[COMPLETED] [2025 Wattys Honorable Mention] Danny's neighbor should be illegal. There's no way someone should be that attractive. They've lived next door to each other for over a year. As a skinny, clumsy, sweater-loving, Modern Poetry professor, Danny never believed someone like him could catch the eye of someone as perfect as Brett. But when Danny (accidentally) RSVPs to a destination wedding he never wanted to attend, he realizes he's in a bind-he needs a plus-one. And somehow, Brett becomes his unexpected solution. Brett's MMA career was on the brink of greatness until an injury stopped him cold. Now, trying to reclaim his spot in the octagon and live up to heavy expectations, the last thing Brett expected was to build a friendship with the neighbor he's been crushing on. However, Danny is undeniably gorgeous and way out of his league, so he needs to maintain realistic expectations. But, when Danny needs a date for a destination wedding, Brett's first instinct is to offer his help. Being his fake boyfriend would not be a hardship. A romantic beach, a fake relationship, and one bed... what could go wrong? Genre: Contemporary Romance / Fake Relationship / Friends to Love / HEA Guaranteed / Dual POV There will be mature scenes between two men that I will mark accordingly. These scenes are intended for mature audiences. This is a spin-off of the worlds of King of Hawkings/Death & Tequila and A New Song/Beats of the Heart, but it is a stand-alone novel, so reading the other novels is unnecessary. However, some old characters will appear, so you may enjoy it more with the full background.

❝i might need a heart transplant, because you've just stolen mine.❞ ❝mr. davis, i'm your doctor.❞ - [BXB] Amos Singh is a resident doctor who just got out of med school. Though he thought he had prepared himself for the best and the worst regarding his job in the medical field, he didn't expect to come across a certain chocolate-skinned troublemaker who would steal his heart within their first few interactions. - copyright: all rights reserved. (completed)

When Alistair Melek gave his life to the sea, various degrees of things changed. For starters, his love for bloodshed was amplified. Bolder. He was drawn to the clash of a sword, blood spilling below the floorboards, like a moth drawn to a flame. And this love was damned to spread through his crew as some treacherous disease, claiming any and all who joined. But he knew this was the price he'd pay. The price for the sea itself. So when his crew completes another standard loot and pillage from a merchant ship, he allows his men a bit of fun. He liked to give them an audience, rounding up those who didn't fall victim to the blade during battle, and forcing them to beg for their lives. To prove how much they really wanted to live. Alistair had ruled the sea for some years now. Killed thousands, maybe tens of thousands. Destroyed hundreds, maybe thousands of vessels. And yet, each feeble human was all the same. There was not one man he threatened that didn't beg for their lives with all they had in them when faced with the wrong end of the sword. Each feeble human was always the same. Or so he thought. And yet, he also thought that this would be a standard job. A treat for his men after a night of good work. But this particular survivor, the one with long white hair and dead-looking eyes... He wasn't a merchant. He couldn't have been. More importantly, there was no hesitancy when Alistair asked the fairly built man whether he wanted to live, and the man replied with a simple no.

Killian didn't think life would get much worse... That was until he busted a kids nose and was suspended from his PhD program. And maybe it was luck, or God looking out for his tortured soul, because who knew something so good could come from something so terrible. Killian met James. James met Killian. The rest was semantics.

Gao Tu is a Prime Alpha who owns the city-or so he thought. When his family's shipping empire crumbles overnight, he's sold like a piece of high-end property to the one man he's always despised: Shen Wenlang. A man he mocked as a "plain Beta" with the emotional range of a spreadsheet and a scent that smells like a pharmacy. But the marriage is a cage with no key, and the Beta isn't what he seems. Behind the silver glasses and suits lies an Enigma with a scent that can drop an Alpha to his knees and a dark, obsessive need for control. As the lines between hatred and addiction blur, Tu must decide if he's fighting for his freedom or for the monster who hijacked his very soul.

George Oliver has always been the son his father couldn't understand-too delicate, too soft, too wrong. When his family decides to "straighten him out," he is forced into St. Augustine's, a strict Christian boarding school where wealth, reputation, and tradition matter more than truth. At St. Augustine's, being gay isn't just forbidden-it's treated like a disease. George hides behind quiet smiles and careful lies, terrified of the whispers that already follow him. His new roommate, Sebastian Kingsley, is everything George is not: brilliant, athletic, admired... and proudly homophobic. The school's golden prodigy is as untouchable as he is untamed, and George knows keeping his secret is the only way to survive. But secrets have a way of bleeding through walls. And when hatred and desire collide in the confines of a single dorm room, neither boy will walk away unchanged. TUNE IN TO KNOW THEIR STORY 🍁🌀

Boyxboy romance He hates guys like him The attitude. The chaos. The danger. But one random night at 3 AM changes everything. Now the boy he swore to stay away from... is the one he can't stop wanting

He was born into blood. He was raised to destroy. Aarush Rathore doesn't believe in love-only power, control, and loyalty to his empire. In a world where monsters wear suits and justice is written in bullets, emotions are a weakness he can't afford. Until... Zayan. Soft. Bright. Untouched by the darkness Aarush lives in. What starts as protection slowly turns into obsession. What feels like safety turns into something dangerous. Because in Aarush's world- love isn't gentle. It's possessive. It's consuming. It's deadly. And when enemies rise, targeting the one person Aarush can't lose... he won't just protect him. He'll burn the entire world down. --- 👉 He kills without hesitation... but melts for one person.

BOOK TWO OF THE CHAPEL HILL SERIES NIKOLAI BLACK Sawyer Brooks is back in Chapel Hill after eight years. The one I ruined. I'm toxic. I poison everyone in my vicinity. I swore on everything that I was meant to be alone, but then he came back after eight years. And he came back taller, stormier, and... he still refuses to treat me the way I deserve. I don't deserve his kindness. But when a video of the two of us is taken without our consent, the internet becomes obsessed with our 'relationship.' And at first, I recoil. Except, if Sawyer and I sell our quote-unquote relationship online, I could make the money I desperately need. And for some reason, Sawyer is willing to help. Soon, it goes too far. My parents beg me to go out to Carolina Beach for family Christmas, and I have to go, and Sawyer is now coming along. He's getting too close. He's making me want things I don't deserve. Things I can't have. Him. I can't have him. Not for real. But a secret is lurking between us, and Sawyer is the one who holds it. Secrets won't stay secrets for long, and the truth is always bound to come out. I don't deserve Sawyer Brooks, but I want him. I love him. But what if I poison him all over again?

In the blazing deserts of Sulhari, a boy-emperor crowned at thirteen inherits a throne heavy with ancient power-and a palace filled with scheming vassals who demand a political marriage to preserve "stability." His bridegroom is the discarded illegitimate prince of the northern kingdom of Norhollow, a fragile boy who grows up unloved, unnoticed, and unseen. Bound in a ceremonial marriage where the emperor never sees his spouse's face, their lives cross unexpectedly when the young Sultan attempts an escape from the palace and is caught-literally-by the very consort he has never properly met. From this fall begins a bond neither expected: gentle, slow, and quietly consuming. But destiny twists sharply. A secret buried in blood and politics tears them apart before love can fully bloom.