They were her family. Her blood. Her protectors. Until the day they became her executioners. A powerful Italian mafia family which from insides were a definition of warmth but it was a force to reckoned with for the world. It still the same powerful family but something changed, something that made them more cruel and merciless..... Alisya Romano, Falsely accused of betraying the one person she loved most-her twin , Arianna Romano-she was cast out, abandoned by the very people who swore to stand by her. No trial. No mercy. Just exile. Alone and broken, she was thrown out like she was nothing to them. She was sent to a boarding school which is actually a hell hole, a place designed to strip away weakness and forge monsters. And they succeeded. The girl who once begged for her family's love died in that place. What emerged was something far colder, emotionless, deadlier. Years later, she was called back not becoz they wanted her but becoz of her father's funeral....but they don't know the girl who's returning is not the same. She's not the helpless child they discarded, but she is someone totally different, blank eyes, cold aura, a storm they never saw coming. The truth is a weapon, but redemption isn't given-it's taken. Now, they will face the sister they betrayed. And this time, she's not asking for their love. She's demanding their reckoning.

I promised to take care of him until he didn't need me anymore. I made a mistake. I was twenty-two. Just a broke artist with a pair of scissors and a flashlight, hired to be his nanny. I did my best. I built him a sky out of cardboard boxes. I held his hand when the thunder was too loud. I taught him that he didn't have to be alone in the dark. But children grow up. And Silas Vane grew up... different. As the years passed, I started noticing things I couldn't explain. My dates getting cancelled. My debts mysteriously paid off. The feeling of eyes watching me while I slept. I thought I was raising a lonely boy. I didn't realize I was becoming the center of a dangerous obsession. Now, he is a man. A genius who controls everything around him. And he has finally solved the only equation that matters: How to keep me forever.

Alina Windsor embarks on the post-graduation trip she's always dreamed of, but she never imagined she'd meet someone like Kingston Romano. As they grow closer during the vacation, she finds herself unexpectedly tied to him with a ring. Following a drunken error, Alina hastily returns to the United States without realizing she just tied the knot with a powerful figure. The twist? Her new spouse happens to be the leader of the Italian mafia, and she's now his queen.

I started kissing her, removing the blanket from her, she remained only in my long shirt. "Don't do that, please..." She started to speak again but I silenced her with a kiss. "I'll kill your whole family, now kiss me." She immediately kissed me. I started touching her so roughly on her body, but when I looked into her eyes she was looking at me so sad, but so sexy in my shirt. My hatred for her seemed to disappear. I started stroking her cheek. "You are beautiful. You have very beautiful eyes." • This story contains abusive and mature content.

River Blackthorn is smaller than average for a werewolf, and all her life she has been deemed as insignificant by others. Noah Frost is the alpha of a huge pack. He is steely, determined and intimidating, the opposite of River. What happens when they meet? HIGHEST RANKING: #105

❝you signed a contract just to sleep with the devil sweetheart. I'm afraid you can't back out now..❞

Rose Kaufman is a glorious sinner. A cheater, drinker, and a committed liar. When the devil himself comes to Rose with a single proposition, she can't help but accept. How could she refuse a deal that could give her everything she could ever desire? In return, he doesn't want her soul or her life. He wants her to date his son, Lucien, a man with a hellish pedigree.

When Helena finds a phone on the night train, she decides to text the first number in the list of contacts in order to figure out who it belongs to. ***** Helena Santos hasn't had the easiest life. At twenty-one, she's the legal guardian of her teenage sister, in the final year of her nursing degree, and working night shifts at her small-town's local bar. And things get a lot more complicated when she finds a phone on the train home and decides to text the first number in the list of contacts, in hopes of tracking down its owner. That contact? Adam Bauer; the charismatic, sweet, and refreshingly honest older brother of the person who lost their phone. As the two continue talking, they can't ignore the chemistry and growing feelings between them, but life is never that simple. To make things work, Helena and Adam need to juggle a troubled sister, a meddlesome ex-boyfriend, and one fat lawsuit - all intent on keeping them apart. [[word count: 40,000-50,000 words]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story contains swearing, mature themes, and sexual content.

He's the grumpy CEO of the company she works for. The very boss, no one gets enough words with before he pushes them far away. And then Sierra Bloom happens. She's the complete opposite of him, and he hates it. But something about her is way too intriguing to stay away from. "One night," he tells himself. He'll have her one night, and never again. ...if only that one night didn't create life, and forever bound him to her. 𝐖 𝐚 𝐫 𝐧 𝐢 𝐧 𝐠: This story contains mature themes, including; explicit sex scenes as well as references, mention and use of drugs and alcohol, mention of physical and sexual abuse. Readers discretion is advised.

CAROLINE MATISSE - - - »I'm trained to kill, not to love« I have killed many men in my life. I have stabbed them to death, made them choke on their pathetic words, I was born into this game. The game of killing, or to be killed. But nobody trained me to love, not to say, marrying my enemy, the one I wanted dead more than anything else. And here I am, forced to sign the papers, forced into a life I know no meaning of. Sold to Giovanni De'Bardi, the bastard I call my prey. - - - #1 Action-romance #1 Mansions #1 Paid-story #1 Hate #2 Jewelry #2 Assassin #3 Enemies-to-lovers #3 Love and Hate #4 Mafia #4 Mansion #5 Heartbroken #8 Crying #15 Slow burn #25 New-adult #30 Romance #31 Dark romance #69 Spicy