River Williams is a master at playing the happy, normal college student. But behind her easy smile is a girl fighting a silent war against her own mind, living in the shadow of a high school mistake that cost her everything. She doesn't deserve love, and she certainly doesn't deserve JJ Belmont, the arrogant, fiercely protective hockey captain she accidentally shot down at a party two years ago. JJ Belmont doesn't do rejection. He definitely doesn't do River, the icy English major who has been a thorn in his side ever since she blew him off. But when his grades plummet, and his captaincy is threatened, he's forced to swallow his pride and beg his favorite enemy for help. The plan is simple: she tutors him, he passes, and they go back to ignoring each other. But behind closed doors, the animosity starts to blur into something scorching hot. But River's past is a landmine, and a single hidden secret is waiting to explode the trust they've built. *UNEDITED* ____________________ ✩ rankings: #1 SPORTSROMANCE (29/08/2026) #1 HOCKEYPLAYER (29/08/2026) #1 ROMANTICCOMEDY (22/07/2026) #1 COLLAGE (16/08/2026) #1 UNIVERSITY (01/07/2026) #3 MICHEGAN (05/07/2026) #3 JOCK (05/07/2026) #5 ROMANTIC (22/07/2026) [Word Count: 113,700+] Copyright ©2026 by Annabella May

Where You Ruined Me 🏒 🏒Can be read as a standalone College romance. D1 hockey. Pre-law rivals. He falls first. She doesn't even notice. They have history. Just not the kind he wanted. She's been immune to his charm since she was fourteen. Wolfe Novak-Donovan - junior, pre-law, D1 hockey, biggest fuckboy on campus - has met the one girl the Wolfe Novak-Donovan effect doesn't work on. And now she's on his campus. Frankie Lowe - freshman, scholarship kid, couldn't care less - doesn't do hockey players. Doesn't do Donovans. And she's currently got her eyes on the one guy on campus who hates Wolfe most. Enemies to lovers. Except she doesn't think about him enough for them to be enemies. That's the whole problem. The Donovan men don't just fall. They fall stupid. It's genetic. 🖤 📖 Complete standalone - no prior reading needed. ⚠️ Explicit sexual content between consenting adults (18+), crude language, underage drinking, and one fuckboy's entire operating system being dismantled by a girl who could not care less. MM x

Kane 'Grim' Walker spent five years in prison for a crime he'd commit again. Now he's back with the Iron Hounds MC, trying to rebuild his life. Dr.Gemma Castillo is a complication he didn't see coming. One night. That was supposed to be it. But when a rival operation takes her, everything changes. Gemma had learned from a young age to keep her head down and mouth shut. Long shifts at the hospital, mounting debt, and a past she doesn't talk about having taught her one thing, stay invisible, stay safe. The motorcycle club she works for is a means to an end, and nothing more. Until one reckless night changes everything. What should have been forgettable isn't and its aftermath has demons chasing her to the world's end.

Tommy Harding has been Rosie Novak-Donovan's best friend since they were four years old. Quiet. Steady. The only person who's never once flinched at her. She kissed him once at a lake bonfire and told him it didn't count. He said "yeah." Neither of them has mentioned it since. ❤️ Now he's Birch Harbor PD. Real badge. Real uniform. And Rosie - FBI daughter, criminal justice degree, academy starting in September - is back in town for the summer and trying very hard not to notice that her best friend grew up when she wasn't looking. 👮‍♂️ Tommy's not the quiet kid who let her win arguments anymore. He's six foot something of small-town cop who could have anyone in Birch Harbor and most of them have tried. He chose Sarah. Sweet, easy, uncomplicated Sarah. The kind of girl who doesn't argue about badge jurisdiction or report parking violations or make his jaw tight every time she walks into a room. The safe choice. The smart choice. 🔥 Tommy Harding has always been smart. Except when it comes to the girl he's been pretending not to love since he was five years old. 🤍 A Birch Harbor story. Friends to lovers. One summer. One badge between them. Two people who know everything about each other except the one thing that matters. Can be read as a standalone but a better experience when read with Where You Left Me and Where You Found Me. 🤍 ⚠️ Content warning: this story contains explicit sexual content between consenting adults, strong language, and underage drinking. All explicit scenes observe the legal age of consent in Michigan. Trigger warnings will be posted before relevant chapters. Reader discretion is advised.

🎸🔥 West Holden is the frontman of The Drift. Sold-out arenas. Platinum records. Magazine covers. The kind of man who makes women lose their minds-and their underwear-in the same breath. 🎵 Offstage? He's a single dad with a talent for turning his life into a disaster. Enter Adeline Laurent. Sharp. Stubborn. She's been cleaning up after West Holden since she was fourteen, and somehow she still hasn't learned to walk away. Now The Drift is heading on tour, and for the first time, there's nowhere for either of them to run. She's not his girlfriend. She's not family. She's just the woman who's always been there. He writes songs that make the whole world fall in love. He's never written one about her. Not yet. 🎵🖤 tropes: cruel hero | rockstar | single dad | unrequited love | she fell first, he fell harder | found family | forced proximity | the grovel is EARNED 🔥 POV: dual first person setting: Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles 🌴 ⚠️ trigger warnings will be posted at the beginning of each chapter. this story contains mature content including explicit sexual scenes, strong language, alcohol abuse, drug references, grief, drowning references, parental abandonment, emotional neglect, and themes of guilt and self-destruction. all characters 18+. 🖤

