𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐚𝐦. . . . There are things you're taught not to do. Rules you're told to follow. People you're meant to forget. Flora never planned to end up here, but after one too many mistakes, her life dives for rock bottom. Now, she's trapped in a world she doesn't understand, haunted by a past she can't outrun. And at the center of it all stands the boy she'd sworn to forget. What once was fate, fractures into an illusion and twist into something dangerously evil. They were kids together. Friends together. 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵. She's new. 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵. She's fresh meat. 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. What happens when they reunite? Secrets unfold. Chaos runs free. And the line between love and ruin sharpens into a thin blade, as history proves to repeat itself in its cruelest form. A girl. A boy. And a mad house that feeds on sin. There's no place to hide here. You can run, but you'll never get away. "𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘢𝘮. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺." 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲

X is the worlds best assassin and hacker. They are the most feared person in the criminal world. No one knows who they are. Mia is a 20 year old woman who just graduated from college and is trying to make some difficult decisions. Her life is more complicated than it seems. Should she pursue a normal life after college or go back to the criminal world she was raised in by her adoptive family, who happens to be the American Mafia. Lorenzo is a 28 years old Italian Don. He is cold, ruthless, and a womanizer. He runs one the biggest mafias in Europe and is 1/3 of Europes holy trinity, the top three mafias no one messes with. What will happen when Mia and Lorenzo cross paths?

THE WATTYS SHORTLIST 2025 Aurora aka. Rory Westbrook is on a mission to create her own story. Ecstatic to receive an acceptance letter to her dream university in Los Angeles, California, she's ready for a fresh start. For as long as she can remember, she has dreamed of leaving behind her dysfunctional family and privileged upbringing to create a new life outside Greenwich, Connecticut. Enter Nate Johnson, the embodiment of everything she despises. He's an arrogant playboy, campus jock, and worshipped by everyone who meets him - except her. But he's also relentless, charming, and an unfairly gorgeous football star. But as they collide time and time again, the lines between enemies and desire begins to blur and they can't ignore the sizzling chemistry that continues to draw them closer together.

Best rankings - #1 - Monsoon; #1 - Revenge Plot Aaradhana has spent her life bound by pain and sacrifice, punished for a past she didn't choose. When all hope seems lost and the future collapses around her, a solution arrives in the most unlikely form - Viper. Feared by many and trusted by none, his name is a warning. Still, Aaradhana dares to seek him out, risking everything to strike a deal. And with that one fateful decision, she steps into a world that will rewrite her destiny forever. -x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- "What do you want, Aaradhana?" He murmurs, his hand sliding under my pallu, squeezing my thin waist. "You," I bury my hands in his hair, "I want you." That was it. The moment I handed him the match, and let him set my world on fire. He is temptation wrapped in secrets, a man who could ruin me with a kiss and wreck me with the truth. And I'm not innocent either. I came to him with a deal... and he turned it into a binding I can't escape. We're both too damaged to be safe, too addicted to let go. I bargained with the serpent in a tailored suit. Now I wear his mark. Is this obsession going to be my salvation... or the beginning of my downfall? NOT SLOW BURN | MATURE CONTENT| 18+

"Well, what do we have here? A young man who would like to favor me with his presence. So tell me, why would I even bother to waste my time speaking to such a pathetic creature as you? Do you have any redeeming value as a human being, or are you just a collection of cells that came together in the shape of a person? Well, speak up, now is the time to plead your case!"