** @TheWattys 2025 Shortlister in Romance ** **A spicy enemies-to-lovers romance with a fake marriage contract trope.** To rescue her missing best friend, a lawyer must marry her arrogant boss, only to realize her entire life has been built on lies. Can be read as a Standalone. || Book 1 of Fatal Alliances Series ************ Sofia Reyes has fought her way to the top of New York's legal scene, hiding scars she can't fully remember. But just as she's about to claim the promotion for Junior Partner she's worked so hard for, her best friend, and her boss's fiancée, Kiara, disappears. This forces Sofia into a marriage she never asked for; an alliance bound by secrets, contracts, and survival. Xavier Kingston is everything she loathes: ruthless, cunning, and impossibly arrogant. Yet behind his cold, calculating exterior lies a hunger for something real, something neither of them dares to admit. As Sofia navigates their fake marriage, the line between duty and desire blurs dangerously. Their chemistry ignites, but the truths Sofia uncovers: about the law firm, Kiara's disappearance, and her own hidden past, threaten to destroy everything. In a world of billion-dollar deals, betrayals, and forbidden glances, love might just be the deadliest game of all. **Cover image by Freepik**

┏━✦❘༻༺❘✦━━┓ 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫. ┗━✦❘༻༺❘✦━━┛ She was born a Castellano. But she refuses to die one. Lisa Castellano is done being a pawn in her family's twisted Mafia game. She's ready to run, to disappear, to finally breathe on her own terms. But freedom has a price. And his name is Lorenzo Romano-cold, calculating, and lethal enough to offer her a deal she can't refuse: his protection, in exchange for something far more dangerous than loyalty. Her heart. He never meant to fall. She never meant to be caught. But in a world of blood debts and broken vows, love might be the most dangerous game of all.

Italy has the Mafia, Japan has the Yakuza, and China has the Triads. And Black Lotus is San Francisco's oldest Triad group. 19 year old Charlie is the youngest daughter of one of Black Lotus's most senior members, Jonathan Mak. She's also a famous video game streamer. When Charlie finally convinces her father to let her attend one of the gaming world's biggest competitions in Tokyo, he has one condition: that she bring with her a bodyguard of his choosing. Alex Lau is a killing machine assigned to protect her 24/7. ...He's also the president of her fan club. ...and, unknown to Charlie, the heir to the other side of Black Lotus, determined to win her heart. This is a 3 chapter short series, with daily releases. Set in the same world as my other novel "Yandere's Proof", it is light where the other is dark. I hope you enjoy :)

SAN FRAN. TRIADS. MURDER. REVENGE. Italy has the Mafia, Japan has the Yakuza, and China has Triads. And for one young woman, this perilous world, nestled in the heart of San Francisco, is about to tear apart everything she holds dear. So she will tear it apart with it. A crime thriller with a dark romance twist. ***** Vivian Jiang, a pure mathematics student at SFSU, has lived in a world of logic, precision, and control. But when her cousin Serena vanishes without a trace, and Serena's boyfriend, Vince, is executed in front of her, the order Vivian has always relied on begins to fall apart. As the Triad world Serena and Vince tried to protect her from starts drawing her in, Vivian investigates the only link she can find to her missing cousin: a murder five years ago. But she isn't the only one looking for answers. Noah Fang is investigating too. Except this isn't the Noah she knows from class-the polite, brilliant rival who has spent years challenging her intellect. This Noah is something else entirely. Colder. Darker. Addicted. He doesn't just want to help her. He wants to break her. While Vivian loses herself to Serena and Vince's dark secrets-she's discovering a part of herself she never knew existed. She isn't soft. She isn't fragile. She is dark and violent. And Noah can't look away. He will corrupt her completely, and he will keep her forever.

Mehrunisa Aftab was born into a life of silk and power, the daughter of Rafay Aftab, a formidable business tycoon whose influence stretched across industries and politics. Her world was one of grandeur-where whispers carried secrets, alliances were forged over lavish dinners, and privilege was as much a weapon as it was a shield. But power is never truly safe, and neither was she. Betrayed by those closest to her, Mehrunisa is torn from the life she was meant to inherit and thrust into a world of darkness-smuggled into the underbelly of society, where power is taken, not gifted. Yet, she is not one to surrender. Armed with intelligence, resilience, and a ruthless will to survive, she maneuvers through the brutal realities of her new existence, gaining the trust of dangerous men, playing a game where the stakes are life and death. Her path leads her to Zuvi Raza, a powerful politician who unknowingly becomes both her pawn and her passage back to the world she once ruled. As she climbs her way back into influence-this time on her own terms-Mehrunisa must decide: is reclaiming her father's empire enough, or is there something far more powerful she seeks? A story of betrayal, survival, and calculated power, "The silk and chains" follows the rise of a woman who refuses to be forgotten.