A girl who learned to hold herself together. A man who makes it feel safe to fall apart. Zara Lavigne was done with love after her last relationship left her quiet, careful, and convinced that softness was a weakness. Matteo Vale is steady in a way she's never known - patient, warm, and impossibly hard to hide from. He doesn't ask her to change. He just shows her what it feels like to be treated gently. But letting someone in is the one thing she promised she'd never do again. So what happens when she realises she wants to? ------------------------------------------------------------------ "She rested her cheek against his chest, feeling the quiet of him. "I didn't know love could feel like this," she whispered. Matteo pressed a kiss to the top of her head. "Like what?" "Gentle."" ------------------------------------------------------------------

Janeisha "Neisha" Bambi has always survived by keeping a low profile. She don't get caught up in the kind of business that comes with bodies, secrets, and street names that echo. But all it takes is one night-one favor for her best friend-to slide her straight into the orbit of Seven "Saint" Carter. Saint is discipline wrapped in menace. A man the streets don't just respect,they fear. The type Neisha promised herself she'd never look at twice. He doesn't chase, beg, or explain. Yet somehow, he does all of this for her. And when that calm, unreadable gaze settles on Neisha, her careful world starts to crack. Now Saint's patience is running out, Neisha's defenses are falling apart and the pull between them is starting to feel less like a choice and more like fate. He's trying to shield her from the life he lives. She's trying to decide if loving him is salvation or self-destruction.

[𝐋𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐀𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐞] On the outside, Luella is this confident, sassy, yet kind girl. She's powerful, knows her place and where she stands. But on the inside she's tired and loosing grasp on reality. She hides her real mentality under her smiles and snarky remarks, where no one can see. She attends Holloway Academy where she is courteous to everyone. Everyone except her enemy. August Taylor Hawthorne. [𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞] On the outside, August is this gloomy boy. He's the type to walk down the hall with his AirPods in listening to music, ignoring everyone. He's shy, quiet, only has a few close friends. But on the inside, he's funny and sweet. He just wants to be loved. He craves it. He wants to be loved. Not for his money, not for his looks. For him. He attends Holloway Academy where every girl wants him. But he only wants one girl. His enemy. Luella Adeline Monroe.

|𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆| - arranged marriage - slow-burn - plot twists - philosophical ideas - no spice 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤. This story explores themes of autonomy, survival, class, power, psychology and love. In short, it is a philosophically based book, set around a mafia setting with a slow-burn romance/arranged marriage trope. It focuses on main characters as individuals first, allowing them to share thoughts on how they view the world, and how their experiences shape their development along with the storyline. ~~~ 𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐀 𝐋𝐎𝐌𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐈 always knew her fate was to marry rich - to save her family from poverty, even if it meant sacrificing herself. But when her abusive father sells her to the powerful Alvarez family, she realizes she hasn't been promised to a wealthy heir... she's been sold to the mob. Yet, for the first time, Adora tastes freedom away from her suffocating home. In a mansion full of rules, danger, and shadows, she clings to her independence - even when it puts her at odds with those who now control her future. 𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐆𝐎 𝐀𝐋𝐕𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐙, the reluctant new head of the Spanish Mafia, has been raised to care about nothing but power. But he despises the bloodstained world his father built. He only finds solace in books - the one place he can breathe. When Adora enters his world, fiery and unbroken despite her past, Santiago discovers someone who understands him in ways no one else ever could. But in a house where loyalty is currency and secrets can kill, their connection might cost them everything. Is it possible for two enigmatic people to fall in love? Or perhaps their fate lies within the world around them. Rankings: #1 in immersive - 26/11/25 #1 in socialhierarchy - 26/11/25 #1 in flirt - 21/3/26 #1 in classics - 28/1/26 #3 in dark

DISCLAIMER !!!! THIS NEEDS EDITING !!!! Ivory Fernández and Kylian De Luca. She's the top assassin. He's the top mafia leader. They both hate and tried to kill each other multiple times so what will happen when they need to take down a common enemy and they've agreed to do it together? ────୨ৎ──── His hand pulls a strand of my hair behind my ear. What is he- "So if I kissed you right now, it wouldn't mean anything. You wouldn't care?" I open my mouth to reply but nothing comes out. Am I seriously speechless right now? He leans in and now we're merely inches apart. "Would you care, Ivory?" he practically whispers, his eyes flickering to my lips. I scoff and move his hand away from me. "No, I wouldn't, Kylian." ────୨ৎ──── {𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒} #1 Italy #1 Leader #1 Mexican #1 Kill #1 Deluca #1 Guns #1 Lovers

