Serenity Mills has spent almost her entire life in front of the paparazzis and in the tabloids. To the public, she's the reckless daughter of two famous and loved celebrities, a spoiled girl desperate for attention. A "nepo baby". No one sees what waits for her when the cameras stop flashing. Patrick Crivello doesn't belong at Ashford Academy. Orphaned at a young age, apparently he's the school's bad influence. Funny how a few cigarettes and a reputation are enough for people to assume what they want. Known as the school's troublemaker despite earning top grades. To him, Serenity is everything he can't stand: privileged, dramatic, and impossible to ignore. They spend their years tearing each other apart, convinced they've already figured each other out. But the closer they get, the more they realize they've been wrong all along. By the time hatred turns into something neither of them expected, the damage surrounding them may already be impossible to escape.

0.5 in the taste of despair series Aurora Everest Life has no meaning. I'm almost 19 and ever since I graduated all I do is serve my dad. All he does is gamble the money I make away. I don't know where my mom is. My father made a deal with bad men. Men I didn't know could be his friends. But at second thought I don't think they're even as bad as I expected. Even though I'm betrothed or some shit to one of them, I'm going to make a plan. A plan that involves him to fall in love with me. And maybe I should stop being a stripper so my dad would learn his lesson and besides not like I have use for that job anyways. Elias Clark Children. I hate them. My future wife reminds me of them. She acts like one, and I need them anyways for an heir. My family may be kind but that's to who doesn't know us. Mafia is mafia. I know the rules. I need to get married and then get an heir. I don't know where they found Aurora but I know that the deal was to kill her after she conceives. I would feel bad if her own father didn't offer her up as meat. Besides this was made long ago when we were very little.

Malia Rivers. Her family life was great. She had the life everyone dreamed of until her mom caught her dad with another woman. Of course her mom got custody and her father didn't even care. He didn't think how selfish he was destroying the relationship a mother and daughter had. Malia escaped from her mother who was very, is there even a word worse for psychotic. Every time Malia thinks about if her dad didn't cheat on her mom how things would've been different. But she has her best friends Quinton, Emma, and Darren. She also has her therapist Rita who's like an actual mother to her. Unfortunately with her and Quinton Romac it'll always be "just friends" no matter what happens between them. But that stops when she goes to a club, and that club has a blonde mysterious man. Would her life get worse or better with him? Love is a nightmare and a blessing. Was this love? She always wanted to be a lawyer she didn't know after meeting him she'd need one. 'Suddenly he stands up and drags me along with him. He takes me to the bathroom and locks the door as he grins at me. "I think it's time you should take a bath. But since you're so dirty and well I'm so desperate to see you clean as soon as possible so let's just give you one with your clothes on.". He shoves me onto the toilet, focusing on the tub letting the water flow. He lifts me up and forces me to face the mirror. I see him staring at me from behind as I wash my hands. I start brushing my teeth looking back into the mirror seeing that he's staring at me intently with curiosity in his eyes. He has amusement written all over his face leaving me stressed. My body shudders feeling his hands linger around my arm when he randomly decides to lift his arm and punch his hand into the mirror. I let out a scream as all the mirror pieces shatter and scratch my skin.' Highest Rankings #28 in toxic relationship 11/20/22 #31 in twisted romance 11/20/22 #7 in domestic abuse 8/26/24 -Trigger Warning, Contains Dark Themes

Lana Potter has been waiting to see her brother Harry for years after all the Dursleys kept him from her and the wizarding world all these years. Lana and her brother go through a lot from their normal struggles including Harry trying to live with Lana and Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks and to fall in love with Draco Malfoy. Rumors spread about Lana dating Draco. One night Draco's friends decide to do a bet to make a girl fall in love with him. But not any girl Lana Potter. So what happens when he does fall for her and they get entangled. Why does she keep ending up in his arms? Does he love her? Why is it so hard? Why is it when she finally moves on she gets her love- All of these characters are from Harry Potter the books and movies by the Warner Bros and JK Rowling besides Lana Potter.