𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐆, 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐈𝐓 𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐒 〡〡〡 𝐸𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑎 𝑉𝑜𝑠𝑠 ~~~ Trauma, quiet rage, survival. That was all she knew. When the vampire race turned against the humans and began to go feral, many humans scattered into hiding... and barely any survived. Those found dead stayed dead- or were turned. Those found alive... they were slaves to the Royals. Mistreated. Shunned. Tortured. Ordered around. Barely anything to survive off. It was a fate worse than death. And, like many other societies, there were rules. Break them, and they break your soul from the inside out. She vowed to never be found by a vampire, especially a Royal. They had no heart, no kindness, nothing but possession and cruelty in their black veins. And she'd rather die than serve them. 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑒 ~~~ Arrogance, control, power. That was all he knew. All he could know. Vampires had to obey The Veil System. Any who broke it would suffer a fate worse than burning alive. And Malachi? He was the king of it. Royals were the highest rank you could ever be in vampire society, and if chosen, you command all and possess everything. Lands, finances, 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴. But even they had a rule to obey: 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙. For centuries, everything had been going smoothly under Malachi's reign. Vampires got their snacks and hard workers, humans had enough to survive. Easy, right? He thought so too... until one human is forced to pay a debt and throws the society off balance, for the both of them.

"One unfinished night... now we're forever tethered." When a broke single mother breaks her arrangement with a ruthless finance CEO, she doesn't walk away clean; she walks straight into more debt she can't escape... and a man she can't forget. ... Sadie Hart is a young single mother barely holding her life together. Drowning in responsibility and desperation, she takes on any work she can find to keep her five-year-old daughter fed and safe. She has no time for love, no space for weakness, and certainly no choice but to keep going until her own body gives out. Elias Blackwood is a ruthless and powerful finance CEO famously known for his control, discipline, and emotional detachment. Fresh out of a divorce he refuses to speak about, he has rebuilt his life around one principle: nothing gets to him anymore...until Sadie Hart does. ... What started as a simple arrangement quickly spirals into something neither of them intended to cross, as Elias pulls her into a world she's never known. Will she stay the woman she was... or become someone else entirely?

Aspen Gautier was a 25 year old lawyer, with a rich family background, who has recently graduated from Harward with her degree. As a few months later she had been moved to a new department, which was the divorce. Aspen had many clients on a day to day basis, so she had a really great income of money in her bank account from how many of her cases she had led to victory for her clients. Lorenzo Morelli was a 27 year old "bussiness" man, as he was the CEO of Dolce Vita Enterprises, which was founded by the Morelli family back in 1929. The company for strangers is known for their well made, precise works, such as watches and cars. But in reality, it was the headquaters of the Mafia. But one day, Dolce Vita Enterprises according to Jude Morelli, was on the near edge of bankrupcy. In order to gather back the money the enemies of the Morellis - The Salvatores - had taken from them, Jude Morellin had set up a marriage between Aspen and his son, Lorenzo. But, what no one expected was the amount danger this meant..

Eighteen-year-old Isolde has never known safety. Orphaned, broke, and trapped under her aunt's care, she spends her days serving lattes at a posh café-until a mysterious perfume arrives at her doorstep. Its sender? Unknown to her but let me tell you it's Dante Valencourt, a billionaire with mafia ties, a serpent's charm, and a sadistic obsession with owning what he desires. When Dante's "gifts" turn sinister-surveillance, threats, and a trail of bodies Isolde flees. But running from a man who controls cities is a death wish. Dante drags her into his glittering underworld, where pain and pleasure blur, and obsession wears the mask of love. Will Isolde survive his twisted devotion... or surrender to the darkness he promises? 🔥 For fans of Pepper Winters and J.T. Geissinger may love this and it's dark romance at its most addictive. No princes here... just a villain who'll ruin you. This anti-hero is very sadistic, possessive, obsessive and controlling freak....so please don't expect anything vanilla and lovey lovey content here. Tropes: ✔️ Morally Black Mafia Antihero ✔️ Kidnapped/Forced Proximity ✔️ "Touch Her and Die" Vibes ✔️ Twisted Possession vs. Fragile Innocence ✔️ All the dark, spicy, morally black tension Warning: This book is not a fairytale. Proceed if you dare. This book contains abusive content very dark and gore, and I don't support them.

A ballet dancer with a lethal secret becomes rivals with a priest who just won't let her sin in peace. Tropes: -enemies to...will they be lovers? Oppositional world views -slow-burn obsession -priest with vows -forbidden romance -faith vs lust -role reversals (MMC is a virgin) -gothic horror -blood play? We'll see *TRIGGER WARNING* -Will include explicit smut. Capitol E -Religious themes / the occult. If you feel defensive over your religion, you may get offended. Of course this is NOT my intention, but I'm Catholic and I like to dabble in the unknown / question things. -mentions of s*x work -not an example of an entirely healthy relationship, as it is a darker romance, but there is NO ABUSE INVOLVED EWWWW LETS NOT ROMANTICIZE THAT!!!

