Book 2 of 4(✨The Valemont Series✨) His hips pressed against mine, deepening the kiss with a slow, deliberate rhythm. I could feel the weight of the cold metal tucked into his pocket brushing against the inside of my thighs and the heat pooling between my legs only growing from the anticipation of what I wanted. "Do it." "Do what, Vipera?" His voice was low, husky, warm breath ghosting over the sheer lace covering my nipples making a sharp gasp escape me. "Use your gun." ___________________________ 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐍𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞. Xavier Romano is the heir to a brutal criminal empire, a weapon shaped by blood, obedience, and revenge. Every step he takes is calculated. Every emotion is a liability. When he's ordered to target Irene Kang; the daughter of the man responsible for his mother's death, he accepts without hesitation. An eye for an eye. A life for a life. Irene Kang lives in the shadow of power she never asked for. A minister's daughter wrapped in elegance and restraint, she has learned to survive through control, silence, and sharp intuition. Love has always felt like something meant for other people until a single night changes everything. Their meeting is accidental. Their connection is not. What begins as surveillance turns into obsession. What should have ended in blood becomes something dangerously intimate. As secrets surface and loyalties fracture, Xavier is forced to choose between the empire he was born to inherit and the woman who makes him feel human for the first time in his life. Irene, caught between truth and betrayal, must decide whether love is worth the cost of everything she thought she knew.

Halloween is truly a festive time of year. Spooky stories, haunted houses and vampires that you can't help but thirst over because you're weird like that. That's why Hale Woodsen's inviting you to the Traitre Museum. You know, that weirdly atmospheric place near 86th, the one with the dome ceiling? Yeah. There'll be music. Shadows. Smoke machines. Candlelight that definitely isn't safe. Maybe even a Ouija board or two. Costumes are absolutely mandatory - don't come dressed like a civilian unless you want to be sacrificed mid-party for the aesthetic. For everyone has suffered a tragedy recently, the disappearance of Luca Almirez. For those who don't know (you're living under a rock), the basketballer disappeared a month or two ago, after the biggest game of his life. Nothing's been found about him, and to be honest? We're not sure if there ever will be. He was a best friend, a gifted sportsman, and overall a beloved member of society. Perhaps this is Hale's way of battling the grief. Since, you know, he was Luca's best friend. He's trying just as hard as everyone else to get to the bottom of this. His list of suspects is never ending, from Cady Lovaine to Ruel Cruz, to even Reverie Vale and Leslie Wilde. But they have hunches too, and so the story continues, dangerous and twisted. But that's not everything. If you want to get all the details, let's leave the Halloween party. Let's go to the 16th of August, where everything began.

This is not a story about what happens. It's about what almost does. At an Ivy League medical school, Isabelle Laurent is known as the Ice Queen-brilliant, distant, untouchable. No one gets close. No one stays. Alexander Whitmore was never supposed to be different. Charming, privileged, and infamous for never staying longer than a few weeks, he understands desire. What he doesn't understand, until Isabelle, is restraint. She believes he doesn't want her. He knows wanting her openly would destroy everything. So they choose the most dangerous thing instead: friendship. "The most dangerous thing about Alexander Whitmore was not his reputation, nor his charm, nor the power he would one day inherit. It was the fact that he never asked for anything from me, and somehow, without realizing it, I had begun to give him everything that mattered." Slow burn • Dual POV • Consent • Emotional intimacy

LOVE : THE LIGHT OF DARKNESS Focuses on the transformative power of their connection - how love acts as a force that breaks down walls and heals old wounds.They say love is a weakness, but for two broken souls, it becomes the only power strong enough to rewrite their fate. In the hollow of their shared silence, love was not a whisper-it was a roar. He was the cold, unyielding shadow, and she was the ache of a thousand unshed tears. But when they finally surrendered, their union became a pure bliss, so blinding it defied the dark.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍. Mahira is "angry"- an anger that is loud, dramatic, and perfectly calculated to make her husband crawl. When Mayur gets drenched in color by everyone except his wife, Mahira decides to give him a Holi he'll never forget. What follows is a high-stakes game of public persuasion: the desperate apologies, the heated eye contact across a crowded room, and a chase through the pink haze of the festival that leaves them both breathless. But what happens when under the guise of "sharing color," the lines between them blur until there's no space left for anything but the heat of their breath. The apology is no longer verbal. The colors are no longer just powder. And the intensity? It's enough to set the water on fire. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙞, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙙𝙚𝙧-𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮'𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣.

