"The grades are posted," I say. Graham stands behind his desk in a white button-down with the sleeves rolled to his forearms, tie gone, glasses low on his nose, the ink at his wrist showing every time his hand tightens against the wood. He looks like he has spent all semester being reasonable and hates me for ending it. "You should leave," he says. I'm in his doorway with my coat open, hair damp from the rain, sweater slipping off one shoulder, heart beating so hard I feel it in my throat. "Do you want me to?" His eyes move over my face. My mouth. The freckles at my collarbone. "No." The answer is quiet. It ruins everything. Then he comes around the desk. --------------------- Naomi Walker is brilliant, broke, beautiful, and one semester away from finishing law school with her name clean. Professor Graham Coleman is thirty-six, divorced, controlled, and newly hired at UT Austin Law after a career built on winning impossible arguments. He teaches Advanced Constitutional Law like every answer has consequences. Naomi is supposed to be another student. She is not. From the first week of fall semester, the tension is there: open office doors, impossible questions, cold classroom air, Parker watching too closely, Graham noticing too much, and Naomi pretending she does not feel the difference between being looked at and being understood. He assigns her to the hardest side of a high-stakes litigation project. He separates her from her boyfriend. He catches her exhaustion but never exposes it. And when he sees her outside campus in the one place no one from law school was ever supposed to find her, the restraint between them starts turning into something neither of them can argue away. Naomi has a boyfriend. Graham has rules. They both know better. But by the time the anonymous final is graded, posted, and out of his hands, the line they spent months protecting is already gone.

Mirabelle Alexandra Romano, a 17-year old girl who is being abused by her stepfather after her also abusive mother dies since she was 3 years old. Getting bullied in everyday life and getting beaten at home her life could not get any worse. But suddunly her life gets flipped outside down when her stepfather dies from an overdose and she finds out she has a father and 9 older brothers. Antonio King Romano, Italian Mafia Don,The most feared mafia don to exist along with eldest son. Antonio have always wanted a little baby girl, but when his wife suddenly runs away leaving him and their 9 boys, he becomes even more ruthless and cold-hearted. What happens when suddenly he gets a call from Texas asking if he wants to take his daughter in? The daughter he never knew about? Will Mirabelle trust them with her past , what happens when they find what out what their little sister has been through? Will they tell her about who they are and what they do? What happens when a certain mafia Russian heir sets his eyes on her? Read to find out!!!! The first couple of chapters are gonna be edited and we, the both authors talked about the chapters (5,6) BEING EDITED!!! #1 in genius #1 overprotective #1 father- daughter #1 in brothers #3 in innocent #1 cousins #8 abused #1 longlostdaughter #3 mira # 1 new start # 2 mafia Romance # 1 mafia princess # 2 Russian # 13 mafia

What do you know about me, Miss Morgan?" The question caught her off guard. "You built Blackwood Enterprises from nothing after your father's company collapsed." "And?" "You're considered one of the youngest CEOs in the country." His expression remained unreadable. "That's the polished version." He leaned back slightly. "What else?" Ava frowned slightly. Rumours flooded her mind. Cold-hearted. Emotionless. It's impossible to work for. Women throw themselves at him. Employees are terrified of him. But she definitely wasn't stupid enough to say any of that. "I think," she said carefully, "people are more complicated than headlines." For the first time since she entered the office, something changed in his expression. Not a smile. But close. Interesting. Ethan closed the file slowly. "Everyone who comes here wants something from me," he said quietly. Ava didn't know how to answer that. His eyes held hers for a second too long before he stood. "Your interview is over." Her heart dropped. That fast? Did that mean she failed? At 26, Ava Morgan-with her long black hair and striking blue eyes - is struggling to keep her life together. Fresh out of university and drowning in family responsibilities, she lands a job as the personal assistant to the city's most powerful CEO-enigmatic billionaire, Ethan Blackwood. Cold, demanding, and impossible to impress, Ethan has built an empire and trusts no one. Ava is determined to prove herself, but the closer she gets to her mysterious boss, the more she uncovers the secrets hidden behind his flawless public image. Late-night meetings, high-stakes business deals, and unexpected moments of vulnerability draw them together. Yet their growing connection threatens everything: Ethan's reputation, Ava's career, and a dangerous secret from his past that could destroy them both. Ava must decide whether following her heart is worth risking the future she's fought so hard to build-and the past she's desperately trying to hide.

