Living under the same roof was the last thing Maya and Grace wanted. But when Maya's dad and Grace's mom decide to move in, there was no way around it. Maya is an impulsive, reckless, extremely rich girl who hates being told what to do. Grace, on the other hand, is simple, reserved, and seemingly perfect. They are polar opposites in every way, constantly clashing and challenging each other. As their differences make things worse, new feelings start to grow: jealousy, attraction, vulnerability. The lines between hate and something more start to blur. As their feelings grew, the undeniable desire and passion between them became impossible to resist. Neither of them was ready for it.

The shy girl wanted to prove she could be useful to the CEO's plan-seducing a dangerous man. Trembling, she carefully straddled Diana's lap, heart pounding, desperate to show she wasn't as helpless as she seemed. Diana's cold voice challenged her: "Is that all you can do? You think this is helping? Sitting on me, trembling like that?" But inside, watching Anna like this, she felt something she refused to admit-losing control. Anna ran away to start over. At nineteen, she left behind a strict father, a forced engagement, and a life that never felt like hers. Now she's tucked away in a quiet corner of Thailand, working at a small café and trying to find pieces of herself again. Then Diana (33) walked in. Cold, composed, and impossibly intimidating, Diana is the kind of woman who commands a room without saying a word. A powerful CEO with a mysterious edge and eyes that never miss a thing. She claims she's just there for coffee... but she lingers. Watches. Smiles, when no one's looking. When a spilled drink and an innocent apology turn into a moment neither of them expected, Anna finds herself pulled into a game she doesn't understand, one filled with secrets, tension, and a closeness that feels too dangerous to want. But Diana isn't just a customer. And Anna isn't just a girl working behind the counter. One is hiding a mission. The other is trying not to lose herself. And neither of them is ready for what's coming next.

"I met her on her knees. Who was I to know I'd be the one on mine in the end?" Ava Beaumont is the President's scandal-prone daughter: reckless, magnetic, and absolutely not White House-approved. With re-election season heating up, she's told to behave for the cameras... or else. Enter Daphne Holden: the new PR Manager, hired to polish the President's image and scrub Ava clean while she's at it. Cool, calculated, and infuriatingly unshakable, Daphne is everything Ava can't stand-and everything she can't stop thinking about. But power clashes with privilege. Sparks turn to flames. And the closer Ava gets to breaking the rules... the more she wonders if Daphne might just break her. A forbidden slow-burn romance with sharp banter, sizzling tension, and a First Daughter who always plays with fire. Smut warning: There is A LOT!

'Solitude' Philosopher Philip Koch defined it as "A stretch of experience disengaged from other people in perception, thought, emotion, and action" Solitude is an experience that can exist regardless of physical location, defined by the "absence" of other people, internally otherlessness, a spiritual/philosophical concept regarding the dissolution of self and a literary/existential term for extreme isolation. At forty-five, Professor Loredana Dove has built her life on control. Keeping her colleagues at arm's length and her students at a distance. At home, her marriage to an absent, quarrelsome wife is crumbling, leaving her to raise their five year old daughter in quiet isolation. She has convinced herself she needs nothing more until Romina Maple crashes into her classroom. Nineteen smart, and reckless, Romina is the youngest in her year. To her classmates she's the loud, infuriating party girl; to herself, she's struggling with mental health, taking care of her three year old brother and the only responsible adult in a house run by aging grandparents, her defiance masks hunger, her insolence disguises fear. Their lives should never touch. Yet hunger recognizes hunger. What begins as irritation morphs into fascination, into a closeness neither woman knows how to resist. Boundaries blur. Rules splinter. And both must face the truth: some desires do not starve quietly, and some silences can undo a lifetime of control. Our Shared Solitude is a story of two women who should have walked away yet found themselves consumed by the one thing they were never meant to want.

