"You hate me, remember?" "I don't hate you, Rosalia. Hate's too easy." "Then what is this?" "This... is me losing control." Rosalia Carson built walls out of words, chasing truth like it was her only lifeline. Cray Smith built walls out of steel, a man feared for all the right reasons - and for every wrong one. She exposes secrets. He buries them. They were never meant to collide. But the more he pushes her away, the closer she gets. Every clash sparks fire, every secret pulls them deeper, until hate tastes a little too much like desire. Enemies can't stay enemies forever. Not when the slow burn turns into an inferno. And in the end, both of them learn the cruelest truth of all - happiness is only ever ephemeral.

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal 'The Russian Messenger' in twelve monthly installments during 1866. Later, it was published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. Before the killing, Raskolnikov believes that with the money he could liberate himself from poverty and go on to perform great deeds; but confusion, hesitation, and chance muddy his plan for a morally justifiable killing. Cover made by the amazing Amber @The3dreamers.

"Touch me, Blaze... and you'll remember me every time something beautiful dies." -- She was the only sin he'd die to confess. So he destroyed his kingdom for her absolution. -- 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. Power built their world. Power destroyed it. She pulled the trigger that turned his hate into a kingdom of fire, and now fate binds them to the same war. Hate keeps them sharp. Hate keeps them alive. But hate is just another mask for power. And when it cracks, they'll both discover the cost of letting go. -- In a city ruled by blood and silence, some names are spoken only in whispers. New York breathes violence like smoke-its kings crowned in crime, its peace bought in bodies. Blaze Marino, heir to a fractured Italian empire, doesn't believe in myths. He believes in control. In power. In pain as currency. But when a woman with white hair and a scar like prophecy crashes a masquerade of monsters, everything changes. She moves like fire. Vanishes like smoke. Leaves no name, no trail-just destruction and desire. And with her, the game changes. As alliances crack and old ghosts crawl from the shadows, Blaze finds himself caught between revenge and something far more dangerous: curiosity. Obsession. A pull he can't explain. They say saints die young. But what if she was never a saint at all? And if she was- maybe she always knew how her story would end. 𝕿 𝖍 𝖎 𝖘 𝖎 𝖘 𝖆 𝖘 𝖙 𝖔 𝖗 𝖞 𝖆 𝖇 𝖔 𝖚 𝖙 𝖆 𝖘 𝖎 𝖓 𝖓 𝖊 𝖗 𝖆 𝖓 𝖉 𝖍 𝖊 𝖗 𝖈 𝖔 𝖓 𝖋 𝖊 𝖘 𝖘 𝖎 𝖔 𝖓 𝖊 𝖗 Tropes / Themes: ✦ Mafia · Enemies AND Lovers/Yearners · Don x Assassin ✦ Russian x Italian · Dark Romance · Slow Burn ✦ Antihero · Psychological Tension

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"Understand, little mate," Nathaniel's lips curled into a smile, "That I intend to fuck you on every surface of this house. There will not be a single room that is not saturated with the scent of your pleasure." *** When human seamstress Mira is offered a job by the handsome and mysterious Lord Nathaniel, she is too desperate for the money to say no, even if it means working amongst Wolves. Knowing how humans have been treated by Wolves in the past, Mira is prepared to keep her head down and stay out of the Lord's way, except Lord Nathaniel seems to have the opposite plan. Mira isn't prepared for the strange pull that keeps drawing her towards the Lord, or for his long and heated glances at her in the corridors, and Mira is left questioning why the Lord could be so interested in her. After all, she couldn't be his Fated Mate - right? The Wolf Lord's Mate is a slow-burn Human x Alpha romance with plenty of smutty scenes 😈 All Cassidy Smoke books have an HEA ending. UPDATES every Friday on Wattpad Or read ahead and get twice weekly updates on Patreon

Iris's life seemed to be a series of disappointments and frustrations; nothing ever seemed to go her way. Iris wished more than anything that for at least one moment in time, she could be invisible. Just one minute to breathe without everyone's disappointment bearing down on her. Ironically, she drunkenly stumbled into the house of a man who was exactly that: invisible. Cursed by a vengeful witch, Cole lived a lonely life as an invisible boy, abandoned by his family and resigned to his fate. Then one day, a half-drunk woman staggered into his apartment, and for the first time in his life, he was seen. Cursed, Cole had accepted his fate long ago. Now, Cole wants nothing more than to be seen, and he's going to stop at nothing to be who he's meant to be once more, for him and for her.

They broke her trust. They broke his mind. But when the past claws its way back, survival isn't enough - vengeance demands blood. Victoria learned how to stay quiet. Grief became her shadow, guilt her constant companion. It whispered in her ear that she should have been the one to die instead. Not her mother. Never her mother. If she had, maybe her father wouldn't have walked away, leaving them to fend for themselves. But silence is a fragile shield-and when the past resurfaces, dragging her into a world she barely escaped, she realizes staying quiet won't save her this time. Xavier learned how to disappear behind scars, behind rage, behind the monster his past made him. Forged by cruelty, built by betrayal, and fueled by rage, he became the kind of man other monsters feared. Scars became his armor. Violence, his language. He doesn't believe in mercy-only vengeance. Especially for the man who made him this way. Victoria was everything he had been taught to avoid - soft yet unbreakable, damaged yet defiant. She had the kind of pain that mirrored his own, a past carved into her bones, a war waged behind tired eyes. She saw through him in ways no one else had ever dared, and he hated it. Hated her. Because she made him feel. He was chaos wrapped in quiet fury, a storm threatening to consume everything in its path. And yet, when she looked at him, she didn't just see the monster - she saw the man who had once fought to hold on to his soul. But love between two broken people is never easy. It's volatile. Cruel. A constant push and pull, neither of them willing to surrender, both too damaged to truly hold on. The closer they get, the more dangerous the stakes become. Yet, for all the ways they fought against it, they kept coming back to each other.