A Taxi. A New Job. A Forgotten Enemy. That’s how it started—or re-started to be exact. Valerie Summers, a twenty-two year old full of secrets, just wanted to forget everything bad that’s ever happened in her life, and she was almost successful until He re-entered her life. Christian Reyes is back, but his time he’s looking for answers and Valerie can’t deny the requests of her new boss, right? Valerie is just as stubborn as Christian and adamant to keep her secrets to herself, but as she finds herself in a messy situation, how long will it be until the truth finally comes out? Buckle up your seat belts everyone, it's going to be a bumpy ride because when a naïve introvert and a gorgeous, but stubborn, grudge-holding businessman collide… well let’s just say, it’s a perfect recipe for disaster. And it all began, Once Upon A Taxi…

You've heard of when bad boy meets good girl....but have you heard of when bad girl meets good boy? When Nolan met Danielle he expected nothing. Little did he know this one girl would change his perfect five year plan. She was bad. Sexy and tattooed. She was everything Nolan was not. Nolan was a virgin while she was a sex goddess. He was afraid of needles while she was heavily tattooed. Coming from rich backgrounds Nolan was living life according to his parents. Also coming from a rich background Danielle was living life the way she wanted. Defying the rules. She ignored her socialite mother and did what she wanted when she wanted. She was going to live life with no rules. That was until she met Nolan. She's attracted to the shy cute man, nothing like what she's usually attracted to. He seems to captivate her. He changes the way she thinks. But will she change the way he thinks?

Ariel Lynn Wilson isn't your popular type, she isn't a anybody but then she isn't a nerd. She is just an average high school teen. Her parents are wealthy and she is a good child. Arden Holt is the school's bad ass, he is popular but is only popular by his badness and lack of good work. So what happened? Ariel made a mistake and slept with him. When he finds out he isn't going to want to have anything to do with the baby, but could his mind change, could this baby change him for the better?

Abril has a secret...she's the daughter of the richest man in the county, but because of a childhood incident she decides she can't tell anyone, even her five quirky best friends. But what happens when the secret begins to get harder to keep? Especially when the one person she didn't want to know finds out, and it's not quite the reaction she was expecting from him.

She was promised safety. She found the devil instead. Isadora Bellanti never wanted to be a Moretti bride. But when her father strikes a deal with Dante Moretti- the cold, untouchable heir of Milan's most feared dynasty - she's forced into a marriage that feels more like a sentence than a union. Dante is ruthless. A man whispered about in back alleys and boardrooms alike. To his world, Isadora is just a pawn - something pretty to parade, to keep his enemies guessing. But to Isadora, he's a puzzle she can't stop trying to solve... even as his darkness threatens to consume her. Every promise comes with a cost. Every touch, a warning. And in the Moretti world, love is just another weapon - one that cuts deep enough to ruin them both.

Annabelle first met Eric at his party. She first kissed him during a game at the party. Now? She owes him. Melissa is Anna's little sister, hurt and broken from her boyfriend's betrayal. When Melissa refuses to give "it" up he gets mad. Breaking up with her he spreads rumors around school of her being a slut. Becoming the new school slut has broken her spirit until she can barely make it through the day. Anna's father is a single Dad and she has spent her entire life looking after Melissa, now that she is nearly broken, Anna will do anything to make her better. When Melissa is suspended from getting in a fight, Anna doesn't know what to do. Melissa can't be homeschooled because there is no one to do it and she can't keep going on like this. That's where Eric comes in. He has a proprosition for her. Do what he says for 6 months and he'll get his little brother to get her unsuspended and to protect her for her remaining years of high school. Anna agrees. Will Anna and Eric always be at odds, or at the end of the six months will they never want to be apart again?

Gabriela Romano, is the daughter of Salvador Romano, leader of The Gulf Cartel in Mexico. She's been living a normal life in the United States after her mother divorced her father to keep her away from the dangerous world she grew up in. Four years later, Gabby and her two best friends go on a vacation to Acapulco, Mexico where they meet four, very handsome and dangerous men. One of them is: Santiago Bustamante, new leader of the most powerful cartel in Mexico....The Sinaloa Cartel. Will Gabby let Santiago lure her back to the dangers of the mafia?

Salara Kregan has lived a normal boring life, nothing seems to change except for the day that a stunningly gorgeous british guy walks into the diner she works at. But something about him is completely and utterly infuriatingly wrong but oh so right about him. When she saves his life and finds out that he is the son of one of the most prestigious gangs in L.A. she finds herself caught up in a dangerous situation. To return the favor he hides her away from a rival gang but soon discovers that they are not the only ones he has to protect her from. Now she is forced to live with him in his house as his girlfriend and soon to be fiance. Will they fall for each other? Or will the bounty on her head get her killed before she can even say 'i love you'?

Linette Cyan did not expect to give up her ordinary nineteen year-old life as wedding dowry in an arranged marriage. Engaged to a charismatic and compelling man who seeks rebellion against his powerful father, Linette finds herself plummeting into the same bloodbath of mystery as her vengeful fiancé. She soon discovers that she, too, is a key piece in a dangerous game of greed between rival families. Passion, tragedy, deceit, and murder become common occurrences in the perilous life of the unlikely couple. But how much are they willing to sacrifice for justice to prevail? Will they conquer their inner demons and find closure to a century-long mystery? This series is split into two parts: PART 1 | Tresora Arc : Chapters 1 - 28 PART 2 | Noir Arc : Chapters 29-45 + Epilogue Completed October 2015. ACHIEVEMENTS (thank you lovelies!) : Awarded "One of the Most Read Stories in 2014". #2 in Action. ___ Old description: Recipe for 1 Linette Cyan: 1) Your dad is a notorious Mafia boss' right hand man. 2) Your family has a million dollar debt. 3) You become compensation through engagement to said Mafia boss' son. 4) You have (and are) a key to an ancient treasure vault being hunted down by opposing Mafia families. 5) Become a witness to murder, illegal drug operations, and treason. Repeat. 6) Engage repeatedly in gunfights and be kidnapped and held hostage on numerous occasions. 7) Learn that your best friend from high school is also a mobster. 8) Be able to fit inside a box containing illegal drugs. 9) Have a crazy madman want you dead. 10) Be able to run for your life in heels, and have a tazer with you 24/7. Seriously.

For mature readers does have sex and violence. Pain, betrayal, loss, and love Melanie Renall's is thrown into a world she had never known from the lonely lost one she has lived with here parents for years. Moving around the US as her parents write there lives in different town were no one treats her like a living person but an outsider for being one of the poor. In hopes one night her parents move to a city she always dreamed of to find she is the one moving this time to a boarding school none the less. Only she never makes it to the airport and is taken for a more unexpected purpose that turns her life upside down for a man harder then stone. Will she run at any chance that appears or will she succumb to the devilishly handsome Prince. Is love in the cards for them or will she find herself with a broken heart from his arrogant's? Time will tell as events change there lives forever in a twist of fate. Will the deceit, cover up's, and scandals, they uncover throw them apart by other's or bring the two together in the web of liars that is the Mafia? Love or Death that is the question?