Willow Cherrydale is the perfect definition of walking sunshine. Energetic, funny, always ready with quick joke. An ambitious girl with big dreams of an architecture carrier. Now in the final chapter of her academic studies at Columbia University in New York. Her current focus: Interior Architecture. Until the day she walks into the wrong classroom - or unfortunately, the right one. Professor Ashcroft's classroom isn't just a room. It's better known as a battlefield. Clinical, cold and infamous across campus, she's know as "The Devil in Disguise" or "the Ginger Executioner." In her course, you don't just have to master the material - you have to survive her judgment. Will Willow be able to break through the walls Ashcroft has built? Or will she become just another student crushed by the weight of that relentless judgment? [wlw] [slowburn] [professorxstudent]

Grace Winslow and Professor Catherine Harrow don't know each other. Not yet. Grace is a guarded freshman trying to outrun her mother's legacy. Catherine is a sharp, cold psychology professor who teaches a course called Psychology of Human Intimacy. After their first class, something shifts. Something quiet. Something dangerous. When a family connection is unexpectedly revealed-through a woman they've both learned to love and resent-boundaries begin to blur. What begins in silence becomes obsession. Attachment Theory is a sapphic, slow-burn academic romance about intimacy, power, longing, and everything we pretend not to feel.

At forty-five, Professor Loredana Dove has built her life on control. Keeping her colleagues at arm's length and her students at a distance. At home, her marriage to an absent, quarrelsome wife is crumbling, leaving her to raise their five year old daughter in quiet isolation. She has convinced herself she needs nothing more until Romina Maple crashes into her classroom. Nineteen smart, and reckless, Romina is the youngest in her year. To her classmates she's the loud, infuriating party girl; to herself, she's struggling with mental health, taking care of her three year old brother and the only responsible adult in a house run by aging grandparents, her defiance masks hunger, her insolence disguises fear. Their lives should never touch. Yet hunger recognizes hunger. What begins as irritation morphs into fascination, into a closeness neither woman knows how to resist. Boundaries blur. Rules splinter. And both must face the truth: some desires do not starve quietly, and some silences can undo a lifetime of control. Our Shared Solitude is a story of two women who should have walked away yet found themselves consumed by the one thing they were never meant to want.

After a messy year, all Sarah wants is to stay focused. She's 18, in her final year of high school, and determined to stay out of trouble. But things get complicated when she meets her new English teacher, Ms. Miller. Addison Miller is the last person Sarah should be drawn to. She's twice her age, her teacher, recently divorced, and completely off-limits. Strict, unreadable... and somehow, strangely familiar. Sarah knows she shouldn't get involved. But knowing is one thing, wanting is another entirely. Slow burn | Teacher x Student | Age gap

𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘚𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸 is eighteen and already very good at disappearing. At the Royal Ballet School, she is known for her discipline-how hard she works, how little she needs, how easily she endures. She is anxious, observant, and quietly falling apart in ways no one seems to notice. Leanne wants to be perfect, not because she loves perfection, but because she believes it is the only way to be seen, to matter, to be cared for without having to ask. 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳 is thirty-six and impossible to ignore. A former prima ballerina turned Artistic Director, she is precise, controlled, and feared for her standards. She understands power, hierarchy, and the discipline that keeps institutions standing. Desire, for Vera, is not reckless-it is deliberate. When she gives attention, it feels earned. When she withholds it, it feels final. She does not fall easily but when she does, it is consuming. 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐑 is a dark psychological wlw novel set in the world of elite ballet, where discipline is currency, silence is rewarded, and the line between being guided and being claimed is dangerously thin.

