When Adrianna stands to lose everything after pushing her wealthy father too far with her wild behaviour, she goes to the one person she believes might save her: her brother's best friend. There's just one problem - they despise each other. Season 1 of Binding Contracts *** Adrianna faces a tough decision: find a husband her father approves of to save her family's reputation, or risk losing everything she cares about. To her dismay, her brother suggests she marry his best friend, Xander, who has earned her father's respect over the years. Despite their hatred for each other, Adrianna reluctantly tries to convince Xander, even offering part of her inheritance to sway him. Their past quickly makes things difficult - Adrianna used to mock Xander for being poor, which hurt him deeply. Seeing Adrianna beg, he bargains with her to accept the proposal. But how are they to fool the public - and her father - when they can't stand to be in the same room? As they spend more time together, old animosity slowly turns to attraction. And soon, Adrianna and Xander are forced to face the past, and their future, with the pressure of a fake engagement looming over their heads. What is real, and what is for the contract?

Persephone Miller's never had a chance to fall in love, unlike the rest of her lovesick college friends. After recently starting a new job as the PR manager for the Boston Bruins, she finally feels like she's settling into adulthood. Although, with one of her best friends' weddings quickly approaching, her unfavorable luck in love has left her dateless, and feeling left behind. Max Morin. As brooding as he is handsome, the star centre for the Boston Bruins isn't your typical charming, womanizer of a hockey player. After a series of private life revelation, his love for life and work is fading, with the media only squeezing more and more for him as days tick over. The only person who puts him at ease is the clubs new PR manager, her soft smiles from across the room creating a new definition of the word comforting. So when Max finds Persephone in a quiet stairwell after a game, crying over her need for a wedding date, he does something entirely out of his usual emotional bounds, proposing an arrangement. He'll be her date, out of the goodness of his heart, if she promises to make him laugh, just the once. But once both parties find something beneficial in the lives of the other, they find themselves in a web of never-ending arrangements. The pair soon find themselves being pulled together with something stronger than just the confirmation of a handshake, something more needing than just an arrangement. It was never meant to be real, but was it ever truly fake? Highest rankings: 🏅 #1 - workplace #2 - fake date #11 - hockey #1 - icehockey 💕💕

Kim Jones is facing the biggest challenge of her ghost-writing career: write the biography of the insanely hot surfing champion Max Rider - without falling for him. Standalone in the Riding Your Wave series *** Kim Jones is the most popular writer no one has ever heard of - she's a ghost-writer for the stars. But when her family faces financial struggles, Kim has to convince the uber-private Max Rider to let her write his biography. Max is surfing royalty - not only is he the world's number one surfer, but he's gorgeous, kind, caring...and has plenty of secrets. Even though he's reluctant to share his story, something about Kim makes him willing to open up for the first time. But after having her heart broken in the past, Kim has one rule: Never mix business with pleasure. Fighting against their chemistry and demands from her editor, Kim tries desperately to hold onto her heart and morals when she follows Max on the surfing tour across the globe. But when the waves of attraction are too strong to resist, will Kim and Max find a way to stay balanced - or will their love become a total wipeout?

When photography student, Willow Kennedy, gets offered an internship with her college's renowned ice hockey team, The Michigan Wolverines, she anticipates three things: 1) Her twin brother being an unbearable and over-protective nightmare. 2) Her photographs not making any real impact whatsoever. 3) The team completely shutting out the curly-haired girl pointing a camera in their faces. What Willow didn't take into account, however, was the Wolverine's team captain. Rumoured NHL first draft pick, dreamboat and total game changer- Tate Wilder. With his infectious dimpled smile, sparkling green eyes and addictive personality, Tate quickly turns Willow's internship into a life-changing and eye-opening experience- one filled with love, friendship and opportunities. Willow didn't meet the Michigan Wolverines looking for love, and funnily enough neither did Tate, but love soon found them. ********* "Pretty please?" Her lip juts out in an irresistible pout and you'd almost think she was a sweet innocent flower judging by the puppy dog eyes she's flashing me. But that image is little tarnished by the hand she has dipped into my boxers. I can feel my Adams apple bob as I reply. "O-okay. Fine, you win this time." The smile I get in response is absolutely blinding. A full, mega-watt grin with teeth, crinkled eyes and blush on the apples of her cheek. I'll let her win everything if I get that fucking smile in return.

Gifted wolf Scarlett is on the run from a clan that wants to steal her powers, but hiding her identity proves difficult when she discovers her mate is a powerful alpha who doesn't want to let her go. Standalone in the Marked Mate Series *** Gifted wolves are a hunted breed. Scarlett is one of them. Her gift? She can manipulate the emotions of others. But bearing the mark of a gifted wolf comes at a price. The Enclave Clan have made it their mission to hunt down every last remaining gifted wolf and use them for power - something Scarlett vowed to never let happen. So she's been on the run her entire life. But when Scarlett finds herself on claimed pack land, she realizes that their Alpha Roman is her mate - a protective and powerful man who knows what he wants. Her. Afraid her own mate will turn her in, Scarlett keeps her true identity hidden, but she knows it's only a matter of time before the pack discovers what she really is. Her only option? To leave and never return. But soon, her bond to Roman becomes harder and harder to ignore. Especially because he's all she's ever dreamed he would be...

𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊 - all her hopes and dreams of running away from the luxurious lifestyle with her boyfriend are ruined when she finds herself chained down in a sudden arranged marriage with someone she'd never love, but it's already been made clear that not everything goes to plan. 𝐑𝐘𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐁𝐄𝐒 - He only agreed to this wedding on the condition that it would help his business career and put more money in his wallet. He's never been in a serious committed relationship before, and he wasn't about to start now, that is, until he sees his soon-to-be wife; now he'll go through anything and anyone to get her, even her own boyfriend. started - may 8th, 2023. finished - july 28th, 2023.

Hailey Baker and Landon Romano have been best friends since childhood. Unfortunately the duo is separated when Landon's parents seeking better job opportunities move to L.A. What will happen to the pair if they ever were to cross paths again? What are the results of their 6 years apart? Hailey Baker: 17 year old who has a bubbly outgoing personality. Her parents are alcoholics while her dad is abusive. Somehow she manages to keep up her bubbly persona which attracts people toward her. Even ones from the past. Landon Romano: 18 year old who would rather not to show much personality He is driven by his goals of joining the NFL one day. In order to reach those goals he is willing to do anything. Whether it takes using a few people on the way. They are total opposites, repelled away like plastic to a magnetic. One issue they both struggle with is being able to forget each other. So will opposites attract? Or will they stay repelled away from one another?

New updates every weekday by 9 am Thanks for 3k reads❤❤ "I don't care," Lucas snapped back, "get her out of my house and find someone else." "Lucas!" she scolded. "she's the first nanny the kids accepted without a fight." "We'll find someone else. For now, get that piece of shit out of my house, I can't fucking stand her." 'Piece...of...shit...' only that phrase stood out in my brain. ************************************************************************************************** Christine Channing has never had it easy in life. After being abandoned to a foster home at a young age, she struggles through life on her own. She runs into debt and her only hope of paying is in the form of one of the most intolerable assholes she has ever met. Desperate for a better-paying job she becomes a live-in nanny to the kids of Lucas Maxwell. She decides that all she has to do is focus on the kids and ignore him for the next year, but that proves to be more difficult than she expects it to be, or maybe it's because she cannot control the way her body goes crazy around him. Lucas is cold-hearted and a mean jerk, but he loves his twins more than life itself. He'd do anything for them, even if it means employing the one person that reminds him of a past he so badly wishes to forget. He has no other interest in women until he meets the beautiful and daring Chris. He directs all his focus on his company and his kids. But the only problem is the new nanny is as hot and beautiful as she is annoying and infuriating but she offers his twins more love than their own mother ever could. She proves to be a major distraction and it doesn't help that despite everything he dislikes about her, he still wants to sleep with her.

»beginning is rough and quite awful but it gets better as you go along« »book one in the series« When she gets stolen from her wedding, Emerald Valentino thinks nothing will ever get her to not hate Damon Lancaster, her mate and the most feared alpha in the country. He's cruel. He's selfish. He's powerful. And he's all hers. She seems perfect on the outside-gorgeous, smart, and very talented. But she also has many secrets and a memory that haunts her, as well as a man that stalks her every movement. With every passing moment, Emerald finds it impossible to hate Damon, even as much as she's tried. With as many obstacles as they face and the many secrets they discover, will they be able to live through it? Or will history repeat itself? ><><><><>< cover by me

In order to have a full understanding of this book I suggest you read the first part to this book 'Treasure' ◇♡◇ "You and I would always be unfinished business" -Kolson Starvi "I don't break promises and I keep secrets" -Qatsiyah Kane ◇♡◇ For five years Qatisyah Kane had hidden her son from the world in order to finish college. Fresh out of college, ready to move out of her apartment of five, she was finally ready to let everyone know about her little toddler. However, walking into her job of two years as a personal assistant at Shaw Creations, she wasn't expecting that her boss, Verrin, had been replaced by the unknown father of her son. Kolson Starvi never looked back when Qatsiyah declined to see him six months after he left her on her doorstep. He was driven by knowing she was moving on, living her dreams in California so he did the same. It wasn't easy and it took five years but at age twenty-two he finally got his position of CEO at Shaw Creations. With a girlfriend and new life, Kolson thought he did not need his Treasure anymore. Entering a new chapter of her life, Siya thought after finishing college, her life would finally be perfect. They both were wrong and like magnets once again, their worlds clashed again. How would Siya react when she sees Kolson's soon to be fiancee and how would Kolson react when he learns about his four-year-old son?