She feared him more than anything-until he became the only place she felt safe. After escaping years of abuse, Lina found a fragile kind of peace scrubbing floors in a mercenary's mansion. Quiet, invisible, and broken, she kept her head down and her voice lower. Especially around him. Killian. He kills for a living. He is a powerful, cold-blooded mercenary, a wealthy man who built his empire off blood, fear. He owns a powerful private military company that operates in the shadows, answering only to the highest bidders. He commands killers, closes deals, and never makes mistakes. Until her. A glance. A flinch. A wound she tried to hide. And suddenly, he was watching her closely. Quietly. Like she was a puzzle he didn't mean to touch... but couldn't stop obsessing over. Killian: "You blush like that again, and I swear I'll pin you against this wall just to see how deep it goes." He didn't know how to be soft. She didn't know how to be wanted. But in a house full of violence, he saw her. And he started to change. And soon, she was everywhere in his mind.

Julia Goldstone is a girl from a small town where nothing ever happens. She has no family and an abusive boyfriend who she can't escape. Reed Eastwood is a cold blooded killer with no emotions. He is the king of the largest mafia in the world, ready for a loveless arranged marriage and refuses to show mercy to anyone. What happens when the two of them cross paths and everything changes? Julia is determined not to fall for the devil and Reed doesn't believe he is capable of love. Will they fall for one another in the complicated world of danger and lust? Or will they realise that the mafia king truly is 'heartless'? "Excuse me?" he said, slowly making his way back over to me. "I said that I'm not coming with you." I mumbled in a tone a lot less demanding. He held my chin between his fingers, just as Logan had earlier that night, but this mysterious stranger was a lot stronger. His scent filled my senses and I began to feel lightheaded. He inched his face closer to mine, forcing me to stare deeply into his eyes. The tension could have been cut with a knife. "It's cute that you think you have a choice sweetheart." he whispered, sending shivers down my spine. _______________ DISCLAIMERS: All of these ideas belong to me, don't steal them! This is a mafia romance story. *NO SMUT *more romance than action *written for fun, please give it a chance *Includes some bad language and violence Top Rankings: #1 in heartless #1 in killer #2 in teenfiction #2 in mob #4 in mafia #2 in gangleader #13 in romance COMPLETED!

Peach McCoy It's fun to dance with the devil until he drops you during a leap. At first, I'd thought this devil was none other than the Don of the Russian Bratva, Viktor Makarovich. He was hunting me down for hacking into his mafia's secret network and knowing a little too much about his little illegal fraternity. He caught me, I escaped and this was the dance I thought would get me killed but someone wants us both dead now. The beat of the music has changed and we have to dance together and not against each other if we want to find the guilty party and be alive to tell the tale. There's something about Viktor that lights a spark in me I thought was long gone. The thing is, what I wish we could have cannot happen while we move to what might be the end of our song. I'm smart and I can figure out how to hack into anything I want but for some reason... I only want to know The Code To A Don's Heart. Viktor Makarovich I was just supposed to track down a hacker. It was my way to get away from the Bratva for a while because since my dad and older brother were dead, the mafia was mine. I didn't want it. I just wanted to hunt, kill and protect under someone else's rule but... things have changed. The woman I thought I was going to kill somehow became my only accomplice. Someone wants me- us- dead and I'm sure I know who but the deeper I dig into the affairs of what is now my Bratva, the more unsure I become. The connection I feel to Peach isn't helping. For the first time in what seems like forever, I'm more focused on keeping her alive than myself. She challenges me, pushes me to my limits and being around her is more of a high than I've ever felt on a hunt. She doesn't know it but that great mind of hers, in her words, is finding The Code To A Don's Heart.

Ivana grew up alone. She was alone since the day she was born and she was sure she would also die alone. Without anyone by her side she struggled to make a living, till one day two men stood infront of her door, claiming to be her brothers. Getting to meet her overwhelmed father, her overprotective older brothers and the obsessed man from the rival mafia, Ivana didn't know how to feel nor act anymore. Experiencing love and care for the first time, the feeling of finally belonging isn't the only thing Ivana will have to get used to.

Kaylee Grey and Ryan West have been best friends for ten years. Through breakups, heartbreaks, bad decisions...they've been each other's constant. Now they're in college, and everything is changing. He's the bad boy who keeps breaking promises. She's the girl who doesn't let anyone break her. They've always said they were just friends. So why does it feel like something's about to break? Warning: May contain profanity and sexual content.