| slow burn | professor x professor | age gap | Sienna Raynes is the newest member of staff at Coryton house. Will the young professor find her feet and inspire a love for literature or will she stumble? One person gets to find out as the new english profressor is assigned a mentor... The sharp tongued head of music Miss Elizabeth Herrod. Will her icy greetings and fierce opinions unnerve her young mentee or will they get past their initial meeting? Dive into a slow burn romance full of tension, teasing and yearning. Yes there's an age gap, yes she's an older woman and yes it's messy. All the delicious ingredients we know and love ❤️

𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 :( Isabella Fernandez is a 21-year-old from the UK with Spanish roots. Known for her bubbly yet shy nature, and is an ambivert. She's incredibly smart and has always been a high achiever in education, always coming in first. After three years at university and a Degree in Law, she begins her apprenticeship at Romano & Co Ltd, a prestigious law firm owned by Alessandra Romano. Alessandra is a 32-year-old Italian-born. She is cold,serious and distant. As they spend more time together in the office, Isabella begins to experience unfamiliar feelings towards Alessandra, challenging her previously held notions about her sexuality. Despite her usual indifference with subordinates, Alessandra feels drawn towards Isabella. What will happen when a shy, *straight* girl meets an assertive and dominant woman?

Mallory returns to Nevermore Academy - not as a student, but as an art teacher. The halls are familiar, yet filled with shadows and memories she can't ignore. As she navigates teaching and monthly transformations into her werewolf-self, a certain redheaded colleague won't leave her head. Mallory discovers that coming back might change everything... including herself. [ A wlw slowburn with Miss Capri x fem!OC]

One girl, haunted by demons she never asked for. One girl, holding onto a dream with bleeding hands. One girl, clinging to a life she never was supposed to survive. One girl-and one infuriating woman she was never meant to meet. Aurora Winters, 18, soft-spoken and sweet like spring rain, begins her second last first day of senior year. The wreckage of a car crash last Christmas stole what little safety she had left-leaving her in the bitter care of an aunt who never wanted her and a man who only knows cruelty. Bruised, quiet, alone and unraveling, Aurora is trying to survive the storm. But survival becomes complicated when a certain woman enters the picture. Valentina M. Harlow, 37, new to this part of town, new to the school, old to the weight of the world. Once a sweet girl who ached to be seen, now a woman shaped by silence and cold resolve. Sharp-tongued, guarded, emotionally untouchable, manipulative and entirely disinterested in attachments. She is the oldest daughter who walked away-from blood and businesses, from love, from everything that broke her. It's been seven years since she last let herself feel. And she likes it that way. Until Aurora. What begins as uneasy glances and sharp conversations becomes something far harder to ignore. Valentina sees the pain in the girl's eyes. The bruises beneath the surface. And suddenly, the woman who feels nothing is faced with a choice: walk away as she always has, or reach out-risking everything. This is a tale of longing and danger, where hearts shatter, wounds heal, and reopen. Again and again. A story of two women who were never meant to orbit, yet crash into each other anyway. A story of it all. Of longing that feels like ruin. Of aching that feels like home. Of broken things that refuse to stay broken. A slow unraveling, a dangerous pull. A love that could save-or destroy-them both. Maybe they'll piece themselves back together. And set the world on fire, together.

Harper Quinn is all soft edges and vintage ribbons - the kind of girl who writes love poems she never sends and spends weekends digging through record bins. Nineteen. Bright-eyed. A little too curious. And far too drawn to the woman behind the desk. Professor Vivian Wolfe is everything Harper isn't. Forty. Composed. Cold. Draped in sharp suits and cigarette smoke, with a voice like velvet and a stare that cuts through excuses and innocence alike. Their worlds should never collide - not outside of annotated essays and closed classroom doors. But literature has always blurred the lines between longing and taboo. And Wolfe, for all her rules and red pens, starts reading Harper like a story she can't put down. She was supposed to teach her restraint. Instead, she taught her how it feels to burn.

Carmen Xavier had a wish. All she wanted was a baby. She yearned for the feeling of a swelling bump and the pain of giving birth. She yearned to be a mother But life is never on anyone's side because you can have a perfect life and yet take away something you can never buy All the doctors examined her and gave the same result. Her embryos could never fertilize. Except for one doctor. One little mistake, an addiction, obsession led her to gain what she wanted but AT WHAT COST?

Four and a half years ago, Elizabeth Sterling was the right person at the wrong time-and loving her nearly destroyed Emily Carter. Now, Emily's rebuilt her life: stable job, sobriety, hard-won peace. But when fate brings Eli back, older and even more guarded, the past collides with the present-and the feelings Emily thought she'd buried come rushing back. Maybe this time... it's not the wrong time.

At 42, Vivienne Hart is a literary legend-brilliant, ruthless with words, and impossible to get close to. It's been a decade since her last book, and she's made one thing clear: she has no interest in finishing it. Enter Emily Carter-28, sharp-tongued, and entirely unimpressed by Vivienne's reputation. She's been hired to do the impossible: get Vivienne to write again. Their partnership is a disaster from the start. Vivienne is cold, impossible, and infuriatingly controlled. Emily is reckless, relentless, and knows exactly how to get under her skin. What starts as creative clashes and late-night rewrites turns into something far more dangerous. A stolen glance. A lingering touch. A night that should never have happened. ___________________________ completed: 9th march'25

Lottie Dymond and Heather Prescott are two opposing forces that clash at high school. Lottie, proper and calculating, has always controlled every aspect of her life. Until Heather, a rebellious and daring girl, appears to turn her world upside down. What begins as a game of provocations soon becomes a toxic obsession. Because what they have is not love , it's something worse. Their "I love you"s aren't written in letters, they're carved into skin. Their story is written in love scars.