📚 Silk and Smoke Where silk whispers and smoke lingers, their love story begins. She's couture and command. He's chaos in quiet. Together - they could rewrite fate... or set it on fire. Ivikaa Ambani - the heiress who stitched Paris into her bones and stitched shut her heart. "Silk drips from her touch, fire hums beneath her ribs - Ivikaa, the princess of Paris by design." Adwait Agnivanshi - a man molded by Mumbai's alleys and armed with silence sharper than any scream. "Smoke doesn't scream - it smothers. Adwait, born from Mumbai's cracks, raised in its shadows." Between the bruises of power and the hush of devotion, their story unfolds - slow, aching, inevitable. Because when silk meets smoke... something always catches fire. Tropes : Billionaire X Billionaire Rich X Royal Paris X Mumbai Eldest Daughter X Youngest Son Fashion Designer X 10th Fail Spotlight X Shadows Ambani X Agnivanshi Silk X Smoke No cheating Trope!

18+ 🌶️🔥| Extremely Explicit Smut, Violence, and Language Their love is a war even Hell can't stomach. Liora doesn't need saving. She needs a leash long enough to strangle gods. The succubus has starved for 500 years, a hunger no mortal could sate. Until him. Ashton "Ash" is a frostbound millennial vampire with a hacker's smirk and a death wish. Five years undead, he's spite and cold charm incarnate. Thawed only by her venom. When a cursed bullet leaves Ash at her mercy, Liora does the unthinkable: she saves him. Bound by forbidden blood, hunted by the Guild and haunted by their own pasts, they must forge a bond more dangerous than any enemy. Their connection of shadow, ice, and ruthless desire. Eternity must be won. Will they claim it together, or burn each other to ashes trying? A dark gothic romance of villains, liars, and lovers who'll scorch the earth to keep each other. The smut happens fast. The emotions are a slow, volatile burn. It is a dual POV story. Switches between Liora's and Ash's perspectives.

𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘵, 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦, 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴. •• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ •• "𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥, 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐚. 𝐀 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞'𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬." •• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Running from hell isnʼt easy. Especially when someoneʼs dragging you back down into it. Belligerent, brash and always in shades of black, Freya is hardly a lady. Hidden away by her father, sheʼs lived a normal life despite being born into the dark waters of New Yorkʼs underworld. Heʼs cold, cruel and calculating, with a proclivity for destruction. Feared by even Made Men, Torren is the boss of the stateʼs most leachorous crime syndicate. Freya hates his crudity and possessiveness, but she canʼt deny the way her breath hitches at his rough touch, the deep timbre of his voice, and his dark, heated gaze. Torren hates her disobedience, her recklessness, and her chaos. To him, sheʼs only something to be tamed. And after he slips a ring on her hand, snatching away her future, she makes only one vow---to become his biggest torment.

Right when Silvia Ellington is about to start her senior year, her mother decides to have her move in with her aloof father and his "perfect" family in California. She promises to be on her best behavior, and for the most part, she's able to keep her snappy attitude in check...until she ends up going to a party one chilly night. In the adolescent madness, she finds a tattooed boy named Dakota. He's ungodly tall and has crystal blue eyes that can sway any good girl to do bad things. When they first meet, he makes it his job to show that he doesn't like Silvia. And he's got reasons. All she has to do is disarm this bad boy and unlock the secrets he's keeping deep inside. Before they know it, Silvia and Dakota embark on an emotional roller-coaster of a relationship that is bound to ruin a few lives. But when Silvia's own secrets come knocking on her door, will it tear them apart or will love prevail? HIGHEST RANKING: #1 in Action #2 in Humor #2 in Teen Fiction #1 in Drama #8 in Romance --- written in 2015-16 rewritten in 2022-26