𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 is a text book "good girl", or at least she tries to be while ignoring all the messed up thoughts wracking her brain. To help fade the sounds of her impulsive thoughts and anxiety, she takes photos and writes on her blog about whatever has currently piqued her interest. Her current favorite being the hottest rock band at the moment, Exit Light. 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐀𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 is the controversial bassist and songwriter for his band, Exit Light. His violent tendencies and twisted past resurface causing his management to doubt him and his fans to as well. When everyone turns on him, he can't help but find solace in the one thing that seemed to stay the same. Their connection is messy, nerve wracking, and confusing. But loves never easy, is it?

𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 explores the quiet helplessness of loving someone you can't save from themselves, even when you're just as lost. »» - ❦ - «« 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐳𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚 has learned to keep going long before she was ready to. She moves through life with a quiet kind of control, one that doesn't come naturally. She doesn't expect anyone to notice her. He does. He's rough where she isn't, guarded in ways that she recognizes without needing an explanation. Everything about him should've made her step away. But she never did. She stayed to see past his hard surface and understand the words he doesn't say. However, the longer she stayed, the more she noticed the patterns unraveling. It felt too familiar after all. Her father had lost the same fight he was still in. The kind of fight that consumes everything and everyone around it. She wonders if she's holding onto something that was never meant to last. 𝐑𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐳𝐨𝐯 has worn himself down by everything he's tried to outrun. After so long, numbness is the only thing that feels consistent and familiar. It's something he could slip into without thinking. He leaned on substances like a shield. After so long, he's gotten used to shutting everything out. But, she doesn't stay out. She isn't loud, but she's impossible to ignore. Her quiet steadiness unsettles him more than any high. Without meaning to, she shows him what he's spent his life denying. For a while, he allows himself to believe he could be different. But change doesn't come easy. He falls back into what he knows best.

I hate him. I hate how smug he looks, how carefree he seems, and how bothered he makes me feel. I loathe him. But you know what they say, right? There's a thin line between love and hate.

Florbela Santos. After the sudden death of her parents, Florbela and her older brother leave their life in Canada behind and moves to the States to live with their parents' close friend. Everything about the move feels unfamiliar; the house, the school, and the people. Then she's assigned to be the lab partner of the school's infamous bad boy for the entire year. For some reason, no matter where she goes, the two always seem to end up together. The more time she spends around him, the more she realizes there's something broken beneath his reputation; unaware that he only got close to her for all the wrong reasons. Nikolai Pavlov. When people hear his name they think of the typical bad boy that was cold, intimidating, and impossible to get close to. But two months ago something happened that changed him in ways no one understands. While trying to carry the weight of a secret that nearly destroyed him, Nikolai is also watching his life fall apart at home as his mother recovers from a devastating stroke. He pushes everyone away, convinced that no one could possibly understand what he's going through. But somehow Florbela slips past the walls he's built-even though that was never part of the plan. ◾◾◾ WARNING- This story contains violence, strong language, mentions of rape, sexual assault, and/or other mature themes. Read at your own risk. 🖤

⋅₊‧ made by ; 𝐇𝐇𝐔𝐄𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒𝐒. ₊⊹ bwwm.! ᶜᵒⁿᵗᵉᵐᵖᵒʳᵃʳʸ ʳᵒᵐᵃⁿᶜᵉ- ᵈᵃʳᵏ ʳᵒᵐᵃⁿᶜᵉ & ʸᵒᵘⁿᵍ ᵃᵈᵘˡᵗ . . . . . : 𐙚 ˚ ! . -ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- 𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐡 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲. 𝐖𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 it was at home where her parents cared and showered her with love or at school where everyone admired her, Haylie seems to have the perfect live. But under that perfect facade was a small fragile girl, living in a happy house, yearning for some love and affection. After all every picture perfect family had a little secret, right? 𝐁𝐮𝐭 what happens when three guys enter her life? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 happens if they don't get along? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 happens if they do get along? 𝐈 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤. All rights reserved! Please do not copy this story in any type of way or form I came up with this myself and I will literally sue if I have to!

Amrielle Sharpe has spent her entire life preparing for New York's prestigious social season. Gentle, brilliant in her own way, and unapologetically neurodivergent, she prefers clear routines over whispered gossip and extravagant galas. While the city's elite play polished games behind designer smiles, Amrielle simply wants to survive the season without becoming another target of high society's cruelty. Cillian Graham lives in a different world entirely. Feared by the people who know his name and invisible to everyone else, he is an elite assassin whose contracts leave no witnesses and no loose ends. Emotions are liabilities. Attachments are fatal. He has never broken either rule. One chance encounter forces their worlds to collide, leaving Cillian with a problem he never expected to have. The quiet debutante who was never supposed to cross his path becomes impossible to ignore, and the more he watches over the woman he accidentally pulled into his dangerous life, the harder it becomes to convince himself she is just another loose end. As New York's glittering ballrooms hide corruption, betrayal, and bloodshed beneath their crystal chandeliers, Amrielle discovers that monsters do not always wear masks. Sometimes they wear tailored suits, carry impeccable manners, and fall in love in the most dangerous ways imaginable. He was trained to eliminate witnesses. She became the only person he could never bring himself to hurt.

Seven years ago, Rosanna Shepherd learned how to survive being left behind. She returned to Bishop Creek and claimed space in a town that never quite knew what to do with her. Where she was always watched a little too closely and always held to a standard. Where men looked at her like she was something to satisfy a curiosity, not someone to love. She learned that wanting too much in a place like this was a liability. So she stopped. Especially when it came to Harrison Bishop, the boy who disappeared without a word and never looked back. Now twenty-five, Rosanna has made her peace with the past. She works at the town clinic, keeps her world steady, and refuses to dwell on what might have been. Until Harrison comes home. At twenty-six, Harrison Bishop has done everything his family didn't want of him. He walked away from the life they designed, chose his own path in medicine, and returned to the one place that still feels unfinished, the place where Rosanna still is. The girl he never stopped loving. But Bishop Creek hasn't changed. His family still holds the power, including over the clinic Rosanna fought to make her own. And when the truth about the past begins to unravel everything Rosanna thought she knew about him starts to shift. Because Harrison didn't leave her. He was taken from her.

Khasani "Kai" Williams has always been cautious, sheltered and shy. But she puts that persona behind her when her mother dies three months before she starts university in a new town. Now grieving, numb and reckless, she creates a checklist of all the things she wants to do before she inevitably kicks the bucket herself. Cue Lance McKnight. Kai's snarky, comical, brutally observant classmate with a sketchbook always in hand, a cavalier attitude and a smirk that makes her weak in the knees. When she assigns him as the perfect person to help her carry out her list (completely unbeknownst to him), she hastily enters a relationship with him. But when Lance finds out about the list, he begins to question whether or not Kai's feelings for him are real. Or if their entire relationship is simply the symptom of an existential crisis.

Milan Roman, a fierce and determined woman on a mission, is returning to her family's powerful mafia after a three-year absence. Alongside her twin brother, she's poised to take control of the organization her mother once ruled. But her return isn't without complications-she must work alongside Cairo Lee, a woman who was a major part in Milan's life before their relationship fractured. Their past is complicated, full of unresolved tension and emotional baggage, and now Milan needs Cairo's help to solidify her position in the exclusive mafia world. As old feelings resurface and new challenges arise, Milan must navigate the dangerous balance of power, family loyalty, and rekindling a relationship with Cairo that could either save or destroy everything she's fought for.