Antinous is destined to die. Envied by the gods and despised by his rivals, the Greek youth from Bithynia is the most beautiful boy in the Roman Empire, summoned to the Eternal City where the emperor, Hadrian, makes him his lover. Just when Antinous thinks he has outrun destiny, he meets Leonides, a bold young soldier who conquers his heart. He desires the soldier but belongs to the emperor. If he gives in to temptation it may cost them their lives. His rivals are always talking and the gods always watching.

In which a girl who was always a bystander realizes the consequences of a few harmless jokes uttered by her peers. *** "Faggot." "Girly." "Gay." You didn't say anything. You never did. You didn't even meet anyone's eyes. But your bony fingers were always clenched in a fist. My friends snickered from beside me. I tried smiling too. I had to. Those were all harmless jokes after all. **Also known as Bystander Diaries**

**sequel to "Mafia Princess" can be read as a stand-alone but to better understand read the first book** Briar has been through a lot, the kind of stuff that would give you nightmares and destroy your belief in happiness. She's scared and alone, stuck in foster care and hiding her emotions with anger, being adopted by the mafia don Gabriella Nato Per Uccidere and her wife Mia was the last thing she expected. It could be a complete disaster that ends in more heartbreak than Briar can take or it could fix what she always thought was broken. TW may include self harm

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (also known as CIPA) is vary rare condition. It has two major characteristics, which is the inability to feel pain and the inability to differentiate temperature. People with this rare condition, feel no pain whatsoever. Why is it that Jai is diagnosed with this rare condition, yet he is hurting. They say he should be lighthearted and carefree since he can't feel pain but, he can't help but feel battered and bruised. "I'm a lost boy. I hurt in ways you could never imagine. A lost boy who feels nothing but pain."

My name Gabriella Nato Per Uccidere, which is Italian for "born to kill" Despite my surname I am seen as weak, vulnerable, dumb, irrational and an object to be sold and used, why? Because I'm a girl. I will never be able to claim my crown as Mafia Queen, why? Because It's only ever Mafia KING. My destiny is to marry a Mafia man, but how can I do that when I don't want a man? When I want a woman...it's time to change that destiny...

In which two boys paired up for an English project unknowingly write love stories about each other and share ideas.

My life isn't something you would want. Instead of waking up to hear birds singing in the morning, I wake up to hear glass shattering every time mother and father get into a fight. I get hit for little things too. School is nowhere close to what could be considered my 'safe haven' . Its actually just as bad. I get bullied for my abstract eye color. For my personality. For every little move I make. All of these are enough to keep me up at night. They all make me wonder 'is my life supposed to be this miserable?' Soon enough, I start taking sleeping pills. I started to have a dream and in this dream, I saw a man, I man who was smoking a cigarette and his entire body was smoking too. Like a hazy illusion.