Zara Wexler was so ready to graduate high school. She had it all planned out. She was going to go to Yale like her parents and then find the love of her life. They would travel, support their favorite causes while building their respective careers. Everything would be perfect. The thing is that nothing ever goes exactly as planned. Zara becomes confused when her crush Alyson Crawford shows an interest in her. Alyson was supposed to be straight. She has a boyfriend and her dad would probably be voted in as President of the Homophobe Club. As the school year progresses, Zara finds out how complicated love can be.

* Think True Lies meets The Night Agent, but make it sapphic - where humor, intimacy, and espionage collide, and the least obvious person in the room becomes the most valuable. * Darcy Davies thought her life was as chaotic as it could get. A whirlwind of energy with ADHD, she's used to turning heads with her impulsive remarks, quirky charm, and knack for creating unintentional drama. But nothing could prepare her for the pandemonium that ensues when she accidentally opens a mysterious necklace box hidden in the kitchen junk drawer-a box she mistakenly assumes was a gift from her girlfriend, Kate Arnold. Kate, a former Marine turned enigmatic "contractor," has always kept her past under wraps. But when Darcy opens that box, Kate's secrets come crashing into their everyday lives-literally. A bullet shatters Darcy's apartment window, and Kate's swift, lethal response reveals the truth: Darcy's girlfriend isn't just a contractor. She's a spy. Now, with assassins on their heels, Darcy is thrust into a world of covert missions, clandestine safe houses, and shadowy organizations. As she struggles to adapt to life on the run, Darcy must navigate not only the danger that surrounds her but also her conflicted feelings for a woman she realizes she barely knows. Darcy must choose between saving millions of lives and confronting the betrayal that cuts to the heart of who she is. Caught between her quirky chaos and the deadly seriousness of Kate's world, Darcy discovers that love can be messy, dangerous, and maybe even worth risking everything for.

As war erupts between the Greek and Sicilian mafias, the powerful Accardi family must fight to protect their empire. Accardi Obsession unravels a dark, multi-POV mafia story charged with forbidden chemistry, explosive family tensions, and an arranged-marriage pact that turns sworn enemies into something far more dangerous. *** The Sicilians trusted them. The Greeks tried to take their empire. Now, the balance of power hangs by a thread. In the third season, the Accardi family faces their greatest war yet - one that will test loyalty, love, and blood itself. Costa and Millie are fighting to protect the family they built together, even as war threatens to tear them apart. Rocco and Alessia are learning what it means to be married in a world that can take everything from you in seconds. And when a new marriage alliance is proposed, one Accardi makes the ultimate sacrifice, and enemies become lovers... or whatever you call it when hate gets complicated. There's a war brewing, a wedding on the calendar, and at least four people pretending they're not in love. The Accardis are back. Pray for whoever stands in their way.

• Lennox and Jayme are best friends. They have known each other since middle school and have grown with each other since. They know every embarrassing, funny, and important thing about the other. • They don't keep secrets... except that's a lie. They both keep secrets, multiple at that. • Like every secret, they are bound to spill, but what will happen as these two reveal some of theirs? Will it bring them closer together or drive them farther apart?

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐚𝐦. . . . There are things you're taught not to do. Rules you're told to follow. People you're meant to forget. Flora never planned to end up here, but after one too many mistakes, her life dives for rock bottom. Now, she's trapped in a world she doesn't understand, haunted by a past she can't outrun. And at the center of it all stands the boy she'd sworn to forget. What once was fate, fractures into an illusion and twist into something dangerously evil. They were kids together. Friends together. 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵. She's new. 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵. She's fresh meat. 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. What happens when they reunite? Secrets unfold. Chaos runs free. And the line between love and ruin sharpens into a thin blade, as history proves to repeat itself in its cruelest form. A girl. A boy. And a mad house that feeds on sin. There's no place to hide here. You can run, but you'll never get away. "𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘢𝘮. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺." 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲

