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𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐞𝐬 by rosecinc
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"𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨𝐲." ~ Marriage was never for love-it was for legacy. A strategy. A performance. And for the Lombardis and the Morettis, it was the most calculated, showstopping alliance of the century. Roman Moretti, Don of the La Cosa Nostra, and Angeline Lombardi, only daughter of the French-Italian Mafia Capo, had been betrothed since her birth --matched to unite two empires under one crown. Hidden from the world, Angeline was raised to be the perfect wife. Groomed. Silenced. Controlled. She learned early that one misstep would strip her of everything-including her name. Everyone's first mistake? They underestimated her. Though no one had ever seen her, the world assumed the Lombardi Princess was a polished doll. Quiet. Disposable. Roman saw the marriage as a formality-another calculated step toward total dominance. He had no plans to love her. No plans to live with her. Just a wife on paper, tucked away from him elsewhere, summoned when needed for appearances. But everything changed the moment he saw her walking down the aisle. She was perfection. Untouchable. She would be his ruin, his weakness, his obsession, his motivation. His everything. But what if that had been her plan all along? Not everything buried stays dead. Not every identity is what it seems. In a world where saints become monsters and monsters are worshipped like gods, Angeline must decide what's worth saving: her bloodline, her love, or herself. ~ -HEA -18+ -Romance/mystery/thriller -No Cheating/OWD -DARK ROMANCE "OMYGOSH. This book was immaculate. I could NOT put it down at all. Every chapter was AMAZING, the writing is shakespears work and each chapter made me laugh, smile, cry so much and this whole thing was a rollercoaster of emotions." -@Sunfloweraate8
✓ 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞-𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 | 𝟏𝟖+ by melancholija0
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𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘹-𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘢 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 ❝𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐭, 𝐒𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐲,❞ 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠. ❝𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡, 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠... ❞ 2 part of the 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 series (although it can 100% be read as a 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝-𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞) 𝙸𝚗 𝚊 𝚏𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢'𝚛𝚎 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘭 - 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝗦𝗬𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘 𝗥𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗬 - a bitter and rough 18-year-old girl with no past, fighting for a future she will never get. ᴄʟᴀʏ ᴅᴀᴠɪꜱ - 36-year-old undercover FBI agent who has been working on the witness program for ten years. The destinies of two completely different people collide in a remote corner of northern Great Britain, where Sybille is running away from responsibility, while Clay looks at the girl and sees only a round sum of money. Irritable, insufferable, and stubborn, Sybille and Clay cannot find common ground in a remote log cabin. However, how long can two people who do not tolerate each other's friendship stay apart, locked inside a remote log cabin? Clay, placed in a compromising position, asks himself only one thing: is it worth being the 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 for the one who condemned herself to destruction? ⚠︎AGE-GAP ROMANCE [PSYCHOPATH x FBI AGENT] | ⚠︎HIGHLY MATURE CONTENT🌶🌶
The Girl I Stalk ✓ by diebabyxo
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"Tell me about Luna Salvatore." In a police interrogation, Orion is forced to recall the story of the girl he believed saved him - the girl he followed, watched, and loved, until the truth began to surface.
Dangerous Games | 18+ by YourTemptationx
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"You're mine to fuck," Kai's voice was dark, demanding, and it sends a shiver down my spine. "You're mine to own." His hand grips my wrist, pulling me closer, as though he could bend me to his will with just a touch. "You're mine to ruin." His voice drops to a low grunt, as if he's already claiming every part of me, knowing the damage he's about to cause to my heart. ♥︎ Daria Mikhailova has kept her heart locked away at Kingston Academy, a ruthless ice queen who refuses to let anyone get close. But Kai Lockhart, the school's notorious player and heir to the Kingston Empire, is determined to bring her down. He's used to winning, used to breaking girls hearts, used to taking what he wants, but Daria isn't like the others. Their chemistry is undeniable, but with every touch and every glance, a dangerous game unfolds. The stakes? Their hearts.
𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢 - 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 | 𝟏𝟖+ by lunarloverz
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╰┈➤ 𝑯𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌. ── ☾ 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒍 sees others as an interference in his life, making his interest in having any social interaction with humans at the bottom of his schedule. Until he met Carson, that is. Killian never planned to be involved with someone like Carson. He hates everything about her, and more importantly, he hates that she gets in the way of his plans. But...maybe a change of plans isn't so bad? ☼ 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒓 thinks that getting into Columbia University was nothing short of a miracle for her. But she's survived for three years just fine. Now in her senior year, she's paired up for an assignment with a man who's the exact opposite of her. Cold, uninterested, and a stickler for his own rules. Carson is used to capturing the hearts of whomever she meets, but her partner becomes a new challenge that will be hard to beat. ── The Sun and Moon are planets that are never supposed to meet. Complete opposites, and yet, the Sun tends to pull the Moon along with its every move. Now that the Sun has seen that the Moon can be brighter with just a little bit of encouragement, the Sun takes on the quest of making the Moon its friend.
Rivals (#3) by linaawritess
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{𝘉𝘖𝘖𝘒 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘌𝘌 𝘖𝘍 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘓𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘓𝘌𝘚𝘚 𝘛𝘙𝘐𝘓𝘖𝘎𝘠 } Hudson Tempest's an enigma nobody's capable of solving. Darkness has been moulded into his skin, running through him as easily as his blood. More than he's ever allowed anyone to see. Swept up into a world of sin and deviance, Hudson Tempest was broken as a boy and shattered several times over the course of his life. Made to be cruel and forced into a pool of self-destruction, a life that will only ruin him if it continues. Death has been the only thing in sight to him, for a long time. But how hard it is to save someone, who wants to let themselves drown. Val Emerson's the embodiment of light. A heart that outpours warmth like she was made to love, from the very moment she was born. The sunny side up sort of girl with an affinity for the sea, and smiles. When the cruelest of them all and the happiest of them all collide. When her hatred turns into a desperate desire to save the most broken of them all, far past salvation. When his hatred morphs into something he promised not to feel. Opposites. Dark, to light. Whole, and broken. Rivals, in all they do. Until somewhere along the way, they find themselves falling into each other's arms. Somehow, into each other's clashing hearts. <3
Misfits (#2) by linaawritess
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{𝘉𝘖𝘖𝘒 𝘛𝘞𝘖 𝘖𝘍 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘓𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘓𝘌𝘚𝘚 𝘛𝘙𝘐𝘓𝘖𝘎𝘠} The perfect picture of elegance. It's all Violet Amory's known - the foundation of the image she must preserve. For her, for them. Raised in a distinguished family and moulded to bear modest smiles and tender caresses, the grace she's renowned for is what she's come to accept. Stifling this innate need that nobody in her worlds seems to hold: for more. For thrill and the world beyond. Contained within the weight of reputation and hiding the hurt that lingers, the bruises she masks. Until him. The picture of wildness and impulse, with a devious grin she can't seem to stop herself from falling towards. And a heart all too enticing, Everest and Violet battling the world around them that ordains them to be apart. Misfits, in their own separate worlds. all my love <3
Morphine (Complete) by bobrossofwriting
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Where predator becomes prey. Love can bloom like a flower on a late summer evening; spread to full bloom in those last vibrant rays of sun. But for a rose to be left to rot in the shade and darkness, to be left soiled with old toxins, to have nothing but thorns?--that, too, is love. And how twisted that love could be. CAN BE READ AS STANDALONE MATURE UNEDITED COMPLETE #1 in olderman #1 in conquest #1 in disillusion #1 in agegap #1 in brothersgirlfriend #1 in morphine #10 in woman DARK romance
𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 | 𝟏𝟖+ by marcellacrist
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𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥'𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐨'𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝'𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. Book One: Enticement Book Two: Tantalization explicit smut in my very dark books, be aware of what you're reading.
NEXUM (18+) by xplicitlyvenus
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𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐌'𝐒 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐍 𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱 She's the city's top model. Seen by everyone. Known by no one. She survives by keeping her past sealed tight- every bruise, every secret, every ugly truth locked behind elegance and restraint. Her life is a performance, and she never misses a step. Until she slips... ...and falls straight into the orbit of the man she was taught to despise most. One reckless act- done under the guise of a false persona- sets something irreversible in motion. A line is crossed. A fire is sparked. And the illusion of distance between them shatters. That night leaves her with a hangover, and a realization she can't escape. You don't have to die to go to hell. Some men bring it right to you. He is power without conscience. A presence felt more than seen. The devil everyone fears. She is a mess dressed in designer. A voice that refuses to be silenced. The angel everyone envies. Logic says they should never align. That their worlds, their loyalties, and their sins are fundamentally opposed. Nexum says there couldn't be a better fit. 𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 @xplicitlyvenus 2025, all rights reserved