He watches. He waits. He chooses. Lorenzo De Rossi-Il Falco. A man who controls everything-his empire, his enemies... and the city that fears his name. Until her. Mia was never meant to be part of his world. Brilliant. Guarded. Far too observant for her own good-seeing the cracks in a man no one dares question. What begins as a moment... becomes something far more dangerous. An obsession. And in Lorenzo's world, obsession isn't a weakness. It's a liability. Pulled into a life built on power, loyalty, and blood, Mia is forced to navigate a man who doesn't ask-he decides. A man who watches her like claiming her is inevitable. But Mia isn't something to be owned. And Lorenzo isn't a man who lets go. When secrets unravel and war threatens everything he's built, one truth becomes clear: Loving her might cost him his empire. But losing her? Isn't an option.

Junior year was supposed to be normal. For Zane Carter, that meant sitting in the back of class, keeping his head down, and getting through the year unnoticed - just like always. He's quiet, observant, and smarter than most people realize. He doesn't expect attention. He doesn't look for it either. Then Ireila Perry walks in on the first day of school. New girl. Confident without trying. The kind of presence that makes conversations pause and heads turn. Within minutes, everyone knows her name - even if she hasn't said much. Zane notices her too. But there's no way someone like her would ever notice someone like him. Until their English teacher pairs them together for a major junior-year project. Now the most talked-about girl in school is sitting beside the boy who's spent years being invisible. At first, it's just schoolwork. Short conversations. Careful glances. Accidental hand touches when reaching for the same paper. But somewhere between shared notes and quiet after-school study sessions, something changes. Because sometimes the loudest feelings start off lowkey. And sometimes the person you least expect... is the one who sees you the most.

Naomi Housner is America's newest First Lady-polished, composed, untouchable. Behind the cameras, she's trapped in a marriage that's been breaking her for years. When the cracks start showing through her perfect poker face, Naomi does the one thing she's never been allowed to do: ask for help. One "private session" turns into a secret she can't afford to keep... because her therapist is Grant Lennox-Washington's most discreet, most in-demand inner-circle doctor. He's trained to listen. She's trained to lie. And in a world where reputations are currency, the truth could ruin a presidency and the kind of love that was never supposed to exist.

Anaya Reed has her future planned down to the minute. As a nursing student and captain of Blackthorne University's women's soccer team, she's determined to graduate at the top of her class. Love has never been part of the plan-and neither have distractions. Julian Ashford isn't a distraction. He's Blackthorne University's golden-boy lacrosse captain, admired by everyone on campus. Confident, patient, and impossible to ignore. The only problem? He's been quietly falling for Anaya long before she ever learned his name. When fate finally pushes them into each other's orbit, Julian has a choice: keep loving her from a distance or risk everything for the girl who's never looked his way. And Anaya must decide whether chasing the future she's always planned is worth overlooking the one person who's been there all along. Because sometimes... The greatest love story isn't the one you were searching for. It's the one waiting in your blind spot.

She was never supposed to matter to him. Desmond Cole has everything money, power, a corner office with a view of an empire he inherited and women he forgets by morning. He doesn't do feelings. He doesn't do complications. And he certainly doesn't do hotel housekeepers. But when Anaya Mensah spills coffee down his shirt and meets his fury with steady, unbothered eyes something shifts in him. Something dangerous. Anaya doesn't have time for men like Desmond. She has a mother fighting to stay alive, a five-year-old sister who calls her name first, and a dignity she guards like it's all she owns. The last thing she needs is a rich, cold-eyed stranger who looks at her like she's a problem he wants to solve. He thinks she's a challenge. Some people walk into your life and rearrange everything. Desmond Cole is that kind of dangerous.

The Queen's Scalpel Dr. Amara Queen has spent her entire life being underestimated. A child prodigy who graduated college at thirteen and became one of the youngest surgeons in history, Amara has dedicated her life to saving others. At twenty-five, she's opening her own state-of-the-art clinic, determined to build a medical empire on her own terms. To the public, she's brilliant. To her patients, she's compassionate. To the people she loves, she's fiercely loyal. To everyone else? She's cold, calculating, and impossible to read. When a wounded man is rushed into her clinic at two-thirty in the morning, Amara expects another emergency surgery. Instead, she comes face-to-face with Lorenzo Vitale. At twenty-eight, Lorenzo is the newly crowned head of the notorious Vitale crime family. Tall, tattooed, devastatingly handsome, and feared throughout the state, he's spent the last two years expanding his family's criminal empire after his father's untimely death. Most people fear Lorenzo. Lorenzo quickly learns he should fear Amara. What begins as a late-night surgery turns into an unexpected partnership when Lorenzo offers to secretly finance her growing clinic. Beneath the polished halls of Queen Medical Center, a hidden underground hospital is built-one designed for patients who can never appear on official records. As rival families close in, corrupt politicians pick sides, and law enforcement begins connecting dangerous dots, Amara finds herself pulled deeper into Lorenzo's world. And to everyone's surprise-including their own-they discover they're perfect for each other. She's the scalpel. He's the sword. Together, they're unstoppable. But power comes with a price, and as their empires grow, so do the enemies determined to tear them apart. Because when a queen falls in love with a king... The entire kingdom bleeds. A dark mafia romance 😈

Bella Moore has spent her life running away from hockey. Growing up in a family obsessed with the sport, she watched her father, coach of the Boston Bruins, devote himself entirely to her brother Antony's career, while she disappeared into the background. Now 26, she is a therapist who helps teenagers overcome addiction. All she wants is a quie and simple life far away from hockey. Lucas Moreau is everything Bella is not. He is the NHL's most famous bad boy, a French Canadian enforcer for the Montreal Canadiens. Charismatic, arrogant, and unapologetically aggressive, Lucas loves to dominate, attract attention, and break hearts. When their worlds collide, the rivalry between Boston and Montreal isn't the only source of tension.

"The best relationships are the ones you didn't expect to be in. The ones you never saw coming." ~author unknown "Love is never wrong" ----------------------------------------------- "They'll hear us," I mumbled against his lips. He grunted, which was music to my ears. "I don't care." He said before gripping my shirt tightly and ripping it off my body. My shriek was silenced as his mouth covered mine hungrily once again and he continued his sensual assault to my body. Highest Rankings: #1 Bwwm #1 Age Gap This beautiful cover was made by @mojojojo17 THANK YOU!!!

When protection becomes passion, He will protect her heart risking his own. Life has not always been fair to Odette. Yes, she's rich and famous and everyone is jealous of her and would kill to be her. But not all is at it seems, because behind closed doors you wouldn't even dream to be her. From distant parents who treat her like a prize to a missing sister no one talks about, to forced diet, to losing her identity trying to be someone she's not. Her life is not even hers anymore which leads to a lot of misunderstanding with those around her. Leon is a man on a mission. He wants to escape the unfair social hierarchy he grew up with. In a city where the rich, live in their fancy estate by the mountains overlooking the poor down below. Now all he wants is to escape. But escape needs money which is why he has accepted a job from the very class of people he hates.