She was their heaven...but they only brought her hell.

"She served him a meal. He served her a life sentence." Laila Carter, a hard-working college student with dreams bigger than her wallet, takes a waitressing job to help pay for school. She's sharp-tongued, stunning, and uninterested in the men who fawn over her at work. But one night, the mysterious and powerful Demetri Vescari walks into the restaurant she works at-not as a customer, but as the silent owner and ruthless mafia leader hiding in plain sight. Demetri becomes obsessed with Laila's voice, her goddess-like locs, and the fire in her eyes. She resists him at every turn, sensing the danger he conceals behind his charm. But when Demetri blackmails her estranged father into agreeing to a marriage neither she nor her heart agreed to, Laila is thrust into a deadly world of secrets, power, and passion. And there's no walking away from a man who's decided you're his.

"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵? 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘭𝘶𝘵." ◦•●◉✿Y/n just turned 18. But you hated the trouble growing up brought.You'd give anything to turn back time and go back to the days when you didn't have four fully grown adult men fancying over you. A fight that lasted forever. Do these men really want you that badly? ✿◉●•◦ 𝙿𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐! For a better experience read in dark mode ;) Characters: Y/n :Your name Gojo : Your former teacher Nanami : A senior Toji : Your friend Megumi's father [Warning: Angst, Polygamy, nasty stuff, Mind control, Manipulation, Hardcore, explicit content, Heartbreak, emotional, smut etc] Under editing.

Serena is between a rock and a hard place. A military experiment gone wrong has sent her world crashing down--along with everybody else's--as a mysterious disease turns living people into mindless weapons of destruction. Supplies have run so low that her husband leaves to find food for them and never returns. Serena finds herself alone and preparing for inevitable death from starvation when her husband's best friend, Steven, shows up to her rescue. After seeing his best friend turn, Steven knows what he must do: protect and save his buddy's wife--the only person he has left now that his whole family and everyone else he cared about is gone. Only Serena is not just his undead best friend's girl--Steven has had a secret crush on Serena for almost as long as he's known her, doing everything in his power to hide it from his buddy while he was alive. And now, at the horrible price of losing his best friend, he has a chance to be with her. But would Serena ever give him a chance, given their circumstances? NOTE: Violent content and graphic, disturbing events included. ** Only an excerpt will be posted. Full book available at various retailers.**