COMPLETE 🏆 8 Awards Winner 🏆 She didn't mean to fall for him. Especially not during a fake dating psych project. But feelings? Yeah, they're kind of rude like that. ...... Senior year wasn't supposed to feel like drowning-but Thea Winslow's barely keeping it together between old grief, messy friendships, and the weight of everyone's expectations. Enter Callan Everett: football golden boy wrapped in a storm, too attractive for his own good, and her partner for an annoyingly intimate psychology project on relationships. It's supposed to be fake. Strictly academic. But when late-night calls turn into real confessions, and feelings sneak in where walls used to be... Thea has to decide whether love is worth the fallout. A story about grief, growth, and accidentally catching feelings with the one person who sees through your sarcasm. ...... 🥈Second place romance in author den awards 🏅Top three best couple in the Storyteller's crown awards

𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. Now, with the eyes of the entire world on her, she quickly finds out there is no running away from yourself, your past and most importantly- the Gods. She's a thief, a horrible friend and afraid people will find out the worst thing about her. She's a fraud. Blessings? Curses? What's the difference?

"We can have sex if that's the case" "No, no -that's not... No." My boyfriend bantered, but I saw the glint in his eyes, the subtle shift from one leg to the other. He was already imagining it. Fucking his girlfriend. The girlfriend who loved him. Too much. Way too much. *** Annelise Carter has spent her whole life trying to be perfect. The perfect daughter. Perfect student. Perfect victim. Trapped in an engagement to a monster and haunted by trauma that bleeds across alternate realities, she's made herself smaller and quieter with each passing day. In a world of classical music and crushing expectations, some cages are lined with velvet-and some predators wear the faces of saviors. But when a mysterious stranger emerges from the shadows, he offers her something she's never had: A choice. Stop running. Stop hiding. Stop pretending the fire inside her doesn't exist. Because in a world where monsters rule, sometimes you have to become one to survive. --- 🖤 A dark fantasy romance for readers who crave redemption in the shadows 🖤 Upper YA/New Adult (18+) 🖤 Contains mature themes, trauma recovery, and morally gray characters 🖤 Perfect for fans of dark academia and enemies-to-lovers

"You burned me alive. And I'd walk through that fire again, just to feel your flame one more time." It wasn't fate that pulled them together. It was something far more dangerous. A collision of fire and fury-of hearts too reckless to know when to stop. He was a storm-violent, relentless. And she, a spark too wild to be tamed. He was everything she should have feared: cruel, powerful, untouchable. But his love was an inferno, and she... she stepped willingly into the flames. When their worlds collided, it wasn't just love. It was obsession. A beautiful kind of ruin. Because some hearts don't beat... They bleed. And some loves don't heal... They burn. "If I disappear in the name of loving you, let the ashes remember what my heart dared to feel." [This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.]

{[An Ambys 2025 Round-2 Qualifier]} --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zarya Pixette Mintz has always thought that everything about the world she lived in, was perfect, that everyone was happy with lives. But when she had revealed just a shred of her imagination, it seemed to cause more damage for her than she realised. And now, she was going to pay for it with her sanity. But maybe someone would help keep her life... Read at your own risk. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (This has a slow-burn QPR as a subplot, if you are not okay with LGBTQ+ subplots you may leave.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⚠️ TW: 18+/mature for graphic descriptions of violence and gore. ⚠️ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is unedited and will be under going a lot of editing, enjoy this until then! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------