Joelle Jordan is just trying to survive university and her life at home. Bryce Valentine is trying to survive everyone else. Projected first-round NFL draft pick. Campus celebrity. The most watched college athlete in the country. When the two strike a deal to trade study sessions for Bryce and personal training sessions for Joelle's little brother, everything seems simple enough. Then Bryce crosses the line. Now Joelle is trying to navigate a boy who is emotionally repressed, touch-starved, obsessively devoted, and surrounded by more pressure than any twenty-year-old should have to carry. Add the coaches, media attention, NIL deals, scouts, photo shoots, and Bryce's oppressive father. The pressure that comes with being attached to Bryce Valentine is something Joelle is not equipped for. Especially when she starts getting a little too comfortable with the fact that Bryce can't seem to leave her alone.

She was a devoted wife. A brilliant doctor. A woman who believed she understood her own boundaries. Then her husband's secret gambling debt drags them into the orbit of the city's most feared mafia don-and nothing is hers anymore. Taken from their home in the dead of night, she's forced to save a man who lives on violence and power. He's ruthless, untouchable, and devastatingly magnetic. Every look lingers too long. Every accidental touch ignites something dangerous. Every low, controlled word chips away at her resolve. She tells herself she's loyal. Married. Moral. But obsession doesn't care about vows. Late-night treatments blur into intimate confessions. Professional distance erodes into stolen moments. What begins as duty becomes temptation, then craving-an ache she can't silence and a man she can't escape. In a world where trust is lethal and desire is a liability, surrendering could cost her everything she's built. Or it could be the only thing that makes her feel alive.

Anyla's life is finally starting to take a bright turn. A new apartment in a quiet, suburban neighborhood. A real RN job with a real paycheck. After years of struggle, she's finally stepping into her soft era. And then there's him. Min Choi-her landlord. Sweet. Polite. The kind of man who smiles with his whole face and holds the door just a second too long. He offers her a luxury unit at a price that feels like a blessing. And when she meets him in person? He feels like one too. But blessings don't watch you the way Min does. They don't text every night to check on your locks. They don't know your favorite wine-or exactly how you take your coffee. And they sure as hell don't smile when someone else says your name. At first, he just seemed like the perfect landlord. But now Anyla isn't sure if she moved into her dream life... Or a carefully constructed trap.

Heaven Lopez is a 21 year old free sprite kinda girl she's always down for some fun but she's also kinda shy she loves to read and she works her ass off every day but what happens when heaven goes to go out with her best friend to celebrate that she moving to Italy for a new start Luca Russo is a 29 year old mafia boss he runs one of the most feared and scary Mafias he runs the Italian mafia he's the kinda of guy you tell your daughter to stay away from he doesn't care for emotions not his cup of tea he's used to having girls in bed and leaving them never the one for kids either he never wanted to have a family or anything like that his enemies took everything from him . What happens when these 2 meet have a one night stand and our dear heaven ends up pregnant with the mystery mans baby? *⚠️⚠️FIRST BOOK IVE EVER WRITEN ⚠️⚠️* ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️TW ⚠️⚠️⚠️ **Abuse PT.1 THE RUSSO SERIES Ranked #16 in Deadly Ranked #2 in baby daddy Ranked #1 in Heir 8/11/22 Ranked #1 in Deadly

Sophia Marino lived with her aunt in America since she was 7, her mom died when she was still a baby and she would visit her family during holiday. Now twenty four working a boring office job she went clubbing one night to relax and get laid. She got laid, but she also got pregnant by one of the most ruthless men out there, Russian mafia leader Vasily Petrov. She was his the moment he saw her goofing around on the dance floor and brought her to his hotel room, the pregnancy part was just more motivation to get her, not that he would have backed down or needed extra motivation to have her. Like every other mafia man, he got what he wanted no matter what he had to do *Warning - violence, swearing, mature I guess*

Maya runs away from home, escaping an arranged marriage to an unfamiliar city-Chicago. Attacked and robbed of everything, she's left with nothing-no money, no safety, no hope. When a strip club poster catches her eye, Maya makes a decision: one night on stage could earn her enough for a room, maybe even a way to survive. Instead, she meets Roman Volkov. Cold, ruthless, and untouchable, Roman is the Mafia boss who owns the city's underworld. He makes her an offer: one night with him, and she'll have more money than she knows what to do with. It should be simple. Just a deal. Just one night in Chicago with a man she'll never see again. But when the sun rises, Maya learns the truth: No one spends just one night with Roman Volkov.

"she is both, hellfire and holy water. and the flavour you taste depends on how you treat her."

HEIR OF SHADOWS Some families are built on love. Others are built on secrets. At seventeen, Athena Williams already owns a billion-pound tech empire, hides her face behind designer sunglasses, and keeps the world at arm's length. Control is everything to her. Control keeps people safe. Control keeps secrets buried. Then Caterina disappears. At first, Athena thinks her aunt simply left without warning again-something Caterina has always been good at. But when her calls stop going through, Joel vanishes without a trace, and strange pieces of Caterina's past begin surfacing, Athena realises something is very wrong. With the help of her closest friends-Mica Gonzales, Max, and Mason Hunter-Athena starts digging for answers. What begins as a missing persons search slowly unravels into something darker. Old names. Hidden connections. Men who watch too closely. Files that should not exist. And a powerful family Athena has never heard of-but somehow seems tied to. The deeper Athena investigates, the more she discovers that Caterina was keeping secrets long before she disappeared. And some shadows were never meant to be found.

In 1925 Europe, a young French black woman known as Vanessa escapes her stormy past by suddenly leaving the only life she knows back in France. Catching trains with currency she earns through newly becoming a prostitute, she travels north-west through the United Kingdom searching for a new beginning. A train stop in Birmingham, England temporarily pauses her travels as a customer takes a high-paying interest in her. Thomas Shelby is the leader of a notoriously criminal gang, the Peaky Blinders. Although he is known for practically owning this area of England and being a gun-toting gangster along with the rest of the Shelby family, he is also wealthy, powerful, a family man, and a cunning businessman. Needing a fresh outlook on life after the gut-wrenching murder of his wife, Tommy finds joy and amusement in Vanessa, the new twenty-five year old minx who has just arrived in town. Slowly becoming enamored by her, Tommy pays for her services daily to keep her from being touched by any other customer. Heart still broken from his wife's death, Tommy refuses to ever love or marry again... But suddenly feeling possessive over Vanessa, he has made sure for the last six months that she would only be paid to whore for him. Vanessa feels lucky to find daily pay within a single customer. Not only is Tommy handsome and his sex makes her dizzy with lust, but because of this agreement her body doesn't have to be used and worn down by multiple men each day. The two can simply enjoy each other's company, benefiting from it with their own reasons. Each day spent with Tommy is money being added to her pocketbook, money that she plans to save and use to create her own business in the near future. As trouble with the Italian mafia finds its way into the Peaky Blinders, Tommy offers Vanessa a pay raise for a change in her job description. Instead of his whore, she'd become his trusted companion... Vanessa soon finds out that the new position isn't nearly as easy as it sounds.