Vivienne Winters-Crawford has always had everything. The penthouse childhood, the private schools, the kind of money that fixes problems before they even start. But now, fresh out of college with an art degree in one hand and independence in the other, she wants to experience being on her own. So she moves out. No staff, no safety net, just a cramped two-bedroom apartment and a roommate she's never expected. Aveline Parker is a ghost of a girl who prefers silence to survival. Grey eyes, jet black hair, and a presence that slips through rooms without a sound. No one knows what she's been through, except Estelle, the woman who gave her a job, a room, and a reason to stay. Aveline doesn't talk much. She doesn't trust. She just survives. When Vivienne answers an ad for a roommate, she never expects the other room to belong to a girl who barely speaks. But there's something magnetic about Aveline. Something quiet and aching. And despite the silence, despite the walls, things start to unravel. One moment at a time. One scar at a time. This isn't a love story born out of ease. It's a love story built in the healing. In the light that comes after the dark.

Aurora Kensington has spent years trying to silence the voice in her head-the one that sounds too much like Briar Holloway. The girl who was once her best friend. The girl who came out to her. The girl she pushed away. Now eighteen, Aurora is desperate to prove she's everything she's supposed to be: a good daughter, a devoted Catholic, normal. But no matter how hard she prays, no matter how many rules she follows, she can't shake the feeling that something inside her is broken. And when she sees the lights on in the Holloway house for the first time in years, something deep in her chest stirs. She doesn't know Briar is back. Not until she turns around at a party and finds her standing there. Briar never planned to return to Chapelwood, but with her family drowning in debt and her grandmother's health failing, she had no choice. She tells herself she doesn't care about Aurora anymore-that she only came to this party because she thought it'd be funny. But the second their eyes meet, the past slams into her like a tremor. Old wounds. Old feelings. Ones that never truly faded. Because "love" (if you can call it that) like theirs doesn't disappear. It fractures. It festers. It trembles under the weight of everything unsaid. And if they're not careful, it might just swallow them whole. But none of it truly matters anyway. Not unless Aurora is willing to face the truth about herself. A story about love, sin, and the thin line between devotion and obsession.

Sky Jenkins has the biggest crush on a guy from her school. She takes a leap of faith and asks popular girl, Vanessa Adams, to teach her a few seduction tricks. Surprisingly, she agrees and they start hanging out everyday after school. Teaching her how to kiss and flirt. What happens when there's a school trip to Italy and a kissing booth fundraiser? Will Sky realize it's not the boy that she should be after?

Ava Torres, captain of Stanford's women's soccer team, has one goal in mind for her senior year: win the championship and go out on top. She's focused, disciplined, and completely uninterested in distractions. Riley Bennett, captain of the women's basketball team, seems determined to be one. Teasing Ava has become her favorite pastime - harmless, playful... until it isn't. Because somewhere between the banter, the late-night talks, and the almost-kisses, Riley starts to realize the truth she's been trying to laugh off for years - she doesn't just like getting under Ava's skin. She wants her. And when lines start to blur between rivalry and something undeniably real, both girls have to decide whether to keep pretending... or risk everything for what's been building between them all along.

Even before the day of July fourth, 17 year old Amara Sol has been living with the memory of what happened to Zane Frost. Amara is completely torn up form July fourth of one of her closest friends Caden Brown. When a FBI agent shows up asking questions of both of the deaths. The agent would be staying town to get more information on Amara and on any other leads on both the cases. But 19 year old Kathrine North has a gut feeling that Amara is more than just apart of the case.

❝𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧, 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭.❞ Two fashion students, 𝐈𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈 and 𝐊𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐎𝐍. They recklessly hate each other. Their whole body fills up with rage with every eye contact, every reminiscence of the other, every touch. What will happen when they are assigned a project, and that project turns out to be a photoshoot? Maybe, they'll come to terms with the burning feeling that envelops their bodies wasn't 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐝, overall. Copyright © 2022 deidarren™ No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without the prior written permission of the copyright owner, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended, pictures belong to the rightful owners.

• and if she was a bottle of wine I'd get drunk on her each and every time .

Revenge. I'm familiar with it. You have to be when you're the firstborn son of a notorious mafia leader. Death and vengeance have been the very foundations of my life. So who in their fucking mind would be stupid enough to cross me? My brother and I have been wrongfully convicted of a crime we didn't commit. We know who is behind this. We bid our time behind bars, planned and prepared for the day we got out. Now we're free and hungry for redemption. I know what must be done. I know whose blood will be spilled. But before I go after him, I'll go after his daughter. I never said I play fair. *Book one in the Marino Brothers Duet. Rated 18+ due to explicit language, sex, and violence.*

Alessia Rossi has spent her entire life behind gilded walls - the overprotected daughter of one of Italy's most feared mafia leaders. Her days are suffocating, her nights stolen in secret escapes into the city, searching for slivers of freedom. But freedom comes at a price. When an unknown threat targets Alessia, her father hires Camelia Esposito, a cold and mysterious enforcer from his past - a woman with a sharp mind, sharper eyes, and secrets of her own. Camelia isn't just any bodyguard; she's deadly, disciplined, and the last person Alessia wants watching her every move. Tension sparks. Boundaries blur. What begins as a reluctant partnership soon turns into something far more dangerous than bullets or betrayal: desire. As enemies close in from the shadows and the line between protector and temptation fades, Alessia and Camelia must choose where their loyalties truly lie - with their blood, their duty, or with each other. In a world of secrets, power, and violence... will love survive the crossfire?

Top cheerleader starts working as a trainer at a high school, after a turbulent period in her life. There she is confronted with the free-spirited coach of the Football team, which leads to special confrontations. Will she feel comfortable in this new environment? or can't she get rid of her challenging past?