Hot himbo goalie Caden Connelly had it all. The NHL. The fame. The girl. Until he didn't. Now the engagement is off, the ring is gone, and the only thing worse than losing Raven Alore... is having to see her everywhere. Because she works PR for the league. And he's the headline she can't escape. No matter how hard they avoid each other, the tension is still there, loud, unresolved, and one wrong look away from exploding. And then there's Adrian Blayne. Calm. Observant. And way too good at reading both of them. He sees the cracks. The jealousy. The way Caden and Raven still orbit each other like they don't know how to stop. And instead of staying out of it? He steps closer. Meanwhile, their friends are falling in love, staying in love, and watching everything slowly fall apart. Because this time, it's not just about getting each other back. It's about what happens when someone new steps in... and neither of them wants him to leave.

Roman Torres lives by a simple rule: hockey comes first, and feelings never do. As the twenty-one-year-old junior as well as captain and center of his college, he treats romance strictly as a series of temporary one night stand encounters, keeping his heart firmly locked down. Mila Haze knows a very different reality. At nineteen, she is exhausted by a world that constantly overlooks her. Because she is deaf, people often assume communication is too difficult to bother with. That isolation has left her feeling entirely unwanted, carrying the heavy label of a virgin in a culture that values superficial ease above genuine effort. When Mila accidentally wanders into the athletic hallway reserved for the hockey team, the collision sets off a spark. Stressed over an upcoming game, Roman snaps, yelling at her to leave the restricted zone. When she continues walking, his anger spikes until he marches up to confront her. That is when he notices the truth: she is watching his lips, not his eyes. She never ignored him at all. In that sudden realization, the walls Roman built begin to crack, and an unexpected connection changes both of their lives forever.

A/N: This story is a spin-off set in the same universe as "The Romanian border" which was the first story, but it can be read as a standalone story with no prior knowledge required. Though I'd recommend to read the first one because there will be subtle connections or recurring characters. ~~~ A stolen serum. Failed experiments. Bodies mutating into monsters. Beneath the surface of Eastern Europe, Echelon Dynamics hides a violent world of covert operations, human weapon programs, and unstable super-soldiers created through the Prototype Zeta project. One year after the collapse of Project Falcrum, a mysterious figure known only as Ghost begins tearing through Echelon's network from the shadows. Apex, one of the surviving Prototype Zeta subject still living with the consequences of the program, Leonid Maksymenko, a Ukrainian military intelligence operative tracking Echelon's internal decay, and Roman Raskolnikov, a mafia lord tied to its criminal logistics chain, are drawn back into a conspiracy that never truly ended, only evolved. #HASHTAGS: #GenerationsZeta #MilitaryThriller #DarkFiction #CrimeThriller #SciFiThriller #SpeculativeFiction #CyberMilitary #CovertOperations #BlackOps #PrototypeZeta #EchelonDynamics #GhostProtocol #MafiaFiction #EasternEuropeNoir #ConspiracyThriller #ExperimentalSoldiers #GeneticWeaponization #MindControlFiction #PsychologicalThriller #ActionThriller #HighFashionCover #DarkMilitaryFiction #ColdWarInspired #UrbanEspionage #QueerFiction #QueerThriller #LGBTQCharacters #QueerSlowBurn #QueerRepresentation #BxB #BL #Mature