As the cruel, uncompromising, and terrifyingly brilliant CEO of Bloom Press, Roman Alvarez terrifies everyone-including her new assistant editor, Kaalia Amoretta. But on a work trip to the tropical coast of South Asia, under Kerala's storm-soaked skies, professional distance dissolves into something more dangerous. What should have stayed strictly business becomes intimate, charged, and impossible to forget. *** [LONGER VERSION] Roman Alvarez is infamous in the publishing world: cruel, uncompromising, and brilliant enough to get away with it. As the first Black and female CEO of Bloom Press, she has built her career on steel walls and impossible standards. Kaalia Amoretta, the new assistant editor hired to support her, expects a tyrant. What she doesn't expect is the quiet softness beneath Roman's sharp edges ... or the spark that flares every time their eyes meet. When Bloom's newest release hinges on securing a reclusive poet's anthology, Roman and Kaalia go on a "working vacation" to India. But what should have been a straightforward business trip unravels into something far more dangerous: monsoon-soaked nights, shared secrets, and a slow-burning tension neither woman can ignore. Under tropical skies and an old woman's poetry on love and colonialism, their professional boundaries blur, their walls crack, and a tender, terrifying love begins to take shape. But as they return to New York-with media storms rising, a billion-dollar lawsuit looming, and family expectations closing in-the real question emerges: Can a love born far from reality survive the world waiting for them? *** A sweeping, sapphic, slow-burn romance and the kind of love worth risking everything.

glass jaw: 1. Noun. Where a fighter is easily knocked out via a blow to the chin or jaw owing to a vulnerability in their strength and training. 2. Metaphorically, a fighter's weakness. ~~~ Ryan Chamberlain is the embodiment of vulnerability. She's kind-hearted and maybe a little too keen to trust people. Plus, she barely has any real-world experience, but that was never her choice. For the last eight years, Ryan has been pushed into the corner. There was only ever room for one star to shine and that star was not her. With college on the horizon, Ryan finally sees the opportunity to step out of the shadows and live life on her own terms. Will it be that simple though? To Landon Atwood, showing weakness is not an option. In the octagon, and in life, people will always take advantage of your vulnerability. The only people he lets close are his childhood friends-and that's only because they refuse to leave him alone. What will happen when those same friends adopt a stray in the form of an unwelcome freshman?

This is a standalone, mature sapphic romance. Cara Laurent dislikes risks. She's always been the planner, the organizer, and the picky one of her friends. Naturally, she's been bent out of luck when it comes to romantic relationships. So, when her friends encourage her to jokingly put in an application for a new reality dating show - she definitely didn't like it when production called her weeks later to offer her the position. But, Cara was tired of shitty hinge dates and conversations that led to nowhere. She was already approaching her late-twenties and all her friends were settling down - so why not take this risk? Ready to put her love life on national television, all seems to go smoothly until she's introduced to the rest of the cast. To her dismay, she's met face to face with an almost ex-failed-hook-up-slash mutual friend of hers - Emily Sinclair. Notorious for being unserious, unfaithful, and irritating as hell - Cara is livid to find out she's going to have to spend six weeks attempting to find the love of her life while ignoring the only mistake she's ever encountered.

The Diamante Mafia - most powerful organization in New York. The Castillo family has been the head family of the mafia for generations. Yet the youngest of the Castillo bloodline is the school punching bag. Despite being born into a powerful family, Kyler Castillo, struggles at school. For two years she is the target of bullies. That is until the bullies take it too far. To protect her daughter from more harm, Athena Castillo sends her to boarding school. The place where everything changes. From being the school's punching bag to becoming the CFO of the family business. The weak and broken girl turns strong. Like the rest of her family, she portrays power, wealth, and confidence. The only problem is that on her first day of work she meets her assistant, Eleanor Ramsey. Who just happens to be her high school bully. Kyler thought she had moved on from her past. That she left everything behind. But when your past comes walking into your office its hard to ignore it. She doesn't want an apology. She wants revenge. (told in both POVs) Book 1: Hateful Love PS: you don't need to read book 1 to understand this story

Eight months after Alora's disappearance, Emery has rebuilt her life, or learned to pretend she has. But when news breaks that a dangerous prisoner has escaped, the past she's been running from begins to surface. Every clue points back to Alora, forcing Emery to confront the woman who left her behind. Love, anger, and unfinished truths collide, and this time, walking away isn't an option. ~Fatal Attraction ~Echos Of You {Sequel}