"You're scared of the way I make you feel because you don't want to feel anything." High school had always been perfect for Ella Marie, she lead her peers as class president and cheered on her fellow classmates as team captain. Ella had two amazing best friends and an incredible boyfriend who had aspirations and dreams as infinite as hers. Until one day when Ella receives a call stating her boyfriend Wyatt had just been in a fatal car accident. Wyatt's long time friend Hero mysteriously enters the picture. Ella starts to question everything she once thought she new about him and everything she once thought she new about love. Hero protects Ella from destroying her life abusing alcohol and drugs. This leads to a friendship they never thought was possible. It could even lead them to fall in love. But as time goes on Ella learns the harmful truth about Hero, he doesn't believe in love. * Some chapters will contain the use of sexual content and strong language Ranking - #176 teen fiction 04/26/19

Everyone sees Aira Sharma as a quiet, simple girl. Soft-spoken. Introverted. Too silent for a cruel world. She lives under the roof of the powerful Singhania family- a mafia empire where strength is loud and dominance is everything. To them, Aira is fragile. Someone to protect. Someone to watch over. But what they don't know is far more dangerous. Behind her silence lies a truth no one can imagine. An empire she controls from the shadows. A power that moves without being seen. A queen without a face. As secrets begin to stir and the Singhania world grows darker, Aira's silence becomes her strongest weapon. Because she was never weak. She was just waiting.