"Why did you do this?" she asked, her face blank, eyes hollow. "I couldn't bear to hear them speak filth about you," he said softly, "so I shut their mouths... forever." ~~~~~~~ ANIKA ARORA She is 24, a strong-willed baker and a single mother of a 5 year old daughter. Running a cozy little bakery and living in a modest 2BHK house, Anika wants nothing to do with love or family - both have hurt her too deeply. RIDHWIK RATHORE He is 29, a five-star chef, celebrity status, living a life of luxury and high expectations. With scars of his own and a vow never to marry, he's built his empire on discipline, not emotions. But fate has a strange recipe. When a moment of humiliation threatens Anika's dignity, Ridhwik steps in with an impulsive promise - a marriage neither of them wanted. A hidden marriage. A child in the middle. A secret from the past waiting to be uncovered. 🍰 Will unexpected promises turn into love? 🍴 Can two broken souls bake something beautiful together? 🕯️ And when the truth behind her sister's death is revealed - will revenge taste sweeter than love? TROPES • baker x chef • hidden marriage • single mother • obsessed ml • love after marriage • caring ml x strong fml

"All the clues point to you." "Maybe it's meant to be." "Don't be ridiculous, Alvarez. This is a serious crime." "What's a crime is you wearing that and asking me to focus. I am dying to fuck you against this table right now." __________________________________________ ~Antonio Alvarez~ A successful CEO business and hotel owner. Being under the media and pressure is nothing new, and definitely not hard to handle. But when a murder spree erupts at his hotel, the media has his name going downhill. The investigation brings people around his hotel for questions and he believes the empire he built for years might fall. That is until he meets the lead detective of this case, who also happens to be his new obsession. ~Valerie Ortiz~ A hard working detective. She's seen it all, maybe even too much too handle. When a murder case is given to her, she thinks it'll be another case solved easily. As the investigation starts, more murders continue to happen around the hotel. She has no choice but to turn to the owner for help. The heat between them isn't something she should be feeling, but that doesn't stop anything from remaining closed. ~H I G H E S T R A N K S~ #27- sunshine 7/15/2022 #6- detective 9/10/2022 #13- detective 10/22/2022 #10- detective 10/31/2022 #3- valerie 1/6/2023 #1- detective 6/2/2025 #2- valerie 5/4/2025 #6- antonio 5/7/2025 #1- valerie 6/14/2025 #4- noah 6/14/2025

21-year-old Celena Smith doesn't fear anything anymore. From being adopted by the American mafia after narrowly escaping death to surviving the torment that same family continuously brings to her. Although one thing manages to shake her up... on the night of her 21st birthday, she finds out she's been arranged to marry the oldest male heir of the Italian mafia. 22 year old Alessio Rossi is the head of the Italian mafia and doesn't have any time for any bullshit. He's power hungry and will do anything to make sure his family legacy continues to stay strong. So, of course, when the offer comes to marry the only daughter of the American mafia, the third most powerful in the world, he doesn't hesitate, no matter the circumstances. Even when Alessio and his brothers aren't fans of outsiders to their family at all. Despite all this, there remains one huge problem... what happens if the mafia world finds out she's adopted, not only them, but Alessio and his brothers also? Is the whole alliance truly a scam? Will walls begin to break and connections form? Will the animosity from both powerful families break Celena? Or will one or two more big secrets shake up everything they all know? ----------------- HIGHEST RANKINGS #1 in Fake Date #57 in enemies to lovers #52 in arranged marriage

EDITING "just you and me" The story of a female assassin and an Italian Don Can they get their happily ever after, or will it be compromised by outside threats? contains sexual content, mature language, sensitive topics