Aubrey Hayes knows three things for certain. One: Sebastian Sloane is trouble wrapped in a hockey jersey. Two: fake dating him is a terrible idea. And three: her stubborn streak isn't going anywhere. After Sebastian's carefully crafted image starts cracking under the pressure of expectations, family reputation, and one girl who can't seem to take no for an answer, he needs a solution fast. Something believable. Temporary. Safe. Enter Aubrey. His sister's best friend. The one girl sharp enough to see through every charming smile and practiced illusion he throws her way. The deal is simple. She pretends to be his girlfriend until things smooth over. And together, they survive semester three without spiralling under the weight of everyone else's expectations. No feelings. No complications. No crossing lines that were never meant to blur. Easy enough. Except fake kisses start feeling real. Late-night games turn into stolen touches. And the reckless boy everyone thinks has everything begins unraveling in ways only Aubrey notices. Because Sebastian Sloane isn't careless. He isn't untouchable. And beneath every practiced grin is a version of himself he doesn't quite know how to be. The more Aubrey sees through the illusion, the harder it becomes to remember this was only ever supposed to be pretend. And the most dangerous thing about falling for Sebastian Sloane? It's that Aubrey might be the first person who's ever truly seen him at all.

Eliezar Mickaya, the youngest of the Mickayas, and an omega. Growing up an omega in a family full of Alphas was hard. But eventually he came to terms with his status and is now more confident than ever. He was a refined playboy, no longer sleeping with professors, students, or anyone who could get him in immense trouble. No, he's turned over a new leaf. Finally, on his own, creating a life for himself in college with his twin sister Delany, he wasn't expecting to meet his mate. His extremely straight mate. He happened to be ten years older and a friend of his siblings. Not to mention a tiger. Darren Johnson was a tiger; he'd been on his own since his 18th birthday and finally decided it was time for him to settle down. He wanted to teach about his passions and got a job as a Professor. His only desire in life now was to settle down and meet the mate of his dreams. He was ready for that life now. Or so he thought. All those dreams were crushed the moment he realized his mate was not only a man, but younger, his student, and his friend's younger brother. Oh, and he was straight. The two of them take the news differently while also navigating the new seasons of their lives. Will Eliezar convince Darren they were meant to be, or will Darren's hard-headedness and unwillingness to accept their matehood ruin them? Read to find out more! coming soon! #7 in the Alpha Series (the last installment)

Jake shouldn't have been born an omega. He has big hands, big feet, big... well, everything. He's nothing like the sweet and dainty omegas he sometimes sees in the street, usually in the company of men who carry with them the alluring smell of alpha everywhere they go. Each time this happens, Jake has to cross the road. He's given up on the idea of ever being like those omegas. By the time he turned twenty, he realized he could never catch an alpha's eye. Now that he's twenty-eight, even the silly dreams he used to entertain as a young omega - that somehow, an alpha who'd like someone like him, who'd want him to carry his puppies, existed in the world - have faded from his mind. Until he catches a scent that makes him dizzy. During a bar brawl. From which he staggers out, bloody, adrenaline pumping in his veins. And he receives a kiss - and a bit more than he bargained for - that leaves him breathless from the man he leaped to defend during the scuffle, ending up fighting side by side with him. And then a proposition from the powerful Salazar family comes - to work for them as a bodyguard. In the Salazar mansion, he catches the same scent again, maddening him and his omega senses, despite the heat suppressants he's on. The alpha who kissed and did other things to him lives there. But who is he? Oh no, Jake realizes with dread. He's one of the Salazar brothers. The middle child. The troublemaker. The playboy. What has he gotten himself into? Warnings: Smut Violence (only against the bad guys, not between the main characters - my guys love each other very much)

