Lilith Estrella is an 17 year old student who lives alone, far from the family that hurt her more than they ever protected her. She works a side job at a bar to afford her apartment and take care of herself. Despite her past, Lilith is a really sweet and gentle girl. Still, she keeps her distance from others, showing no real interest in letting anyone get close to her. Until that slowly begins to change when she and her principal grow closer. Miss Liliana Sulvio, a 29 year old principal and teacher, appears unshakable strict, elegant, and emotionally unreachable. She has built her life on discipline and control, keeping her true self hidden behind a cold wall she build. What no one knows is that behind this life, she secretly runs a successful business and lives a far more luxurious lifestyle anyone would expect. She doesn't stay at the school because she has to, but because she chooses to. Focused entirely on her goals. Like Lilith, she does not allow people to get close, dedicating herself entirely to her work. That begins to shift when her connection with Lilith slowly grows stronger. This story contains: themes of past trauma, emotional struggles, family issues, Age gap, Slow burn and moments of intensity. It also explores complex relationships, power dynamics, and personal growth. Let's not forget the most important detail (WLW)🖤

Milena gave up college to take care of her family's coffee shop after her father's accident. But when bills pile up and hope runs thin, she turns to underground boxing - dangerous, illegal, and the only thing paying enough to keep them afloat. Across the street from the café sits a towering company run by Viviana Romano- a powerful, cold CEO who secretly owns the ring milena fights in. When Vivianna hears about a new fighter causing a stir, she doesn't expect the stubborn girl from the café. Milena doesn't care who Viviana is - all she sees is a woman who plays safe and never gets her hands dirty. They argue. They clash. But something keeps pulling them back together.

For three years, Detective Lucía Reyes has been trying to catch the person behind a string of murders across Portland. Every victim is found with the same chilling detail: A carefully folded origami crane. The case has taken over most of her life, leaving little room for anything outside of work except her daughter, Chloe. Then Elena suddenly enters their routine as Chloe's new babysitter-loud, stubborn, and impossible to ignore. But while Lucía tries to keep her personal life separate from the investigation, the killer is still out there. And the cranes keep appearing. Folded Lies is a dark, suspenseful thriller about secrets, obsession, and the fine line between love and danger.

When Esmerelda Harlow steps into the musty halls of Winston High as the new history teacher, with a reputation for being a bitter and arrogant professor, whispers of her arrival ripple through the school. Students are wary, until the reckless student Cameron Monroe allows her interest to morph. Cameron, the school's untouchable rebel with a reputation for detention and carelessness, with a game of causing disturbances. To her, Esmerelda Harlow is just another target-a seemingly uptight woman with strict rules and an aura of authority begging to be challenged. But when Cameron tries her usual antics, she's met with something entirely unexpected: resistance. Esmerelda is not an easy mark. In fact, she's more than Cameron bargained for. Cool-headed and emotionless. Every sarcastic remark is met with calm but devastating wit. Every act of defiance earns a punishment so perfectly tailored, it leaves Cameron seething-and strangely fascinated. Esmerelda sees through Cameron's rebellious exterior to the restless mind beneath it. Cameron, for all her bravado, finds herself caught in Esmerelda's gravitational pull-her intelligence, her poise, and her charm. But Esmerelda isn't here to play games. She's here to teach Cameron a lesson she'll never forget, one that will leave them both questioning the boundaries of power, desire, and control. In the end, it's not just Cameron's life that Esmerelda will upend, -it's her own. In a town where reputations are everything, what happens when two unstoppable forces collide in one university?

It was meant to be just a celebration. Nothing more, nothing less - or so Cecilia Roth thought , a German major trying to keep her life simple. She never, in her wildest imagination, would have expected to catch her new professor in unprofessional behavior with one of her former colleagues. Professor Dietrich - feared for her coldness, her discipline, her distance - caught in a moment that changes everything. And professor Dietrich? She doesn't let things slide. Especially not when it comes to Cecilia. Between rebellion and power, emotion and emptiness, a tension begins to grow. A glance turns into something more. A line starts to blur. And maybe, in the end, Cecilia will question more than just her professor.