Without any effort he made it hard for her to resist. Without any control she dared to attempt the unthinkable. Her uncle. Her secret obsession. However, she got a lot more than she had expected. He has a world she doesn't know about. But she will learn to live in it. Even if it involves a third person. *Amateur writer* ~ please leave any comment/advise .....helps a lot.~ PLEASE VOTE

"I met him on the night I was planning to run away . he was holding a gun, and smiling." She thought her father's fists were the worst life could give her-until she met him. Lina, silent, obedient, and when she's kidnapped and thrown into the world of Zane Valerio- the cold, dangerous Italian mafia capo who rules his empire from a building that used to be a warehouse of blood. He's power in motion. Dark eyes, tailored suits, and death in his shadow. She's innocence he doesn't understand. He doesn't do softness. She doesn't know violence like his. But fate doesn't care. He promises protection, but demands obedience. She swears she hates him, but her heart and body say otherwise. She's terrified of him. He's addicted to her silence. And somewhere in the middle, obsession blooms. 2- Aug - 2025 #1 - dark friction 09- October -2025 #1- abusive home 12 - Feb - 2026 #1- truma recovery 12 - Feb - 2026 #2 - Dangerous love

"Im Belize but my friends call me Belle, well i actually only have one friend but now i have you so two whole people will call me Belle!" i stare at her with raised eyebrows, her smile never falters "Anywho" she rocks on her feet "what's your name?" "killian" "that makes sense" i raise a questioning eyebrow "you look like you want to kill everyone" she giggles and if it wasn't the most enchanting sound i have ever heard - - Belle is a happy, bubbly girl with a heart of gold. All she wants is someone to look after and love her; so what happens when she runs into a man with a heart of ice while on her daily brownie run? Killian is a powerful man who has no time for anything other than his empire. Known as the coldest ceo to the outside world and the most respected don to the underground; how does a small blonde girl who always has a smile on her face change him? #1 in 'funny' - 28/02/2024 #2 in 'grumpyxsunshine' - 14/03/2024 #1 in 'cute' - 29/02/2024 #1 in 'happy' - 29/02/2024 #1 in 'brownies' - 15/02/2024 #1 in 'sweet' - 25/02/2024 #1 in 'bubbly' - 16/02/2024 #4 in 'fostercare' - 24/02/2024 #2 in 'don' - 11/03/2024

They say the best things in life are unexpected but so are the worst things. Especially the worst things. Lucas Cage has been blissfully ignorant to the harsh forthcomings of the world. Who can blame him? Growing up in a successful, millionaire family where legendary boxers are your blood has made him untouchable. His bold words, uncaring attitude, and cunning behaviour have always been forgiven by those who love and despise him alike. He's the devious boy that grew up into a malicious man even though his heart is in the right place. But what happens when tragedy strikes in his only known weakness: his family? His world as he knows it is turned upside down in the most unforgivable way and now he wants vengeance. He wants to hurt the way he's been hurt. And what better target than the only girl who's ever wrecked his heart? Olivia West has no idea she's become her former best friend's latest prey but that doesn't mean she's not ready for him. Because she wants her vengeance too and she wants it from the boy who shattered her heart all those years ago. She used to be his saviour but now she's his enemy and she plays the part disturbingly well. There's just one problem: devastation arises and threatens to rip both their families apart, something that's much bigger than the two of them. Their rivalry must be put on hold or they'll break under the weight of the world. For the first time in years they need each other, whether they like it or not, and discover that hate isn't the only passionate emotion that flares between them. But will they survive this unexpected path, or will they crash and burn? *Spin-off to the original FIGHTER'S DEN series. CAN be read as a stand-alone. Reading the original series is encouraged but not necessary. RATED 18+* All rights reserved to TheFeveredBookaholic.

ᴍᴀꜰɪᴀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀꜰᴇ ᴏᴡɴᴇʀ ------------------------------------------ "What the hell did I just tell you? Let me go" "No" He looked at me for some time and his eyes started to dissolve. He closed his eyes and I felt his body tensing up, his jaw clenched and it made his facial features sharper. He opened his beautiful eyes, he looked at me and said "fuck it" And smashed his lips against mine. ------------------------------------------ ||FAST PACED BOOK||

❝Goddammit! I hate you! I hate you and your dumb voice! and your stupid muscles and your awfully attractive face!❞ ❝You think I'm attractive?❞ ❝Fuck no!❞ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dangerous, wild and rebellious. Calm, cool and collected. Darya just wants one thing; to get through her senior year of high school with little or no awkward interaction as possible. Especially not with a secret like hers. Ethan just wants one thing; get through his senior year of high school with little or no awkward interaction as possible. Both of their only wish proves hard to do when they both become each other's earned arch-enemy hell-bent on making each other's lives a living hell. But when they become academic rivals and forced to be paired for a school project, they both realize they want each other as much as they hate each other. (There's a thin line between love and hate they say) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "Who did this to you?" "Ethan, I-" "I know every single inch of your body and I know that scar wasn't there before so tell me who did this to you."