18+ MATURED CONTENT! When Sienna discovers she's been promised to the ruthless Mafia Don, Blade Armani, since birth, she's determined to escape the fate forced upon her-even if it means running across borders. But Blade is a man who takes what he wants, by any means necessary. And Sienna is the one thing he craves above all. No matter how far she runs or how well she hides, escape is impossible. Because when Blade wants something, he will always come for it... and for her. Blade may be a cold-hearted monster, the devil himself, but even the devil was once a saint, haunted by a past that carved his heart into ice. Sienna doesn't believe in love, yet she can't ignore the undeniable pull, the magnetic attraction that draws her to Blade. What happens when she falls for him and uncovers the broken man hidden beneath his facade? Will she melt the ice around his heart... or make it colder than ever?

"Don't think of running, Rosiana. By pack law, you must be wedded to me." Rosiana Vale has spent her entire life unwanted. Branded a wolfless burden by her father, she escaped to Blood Moon University hoping for a fresh start. Then she met Prince Nate-the first person to show her kindness. When tragedy claims him, Rosiana is forced into a marriage she never wanted. By pack law, she now belongs to Lucien Blackthorne, the Alpha King and Nate's ruthless older brother. Cold, powerful, and shrouded in secrets, Lucien sees her as nothing more than an obligation. But as dangerous truths begin to surface, Rosiana finds herself drawn to the very man she swore she could never love. How can she betray the memory of the only person who ever cared for her? And why does the Alpha King seem determined to protect her at all costs?

Cassidy West never imagined the boy she'd loved quietly from a distance could shatter her world and rewrite her life in a single night. But somehow, he did. And that one impulsive moment with Luke Rainer left her with far more than memories and heartbreak. It left her pregnant. Luke never planned on seeing Cassidy West again. Not after that night. But when Cassidy shows up at his door carrying his child, the life he spent years building begins to tilt dangerously off its axis. Now she's under his roof, living only a few steps away while he fights to keep his distance. Because he's engaged to another woman. Because his future is already planned. Because loving Cassidy is the one risk he can't afford to take.

I've spent my whole life pretending I was normal. Ignoring the heat that built under my skin when I was angry. The strange dreams that never faded in the morning. The quiet sense that something inside me was... waiting. I told myself it was nothing. Until the night it wasn't. Until the moment he found me. The Dragon King isn't a man people survive. He rules through fear, through fire, through absolute control-and when his gaze locked onto mine, the world didn't just stop... It shifted. Something ancient recognized me. And before I could understand what was happening, before I could run- He marked me. Now I'm caught between what I was... and what I'm becoming. Hunted by forces I don't understand. Bound to a king who was supposed to destroy me. And tied to a power that refuses to stay buried. Because whatever lives inside me isn't just dangerous. It's forbidden. And if I lose control... I won't be the only one who burns.

Xavier Petrov I came here for my younger brother, Louis, so he can live out his dreams and know I'm always behind him to protect him. We had to transfer universities from California because someone figured out who we were, that there were Petrovs in California and now here we are. In some small town in Vermont and in it, the past two years here have been good. Silent. This is my last year of this academic bullshit before I can finally go back to Italy, begin working alongside Alessio and fight for the three mafia alliance. I expected the months to go by fast. I planned to stay completely focused on my own world, boxing at an underground ring to bring money in and keep my friend's gym afloat. But what I didn't fucking expect was her. And god, she runs so pretty, like her name. A river flowing and running a continuous stream...Until you throw a rock in and fuck up the entire stream. Im coming for you River and there is nowhere you can run where I won't find you... River Hayes I've lived in this fucked up town my entire life. I'm barely surviving to get through my last year of this absolute hell. Every single day is a battle to keep my head above water, living under a roof where peace doesn't exist. My dad is an alcoholic with heavy fists and a temper that goes off like a landmine and my mother is a broken woman who was driven to drugs after seeing how miserably her life had failed her. I can't end up like them. I won't let myself. That's why I do what I do. That's why I've spent the last three years of my life selling my body at a gentlemen's club in town, a place where only the elite travel to such a little town to watch strippers dance and throw money at them. It's humiliating. No one from school even knows what I do and still I feel disgusting, I feel worthless, like nothing of mine is even mine anymore. But I'll keep doing it because I have no other choice, I need to get out of here and this degree is my one way ticket out. Or at least, thats what i thought...

