She nodded solemnly. "With my girl charm and my pretty dress. But now I just feel like a hot pile of creamed corn." I dragged a hand over my face. "You need water. And sleep." "I need closure." "Sunshine..." "No," she said, standing straighter and stabbing a finger into my chest. "You don't get to look like that and make me feel feelings and then just go all mysterious and noble and disappear like a sexy hitman Batman." "Sexy hitman Batman?" "I had a lot of wine." "I noticed." ●・○・●・○・● She bakes cookies. He breaks bones. Everyone in the city fears mafia boss Dominic Moretti-everyone except Tessa Bloom, the relentlessly cheerful café owner next door to his front business. She calls him "Mr. Broody," brings him muffins he never asks for, and walks into his office like it's not occupied by a man who could have someone disappeared with a phone call. Dominic doesn't have time for distractions-especially not sweet, sunshine-eyed distractions with flour on their noses. But when Tessa finds herself tangled in the underworld he's spent a lifetime controlling, protecting her becomes more than a duty. It becomes personal. And suddenly, the most dangerous man in the city starts falling for the only woman who isn't afraid of him. ●・○・●・○・● Word count: 23,178 Top Rankings: 10.14.25 - #6 in Mafia

Two years after a horrible accident, Kinsley's determined to make it through vet school, but she didn't expect to meet country boy Noel McLean who's just as mysterious as he is charming. *** Kinsley Hastings suffers from PTSD. After surviving a fatal car accident that killed her family, she's barely living. Everything she does in memory of the people she loves and not for her. But everything changes when she meets rising country star Noel McLean on campus. Drawn to his mysterious charm, Kinsley accepts his offer to spend the summer on the farm to complete her field work for class. She makes it clear she's here for nothing but field work. But as the summer gets hotter, so does the tension. And as the tension increases, Kinsley begins to wonder how much longer she can keep her secret. Book One of the "One Moment Duology." TW: sex, abuse, car accident, foul language, gaslighting

Titania has the worst luck of the ancient world. First, her brother steals the Queen of Sparta and leaves her behind to deal with it, and then she's taken prisoner and forced to watch as 1000 ships sail to destroy her beloved city: Troy. The worst fact is that she's forced to stay with the unpredictable hero Achilles, who's unfortunately charming and undeniably good-looking. 1 princess. 1000 ships. Will Titania be able to save her city before it's too late? Or will the affairs of the heart get in the way?

Daughter of a fallen former Formula 1 driver, Camila has had only one mission since her early childhood : to disappear from the public eye and the journalists who eagerly await to tear apart the last ties holding her family together. Torn between her natural talent for mechanics and childhood traumas related to the world of motorsports, what happens when, in her efforts to avoid the race tracks, the tracks come to her ? Slowburn + Enemies to lovers tropes

Ahsoka Tano is killed in a huge explosion, breaking her master, Anakin Skywalker's, heart, and less than three months later Vader is born. He kills Palpitine and becomes the Emperor himself, distraught over the loss of his Padawan and his wife. How will he cope with the shockingly familiar force sensitive he finds at a slave auction? AU. RotS Alternate ending

"The only thing i want from you is to see your name under mine when the race is over." "Pretty sure you want me under you more than you want that." ✼ When the ground starts crumbling for F1's promising young talent, Olivia Reyes, and last season's reigning World Champion, Lando Norris, their teams partner up with a solution: a PR relationship. There's just a tiny problem: they can't stand each other. ✼ Determined, passionate, extreme. Formula 1 has never been this intense before. The stakes are high and the entire world is watching. ✼ MATURE CONTENT ✼ · HIGHEST RANKINGS · #1 IN LANDO #1 IN FORMULAONE #1 IN MCLAREN #1 IN FERRARI

"You're so weak and childish... all you ever do is cry about everything. I really do wonder how is it that you've made it this far sometimes..." (FTWD fanfic)(Troy Otto x OC) (spoilers if you aren't caught up) ........................................................................................................................................................................ Lina Clark is too nice, trusts too easily, and is way to quick to cry. If there is anything that everybody around her agrees on is that she is most definitely not prepared for the vicious and cruel world that came after the dead began walking amongst the living again. And really how could she be? She had been sheltered her whole life. Her parents raised her to be an extremely trusting person, to believe that everything was always going to be okay, and that they would always be someone there to help her. Even after their death, her Aunt Madison, and their kids, Nick and Alicia, took her in as one of their own and continued to raise her in that sheltered way. She was the youngest so it just came naturally to them to be overprotective and try to make things as easy as possible for her. But now? There was no more making things easier. Especially not after they come in contact with the survivalist community in the Broken Jaw Ranch, where everybody is expected to pull their own weight and a certain someone decides to take it upon himself to remind her of just how incapable she is of doing so every time he sees her. Will Lina really be able to survive the hellish new world she's living in?

"It's always been annoying to me whenever people ask me who my dad is, because - well how the hell should I know? I've never been told a blessed thing about him..." Ali never knew about her dad. All she had was a faded photograph of him from god-knows-when. When she moves to LA with her mum and stepfather, things are bound to change.

Nova can't escape the rich town of Riverside, where a tragedy follows her every step, but she can work to uncover who's been lying to her all these years. ***** When seventeen-year-old Nova Nightingale returns to her late mother's hometown the last thing she expects is to be public enemy number one, but the rumors surrounding her mother's sudden disappearance fifteen years earlier follow Nova everywhere she goes. And to top it all off, the local rich boy, Isaac Royal, is adamant about making her life hell. Surrounded by rumors, lies, and a secret keeping the town on edge, Nova has to figure out why she's hated and why the boy hell-bent on making her suffer seems to be the only person she can trust. Content/Triggering Warning: this story contains themes of suicide and violence [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]

Wren Martin is socially awkward. She blocks off herself to the world, hiding behind her favorite hoodie. All she wants to do is keep a low profile, and graduate well enough to qualify for a college scholarship. But then a babysitting job leads her to cross paths with Asher Reed, Eastview Highʼs notorious athlete. When a field injury kickstarts his senior year, heʼs turning his free time and attention to Wren. And maybe she might not want to be invisible after all. ***** [Watty's Collector's Edition Winner] [TFA Runaway Prize Winner] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Santoro