Niamh Wilkinson learned early that love doesn't come easy. With a mother who tears her down at every turn, she's built a tough exterior--sharp words and a need to prove she's untouchable. But beneath it all, she aches for someone to see her. Rory Kavanagh has seen her since the beginning. He was just a boy, eight years old, sitting in his best friend's kitchen the first time Niamh walked in--and he's been hopelessly hooked ever since. Now he's trying to win her attention with persistence, humor, and a heart that refuses to quit.

Éabha Holland grew up learning to tiptoe--around glass on the floor, around her father's moods, around a kind of love that hurt as much as it held her. She's running out of ways to stay numb. Her dad's addiction taught her how to disappear; hers might finish the job. AJ Lynch has his own shadows--a family name that carries both pride and wreckage, a temper that burns too hot, and a soft spot for the girl who never learned to ask for help.

Set within the splendor and scrutiny of the 19th-century London Season, Lord Anthony Bridgerton steps reluctantly into society with one unavoidable truth trailing him: he is expected to marry. Thanks to Lady Violet Bridgerton's candid-if mortifying-announcement to all within earshot, the ton is keenly aware that the Viscount is in search of a wife. Unlike many mothers of society, Violet's wish is not for power or prestige, but for her son to find love, even if it means setting rank aside. Anthony, however, is not so easily persuaded. His carefully constructed plans falter when he encounters Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings-now his brother-in-law following Simon's marriage to Daphne Bridgerton the previous season-and Simon's remarkable cousin, Amelia, Duchess of Dorking. Amelia is intelligent, self-possessed, and quietly warm, with a wit that challenges Anthony and a presence that unsettles him. She is, quite inconveniently, everything he has ever claimed to want in a woman. Yet wanting her is dangerous. Though Amelia bears a title of her own, she represents a choice driven by feeling rather than strategy-exactly the sort of match Anthony has sworn to avoid. As attraction deepens and the season unfolds, Anthony finds himself torn between the safety of restraint and the risk of surrender, between the Viscount he believes he must be and the man his mother hopes he will allow himself to become. Will Anthony Bridgerton follow his heart and embrace a love that comes unexpectedly-or will he refuse to "marry down," even if it costs him the very happiness Lady Violet wishes for him? In a world governed by duty and decorum, love may prove to be the one thing the Viscount cannot control-and the reason he falls first.

Calliope Fray is thrown into a world her mother hid from her and her sister, and how she deals with her sister's naivety with their new world.

completed | edited adelaide storm wasn't one to let feelings get in the way of her job. most people thought she was too cold, too cut off from the world. they would describe her as almost villainous. except for one person. alec lightwood. shadowhunters | season one oc x alec lightwood book one #1 in Isabelle lightwood #2 in shadowhunters #1 in Simon lewis #1 in Magnus Bane #2 in Alec Lightwood #1 in Jace Wayland #1 in clary fray #1 in matthew daddario

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." ― Lao Tzu Shadowhunters (Season 1)

Secrets, love, and a bunch of other stuff: SECRETS: "There was only one she failed to save." "Everyone is hiding secrets nowadays" "Our first family secret, following in our parents footsteps" "My whole life was a lie. Everything i've known hasn't been what I thought." LOVE: "He may be my first love but you will be my last" "I can assure you that I have and will never hate you. Your flames burnt their way through my cold heart" "No matter how complicated this gets, I will always choose you" "I'd be better once you've kissed me" "It's you and me until forever falls apart." AND A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF: "I was your daughter. Why couldn't you love me?" "Get out of my way or you will truly see the monster that you say I am" "My brother must be really good in bed if you stayed with him?" "You have to make jokes in these kind of situations or you'll be consumed with fear." Female OC x Alec Lightwood

❝When I die, I want the Morgenster family to lower me to my grave, so they can let me down once again.❞ 【 Based on Shadowhunters 】 【 Alec Lightwood × OC 】 【 Season 1 ~ 】

The witches and Shadowhunters have been fighting a war between each other which caused the loss of many witches and hunters in the process. The Clave could not deal with as much and knew witches were a threat. The witch leader decided to make a peace treaty with the Shadowhunters which the clave agreed. The clave agreed to a marriage between a pureblood witch with Alec Lightwood. Version is not edited

❝ Nephilim /Noun/ meaning: Those who came down from above. Half Angle, Half Human. Fallen Angles.❞ Another word: Shadowhunters: they hunt demons protect the Mundanes from the evil and look good while doing it. "Jace"Sage mumbled as everything went black. - Shadowhunters - Season 1- -May contain parts from TMI books-