Adeline LaGrange. Thalia Maral. The two clash the moment they meet. Faith vs science, warmth and ice. But the more their worlds collide, the more something quiet and dangerous begins to bloom between them. As secrets inside the church unravel, Adeline is forced to question everything she was raised to believe. She must choose between the faith that shaped her and the woman who is slowly undoing her heart. Some desires don't feel like sin at all instead they feel like salvation.

She grabs my right hand, brings it up between us, and sucks my fingers into her mouth. Fresh heat floods between my thighs, and I'm forced to stay still. Her darkened eyes stay on mine as her cheeks hollow out, tasting me off my fingers. Her other hand lowers between my legs and drags a finger through my slick mess. A devilish grin appears on her face as she pulls my fingers, glistening with saliva, out from her mouth. "Let's see how many times you can come before you fall apart." My breath hitches, and she notices. Her smile is cruel as she picks me up, wraps my legs around her and sets me on the bed. She crawls over me and leans in, her voice ragged against my ear. "Let's see how strong pretty little Soleil really is." That's all the warning I get as she crashes her lips against mine, consuming me from the inside out. ____ Soleil Laurent worked day and night to get into Prix de Lausanne: a ballet competition that offers scholarships and possible partnerships with major dance companies. What happens when she has to perform a publicity stunt alongside hockey player Selene Dalton, who looks at her with barely contained hunger. Will she act on the hidden desires that come up the more time they spend together? Or will she veil them with hate?

Vivian Vox has never believed in coincidence. At thirty-two, she has everything power, wealth, influence. People move when she speaks. Doors open before she reaches them. Control has always come easily. Then she meets Skylar Grey. Ten years younger, stubborn, sharp-tongued, and completely unimpressed by her, Skylar is everything Vivian isn't prepared for. What begins as an impossible attraction becomes something far more dangerous: love. The kind that consumes. The kind that changes people. The kind that hurts. Now married, they're building a life together but love isn't always enough. Secrets, fear, family expectations, and impossible choices threaten to pull them apart. Because Skylar Grey has never stopped fighting. And Vivian Vox has never learned how to let go. In the end, the question isn't whether they love each other. It's whether love will be enough to survive everything they've become.

When a family friend's suicidal daughter becomes her patient, Dr. Annabelle is forced to confront the one thing more dangerous than depression: Attachment. "I don't need your help, Doctor Annabelle." She laughed, but it sounded exhausted. "Though if you have discovered a way to screw the depression out of someone, I would be willing to hear your treatment plan."

(1) Jen Brooks has spent her whole life invisible. While her older sister Jessica is beautiful, popular, and seemingly perfect, Jen is the girl everyone overlooks. But being invisible has one advantage. People don't notice when you're watching. After witnessing something she was never meant to see, Jen is pulled into a world of secret relationships, betrayals, and lies hidden behind Covington High's most popular students. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes that everyone is connected and exposing the truth could destroy friendships, families... and her own heart. Because some secrets were never meant to be uncovered.

5:30 AM. Breakfast. Lunch packed. Laundry. Dishes. Designs for women who get to leave the house. Dinner by six. Every. Single. Day. Liora Bennett used to be a name in fashion. Now she's a routine, one her wife built for her, brick by brick, disguised as love. Victoria Hale doesn't hit her. Victoria just needs to know where she is. Who's looking at her. Why she'd ever want to leave a house this beautiful, a life this provided for. Liora tells herself it's fine. She defends her wife even when no one's asking her to. Even after the night she almost lost their baby alone bleeding, terrified, driving herself to the hospital while Victoria slept two doors down and didn't wake up. She's still telling herself it's fine. Until Victoria's boss sees her across a crowded mall. Valentina Ashcroft doesn't smile. Doesn't laugh. Runs half the city and buries the other half when they get in her way. Nobody's ever seen her soften for anything. Until now. Liora built her whole life around staying small enough not to be noticed. She's about to find out what happens when the most dangerous woman in the city notices her anyway. Some cages are made of silk. They're still cages.

Rowan Thorne doesn't exist. Not the way a person should. She walks through the world wearing a name that was never hers. She doesn't speak of the house she came from, of the man who made her what she is, or the love she held too tightly and let slip through her bloody hands. She has a past she should have burned to ash. Instead, she vanished. Now she stands behind a counter in East Village New York, pouring coffee and pretends she's someone she isn't. And then when aspiring writer Allison Clarke strides into the café, Rowan is instantly hooked. Allison is everything she could ever want: tough, smart, and sexier than her wildest fantasy. She would kill to have her. Rowan knows she should stay away. But she won't. What begins as curiosity becomes fascination. Fascination becomes need. Need becomes obsession. Because love like Rowan's isn't gentle. It's possession. It's devotion. It's ruin. Rowan wants you. Rowan needs you. Rowan loves you to death. (Welcome to the psychological thriller where the softest voice is a predator's whisper, the mask looks back when it smiles, and the first red flag was already hanging on the door: OPEN.)

"She became everything the world ever wanted and I became someone who had to learn how to live without her." ────────────────────────────────────── This story is WLW || Intersex ────────────────────────────────────── TW | This story includes: •Abuse •PTSD •Slurs •Alcohol, Smoking, Drugs •Language •Detailed Sexual Content

"You're my solace." Evangelina Morgan --- 21 and lost. Sloane Armani --- 34 and curious. What happens when two women from different walks of life meet at an art exhibit? Can they find solace amongst quiet chaos?

Amaryllis Volturi wants nothing more than to interact with the outside world. So, naturally, when the chance comes to spy on the Cullens... she ecstatically leaves Italy and everyone she's ever known. Prepared to focus on her mission, Amaryllis is completely thrown off when she finds herself infatuated with Rosalie Hale.