The mafia can be the closest family you ever had, if you embrace it. It can also be the shadow that follows you for a lifetime, if you attempt to exit it. Elena Moretti learnt it the hard way the very day she quit Los Caballos, the reputed Spanish mafia clan headed by aging Angelo Ruiz. She assumed the life of crime was behind her as she returned to her three-year-old daughter and caring husband, consciously shedding her mafia roots. Fourteen years later, Elena Moretti crosses paths with the Los Caballos clan once again, only this time to face the older Ruiz's grandson, Adriano, a young man now at the helm of his grandfather's legacy. When Moretti, the woman who was almost a Godmother to him, steals an item coveted by the mafia, Adriano is less than pleased. With Elena absconding and a disgruntled Don, the Caballos turn to the one thing that can get Elena's attention - Her daughter, Ciara. A story of danger, compromise, secrets, and sacrifices. All coming down to the dark horse who could become the white knight.

PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN SEA ON 17TH JULY, 2025. OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK & EBOOK! Clara Healy is convinced her family is cursed. After witnessing two relationships from the closest people in her life fall apart, Clara is determined not to be the curse's next victim by avoiding the root cause: falling in love with cliché love interests. Even when one tiny mishap led her to partner up with Colton Reed - the college star baseball player - for ASL class, she wasn't going to let the curse get to her. But as Clara and Colton started spending more time together and she started getting to know him beyond his star athlete exterior, Clara realized that some things were easier said than done. And escaping the curse was going to be a lot more difficult than she thought it would be. ⋅⋅⋅ Cover photo from Pinterest, edited on Canva. Featured on @Romance | Head Over Heels. ⋅⋅⋅ Highest Ranking: #1 in baseballromance | 20/6/2023 #1 in bubbletea | 29/5/2023 #1 in cliche | 1/8/2023 #4 in books | 23/5/2023 #4 in novella | 17/10/2023 #5 in hopelessromantic | 24/8/2023 #5 in university | 1/10/2023 #28 in baseball | 26/10/2023 #31 in book | 15/6/2023 #42 in chicklit | 9/10/2023 #45 in collegeromance | 6/10/2023 #83 in sportsromance | 21/8/2023

Zoe is a young and independent woman who never loses an argument. She feels that her life is finally the way she wants it to be. She has a great job and a great new house. Her life is perfect. She has everything she wants except one thing, a child. Due to her past heartaches, she struggles to trust men, leaving her no other option but a sperm donor. So what happens when she finds out that there was a misplacement, that she is carrying the heir of the multi-billionaire Alexander Forbes. This might just be one fight she won't win. © Essi T K Cover by: @forgettablewords

Ellie Jenkins is struggling to write a high school TV show, so her boss gives her an ultimatum: go to her ten year reunion or lose her big break forever.. ***** Ellie Jenkins definitely didn't peak in high school. She was an outsider, an invisible girl with a desperate crush on Mark Wright, a guy who hardly knew her name. But ten years later, she's living in Los Angeles, trying to write a hit show about cool high school kids, when an invitation for her high school reunion arrives. She doesn't want to go, but her writing has been suffering and her boss makes her an ultimatum: go to this reunion or lose her big break forever. Her boss even gives her a list of challenges to complete! Ellie takes the bait and returns to the school determined to find friends, fun and to prove to Mark Wright, once and for all, that Ellie is cool now. [[2018 WATTY AWARD WINNER: THE HIDDEN GEMS!!!!!!!]] [[A TOP WATTPAD PICK: FEATURED IN MILLENNIALS & MAYHEM]] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

When 17-year-old Carina agrees to go on blind dates to hide her crush on her best friend's boyfriend, she discovers who her true friends are, unexpected love, and, most importantly, herself. *** Carina's life was pretty great until her best friends, Kalani and Emi, decide she can't fifth wheel prom like she's been fifth wheeling their dates. The only problem? Carina's secretly in love with Kalani's boyfriend, Emmett. When her friends decide to start setting her up on blind dates, Carina is forced to agree-- even though each is worse than the last, and the arrogant jerk, Jay, her first bad date, keeps popping up to witness her fail--or else risk her friends finding out about her crush on Emmett, and losing them forever.

Our hearts begin it's journey pure and uncontaminated. Without the unpleasantries of pain from heartache, we leave our most valuable asset unguarded and open to the ruins of this feral world around us. That is until we are finally met with the debilitating aches of reality. That's when the shields and armor are formed as protection, but in reality, holding us back from further growth and the adventures the same dark and cold world has to offer. And then you meet someone who is willing to weld the cracks of that armor. Less to protect you from your surroundings, and more to build you back up so that you're strong enough to take on any friend or foe. You start feeling strong, unbreakable, without a clue of what kind of disaster you're in for if the love of your life breaks you all over again. Hearts we mend to break is centered around two MCs, Angel and Giselle, as they abandon the lives they grew up trying hard to survive, entering a world where they meet and become entangled in a rollercoaster of a romance. Experience the breaking and repairing, the falling and crashing. Can they mend each other's hearts without breaking them all over again?

〚FEATURED〛 ⭒⭒⭒⭒⭒ "My pick-up lines are great." "Yeah, and I have a pet llama." "You do??" "No, idiot." ⭒⭒⭒⭒⭒ Arc-en-ciel (n.): Rainbow He's the perfect example of a thundercloud. He's rude, grumbly, and frightening to most- ready to harshly rain down on anyone in his way. She's a human sunbeam, at best. She's the kind of person with a sunshine personality that everyone adores- bubbly, nearly always beaming, and looking to spread smiles. Working with your polar opposite might seem like the worst thing that could happen. But around every thundercloud's rain, there comes sunshine. And with the sun and rain, come rainbows. ⭒⭒⭒⭒⭒ Featured in Wattpad Teenfiction's 'Funny Bones' Reading list [no idea how that happened lol] [#1 in Adorable | 1# in Cute | 1# in LoveAtFirstSight } [#1 in BadBoy | 1# in Boyfriend| 1# in Fiction ] [#2 in GoodGirl | #2 in Romance] ©All rights reserved, available only on Wattpad [Cover images do not belong to me, all rights reserved by owners]

#2 badboynextdoor - 28.03.20 Every bad boy wants a good girl who is bad only for him and every Good girl wants a bad boy who is good only for her. Amelia brooks is a nerd allergic to socializing. She is often judged by her classmates and is convinced that she is ugly. Until.... Cayden Parker, the new hot badboy storms in her life. The Badboy always falls for the good girl.

Well. At least, the plot is twisted.

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