𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜é𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. Elizabeth is surviving the only way she can-working as a comfort girl in a saloon in Silver Springs, Montana Territory. It's 1888, she's biracial in a world that sees her as less than human, and the man who owned her just died, leaving her fate in the hands of his family-the most dangerous outlaws in the West. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫. He's 𝙡𝙖𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨. The gun the James gang points at their problems. The ruthless man sent to clean up his dead brother's mess and restore order to the chaos. He's supposed to assess the damage, protect the family's interests, and leave. The only problem? The more time they spend in stolen moments, the harder it becomes to remember she belongs to his family. Not to him. When his corrupt sheriff brother claims Elizabeth as his own, Morgan faces an impossible choice: his family's loyalty or his own code of honor. But in a town where power is everything and loving the wrong person is treason, some things are worth burning down an empire for. 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝟏𝟖𝟖𝟎𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐞.

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.

['Bad Blood' Series Book #2] 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳, 𝘢 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳. Now he's a name I was warned never to speak. 𝐀𝐧𝐝, 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐬-a ruthless kingmaker my father would 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, and he has no idea who I really am. I came to 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙮 the secret that would ruin my family, but the lines blur with every look he gives me-a possessive fire that has nothing to do with my resume. 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺'𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. 𝐇𝐈𝐌 She's a liar. A beautiful, infuriating ghost from a past a bullet stole from me. My mind doesn't know her, but my body remembers everything. She's a weapon, and she's been pointed directly at my head. She thinks she's playing me, but I see the 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in her eyes. She came here to 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝘁 for secrets. She has no idea she's the one being 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨.

"Ellis-" I squeak, heat radiating from my cheeks as he bends me over the back of his pristine couch. It's way too late at night, and I'm praying Beth doesn't wake up to find us here. Her best friend and her estranged father. "You wanna avoid me in my own house after weeks of begging to ride my cock and stay tied up in my bed? Fine." His lips fan slightly warm air across the back of my neck while his calloused hands firmly reclaim what I've been purposely withholding. My waist, my ass, pulling up my skirt. "Tell me how you'd like to be punished, Darling. Beg. If you're lucky, I won't ignore your request like you've ignored me." ⊹⋆₊🎀₊⋆⊹ Is your best friend asking you to move to Boston for the summer so she can reconnect with her estranged, ex-military sniper father? When you get there, is her father six-foot-five and deliciously aged? Is he all broad muscle and sweaty morning jogs? Does he make edits in the margins of your first draft manuscript... about BDSM? If you answered yes, you may be Darling Fields.

Evelyn Rose seemingly has it all. From the outside, she appears to be a radiant young woman of only 22, yet behind her youthful image lies over seventy years of life and experience. As the owner of multiple businesses, a generous benefactor to numerous charities, and an influential figure in shaping government legislation, Evelyn's achievements are awe-inspiring. However, beneath her accomplishments lies a harsh truth: her journey to success has come at a profound personal cost. Despite her desires and dreams, she has discovered that possessing everything can lead to a lonely existence. ⋆♱-'🍷⁠*⁠.⁠✧ Frey Walsh was born into wealth, dreaming of nothing more than cruising on his vintage Harley and living a carefree life. But when his girlfriend urges him to step outside his comfort zone, he reluctantly takes a job at the VH Lounge-a new bar in town where humans and vampires coexist. There, he encounters Evelyn, a stunning, commanding, and fiercely independent vampire who turns his world upside down. Despite warnings from his family and girlfriend about the dangers of getting involved with the bloodsucking creatures, he finds himself drawn deeper into their mysterious world. As Frey learns more about Evelyn, he faces a choice about how far he's willing to go and what he might risk along the way.

𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀, 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗲. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱. 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂. 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙘'𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨. With her thirtieth birthday looming, no romantic prospects, and a dream of motherhood slipping away, she's down to one last, desperate option: a decade-old pact made with her estranged childhood friend, Silas Beckett. The problem? Silas is now a superstar baseball player with a playboy reputation, and their friendship is a distant memory. Still, he agrees to their clinical, business-like plan: have a baby through fertility treatments, co-parent as best friends, and keep their hearts strictly out of the equation. But through sterile waiting rooms and late-night hormone shots, the old intimacy that once defined them rekindles into something deeper and far more dangerous. As the line between platonic and passionate blurs, their carefully constructed plan begins to fail in more ways than one. When they're left with nothing but failed treatments and inconvenient feelings, they have to face the fact that what they really want might not be a baby, but each other. But is a love born from a broken contract enough to build a new dream on?

Book #1 --𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐛𝐚𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 is a survivor. A single mother and a tattoo artist to dangerous men, she exists on the fringes of the criminal underworld, belonging to no one. Her life is her own. Until the night 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 walks in. As the newly crowned Don of the Lucchese crime family, Andrea sees the world in assets and liabilities. After a bloody display of power leaves Charlie as a loose end, he claims her shop-and her-as his property. She's a reckless, infuriating complication he can't afford, and a temptation he refuses to resist. 𝐇𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭. He has no idea that Charlie is the secret key to a war between the mafia and the cartels, with a lineage more 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 than his own. As his 𝓸𝓫𝓼𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷 deepens, so does the 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧.Every touch is a battle for control, every kiss a promise of 𝖗𝖚𝖎𝖓. ℑ𝔫 𝔞 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔟𝔞𝔡 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔞𝔩 𝔟𝔞𝔯𝔤𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔰, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝖉𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔫 𝔟𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝕬𝖓𝖉𝖗𝖊𝖆 𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖘𝖊'𝖘 𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖒𝖞 𝔦𝔰 𝔟𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝖇𝖚𝖗𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 𝖉𝖔𝖜𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖙𝖊𝖈𝖙.

❛❛I foresee terrible trouble, and I stay here just the same.❞ 「TW: Dark themes. Death, SH, abuse, addiction, age gap, childhood trauma.」 ❛❛I wonder what it'd feel like if you cleaned up the mess I just made with your mouth, Ash. I've pretty much been a dripping, desperate mess for you since I was sixteen. You knew that though, right?❞ 「You're stubborn as hell and you hate confrontation and you pretend things don't hurt when they do. But you saved me. Not because I deserved it. Just because you couldn't stand the idea of me drowning. You're a good person, Jules.」

"You keep looking at me like you don't want me, Adeline," Will murmurs, his lips brushing against my jaw while hand slides higher on my bare thigh, slow and deliberate. "But your body says otherwise." My breath gets caught in my throat and my brain screams to say something, anything-but my lips won't move. "I..." I begin to say, but the words die before they even leave my lips the second his mouth touches my neck. ⊹₊⟡⋆ Adeline Serrano has a reputation to protect. Straight A's, flawless record, and the badge of honor that comes with being the principal's daughter. At Willow Creek Preparatory she's everything a good girl should be: polished, respected, and untouchable. But one drunken summer night changed everything. One kiss-hot, messy, absolutely forbidden-with the last person she should've been caught dead with. Will Carter. They don't call him the prince of chaos for nothing. The mayor's rebellious son. All smirks, bruised knuckles, and bad decision. Practically a walking scandal. Recently suspended for smoking with someone's daughter in the boys' bathroom. Now he's back- with a bruised jaw, a vendetta, and nothing to lose. So when Will decides to turn the school's poster girl into his newest distraction, Adeline's carefully built world begins to unravel. Secrets stir, bets are made, lessons are taught, truths unravel, and lines blur between hate and desire. She's pretending it never happened, he's planning to make sure she never forgets. Because some girls break rules. And the best ones? They shatter them.