Alexandra Isabelle Alvarrez - a driven, Filipino-American 17-year-old girl who just wants to breeze through her senior year and fulfill her bigger dreams. But things go haywire when she gets partnered up with the school's untouchable princess, Alexis Gray. Julia Alexis Gray - a brilliant 18-year-old girl who keeps her distance from everyone. Due to negative experiences from the past, she has learned not to let anybody get too close. That is until she gets partnered up with another Alex. Will these two people with nothing in common except for their names work things out together or will they let their differences define their relationship, leaving each other's heart in dust?

One girl, haunted by demons she never asked for. One girl, holding onto a dream with bleeding hands. One girl, clinging to a life she never was supposed to survive. One girl-and one infuriating woman she was never meant to meet. Aurora Winters, 18, soft-spoken and sweet like spring rain, begins her second last first day of senior year. The wreckage of a car crash last Christmas stole what little safety she had left-leaving her in the bitter care of an aunt who never wanted her and a man who only knows cruelty. Bruised, quiet, alone and unraveling, Aurora is trying to survive the storm. But survival becomes complicated when a certain woman enters the picture. Valentina M. Harlow, 37, new to this part of town, new to the school, old to the weight of the world. Once a sweet girl who ached to be seen, now a woman shaped by silence and cold resolve. Sharp-tongued, guarded, emotionally untouchable, manipulative and entirely disinterested in attachments. She is the oldest daughter who walked away-from blood and businesses, from love, from everything that broke her. It's been seven years since she last let herself feel. And she likes it that way. Until Aurora. What begins as uneasy glances and sharp conversations becomes something far harder to ignore. Valentina sees the pain in the girl's eyes. The bruises beneath the surface. And suddenly, the woman who feels nothing is faced with a choice: walk away as she always has, or reach out-risking everything. This is a tale of longing and danger, where hearts shatter, wounds heal, and reopen. Again and again. A story of two women who were never meant to orbit, yet crash into each other anyway. A story of it all. Of longing that feels like ruin. Of aching that feels like home. Of broken things that refuse to stay broken. A slow unraveling, a dangerous pull. A love that could save-or destroy-them both. Maybe they'll piece themselves back together. And set the world on fire, together.

"Don't come to a strip club looking for love. That shit doesn't belong here." she warned. I knew that she was right. Still, I didn't accept her statement. "But...You're here." ⋆⋆⋆ I was a typical surburan girl before I had met her. She changed me. Whether that was for the better or for the worse is up to you. But ladies and gentlemen, as sure as I was that the moon and the stars would fill the sky every night to put the sun to rest, I was sure that the love of my life was a drugged out stripper. ⋆⋆⋆

Amara Alonso is 22 years old and is in her final year studying English literature at NYU. She's smart, kind and gentle, she always has been. But she carries a quiet sadness that most don't see. After losing her mother and sister in a tragic car accident 8 months ago, she was left with an alcoholic father who she blames for their death. She promises herself to push through her last year of college but soon falls into a cycle- skipping classes, tear-stained eyes, and an empty stomach. Emilia Zayed is a 29 year old creative writing professor. Emilia is poised, intelligent and emotionally guarded. She keeps everyone at arm's length- students, colleges, friends, and especially family. She doesn't trust people and shows no intention to. She shows no interest in anybody around her, until a soft brown eyed girl enters her lecture with a look of hurt deep in her eyes that she can't seem to stop thinking about. Emilia notices Amara's writing first. There's something about her work-so raw, so aching, so lonely. It touches something in Emilia she thought she'd buried. Never has a student's piece of writing made her feel this way. They shouldn't get close. They can't get close. But they do. And it's slow, quiet, and deeply emotional. It's Amara showing up during Emilia's office hours not just to talk about writing but about life. It's Emilia realising Amara needs more than feedback-she needs someone who sees her. And it's Amara finally finding someone who doesn't leave. The two form an unspoken bond they can't explain. It's forbidden in the eyes of everybody else. But they can't help but feel softer around each other. Will they ever act on it? Will Amara's hurt or Emilia's closed offness prevent them from ever truly opening up and giving in?

In awakening of the modern world occupied by eight billion people, lies two lovers - separated by distance & worldly position, sealing a promise to be together. Crippled in the shadow of his past trauma, Prince Abdul Mateen was determined to start a new life outside the realm of Brunei monarchy - but little did he know, the presence of an intriguing, young woman changed his only purpose. And for a middle eastern born named Hayfa Imad, she would be trapped by the dirty secrets of her own monarchy, the Imad family - unaware that the only saviour who could pull her out was standing in-front of her eyes. What could possibly break their indestructible seal? If the truth was forbidden - could they break all the rules? (*Weekly Updates - 26/4) _____________________________________________ All rights reserved. Side note: All characters/casts, references, tags that are connected to this story is purposely made to deliver a sense of reality.

"I started to find a sadness that governed the place where men came to fulfill their satisfaction, hidden behind the playful and happy smiles of the people here," he said. - As long as the never ending bruises and scars will keep forming on my frail body, and the immense pain will course through me, this brothel is my home. I was uneducated and helpless, living in the hands of poverty. The only thing I had to offer, as a sixteen year old girl, was my body as I had been forced into this business since I was a child. But then there is one night, one client. And that is all I can say. - A story of a man who alleviates the suffering of one, while alleviating his own suffering. Strictly 15+ this story is one heck of a ride.

(Extremely mature themes, not recommended for young readers) Thrust into a world of prostitution and heavily addicting drugs at just the age of 13, Jane knows nothing of the world outside. Considering that Jane brings in the most money, her pimp Milo will do anything to keep her in the business, and if she left the business he would have to kill her. But what happens when Jane meets seventeen year old Mike, a gentle boy willing to do anything to save Jane, but will Jane allow herself to experience true love at the risk of his and her death?

Maddie Carson is just about surviving starvation and abuse at the hands of her father. Constantly being moved around the country, when she moves to a new school in the middle of the year, will she find the one person who could help her out of this mess?

For months Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out...

When queen bee of the school, Kaylee, is forced to be lab partners with the queen of the freaks, Cameron, things get complicated. The two are total opposites. Kaylee is an honor student with rich parents who don't pay much attention to her. Her father is always away on business, and she's left with her emotionally abusive mother who cares only about how other people see her and her family. Not going to be so good when her daughter gets outed as being a lesbian dating "scum" huh? Cameron's life isn't so easy either. She definitely doesn't come from a family of money. Her and her grandmother struggle to get by. Cameron's mother overdosed when Cameron was just a young child. Being taken in by her loving grandma has not steered her away from following her mother's choices. These two somehow fall in love, but their love story is far from perfect.