Valerie Stone is a visionary, a billionaire, and a terrifying boss. She can negotiate a merger in her sleep, but she can't name her daughter's favorite color. ​Chloe Davis is her executive assistant. She is underpaid, overworked, and currently heartbroken after her girlfriend dumped her for being "married to the job." ​For six years, the dynamic has been simple: Chloe knows everything about Valerie. She knows her coffee order, her ex-husband's trigger points, and exactly how to calm down Valerie's son during a panic attack. Valerie knows nothing about Chloe. Not her dreams, not her heartache, and certainly that Chloe is into women. ​But when a crisis forces the Ice Queen to rely on her assistant for more than just spreadsheets, the walls begin to crumble. Valerie is about to discover that the woman holding her life together is the only mystery she can't solve-and the only one who can melt the stone around her heart.

Genre: Lesbian Romance | CEO x Assistant | Slow Burn | Office Tension l 9 years Age Gap She runs an empire with ice in her veins. Her new assistant runs on caffeine, chaos, and far too much heart. What happens when sunshine starts to melt steel? Margot Blake is everything the headlines say: cold, brilliant, untouchable. The youngest CEO in luxury branding history, she built Blake & Co. from sheer ambition - and froze out anything resembling a personal life along the way. Enter Chloe Quinn - bright, bubbly, and dangerously persistent. She's not the type of assistant Margot usually hires... or keeps. But something about Chloe's chaotic charm, awkward honesty, and maddening optimism starts to crack the ice Margot has spent years perfecting. They're opposites in every way. One has walls higher than the skyline; the other believes no heart is too frozen to warm. But in a world of power plays, secrets, and boardroom battles, falling for your assistant isn't just reckless - it could ruin everything. Slow burn. High tension. Sharp suits. Stolen glances. And a love neither of them saw coming.

The latest tragedy in Maverick St. John's life has forced her to come back home, only to in the midst of it all find out she would be in charge of raising his -just deceased- twin brother's son. What will happen when she finds out that responsibility doesn't lie just on her? Raising a child was never on her plans, less of all with someone she has never met before.

• 𝐀 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 • 𝐎𝐧𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧.

• 𝐀 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 • 𝐀𝐧 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞

Taraji never forgot the day Fantasia walked into the studio late - hair flat, eyes dim, smile missing. It wasn't just exhaustion. It wasn't attitude. It was something deeper... something she wasn't supposed to ask about. But now Taraji isn't just her student. She's her girl. Her firecracker. Her soft place. Her question she can finally answer. Book Two unravels the truth Fantasia kept buried behind perfect hair, perfect posture, and perfect performance. The day the world hit too hard. The crack she didn't let anyone see. The moment Taraji realized strength isn't always loud - sometimes it's surviving the quiet. With love turning deeper, jealousy hitting harder, and confessions getting real, this book dives into the emotional heat beneath their chemistry. Because being together doesn't erase their scars - it just gives them a place to land. Taraji wants the truth. Fantasia wants peace. And neither of them is ready for what it means when walls finally come down.

Taraji Henson walks into Fantasia Barrino's private burlesque studio with quick wit, sharp heels, and a talent for getting under people's skin. Fantasia-queen of the stage, master of control, and infamously unshakable-expects another student eager to impress her. She ends up with a challenge wrapped in lip gloss and attitude. Burlesque is supposed to be about elegance, tease, and power. Fantasia teaches discipline, precision, and the kind of sex appeal that doesn't need to be naked to make a room weak. But Taraji performs like a spark thrown into gasoline-reckless, bright, impossible to ignore. Every lesson turns into a duel. Every correction becomes a dare. Every time Fantasia tries to hold her ground, Taraji pushes just close enough to test the fault line. Fantasia dominates the room. Taraji dominates her attention. And the mirrors catch everything Fantasia refuses to admit. In a studio filled with lace, shadows, and the slow pulse of music, they pull each other into a dangerous rhythm-one built on tension, temptation, and the thrill of surrendering control without ever saying the words. She teaches grace. She brings defiance. Together, they're a performance no one could choreograph... and one neither of them is ready to walk away from.

When nineteen-year-old Emilia starts her first year at university, she's determined to leave her past behind and finally prove she belongs somewhere. Architecture was supposed to be her fresh start-a place to disappear into floor plans and future dreams. But then there's her. Professor Sophia Voss. Brilliant. Composed. Distant. Untouchable. Until she isn't. Drawn to each other by something neither of them dares to name, Emilia and Sophia find themselves trapped in a connection that defies logic, rules, and every boundary they swore they'd never cross. What begins in silence soon turns into stolen glances, late-night thoughts, and moments too intimate to forget. But secrets don't stay quiet forever-and the line between right and wrong begins to blur. __________________ A slow-burning, emotional story about forbidden love, identity, and the parts of ourselves we hide-until someone sees them.

Fantasia and Taraji have always been more than best friends-they've been each other's safe place. From sleepless nights filled with laughter to quiet moments no one else gets to see, their bond has always been unshakable. But when a late-night game of 21 Questions turns into confessions too honest to take back, everything changes. What begins as harmless fun slowly uncovers truths they've both buried: fears, hopes, and a love that's been there all along. Now, with every question asked and every answer given, Fantasia and Taraji find themselves toeing the line between friendship and something deeper. The only real question left is-are they brave enough to choose each other? 21?'s is a tender, passionate best-friends-to-lovers romance about trust, vulnerability, and discovering that sometimes the heart speaks loudest in the quietest of games.

Yeah I wanna kiss you. Like really, I came on this show for a good time, and maybe to find love. I don't really know to be honest. My sexuality has always felt very ambiguous, but coming onto Love Island, isn't it for straight people really? Well yes. But what if, I wasn't normal with everything that happened on this show. Kiss you 'Cause whenever you're gone, I miss you Yeah, you know what I want, so what's the issue? What are we runnin' from? I don't wanna make the first move But all I really wanna do is Kiss you for so many hours You don't need to buy me flowers Pucker up and then maybe save the planet and share a shower What's your favorite superpower? Do you prefer sweet or sour? Actually, don't even answer Kiss me now, take off your trousers (ah) Did I say that out loud? Sorry, just starin' at your mouth Don't even know what you're talkin' about (wait) What were you talklin' about?