Sterling Carter's life is built on control-perfect grades, perfect form, perfect trajectory straight to the Olympic volleyball team. At twenty-two, she's the star outside hitter at the University of Michigan and top of her class in dentistry, the golden product of an old-money family that only loves success. One game, one bad landing, and one opponent's foot hidden under the net is all it takes to blow it apart. With a torn ACL and PCL and a nine-to-twelve-month recovery, Sterling's dream is suddenly on life support. The scouts stop calling. Her parents pull away. For the first time in her life, there's no plan she can grind her way through, no version of "try harder" that will fix what's broken. Enter Maddox King-twenty-four, captain of Michigan's D1 hockey team, human freight train on the ice, and soft-hearted menace off it. He has everything Sterling doesn't: a loud, loving family, a stupidly loyal group of friends, and the unshakable belief that people are worth more than what they can do. When a twist of timing and one overinvested best friend pull Sterling into Maddox's orbit, he becomes the one person who refuses to treat her like she's ruined. As the season she was supposed to dominate turns into a year on the sideline, Sterling has to learn how to exist without the one thing that's always defined her-and decide whether letting Maddox in is one more risky play she can't afford... or the first choice she makes entirely for herself. Book #1 in the 'Carter' series

In which an eccentric college freshman keeps failing her driving test because a certain grumpy instructor doesn't seem like he wants her to pass. Started: 4 August 2024 Finished: 28 January 2025 Revised: 1 May 2026 *** "Hey, don't make it obvious, but there are these guys behind us, and they've been checking us out for the last five minutes." Karla whispered, leaning over the table. "I don't care about guys!" I whined. "I'm more worried about my asshole instructor. Like what's his deal? If my parents find out I've been failing all these tests, I'll never get a license, let alone a decent car." Karla's eyes remained fixed on that table. "Um, I think one of them is motioning for us." Without bothering to look, I flipped my middle finger in the general direction of the table behind me. Karla gasped, quickly reaching over to pull my hand down as a burst of laughter erupted from behind. "Don't do that!" she hissed. "It's rude." I rolled my eyes and finally turned around to see what their deal was. My eyes widened, and I instantly whipped back around, my hand flying to cover my face. "Oh crap. I did not just curse him." "What...?" Karla raised a brow, confused by the sudden change in my demeanor. I gave her a mortified stare. "That's my instructor!" *** [a story inspired by a reel] Ranked 3 on #hefellfirst Ranked 2 on #grumpyxsunshine

Running from hell isnʼt easy. Especially when someoneʼs dragging you back down into it. Belligerent, brash and always in shades of black, Freya is hardly a lady. Hidden away by her father, sheʼs lived a normal life despite being born into the dark waters of New Yorkʼs underworld. Heʼs cold, cruel and calculating, with a proclivity for destruction. Feared by even Made Men, Torren is the boss of the stateʼs most leachorous crime syndicate. Freya hates his crudity and possessiveness, but she canʼt deny the way her breath hitches at his rough touch, the deep timbre of his voice, and his dark, heated gaze. Torren hates her disobedience, her recklessness, and her chaos. To him, sheʼs only something to be tamed. And after he slips a ring on her hand, snatching away her future, she makes only one vow---to become his biggest torment.

Jezzabelle Archer is a kindergarten teacher. She is kind, sweet, and loves children. What happens when she get a new student and he turns out to be the son of the American Italian mafia don. Alexander Mortteni the American Itaian mafia don. He is cold, ruthless, and bad. He has been searching for years to find his queen. What happens when Josh's new teacher catches his eye.

He was hired to protect her. Now he'll kill to keep her. Aria Lennox is rich, reckless, and royally screwed. With a bounty on her head and betrayal closing in, her powerful father hires a new bodyguard-ex-military, emotionally unavailable, and built like sin. Ronan Kade isn't here to babysit. He's here to eliminate threats. Even if he's the biggest one. He moves into her mansion. Then her bedroom. He makes rules. Then breaks her with them. And when someone crosses the line? "You're safest when you're under me. Say it." But Aria isn't just a job. She's temptation. She's softness wrapped in thorns. And once Ronan tastes her, he doesn't want to protect her. He wants to own her. 🔥 Possessive alpha energy 🔪 Knife play, breeding kink, primal domination 👄 Bratty heiress meets her match 🏠 Forced proximity, age gap, dangerous tension 💣 Emotional ruin, betrayal, and obsession He's her only protection. She's his favorite sin. And someone inside the house wants her dead. Touch her and die? Ronan means it.

everything was going perfect for seventeen year old singer-songwriter mariana ramirez. she was dating the internets favorite boyfriend malachi barton, she just released her second album, LIKE I DO, her and her friends are a part of their schools advanced natural talents (a.n.t.) program, lives in the best city in the manhattan, new york. life was perfect. until ICE showed up at two am knocking down their door to take mariana's parents back to colombia, despite them having their citizenship. when mariana is forced to live with the family next door, her parents friends: the rosses, will she survive living in a house with people who don't even know the basic facts about her but are trying to control her life?

Kalina never knew much about her family, only that she had brothers, a mother and a father who never wanted her. After the abuse her mother put her through, Kalina was broke beyond repair. With the help from a motorcycle gang she built herself back up. One day, she gets taken out of her cell in juvie, to find out her mother had died. Being seventeen, her father has come to take her home. Where she learns he was unaware of her existence. Kalina must learn to depend on others and adapt to a life of safety and security all children should have. And her family must learn to hide their mafia from a girl who means the world to them. Kalina, however, is not as innocent as they think. Her past is dark and catching up to her fairly quick. What happens when she meets a certain man, who will change the course of her life forever. (This book is full of uncomfortable and triggering content, please be careful while reading)

Madeline Reed didn't have an easy life. She was found abandoned on the side of the road when she was only four years old. She doesn't remember who left her there. She doesn't remember why. She just knows that whoever left her there, left her to die. She's been in and out of foster and group homes for years. Most of her foster families didn't want her. She wasn't a baby, and they wanted a baby. Her last foster home was especially cruel. Both of her foster parents abused her, and one day she had enough. She ran away. Maddox and Miles Adams are twins who have it all. They are popular at school, they have every girl they want, they have money, and, best of all, their parents are never home, so they can enjoy their freedom. Maddox and Miles are known as bad boys and bullies. The twins have it all, but something is missing from their lives. They lost it when they were four, and they never got it back. Will the twins find what they are missing?

"𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮." Lonzo Mattia doesn't like strangers. When his underboss, Gabriel, invites his sister, Alexia, to stay at their house when her parents can no longer guarantee her safety, Lonzo is anything but pleased. The last thing he needs is something else to worry about, he only wants to build his empire without distractions. Alexia Dalton knows what she wants in life. After being brought up by vigilantes, Alexia wants to make a different path from the one that is set out for her. But when she moves into the mafia boss's house, nothing is simple when there are two mutual feelings between them. Hate and a lot of uncontrollable lust. Neither of them want to admit that they love the taste of it. ✧ ✧ ✧ Tropes: - Mafia Romance - Brother's boss/best friend - Forbidden Love - Strong FMC/Grumpy MMC - He falls first and harder - Dark themes - Spicy scenes

Recently moving to the west coast, Daniela Parker expected a shift when moving with her mother and brother to Los Angeles. Daniela didn't think she had anything to worry about since her brother is an A+ student, and she stayed out of people's business. But when a known gangster, Enrique González, put his eyes on her, she had trouble avoiding the charming brown-eyed man with a background of violence. *black female lead and latino male lead* #1 in the U.S 4/25/25