ＤＩＳＣＬＡＩＭＥＲ This book will NOT have any SMUT. If you're looking for scenes with the fRiCkLe fRaCkLe then please proceed elsewhere :) Alsooo the first couple of chapters are kinda...bad- but it gets better and i WILL be rewriting them once the book is finished just to letcha know 𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖆𝖍 𝕬𝖌𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖎 Despite being abused by her step father since she was 13, she will not hesitate to kill you if you make one wrong move. One hell of a fighter, sarcastic, broken but still kind, she hides her true self behind a veil of normalcy. After her experience with men she swore that she will 𝘕𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 fall in love. ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆｡･:*★:･ﾟ☆,｡･:*:･ﾟ★｡･:*:･ﾟ 𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖊 𝕽𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖔 Cold, heartless and arrogant, you're dead if you breathe wrong around him. He vowed that he would never fall in love. He had watched the strongest mafias crumble to dust because of love. Love made you weak. He didn't want to be weak, to 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 weak. He was the Don of the Italian Mafia, cold hearted and unsparing, he 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚. ・.・｡○｡・.・｡○｡・.・ Nobody knows what's actually going on in Daliah's life and she would like to keep it that way. But what will happen when a feisty street fighter meets the big bad Don severely injured? Will she help him get better and break his cold exterior or push him away? Will he be able to break down the walls she had built around her over years of abuse or will he leave her to keep hurting? Will they find solace in each other and discover that love isn't a bad thing or push each other away and keep suffering? Can Daliah's first step towards a better life be... ....𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧...? ‼️𝘛𝘙𝘐𝘎𝘎𝘌𝘙 𝘞𝘈𝘙𝘕𝘐𝘕𝘎‼️ This book contains themes of abuse, rape, tortur

"Why are you here Dimitri" I whisper shouted at him "Can't a man come and see his wife" I roll my eyes at him "I'm not your wife and how did you even find me" I say try to push him out of the doorway " Yet, but that can change all you have to do is say ye-" he says but gets cut off by Val's voice "MAMA" ------------------------------ Gabriela Hernandez, a 21-year-old Mexican mafia queen who is trying her best to give her daughter the childhood she never had. What happens when she makes a deal with the most dangerous man in New York. Dimitri Volkov a 24-year-old Russian mafia King. He's the most feared man in the mafia world. He believes that all women want from him is power, money and sex. What happens when he meets a beautiful woman who leaves him wanting more.

Book three of the only series They gave her one mission. They told her to find the Chicago mob Capo and get revenge. So they sent her away. She had a plan. A mindset. Goals she needed to reach. Until she met his son. He was supposed to be the enemy. He was a Bertelli. His father was the Capo and she needed to kill him. So that made him the enemy too. Only an enemy. So why did she fall in love?

"Rowan" "I told you not to call me that." His voice is low, dangerous. Lea's back hits the wall, but her eyes stay on his. "Why?" she whispers. Nico leans in, caging her in with one hand. His lips hover over hers, not touching. "Because Rowan loved you." His other hand slips to her throat, just barely grazing. "And I don't want to remember what it felt like to be him." But he kisses her anyway. And it's not soft. Lea Broadway has spent her whole life running-from love, from herself, and most of all, from the boy who never chose her. Rowan Reid was once her everything-until he disappeared and came back as someone else: untouchable, dominant, dangerously magnetic Nico Reid. Years later, fate throws them back together. She's not the girl who waited. He's not the boy she loved. But some names still burn. And some touches never lose their heat. A story of obsession, old wounds, and the kind of slow burn that doesn't just scorch-it destroys. He left as Rowan. He returned as Nico. And now... she's his to break. First book - 2025

❝I want to worship you like a queen. Every fucking day. And use you like my little slut. Every fucking night. Together, we can set the world on fire. Just to watch our enemies burn. Mark my words, their inferno will be forged into your paradise.❞ *** What happens when two villains fall in love? As a girl, she was taken from her happy home, held captive in shadows, and broken in darkness. After surviving hell, she's the monster to be feared now. As a boy, he watched them kill his parents and destroy his family. After losing everything, revenge isn't enough, he's coming for their kingdom and crown. When their paths collide in the midst of a mafia war, together, Rosa Lenoir and Cristiano Massera take the world by storm, setting it aflame to watch their enemies burn. *** Book Two in the Devil's Playground Series. It can be read as a stand-alone novel.