She spilled coffee on a stranger. She didn't know she was falling into her orbit. Ivy Moore is twenty-two, restless, and quietly unraveling beneath the weight of expectations she never chose. The daughter of a respected doctor, she has everything she needs-on paper. But between university lectures and long shifts at a campus café she doesn't need but insists on keeping, Ivy feels adrift. Until one wrong step lands her in the path of Celeste Deloera. Elegant. Untouchable. Dangerous in stillness. Celeste is not just Ivy's literature professor-she's also the editor-in-chief of the world's most exclusive fashion and culture magazine. Cold and precise, Celeste rules every room she enters. So when Ivy unknowingly applies for a job as her personal assistant, she finds herself pulled into Celeste's tightly controlled world of power, beauty, and brutal expectations. But working beside Celeste is nothing like Ivy imagined. It's long nights, sharp silences, stolen glances, and unspoken rules. And the longer Ivy stays, the more the lines blur-between obedience and desire, between curiosity and obsession, between what's allowed and what's already begun. Now, Ivy lives in two realities: one where she's the quiet student at the back of the classroom... and another where she walks two steps behind Celeste through velvet-curtained galas and midnight boardrooms. Close enough to feel her. Never close enough to know her. What begins as admiration becomes fascination. Fascination becomes obsession. And obsession, Ivy learns, always has a cost. In a world ruled by secrets, silence, and stares held a second too long, love is not gentle. It stares you down. And dares you to follow.

✨COMPLETED✨ When 18-year-old Lexie Harrison's parents pay her way into an elite private school, she's determined to hate everything about it-especially the strict calculus teacher who seems hell-bent on pushing her limits. Lexie's sharp wit and cold exterior are her only defenses in a world that's constantly telling her she's not enough. Enter Emma Miller, the no-nonsense teacher with piercing eyes and an unwavering sense of discipline. Emma sees through Lexie's walls, recognizing the brilliance buried beneath the sarcasm and self-doubt. But Emma has secrets of her own-ones she's carefully hidden behind the structured life she shares with her warm-hearted wife, Claire. When a chance encounter brings Lexie into Claire's orbit, the lines between personal and professional begin to blur. Lexie finds herself drawn to the unexpected warmth of Claire's kindness and the firm resolve of Emma's belief in her potential. What starts as a clash of wills becomes something far more complicated as Lexie navigates her tangled emotions and the uncharted waters of trust, acceptance, and belonging. In a story about second chances, unconventional bonds, and the courage to be vulnerable, Lexie must decide if she's ready to let go of the bitterness that's been her shield-and if she can handle the intensity of the connection forming between herself and the two women who might just change her life forever.

Valentina, a student at Heartfelt University, is assigned to the notoriously rude and cold Professor Montgomery. While the professor's harsh demeanor clashes with Val's quiet and positive nature, their academic sparring soon turns into something deeper. As Val's intelligence and persistence break through Professor Montgomery's icy exterior, a surprising and tender connection begins to bloom. [wlw] [slow burn]

A trip to Fiji with her dismissive boyfriend and his alluring mother lands Valentina into the most unexpected romance of her lifetime. ***** College student Valentina has been at a standstill in her relationship for three years, so when her boyfriend invites her on vacation to Fiji with his estranged fashion designer mother, Val can't think of anything worse. Mothers-in-law are notoriously one of the most dreadful aspects of a committed relationship, right? But nobody prepared Val for the aloof, refined Diana, who at first seems to absolutely detest her but soon warms under the tropical sun. As a unique and steamy connection sizzles and the two begin sneaking around, Val wonders if she's finally found the love she's been looking for in the most unexpected of places. But can their spark last, and is it worth what it will cost them? WARNING: This story contains mature themes such as depictions of domestic abuse and coercion that may be upsetting to some readers. Reader discretion is advised.

• Rhea just finished her first year of college, but with a strained relationship with her parents... she has no home to come back to during summer break. • Cami is a married woman to a selfish man. She is cold and has her walls built up around her, never letting anyone in or see the real her. • What will happen when Cami's daughter brings home Rhea for the summer and she attempts to break down those walls? ⚠️Mentions of homophobia, alcohol use, drug use, and domestic disputes⚠️ 🔞She's a smutty one🔞