Beauty's never been free. Especially when survival has a price tag. Cam learned that early. Pretty enough to be wanted. Never safe enough to be kept. So she adapted. She turned attention into currency. Desire into leverage. And herself into something no one could ever fully have. Because being wanted? That's how you get trapped. That's how you get hurt. That's how you disappear. But the past doesn't forget what it once had. When it comes back-familiar, dangerous, and calling itself redemption-Cam makes a choice she knows better than to make. One drop. No questions. And walks straight into a situation that reminds her exactly what being wanted used to cost her. Then there's Javier Reyes. A tattoo artist with dangerous connections and a gaze that doesn't just linger- it understands. He doesn't offer salvation. He offers something worse. Recognition. He sees the survival. The damage. The girl who learned to run before she ever learned to stay. And that might be the most dangerous thing of all. Because for the first time- Cam has to figure out the difference between being wanted... and being chosen. Marked By Him is a standalone in the interconnected Inked Line series.

Average Renee Jones; Average is just a girl that wants to make it through her senior year with no drama. But the summer before she can even make it into the school year things get a lot more interesting and it not just because of the bad news the doctor gave her. Kenneth Alonso Scott is a 19 year old 'business man' who never thought he could put anything, but money and his family first in his life. That is until he met Average.

"when I'm way down, you're my safe house we built from the ground, guess I'm home now" kidnapping occurs here. cover by @wordsbykay.

" 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘪𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡" 𝐉𝐔𝐋𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐀𝐑𝐈4𝐕𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 ™

"You no tell this girl that I said, I want no relations with a darkie?" She spat to me, making my eyes go wide. What? I thought to myself and Gio tried pulling me away but I snatched away from him, knowing I heard right this time. "Wait, what?" I spoke out loud and Gi grabbed me roughly, trying to pull me away again. "Why you saying these things? She's beautiful." I heard his abuelita sticking up for me as she stood to her feet and all the guys began to as well, telling their mom that she was wrong for what she was doing. "That puta heard me." She spat, pointing her finger at me. "You're too dark." She held up a brown paper bag that she was drinking her beer out of. "You no match this bag or lighter, you're too dark." "You look too much like his father. I no want you around me." She shooed me off, instantly breaking my heart into a billion pieces as I looked up at Giovanni who was looking down at me with hurt in his eyes. "Baby, please." He begged and I shook my head at him in disgust before putting my attention back onto her. "Get that darkness out of here, Giovanni. She's a demon." "Only demons have her color." She kept on going and I felt sick to my stomach in this moment as I stood there in complete shock.

𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡, 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚. 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚, 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚.

About a girl from Brooklyn New York that is struggling to survive. tries to turn it around to make it thru the struggle.