DISCLAIMER- This is my first story I've written and published publicly. If anyone has any tips please feel free to let me know, Thank you! Korbyn Sanchez came to university to escape, to start over, to find herself. What she didn't expect was to fall under the spell of the one woman she's forbidden to want-her Philosophy professor, Dr. Dani Sinclair. Dani is brilliant, composed, and untouchable-until she isn't. Beneath her icy professionalism burns a slow hunger that mirrors Korbyn's own. As desire simmers into obsession, the two women dance a line sharpened by rules, reputations, and other lovers who threaten to pull them apart. From tense classroom debates to stolen touches behind closed doors, jealousy cuts deep, secrets unravel, and the cost of desire rises higher with every choice. But in the end, love doesn't follow syllabi-and neither do they.

Riah Sky Valeria - a jolly, humble, yet mysterious nursing student at Hamilton University. A positive student who always strives for the best. Klea Luna Gray - A famous, serious and beautiful professor who always gets what she wants. She doesn't want someone who will interfere with what she's doing. They say, "Love works in mysterious ways". What will happen if two hearts will meet again? Will fate succeed this time around? Date Started: April 17, 2023 Date Finished: December 23, 2023

⚠️ WARNING: Big age-gap, teacher and student relationship, and a little bit graphic out of descriptions. "When you love something...you fight for it, but when someone drives you besotted you will do everything for desire even to put your life at risk." ----------------------------------- A thirty-three-year-old woman who has mastered the art of concealment, and a twenty-one-year-old girl whose curiosity compels her to uncloak every mystery that dares to hold her gaze. When their paths collide, mountains of paradox rise between them-age, authority, restraint, and unspoken longing. Yet compassion, fragile and dangerous, blooms in the valleys of despair they never meant to share. This is not a love that arrives gently. It is a slow burn-one that simmers beneath stolen glances, fractured morals, and choices that could cost everything. •I just wanted to let you know that this is a SLOW BURN ROMANCE.

Eliza Hart doesn't let anyone close. At thirty-one, she's a rising star in the English department-sharp-tongued, fiercely intelligent, and always in control. Her lectures are legendary. Her boundaries? Unbreakable. She commands respect with every word, and no one dares question her authority. Until Lena Rowe walks into her classroom. Bold. Brilliant. Unapologetically defiant. Lena doesn't bow to Eliza's reputation-or her gaze. She challenges every word, every theory, every boundary Eliza has spent years building. And Eliza knows she should shut it down, ignore the undeniable spark between them, just like she's done before. But this time, ignoring the tension isn't so simple. In the space between literature and longing, defiance and desire, one question echoes louder than the rest: How do you resist someone who doesn't follow the rules but still makes you question everything you thought you knew? A slow-burn, forbidden romance of daring rebellion, buried truths, and the boundaries we never thought we'd cross. Until we do.

The night before her 22nd birthday Rose decides she's losing her virginity. Desperate and running out of time she forces her best friend to sneak into an exclusive club with her and help her find someone, anyone, to sleep with, when she is taken home albeit a little reluctantly by no other than her former English teacher(The woman she's spent 4 years obsessing over) only to wake up the next day on a cab with a 20 dollar bill stuffed into her pocket, a sorry written on sharpie on her left arm and a sticky note stuck on her forehead. Three years later, Rose is now an English teacher herself. Having moved thousands of miles away from the big city she grew up with to teach in a tiny tone alongside her best friend. What will happen when they get a new principal who is a little too similar to the raven-haired woman she once loved? ........... "Bend over the desk" she commands, her tone leaving no space for arguments and my cheeks flush a deeper shade of red, my eyes widening as I fight my body's response to follow her command right away. "What?" "Now! I don't want to hear another word from you unless I give you permission, got it?" What the hell have I gotten myself into? Is it too late to quit? Do I even want to quit? My mind reels but I follow her orders, my body uncomfortably laying on her desk, her placard digging into the side of my torso painfully. I try to control my breathing, but it's labored and I'm sure if she makes it there, I'll be embarrassingly wet.

When Evelyn begins her senior year, the last person she expects to see in her classroom is the mysterious woman she met while working at the diner. Ms. Hartley quickly realizes there's more to Evelyn's life than she lets on, and what begins as concern slowly turns into a bond neither of them expected. But some connections come with consequences-especially when they cross a line that should never be crossed.