To the world Jadalyn Blackwood is her father's crown jewel...A flawless ballerina spinning under the bright stage lights, trapped in a perfect glass box. But Jadalyn knows the truth. Ever since her mother died and her father brought home a woman and her two golden child siblings, Jadalyn has been nothing more than an afterthought. A pretty prop used to maintain the family's public image. Then comes Alessio Petrov. To the public eye Alessio is a reckless chaotic playboy who couldn't care less about the underworld hierarchy. He was supposed to be the Bratva's second-in-command, a position he treated like a joke. But in a bloodbath that shocked the criminal underworld, the bratva had dismantled the Italian mafia from the inside out, stepping over the bodies of his enemies and he had claimed the title as Don for himself. Alessio didn't crash into Jadalyn's life by accident. He knows the rot hidden beneath her father's empire and he intends to use the lonely ballerina as the ultimate weapon of ruin. His plan is simple: snatch her away from her family, use her to get close to the blackwoods tear them apart from inside to out. But as he pulls Jadalyn into his dark orbit, the act begins to slip. --- "You should've never let me get this close Jadalyn, because now that I've tasted your light i'm never going back to the dark."

[𝗦𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗟 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧, 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝟭 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧] In which two entangled culinary students unravel each other all over again. * * * After reaching a fiery boiling point that leaves their trust in ruins, spitfire Summer Westley and arrogant Ashton Banks are far from kissing and making up. But fresh scars and a bitter dose of consequences can't stop the relentless craving for one another no matter how much damage has been done. As they wrestle with the high emotions and unresolved tension simmering between them, Summer and Ashton find themselves wondering whether the lingering aftertaste of each other is strong enough to keep their future together alive - or if they were always fated to crash and burn. ────────────────────── SUNDAY UPDATES Contains mature themes - read intro for details

[18+ ENEMIES TO LOVERS COLLEGE ROMANCE] In which two competitive culinary students get under each other's skin in all the right ways. * * * ʙᴏɪʟɪɴɢ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ (ɴᴏᴜɴ): ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ ᴀᴛ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴀɴɢᴇʀ ᴏʀ ᴇxᴄɪᴛᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ ʙʀᴇᴀᴋ ᴏᴜᴛ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴛ ᴇxᴘʀᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴ. ʟɪᴋᴇʟʏ ᴛᴏ ʟᴏꜱᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ ᴏꜰ ᴏɴᴇꜱᴇʟꜰ. Summer Westley and Ashton Banks have three things in common: they both attend the same culinary school, they both want to be the best, and they both drive each other completely crazy. A determined spitfire of a girl and an arrogant devil of a boy, thrust into a storm brimming with conflict and craving right from the bitter beginning. Fighting each other, their hunger, and the ghosts that haunt their past and present, Summer and Ashton soon realize that pushing down emotions can only last for so long until they boil over. And sour first impressions can leave the sweetest of aftertastes. ────────────────────── Contains mature themes - read intro for details 📚Featured on reading lists: @TeenFiction - Friend/Foe to Love, 18 Romance Stories We Are Obsessed With @Romance - Enemies/Friends Highest rankings: #1 Slow Burn #1 Drama #1 Enemies to Lovers #1 College Romance #3 Young Adult #3 Chemistry #3 Fiction #6 College #7 Love Story #10 Mature #12 Feelings #13 Steamy #17 Love #19 Teen Fiction

Valentin Petrov saw Inaya Singh once and never recovered from it. One year ago, he walked into a tiny flower shop trying to buy flowers for his mother in silence away from the chaos of his life. Instead, he found her. A girl with stained fingertips from arranging roses, soft music playing in the background and a smile so gentle it made something dangerous inside him go completely still. And ever since that day, Valentin has been obsessed and not the fleeting kind of obsession, the terrifying kind. The kind that has him memorizing her routine without meaning to, sitting in a blacked-out car across the street at midnight just to make sure she locked the shop safely, the kind that has him collecting pieces of her life like secrets. Her favorite tea order, the books she reads during slow afternoons, the fact she hums quietly when she's nervous. He keeps telling himself he's protecting her but deep down, Valentin knows the truth. He's a man starving for something he can never have. Because Inaya exists in warmth and light while Valentin was raised in violence. His surname is feared across entire countries, bodies follow his family's footsteps and if Inaya ever discovered who he truly was, what he's done or what the Petrov name actually means, she would look at him with fear instead of the softness he's gotten so used to. So what happens when the bratva pakhan falls for the girl who owns a little flower shop not knowing how bad the world could really get?

"What does it feel like to be a heartless bitch?" "Cold." . . . Everyone loves Katherine Hartley - or at least, they love the illusion. Katherine reigns both on campus and at the elite ballet academy founded and owned by her father. She's every warning wrapped in silk. Elegance carved in ice, she's a girl raised to be disciplined, untouchable and most of all; perfect - a swan sculpted by years of brutal training and emotional isolation. Love was never meant for her. Especially not the kind that lingers - obsessive, aching... wrong. Especially not from the boy she's known since childhood. He's the one who sees through her mask, sees everything she tries to hide. And for the first time, Katherine starts to wonder what it would be like to fall - even if it ruins everything. He knows loving her may ruin him. But letting her go would destroy him. He's everything she can't want. And the only thing that makes her feel alive. She's the only thing he wants, but can't have.

