There are 2 kinds of people in this world: people who enjoy smut stories, and liars. This is a story of addiction and pleasure, how they can combine to create a monster of desperate craving, infatuation and desire. Our main character has no issue working side by side with the beautiful woman who can hold her own with the boys on the team until he finds himself lucky enough to delight in the pleasures of her flesh. Upon their first moment of intimacy an addiction is born inside of him and he feels a desperation growing more and more with every moment that he is not with her. He needs her. It grows exponentially with every hidden meeting they get the opportunity to claim and with every one that slips through their fingers with the ringing of a phone, the call of duty, the simplicity of the intricacies of life. As their secret relationship continues they take more and more risks with their delight in each other, finding what the other truly desires. But they both have partners at home and their emotional entanglements begin to battle with their simple enjoyment of the flesh. A corner is turned. Heads roll. Universes collide. Lives are ruined, changed, stopped. Will there be a happy ending for anyone? Or will the hammer of justice crumble all the hopes and dreams of pleasure, delight and happiness. Will love win out? Will duty be enforced? I guarantee you won't see the ending coming. Be warned, this is not simple getting dirty reading, there are plot lines, intricate characters and twists involved in this story. If you are not up for some hard core sexual reading then please find another book to read. This book is for those wanting to indulge in something naughty and delicious. FAIR WARNING: * HEAVY SEX SCENES * TRIGGER WARNING IN SOME CHAPTERS * Do not read at work * Do not read around family members * You may need spare batteries * Enjoy yourselves (pun intended)

Emmy's life is going just as she'd planned: She's living in her own apartment, dancing every day and is just leaps away from being named her company's next Prima ballerina. And she's only 17. But all of Emmy's plans come to a screeching halt when the FBI shows up at her door to let her know that she's being stalked by a serial killer. Suddenly, the safe, insulated world she created for herself is riddled with violence, fear...and a growing pile of dead bodies. At first Emmy wants nothing more than to forget her chilling new reality - but her admirer isn't finished with her yet, and before she knows it, Emmy's stuck in a nightmare she can't dance her way out of. Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains detailed scenes of murder, rape, torture, sex and stalking, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]

"James you are all of my answered prayers" "you show me the way to your heart and I will never get out of there now that i'm in" **** A quiet girl who dance meet a businessman who deal with illegal stuff. Love, Temptation, Kindness weren't the words James Morettis would've though would one day be a part of his life, would've describe his relationship Dangerous, Gun, Death weren't the words Wendy Lee wanted to have in her life and dealed with it and more every day But love is strong, stronger than they though ✧ » ◇ « ✧ » ✦ « ✧ » ◇ « ✧ Start : July 06, 2022 Completed : January 25, 2023 Words : 418 577 ✧ » ◇ « ✧ » ✦ « ✧ » ◇ « ✧ this story contains 18+ content

[complete; editing, ROUGH draft] "Say something in Spanish." I snorted, "Like what?" "I don't know... I just want to hear you speak it." Our gaze stayed on each other for more than it should've. But I couldn't look away. Her hair laid out behind her on the pillow, her hands under her cheek and her head nearly under my arm. I inhaled, "Puede que me esté enamorando de alguien que nunca me amará." She parted her lips and for a second I thought she understood me, my heart skipped a beat until she spoke, "And what does that mean?" "It means, this woman beside me asks too many questions," I lied. ***** Oakley Marrero has been nothing but a rebel since witnessing her parent's murder at the age of eight. Leaving everything behind ten years later, she settled down in New York City in hopes to track down the killers that have never been found. While on her mission, she had what she thought was a one-night stand with August Creed. But when she collides with him while just mere seconds away from catching her parents killer - getting away yet again - the two find out they have more in common than just sexual attraction. ***** -Does not portray IRL Mafia's- Start date: May 22nd, 2021 End date: Nov 18th, 2021 Status: Complete Achievements: 50k reads- July 22nd, 2021 2k votes- Aug 13th, 2021 100k reads- Sept 16th, 2021 3k votes- Sept 24, 2021 4K votes- Dec 10, 2021 150k reads- Dec 10, 2021 200k reads- Dec 18, 2021

❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, who plays Romeo, is now dead. Charlie Monet, in charge of props, is the first suspect but soon the suspicion around her turns to worry as it seems she's the next target. Khaleel Rahim, an aspiring writer, is dying for a mystery to solve at his new school. When he sees Charlie sneaking around at night he thinks he's finally found something worth writing about. After discovering Charlie's ability to see visions of the past, Khaleel decides that they're the perfect pair to solve the mystery. With threatening notes, a quiet library and poison disguised as props; somebody in the school is blurring the lines between theatre and reality and the fast friends are about to discover that there's more to boarding school than just silly rumours. [2022 Watty's Shortlist]

In the end there's no one to help you. Your on your own.

2022 Wattys Award Winner The Terrible Trial of Kennedy Abrams (And Her Scapegoat Rebecca) The Sequel to 'Treadmill' In the trial of the year, Kennedy Abrams is being tried for the murder of Hank Wilcox. Her freedom is on the line, her friendship with Rebecca Eaves is shot, and she's about to relive every moment of her trauma in front of a jury. But there's more. Rebecca isn't completely separate from the case, and as the trial looms closer, and she gets a surprise visit from an unexpected ally, she starts to feel for her former friend. And when the two girls reluctantly form an alliance again, neither is prepared for the decades-old secrets they're set to uncover. And as the trial continues, neither is prepared for how they'll be forced to betray the other. 'The Terrible Trial of Kennedy Abrams' is the fast-paced, thrilling legal sequel to 'Treadmill,' where Kennedy and Rebecca's morals, patience, and lives will be tested beyond anything they've ever experienced.

☆ 2022 ᴡᴀᴛᴛʏꜱ ᴡɪɴɴᴇʀ!! ☆ "Hell is empty and all the devils are here." On the cusp of the 20th century, blue blood heiress Lucy Penn has lost everything: her betrothed, her family and home, and even her ability to walk in the sunlight. As she struggles to acclimate to her new nocturnal existence, she makes the acquaintance of Dr. Thomas Reed: an intelligent and tortured immortal, still haunted by the horrors of his past. As the pair grow closer, Lucy becomes privy to a frightening world far below the surface of polite society, in which beings of ancient and unfathomable power live outside the confines of humanity. Carpe Noctem (or "Seize the Night") follows Lucy on her journey through the shrouded streets, eerie hospitals, and aristocratic parlors of nighttime London. As she seeks to exhume the insidious and terrifying purpose behind her transformation, Lucy finds herself drawn deeper into a dark nocturne world of unimaginable folklore and intrigue, begging the question: can love be found after death? HIGHEST RANKINGS ~ #1 Carpe Noctem #1 Period Fiction #1 Nocturnal #1 Gothic Romance #1 Gothic Horror #3 Dracula #3 Shakespeare #8 Vampire #17 Victorian #46 Historical Fiction

2022 WATTYS WINNER - FANFIC CATEGORY "ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴀ ᴍᴜꜱᴇ, ɪᴠʏ. ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴀ ꜱᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ ᴛɪᴛʟᴇ ᴛᴏ ʜᴏʟᴅ. ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ꜰᴏʀɢᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ." Ivy Albrecht has spent years navigating Saint Constantine School for Girls. On the first day of her junior year, however, things go haywire: Ivy's best friend and permanent roommate, Beatrice, is assigned a different dorm. On top of that, Ivy has a rough start with her new bunkmate, Amy. Ivy realizes she must learn to deal with her roommate's new rebellious behavior if she ever hopes of having a social life on campus. To cap everything off, Amy is hasty to introduce Ivy to a group of her friends from the neighboring Welton Academy, a prestigious boarding school for Vermont's most promising young men. With academic struggles, friendship drama, and a growing soft spot for Welton's resident genius, nothing could make Ivy's year any more complicated. Well... almost nothing. (started: 08/14/21) (finished: 05/06/22)