Book 1 of Inheritance Series Banks Mitchell has had a plan since she was sixteen Play soccer at UNC, follow in her mother's footsteps, and love Noah Martinez the way she always has steady, certain, safe What she didn't plan for was Ivy Ivy Martinez has spent four years filing away the memory of one kiss that was never meant to mean anything. Banks called it practice. Ivy called it the moment she understood exactly how much trouble she was in. She watched Banks fall for her little brother anyway and told herself that was fine That she was fine She almost believed it They've been best friends their whole lives. Grew up in the same circle, at the same beach house every summer, around the same kitchen tables and their mothers best friends long before either of them took their first breath. Banks and Ivy were unavoidable in every aspect except the one that mattered most Now they're roommates Same apartment. Same walls. Same 2am silences that stretch just a little too long. Ivy knows every version of Banks Mitchell the girl who laughs too loud, cries at Disney movies and will look you dead in the eye and deny it, and has never once in her life slowed down long enough to feel something she wasn't ready for The problem is Banks is starting to feel something she is very much not ready for Noah is 30 minutes away, finishing his senior year, and texting every night like clockwork. Riley Mitchell is coaching right across campus and already sees too much. And Ivy is right there wild and warm and familiar pretending she isn't waiting for something Banks doesn't even know she's capable of giving One kiss was practice This is something else entirely 18+ | sapphic romance | boyfriend sister | roommates | slow burn | forbidden | college | found family | The Inheritance Series

Hettie's last year at Cackle's Academy is thrown into discourse as she makes a new chaotic best friend who starts a relationship with the Deputy Headmistress. Then to her utter surprise, Hettie finds herself drawn to the new Head of Herbology: Ms. Reed. Thank you to everyone who read Focus. and if you are new here- this story is from an OG character point of view from Focus. so please read that first :) This chapter takes place after the Christmas Ball whilst Hettie is at home with her family for the break. Enjoy! So excited to share this new perspective on the completed story with you!

At university and on social media labels stick to your skin as fast as rumors. Avery is used to it. Too masculine. Too muscular. People have already decided for her: Avery is a lesbian. Obviously. Except she has never felt anything for a woman. She's is straight. She's sure of it. And she's done letting other people decide who she is. She claims it openly: she's a straight masc. Period. Then "That girl" arrives. Mary. Soft-spoken. Intelligent. Discreet. Innocent. Almost too perfect. And despite all her certainty, Avery feels drawn to her. Like a moth to a flame. Until she begins to realize that Mary might not be as pure as she seems

Mariah Jade Grey is 21 years old, freshly graduated, and trying to figure out what comes next. She's stylish, sarcastic, and guarded- always has been. After losing more than she ever talks about, she's learned not to get too close. Love doesn't stay. People don't stay. So she keeps herself safe: with ambition, independence, and the quiet ache of something missing. Kyra Reyes is 30 years old, the kind of woman with a camera in one hand and someone new on her arm- easy, unattached, free. Nothing ever sticks: not the girls she leaves tangled in her sheets, not the art that never quite feels finished, not the whispers about her being a player. But when it comes to Mariah, everything sticks. Every glance. Every laugh. Every moment that isn't supposed to mean anything, but somehow means everything. As their best friends build new lives and the city around them quiets down, Mariah and Kyra find themselves circling each other, drawn together by late nights, unspoken truths, and the weight of everything they won't say out loud. It's there in the way Kyra looks at her. It's there in the way Mariah never quite lets her go. And when the silence finally breaks, it changes everything. What they have isn't just friendship. But it isn't love. Not yet. Maybe not ever. Almost. But is almost ever enough?

Lena Carrington is at the top of the world, she not only founded Carrington Industries but she is also a genius, creating cures and antidotes all the time. Lena does what has to be done to be the best, meaning she is rather cold and only focusing on her work, it doesn't matter her own private life suffers the cost. Zoey Porter is basically a walking sunshine, not one bad bone in her body, Zoey works as Valentina Powers's assistant but her true passion are numbers and science, she also reads people like a book, she tries supressing it but she can't help it when she sees someone she can tell exactly how they are feeling and the reason behind it, except Lena Carrington, that woman is a mystery, a very attractive one at that. Zoey has a threat in her life that she tries to avoid at all costs, but will she succeed? And what will happen to her passion? Can things change for her, and will Lena play a role in it?