. morally grey.

She was supposed to become a doctor. Not a weapon. Not chase criminals in the shadows. Forced to study in a foreign city, Thea Morgan tries to live the life her parents chose for her-until one unexpected encounter drags her into Aegis, a secret intelligence organization hidden beneath the surface of the ordinary world. Her partner is Damien Hargrove. Cold. Ruthless. Impossible to read. A man who trusts no one... until she becomes the one person capable of breaking every wall he's built. As dangerous missions pull them deeper into a world of blood, betrayal, and buried secrets, the line between duty and desire begins to disappear. One mistake could expose them. One touch could destroy them. And one truth could change everything. In a world where every heartbeat is a risk... can they survive falling for each other? © All Rights Reserved. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or used fictitiously..

At eighteen, Sophie Miller leaves Texas for New York to meet the older sister she only recently discovered. She hopes the city will give her pieces of the past her mind refuses to remember, but New York teaches her quickly that blood does not always mean love. The only bright spot in those days is Marco, a beautiful stranger from a world Sophie was never meant to enter. After everything falls apart, Sophie leaves for Britain and Ashborne College, an elite school where power hides behind perfect smiles and kindness can look like weakness. She wants to start over and study painting, but the past follows her farther than she expected. Can Sophie survive the pressure of a world that was never made for girls like her? This story contains mature themes and emotional trauma.

Four years ago, Jacob JJ Harrens kissed me on the blue bench at Pine-Hollow Pond, called me little Lou, and left Brookside Lane before I could decide if it meant everything or nothing. I spent the next years pretending one summer could not follow me around like a secret I was too embarrassed to admit I kept. Then JJ comes back after his father's death - older, quieter, impossible to read - and suddenly the boy I tried to forget is standing too close, remembering too much, and making every almost feel dangerous. With school two weeks away and Sarah asking questions I am not ready to answer, I know JJ did not come back for me... so why does it feel like he remembers the same story?