Aaliyah Johnson is in her final year at Magnolia State University, where she's balancing a scholarship, an art degree, and the pressure of not knowing what comes next. Elias Carter, the university's baseball captain, seems to have everything figured out, except his own heart. When mutual friends and a poetry club bring them together, sparks ignite in the most unexpected ways. She's brilliant and blunt; he's disciplined and mysterious. But between classes, practices, and the expectations of everyone around them, connection becomes the one thing they can't plan for. From strangers to friends to something far deeper, their story grows with every season, rooted beneath a magnolia tree that sees it all. Autumn brings sparks: "I'm curious about you, but I don't even know why yet." Winter, closeness: "You calm me when I didn't realise I needed calming." Spring, love: "I've known for a while... I just didn't want to ruin it." Summer, uncertainty: "Even if everything changes, you've changed me already." Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to the images used both on the cover and throughout the story.

Luca is a five year old who had never known what love is and was abused his whole life. Luca was kidnapped when he was a kid from his father who has been searching for him. What happens when Luca and his father reunite with each other? How will Alessio (his father) manage his 'job' and take care of Luca? ✩♬ ₊˚.🎧⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ Basically a mafia reunited story. Just READ IT! It has a bit of humor to and plot twist (I'll put triger warnings⚠ for the chapters which contain stuff that makes you triggered)

Ezra Laurent-McAllister was once inseparable from Shane Hollander until one kiss, one confession, and one moment of silence shattered everything. Branded by rumors and crushed by homophobia, Ezra chose survival over honesty, burying his sexuality and leaving Canada behind to rebuild his life in New York. Years later, he returns as the New York Admirals' top center, forced into a brutal rivalry with Shane's Montreal team and dragged into the league's most infamous feud between Shane and Illya Rozanov. Ezra wants nothing to do with the past, but the ice has a memory, and Illya sees what Shane lost long before Shane does. Caught between guilt, obsession, and unspoken truth, Ezra must decide whether faith, love, and identity can coexist in a world that once demanded his silence or if survival will always come at a cost.

Grayson is one more teenager who announced trouble by mere looks, breaking every rule on his path with a home he dreaded returning to after school and would sometimes walk the street wishing he never made it back. He worked too many jobs to pay a debt he knew nothing of, and as an orphan, he did too many things without thinking and he was used to accepting severe consequences, however, things began to change when his custody was transferred to his uncles. He gets to be in a family with other kids, and he can't help but wreak havoc that he very much enjoyed, unfortunately, his new environment offered more scrutiny and discipline even if it required a hardcore old-school punishment and a tough love. Will he ever fit? Or must he face the old home he dreaded, again?

Six years ago, Blanchard Collins packed her bags, boarded a bus to Houston, and never looked back. She left behind her abusive father, the town that never forgave her for speaking her mind, and Rueben Bailey, the boy who broke her heart the night before they were supposed to run away together. Now twenty-four, Blanchard returns home with her five-year-old daughter, Willow, and a dying mother who's asked for one final thing-her presence. But coming home means facing the ghosts she thought she'd buried, including the man she's never truly stopped loving. Rueben "Benny" Bailey did what his family expected. Stayed, took over the farm, and proposed to the girl everyone said was right for him. But when Blanchard walks back into church with a little girl who looks just like him, everything he's built starts to fall apart.

Four years ago, Valentina Coppola was erased from the life she used to know. Accused of pushing her twin sister down the stairs of their home, she was sent to a boarding school for ill mannered ladies in Stockholm. An academy shaped like a prison. Years after the fall, she is brought back to Italy so that amends can be made. Older. Sharper. And still helplessly hurt by what happened years ago, Valentina must learn to navigate life with the brothers that didn't believe her, a father who shipped her away, and a twin sister who hides behind a fabricated lie. This time, Valentina has secrets of her own.

London Hawthorn wasn't your average thirteen year old. Though physically he was perfectly normal, brown wavy hair and ice cold eyes that made girls go wild. But what set him apart from other boys his age was the fact that at only thirteen years old, he was already solving a murder case. However this wasn't just any murder case, it was the twisting, terribly sad, and downright confusing case that belonged to his own blood. His mother. When things begin to unwind and reveal itself, London is tasked with finding his father-a man who is supposed to be dead. And with his father comes his siblings, six of them. All tall, strong, and absolutely gut wrenchingly terrifying. With voices that could send shivers down the bravest of souls. As London sets out to find his father, with only a backpack and a locket, he also begins to find clues. Clues to what? Well, that's for London to know, and for you to find out. Will London ever find his father? What will happen when he does? Will this terrifying man even bother with his thirteen year old son. And what will happen when these clues begin to reveal themselves? Will London finally find the culprit behind all his years of hurt, or is it as it seems?

They used her. Branded her. Sent her back when they were done. Darya has lived her life in silence, a ghost in her own body. Passed from one cruel hand to the next. She's learned not to ask questions. Not to beg. Not to hope. So when a kind man appears, she doesn't feel rescued. She feels tricked. She doesn't understand him. Doesn't trust him. Doesn't understand why he's here now, after everything. Maybe he's just another man who wants something. Maybe he'll use her and leave like the rest. And she fears that this time she won't survive it. • This book includes sensitive themes of trauma involving a minor and may be difficult for some readers. Reader discretion is advised. • • All rights reserved. This book is copyrighted by the author and may not be used, reproduced, or distributed without explicit permission. Unauthorized use, reproduction, or distribution of any part of this book is prohibited and may lead to legal consequences. •

"You and me could stop this love drought" Daniela is a fiercely independent single mom raising her bright, two-year-old daughter, Aurora. Between running her growing business and balancing motherhood alone, she's carved out a life that's safe, steady, and entirely on her own terms-especially since Aurora's father has never been in the picture. But everything shifts when a new tenant moves into the penthouse next door. Tall, magnetic, and quietly intense, the newcomer, Leo Neugebauer. (Daniela x male oc AU!)

when I come home I just need love but you disregard it...