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?

𝐀 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐲 𝐱 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐦 ♡︎ ══════✿✿✿══════ "I...I can't keep quiet...and you know that." I breathlessly whispered, my heart pounding against my ribcage as I felt his hand lift up my skirt from behind and squeeze my butt roughly. He leaned forward so his hot breath was fanning against my ear, his erection pressing right onto my covered ass cheek. "But you need to be quiet, sweetheart. Unless you want everyone in the library to know that you're fucking its owner. I don't think you would appreciate a downfall in your good girl reputation, now would you?" Before I could even register his words in my head, he had ripped my underwear apart and shoved two of his calloused fingers in me. ══════✿✿✿══════ After her parents abandoned her and her siblings 4 years ago, Meli Rose had no time for relationships or hook ups. I mean how could she? She was always busy taking care of her siblings who were nothing but a pain in her ass. Enter Arthur Woods. The hot local librarian who had Meli's ovaries dancing. He was scared of relationships, had lost interest in hook ups, and had no clue how to deal with women. But when his eyes set on a drunken Meli, he was instantly captivated by her. Striking up a friends-with-benefits deal, what they thought was just pure lust towards each other, progressively turned into something more. Something which both of them were craving for. And they wouldn't trade it for the world. ══════✿✿✿══════ THIS BOOK IS A HAPPY ENDING !! STATUS : on-going WRITERZI 2024 ══════✿✿✿══════ RANKINGS #1 in friendswithbenefits out of 2.5k stories #3 in cute out of 1k stories look

{2025 The AMBY Awards QUALIFIER} "I've always been a good girl. But now I wake up wet... moaning a stranger's name... with bruises I can't explain." Gabriella May Carter was raised in scripture and silence, home-schooled by a fire-and-brimstone pastor, taught to fear her body and anything that made it burn. But when strange, erotic dreams begin haunting her nights-dreams of a man with sin on his breath and blood on his tongue-she joins a mission trip to New Orleans to pray the sin away. Instead, she finds him. Flesh and blood. Fangs and silk. Stefan Lazarescu is the ancient mob king of the underworld-dealer of blood, broker of bodies, destroyer of men. But when he sees her step off that missionary bus, modest dress clinging to her thighs in the Louisiana heat, he knows something's wrong. She smells like Heaven. But she tastes like prophecy. Stefan is the key to Gabriella's awakening-and her ruin. She's the one meant to end him. But neither of them can resist what's coming next... A moan. A bite. A war between what's holy and what's damned. God won't save her now. But Stefan might sin with her slow enough to make her beg.

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐒𝐀𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐈𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐎 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐘 *** 𝘼𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙉𝙉𝘼 𝙃𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙎 ***** Silence was always her answer, her salvation, her sweet escape. Until it was no longer there to shield her. Cheated on by her ex boyfriend and losing her older brother on her birthday was something she never had in mind to ever occur in her life, and when they did, she didn't know what to do. Until she's sent across the Earth to someone she doesn't know and an Academy that holds a dark poison that she's adamant to avoid. ~~~ 𝐴𝐿𝐸𝑋 𝐷𝐼𝑋𝑆𝑂𝑁 ***** True love had never once fascinated him- not until her. But just like everyone in his life, she leaves him alone and defenceless. Now, four years later with a reputation of a king that rules with an iron fist and instills fear into all that glance at him, he does what he wants, when he wants, with whoever he wants. Even if it's to forget her. But when she finds her way back into his life, he doesn't know whether his heart or mind are winning the battle he's trying so hard to hide from the world, and it terrifies him. <~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~> They loathe each other. Scars are left on their hearts. Exes try to win them over. One deal changes their whole history and what they stand for. Will they repeat it, or will they rewrite it as it should've been?

When Eleanor Dahl's life is endangered by her drug lord father's greed for power, she is forced to accept help from an elusive, handsome stranger who might just drag her deeper into the underworld. Lie to Me coming February 23. Add this to your library and get notified when it's available for you to read. *** Eleanor Dahl has been desperately trying to escape the clutches of her drug lord father and cut all ties with the underworld. So when her greatest chance at freedom shows up in the form of a masked man from a mafia family, she has no choice but to take his deal--be a double agent for him, then leave his world behind. As her father's greed for power endangers her life and that of her loved ones, she becomes the mafia's pawn and sparks ignite with her masked stranger. With lies piling up and danger lurking around every corner, Eleanor has to decide what matters the most to her. Freedom, loyalty, or an unexpected love that's bound to destroy her.

It started with a nosebleed. One accidental headbutt, one very public disaster, and suddenly Rory Callyns is that girl, the one who almost broke her crush's face. She's quiet, awkward, and definitely not the kind of girl who gets kissed at parties. And then there's Carden Rayne, popular, gorgeous, and the kind of boy people can't help but fall for. So when Rory asks him for help for kissing lessons and he says yes, it's supposed to be harmless. Practice, boost confidence, nothing really real, somewhere between the laughter, the late night talks, and the almosts that start to feel like more, practice stops feeling like pretending.

𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕? 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝟏 (𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄) ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ Jade Grogan, the youngest millionaire in the city among his other two brothers, is nothing but trouble in paradise. With the looks that could kill and have any girl he wanted; he is an arrogant jerk with a past so painful that it still aches inside of him. The charm he holds is inevitable for anyone. His arrogance and ego are nothing but a facade that he shows to the world, just to keep the walls he has built around him. But when it comes to a certain dark-haired therapist, he can't resist breaking those walls by himself. Aurora Monroe, a successful and famous therapist residing in Canada, is beautiful, elegant, and has a shine to her personality. She meets so many people in her daily life who need to be listened to and healed, maintaining her strict professionalism. No one knows about her own demons, which haunt her every day. But when it comes to a certain new patient, she is drawn towards him, no matter how much she denies it. They meet out of pure professional necessity. But little did they know that their fates were connected. ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ → 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 → 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 → 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐌𝐂 → 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐲 → 𝐃𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐎𝐕 #1 in badboyxgoodgirl #3 in forbidden #7 in angst

Rosie Moving to New York was my fresh start, a chance to get away from my disaster of a hometown, and maybe learn how to breathe on my own. Romance? Not on the itinerary. So when I meet a charming, overly confident guy at a bar with golden-blond hair and too many dimples than should be legal, and way too much flirt - I don't expect to see him again. Then I do... on the ice, the very next night. Dylan I've met plenty of girls in bars. Most of them know who I am, Rosie didn't. And maybe that's why I couldn't stop thinking about her. She was introverted and blunt and completely unimpressed with my attempt at a pick up line, which was honestly kind of refreshing. Seeing her in the stands at my game felt like fate. Running into her again afterward? Game on. A sweet, slow-burn hockey rom-com about unlikely connections, quiet confidence, and falling for someone who sees past the spotlight.