She spent her entire life preparing to inherit an empire. Her father left her one final condition. Maxine Vale is brilliant, ruthless, and fiercely independent. She sacrificed nearly everything for one goal: taking control of Vale Industries. Then her father dies, and his will delivers an ultimatum...if Maxine wants the company, she must be married and raising a child within one year. Cornered, Maxine makes one reckless claim. She's already in love. With her assistant, Reese. Reese is a single mother with no intention of becoming part of Maxine's carefully controlled world. But one lie becomes a proposal, a marriage, and a life neither woman expected. The plan is simple: get married, convince everyone, secure the company, and walk away. Except pretending to be someone's wife is easy. Pretending you don't want to be might be the problem. 🌹 W/W • Age Gap • Fake Marriage • Slow Burn • Found Family

Grace has always been the responsible one. After losing her parents, responsibility was all she knew-taking care of her younger sister, keeping her head down, never letting herself slip. No parties, no distractions, and definitely no time for love. It never mattered anyway. Love was something that never seemed to belong to her. Until now. What started as a simple tango class, just a chance to learn something she'd always admired, changes everything the moment she meets her. The instructor. Beautiful, magnetic, impossible to look away from. But falling for her is dangerous. Because she's married. She's forbidden. And she's the mother of her sister's best friend. Grace promised herself she would never risk her heart. But on the dance floor, with every step and every stolen glance, she's beginning to wonder if some loves are worth breaking all the rules for.

Lana Grace is 24 years old, stuck between a relationship that no longer feels like love and a life that no longer feels like hers. What once felt beautiful started to feel suffocating. The longer her relationship lasts, the worse it gets: distance, forced reassurance, and the exhausting effort to be the perfect version of herself. Somewhere along the way, Lana stopped being loved for who she is: emotional, outgoing, affectionate, a girl who romanticises life and fills notebooks with poetry nobody appreciates enough. But when Lana finally gets the opportunity she's been waiting for, a job at Moretti & Co. Publishing, everything changes. That means Alessia Moretti. Alessia is 33 years old, impossibly composed, and unreadable. She is the billionaire CEO of one of the world's most respected publishing companies. She's elegant, disciplined, and painfully closed off. After spending five years trapped in a marriage arranged for business, Alessia finally reclaimed her freedom when her father died. But not for love. Never for that. Love, to Alessia, is nothing more than a liability. So she buries herself in work, expensive wine and poetry that feels safer than her feelings. To Alessia, Lana should be easy to dismiss. Instead, she becomes impossible to stop thinking about. Alessia and Lana have met before. Twice. Brief enough that it should've meant nothing. But when Alessia approaches Lana again, it's different. Their connection should begin and end at work. Alessia is Lana's new boss and completely out of reach in every possible way. But through mutual friends, late nights at work, trips, and accidental moments of vulnerability, the distance between them slowly disappears. The more Lana sees past Alessia's walls, she realises the woman everyone calls cold has never been loved gently before. And when something happens, the line between fear and love becomes impossible to ignore. Some people are misunderstood. Others are simply misread.

Lucy 17yrs old. On the run with nothing but a bag of stolen goods and a scary past. She's run from city to city trying to survive but what happens when her journey shifts? Two queens. One little. All three want peace. Love. But are they ready to truly surrender their own walls? Will they be fearful of their own future? Or will they come together with love. Trust. And a bit of magic?

"She's filthy," Athena whispered, her voice tight with anger. "And she hasn't said a word." "She won't," Freya whispered back, watching the trembling child. An overwhelming feeling of possession took root in her heart, fierce and final. Freya looked back down at the little girl, her green eyes softening. "You're safe now." ༺ღ_______________________________ღ༻ Six-year-old Siena survives by staying invisible. She doesn't speak a word. When mafia guards raid her dark home and drag her tormentor away, she braces herself for the worst. Instead, she is brought straight to Freya and Athena Fioravanti-the two most feared and powerful women. Cold, lethal, and feared by everyone, the Donnas don't do charity. Yet, the moment they see the fragile, silent girl sobbing and clutching a tattered stuffed bunny, they make up their minds. She isn't just some stray they rescued. She's theirs now. And they'll burn the city down before they let anyone get near her again. Siena expects more pain. Instead, she's about to discover what happens when the monsters of the city decide to become your mothers.

A gothic story set in Castle Dimitrescu about a young girl who travels with a seamstress to a remote castle for work. What starts as a simple stay turns tense and overwhelming as the castle proves to be huge, eerie, and full of things no one talks about. The girl struggles with fear and feeling out of place, and sometimes slips into younger, regressed states when things become too much for her. She's not really understood by anyone there at first. Lady Dimitrescu, the castle's strict and intimidating owner, isn't the type to care for guests-but she notices more than she lets on. Over time, things slowly shift as the castle stops feeling quite as cold, and something like reluctant protection starts to form.

A story about two lesbian ceo's and a little. - - - This story can be a stand-alone but if you have read Held in Violent Hands then this story takes place two years later. Cover is from pinterest - @ecliթše

She didn't cry when they opened the door. She just stood there, fingers locked around the strap of her bag, eyes already searching for the nearest exit. Sienna and Harlow have been on the waiting list for a little for years, when they get a call about a little girl. Lila has been from home to home due to behavioural and other problems. The two desperately want to bond with her after years of emptyness, but must work through hidden issues first. _______ ________ ________ ________ _______ Warning! : This book contains age regression, used by the main character Lila as a coping mechanism. This book will contain mental health issues, sensitive and mature contents. Please, click off if you don't think this is for you.

Book 3 of In The Margins Series! Can be read as a standalone! Lucia Pierce has spent her entire life learning what it means to be great. At twenty-four, she is one of the most talented college softball pitchers in the country, carrying a reputation that seems to grow with every game. Everyone expects her to succeed. Her coaches believe in her. Scouts are watching. Her family is endlessly proud of her. And Lucia knows just how lucky she is to have a life filled with people who love her unconditionally. So why does it sometimes feel like she's drowning beneath it all? Between a demanding final year of college, the pressure to prove herself on the mound, expectations for her future, and the constant fear of what happens if she isn't everything everyone believes she can be, Lucia has become an expert at keeping the harder parts of herself hidden. Because being the best has always felt easier than admitting she's tired. She's spent so long trying to balance everything - school, softball, her future, her family, and the expectations she's placed on herself - that somewhere along the way, she starts losing pieces of who she is. And the worst part? She doesn't know how to stop it. She doesn't know how to ask for help. She doesn't know how to slow down. She doesn't even know who Lucia Pierce is when she isn't standing on a pitcher's mound, chasing the next win, the next record, the next expectation. She's drowning beneath a life that looks perfect from the outside, slowly losing herself while pretending she has everything under control. Nothing feels right anymore. Until Addie.

Autumn is a 24 year old woman who works at a world wide company called empire rising. She's been working for this company for a few months and has always kept to herself. She seeks comfort in the little things. Age regression has always been apart of her life that keeps her afloat, helps her through tough times but she needs to keep it hidden. Everything can go wrong. Everything will crumble if people find out. But what if that's not the case? What happens if theres someone who can provide the comfort she's been searching for? Please be aware this is age regression and not a fetish.