He is pawned off to the enemy by the man he loves in exchange for a favour, yet he doesn't expect to find tenderness, something he's never known in his life, in the least possible place. ********** Roman, the stone-cold, widely feared underboss of the De Angelis Family, has given his loyalty, his life, and whatever is left of his heart to Milo, his boss and secret lover. But Milo pawns him off to their rival Ares, the boss of The Cathedral, in exchange for a favour. Being told that he must obediently serve Ares for three months, Roman braces himself for humiliation and cruelty. But Ares, an arrogant and unhinged tyrant at first glance, proves to be much more complicated than Roman anticipated: beneath the whirlpool of danger, menace, and madness lies something surprisingly gentle and warm. After a lifetime of hardships and abandonments, Roman has never known what it is like to be wanted and cherished. Will he find it in the depths of his despair? ********** Content Warning: This is a mafia dark romance featuring criminal activities, violence, morally gray characters, unhealthy obsessions, and toxic relationships. It also includes a consensual domsub undertone between the main characters. HE eventually. Updates every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Minutes before Mariah gets married, her maid of honor shows her a viral video. In it, a woman tells the internet about the magical night she spent with a handsome stranger in Nashville-and asks for help finding the man she believes is her soulmate. Mariah happens to know exactly where he is. He's waiting at the end of the aisle for her. After creating a viral moment of her own, Mariah spends the next two months hiding from the unwanted fame that turned the worst day of her life into a public spectacle-and transformed her into the infamous Burn It All Bride. Then she meets a gruff, devastatingly handsome stranger on a flight who has absolutely no idea who she is. With him, she doesn't have to be the heartbroken bride millions of strangers think they know. She can just be Ivy. And the quiet Texan beside her becomes Tex. When an emergency landing strands them for one night in the city Mariah has cast as the villain in her story, she is determined to make the best of it with the man who is already making Nashville feel different. As the attraction between them becomes impossible to ignore, they agree on three rules. One night. No real names. No promises beyond morning. And no chance of ever forgetting each other. They walk away the next morning believing their perfect night will remain exactly that-a beautiful memory neither of them is allowed to chase. Mariah is still rebuilding the life her cheating fiancé destroyed. And Tex... Tex is trying to start over after betrayal cost him everything he worked years to create. Until fate brings them together again on Beaumont Ranch, and the stranger Mariah promised to leave behind becomes impossible to walk away from twice. Some nights break your heart. Some nights heal you. And some nights change you forever.

Detective Asya Aydin is just an exotic distraction. Half-Turkish, sharp-featured, and undeniably hot, she is a woman trapped in a locker-room precinct where the older cops look at her with wandering eyes and write her off as a diversity hire. They underestimate her, refusing to let her near anything heavy or bloody. They think she's fragile. They think she's just a target. They are dead wrong. Beneath her sharp features and ice-cold exterior, Asya is fighting a roaring static inside her skull. Haunted by the childhood execution of her parents, she numbs the pain with pills, weed and promiscuous sex, walking a razor-thin line of self-destruction. But when a string of theatrical, anatomically flawless murders tears through the valley, the Chief of Police throws her into the deep end. As the body count rises, the killer's timeline warps, weaving a sick, personal web straight back to the night her parents died. With her colleagues waiting for her to trip and a killer calling her out into the rain-lashed mud of the ridge, Asya must face a terrifying truth: can a fractured, pill-regulated mind outmaneuver a monster, or will the ghosts in her head pull the trigger first?

Some people fall in love at first sight. Blake Montrose practically declared it a full-time hobby. Rowan: Moving to a new town, a new state, was never part of my plan. Neither was living with my mom's new boyfriend and his nephew, let alone starting over at a new school and becoming the newest member of Blake Montrose's chaotic friend group. Blake is sunshine in human form. Too loud, too friendly, and somehow exactly where I always am. He remembers everything I say, carries my favorite snacks around so I don't get "hangry", and has an uncanny habit of showing up whenever I need him. It's sweet... mostly. As I slowly heal from the past and let my guard down, I find myself falling for the boy who feels like home. But between jealous classmates and buried family secrets... loving Blake might be the one thing neither of us is supposed to do. Too bad for them, Blake refuses to let me go. Blake: Rowan Hayes is mine. This story is for mature readers only. 18+. If you don't enjoy stalker-obsessive and OTT possessive romances, then this one won't be a good time for you. Blake Montrose is a golden retriever with a hidden dark side when it comes to claiming his Rowan . This is a swoony YA romance filled with found family, golden retriever boy energy, quiet girl vibes, jealous rivals, slow-burn tension, and secrets that refuse to stay buried. There will be explicit spicy scenes.