✨One orphaned girl. One dark, tortured soul. A bond that could destroy them both.✨ Lelia De Luca always dreamed of a family. After a tragic fire left her orphaned, she found herself abandoned in the shadows of Saint Shadow Orphanage, where she met Elio-a boy marked by a mysterious past and an undeniable darkness. For years, they were each other's only light in a place that stripped them of everything. He was the quiet protector, watching over her through their shared pain, while she, the girl with a heart too bright for the darkness, clung to him as the only tether to sanity. But now, at 17, Lelia's wish has finally come true-she's been adopted. The catch? Elio is coming with her. As her new "brother." Haunted by the demons of his past, Elio never wanted to drag Lelia into his darkness. His only job was to protect her, even if that meant staying far away. But with every touch, every stolen glance, the walls he's built crumble, and the pull between them grows undeniable. When the secrets of their shared history begin to surface, both must face a truth they'd rather leave buried: sometimes, the shadows we fear are the very thing we need to survive. Will they find salvation in each other or be consumed by the very darkness that binds them? ✨ Dive into a dark, forbidden romance where the lines between family and love blur in a world of shadows. ✨ Coming This Fall 2025!!

Secrets are the darkest parts of us sometimes, the sides of us that we're afraid to show , for Penelope Montgomery this was true, but instead of a secret of the self, it was a secret of another, that being, one night she saw a group of masked college kids go into a basement and did less then.. legal stuff. For a year she kept that secret not knowing who these guys were Theo Bennet better known as reaper was one of four bad boys at Mangrove prep. He was a hit man in training so naturally when he goes through his trials to officially be a hit man he expected anything in his academic life to be wiped of any wrong making him seem as if he was a saint. But one night he finds someone in the basement with him and his friends, his first targets daughter . When the two officially become acquainted with one another the darkness within both comes to light, but will it consume them in the end?