Isabeau West: To the world, she's warm, bright, and endlessly kind. The girl who laughs easily, who lifts everyone else up, who always says she's okay. But behind closed doors, loneliness clings to her, and the bottle has become the only thing that quiets the ache she doesn't know how to name. She's drowning, quietly. Then Reed Stevens walks into her life. Cold. Controlled. Untouchable. The next mafia don who doesn't need anyone-and doesn't want them either. He lives in shadows, in danger, in a world where softness gets you killed. But Isabeau doesn't fit into his darkness... and somehow, that's exactly why he can't stay away. She is warmth in his cold world. He is danger in her fragile one. As their lives collide, Isabeau is forced to face the truth she's been running from, and Reed must decide whether protecting her means pushing her away-or pulling her closer. Because when a broken sunshine girl meets a ruthless king of the underworld, love isn't just risky... ...it's deadly. The chapters will come out after touchdown-isabella🌟

A broken girl who was born on the wrong side of the tracks and the golden boy who never knew she was all he was ever missing When Lucy Bradley is transferred from her school to St. Bartholomew's Academy after years of consistent harassment and bullying from her own classmates that nearly beat the abuse she was already suffering at the hands of her own father, she just wants one thing. Peace. But Jack Foster, star football player at St. Bartholomew's, has different plans. The moment he set his eyes on her, he knew he needed to have her, and he wasn't going to stop until he did. The story of a girl who believed she was incapable of being loved, and a boy who gave her all the love he never knew he had. Half-Light Series-Book #1-Series Discontinued

Lily Malen was never meant to be seen. She was trained to obey without question. To smile on command. To lie still and survive the kind of hell that strips a girl of her name, her past, her voice. She was property. Invisible. Disposable. Until she ended up in his house. Adrian Rossetti lives in a world of cold steel and quieter sins-where power is currency, loyalty is bought in blood, and monsters wear silk ties. At twenty-two, he's already carved his name into the underworld with bone-deep precision. Emotionless. Untouchable. Absolute. Lily is a mistake. One the House should have buried. But Adrian sees her. And the moment he does, he doesn't want to let her go. Not to save her. To destroy her. To peel back the pretty, obedient layers and see what she looks like when she breaks. To ruin the untouched thing fate dropped in his lap just to see if she bleeds differently. But Lily is softer than anyone he's known. And somehow, softer is worse. Because she isn't just breaking beneath him-she's making him feel. And Adrian Rossetti does not feel. He punishes. He controls. He owns. And if he's not careful, Lily Malen might ruin him first.

⋅⋅•⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅∙∘☽༓☾∘∙•⋅⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅• She believed she was born to be broken. He had spent years searching for someone he had lost before he was old enough to understand what losing meant. And somewhere between them stood a man who had built an empire in the shadows, carrying his own darkness while becoming the light in hers. Isha Kapoor had spent years running from a life that had only ever taught her pain. She believed she knew who she was, where she came from, and why she had been left with nothing but scars. She was wrong. Avi Rajvansh had power, wealth, and a world that feared his name. But when Isha enters his life, the man who never lets anyone close finds himself willing to destroy everything to protect the girl who believes she is impossible to love. And then there is Dev Malhotra. For years, he has been searching for his missing little sister, the only family he has left. Fragments of a past that refuse to stay buried. Until his search leads him to a girl who has no idea that she may be the person he has been looking for all along. As buried secrets rise, old enemies return, and the truth begins to unravel, three shattered lives find themselves connected by a past none of them remember the same way. One girl who never knew where she belonged. One brother who never stopped looking for home. And one man who would turn the world upside down to keep her safe. She thinks she is the darkness. He sees her as the light of his life. But some truths don't just change the future. They rewrite everything you thought you knew about the past. ⋅⋅•⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅∙∘☽༓☾∘∙•⋅⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅• Tropes & Themes :--> ╰┈➤ Mafia & business rivalries ╰┈➤ Found family / Hidden Identity ╰┈➤ Long-lost sibling mystery ╰┈➤ Trauma, healing & love ╰┈➤ Slow-burn romance ╰┈➤ Dark secrets & hidden past ╰┈➤ Touch her and die ╰┈➤ Suspense

Two schools. One building. And a rivalry that's about to get physical. Casey Lordan is a firecracker with a plan. A Cuban-American powerhouse born and raised in LA, she's headed to UCLA to conquer Law School and the elite dance team. She's got the drive, the fierce Latin energy, and the perfect high school sweetheart, Noah-even if he did just move across town to play football for their biggest rival, USC. The plan was simple: get her degree and stay loyal. But the university housing office just placed her in the same building as the one person who knows exactly how to get under her skin. Grayson Demartino is a walking contradiction. Nineteen, Mexican-born, and London-raised, he's a brilliant Business major with a lethal British accent and the cocky confidence of a D1 Wide Receiver. He's the star of the "boys' flat" just down the hall, and he's made it his mission to disrupt Casey's perfect life. Surrounded by a chaotic mix of roommates-from a Greek influencer and a Broadway-bound actress to a Jamaican-LA quarterback and a "bad boy" law rival-Casey and Grayson are trapped in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. Every run-in in the hallway is a battle of wits; every look in the common room is a dare. As the UCLA-USC rivalry heats up on the field, a different kind of tension is building within the walls of their building. Casey is determined to stay loyal to the boy wearing the rival colours, but the British-accented Bruin just a few doors away is making her realize that sometimes... the enemy tastes better.

Alina's parents left her bruised, broken, and hiding behind a carefully crafted mask. Starting at a new school should be her fresh start, but nothing comes easy-until Theo. With patience, understanding, and quiet persistence, he helps her confront the past she's been running from and slowly learn what it means to heal.