They sent her to the North Wing to survive him. No one expected him to become obsessed with her instead. Crown Prince Damien Valmont has spent years hidden away inside Blackthorn Palace - feared by the kingdom, abandoned by the royal court, and whispered about like a monster in human skin. Selene Laurent arrives believing the rumors. Then she meets him. Beautiful. Silent. Terrifyingly watchful. And far more broken than cruel. But the closer Selene gets to Damien, the more unstable the kingdom becomes. Because the prince who once obeyed the crown without resistance is beginning to want things. Her time. Her touch. Her loyalty. Her. And Damien Valmont was not raised to survive love. He was raised to survive loss.

Ava Sinclair is desperate. Her father's rare illness is bankrupting her, and time is running out. In a last-ditch move, she joins Velvet Circle-an elite underground agency where powerful men pay fortunes for one night of total control. Xavier Blackwood doesn't do love. He's a billionaire who treats women like transactions: hot, hard, gone by morning. No strings. No repeats. Until Ava steps into his world. One contract. Fifty thousand dollars every time he calls. No feelings. No questions. Just her body on demand. But obsession creeps in fast. His hands can't get enough of her curves. Her moans start sounding like surrender. And the money can't drown out the truth they're both avoiding: What happens when "just sex" becomes something neither can walk away from? A raw, steamy, addictive billionaire romance packed with dominance, possession, and heat that burns everything down.

𝐀 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐞. Everyone tells Evelyn Sterling how lucky she is. As the youngest daughter of one of San Francisco's most powerful businessmen, she has money, beauty, privilege, and everything people dream of having. But nobody sees the bars. Her father controls everything where she goes, who she speaks to, who she befriends, whether she can date, and even how she spends her college years. He calls it protection. Evelyn calls it a prison. All she has ever wanted is something painfully ordinary: friends, freedom, and a life that belongs to her. Then a threat against her father changes everything, and Evelyn gets a new shadow. 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧. Twenty-nine. Six-foot-two. Former street fighter. Professionally trained. Cold as steel, intimidating as hell, and almost impossible to read. His assignment is simple: protect 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠. Nothing more. But Evelyn isn't the spoiled billionaire's daughter he expected. She's quiet, lonely, and exhausted from a life she never chose. Beneath her silence is a girl desperately trying to escape the golden cage her father built around her. Silas is supposed to protect her from the dangers outside. Instead, he becomes the first person who truly sees her. And the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to remember where his duty ends and his obsession begins. Because Silas Raven doesn't know how to protect something without becoming possessive of it. She was born into a golden cage. He was hired to guard it. Neither of them expected him to become the key.

Emilia Hayes knows two things: 1. She's good at hockey analysis 2. Nobody in professional hockey cares As the newest- and only female- video analyst intern for Chicago's most demanding hockey team, Emilia enters a world dominated by ego, pressure, and men who underestimate her before she even opens her mouth. Quiet, shy, and constantly overlooked, she quickly learns that surviving in professional hockey means working twice as hard just to be taken seriously. Especially when the team captain seems determined to make her life harder. Noah Walker is cold, intimidating, and impossible to please. As one of the league's best defensemen, he has no patience for mistakes, distractions, or interns who think they understand hockey better than the players themselves. And Emilia? She keeps correcting him. What starts as constant irritation slowly turns into something far more dangerous: late-night video sessions, unspoken understanding, and a connection neither of them expected. But in a world where weakness gets exposed instantly, getting close to someone might be the biggest risk of all. Because Noah Walker doesn't trust people. And Emilia is still learning how to stop making herself small.

𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐨 is a man Italy has learned to fear. Ruthless, merciless, and seated at the head of a blood-soaked empire, he has never been known for forgiveness. His unfaithful wife learned that before her death. Now, the only person Dante cares for is his five-year-old son, Matteo. When Matteo needs a nanny, Dante makes his expectations painfully clear. He wants someone he will never look at twice. An old woman. A nun. Anyone incapable of becoming another temporary desire. Then Sister 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐡 steps into his mansion. At twenty-one, Delilah has known nothing beyond the walls of the church. Gentle, painfully innocent, and carrying wounds she has been taught to call punishment, she arrives in Italy believing she has been sent to care for a lonely little boy. She knows nothing of the criminal empire surrounding her. Nothing of the blood on Dante Russo's hands. And nothing of the way he looks at her. She was supposed to be invisible to him. Instead, the quiet little nun becomes the only temptation the devil cannot ignore. And Dante Russo has never been a man who denies himself what he wants.

