" 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐊𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐘 𝐍𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒 " The worst demons have the appearance of angels. Leighton and Mikhail represented this sentence perfectly. Born and raised in violence, it was not foreign to them. One tries to escape while the other plunges brutally into darkness. He is her last hope of being free. She is his nemesis. The attraction born in the chaos of their existences fueled their obsessions with each other. Yet they knew that in the end, only one of them would survive... ( 𝐁𝐖𝐖𝐌 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 )

Selene Brooks thought moving back to her family's quiet hometown in Ohio would be simple. But she doesn't fit in, and neither does the town feel like home. Then Rowan Holloway shows up: mysterious, intense, and impossible to ignore. There's something about him that's magnetic-and maybe dangerous. As Selene gets drawn into secrets that lurk beneath the town's surface, she realizes some connections are stronger than she ever expected... and some people aren't who they seem. In a place where curiosity can be deadly, Selene must decide how far she's willing to go for love and what darkness she's willing to face.

When Logan Plant, a brilliant yet underprivileged young woman, earns a scholarship to the elite and secretive Blackmoor Academy, she sees a future finally within reach. But among its marble walls and ivy-clad towers, prestige hides something far more sinister. There, she meets Soren RavenShade: cold, composed, and heir to a legacy steeped in shadow; an old and powerful bloodline. He had always been untouched by the world, uninterested and detached. Yet when he saw Logan, something unexplainable begins to unravel, a pull he can't escape, and an instinct he doesn't understand. But the problem is that Logan wants nothing to do with him or the strange undercurrents that ripple beneath Blackmoor's polished surface. But as the school's darkness begins to seep in, she realizes she's become part of a game she never agreed to play.

Clementine never wanted to be touched by darkness until it saved her. After her father's death, she lived in silence. Grief was her only companion. She didn't chase danger. She avoided it. So when Nero Valentino-ruthless, feared, and untouchable-stepped into her life, she did what any sane girl would do. She ran. She feared him. But fear has a way of turning into fascination. Nero wasn't gentle. He wasn't kind. But when he tore her from the hands of death, Clementine saw something behind the violence. Something raw. Something broken. And suddenly, the man she feared became the only one who made her feel alive. She didn't mean to fall for a man like him. A man who kills without blinking. A man who would paint the world red just to keep her breathing. But now that she has... there's no turning back. In Nero's world, love is possession. Obsession. Control. And Clementine? She's already his. This isn't a love story. It's a descent.

In Which A Mafia Boss Falls In Love With A Cleaner... *** On Christmas, an isolated crime scene cleaner's carefully constructed wall crumbles when a violent attack triggers her buried trauma, leading her to a deadly confrontation with the mafia she's unknowingly been serving, and a crime boss who knows more than she thinks.

Zyera Ambers minds her business. Cody Whittaker is the business at elite Aethelred University. Heir to a fortune and drowning in privilege, he's used to getting everything-and everyone-he wants. When the one person who doesn't acknowledge his existence captures his twisted fascination, a quiet obsession is born. Now, the king of campus will stop at nothing to make the scholarship artist his most prized possession.

BWWM | Mature themes | Mafia | Slow-burn tension | obsession, two enemies, and a woman trying not to fall in love with either. Zara Cole is a therapist based in London. She's always been the one people turn to, calm, composed, and able to read people like pages in a book. But when her career lands her in the orbit of a man like Adriano De Luca, her world begins to blur in ways she never saw coming. Adriano is the head of the Italian mafia, feared by many but known by few. The moment he lays eyes on Zara, something shifts. She's everything he can't control, and that only makes him want her more. What begins as a single session spirals into something far more dangerous, as his obsession with her grows into something darker than desire. Atlas Delgado Herrera, former heir to the Spanish mafia, who turned his back on that life after a past soaked in trauma and blood. Now, he's on a mission to bring the empire down from the inside. When he finds out about Adriano's interest in Zara, he makes her a proposition: help him dismantle the mafia world before it pulls her in too deep. But somewhere between protecting her and using her, his motives begin to shift.

❝𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀?❞ 𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀, 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗜 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗲, 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝘆, ❝𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗺𝗲.❞ - COMPLETED ✓ (LOOK INSIDE FOR DESCRIPTION!)

"No jay.. you can't.." His expression darkens at her words. He drops his hand from her cheek and takes a step back, the knife still clutched in his hand. "He took something from me that I can never get back, angel. Something precious." His voice is filled with a quiet, seething rage. He steps closer again, his eyes flashing with an intense obsession. "He took you away from me. He made sure our families were enemies. I can't forgive that." "I didn't want to marry Liam my dad.." Her voice breaks. His expression softens for a moment, his thumb unconsciously brushing over her lips. "Shh, I know. You never wanted Liam. You wanted me. Your dad forced this engagement on you just to keep us apart." His grip on her throat tightens slightly as he leans down, his voice barely a whisper. "And now, you're engaged to Liam. The thought of you with him... it makes me fucking insane." His eyes burn with a possessive intensity. "I can't let that happen, angel." "I'm sorry..." She whispers, her voice low and quiet afraid. scared. His expression cracks, revealing a deep vulnerability beneath the madness and obsession. "Don't apologize. You have nothing to be sorry for." His thumb strokes her pulse point as he closes his eyes briefly. "I'm the one who should be sorry... for what I'm about to do." Tropes: Emo x Softie. Obsessed psycho Mafia x Innocent Collage student. Enemies to lovers. Obsessive Love/Possessive Hero. Captor/Captive. Damaged Heroine/ SurvivorHeroine. Forced Proximity. Morally Gary Hero. Beauty and the beast. Touch her and die. Dark protector x Quiet beauty. ⚠️ This story contains mature and dark themes including obsession, emotional manipulation, murder, psychological trauma, kidnapping, toxic relationships, blurred consent, violence, and morally gray characters. This is a work of fiction. It does not romanticize abuse, but explores flawed characters in dark, extreme situations. Please read responsibly, and protect your peace. 💔