In chess, en prise means a piece left undefended. A reckless mistake. An intentional sacrifice. Or maybe - a moment of daring genius. Jayshree is just a girl with a camera around her neck, a satin ribbon in her hair, and a last-minute photography gig with FIDE. He's D Gukesh - the youngest World Champion, all logic, all control, a mind built for war across 64 squares. But what happens when she leaves her heart exposed? unguarded, unready - against someone who's never lost a game he cared to win? Will their story be a perfectly framed photograph... Or a wasted reel left in the darkroom?

Love can be unexpected, swift, and perhaps even fleeting, much like the En Passant move in chess. Jiya Trivedi, a best-selling author, much like I wish to be, dear reader, wants to write her second romance novel in which the main characters are chess players. Her father works at chess.com and she decides to accompany him to certain events to get inspired and gain a deeper understanding of chess and the atmosphere related to create an accurate saga. In the process, she meets an intriguing character who is also the world chess champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, and embarks on a little adventure herself. What plot twists can this character influence in the novel of her life?

Janeisha "Neisha" Bambi has always survived by keeping a low profile. She don't get caught up in the kind of business that comes with bodies, secrets, and street names that echo. But all it takes is one night-one favor for her best friend-to slide her straight into the orbit of Seven "Saint" Carter. Saint is discipline wrapped in menace. A man the streets don't just respect,they fear. The type Neisha promised herself she'd never look at twice. He doesn't chase, beg, or explain. Yet somehow, he does all of this for her. And when that calm, unreadable gaze settles on Neisha, her careful world starts to crack. Now Saint's patience is running out, Neisha's defenses are falling apart and the pull between them is starting to feel less like a choice and more like fate. He's trying to shield her from the life he lives. She's trying to decide if loving him is salvation or self-destruction.

New York City. The city that never slept. Beautiful, albeit flawed. Like him. 18 + MATURE CONTENT • SMUT CHAPTERS: 6, 8, 9, 12, 15, 18, THE FINAL CHAPTER Luigi Mangione X Y/N

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You've been classified. Red. White. Blue. Pink. Dominant. Submissive. Caregiver. Little. Everyone fits. Everyone plays their part- except her. Talia Hale enters the Harmony System as a statistical impossibility. Sixty-four percent Little, thirty-six percent Submissive- a dual-signature so rare the system hasn't recorded one in years. Too soft for a standard Dominant, too volatile for a standard Caregiver. Too much and not enough for anyone the academy has ever trained. A mismatch. A rule-breaker. An exception. Until him. Rowan Rhys- the academy's most feared instructor, dual-classified Dominant and Caregiver. Red and Blue. Precision carved into a man. Cold as silence, controlled as a pulse held beneath a thumb. Untouchable. Unshakable. Unmatched. Until her. "I'd kill gods for you," he tells her one night. "And kneel in the same breath." She doesn't know what to call the way he looks at her. He doesn't know what to do with the way she needs him. And still, they reach for each other. ♡♡♡ #1 in shy #1 in praise #1 in daddydom #1 in softgirl #1 in lightddlg ♡♡♡

There's nothing gentle between them-only broken promises, dangerous secrets, and a pull they can't explain. Ayden wants to destroy her. Alaya swears she'll be the one to end him. But something about the way their souls collide makes neither want to stop

Ella is on the run, terrified that the men who stole her right off the street will find her again. A sweet, unloved young woman who has lived the past few years in foster care before winding up on the streets, she's somehow managed to maintain her innocence and gentle nature. Racing to stay one step ahead of the vile men chasing her, she runs head first into the arms of five brothers who will always fight for those who can't fight for themselves. These five sexy, former Delta Force soldiers are battle-hardened, dangerous and fiercely loyal to each other. They will do anything to protect their family, and that soon includes Ella when they find her in the forest - terrified, hurt and alone. Wolf, Hunter, Storm, Ryder and Blaize are brothers in arms, but soon the most important person in their lives is Ella, and when she's threatened once again these five deadly soldiers will stop at nothing until she is safe and back in their arms where she belongs.

A Gryffindor girl, finally making her return to Hogwarts after being away for 5 years. A Slytherin boy, cocky, arrogant and lonely. The two unexpectedly form a bond, not knowing that it will change both of their lives forever.