"are we supposed to shine in this light? or is failure inevitable?..." Journi just wanted to keep her head down and in the books and get her family out the hood but her brother just can't seem to stop bringing trouble to her doorstep. So when her brother Raheem takes from the wrong one and goes into hiding, Journi is snatched by the one they call Joker as payback she then must navigate her way through college and the life she tried to escape. Once in his tower she can see he would ruin her in the worst way. She knows escaping is futile but she tries anyway. Yakhir aka Joker owns the streets of Atlanta there's nothing that slips past him so when a low level dopeboy takes something and thinks he can run off he has another thing coming. Joker snatches the one person he cares about, his baby sister to draw him out. Once he has Journi he instantly knows he's not giving her back. She's his to keep. After laying eyes on the sweet, smart and clever beauty he knows he'd paint his city red behind her. Will the inevitable keep them apart? Or will Journi and Yakhir fight for their love after the ruin? Cover Credit: @KYTHEWRITERR

In Karakura City, there are places people avoid, places people fear, and places people forget to notice at all. Naia Hayes built none of those. She built a bookstore-café instead. Honey & Paper was meant to be simple-warm light, good coffee, and a quiet space where people could breathe without being asked questions they didn't want to answer. Naia runs it with calm hands and a gentleness that never feels fragile, even when the city outside refuses to stay ordinary. It starts with a child. Yachiru appears in her life like she belongs there-bright, fearless, and far too comfortable slipping in and out of the café. She talks too much, asks strange questions, and mentions things that sound like imagination... until they don't. Especially when she talks about a man she calls "Kennie." Naia assumes it's a child's story. Until it isn't. Because Karakura City has a way of letting its undercurrent spill into quiet places. When figures from that undercurrent begin appearing at her doorstep, Naia does not ask for explanations she may not like. She simply watches, listens, and keeps her boundaries intact. And she lets them stay. Among them is a man the city does not speak about lightly-someone whose presence carries weight where rules are enforced rather than followed. People expect fear to follow him. Instead, he finds a place where no one lowers their voice because of him. Not even her. As Honey & Paper becomes an unspoken meeting point between ordinary life and the city's hidden world, Naia finds herself holding a fragile balance between what people are, what they're believed to be, and what they become when someone chooses not to look away. Some call it dangerous. Some call it impossible. But in Karakura City, even dangerous things eventually learn where to sit down. And sometimes, they bring their family with them.

She's used to being the punchline. He's ready to burn down the theater. Journee Doyle has perfected the art of invisibility. As a plus-size woman in a world obsessed with size zero, she knows her role: be the funny friend, the hard worker, and the one who takes every insult with a smile. By day, she's a ghost. By night, she waits tables at the prestigious Nocturne Crown Hotel, serving Manhattan's elite while trying to forget she exists. Until the night she can't. A backhanded compliment from a billionaire guest and a "clumsy" spill of red wine by a jealous waitress leave Journee humiliated in a room full of people who refuse to look her in the eye. She flees, thinking it's just another scar to hide. She's wrong. Someone was looking. Andrés Morales-the elusive, ruthless CEO of the Nocturne Crown empire. A man who rules New York from the shadows. To him, Journee isn't invisible. She is inevitable. Andrés saw the insult. He saw the tears she tried to hide. And when he rewinds the security tape, his fascination snaps into a dark, primal obsession. He doesn't just want to comfort her; he wants to ruin anyone who ever made her feel small. When a custom gown arrives at her doorstep, sent to an unlisted address, Journee realizes this is no fairy tale. It's a hunt. She thinks he's playing a cruel game. She thinks a man like him could never want a woman like her. So she runs. But she's forgetting one thing: Andrés Morales owns the city. And he loves a chase. He doesn't want her to fit into his world. He's reshaping the world to fit her.

Katiya is the Familia's blade - forged in blood, fire, and discipline. A Black woman raised within the brutal hierarchy of an Italian mafia dynasty, she's clawed her way to power as the head enforcer, feared and respected by killers twice her age. She doesn't flinch. She doesn't falter. But when she's denied the title of underboss solely for being a woman - and then ordered to train the golden boy who abandoned the family - everything she's bled for is threatened. Románo Valinceó returns home after a decade as a mercenary, colder and deadlier than the boy who once followed Katiya like a shadow. But he didn't come back for power. He came back for her. Their connection is fire and gunpowder - dangerous, magnetic, impossible to ignore. As the old guard tries to force Románo into a marriage to preserve tradition, and Katiya faces betrayal from within, the two are caught between desire and duty, loyalty and lust. He would burn the world to worship her. She would rule it - if they let her. But in a world where bloodlines matter more than blood spilled, how far will they go to carve out a kingdom of their own? ANOTHA ONE anyways second book out here don't bite my book and yeah enjoy

