Ivy Flores was a small-town girl with too many secrets and nowhere left to run. College was supposed to be her fresh start a chance to bury her past and become someone new. But trouble has always had a way of finding Ivy... or maybe she's the one who brings it with her. When she takes a job she never should've accepted, her path collides with Kieran Max the arrogant, dangerously charming heir who thinks rules are beneath him. With his twisted smile and cruel silence, Kieran becomes her personal nightmare, determined to break her piece by piece. He's rich. He's ruthless. And he's obsessed. But Kieran isn't a stranger to Ivy's world. He knows something she doesn'tsomething that ties their pasts together in ways neither of them are ready to face. His obsession isn't just desire... it's revenge. Yet Ivy's not as fragile as she looks. Behind her quiet defiance hides a darkness that might just rival his. In a world built on secrets, power, and obsession who will destroy whom first?

From the universe and creator of Empire City Hitwoman comes the tale of Bertie Carlson, a former mercenary from Triple Guard, now a hitman for the Black Mafia. She joins her brother in Seattle only to find herself locked in a war between the Five Families, fighting for her family, Harlem City to wage war against the worst of all the families, the Blackwood Family, led by the cruel and sinister Denzel Blackwood, as well as other threats wherever they nest.

"She's not meant to be a queen-she never wanted to be. But the past has other plans." Dhruvika, a scientist from the future, is thrown into the past-not as a visitor, but as a prisoner in a stolen body. A princess. A runaway bride. A kingdom on the edge of destruction. She's trapped in the body of a royal hunted by ruthless soldiers and claimed by a king who takes what he wants-and he wants her. Magic runs through her veins, but it's locked away. Her mind fights to break free, but every move she makes has deadly consequences. The king is dark. The kingdom is broken. And Dhruvika is trapped between them. She can't escape. She can't trust anyone. But one thing is certain-she won't bend to his will. Not willingly. But if she doesn't give in, the cost might be more than her life. A forgotten kingdom. A stolen body. A fate that was never hers. Welcome to the past-where the future bleeds.

Backup dancers don't catch the eye of K-pop idols. We don't get whispered invitations to private rehearsals. We definitely don't fall for the one person whose career could crumble if anyone found out. But Jaeon isn't like the headlines. Behind closed doors, he's vulnerable. Afraid. Real. And when he asks me to teach him what I know, I can't say no. Now every stolen glance, every touch that lingers too long, every moment we pretend this is just about the choreography-it's all a dangerous game we're playing. The rules say we can't be together. Our hearts say we already are.