"I was taught softness was weakness. Loving her proved it was my strength." Dante Moretti ---- When Lena Sterling is forced to marry Dante Moretti - the cold, calculating heir to the largest mafia in Italy - her life becomes a cage of locked doors, silent servants, and a man who treats her like a debt he never agreed to collect. But the longer she lives in the Moretti estate, the clearer it becomes that Dante's distance isn't cruelty - it's caution. There are things he doesn't say. Rooms she isn't meant to enter. People who watch her too closely. Their marriage is venom and defiance, two strangers circling each other in a house built on secrets. Until Lena's sharp mind starts noticing cracks in places Dante refuses to look. Cracks in his empire. Cracks in his carefully controlled façade. Cracks that reveal a softness he paid the cost for, and a past he never speaks about... until her. Enemies become reluctant allies. Allies become something dangerously more. But in the Moretti world, betrayal doesn't come from the outside - it comes from the people closest to you. And when a threat rises from inside Dante's own family, Lena becomes one of the few can trust... and one of the few who might save him. Because the danger isn't a rival family or a distant enemy - it's the quiet, calculated sabotage happening under the Moretti roof. Someone is dismantling Dante's future piece by piece. Someone is making sure Lena never uncovers why he's being targeted. And when they finally discovers the truth, Lena becomes the only person who can stop the betrayal from consuming him - or the one who triggers the fall they've both been running from. [Winner of Best Title In The Golden Whiskers Mini Awards] [3rd Place in Best Opening Sentence in The Creative Cauldron Awards] [3rd Place for Best Fiction in the Lotus Awards] [3rd Place in Biggest Plot Twist in the Star Sailor Awards] [1st Place in the Original Masterpiece Awards]

Can a man who was condemned to eternal loneliness allow himself to love again? Zeke Reid has spent over a century believing there are no more mysteries left in humanity... until her. As obsession turns into something far more dangerous, they discover that some battles cannot be won. Especially the ones fought against time.

This is not a story about what happens. It's about what almost does. At an Ivy League medical school, Isabelle Laurent is known as the Ice Queen-brilliant, distant, untouchable. No one gets close. No one stays. Alexander Whitmore was never supposed to be different. Charming, privileged, and infamous for never staying longer than a few weeks, he understands desire. What he doesn't understand, until Isabelle, is restraint. She believes he doesn't want her. He knows wanting her openly would destroy everything. So they choose the most dangerous thing instead: friendship. "The most dangerous thing about Alexander Whitmore was not his reputation, nor his charm, nor the power he would one day inherit. It was the fact that he never asked for anything from me, and somehow, without realizing it, I had begun to give him everything that mattered." Slow burn • Dual POV • Consent • Emotional intimacy

For Beverly Kane, a birthday cake is a graveyard of wishes, and a sensory overload is a paranormal event. In 1984, while the rest of Merry Hills makes up the 'teenage wildlife' described by David Bowie, Beverly is forced to choreograph every word and movement just to fit in. Synesthetic in an environment she finds loud and foreign, she has learned to fragment herself into a 'crowd' of voices to survive-turning the ordinary into something extraordinary, and often overwhelming. Alongside an intruder who soon becomes her sanctuary, she is determined to decipher the concept of the human as a 'group of one.' Together, they build an analog haven through magnetic tapes and walkie-talkies, bound by a private language; however, the secrets shared over the radio frequency have a blind spot. When a subtle yet invasive interference begins seeping into their transmissions, threatening the intimacy of their refuge, her fragile ecosystem wavers-forcing her to discover whether that internal crowd is her greatest flaw or the only force capable of holding her together when the noise becomes unbearable. Whatever you do, just make sure to listen to both sides of the cassette. *** WATTYS 2024 FINALIST English translation of my book «Uno es multitud», originally written and published on Wattpad in Spanish. Book cover made by @ellewinterkress

Maya ghostwrites a werewolf romance for a secret account in a writing platform that pays her chemo bills, until a new obsessive reader blackmails her into a twisted collaboration: he'll fund her treatment in exchange for controlling every chapter she writes. Inserting himself as the male lead in the story, rewriting their personal correspondence into the story itself. Their manuscript becomes a battleground of literary seduction and sabotage, where every edit he requests she subverts with folkloric research on werewolves, until his editorial violence escalates, demanding her to write her own funeral as their lovers' reunion. 18 + Reader's Discretion Advised - The story has some amount of violence and mature/explicit scenes. Cover by @devarsh_yagnik (https://www.wattpad.com/story/407449529-cover-shop-open)