Dahlia Pickett, a 24 year old dime, had a familiar, traumatic experience at work as she is a bartender. She calls up her friend, ex-coworker Carly and pleads to go to a club and dance her pain off. Carly ends up hooking up with a girl, leaving Dahlia alone. Walking home she peers into an alleyway where a man was beating another to a pulp, her body frozen, not because of a possible murder, in reality she could care less but he sees she saw what he'd done. She was scared for herself. With her heart racing how would this man be involved with the rest of her life knowing she witnessed his crime?

TW!!! Stalking! Obsession! Toxic! But all consensual! After Blade served 6 years for 2 charges, aggravated assault, and battery. Getting out at 25 for "good behavior" landed him at an old pub he used to go to. Spotting a sweet blonde, he's curious with who she's with and why she was... too nice for her own good. Even the innocent angels are slightly tainted. But this one is oblivious. This was the first encounter of many to come. How will this criminal slide in the heart of the innocent? Or will she become as tainted as he?

Travis Swanson loved playing the guitar. He'd been doing it since he was a child, he loved acoustic for a slow and romantic feel, he loved electric when he craved the loud sound that tuned his muted heart. He was studying music, but he needed to pump out his general education credits which he wasn't so successful with. So he signs up for a tutor to help him, specifically in literature. Her name was Hailey Aspen. Bookworm. Kind. And everything Travis was curious about. How will this cheesy predicament work out?

"Stop apologising." So I did. Then I apologised for stopping. I'm the girl who eats lunch alone and tells herself she chose it. A girl who's never been kissed, who hides behind books and oversized jumpers and a smile that says please don't look at me. Malakai Vashko looks at me anyway. Six foot seven, Russian, with knuckles that never heal and eyes the colour of something cold and far away. He fights men twice his size for money and walks out of rooms without explaining himself to anyone, and his enemies have learned not to come for him. They come for the people standing next to him instead. He told me he didn't need a friend, and to stop looking at him like he might be one. I should have listened. But I'd already caught him trying to buy flowers for someone who couldn't receive them anymore, and something in me understood him before my brain caught up. He hides with silence and fists. I hide with silence and books. I didn't fix him and he didn't save me, but the night I grabbed an underground boxer by the hoodie outside a corner shop and told him to stop, something started that neither of us knew how to end. "I don't do this," he told me. "I don't let people in." He still doesn't smile. But he stayed. ------------------ ⚠️ Mature themes: violence, dark content. No explicit sexual content.

Clara hasn't spoken a word since she was four years old. When her parents decide to spend their later years in a small town, she has no choice but to follow - back into a house full of strangers, noise, and people who expect things from her she doesn't know how to give. She retreats to her room, her books, and the dark, empty bath where everything feels controlled again. Then there's Stas. Twenty-five, easy-going, embedded in every corner of the town - the kind of person Clara has spent her whole life avoiding. He's only there to fix the pipes. He's not supposed to notice the girl watching him through a cracked door. He's definitely not supposed to be the reason she finally speaks. But some things can't stay unsaid forever.

"You're here," she murmured, voice steady. "Tell me two things you can see." His throat worked. "The tub," he managed, voice rough. "You." "Good," she said. "Now, two things you can hear." "The shower," he exhaled. "Your voice." "Two things you can feel." "The water." His grip tightened on her hand. "You." "That's good," she whispered, a small smile tugging at her lips. Sawyer Jones lives in a world of chaos-underground fights, illegal races, and the constant war inside his own head. His autism makes the world too loud, too bright, too much. Violence is the only thing that quiets the noise. Until Lia. Soft-spoken but relentless, she meets him in the tub in a party and refuses to leave. She steadies him when the rage takes over, pulls him back when he's drowning. But Sawyer knows better than to believe in peace. In his world, nothing good lasts. And the deeper Lia gets, the more he realizes-he might be her greatest danger yet. PLS GIVE IT A TRY 🌸🌸

Cameron Azrael, 5'9 dark brunette hair and green eyes. Majoring in political science and a figure skater at Michigan University and working for everything she's wanted, during her senior year her uncle the coach of the hockey team asks her if she would be able to help out the team with her friends by her side. Cameron is strong headed isn't scared to speak her mind and doesn't trust easy due to what has happened in her past. She's worked hard for everything her entire life and won't stop until she becomes a lawyer. Nate Pierce, 6'5 brunette hair and grey eyes. The captain of the hockey team and planning on playing in the NHL after graduation. But when Cameron shows up at his door step with her friends and boxes he is confused but he was soon reminded that they were moving in because they were going to help with the team. But he does not believe the team needs help. Nate went through a loss of someone he loved which made him the person he is today cold, not easy going and doesn't trust fast. But he's also the star hockey captain. Will they both continue to dislike each other or find safety in one another?

Arabella never meant to get close to someone like him. Warren is reckless, unreadable, and surrounded by rumors that make people run. But the more she's warned to stay away, the more she wants to know why he hides behind those walls...and why he can't seem to stay away from her either. ────୨ৎ──── Warren Reid is a name everyone in town knows, and not for good reasons. He left a student unconscious before disappearing into juvie, and now that he's back, the rumors are worse than ever. With a past that whispers warnings and a reputation that silences rooms, Warren is used to being feared, not understood. Emotions are weaknesses in his world, and vulnerability has never been an option. Until her. Arabella Winters is the picture of perfection and the last girl anyone would expect to cross paths with someone like Warren. Smart, sweet, and sheltered, she follows every rule her parents set, never once stepping out of line. But one knock on Warren's door throws her into his world, and nothing is the same after that. Everyone says he's trouble, but Arabella doesn't see the monster they all fear. She sees someone broken, someone hiding wounds no one else bothers to look for. What starts as innocent curiosity turns into something neither of them can ignore. She's drawn to the shadows he hides in, and he can't stay away from the light she doesn't even know she carries. Now Arabella has to ask herself: is she helping Warren escape the darkness...or is she just letting it swallow her too? (EXPECT CRINGE AND CLICHES!!) (UNEDITED)

I always knew my future wasn't mine to choose, but I never expected the trap to spring so soon. Handed over to a powerful stranger in an arranged marriage, my biggest fear isn't just the man I'm bound to-it's losing myself entirely. I refuse to become a mindless accessory, a quiet shadow who obeys a husband's rules just to fit into his world. They expect a docile bride. They expect me to play my part. They're dead wrong. I might be terrified, but I'm not broken. If he thinks he's buying a submissive housewife, he's about to learn exactly what happens when you try to cage someone who is ready to fight for her freedom.