QUEENS OF CHOAS SERIES PREQUEL!!! Once upon a time, a girl was sent away. No trial. No second chance. Just a story everyone believed because it was easier that way. Five years later, she comes back. This is the part where, in a Disney movie, she'd forgive everyone, hug her family, and learn the power of love. Instead, Gianna De Santis learns how to break bones, keep secrets, and survive rooms that were never meant to be safe. The family expects a villain. The kingdom expects obedience. And some Princes are not always charming . There are no fairy godmothers here. Only men with power, women with knives, and lies that refuse to stay buried. And while everyone's busy wondering if Gianna is still dangerous- They forget to ask the real question: What happens when the girl they tried to erase comes back sharper... and finally decides to stop being nice? Because this isn't a Disney movie. And the girl who survived the tower doesn't believe in happily ever after- She believes in consequences.

(BOOK 1 Of the QUEENS OF CHAOS SERIES) Isa Valen doesn't believe in restraint. Two weeks ago, she did champagne, a sinfully accented stranger, and a night so consuming she ran before sunrise. She doesn't remember his face. She doesn't remember his name. But her body remembers the way he made it burn. When her sister runs to New York, Isa follows without hesitation. New city. New job. New distractions. Then she meets her boss. Erik Orlov. Billionaire. Bratva Don. A devastatingly gorgeous tattooed man built from control and violence wrapped in tailored suits. The first time he looks at her, something tightens in her chest. The first time he steps close, her pulse betrays her. She doesn't recognize him. He recognizes the curve of her mouth. The sound she made when he touched her. The way she ran. The night she can't remember is the one he hasn't stopped replaying. Now she works beneath him - in his office, in his space, in his world. Every glance lasts too long. Every accidental touch feels deliberate. Every breath between them feels charged. And Erik Orlov does not chase. He claims. Enemies circle his empire. Loyalty fractures. Power shifts. But none of it unsettles him like the woman sitting across his desk, pretending she doesn't feel it too. Until two pink lines appear. Because the only thing more dangerous than their chemistry... Is the secret growing between them. And this time, he won't let her run.

💔 WHERE YOU FOUND ME Book Two of the Birch Harbor Series. Can be read as a standalone but best enjoyed after Book One - Where You Left Me (Flynn & Ivy) 🤍 Brother's best friend · Second chance · Forced proximity Gracie Donovan spent half her life loving Owen Hale. Her brother's best friend. The boy at the kitchen counter. The man who kissed her like he meant it and told her it meant nothing. Twice. So she did what you do when you're tired of loving someone who won't love you back. She found someone who would. George is good. Safe. The kind of man who shows up with flowers and means it. Five years of easy and comfortable and nothing wrong. Nothing wrong is the problem. Owen Hale owns a bar, pours everyone else's drinks, and would rather break bones than ask anyone for help. Which is exactly what happens. Now he's broken and Gracie's keeping his bar alive and sitting in his office at midnight doing his books and everything they never said is louder than anything they did. She's got a ring on her finger and a wedding getting closer and a man who chose her when Owen wouldn't. He's got a bar and a secret he told his best friend on a floor at 1AM and a body that gave out before his pride did. Gracie Donovan already chose Owen Hale. Twice. He said nothing both times. She's done choosing. Is Owen finally ready to talk? ⚠️ Content warning: explicit sexual content, strong language, emotional trauma 💔 18+ · New Adult Romance © MM

Four years ago, Natalia Moretti disappeared. No goodbye. No explanation. Just silence. Once the youngest princess of the Italian mafia, Natalia was raised to obey-to smile, to submit, to accept a future chosen for her. Instead, she chose herself. Now she's back in New York. Her parents are gone. Her brothers rule the Moretti empire. And the boy she once loved-the one who thought she betrayed him-has become a man shaped by power, pride, and unfinished heartbreak. Natalia returns different. Stronger. Untouchable in ways no one expects. She's built a life of her own, far from the shadows she was born into-and she carries a secret that could change everything. As old feelings resurface and fate pulls her back into the orbit of the man she never forgot, Natalia must decide how much of her heart she's willing to risk again. Because love in their world is never simple. And some secrets aren't just dangerous- They're legacy-changing. Heir of Silence is a slow-burn mafia romance about first love, second chances, and the quiet strength it takes to protect what matters most-when the whole world is watching.

In the frozen wilds of Midnight Peaks, a broken rogue omega named Josie - scarred by rejection, assault, and years surviving alone - stumbles into the territory of the feared and respected Alpha Dominic. He should kill her on sight. What starts as captivity and raw terror slowly becomes the only safety Josie has ever known. Dominic, haunted by his own darkness, fights every instinct to become the mate she deserves - gentle when she needs it, feral when anyone dares threaten her. But the past isn't done with them. Old enemies resurface. A rival female schemes from within. And when Josie's greatest nightmare returns, Dom will burn the world to ash to keep his little wolf. A dark, primal, deeply emotional werewolf romance about healing the deepest wounds, reclaiming power, and discovering that the scariest monster can have the softest heart.