What do you do when you've hit your breaking point? When you can't breathe a single breath without falling apart? For Lake Monroe, the answer is to start fresh. To leave everyone and everything behind, including her best friend - the man she's been in love with for years. But how will she handle it when he comes back into her life two years later? Will she keep running? Or will she finally face her darkest hours? 𝟏𝟖+ 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞

She needed a job. He needed a reason to see her again. When Embre Daniels meets Landon Hale, a quiet, guarded CEO who lives behind the scenes, she doesn't expect to ever encounter him again until a job application changed everything. The job is simple. But what unfolds between them isn't. What begins as a professional agreement slowly becomes something neither of them planned: steady, soul-stirring, and impossible to ignore. Their connection is real-but so are the secrets surrounding it. Told like a letter and lived like a memory, Dear Mr. CEO is a beautiful love story that finds its way... even through silence, timing, and unexpected turns.

Two people from completely opposite worlds collide in an odd turn of events. Opposites are said to attract and this is no exception. He was not perfect nor was he a saint. She however was as soft as a flower and as bright as the sun. The paradigm of perfection and he wants her as his queen and not just because of her goddess like features but for her heart and soul that are as sweet as candy. She is a spit fire at first but a sweetheart in the end and she was the Mafia's Queen. ~ Excerpt: She was perfect in his eyes. A ray of sun in a world of dark. The look he was giving her from across the room was the look every girl yearns for from a man. Staring at her he saw his queen...His world. ~ Prequel of The Mafia Saved Me but can be read as a stand alone story!! This is the story of Leo Bandoni's father and mother

Layla was born into the mafia life. Her father is the Don of the Italian mafia, all her life has been filled with crime and the illegal things done behind closed doors. She knew what her purpose was, but when her parents spring an arranged marriage on her on the ripe age of 18, Layla doesn't know what to do. While she knows that there is no way out of it, Layla makes it known that she won't go down without a fight. Her betrothed is none other than Alexander O'Sullivan. Don of the Irish mafia and known to the world as the ruthless killer, who takes no mercy. He is the epitome of playboy and Layla knows this. Can she find it in her heart to love a monster or will it end up in tragedy? Is Alex willing to change his set ways? Will she be able to survive him and his lustful eyes or will she end up getting her heart broken? ***************** WARNING*** this book contains mature content and sexual scenes. 18 years old and older is recommended

(Book 1: Royal Mafia series) Gabriella Merliah Antonio, leader of 'The Royals,' the most powerful and feared Mafia family that rules all over Spain and the United States. With her beauty and fearlessness, she's learned everything she needs to survive. But her life gets turned upside down when she has to face her biggest rival and ex-lover, Anthony Castillo. Anthony Castillo, the feared Mafia Don of 'The Corleone Mafia' in Italy, is all danger, power, and charm-enough to push Gabriella to her limits. Their families have been sworn enemies for generations, and their past relationship has stayed a secret from both sides. When they cross paths again after four years, things quickly spiral out of control, setting off a chain of events that will change everything. As old feelings flare up and bitterness grows, Gabriella and Anthony get tangled in a mess of secrets and intrigue. The truth about their past comes to light, and the hatred between them threatens to tear them apart. With everyone they care about becoming targets, both rival families are forced to join forces. But can they put their differences aside to survive? Or will their families' feud destroy them once and for all?

Alessia Ferrari is the Don of the Italian Mafia. Whip-smart and dangerous, she is a woman in a man's world, surviving against all odds. Born and raised to become a lethal killer, even the ground she walks on bows at her feet. She has it all, until that is, her father gives her hand away in marriage. Ace Hernandez is the boss of the American Mafia. He's a cold cruel hearted monster. He knows the game all too well and does whatever it takes to win and if that means breaking someone, he could do that with his eyes closed. Fate is vicious when the two are forced to marry. Will two monsters find solace in each other's arms or will they kill each other? ---------------------------- "I don't recall signing up for strip poker." She replied. Her full lips frowned softly but her eyes were filled with amusement. She knew she couldn't beat me, not at this game. "Are you quitting? Are you a quitter?" I mocked getting under her skin. Her lips twitched before she pursed them tightly. The blues of her eyes deepened and she threw me a dangerous smirk. She shuffled and pulled off one of her sandals. Fuck. So we're doing this the long way. She raised it in the air, dangling it off her finger before tossing it aside. She raised a brow at me, she challenged me. I knew I got under her skin. Just as I had anticipated. -------------------------- BE AWARE: Trigger warnings: MATURE CONTENT 18+ (SMUT) SWEARING VIOLENCE/GUN VIOLENCE SELF HARM/SUICIDE (REFERENCES) EXPLICIT LANGUAGE REFERENCES TO RAPE SMOKING/ALCOHOL/DRUGS BLOOD/DEATH/GORE ©️ All rights reserved ™️ The Walnut Tree BOOK ONE OF THE MAFIA SERIES

Nobody can forget their first kiss. Even if you were only 6 years old. Especially when the person who kissed you was your older brother's bestfriend. After Blair's father died, she became distant and her brother Blake has become very overprotective over his younger sister. His bestfriend, Aiden, was overprotective too. 10 years later, they're having a normal college life. After a few incidents, Aiden begins to look at Blair under a new perspective. But isn't there an unwritten rule about staying away from your bestfriend's sister?

♣She touched me, and left a reason to exist.♣ ••• This is a work of fiction. All characters and events are imaginary. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Sylvain had a plan, he had it all sorted out. Revenge was the key to his vendetta. The key was to not catch feelings. It was a game until it wasn't. It was fun until feelings got involved. Lust, revenge, love a burning combination. That would pleasure you, break you and tear you apart. In the process of revenge would he let his feelings get a hold on him or will love win? They say accidents happen for a reason, but Diana's had a motive. That night, was the start of a dark road. A destructive road, that meant to cause an accident. That night, she sold herself to him, she was bound to him. She became his sinbound, his hostage. All because of an accident. Or so she thought. Get ready to discover secrets that will break you, haunt you, and tear you apart. © All rights reserved

Shreya Chaudhary An eighteen year girl who believes in love but do not want to feel betrayed by it. She is having everything from money to loving parents. Her life is nearly perfect with almost no close friends left with her. But she never cared about it. When she thought life can not get any better she bumped into the mysterious and arrogant young billionaire Rehan Khurana. Adding to it various secrets of past are hunting her now to destroy her perfect life and forcing her to be with the arrogant billionaire.