"Every kiss tasted like a secret she wasn't meant to keep." Ilaya Ambrose A 26 year old detective on a mission to avenge a poor girl. She is cunning, smart and a great fighter who had a childhood she wished no one had. The only light in her life was her mother. Who was taken from her way too soon. Now all she has is her brother and a tenebrous past. Mason Romano A 28 year old golden retriever CEO with a 3 year old daughter and a strange past. He is everything a woman wants in a man but the problem is he swore off all until her... He is stuck in the past but she is the beckon of light in his life. Will she allow him to take her heart? How will he ever move on from the past thats still haunting him?

"I even found myself resenting my birthday for a year, a day that once promised celebration and love, because I didn't receive a simple text from them, the absence of which felt like a gaping wound. " The 2 main characters reunite after a soccer game. Only to find out that both of them were there. After years of not talking to each other they finally do. Tension is around the air. None of them know what to do. Not being able to bring up the last they figure that the best that they can do is ignore the fact they at point in their life it was full of love. But what will happen when one of them finally brings up the past. Will they talk?forget about it? Fight? Get back together? Or never speak again?

4 friends in their last months of college 2 already married and 2 crushing on each other. Antonio Miller and bri Diaz have been friends since forever but when their feelings get to be too much to hold back what will happen?

Some guys are smooth, unreadable-dangerous in a way that makes your pulse do things it shouldn't. But hey, who doesn't have a little emotional damage these days? Then the weird stuff starts. The calls. The messages. The undeniable feeling that someone's watching you. Totally normal, right? (Wrong.) Because when your psycho ex, slithers back into the picture, things go from maybe I need help to okay, I'm definitely about to get murdered. The worst part? You have no idea which man you should be running from.

Camilla Rae Dawson was raised to be the perfect daughter. Soft spoken. Straight A's. beloved by everyone in Sapphire Springs. She rarely had a life outside of her studies and books, hoping to get into a prestigious university to follow the Dawson' footsteps. Though she never felt she found who she truly was. A passion for journalism but hopes are crushed when her family wants her to pursue a career to fit Dawson's standards. These high expectations and pressure leads to her overthinking, sensitivity, and anxiety. To everyone she's studious, nerdy, and quiet. To herself she never seems to be enough for her family. No matter how hard she works. She wears a mask of perfection to shield her imperfections. No one sees past it, until one boy removes her mask and finds beauty in her in-perfect world. Broderick Sinclair is the complete opposite. Grumpy. Sarcastic. Troublemaker. Many suspensions led to a change in schools...and the environment. From Branton City to Sapphire Springs, traumatizing memories linger in his mind. A family with horrifying secrets behind closed doors. Abandoning the past, he's left with his scarred mother and ugly truths. He relies on three things to numb his pain; Alcohol. Cigarettes. Trouble. He finds peace in his own, secret world. Literature and writing poetry. A way to express his emotions on paper with ink and reading to escape his reality. Problems create a lack of care for his education, affecting his senior year. Under his guarded and grumpy demeanor is a broken teen who never believed he could be loved. Until her. Their tutoring sessions unfold something they would've never expected. She's the girl he never thought would trust. He's the boy she never thought would find herself with. They're like paper and ink, incomplete without the other. When their relationship becomes serious, their differences get in the way. They face truths that threaten to... break them apart.

✨ A fake relationship that just might become the real thing. ✨ 
Amora has always been battling with her own demons, but she never expected her life to change when she bumped into a tall, mysterious football player in the campus library. New to college life, Amora didn't anticipate crossing paths with Mr. Popular himself. Little did she know, Viktor had a proposition for her - pretend to be his girlfriend and help him get back at his ex. But as their fake relationship brings them closer, Amora starts to see beyond Viktor's cold and distant persona. She finds herself drawn to him and wanting to break through his tough exterior. And as they spend more time together, they both begin to question whether their feelings are truly just an act.
 💖✨ Dive into this charming tale and find out if love can be more than just an act!