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬- "Would you get on your knees for me?" "If you asked," he breathes out. I hum and trace his plump lips with my forefinger. "I don't ask, darling." It seemed that's all I had to say because he dropped to his knees before me, not once breaking eye contact. "Good boy."

"𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩, 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚." Olivia groaned and crossed her arms, standing her ground. "Don't tell me what to do. You're not my dad." Amusement filled Santino's gaze as he stood up, abandoning the papers he desperately needed to read and sign. Yet, all that was forgotten as her bewitching lips protruded. "I might not be your dad but," a midnight lock of hair was pinned behind her ear, "I can be your papi." Shuddering, her body drew closer to him, betraying her mind. "You're sick." Taking the nape of her neck, Santino leaned down, his lips brushing against her ear. "Yet you still dream about my touch, don't you, principessa?" ❦ When Santino Adriano discovers that the Bratva has betrayed their neutrality by secretly working with his family's enemies, he's determined to send a brutal message that cannot be ignored. His target? The Bratva kingpin's sister, Olivia Morozov-a sheltered girl who knows little to nothing about the dark underworld her family controls, having been shielded from the darker truths of her family's empire her entire life. Fresh out of boarding school and blissfully oblivious to the power struggle boiling beneath her feet, Olivia is suddenly whisked away from everything she's ever known and thrust into a world where loyalty is weaponised and power is the ultimate prize. As secrets and long-buried lies unravel around her, she realises she's caught in a game where the unrelenting fight for power holds more value than human lives-including her own. Santino is cold, calculating, and relentless - everything Olivia should fear. Yet, she is intrigued by by his deadly nature. The line between fear and attraction is thin, and like a moth to a flame, she seeks him out, unafraid of the burn it may cause. She's never known anyone like him-an older, dangerous man who makes her question everything she thought she knew about desire. Olivia just didn't expect her captor to be so handsome.

𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛 𝙼𝚎 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 #𝟷 _____ Izana Lancaster, CEO of Harmony Industries, has everything she ever wanted, except someone to share it with. Her success is undeniable, but the loneliness that follows her home every night is impossible to ignore. When a loss threatens everything she's built, Izana takes a night off and ends up at a local bar. It's supposed to be one night of escape. She never expected it to change her life. Koda Smith is a lawyer with a reputation for winning any case he touches. When he requests to be transferred to Harmony Industries, he uses every chance he can get to be around Izana. Samir Patel has been by Koda's side for five solid years. Their relationship is strong, loving, and missing something they can't name. Until Izana walks into their lives and makes the unspoken impossible to ignore. The boys find it hard to stay away. Any chance they get to see Izana, they'll take. Even if that means seeing her without her knowledge. When pleasure turns into something deeper, will their carefully balanced lives shatter under the weight of desire or will they risk everything to love without limits? - 𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜: #𝟼 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚋𝚘𝚢 𝟹|𝟸𝟽|𝟸𝟼 #𝟺 𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚢 𝟹|𝟸𝟽|𝟸𝟼

"Say it again," she breathes, fingers tight in my hair. "I'm yours," I gasp. "I'm only ever yours." __________________ Ruin Me And Call It Love __________________ Silas Crawford wasn't supposed to want her. He came back home broken - no money, no future, no art left in his hands. Just shame, grief, and the memory of the night he watched his mother die. What he didn't expect to find was her. Verena: older, dominant, the woman who used to sit beside his mother at church. The woman who saw him grow up, and now sees him craving something he's never dared ask for. She's everything his father hates. Everything he's not supposed to need. But when she tells him to kneel, he does. When she wraps a hand around his throat and calls him hers, he shatters for her. And when the town finds out who she really is - a dominatrix, a woman without shame - they don't just come for her. They accuse her of knowing more than she should about the night Rosemary Crawford died. Silas has a choice: protect the version of himself his family wanted... or kneel for the woman who's teaching him to be ruined and worshiped in the same breath. -:- 𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜: #𝟷 𝚂𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚢 𝟹|𝟸𝟽|𝟸𝟼 #𝟸 𝚂𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝟹|𝟸𝟽|𝟸𝟼

He was the boy who left to save her and the man who came back ruined. Cold when he shouldn't be, silent when all she wants is for him to talk to her, Dominico Cruz learned young that loving someone means losing them. So he left first. He always leaves first. But her? Katerina Petrov was never someone you could leave behind. She was fire and fury and loyalty sharp enough to cut throats, she loved like a war and hated like a storm, and he was the only man who ever survived both. "You don't get to leave me again and call it love, Dominico. That's not love. That's cowardice." He would burn cities for her, kill kings for her, destroy himself for her, but the one thing he can't do is stay, because he believes loving him is a death sentence. She thinks he abandoned her. He thinks he's protecting her. And neither of them realizes they're destroying each other in the process. In whatever is between the world they've been born in, love isn't gentle. It's possession, sacrifice, blood and worst of all...Brutal. And the most dangerous thing in Dominico Cruz's life was never his enemies. It was always her.