They're Off Limits Reading Event 😈 They know they shouldn't. They're going to anyway. Forced proximity, messy boundaries, and stories that don't hold back. 📚 Read from the They're Off Limits Reading List 🏆 30 mins → 30 Coins 🏆 90 mins → 90 Coins 🏆 150 mins → 150 Coins 📅 May 11 - 17 Stay for the tension. Leave with Coins. Completed • First Draft - not edited. || "You gonna sit there all night?" Luka glances at me, smirking. I glare back. "I was enjoying the last few seconds of peace before having to spend an evening pretending to like you." "That's funny," he says, unbuckling his seatbelt. "Why?" I snap. "Because I was thinking the same thing." || The rules? Easy enough. 1. Pretend to be the perfect couple. 2. Keep it professional. 3. And whatever you do, don't. catch. feelings. Simple, right? Sofia Calloway never planned on going viral for throwing a drink in Luka Mikhaylov's face. But one video, one pissed-off hockey star, and one furious university later... she's suddenly stuck in a fake relationship with the guy she can't stand. He needs to clean up his image before the NHL draft. She needs the free tuition that comes with the deal. All they have to do is smile for the cameras, hold hands at the games, and act like they don't want to strangle each other. Then come the late-night arguments that last too long. The stolen glances that feel too dangerous. The moment where "pretend" starts looking way too real. Because when you break the rules, someone's bound to lose. And this time, it might be both of them.

Y/n is just a girl. An author in New York with a secret crush on a singer, PLVTINUM. Will she reach the star?

When world class tennis player Flynn Cooper's injury puts his future on the line, the last woman he expects to save his career is Sky Hart, the ex who married his rival. Working together again means facing everything they lost...and everything they still want. *** Physiotherapist Sky Hart knows better than to let the past interfere with her work-until her newest patient makes that impossible. Flynn Cooper is now one of the world's top tennis players. He's also the ex she never got over, the boy she loved, the man she lost, and the one person she never expected to see again after she shattered his heart by marrying his rival. Their reunion reignites everything: the tension, the electric chemistry, and the unthinkable hurt they buried years ago. Every session feels like a collision with a past neither of them has truly moved on from. With Flynn's comeback resting in Sky's hands, staying professional is the one rule they can't afford to break. But love doesn't follow the rules, and this time, the real match isn't on the court-it's against their own hearts.

3 Days SF Thriller For struggling filmmaker Andie McKenna, life could be better. Her fledgling film company is on the rocks. She's seventy-two hours away from being kicked out of her rent-by-the-week shoe box of an apartment in the dodgiest part of San Francisco, and her marriage is on life support. And if things couldn't get worse, she receives a cryptic telegram from the Mexican orphanage where she grew up: "Come quick, your father is dying." Interesting, since she's an orphan. Andie rushes to the orphanage where she grew up to find Father Pakal Ramirez, the priest who raised her, alive and well. He's going into the jungle after a lethal parasite, and he wants to see her one last time in case he doesn't return. When Andie is accidentally exposed to the parasite, Pakal draws her blood and gives her an anti-parasitic. She reacts to the medication and passes out. When she wakes, Pakal is gone. Furious beyond words, Andie returns to San Francisco to find the Bay Area plunged into chaos. Something fell from the sky and crashed north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Something not made by humans. And then there's the frozen, long-forgotten vial of blood, padlocked in a metal box and buried in the orphanage's freezer. Blood that will impact Andie's life irrevocably and shatter the illusion that we are alone in the universe.

"He took my life. I took his control." When a nightclub owner is kidnapped by Chicago's most powerful Italian mafia don, captivity turns into a dangerous test of will, desire, survival, and maybe a little bit of love. ... Luciana Moretti built her empire in neon lights and loud music; not blood and violence. When she's kidnapped from her own nightclub and forced into a marriage with Chicago's most feared mafia don, she becomes a prisoner in a world ruled by his power and obsession. But Luciana was never meant to be owned, and she will escape no matter the cost. Salvatore Valenti doesn't chase. He takes. As Chicago's most powerful Italian mafia don, he's used to being feared, obeyed, and desired. But the woman who owns his favourite nightclub never even looked at him and that was her biggest mistake. He saw her that night he and decided she belonged to him. Marriage isn't a proposal to him. It's a sentence. ... But in a marriage with undeniable fire between them, is Luciana's real danger being trapped with him or falling for him? *** Top rankings: #1 in enemiestolovers #1 in mafialove #1 in betrayal #1 in eroticromance #1 in obsession #1 in possessive #2 in romance #2 in forcedmarriage #3 in mafia #3 in darkromance