They didn't think they'd ever be close to each other again. Jade Carter has spent her entire life building up walls - between herself and the world, between herself and the boy who used to be her best friend. Somewhere between scraped knees, shared summers, and a childhood she barely remembers, Ben Wells became the one person she couldn't stand being around. The past of Jade is unknown... But on her seventeenth birthday, everything changes. A single unexpected moment pushes Ben and Jade back into each other's lives, reopening their wounds they never healed and memories they almost forgot about. What starts as anger and unresolved resentment slowly twists into something fragile. As Jade struggles to make sense of her feelings for the boy she swore she hated, she begins to uncover pieces of her family that were never meant to be found. Secrets about why her childhood feels broken in places she can't remember. Caught between the ghosts of who they used to be and the terrifying reality of who they might become. Jade and Ben have to decide if they will let damage of the past break them or shape them.

Brooke Williams, set appart by her withdrawn, reserved nature, hadn't been the same ever since the sudden death of her sister. The girl was found deceased within the forest next to Kate's house, where was hosted the biggest party ever thrown in the history of this ghastly small town. Although May's passing came to be confirmed as suicide, Brooke sensed right away that something wasn't adding up. She was the closest person to her sister : How come she'd never noticed the signs? On the edge of losing hope, Peter, the handsome barista, put her right back into the spiral ; soon, her doubts would shift into the beginning of a quest for the real answers. And she'd soon uncover that people, especially popular kids, are never who they pretend to be right away. And that, even less when they've got something to hide.

A various and tensions Brutalic Horror stories, where Killings, Gores and Suspense scenarios are there. It may carries a variety of plot twist, and how characters solved each stories.

Book 2 of 4(✨The Valemont Series✨) His hips pressed against mine, deepening the kiss with a slow, deliberate rhythm. I could feel the weight of the cold metal tucked into his pocket brushing against the inside of my thighs and the heat pooling between my legs only growing from the anticipation of what I wanted. "Do it." "Do what, Vipera?" His voice was low, husky, warm breath ghosting over the sheer lace covering my nipples making a sharp gasp escape me. "Use your gun." ___________________________ 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐍𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞. Xavier Romano is the heir to a brutal criminal empire, a weapon shaped by blood, obedience, and revenge. Every step he takes is calculated. Every emotion is a liability. When he's ordered to target Irene Kang; the daughter of the man responsible for his mother's death, he accepts without hesitation. An eye for an eye. A life for a life. Irene Kang lives in the shadow of power she never asked for. A minister's daughter wrapped in elegance and restraint, she has learned to survive through control, silence, and sharp intuition. Love has always felt like something meant for other people until a single night changes everything. Their meeting is accidental. Their connection is not. What begins as surveillance turns into obsession. What should have ended in blood becomes something dangerously intimate. As secrets surface and loyalties fracture, Xavier is forced to choose between the empire he was born to inherit and the woman who makes him feel human for the first time in his life. Irene, caught between truth and betrayal, must decide whether love is worth the cost of everything she thought she knew.

Six years ago, Blanchard Collins packed her bags, boarded a bus to Houston, and never looked back. She left behind her abusive father, the town that never forgave her for speaking her mind, and Rueben Bailey, the boy who broke her heart the night before they were supposed to run away together. Now twenty-four, Blanchard returns home with her five-year-old daughter, Willow, and a dying mother who's asked for one final thing-her presence. But coming home means facing the ghosts she thought she'd buried, including the man she's never truly stopped loving. Rueben "Benny" Bailey did what his family expected. Stayed, took over the farm, and proposed to the girl everyone said was right for him. But when Blanchard walks back into church with a little girl who looks just like him, everything he's built starts to fall apart.

STRANGER THINGS ✔︎ we're so much more than the bad things that happen to us. 1/1 steve harrington x oc seasons 2-5

[𝐌𝐌] 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏 ⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘ 𝐀 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞. Asa Davies is barely keeping his head above water. A single father living in a rundown complex with his nine-year-old son, Maizen, he's desperate to give his boy a better life - even if it means doing things he never imagined. When Jordan Crawford, the wealthy older brother of Asa's best friend, comes back to town, sparks fly - but not the friendly kind. Asa can't stand Jordan's cold, self-assured attitude, and Jordan's own walls make him dislike everyone around him. But when desperation meets opportunity, an unexpected arrangement could be the solution to both their problems... if they can survive each other long enough to make it work.

When seventeen-year-old Elora Hayes leaves Australia and the life she built there, she thinks the hardest part will be missing her boyfriend and best friend. She's wrong. Miami is loud, sun-soaked, and full of people she doesn't know-except one. Ryder Steele, her moody, infuriating, painfully magnetic neighbour, the boy with storms in his eyes and secrets behind his silence. But when a messy party, a devastating text, and one hoodie later unravel everything she thought she knew, Elora's perfect life back home shatters in seconds. Now she's navigating new friendships, complicated feelings, and the reality that the people she trusted most may have betrayed her. And the one boy she never expected-Ryder-might be the only person who knows how to pull her back together. A story about first heartbreaks, new beginnings, found family, and a love that feels like summer thunderstorms and late-night confessions.