college hockey player Wes Graham has tormented Adare Wells since they were in the first grade. pulling her hair, breaking her crayons, calling her names-- anything to get her attention. they spend all of high school together, never giving each other the time of day until they end up on first day of university. there's only one empty seat, and it's next to Adare. even though Adare hates Wes and he's an asshole to her, they both have some baggage that only each other seem to understand.

college hockey player Jackson Blythe makes a bet that he can stay away from chicks for a whole month, he decides that he needs someone to help him stay accountable. when he finds out that Ameeriah Jonas' crazy ex won't leave her alone, it seems like the most perfect opportunity- she can make sure he doesn't hook up with randoms at parties, and he can make sure her ex doesn't bother her. the dating may be fake, but the fake feelings and the real feelings start to become blurred as they continue spending late nights together and find out that they may care more about each other more than they realize.

sequel to bbr. please read that first :) ☆☆☆ hayden jones has been through a lot. a lot more than someone her age should. now finished her second year of college, hayden needs a break. lucky for her, her fabulous cousin spencer is celebrating his twenty-first birthday in hayden's home town. but as much as she hates it, drama is never far from hayden's life because her ex is also invited; the stubborn and ridiculously good looking chase everett.

after a prank gone terribly wrong, hayden jones is sent across country to caldwell academy, a school for the bitchy, the dangerous and the rebellious. and if that wasn't bad enough, it becomes much worse when hayden is accidentally put in the male dormitory, landing her in a room with the school's notorious heartbreaker, chase everett. [not edited...like at all]

Tropes: Arranged Marriage, Marriage of Convenience, Forced Proximity, He falls first and Harder, Tragic Past, Mafia Romance, Dark Fairytale 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝘼𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘 https://pin.it/56uSExE 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩 Gilded Lily - Cults Love Story - Indila Family Line - Conan Gray The other side - Ruelle Love in the Dark - Adele Diamonds - Rhianna My Blood - Ellie Goulding Lovely - Billie Eilish and Khalid Dynasty - Miia Somewhere Only We Know - Keane Cardigan - Taylor Swift Another Love - Tom Odell 𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒂 𝑫𝒆 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒂 Though she was infamous for being the most ruthless assassin in the underworld, she was seen as replaceable, insignificant and an eyesore from her parents. She thought she was unloveable, and undeserving of love. Until she met him 𝑳𝒖𝒌𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓 He was the next leader of the American Mafia. He had power, authority and tremendous amount of wealth. Being brought up by a loving family, he found great importance in protecting and loving his family but when he is thrown into an arranged marriage for convenience, he imagined it to be loveless. But he was so very wrong.

Blaire. Kai. Jude. The world didn't exist outside of the three of them. Bound by blood, fear and the hope of leaving together. What happens when the trio decide to leave their foster home, find a home for themselves elsewhere? What happens when they stumble upon familiar men? What happens when these men hunt them down? Not to kill. To bring them home. Will Blaire learn to trust anyone other than the twins? Will the twins learn to give over control, allow themselves to live? Started: 4/12/25

Briar Viola Bennett, the sweet, quiet, gentle, soft, college student that has an enhancement only of innocence, though there is lots going on inside of this sweet girl's head that she won't let anyone see through. She does it all really, she pays her sick mother's hospital bills, works 5-9 at a coffee house on campus, paints and draws whatever details she saw in a rock, but it all forms together and makes sense to why the girl never gives her the time for herself and always putting herself last. As long as her mom dies happy, any person she talks to doesn't seem like they hate her, and the couple in her recent romance book she's reading doesn't turn tragic, Briar doesn't see the wrong in putting herself last. Until a few of those needs in her life take a turn and she's left with the only option of her enemy's presence. Nate Wesley Grey, the quarterback star for University of Michigan, also well known as the star in hookups, as well as parties, oh and let's not forget the campus whore who likes to leave his marks. But what people don't know is that Nate also has lots going on inside of his own head that he won't let people see through. A tragedy that had occurred the past year during a game that no one can seem to forget, especially Nate Grey. Now coming back to another season of football it's all Nate thinks about. Nate struggles with grievance and loyalty through the season which ruins his career and picture for what the NFL had in mind for him. Nate tries to get himself together and throw all the new bad habits he has created for himself away, but he couldn't do it without the help of an enemy he's had in mind for a while. In which he becomes obsessed with through the process. The only question is, what is the two's secrets that are ruining their lives that they have to turn to each other for? You might know their's but the population at The University of Michigan mustn't for the both of them. And what will happen between the two?

Book 2: Iris and Elias' story continues, she's just as stubborn. He's even more obsessed. The biggest test in a relationship is time some say, though for this couple it seems to be battling the past. That has not changed. Elias Jones. He's your classic golden boy. Too much money to spend, too many fans to thank and too much talent to waste. But he's got his eyes set on one girl and he'll stop at nothing until he has her. Iris Moore. She has too many burdens to carry, too many kids to feed, too many responsibilities for a high schooler. But she's a fighter and he won't let her lose.

The Alderidge Family; Many would say they've always been cold, strange and a little bit psychotic if you know them well enough. To most...yeah they're probably right. But to the ones that have stuck around long enough to really know them...probably still right. Though, they do have their reasons. Twelve years ago, Irene Alderidge, mother to five children, made an impulsive decision. At the ages of four, Genevieve and Easton Alderidge, the youngest of the Alderidge children, were ripped away from their family in the night by their mother. Years of searching, and a lifetime of grief, the remaining Alderidge family receive a phone call. One precious phone call. Genevieve, Easton, and... a baby brother? tw: violence sexual assault rape weapons abuse smut

𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘳, 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥. Cinder ˈsɪndər -The remains of something that has been burned or destroyed, often with a sense of something lingering or fading. ___ Bullying, Brothers, Dysfunctional Family