At eighteen, Kennedy Williams has one dream: to prove she belongs at the country's most prestigious performing arts academy. With her scholarship on the line and rivals all around her, she throws herself into ballet with relentless devotion. But nothing prepares her for Katya Volkova. Once a world-renowned prima ballerina, Katya's career ended in a single, devastating moment. Now thirty-three, she rules the studio with the same precision that once ruled the stage-cold, untouchable, and demanding perfection from her students. From the first correction-Katya's hands guiding her posture, her voice sharp but low; Kennedy feels a spark she can't ignore. And behind Katya's icy discipline, Kennedy glimpses a woman aching with loss. What begins as a dance of teacher and student soon turns into something far more dangerous: a forbidden pas de deux of stolen glances, unspoken desire, and love balanced on the knife-edge of scandal. In the world of ballet, perfection demands sacrifice. But when the heart takes center stage, will Kennedy and Katya risk everything for their greatest performance yet? 🎶 Set the mood while you read. Listen to the official Love en Pointe playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/174ujunkMafKJEILlu2Ckp?si=6RASAnGcS7ew9Hon_wpumQ&pi=sUco3D0zQ62kG

SEQUEL to Ms. Beaumont Three years ago, Annabelle Rivers made the hardest decision of her life-she walked away from Eleanor Beaumont. No goodbye that fixed things. No more chances. Just distance...and silence. Now, Annabelle has built something new in New York. A life that finally feels right. Alongside Lucy and Juliet, she's carved a future far removed from the chaos she left behind-working in child protective services, fighting every day to give vulnerable children the safety she once struggled to find herself. Eleanor? She became a ghost Annabelle learnt not to chase. Until she isn't. When a high-profile case lands on Annabelle's desk, it pulls her into a world of power, money, and secrets-one that requires the involvement of a private security firm known for handling things quietly. Beau & co. Professional. Untouchable. Controlled. Run by Eleanor Beaumont herself. Neither of them knew the other would be there. Neither of them were prepared for what it would feel like to stand in the same room again. Three years hasn't softened anything-it's sharpened it. Because the truth is, they're not the same people they used to be. Annabelle is stronger, harder, no longer the girl who needs saving. And Eleanor...is even more dangerous in the way she carries herself now. Forced to work together to protect a child caught in the middle of something far bigger than anyone expected, they find themselves walking a line between past and present-between what they were, and what they could become again. But some things don't stay buried. Some choices don't stay in the past. And when secrets start to unravel, one question lingers between them: Was walking away the thing that saved them...or the thing that broke them for good?

Twenty-two-year- old. Annabelle rivers has perfected the art of pretending she's fine. At college, she smiles, studies, stays quiet. At home, she endures a mother whose love comes laced with cruelty-cut's disguised as concern, wounds disguised as lessons. Annabelle carries the pain in silence, hidden beneath long sleeves and late-night tears, just trying to survive her final year without falling apart. Then she walks in. Ms. Beaumont-thirty-nine, brilliant, wealthy, and carved from ice-arrives as the new mathematics professor with a reputation as sharp as her heels. Students fear her. Staff avoid her. She is the kind of woman who seems untouchable, unreachable, and uninterested in anything beyond her immaculate walls. But Annabelle notices the cracks. And Ms. Beaumont notices her. What starts as tension-dangerous, electric, wrong-slowly coils into something neither of them should want. Annabelle is drawn to the darkness behind Ms. Beaumonts eyes, the soft trembling beneath her cold exterior. And Ms. Beaumont despite every rule she's built her life around, can't seem to stay away. Their stolen moments become confessions. Their glances become obsession. Their connection becomes a secret that could ruin them both. Because this isn't just forbidden-it's destructive. A professor hiding old scars. A student burying new ones. A love that feels like the only safe place they've ever known...and the most dangerous choice they could make. As Annabelle spirals deeper into her own shadows and Ms. Beaumonts past threatens to surface, one truth becomes impossible to ignore: Some people aren't meant to love each other. And some can't survive without it.

Sienna Lawson, a weary literature student, is entering her final year at Ashbourne University. All she wants is to keep her head down, survive the year, and finally graduate. But the past she's tried to bury refuses to stay silent. It lingers-sharp, relentless-creeping back in ways she can't outrun. Then comes Juliana Blake. Cold. Commanding. Unapologetically intense. The new lecturer for Sienna's favourite subject-and a woman who carries authority like a second skin. Every glance is deliberate, every word precise, every presence impossible to ignore. They are opposites: ocean and earth. But when they collide... nothing stays untouched. Not even their past. //slow burn//age difference//ice skating// profxstudent//

| teacher x student | wxw | slow burn | When 19-year-old Lena James enters English Literature class, she expects nothing special. Instead, she meets Ms. Sinclair her cold, sharp-tongued British literature teacher. Elegant, cutting, and unbearably superior. From the very first lesson, the 34-year-old woman seems to take pleasure in dismantling Lena's every opinion with cruel precision. Lena hates her. She hates the condescending red marks on her essays, the raised eyebrow that makes her feel small, and the way Ms. Sinclair lingers in her thoughts long after class ends. But hate this intense has a way of twisting into something far more dangerous. With a strict 15-year age gap and an unbreakable teacher-student boundary, their slow-burning tension threatens to break every rule both in literature and in real life. Some lessons aren't taught kindly. And some hatreds taste too much like desire. "Ms. Sinclair's Secret"

