Kade has never had the luxury of being a kid. Living in an abusive home, he learned early that protecting his younger siblings was his responsibility. Between taking care of them and fighting his own addiction, Kade is barely holding his life together. Then there's Julie Gates. To everyone else, Julie has the perfect life, a perfect family, and a future already planned for her. But behind closed doors, Julie is hiding a secret that is slowly destroying her. Two people carrying wounds no one can see. Two lives that were never supposed to collide. Until they do. And somehow, they become the one thing neither of them knew they needed. TRIGGER WARNING! MATURE !

His obsession. Her sanity. Their downfall. 18+ || 𝐈 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬-𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬. || Kaelan Crosiar is the kind of monster men kneel for. Hidden behind a mask, he is a psychopath tied to the city's most violent underground network. He thrives in the dark-present at illegal deals, blood-soaked parties, and disappearances no one talks about in daylight. Lana Rivers was supposed to be a ghost. A girl from a past he left in ashes. He wasn't supposed to see her again. And he definitely wasn't supposed to find her standing beside a pathetic excuse for a man at a party filled with the city's filth. But one look, and the restraint he spent years building completely snaps. Now, the men who used to touch her are disappearing. Her abusive boyfriend is trembling at a name he's too terrified to even put a face to. And every time Lana turns around, she can feel his eyes on her-suffocating, heavy, and completely unhinged. Kaelan doesn't want her heart. He wants to mark every single inch of her body until she belongs to nobody else. Obsession with a man like him doesn't end softly. The Phantom doesn't protect. He consumes. He ruins. He keeps. And Lana is about to find out how dangerous it is to be wanted by a man who never lets go. TW: Obsessive/Stalker Behavior, Extreme Violence & Torture, Somnophilia, Degradation & Praise, Primal Play, Kidnapping, Graphic Murder, SA Flashbacks Dark romance Masked men Smut

I ran away because I couldn't bear the thought of staying with someone who had betrayed me. Kayden Hawkins, my best friend and the guy I thought I would marry, knocked up Amber Smith during our high school graduation, so I fled our small town, I fled the heartbreak and pain. Ten years later, I'm back in town, and now everything has changed.

Can you damage someone beyond repair? Luca plays his role as the loyal underboss. Violent, lethal, flawless. The lapdog, the starboy. On the surface, he maintains his facade of smirks and casual charm, but beneath the mask, thereʼs a profound darkness, a relentless memory of the girl who shattered his heart years ago. Soft, innocent, naive---sheʼs the last thing he needs... yet the only thing heʼs ever wanted. When trouble drags Wren back to New Yorkʼs underworld, she has no choice but to face the past she never outran. She never stopped yearning for the boy who lit up her world seven years ago, the only person who ever made her feel truly alive. Fate throws them back into the same orbit, but can they survive the wreck of their past?

Living on campus with six of her friends, Dove has truly lived up to her college experience. Parties, classes, her small job at the local cat cafe, oh- and discovering she has claustrophobia and haphephobia. Not having many friends in highschool has forced Dove to do things she never thought she'd do in hopes of bringing these new companions closer. Things like staying in an abandoned cabin in the middle of the woods. But what she didn't realize was just cause they look abandoned, doesn't mean they truly are. Any animal or person could be lurking in the woods, hidden, dangerous, and carrying all different sorts of armory. A knife? An axe? A gun? Maybe even a bow and arrow? It just so happens that the knife is a certain someone's favorite toy, and they would love to use it on a young blonde with pretty skin. ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ to every girl who's ever made a bad decision because of love. ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ Ongoing!

BOOK 1 in the Drowning/Bully Standalone Series. WARNING: This book contains intense bullying, explicit scenes, triggering language, violence, and psychological content. I told Caden to cancel his stupid party. He told me, with that infuriating smirk, "Why? Planning to be my snack tonight?" Caden has made my life hell for four years, ever since our parents got married. He's gorgeous, arrogant, and the kind of boy Stanford girls trip over themselves for. Me? I'm the only one who sees right through him. He's a blatant bully, the devil who turned me into a surreptitious one. And now we're stuck sharing the same off-campus apartment for our entire freshman year. Living together means new rules, no boundaries... and a tension I never expected. The closer we get, the harder it becomes to remember why we ever hated each other in the first place- and nothing threatens our pride more than that. *** Step into an adventure of passion, forgiveness, and second chances. This is Caden and Madison's story.

𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝟏 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐘 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 ─────୨ৎ───── 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎 feels invisible. As the daughter of the Royal Academy's football coach, everyone assumes they know her, but no one truly does. Beneath her fake exterior lies a girl drowning in secrets, desperate for someone to see past the facade. Then 𝐀𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐍 '𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐄' 𝐎'𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐑 the academy's new star footballer, steps into her life and starts to notice the cracks in her armour. Connie has his own struggles. With a father who's relentlessly pushing him to become a football star, he's constantly fighting to meet expectations he isn't sure he can fulfill. The last thing he expects and needs is to find himself distracted and drawn to a certain curly haired blonde. ─────୨ৎ───── When I park in front of her house, I speak up before she can say goodbye. "I know you're going through something." The words come out rougher than I intend. "You try to hide it, but I see right through you, Carmen Castro." "Aaron..." Her eyes drop to her hands, her fingers twisting together. "You don't have to tell me anything. But I need you to know that I'm here for you. Whenever you need me. Okay? You can text me, call me, whatever. I'll drop everything." Her eyes flicker up to meet mine. She looks... scared. Not of me. But of something else. "Please?" I add, my voice breaking. I was never one to beg but ever since meeting Carmen, I've been a fucking beggar. She swallows hard and nods her head slowly. "Okay." Then, gives me a weak smile before slipping out of the car. [ 𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 ] #1 mental health #1 addiction #1 awareness #1 academy #1 teen love #1 drugs #1 football #1 sad #1 rehab #2 healing #3 sportsromance

She loved him loudly. He loved her quietly-only when it was convenient. Leah believed two years of love meant security, a future, a place she could finally call hers. Yet, every time it mattered, he chose someone else. A best friend. A familiar comfort. A silence that hurts more than betrayal. This is a story about emotional neglect, unspoken loyalties, and the slow realization that love without priority is a form of loss. It asks a difficult question: How long can you stay where you are never fully chosen?

Sadie Rockwood and Julia Alessi are best friends, both eighteen and finishing up their senior year of high school. They are inseparable and have been for quite some time. Sadie has always yearned for a sense of belonging and unconditional love, something her alcoholic mother could never provide. Julia's family, however, seems to offer just that. But when she especially finds solace and acceptance in Julia's father, an unintentional attraction forms. As the two bond in secrecy, Sadie's issues worsen, and navigating through them with the unavailable man causes a destructive downward spiral that pulls him and the unsuspecting family along for the ride.

Alex Baker, a guarded photography student determined to keep her distance from athletes, has to play a dangerous game of casual passion with the campus's biggest hockey playboy in order to get him out of her system without falling for his charm. ------- Alex Baker is in a catastrophic dry spell, and frankly, she's over it. She knows exactly what she likes, but no guy on campus seems capable of delivering-until she crosses paths with Jaxon Cross. ​Jaxon is Northridge University's hockey golden boy, though his real reputation has absolutely nothing to do with the ice. The rumors about his bedroom skills spread faster than campus gossip, painting him as the ultimate, unforgettable sin. But behind the cocky smirk and the heavy praise is a guy secretly suffocating under the shallow image everyone forces on him. ​Alex detests him on principle. Jaxon is addicted to the fiery, sharp way she looks at him-like he's the worst mistake she could ever make. ​But when Jaxon overhears her brutally venting about her lackluster sex life, he offers her a deal that makes her blood run hot: a strict, no-strings-attached hookup pact. No emotions. No expectations. Just pure, unadulterated pleasure. ​Curiosity wins. But the second Jaxon touches her, the boundaries blur. ​Because Jaxon doesn't just satisfy her body-he wrecks her mind. Between tangled sheets and breathless midnight confessions, he shows her a sweet, protective side no one else gets to see. Suddenly, the player who was only supposed to be a temporary fix is becoming an addiction she can't quit. ​Alex swore this was just a game. Jaxon is ready to change the rules. And now, she has to decide if she's brave enough to risk her heart on the one guy she promised herself she'd never love. This is the second book in the Northridge Series.