Steve Rogers never expected The Midnight Blue Modal - the old‑school Brooklyn bar he runs with James Barnes - to become the place where his life quietly shifts. With dim lights, worn leather booths, and jazz drifting through the room each night, it's a refuge for anyone who needs a moment to breathe. That's exactly what Natasha Romanoff seems to be doing. She walks in every day, always choosing the same booth, always ordering the same drink, always carrying a quiet weight she never explains. Her job isn't dangerous, but it's complicated, and Steve can see it in the way she softens only when she's here. What starts as small talk turns into something gentler - a warmth he feels in her lingering smiles, in the way she listens, in the way she lets her guard down only in this room, only with him. He doesn't know what she does. She doesn't tell him. But the more she shows up, the more he realizes the truth he never meant to face: The most dangerous thing he's ever done has nothing to do with the bar or the past he's trying to outrun. It's giving his heart to her - and hoping she'll want to keep it.

❝How can you love someone you don't trust?❞ ❝When they break it, apparently.❞ ❝That's fucked up, Rogers.❞ ❝Lately, everything about us is, Romanoff.❞ {book two in the agent romanoff series}. {set in cacw-black widow}. {©penandpathways 2018}. {on-going}.

❝Do you ever wonder what it's like?❞ ❝What?❞ ❝To fall in love.❞ She scoffed in disbelief, ❝Love is for children, Rogers.❞ He could only smile. ❝No, it's not.❞ {book one in the agent romanoff series}. {set in catfa}. {©penandpathways 2017}. {completed and rewritten}.

"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘵𝘸𝘰, 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦, 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦." In which Tony Stark's daughter falls in love with a web slinging hero.