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.

Dreykov's Widows are some of the world's deadliest assassins. The Red Room has agents deployed all over the world, trained at a secret facility for nearly a century. Those able to survive training are lucky, and those able to escape the Red Room are legendary. Natasha Romanoff was one of the first, followed by Maryshka 'Mary' Kravchenko, the Red Widow. Mary was once a little Ukrainian girl, but is now an American woman fending for herself on the streets of New York. Her chosen life is one of peace and pacifism. She doesn't choose violence, but violence chooses her in the form of Frank Castle, the Punisher. #1 ɪɴ ꜰʀᴀɴᴋᴄᴀꜱᴛʟᴇ