He wasn't just my best friend. He was my architect. Ela Miller is "clumsy." She's the girl who loses her keys, fails her bio-labs, and relies on her genius best friend, Liam Vance, to keep her world upright. When their parents leave them alone for a month during a record-breaking storm, Liam offers to teach her the "lessons" she's missed out on-how to kiss, how to touch, how to know a man. But as the rain pours, the "puppy-eyed" boy-next-door starts to slip. Every touch is too practiced. Every "accidental" encounter feels like a trap. And the security cameras in the house? They aren't for her protection. They're for his viewing. Ela thinks she's the teacher. She has no idea she's the prey. By the time the sun comes out, Liam doesn't just want her heart. He wants her name, her future, and every breath she takes. He's been planning this for twenty-one years. And he's tired of playing nice. He didn't become obsessed because he didn't understand love-he became obsessed because he thought he understood it too well. Growing up, he saw a kind of love that felt safe, constant, and complete, and somewhere along the way, he started believing that this was the only way life could feel whole. So when he met her, he didn't just see a person-he saw the possibility of recreating that same world. And slowly, without even realizing it, his love turned into something heavier... something that needed to hold on too tightly, just to feel secure. She wasn't unaware-she was just never taught to trust herself. Growing up, every decision was made for her, every mistake corrected, every thought quietly replaced by someone else's "better" way. So when he stepped in to guide her, it didn't feel like control... it felt familiar. He didn't take her independence away-she had never really learned to hold onto it in the first place. And when care starts to look like control, it becomes almost impossible to tell the difference.

She only meant to run. Run from the bruises, the lies, the life that was slowly swallowing her. At eighteen, with nothing but a torn backpack and a heartbeat full of fear, she crosses a dusty stretch of nowhere and stumbles onto a secluded ranch hidden deep in the rural wilds. And that's where she meets him. Cole Harlan. A man carved from silence and shadow - mid-thirties, broad-shouldered, sun-browned, and carrying the kind of past no one dares ask about. He lives alone, works alone, and prefers it that way... until the trembling girl on his porch forces something in him awake. Something protective. Something dangerous. He offers her shelter. But safety with Cole has a price. His rules are simple. His eyes see too much. And his presence... consumes her. As days blur into nights, the ranch becomes a world of its own - quiet mornings, shared glances, unspoken tension thick enough to touch. She learns his routines. He learns her secrets. And in the heat of the countryside, their connection turns from forbidden curiosity into something darker, deeper, and impossible to resist. But Cole isn't just a rugged stranger. He's a man with enemies. A man with blood on his hands and ghosts in his past. A man who will do anything - anything - to keep what he claims. And she may be the first thing he's ever wanted enough to break his own rules for. A haunting, sensual tale of danger, desire, and the kind of love that feels more like possession. Where safety is an illusion... and surrender may be her only way out.

Margo has to marry a man she doesn't know. And Mr. Vernon happens to be a very very... Strange person.

When a mysterious killer started wiping out the city's prettiest, meanest, most scandalous girls, Eleo thinks she's safe. She's none of those things. She's just a clumsy, overworked college student with zero dating experience. That is, until she does something spectacularly dumb that inevitably put her in his path. Now, instead of living her quiet, peaceful life, she's dealing with: • ‌A ridiculously good-looking serial killer who won't leave her alone. • ‌Death threats that sound suspiciously flirty. And, Eleo's got two options: 1. Find out who the killer is before he "accidentally" falls in love with her. 2. Die. ...And dying sounds 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 inconvenient. 🚨 Not a tutorial. Do NOT attempt.

In a world where the supernatural crawl, Elira Abbot has always been sheltered by her very Christian parents, always hearing the names of supernatural but having no proof of their existence. Now she is 19, living on her own, far far from her controlling parents with no idea what to do. She wants to know these things are real, she wants proof. One day, walking in a graveyard studying the stones and writing things that interest her down, she finds a very large, almost castle-like abandoned cathedral some windows broken, stone chipped. And since the doors weren't blocked off or locked, why not explore? Kain Benedict is a Priest from the 1700's, born in 1706, changed in 1735, at 29 years old, against his will as these monsters were a curse from hell. A beautiful, god-based man, turned sinned, has never left his cathedral, no one ever coming to see him, he refused to thirst on innocent humans so he is starved, unfortunately these creatures live even without food. But when a beautiful, young girl enters his cathedral, his good is tested. And in the end, you can't help what you are.

Published version edition 1 (2023) 2nd edition is released only (Feb 2025) The novel version with all bonus chapters and the extended Epilogue that was wished for in the original version. Florence isn't just dealing with the usual troubles of coming of age, she's also developed a crush on the silent boy sitting across from her. A boy she's never even spoken to, at that. Just watching him was enough, exchanging silent glances and noting the way he keeps his noisy friends in check. When a mutual friend causes their paths to cross more often, her hope that the crush might not be entirely one-sided blooms. But life can't all be roses. When one thing seems to look up for the sunshine girl, another quickly turns south. Her already strained relationship with her parents morphs the more she goes out and enjoys her youth, and the closer she gets to the silent boy she likes, the more resentful her parents seem to grow. Now she has to walk the tightrope of keeping up her sunny appearance everyone knows her for while hiding a dangerous secret. Sommerstall Academy is a contemporary teen romance story between a quiet boy with outgoing friends and a girl that likes flowers filled to the brim with cute, funny, and occasionally heartbreaking moments- not to mention steamy scenes...

A man is usually the brutal, buffed, angry all the time, mafia leader. A women is usually the nerd, don't have friends and shy. But what if the roles change. .... Nyx Dimó is 17 years old who is shy and has mental issues if he doesn't take his pills. The nicest person and apologized for everything, sometimes he speaks his mind and sometimes people listen. He's used to it. Renata Malo is 19 years old, she is the word first Mexican mafia to lead and she is no where nice. She kills people for living, the hottest women in the city, ruthless, and most of all....she has a bounty over her head. ... "You shouldn't love me. You shouldn't have kissed me. You shouldn't have CHOOSE me! I only bring worse into people. Don't choose me." Tears glistening her eyes but not crying. She huffs and runs a hand through her beautiful wavy brown hair. All I saw in her, was pure perfection that she can't see. "You don't get to make that choice." I said calmly, I walked up to her, grabbing her cute little hands. "And you can't bring the worse in me because it was already there." Her eyes finally met mine, making my stomach flutter with love. "I'm the Mexican Mafia leader, I go by Malo. I kill people who deserve it, I kill when it's needed. Right now, I really want to kill you for even loving me, looking at me too." She harshly said while letting go of my hands, pushing them away from her. "Then kill me, I rather die if I can't love you like the way I see you. Do you really want that?" ..... #1 corny

Serenity Steele and Elijah Pierce go through a nude art project trying to keep their professionalism and stay completely platonic. However with Pierce's growing attraction and with Steele's flirtatious and teasing personality, neither of them find this easy. PIERCE SERIES BOOK ONE Started: August 21, 2021 (taken down for editing) Completed: June 30, 2022