In the not too distant future civilization has collapsed and the worlds ecosystems have gone haywire. Alongside all this a virus known as the muta-virus has created a new kind of humans the fae with animalistic features, but able to survive the radiation and harsh terrain of this new world. This is the second draft of this book but certainly not the last. I know that there will be grammar errors and continuity errors but hopefully not to many. Please comment and feel free to leave suggestions, corrections or predictions I welcome them as they will help me write a better third draft and hopefully a best final book eventually. The cover image is not mine it is just a stand in for now. All parts of this draft have now been published. From here I will be working on my other book projects and codifying the worldbuilding for this book on World Anvil which I will link when it is ready in preparation for working on the third draft. ~Felinus Quill~

Rated-X: Read Author's Note For More Information Two gay villains had only one idea that their four enemies belonged in a town agency (POG) and anytime find out their secret, toxic fandom even when they are humans. For emergencies, their co-head agent, Breanna created a reverse-sex mixture in case of identity emergencies. Without knowing that it was the reverse-sex vile, they both got genderbent. On the other hand, Sawyer teamed with Decan to find out about their relationship and why it exists. Both villains are gender bent and humanized. This is no laughing matter... As soon as the two of them are now a couple of hot women living their lives not meant to be lived, they told, then despised confronting the main judge or the main character in the story, most importantly not to get caught but POG but open up the evidence of their hidden X-rated relationship, leaving not only Sawyer and Decan in suspense... but the town and their agency to have a very toxic rumor. Therefore the co-owners of the town have to stop their relationship and continue story life even if gore and R-rates get in the way. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Charlotte Morrison is the daughter of the legendary hero who was the leader of the original Marvelous Superhero League. As a young child, she dreamed of leading her own team, and after fixing a disaster and impressing her mom, she's given a chance. There's one catch: her team is made up of teens who have never been trained before and are orphans, the test subjects of a new project. They don't follow orders and create absolute chaos everywhere they go. She only has three months to get them to the next rank. Will she succeed in creating the perfect team, or succumb to the pressure? © 2025 Jocelyn Smith. All rights reserved. The Marvelous Superhero League is my original work-please don't copy, repost, or translate it without permission. Fanfiction is totally welcome! Just credit the story and characters, and tag me if you share-I'd love to read what you come up with.

"𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭." Wylie Goodwin was a perfectly normal addict. He was haunted, and lost without a compass to guide him through the world's suffering. So, he ingested whatever happiness he could find, wherever he could find it. His heart was too soft to endure all the suffering he saw, but he was never strong enough to do something about it. He never wanted to waste his life on booze and pills, and he tried hard to recover. Many times. However, he could never quite get it to stick - that was, until he had no other option. In a million years, he would have never thought that a toaster and a bathtub were all it took travel to a second dimension. He was proven wrong, for the millionth time in his forty-six years.

Deep in the woods, a group of adventurous friends stumble upon a mysterious cabin with secrets beyond their wildest imaginations. Little do they know, their journey will be filled with twists and turns as they unravel the dark and treacherous past of the cabin. As they explore the depths of the cabin's secrets, they will be tested by betrayal, and be forced to confront their own desires and vulnerabilities. The story follows their journey as they navigate through themes of revenge, friendship, and love, leading to a climactic finale of emotional turmoil and shocking revelations. Join their journey and experience the thrill of uncovering the hidden mysteries within the cabin's walls.