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]

| slow burn | professor x professor | age gap | Sienna Raynes is the newest member of staff at Coryton house. Will the young professor find her feet and inspire a love for literature or will she stumble? One person gets to find out as the new english profressor is assigned a mentor... The sharp tongued head of music Miss Elizabeth Herrod. Will her icy greetings and fierce opinions unnerve her young mentee or will they get past their initial meeting? Dive into a slow burn romance full of tension, teasing and yearning. Yes there's an age gap, yes she's an older woman and yes it's messy. All the delicious ingredients we know and love ❤️

Stephanie Walker is eighteen, moving across the country from Los Angeles to New York to begin her dream: law school at NYU. A new city, a new home, new friends, new everything. She's excited, but sleepless nights, old wounds, and quiet struggles follow her everywhere. She wants to live like any other college student, to blend in, to feel normal, but life hasn't been simple, and surviving on her own is harder than she expected. Every late night, every study session, every solitary drive home reminds her that life doesn't come with easy answers. Some nights, she leans on quiet habits she'd never tell anyone about, just to make it to morning. Elena Shay is thirty-two, NYU's Dean and a respected law professor. Her life is built on control, precision, and endless responsibility. At work, she's commanding, elegant, untouchable. Outside it, she's soft, warm, and human, but never careless. Elena doesn't date casually; she doesn't waste time or energy on anything that isn't worth it. She's deliberate, certain, and careful... Until Stephanie. Stephanie isn't just another student. She's sharp, captivating, and unafraid to be herself in a way that draws Elena in deeper than it should. Suddenly, the carefully maintained line between professional and personal life begins to blur. The rules, the expectations, the life Elena's worked so hard to control all scream that nothing between them can ever happen. And yet, the pull becomes impossible to ignore. As their worlds collide, Stephanie discovers a side of life she's never dared to touch: warmth, comfort, attention, and desire from someone who sees her fully, not as a girl with a "rough" childhood, but as a woman. Together, Elena and Stephanie fall into chaos, vulnerability, and longing they didn't know they were missing. Every glance, every touch, and every moment carries risk. Risk of exposure, of judgment, of everything crashing down, all shaped by the choices resting in their hands.

A wolf with a shattered past. A vampire with an unyielding heart. A love that was never meant to be. Athena Shadow is a wolf born into hatred and betrayal. For years, she believed that the vampires of Castle Dimitrescu were responsible for her parents' murder, her rage driving her to infiltrate their halls in a desperate bid for revenge. But when fate twists cruelly, her escape leaves her exiled from her pack, cast out and alone. Desperate and hunted, Athena is forced to return to the castle she once vowed to destroy. There, she is met not with death but with something far more dangerous-Alcina Dimitrescu. Powerful. Commanding. Irresistibly dangerous. Alcina offers her protection, but with it comes a challenge Athena never expected. Tension turns to trust. Hate turns to desire. But when forbidden feelings grow too strong, both must confront the truth they can no longer deny. As Athena learns the secrets behind her parents' death, old wounds reopen, forcing her to question everything she's ever believed. The lines between loyalty and love blur, and Athena realizes that her place is not with the pack that betrayed her... but with the vampire who would burn the world for her. Enemies to lovers. Betrayal. Power. Desire. A bond forged in fire and blood that could save them-or tear them apart. Will Athena choose the pack that once rejected her, or will she embrace her new family, even if it means risking everything-including her heart?

Adrienne Brookes is a highschool senior with a sharp tongue and a talent for trouble. Her sarcasm is a shield, one she learned to wield early, because surviving her home life means never letting anyone see too much. And Adrienne has secrets. More than she can carry. But one slip in her carefully crafted mask is all it takes for Ivy Adair, her cold and calculating psychology teacher, to notice the cracks. Ivy is the last person Adrienne should trust, and the only one she can't seem to stay away from. Wanting distance is easy. Keeping it is impossible. ‼️ GAY ‼️ SEXUAL CONTENT ‼️ ABUSE AND VIOLENCE - There will not be warnings in individual chapters. This book is for mature audiences only. Do not read if sensitive to the above content.