Carter Brooks, a senior in high school, who has a great job, house, car, everything she needs. For what she thinks. She's been on her own since she was 15, moved out of her parents into her own house. Got herself a car and job she's all set. Says she doesn't need anyone she says. Some would say she's Miss Independent. Maybe she is, or in some cases you just gotta be independent for a while. (Trigger warning, abuse⚠️)

Lilith Hawthorne is a 20 year old psychology student with a complicated heart and more issues than she likes to admit. She feels too much, thinks too hard, and often drowns in the weight of her own empathy. She's curious, emotionally intense, and carries unresolved wounds especially the kind only a mother can leave behind. Valentina Salvatore is a 30 year old CEO. She works hard to build her career and keep things running smoothly. At the same time, she loves deeply but carefully, making sure her feelings go to the right person. She has learned to protect her heart and waits for someone who matches the way she feels. Where Lilith is full of feelings and unpredictability, Valentina has her life sorted out. They come from different worlds and have different ways of living, but what if that's exactly why they fit?

'Solitude' Philosopher Philip Koch defined it as "A stretch of experience disengaged from other people in perception, thought, emotion, and action" Solitude is an experience that can exist regardless of physical location, defined by the "absence" of other people, internally otherlessness, a spiritual/philosophical concept regarding the dissolution of self and a literary/existential term for extreme isolation. At forty-five, Professor Loredana Dove has built her life on control. Keeping her colleagues at arm's length and her students at a distance. At home, her marriage to an absent, quarrelsome wife is crumbling, leaving her to raise their five year old daughter in quiet isolation. She has convinced herself she needs nothing more until Romina Maple crashes into her classroom. Nineteen smart, and reckless, Romina is the youngest in her year. To her classmates she's the loud, infuriating party girl; to herself, she's struggling with mental health, taking care of her three year old brother and the only responsible adult in a house run by aging grandparents, her defiance masks hunger, her insolence disguises fear. Their lives should never touch. Yet hunger recognizes hunger. What begins as irritation morphs into fascination, into a closeness neither woman knows how to resist. Boundaries blur. Rules splinter. And both must face the truth: some desires do not starve quietly, and some silences can undo a lifetime of control. Our Shared Solitude is a story of two women who should have walked away yet found themselves consumed by the one thing they were never meant to want.

Isabelle taylor is always the person everybody goes to talk to about their own problems but no one listens to her when she has something to say. she's okay until she gets home and the reality hits her, shes not loved. she's just a good shoulder to cry on and no one really knows anything about her. but one constant thing in her life is her english lessons. Katherine brown is 36 years old, one of the smartest people that works at Oakwood Academy and everybody knows it. with a background of attending Oxford university she is controlled, quiet, strict and extremely ethereal. It's always been just her and her maine coon cat since she divorced her late husband. she likes it like that. but maybe she's open to new possibilities? When Katherine finally sees through the tough girl act Isabelle it feels like she wants to protect her and take all her pain away. but she's not sure how. she'll figure it out...

Isabella Hart 19 finally gets the internship she's waited for at LR Publications in Chicago. Within in the first few weeks she causes a lot of uproar within the departments but how will the CEO Lilith Romano react. Lilith Romano 38 lives for her career and the empire that she has built to get her the success she has today but how will she treat young Isabella when they have to start working closely with each other.

falling. I've never known that feeling before, until her. Or did I really fall? No, my love for her grew, as the idea of her consumed me. the question is, did she feel the same?....or maybe even more. Curiosity Morgan-popularly known as Curi. what's so special about her? you may ask, well she has one secret and one secret only, she fell in love....with her English teacher. As she goes back to school after a mid year break, rumours are going around that there's a hot new teacher in town, what happens when curi takes a special liking to the new teacher, and soon later realizes that those said feelings are not at all platonic. See what happens when little miss perfect isn't soo perfect after all.....after they find out that the one she fell for.....is a girl. (This is my first story,hope y'all like it<3, btw English isn't my first language so sorry for any wrong grammar and/or punctuation mistakes)

