Mila never planned on moving to Willow Creek. After leaving the city behind, desperate for a fresh start. The small town where everyone knows everyone. Secrets spread faster than wildfire. She wanted to stay out of the firing line. Until she met him. Sheriff Jon Bernthal is older, respected and entirely off limits. He spent his life protecting the people of Willow Creek. Keeping his distance from anyone who might complicate his life. Mila is the exact complication he didn't need. Jon is the exact type of man Mila was trying to avoid. Will they keep their distance?

Aria has spent two years of her life convincing herself that her boyfriend, Brandon, is enough. He gives her enough love, enough attention, enough to keep her from being utterly alone. She ignores the jokes that hurt a little too much, the way he shuts her out when he is angry, and all the small things that she should not have to beg for. Ever since her mom passed, she has ignored obvious issues in order to avoid loneliness. Then she meets his father. Jon notices everything Brandon does not pay any mind to. Every time she gets quiet. Every time she laughs something off that clearly made her uncomfortable. Every time his son makes her think asking for the bare minimum is asking for too much. He knows that she is off limits. He knows wanting her would cross a line he has no business getting anywhere near. But the more he watches her, the more resentment builds toward his son, and the harder it becomes for him to ignore the urges he gets to show her that he could treat her so much better.

Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) is the new man next door-older, guarded, and carrying a past Y/N knows better than to ask about. What starts as innocent neighbourly familiarity slowly turns into something neither of them can ignore. He knows the age gap is a line he shouldn't cross. Y/N is beginning to wonder why she wants him to.

Brooke, known as Lacey on the stage, is a 21-year-old stripper with no family and barely enough money to survive. She's used to being on her own. Until she meets Frank Castle. What starts as a chance encounter quickly becomes an obsession, pulling Brooke into a dangerous world she never asked for.

Jay raised his son alone. He doesn't ask for much-just stability, loyalty, and the kind of life you build with your own hands. Then Sofia arrives in Nick's life, and everything becomes complicated. She's beautiful and intelligent in a way Nick doesn't appreciate. Jay sees it immediately. He also sees the danger in looking too long, in feeling too much. She's off-limits. Untouchable. His son's girlfriend. But knowing something is wrong and being able to stop it are two different things. What unfolds between them is raw, intense, and impossible to ignore-a collision of forbidden desire and the bonds that are supposed to hold a family together. A dark, gritty novella about temptation, loyalty, and the impossible choices we make when everything we love is on the line.

"Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway." - Edgar Allan Poe avant-garde: unorthodox, radical, daring, progressive. Words typically used for describing pieces of art and art movements. Young artist, Maeve Murdock, never thought she would use them to describe her life. But that can happen when someone like Frank Castle becomes your muse. soft Frank Castle x fmc (age gap) [Set after the events of The Punisher S1] #1 in #frankcastle - Sep-Dec2025 #1 in #daredevil - Sep-Dec2025

When she comes home for summer, the one man who makes her feel safe is the one she can never have-her father's best friend, Frank Castle. Older, scarred, and fiercely protective, Frank tries to keep his distance. But in the hazy heat of long summers and stolen moments, forbidden desire begins to unravel them both. A slow-burn age-gap romance thick with tension, tenderness, and dangerous temptation. TW: heavy smutt, swearing, alcohol, cheating mentioned, age gaps, sex, slight violence.

She never expected her one-night stand to be sitting at her father's Sunday dinner table the very next day. Jon is imagined as Jon Bernthal