In which two people who can't stand the sight of each other find out exactly how thin the line is between pushing buttons and pushing limits. Ever since his very public breakup with her ex-best friend in freshman year, Serena Nichols and John Logan have operated on a foundation of unadulterated mutual hatred. Now, she was forced to endure his insufferable attitude as the ice hockey team's student therapist, all while bearing the suffocating weight of the truth behind why his relationship had truly fallen apart. But secrets have a habit of thawing out, and they'd soon find out, ice burns too. "𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘯. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺." "𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵," 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥, 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮. "𝘓𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴."

☆。* 𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐔𝐒*。☆。 "𝑻𝒐 𝒎𝒆... 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅." "𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆... 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅." ⛸️✩｡:*•.─── 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝐃𝐚𝐤𝐨𝐭𝐚 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔. 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. °.•☆•.° 𝐣𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐱 𝐟𝐞𝐦!𝐨𝐜 © 𝗰𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗲

*STORY IS 18+ AND CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT* Alana Graham doesn't do hockey players; they're strictly off limits to her. Except for the one that she knows out of all of them she should stay the furthest away from. John Logan is her brother's best friend and teammate. For years she denies her feelings, pushes Logan away in order to protect herself but also... To protect him from her past that she refuses to share with anyone. Not even her two best friends, Hannah and Allie. Although this hockey playing mechanic not only thaws the ice around her guarded heart, he fixes it as well.

"Do you ever get scared of being happy?" He asked softly, also pretty tired. I kept my eyes closed as I answered, my fingers softly drawing circles on his chest. "All the time. I used to a lot more, but, the downfalls seem a lot less daunting now that I have someone to free-fall with," I replied, and I looked up to see him smile a little at that, "We're just dancing in the rain these days.. there's no need to be afraid of the inevitable clouds that are gonna pop up." • • • College. Officially a new start. Crystal can already feel the clean slate and new opportunities like a breath of fresh air. She's finally ready to move in towards a brighter future. She knows hard times will inevitably come throughout her life, but that no longer scares her. However, life does have a way of throwing the most unexpected of curveballs at you... Especially when you least are prepared for it. [BOOK TWO OF 'HOPELESSLY DEVOTED' SERIES] • • • !!! [ TRIGGER WARNING ] !!! • suicide, suicidal concepts • domestic abuse, sexual assault • substance abuse, alcoholism, addiction • anxiety, PTSD, panic attacks • strong language and mature scenes • • •

"Never call a girl a bitch," I glared into his eyes as he opened them, piercing into me, the bright blue drink I had just poured over him still dripping from his dark hair. "Or she just might act like one." I gave him one last sarcastic smile before pushing by him and walking away, practically strutting. Well, this year will be fun... • • • • Crystal Summers; a self-proclaimed expert in all things sarcastic and the human embodiment of destructive decisions. Trying to get away from her troubled past, she moves with her mom to California to start a new life, and potentially not screw this one up. There, she quickly meets Scarlett and Savanah, her new-found partners in crime, and her life finally begins to feel normal again for the first time in years. But she just so happens to also collide with the school's sexy, notorious jackass, Ashton Monroe.. and his pack of asswipes. She loathes him, and the feeling is mutual. But as the poets say, the line separating love and hate is a very thin one. And often times, when two people hate each other, it can grow into much more. Hopeless devotion, if you will... • • • • !!!TRIGGER WARNING!!! • slight mention(s) of suicidal concepts • substance abuse, addiction, anxiety, PTSD • sexual assault, domestic abuse • strong language and mature scenes • • • •

19 year old Celestia Monroe moved from Spain to go stay at her father's place in Italy. She decided to focus more on her studies, to stay away from troubles and especially not to fall in LOVE. Little did she know that trouble itself would come knocking on her door making her life a rollercoaster and changing everything she had ever planned. Enter Jaden Rizzo, badass heartbreaker arrogant bad boy of the Da Vinci University who doesn't give two fucks about anyone. With issues in his past making him the heartless guy who doesn't believe in LOVE what's gonna happen when he comes across Celestia Monroe? Is he gonna break her heart? Make her life a living hell? Ignore her? Tease her? Play her? Or... Read to find out...

After an unexpected ceiling collapse sends her apartment into chaos, Madelaine Grayson ends up living with her brother - and dangerously close to his tattooed, way-too-charming roommate. He's off-limits... but resisting him might be impossible. *** When Madelaine Grayson's bathroom ceiling caves in, it's not just drywall that crumbles. It's her entire world. Forced to move in with her brother, she finds herself swept up in the chaos of his new protective attitude - especially when it comes to his tattooed roommate, Noah Laurier. Noah is the epitome of perfection: sweet, hot, and embedded into every thought Madelaine has. But he's forbidden, and the closer she gets, the harder he is to resist. Well... what her brother doesn't know can't hurt him, right? *** "Matt's sister, I presume?" He walks towards the couch and my eyes widen. He's tall. I thought I was tall but this man could tower me, and when he reaches a hand towards me, there's an intricate clock tattooed on the back of his hand and his fingers have bones tattooed over them. This man is not human. He's tall and angular and dripping with sex appeal. This man is hot. Capital H, capital O, capital T. I don't think I've ever seen a human being so attractive. All I can think about as I force myself to keep my eyes on the screen is the feel of his jaw beneath my hand, and it takes everything in me not to look

(*Completed*) Diana Shade was just a strong, smart girl living with her foster parents and brother. She didn't know that soon she was going to be taken into a mafia because of who her parents were. And being in love with the future leader of the enemy mafia, didn't help. ▴▿▴▿▴▿▴▿▴▿▴ -NEEDS MAJOR EDITING- #720 in teenfiction #2 in assassin #8 in gangs #1 in womanpower #1 in Mafia Queen #1 in vixen #88 in youngadult #2 in weapons

•BOOK II OF THE ESZTAR SERIES• "Esztar is falling." Those were the words an invisible spy mumbled just a few minutes before his death. But no one knew the fall would be so hard that it will destroy everything and everyone who called them to be a part of the world's strongest and most influential crime organization. New alliances and relationships form, but old betrayals and enmities still remain. Power is a necessity in Esztar and there will be no stopping for those wanting to gain that power. Things will be at stake. Even this burning heart. WARNING: BOOK II HAS SPOILERS FOR BOOK I. ONLY READ AFTER BOOK I

Adonis Celts, the notorious monster who'd been rotting in prison for the past decade. Getting an interview with him just weeks before his release would be the story of a lifetime, and well worth the risk. With his hands cuffed and guards right outside the door, nothing could go wrong. Right? • • • "I've already explained I'm not afraid of you Mr. Celts. But it seems like you want me to be?" I retort. He leans forward in the chair, his face just a foot or two away from mine. The light flickers above us and it seems like a sign for me to shut the hell up. "Mmhm right. Well, maybe you have more nerve than sense then hm? Or you just don't scare as easily as the others." His jaw ticks slightly "But I can think of far better ways to get your heart racing. So no honey, fear is the last thing I want from a woman like you."