Wren and Kenna hated each other in high school. Now mature-ish adults, they still hate each other. The problem? They're engaged. A year away from marriage, according to two of the most powerful people in the world: their parents. ***** Wren Castile and Kenna Gold are engaged...because their parents say so (and no, they're not kidding). Wren has one year to marry her former nemesis, or else. The fact that Kenna emulated her infamously anti-gay father throughout high school seems to be irrelevant--even to Kenna herself. Suddenly Wren and the girl she never wanted to see again are on the same (bickering) side as they face mandatory dates, disastrous family get-togethers, and their unhappy past. Wren is filled with mistrust, but to protect her heart, she might just have to sit back and let it lead the way. Content/Trigger Warning: This story contains references to and/or scenes of homophobia, childhood trauma, bullying, violence, and suicide. [[2022 Watty Awards Shortlist]] [[Editors' Choice - October 2022]]

After four years studying journalism in California, she returns to New York - only to fall into bed with a stranger her second night back. The next morning, she walks into an interview at Farrow Publishing and discovers that same woman is Elowyn Farrow: her new boss's boss, part of the same tangled friend group, and the most dangerously magnetic person in her orbit. Elowyn is sharp, controlled, and always one step ahead - at work, in life, and in bed. Aurora refuses to submit, but resisting Elowyn becomes harder when they keep circling each other in meetings, parties, and the woman whose touch still burns on her skin. It's not just a workplace romance. It's a power struggle. And Aurora's about to find out what it costs to hold her ground.

𝐀𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫, 𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐕𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬. 𝐀𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭. 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬, 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝, 𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 - 𝐀 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬.

Anna expected a drunken conversation with a stranger. She didn't expect to walk into her lecture the next morning and find the same woman standing at the front of the room. What started as curiosity becomes friendship. Friendship becomes something neither of them wants to name and as the line between right and wrong begins to blur, both women are forced to decide how much they're willing to risk. Please leave comments and suggestions for future chapters!!!

Marcelina is determined to prove to her father that she can be a leader and more at her family's marketing agency, Voxel --- love is not in the cards for her. Meanwhile, Lorian, a creative graphic designer is struggling to get by with an unstable financial status, a clingy ex and her boss's entitled princess who hates Lorian for no reason. When a sudden major opportunity arises that would benefit the company, they are forced to put their differences aside and work together. Collaborating is easy, but sharing an office, isn't. Sparks fly, and unexpected feelings start growing but they know better than to mix love with work and making sure the lines don't blur.

Seraphina Esposito is a mafia queen.. cold, ruthless, untouchable. At twenty-five she rules an empire built on fear, wielding power like a blade and believing feelings to be nothing but weakness. Love, family, softness.. those are luxuries she's burned out of herself. Or so she thought. Then comes Elowen Morgan. Beautiful. Too emotionally intelligent. Kindhearted. Too pure for a world like hers... and yet, impossible to ignore. With honey-brown eyes that see too much and a quiet defiance behind her smile, she unsettles everything Seraphina thought she knew. Seraphina doesn't do love. But desire? Obsession? The urge to claim what should never have been hers? That, she can't seem to resist. What happens when a woman who feels nothing meets the one person she can't stop feeling?

Sent to live with her uncle Pete, Ivy Chambers discovers her parents secretly enrolled her in conversion therapy. After reading their letter, Pete, who reveals he's bisexual, promises not to send her and lies to her parents. Forced to start her senior year at a new school, Ivy struggles with religious guilt. Her uncle warns her about the strict, self-assured teacher, Katherine Graves, as Ivy tries to rebuild her life away from home.

One is cold as ice. The other - fire that never burns silently. Amelia Harrington - successful, flawless, uncompromising. She's the cold, impeccable, ruthless owner of a law firm and a teacher with merciless perfectionism and rules that no one is allowed to break. Alexandra Sawyer - young, fiery, ambitious. A lawyer pursuing a master's degree in English teaching. She believes the heart matters more than cold calculation - and she's not afraid to prove it. Their first meeting is a random argument in a coffee shop. The second is a surprise exam - where Amelia holds all the power. And uses it. It should've ended there. But where ice meets fire... there's always steam. And this story is all about it. Two women who can't get along - and can't stay away.

WLW AGE GAP | TXS Eliza Whitmore knows better. As a professor, she's built her life on discipline and distance, and Blaire is a line she should never even think about crossing. But attraction doesn't ask permission. What begins as a quiet awareness turns into something harder to ignore, forcing Eliza to wrestle with desire she knows is wrong and feelings she can't seem to stop. This is a story about forbidden longing, restraint under pressure, and the dangerous pull of wanting what you absolutely cannot have. 21 year old Blaire Thorne