In a world where 'Soulmates', otherwise known as Darlings have the exact same branding over their heart's given to them by the government as babies you'd think there would be less heartbreak but some don't ever meet their Darlings, usually due to a death so they couple with someone else who never found theirs either, known as a Platonic. Poppy Hart is twenty two and running out of time to find her Darling. When she fails to do so, she is assigned a Platonic, her best friend West who has also lost his Darling. Three years later when the government allocate Poppy a job at Hellbound Maximum Security Penitentiary as a guard, she discovers her long-lost Darling is violent inmate Hex Rose and everything she thought she knew is turned upside down in a matter of seconds. *mature & language warning*

He hated her. Not the I-don't-like-you kind of hate. No. He hates her with every fibre of his being. Her mere presence set him off. He hates her know it all smile and the way she brushes her hair out of her face when she is upset. The way she played with her hands when she's nervous or made snarky remarks whenever he walked into a room. He hates her with every fibre of his being. She hated him. With every fibre of her being. With his sarcastic comments and devilish grin. She hated the way he never would address her politely, or at all for that matter. He was rude and annoying and she hated it all. Everything about him. She couldn't stand it. But then again, there's a very thin line between hate and love... - Dark romance - Enemies to lovers - Arranged marriage. - Forced proximity. - Revenge.

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

When Italian mobster Calvin Angelini is forced to go undercover with troublesome Raven D'Amore, the woman that sent him to prison, they must decide if they will be each others saviors or demise. Raven D'Amore's drug addiction has taken over her life. Coping with her brother's passing is unimaginable and drugs allow her to avoid facing the tragedy that completely wrecked her. Raven made a pact with herself to never grow attached to anything or anyone again. The exception being her only living brother she's vowed to protect. Death is appealing to her, but letting the man who has been haunting her for years kill her is not. Calvin Angelini has one mission in life: kill Raven D'Amore. Unfortunately that's hard to do from a prison cell. Even though he's made a comfortable life for himself; a beautiful girlfriend, his own personal gym and an unimaginable amount of respect. He's still hasn't forgotten about the gorgeous woman who put him there. Tensions reach a boiling point when Raven is arrested and forced to come face to the man she sent to prison for murdering her brother, the man who has vowed to take her already fragile life.

"Look at me when you lie." His voice didn't rise. It didn't have to. "If you're gonna insult my intelligence, at least have the decency to look me in the fucking eye." Evangeline Summers wasn't made for this world- where silence is a weapon, and submission isn't requested. It's taken. She didn't volunteer. Her father handed her over like a signed debt. And Kenji Tanaka collected. He doesn't raise his voice. He doesn't repeat himself. He speaks in commands disguised as questions- and touches like he's confirming damage he already caused. Eva was never taught how to survive men like him. Only how to be polite while they take. "Tell me what you're hiding." She stayed silent. He smiled. Just enough teeth. "Don't make me drag it out of your skin." Now, she has two options: Play the part. Or get eaten alive by it. Because Kenji isn't just the devil in the room. He built it. "You keep fighting the knots like you got somewhere better to be." He growled, breath hot against her skin. "Go ahead. Make me tighten them." And he's about to teach her: Pain isn't punishment. It's permission.

~~Sequel to No Pills. Before Charlie met Mia, he was Krypton, his sister's knight - and Silver was the flame that torched everyone and everything. From her dreams of becoming an actress like their mother to her almost-final breath in a juvenile detention unit, Silver burned everything on her path to destruction. No pill could have erased how she ruined herself, her family, and especially brother, even if he doesn't remember... Now they are grown, Silver tries to learn from the past. If only the loose ties of her atrocity will stop trailing her. Meanwhile, Charlie and Mia attempt to balance adulthood with recovery. After surviving cartels to live peacefully with his friend, Charlie begins his juggle between careers. Mia, too, endures college while playing a parental role for her little cousin, pushing back nagging questions about her father. To the two, all is well until Pamela's reign forces them back into the world of drugs and blood. Can they ever get out?

They warned that love would hurt. But no one spoke of the tempest that could strike before the heart even dared to love. 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐃'𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐎 wants one thing: to finish college, get a stable job, and take her grandmother far from a city that never felt like home. She's quiet, self-contained and allergic to trouble. No friends, no dates, no mess. So when a man with half-smiles, probably a bunch of criminal records, and nearly a decade older than her walks into her life, she tells herself it's nothing. It isn't supposed to be. 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐎 𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐄's life is simple ━ at least, as simple as it gets when it's built on bloodshed and mayhem. Catelina was supposed to be a distraction, a passing kindness in a life too used to cruelty. Soon to rise as an underboss of the Outfit, he's long made peace with the loneliness, violence and silence that comes with power. Until her. He didn't expect Catelina to become the only constant that matters. But constants don't last long in a world tainted with sin. And even the stars are doomed to fall. So what hope does something as fragile as love have? ᡕᠵデᡁ᠊╾━ 𝐜𝐰: kinda angsty, mentions of rape and parental trauma (check the introduction for triggers) 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬: age gap (20 h & 29 H), dislike/frenemies-to-lovers, forced proximity