(Cliche plot with lots of details and side stories) After taken from her home to force her mother to rake up cash, Tati is under the care of Killian Cermak. The nephew of one of the biggest mob bosses in the country. While Killian attempts to make sure Tati doesn't run, he also deals with the enemy determined to throw him under the bus for a crime his family never committed. While Tati is kept in custody by the intimidating loan shark, tensions are high causing her to dislike him more and more yet he becomes more interested. (Warning: story contains explicit violence, harsh language, and smutt scenes)

(This is the second book to a series. Read 'the Lucky Doberman' first if you haven't. Thank you!) In the midst of their growing relationship, Marco and Zoe run into another problem. Or perhaps, a returning problem. Problems? With some new and one that never fully went away, the pair try their hardest to not lose themselves to the bumps along the road, as they experience trials most couples don't usually face and attempt to exterminate the pest that has a consistent bite much stronger than the rest. Will their relationship pass the obstacles or will the hardships and sudden complications win? (Story contains translations. I do not speak Italian, so if anyone who does notices that any translation is incorrect, please politely inform me and I will edit the translation. Thank you!) (18+ Warning: story contains smut, strong language, and violence. Reader discretion advised)

Zoe is a girl who'd never run into a problem in her entire life. Her close friends and family joke that she's been born lucky and so far they haven't been wrong. After using that luck to receive a very well paid job working for a devilishly handsome Italian boss, Marco de Luca, she notices some things out of the ordinary that most bosses wouldn't allow at the workplace. While she works for him, he notices something as well...that the rumor about her luck might not be too far fetched. Follow the two in this story as Zoe tries to figure out what secrets her boss has been hiding and he tries to figure out what secrets she can help him uncover. (Warning: story contains mature language, smut scenes, and violence)

(The rest of my main characters in other books are not described and are meant for the reader to imagine however they want. But this story is specifically bwwm as I was asked to create) Willow, a soft and innocent goody two shoes who is just trying to make ends meet to support herself and her dad, takes up a new job as a maid in one of the richest neighborhoods in the city. She expects it to be like all of the other cleaning jobs she's had until she finds out her new boss has a son her age. Isaiah, the menacing bad boy who isn't used to the rich life. He's actually used to much worse, and it shows. Although she thinks the two are too different and Isaiah isn't the kind of person or lives the kind of lifestyle Willow is used to, she finds herself being around Isaiah increasingly often, contrary to his seemingly bad influence. Can she handle it? (Warning: story contains smutt scenes, second hand embarrassment worthy scenes, and mature language)

An impossible debt. A dangerous offer. A love that could ruin or redeem them. For her entire life, Amara Johnson has lived in a bubble. Sheltered and coddled by her loving but average family, her world is small, safe, and predictable. That all shatters when she follows her brother to Tokyo for a fresh start. But her brother's secret gambling habit plunges them into a nightmare. He didn't just borrow money-he borrowed from Kenzo Sato, the most feared and powerful Oyabun of the Yakuza in Japan. Now, to protect her brother's life, Amara must leave her quiet job at the bank and work off his massive debt in Kenzo's front: an exclusive, members-only cafe in the heart of Shinjuku. She's out of place, naive, and terrified. And she's utterly captivating to him. Kenzo Sato is a vision of controlled chaos-sharp suits over intricate tattoos, a piercing gaze that sees everything, and a billionaire empire built on power and respect. He is everything her sheltered life taught her to fear. To Amara, he's utterly terrifying. To Kenzo, she's an exotic breath of fresh air-a innocence he never knew he craved. He makes her a new offer: become his exclusively. His companion. His obsession. In return, her brother's debt vanishes and she will want for nothing. It's a gilded cage that promises to lift her from poverty and change her life forever. Caught between fear and a fierce, unexpected attraction, Amara must navigate a world of danger, luxury, and dark desire. Can her sheltered heart survive the ruthless world of the Yakuza? Or will the man who owns her debt also claim her heart?

An autistic girl sheltered her whole life gets a taste of danger once she meets a thug named Santiago Perez. ​Santiago "Ghost" Perez set his eyes on Zari one time and has never left her alone since "Checkin' your location, I'm wishin' I was close to you I left my heart on the West End, I can't wait to get home to you"