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Anna didn't move to New York with a plan. She only had charm, too much optimism, and a knack for getting fired. After a streak of disastrous jobs, she stumbles into a position as Sabrina's assistant. Sabrina has built her company on precision and control; Anna can barely keep her plants alive. They're complete opposites, but in the city that never sleeps, even the wrong match can turn into something right.

​It has been months since her long-time boyfriend fell into a deep coma after a terrible accident. She spends her days trapped in a heartbreaking routine: sitting by his silent hospital bed, holding his cold hand, and desperately missing the life they used to share. The doctors don't know if he will ever wake up. ​Then, the door to the hospital room opens. ​Standing there is a woman with the exact same eyes, the same sharp jawline, and the same familiar facial features. It's her boyfriend's identical twin sister. She thought it was just a simple reunion... Never really knew that meeting her will change her life forever.

Adrienne Brookes is a highschool senior with a sharp tongue and a talent for trouble. Her sarcasm is a shield, one she learned to wield early, because surviving her home life means never letting anyone see too much. And Adrienne has secrets. More than she can carry. But one slip in her carefully crafted mask is all it takes for Ivy Adair, her cold and calculating psychology teacher, to notice the cracks. Ivy is the last person Adrienne should trust, and the only one she can't seem to stay away from. Wanting distance is easy. Keeping it is impossible. ‼️ GAY ‼️ SEXUAL CONTENT ‼️ ABUSE AND VIOLENCE - There will not be warnings in individual chapters. This book is for mature audiences only. Do not read if sensitive to the above content.

​Denatonium is the most bitter substance in the world, a warning designed to keep you away from what can destroy you. But for Crest, it tasted like heaven. ​Returning home after two years in Japan, supermodel Crest thought she could finally bury her past. But some fires never truly die. When her paths cross again with Alliana, the woman she can never have, the woman married to her own brother, a dangerous game of stolen glances turns into an exposed scandal that ruins careers, tears a family apart, and brings them to their knees. ​Can love survive when you have to burn down your entire world just to hold it?

It was meant to be just a celebration. Nothing more, nothing less - or so Cecilia Roth thought , a German major trying to keep her life simple. She never, in her wildest imagination, would have expected to catch her new professor in unprofessional behavior with one of her former colleagues. Professor Dietrich - feared for her coldness, her discipline, her distance - caught in a moment that changes everything. And professor Dietrich? She doesn't let things slide. Especially not when it comes to Cecilia. Between rebellion and power, emotion and emptiness, a tension begins to grow. A glance turns into something more. A line starts to blur. And maybe, in the end, Cecilia will question more than just her professor.

Seraphina Esposito is a mafia queen.. cold, ruthless, untouchable. At twenty-five she rules an empire built on fear, wielding power like a blade and believing feelings to be nothing but weakness. Love, family, softness.. those are luxuries she's burned out of herself. Or so she thought. Then comes Elowen Morgan. Beautiful. Too emotionally intelligent. Kindhearted. Too pure for a world like hers... and yet, impossible to ignore. With honey-brown eyes that see too much and a quiet defiance behind her smile, she unsettles everything Seraphina thought she knew. Seraphina doesn't do love. But desire? Obsession? The urge to claim what should never have been hers? That, she can't seem to resist. What happens when a woman who feels nothing meets the one person she can't stop feeling?

Shay has learned how to disappear in plain sight. She moves through her days quietly-head down, emotions locked away, body trained to endure more than it should. Control is survival. Distance is safety. And no one ever looks close enough to see what she's learned to hide. Until someone does. Lilith Armstrong is everything Shay isn't allowed to want: composed, authoritative, untouchable. A woman who understands the body down to its smallest fracture-and sees far too much when she looks at Shay. What begins as instruction slowly becomes attention. What feels like guidance sharpens into something heavier, more dangerous, and impossible to ignore. Between the anatomy of the human body and the anatomy of restraint, lines blur. Power shifts. Desire festers in the quiet moments where it shouldn't exist. And Shay must decide whether being seen is worth the risk of being undone. Anatomy of Restraint is a dark, slow-burn psychological romance about control, obsession, and the intoxicating danger of crossing boundaries that were never meant to bend.