Joelle Jordan is just trying to survive university and her life at home. Bryce Valentine is trying to survive everyone else. Projected first-round NFL draft pick. Campus celebrity. The most watched college athlete in the country. When the two strike a deal to trade study sessions for Bryce and personal training sessions for Joelle's little brother, everything seems simple enough. Then Bryce crosses the line. Now Joelle is trying to navigate a boy who is emotionally repressed, touch-starved, obsessively devoted, and surrounded by more pressure than any twenty-year-old should have to carry. Add the coaches, media attention, NIL deals, scouts, photo shoots, and Bryce's oppressive father. The pressure that comes with being attached to Bryce Valentine is something Joelle is not equipped for. Especially when she starts getting a little too comfortable with the fact that Bryce can't seem to leave her alone. [[Disclaimer: This story is comprised of drafts that have not been heavily edited]]

To the world Jadalyn Blackwood is her father's crown jewel...A flawless ballerina spinning under the bright stage lights, trapped in a perfect glass box. But Jadalyn knows the truth. Ever since her mother died and her father brought home a woman and her two golden child siblings, Jadalyn has been nothing more than an afterthought. A pretty prop used to maintain the family's public image. Then comes Alessio Petrov. To the public eye Alessio is a reckless chaotic playboy who couldn't care less about the underworld hierarchy. He was supposed to be the Bratva's second-in-command, a position he treated like a joke. But in a bloodbath that shocked the criminal underworld, the bratva had dismantled the Italian mafia from the inside out, stepping over the bodies of his enemies and he had claimed the title as Don for himself. Alessio didn't crash into Jadalyn's life by accident. He knows the rot hidden beneath her father's empire and he intends to use the lonely ballerina as the ultimate weapon of ruin. His plan is simple: snatch her away from her family, use her to get close to the blackwoods tear them apart from inside to out. But as he pulls Jadalyn into his dark orbit, the act begins to slip. --- "You should've never let me get this close Jadalyn, because now that I've tasted your light i'm never going back to the dark."

Valentin Petrov saw Inaya Singh once and never recovered from it. One year ago, he walked into a tiny flower shop trying to buy flowers for his mother in silence away from the chaos of his life. Instead, he found her. A girl with stained fingertips from arranging roses, soft music playing in the background and a smile so gentle it made something dangerous inside him go completely still. And ever since that day, Valentin has been obsessed and not the fleeting kind of obsession, the terrifying kind. The kind that has him memorizing her routine without meaning to, sitting in a blacked-out car across the street at midnight just to make sure she locked the shop safely, the kind that has him collecting pieces of her life like secrets. Her favorite tea order, the books she reads during slow afternoons, the fact she hums quietly when she's nervous. He keeps telling himself he's protecting her but deep down, Valentin knows the truth. He's a man starving for something he can never have. Because Inaya exists in warmth and light while Valentin was raised in violence. His surname is feared across entire countries, bodies follow his family's footsteps and if Inaya ever discovered who he truly was, what he's done or what the Petrov name actually means, she would look at him with fear instead of the softness he's gotten so used to. So what happens when the bratva pakhan falls for the girl who owns a little flower shop not knowing how bad the world could really get?

He was the boy who left to save her and the man who came back ruined. Cold when he shouldn't be, silent when all she wants is for him to talk to her, Dominico Cruz learned young that loving someone means losing them. So he left first. He always leaves first. But her? Katerina Petrov was never someone you could leave behind. She was fire and fury and loyalty sharp enough to cut throats, she loved like a war and hated like a storm, and he was the only man who ever survived both. "You don't get to leave me again and call it love, Dominico. That's not love. That's cowardice." He would burn cities for her, kill kings for her, destroy himself for her, but the one thing he can't do is stay, because he believes loving him is a death sentence. She thinks he abandoned her. He thinks he's protecting her. And neither of them realizes they're destroying each other in the process. In whatever is between the world they've been born in, love isn't gentle. It's possession, sacrifice, blood and worst of all...Brutal. And the most dangerous thing in Dominico Cruz's life was never his enemies. It was always her.

Adrian Moretti is a Don who built his empire on control, loyalty, and blood. In his world, love is a liability-and protection comes at a cost measured in bodies. He has survived by never letting anyone close enough to be used against him. Until Sora. Sora has spent her life running-from men who want to kill her, from secrets powerful enough to start wars, and from a past soaked in violence she never chose. Quiet but resilient, she knows how to survive in the shadows. When their worlds collide, Adrian becomes her shield-and in doing so, breaks every rule he lives by. Protecting Sora draws the attention of Viktor, a brutal russian boss whose reach is absolute and whose methods are merciless. One warehouse burns. Lines are crossed. War becomes inevitable. But Sora refuses to remain hidden while others bleed for her. When Viktor targets Adrian's family, she makes a choice that drags her directly into the war-risking her life to save the people she's come to love. In a world ruled by power and betrayal, Adrian and Sora become each other's greatest weakness-and their deadliest strength. Love is no longer a luxury. It's a declaration of war.