Devour Me Series #2: Hers to Ruin An Intersex Dark Romance "A marriage forged in love, vengeance, and secrets." Aurora DeLacroix built her empire on power and ambition--- but when it begins to crumble, the only woman who can save her is the one she once abandoned. Sloane Duvall returns not as a lover, but as vengeance in silk and steel. Her price? Marriage. What starts as a deal soon becomes a dangerous game of obsession, betrayal, and forbidden desire. But while Sloane craves revenge, Aurora hides a devastating secret... one that could shatter them both. In Monaco's glittering shadows, love isn't salvation. It's ruin. MOST OUTSTANDING RANKING: #1 - gxglesbianlgbt #1 - lesbianromance #1 - samesexlove #1 - womanpower #3 - womensfiction #3 - vengeance

She was just the girl in the room next door... until she wasn't. When Fenix's Mom moves in with Maze's Dad, neither girl expects to end up living a single wall apart from someone who can unravel them with just one look. What starts as accidental glances and quiet, stolen moments soon becomes something neither of them can ignore. The closer they get, the harder it becomes to hide the sparks threatening to set their new life on fire. Falling for the girl next door was never part of the plan... but resisting her might be impossible.

Book 1 of Inheritance Series Banks Mitchell has had a plan since she was sixteen Play soccer at UNC, follow in her mother's footsteps, and love Noah Martinez the way she always has steady, certain, safe What she didn't plan for was Ivy Ivy Martinez has spent four years filing away the memory of one kiss that was never meant to mean anything. Banks called it practice. Ivy called it the moment she understood exactly how much trouble she was in. She watched Banks fall for her little brother anyway and told herself that was fine That she was fine She almost believed it They've been best friends their whole lives. Grew up in the same circle, at the same beach house every summer, around the same kitchen tables and their mothers best friends long before either of them took their first breath. Banks and Ivy were unavoidable in every aspect except the one that mattered most Now they're roommates Same apartment. Same walls. Same 2am silences that stretch just a little too long. Ivy knows every version of Banks Mitchell the girl who laughs too loud, cries at Disney movies and will look you dead in the eye and deny it, and has never once in her life slowed down long enough to feel something she wasn't ready for The problem is Banks is starting to feel something she is very much not ready for Noah is 30 minutes away, finishing his senior year, and texting every night like clockwork. Riley Mitchell is coaching right across campus and already sees too much. And Ivy is right there wild and warm and familiar pretending she isn't waiting for something Banks doesn't even know she's capable of giving One kiss was practice This is something else entirely 18+ | sapphic romance | boyfriend sister | roommates | slow burn | forbidden | college | found family | The Inheritance Series

Vivienne Winters-Crawford has always had everything. The penthouse childhood, the private schools, the kind of money that fixes problems before they even start. But now, fresh out of college with an art degree in one hand and independence in the other, she wants to experience being on her own. So she moves out. No staff, no safety net, just a cramped two-bedroom apartment and a roommate she's never expected. Aveline Parker is a ghost of a girl who prefers silence to survival. Grey eyes, jet black hair, and a presence that slips through rooms without a sound. No one knows what she's been through, except Estelle, the woman who gave her a job, a room, and a reason to stay. Aveline doesn't talk much. She doesn't trust. She just survives. When Vivienne answers an ad for a roommate, she never expects the other room to belong to a girl who barely speaks. But there's something magnetic about Aveline. Something quiet and aching. And despite the silence, despite the walls, things start to unravel. One moment at a time. One scar at a time. This isn't a love story born out of ease. It's a love story built in the healing. In the light that comes after the dark.

Eden Maillard never felt important. She grew up on the upper end of the poverty line in southside Chicago to two mundane parents who couldn't bother to keep her under their roof when she came out to them at 17. Now 19 years old, life has seemed under-saturated for as long as she could remember. When Cecilia Belfiore walks into her life, a rich lawyer from the other side of town, the colors of life begin to bloom before her eyes. But Cecilia has a dark habit, one involving chains and leather. And Eden has a dark past, one involving love and loss. ☾ [tw: graphic sex, language, addiction, mentions of abuse]

REMINGTON I was in an accident. I don't remember much of it. But I remember everything else. Everything except her-Drew Van Austen. Apparently, we were in a rivals-with-benefits relationship. But our feelings for each other were real. I don't remember her, but my heart... my heart remembers her. The more I try to move on and pretend I don't know her, the more my heart pulls me towards her, as if it's greedy for her presence, her love. So, I suggest a relationship-a way for us to get to know each other better. A way for her to reclaim my heart from the shadows of forgotten memories. --- DREW She wasn't supposed to wake up so soon.It's the worst timing ever. I've waited months for my little dove to emerge from her coma. And now, here she is, at the worst possible moment. - Hillcrest has our missing book. - My deadbeat mother has just shown up with her new husband and his daughter. - And most importantly, Oakley is getting bolder. So many things happening, and yet my mind stays fixated on my pretty dove. I need her now more than ever. If you think lost memories can distract me from you, Remington, you don't understand how greedy I am-for your love, your heart, and the chance to rewrite our story.