💫 Brother's Best Friend 🖤 Dominant Male Lead 🌶️ Spicy Riley Miller has had a crush on her brother's best friend for years. Alexander Beaumont is powerful, controlled, and completely off limits. At her brother's wedding, Alex finally sees her - not as the awkward little sister he grew up around, but as a woman. Now the tension between them is impossible to ignore. And Alex is a man who has never been very good at denying what he wants. Especially when it comes to her.

"You think you can just look past me, Pearls. You think you are safe in the dark. But I can twist your reality until you forget your own name. I will make you doubt your own mind. I will make you question every breath you take. Until the only truth you have left in this world... is me. I am going to become your entire fucking reality. And I will tear your quiet life apart before I ever let you walk away." - Tristan Virelle _____ To the Elite of Ardencrest, Tristan Virelle is the Shadow Prince. He is a quiet, lethal illusionist who ruins minds without ever raising his voice. To Iris, he is just a broken boy standing in her way. She is a Ghost Tier student who wants to be completely invisible. She has absolutely no idea she just challenged a master manipulator. Tristan is a predator raised on lies. Fascinated by her icy control, he traps Iris in his web. He uses his dark psychological games to make her doubt her own sanity. He expects her to crack. He expects her to run. But Iris does not flinch. She is the absolute zero to his chaos. And she is quietly holding the one secret that could burn his empire to the ground. He built a flawless mental cage to make her his pawn. But the Shadow Prince played the wrong girl. He isn't destroying her reality. She is the only thing holding his together. And he will burn his own empire down just to stay at her feet. _______ "The Shadow Prince | 18+" is the fourth book in the Princes of Ardencrest Series. {Can be read as a standalone}

When Rowan Carter shifts for the first time at twelve, she discovers she's not human-and runs. For four years, she survives alone with only her wolf for company, hiding from a world she doesn't understand. Then she's found. In a werewolf society where female wolves are rare and fiercely protected, an unclaimed rogue female is unheard of. Forced into a pack she never asked for, Rowan must learn to navigate pack life, ancient traditions, and the people determined to keep her safe. The problem? Freedom is all she's ever known, and she's not sure she's willing to give it up.

Ava Monroe is the nurse everyone depends on. Calm under pressure. Always in control. Never the one who breaks. But no one sees what happens when the shift ends. The exhaustion. The silence. The way she's slowly coming undone. Dr. Elias Carter notices. He sees the missed meals. The extra shifts. The way her hands shake when no one's looking. And the more he watches her hold everything together- the harder it becomes to pretend he doesn't care. Because some people don't fall apart all at once. Some people do it quietly. And by the time anyone notices... it might already be too late.

"You refuse to speak because you think your voice is a curse, Butterfly. A poison that destroys everything it touches. So poison me. Whisper their names, and I will gladly show you how a real monster burns the world to ash just to keep you warm. You think you are trapped in the dark with a psychopath, papillon. You don't realize I am just waiting for your command." - Nikolai de Rivel ____ To Leah, silence is the only armor she has left. Deaf, traumatized, and terrified of physical touch, she just wants to survive Ardencrest University without being seen. When she completely ignores the school's most dangerous French heir on her first day, she thinks she safely avoided a predator. She has no idea she just gave the Reaper Prince a puzzle he is dying to take apart. Behind his polite smiles and lethal elegance, Nikolai de Rivel is an empty-eyed psychopath who demands absolute, psychological control. He doesn't just want to claim her body; he wants to conquer her mind. Leah thinks the campus is naturally parting for her; she doesn't know Nikolai is viciously destroying anyone who steps too close. She thinks she is finally finding peace in the shadows; she doesn't know he is meticulously rewriting her entire reality so she has no choice but to crave his touch. He doesn't want to hide her from the monsters of her past. He wants to drag her into the dark, place her on his lap, and teach her how to rule it. He is the devil. And her rare voice is his trigger. ______ "The Reaper Prince | 18+" is the third book in the Princes of Ardencrest Series. {Can be read as a standalone}