Special thanks to @swannluvr for the cover!! -------------- 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐔𝐏𝐎𝐍 𝐀 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝟏 ❝𝐀 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥. ❞ Renata Vartanov had been through hell. Sold to a brothel and thrusted into prostitution at thirteen along with her then toddler brother, by her own father after the loss of her mother. Forced to sleep with men every other night to keep her brother safe from the brothel's caretaker who would beat him for her mistakes. She knew no happiness, she knew no joy except her brother. And when an opportunity of his freedom presents itself to her, she happily leapt at the prospect. Even though she would have to give up the tiny sliver left of hers. ***************************** ❝𝐀 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭. ❞ Vincenzo (Viper) Romano. Don of the Italian crime family and leader of the Romano empire. A dangerous man with a fiery temper, known to destroy his competitors and annihilate his foes in cold blood. Cold, cruel, and calculative. Those were the words he lived by. There was no room for remorse, regret, or romance in his world. Those three had almost broken him in the past. During a conducted arson at one of his foes' trafficking auction, where Renata was almost sold, she is brought into his world accidentally, with no way out. At first he detested her. It greatly pissed him off that she'd survived and he avoided her, vowing not to have anything to do with one of his enemies's whores. But how long can he resist her innocence, her smile, the torture her pain caused to his heart that he refused to acknowledge?

"You're going to let me fuck you like a good girl?" he asks and leans down, "Because you are, aren't you? A good girl?" . . . Elena Amoretto has always been smitten by the one and only, Ares Aetos. For three years, she's adored him from afar. Admiring the god of war and falling deeper into her obsession. While Ares can't seem to stand her. Where she's infatuated with him, he merely acknowledges her existence. While being the center of the spotlight herself. As the front woman of the rising band Icarus, Elena has to face the world while struggling with anxiety. To make matters worse, Ares is the drummer of the band rivaling hers, Dopamine. And just as fate would have it, his band and hers are touring together. She's supposed to hate him. But how could she? When all she does is drown in the blue of his eyes and willingly dies at the ruthless hands of Ares? The god of war who brings her down on her knees while she blissfully falls into his melancholy.

𝓢𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓼, 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓲𝓷, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝔂 𝓯𝓪𝓲𝓻 𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓪 𝓭𝓲𝓻𝓽𝔂 𝓭𝓮𝓬𝓴 . . . . . . Isla Davenport does not rely on people. She knows how to get what she wants and she'll be damned before she asks someone for help. Her only goal is to spend a year in Thornebury University, win a scholarship to Princeton, and be free of owing anyone anything for the rest of her life. The only problem, a devastatingly gorgeous man who wants the exact same thing. Nico Sinclair knows how to use people. He knows how to get what he wants using that pretty face of his. His only goal is to spend one more year in Thornebury University, win a scholarship to Princeton, and be free of owing anyone anything for the rest of his life. The only problem, a pretty girl who has no idea what she's doing yet manages to outsmart him again and again. Did I mention she wants the exact same thing? Only one can win and they'll both do anything, even if it means each other.

ᴍᴇᴛᴀɴᴏɪᴀ - ᴛʜᴇ ᴊᴏᴜʀɴᴇʏ ᴏꜰ ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴏɴᴇ'ꜱ ᴍɪɴᴅ, ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ, ꜱᴇʟꜰ, ᴏʀ ᴡᴀʏ ᴏꜰ ʟɪꜰᴇ. Ever since that cruel college party, Arden and Ophelia never were the same. Arden decided to hate her with his whole existence, because of certain events that happened at the party. On the other side, Ophelia stayed loyal to her truth and has no plans to give in to an arrogant guy. Arden Nolan is known as Wellspring's New Dawn College ice hockey team's captain and the most wanted man in college. Ophelia Astor - one of the new talents in figure skating, who's representing her college and has a bunch of hatters around her. "ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪꜰ ɪ ᴛᴏʟᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴛᴛɪɴɢ ᴍᴇ ᴡᴀꜱ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴡᴏʀꜱᴛ ᴅᴇᴄɪꜱɪᴏɴ?" Two of them live their lives full of past trauma and tragedies, which still don't let them live fully and enjoy their youth. When they have to step up on their life stage - ice, they chose to hide everything under their skin, but sometimes it becomes too hard. 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 *This book talks about serious topics and uses strong language.

[𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐘 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄] 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐫 starts her first year of college with a mind of studying hard and pleasing her strict parents, who also forbid her from one of her biggest hobbies - 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠. When she finds out about the ice rink at her college campus, she decides to secretly train herself at night, since there's still a burning fire in her heart for skating. As a side activity after classes, Allie signs up for a "high grade club", where she gets one student to tutor for additional points for her final grade. Unfortunately, it's no one else, but a hockey team captain 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧, who is also the one who catches Allie sneaking into the ice rink at night. Allie's about to give up on tutoring Archer, when he offers her to keep her secret and help her sneak into the ice rink to skate every night if she keeps tutoring him for two of his failed subjects. The deal sounds pleasing to Allie, so she agrees to Archer's offer. She calls it nothing more than mutual help until she unexpectedly finds herself falling in love with an unexpected guy. 𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚢.

Eléa Bellerose is a mysterious girl, no one knows what she's feeling or thinking. She lost her mother at birth due maternal death, making her feel guilty her whole life. Her only friend in this cruel world is her older brother, but when he gets killed in front of her, her world breaks. To escape from reality she goes to the stripclub, where she does get the attention she needs. She's being silenced by everyone around her, but what happens when someone finally let's her talk? Alessio Marchesi is here for one thing, and one thing only: Finding answers to unsolved mysteries. He's in the mafia and André Bellerose is his biggest enemy, he wants to know his secrets by getting close to his daughter. He joins Eléa's class and tries to get to know her, but it's not easy. When he's so close to finding answers he realizes something that will cost him a lot, he's in love.