MIA I've been told my whole life not to trust people because there's another side to them-one they wouldn't dare share with the world. I never believed it until I met her. Kennedy Kingsley. Daughter of NHL legend Pierson Phillips. To the outside world, she was outgoing, charismatic, funny, and smart. But that wasn't the REAL Kennedy. The REAL Kennedy Kingsley was manipulative, obsessive, and a sex addict. When she discovers I'm in need of money to pay for the remainder of my college years, she corners me with an opportunity that will change my life forever. --- KENNEDY I'm in need of a wife. If I want to inherit my father's fortune, I need to get married. I would have a couple of years to figure out how to fall in love with someone and tie the knot. But my mother, as the CEO of a law firm, is determined to strip my inheritance away. I have no choice; I have to get married now. But to whom, you ask? Mia Cambridge-the quiet goalie who's been driving my body wild for the past year. She thinks it's just a temporary arrangement, a way to get my parents off my back. But what she doesn't realize is that I crave her-and I'm not one to play fair when it comes to desire. And soon, Mia will find herself ensnared by my desires, trapped in a game she never intended to play-one where I hold all the cards, and the stakes are her heart.

AVA I was the perfect daughter. The perfect hockey prodigy. The flawless sister. My entire life was engineered around mastery-precision-control. Perfection wasn't a goal; it was the only standard I ever allowed myself to breathe under. Starting at Amok College was supposed to be just another arena to dominate. Then she happened. Zara Lewis-a girl sculpted from chaos, stitched together with fury and defiance, a living storm that didn't bend for anyone. The longer she lingered in my orbit, the more my carefully built edges began to crack. Nothing about us made sense. She was the darkness. I was the light. And yet, somehow, she was pulling me under... and I wasn't fighting it. ZARA Perfection hides rot. I saw that the moment I laid eyes on Ava Solace. She wasn't flawless-she was a walking contradiction, polished on the outside, trembling on the inside. And I wanted her. Needed her. My mind is a hurricane of noise and rage, and she was the only thing quiet enough to cut through it. Ava was my downfall. But she was also the only calm I'd ever tasted.

LUNA Freshman year at Amok College, and my name already tastes like blood. I'm a Graves. Noah Graves's sister. The one everyone remembers for trophies, headlines, and the accident no one will forgive. My sister ruled Amok hockey until the night everything shattered-until someone died and the truth was buried under words like mistake and tragedy. Briarstone never buried it. Their captain, Celeste Frost, wears grief like a blade. Her brother is dead because of my family. When we first met,I know it was wrong.I feel her attention lock onto me-cold, deliberate, intimate in the way predators are intimate with their prey. Celeste doesn't just want to hurt me. She wants to claim me. And the most dangerous part? Somewhere between dread and defiance, my body reacts before my mind can stop it. CELESTE The Graves family stole my brother's future. I carry that loss in my teeth, in my fists, in every second I spend on the ice. When I hear that Luna Graves has enrolled at Amok, something inside me sharpens. This is fate finally paying attention. I expect hatred when I see her. What I don't expect is the way my breath catches. She looks breakable. Defiant. Unaware of how perfectly she fits into the space my brother left behind-how easy it would be to step closer, to test how far I can push before she snaps. I don't want her ruined. I want her to remember my touch when she tries to sleep. I want her to fear me-and crave me-until she can't tell the difference anymore.

HAYDEN It was supposed to be a fun night out with friends.A party before the tournament.But all things went to shit when I ran into Sofia. The Russian second in command at Hillcrest has been breaking the ice around my cold heart for months. When parapazzi snaps some very intimate photos of the us, rumors start to circulate.To save my reputation and boost my family's fame, I'm forced to propose a fake relationship with Sofia. The closer I get to knocking down the walls around Sofia , the more i realize there's so much more to the Hillcrest's second in command. Could this Power Play be something real? SOFIA Consider my shock when the very girl who told me that I was the worse thing to happen to her approaches me with a proposal to fake date. I laughed in her fucking face.To think that after months of giving her my heart so crushed and things we can let bygones be bygones? Of course.It was Hayden Carter we were talking about.That girl how the comfidence and Charisma to make me drop down on my knees and beg. But not this time.If you want this Hayden you're going to have to beg.