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.

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.

📚Her Shattered life "In the ruins of her past, she found the man who could rewrite her future." Tropes & Themes :--> ╰┈➤ Mafia & business rivalries ╰┈➤ Protective male lead × Broken female lead ╰┈➤ Found family / Hidden Identity ╰┈➤ Long-lost sibling mystery ╰┈➤ Trauma, healing & love ╰┈➤ Slow-burn romance ╰┈➤ Dark secrets & hidden past ╰┈➤ Touch her and die ╰┈➤ Suspense & mystery ╰┈➤ Love at first sight ╰┈➤ Enemies lurking in the shadows ╰┈➤ Emotional scars ╰┈➤ Loyalty, betrayal & revenge ⋅⋅•⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅∙∘☽༓☾∘∙•⋅⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅• She had mastered the art of silence-of hiding bruises behind smiles and pain behind lowered eyes. But the night she chose to run, everything changed. He wasn't supposed to find her. She wasn't supposed to matter. Yet fate placed her in the path of a man powerful enough to protect her... or destroy her. What happens when two broken souls collide-one running from her past, the other chasing truths buried in shadows? Her life was shattered. His world was dangerous. And together, they were about to ignite a storm neither could escape. When a shattered life collides with power and secrets, love becomes both her salvation and her greatest danger. ⋅⋅•⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅∙∘☽༓☾∘∙•⋅⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅•

Deianeira Ermington learned early on how to stay quiet. At home, the air always felt too heavy, like the walls themselves were listening. Her father's temper was unpredictable, sharp and sudden, and her mother's silence hurt in a different way-cold, distant, and unwilling to step in. There were no bruises anyone could easily point to, no dramatic scenes for outsiders to whisper about. Instead, it was the constant criticism, the raised voices, the feeling that nothing she did was ever good enough. Home was supposed to be safe. For Deianeira, it was a place where she felt small. She spent most of her time in her room, music playing softly in her headphones, homework spread out across her bed. Books became her escape. In stories, people found courage. They found love. They found belonging. In real life, she mostly felt invisible. Loneliness followed her everywhere. At her old school, she kept her head down, drifting through hallways like a ghost. She convinced herself it didn't matter. If she didn't let anyone get close, they couldn't hurt her. When her family moved across town before her junior year, she told herself it didn't matter either. A new house. A new school. Same life. But the first day at Westbridge High made her feel even more out of place than before. The building was bigger, louder, filled with tight-knit friend groups and confident laughter. She felt like everyone could see it written on her face: outsider. She wore her uncertainty like a second skin, tugging at her sleeves, avoiding eye contact. That was when she noticed Nathaniel Crawford. - "What do you mean?" He says "You make me feel seen, ok? Like I'm the only person who matters. And...... I've never felt that way before" I said heavenly breathing 🤍

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.