Ivy Williams didn't come to Heartfelt University for drama. She came to pass her classes, chain-smoke her way through the stress, and stay out of trouble. Then she met Professor Sinclair. Cold, condescending, and infuriatingly attractive, Sinclair seems to have made it her mission to ruin Ivy's life one lecture at a time. But Ivy gives as good as she gets-and the more they clash, the more the tension starts to twist into something else. Something neither of them is ready for but both of them want far too badly. Sharp words turn into slow glances. Power plays turn personal. And soon, the only thing more dangerous than their rivalry... is what might happen if it stops. [wlw]

AMBER Hate. Fury. Despise. These are the 3 words that comes to my mind when I think of Maddison Powers, my best friends sister, she drives me crazy with everything she says. I'm the founder of Bishop Group, a multi- billionaire company, and everytime I see her again or talk to her I feel my skin burning. MADDIE Annoying. Madenning. Self- centered. That's all Amber Bishop is, I swear I can't understand how Valentina, my sister, even stands her, she is everything I go against. I'm the COO of my sisters firm Powers firm and I have my hand full with that, but somehow my and Amber's way always cross, I just wish it didn't because it takes everything in me not to push her against a wall and strandle the shit out of her. Maddison Powers and Amber Bishop know each other ever since they were little, because Amber and Valentina are best friends, no one knows why they hate each other that much, not even them, but what they do know is that despite the fact that they both sleep around with other people and don't get into relationships the only shared thing in them is the hatred towards each other. Could that ever change?

I met her once-before any of this meant anything. A glance in the dark. A moment that should've been nothing. But she remembered me. On my first day at Blackthorne university , she's everywhere- composed, elegant, completely untouchable. The kind of woman who doesn't tolerate mistakes. The kind of woman who sees straight through mine. We don't get along. She hates my attitude. I hate her rules. But something about her feels... off. Like the world bends slightly when she walks into a room. Like she knows things she shouldn't. Like she's watching me for a reason. And the more I try to stay out of her way- the closer she gets. Protective. Possessive. Like I belong to something I don't understand yet. Because crossing paths with her once was a coincidence. But twice? That feels like fate. And in this place... fate is never harmless.

One girl, haunted by demons she never asked for. One girl, holding onto a dream with bleeding hands. One girl, clinging to a life she never was supposed to survive. One girl-and one infuriating woman she was never meant to meet. Aurora Winters, 18, soft-spoken and sweet like spring rain, begins her second last first day of senior year. The wreckage of a car crash last Christmas stole what little safety she had left-leaving her in the bitter care of an aunt who never wanted her and a man who only knows cruelty. Bruised, quiet, alone and unraveling, Aurora is trying to survive the storm. But survival becomes complicated when a certain woman enters the picture. Valentina M. Harlow, 37, new to this part of town, new to the school, old to the weight of the world. Once a sweet girl who ached to be seen, now a woman shaped by silence and cold resolve. Sharp-tongued, guarded, emotionally untouchable, manipulative and entirely disinterested in attachments. She is the oldest daughter who walked away-from blood and businesses, from love, from everything that broke her. It's been seven years since she last let herself feel. And she likes it that way. Until Aurora. What begins as uneasy glances and sharp conversations becomes something far harder to ignore. Valentina sees the pain in the girl's eyes. The bruises beneath the surface. And suddenly, the woman who feels nothing is faced with a choice: walk away as she always has, or reach out-risking everything. This is a tale of longing and danger, where hearts shatter, wounds heal, and reopen. Again and again. A story of two women who were never meant to orbit, yet crash into each other anyway. A story of it all. Of longing that feels like ruin. Of aching that feels like home. Of broken things that refuse to stay broken. A slow unraveling, a dangerous pull. A love that could save-or destroy-them both. Maybe they'll piece themselves back together. And set the world on fire, together.