She's the awkward girl with a troubled past and he's the dark and handsome guy who always wears a hood. Drawn to Anthony by circumstance, Felicity makes it a mission to befriend him but not without some misunderstandings along the way. What she will come to find out is that the boy underneath the hood is more troubled than she could've imagined, and it will take loyalty, love, and the raw truth to help heal his scars. But, it's a two-way street, and Felicity has wounds of her own that may just end up making even a friendship impossible. A teenage romance with a lot to say about trusting your heart, and taking chances. ACHIEVEMENTS #1 in enemies to lovers 6/20/22 #1 in teenage 4/5/20 #4 in young adult 6/23/22 [90,000-100,000 words]

When bubbly Emerson Kachi Smith starts working for the handsome Lucas Hendrix, she quickly discovers there's something hot and untamed behind his cold exterior... ***** When bubbly Emerson Kachi Smith is offered a job as the personal assistant to the cold and handsome Lucas Hendrix, she's left wondering why. After all, she has no credentials to speak of, and working for a paranoid billionaire CEO who's impossible to please is far from easy. But a few weeks into her job, she begins to realize that she can't judge a book by its cover. Left alone to discover the mystery behind Lucas's cold exterior and to tame her uncontrollable desire to comfort him, she learns they have a lot more in common than she ever thought possible. Could their two lonely hearts share the same dream for happiness? [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque Former title 'Coffee And Papers'

**THE BROKEN BENEFACTOR** War doesn't end when the plane lands. Lance Corporal **Ethan Raye** comes home from Syria alive-but barely. Once a proud Marine with a future, a fiancée, and a body he could trust, Ethan is now trapped inside pain, nightmares, rage, and a disability he never asked for. The battlefield took pieces of him. The silence at home threatens to take the rest. His fiancée, **Charlotte**, promised to stand beside him. But love looks different when the man who returns is no longer the man who left. Then comes **Valerie**. After a chain of family tragedies destroys the life she was trying to build, Valerie is forced to drop out of college and return home to save the family house and the land her parents sacrificed everything for. Taking a job as a healthcare worker is supposed to be survival. A paycheck. A way to keep her family from losing the last thing they have left. She never expects Ethan Raye. He is wounded, angry, guarded, and drowning in secrets. She is exhausted, determined, and carrying burdens no one sees. Every day she cares for him, Valerie learns that some pain does not bleed where people can see it-and some men are not broken because they are weak, but because they have been strong for too long. But Ethan's past is not finished with him. Secrets buried before the war begin rising. Charlotte's love may not be as steady as it seems. Valerie's heart becomes the one place Ethan starts to feel human again. And when suffering, loyalty, guilt, and desire collide, one question becomes impossible to ignore: Can a woman fighting to save her own home help a wounded soldier find his way back to his? **He lost himself for his country. She helped him find his way back home.** A gripping **military romance**, **wounded hero romance**, **caregiver romance**, and emotional **interracial romantic suspense** about sacrifice, survival, forbidden feelings, family secrets, and the kind of love that finds you when life has already torn you apart

Alexandrite and Aiden had never exchanged more than five words and yet loved each other. A short story of first love during the early '70s and all the hassle that came with loving someone of a different race. DISCLAIMER: ALL IMAGES DO NOT BELONG TO ME IN ANYWAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. I got them from google or Instagram.

Five out of Ten, that was her score, that was Luca Mato's given score for how well she was in bed. It was a senior prank, one that went horribly wrong when she ended up pregnant. Nessa Tyler had never had a an easy life, she didn't trust and she didn't hope. She made a mistake, her worse one yet, when she allowed Luca Mato to be a part of her life. Now, their lives are to be intertwined, and with trust broken and hope gone, it will be especially difficult, especially considering Luca's life isn't exactly one anyone would want to be dragged into.

Self-proclaimed weirdo April Hale and the notorious troublemaker Ryder Black have been living side by side for more than ten years. Both never attempted to communicate with each other, but on the night Ryder Black is thrown out by his own father, he asks her a question that might change both of their lives: "March, will you let me stay in your room?" He even got her name wrong. - A coming of age story about loss, the wonders of falling in love, and ultimately, pretending to be normal. Get inside April's distorted and yet humorous perspective, and watch as her tale unfolds into a shocking finish. COVER BY @RIVIIX

••^^"Meek......obedient.....naive....plain....emotional....docile....I guess she will do." I heard him utter to himself and I was lost as to what he meant by that. He reached inside on of the drawers to take out a file and pushed it my way. "I trust your feeble mind will be capable of memorizing everything in here by Monday. You, Miss Wilson, you are going to pretend to be my fiancée for a week. My driver will be over to pick you up on Sunday evening, that will be all. You can go now."^^••• He needed a pretend fiancée for a week to convince his grandfather to fully hand over all Adkins holdings to him. She was the perfect person to use to convince his grandfather he was family oriented and could commit not only to his work. What happens when the devilishly handsome Italian Yale Adkins-Benenati imposes his way on Santa Faye Wilson, a plain, naive, plus size and clumsy girl? Will sparks ignite and consume them both?

Serenity Hollowell just wanted to live well...in Serenity but all that is crashed when Francesco Marino comes into her life and rearranges it. Francesco Marino was fighting when he ran into her. She helped him and then tried to throw him out. Usually he could get over a woman anytime but not her. He refused for her to get rid of him in her life. He was going to be in it no matter what. And that was a promise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I don't think you are a play thing at all. I don't think you are a 'thing' period. I think you are perfect to be on my side. What is it going to take for me to have you for myself?"Francesco said pulling her waist closer to his and putting his face in her neck. Just to smell her gain. "A lot. I bet you have plenty of women wrapped around your finger." Serenity pointed to the girls who never left his section. Still waiting on him to come back. "Go play with them Francesco. Fuck with them as long as you can." Francesco turned Serenity's face to his and whispered in her ear. "The next time you disrespect the fact that I want you, ill bend you over and make you mine. No more putting me off Serenity." Francesco said and got a drink from the bar. And walked away. "Whatever." Serenity said.

"I am so sorry I'm late." My red woolly hair flopped onto my face and I huff, throwing my bag on the chair to put it up. I haven't noticed the prisoner yet as I pull down my black pencil skirt that stuck to my hips a little too tight due to the shrinkage in the washing machine. "This. . . is my therapist?" A deep mocking voice came and I cleared my throat, finally meeting the seemingly Black eyes of Prisoner 409. My breath catches in my throat as a slow smirk grazes his face. The handcuffs remained stuck to his hand as he slowly rubbed his bare chin. "Behave 4-0-9" The prison guard slapped the table before leaving and I was still frozen. "Why wouldn't I? Chocolate just happens to be my favorite flavor."

He wanted her to say something, anything! Why was she agreeing to this? Why was she accepting marriage to a man she didn't even know? Why was she so weak, so stupid, so powerless? He wished above all things that he could walk away from this mess but his father had made it very clear; he couldn't walk away, only Kyra could. And until then, he was stuck with her. Yet, here she sat, hardly able to even look him in the eye. "You, Kyra, are many things" He said, his finger tracing the outline of her face. She held her eye lids shut, no doubt afraid to look at him. "A bait. A punishment. A torment" He snarled, making certain to leave his venom dripping from every word as he laid emphasis on them. He leaned forward and pressed his lips menacingly against her ears. "But. You. Will. Never. Be. My. Wife" Retracting his finger and leaning back, he watched her, waiting patiently for her reaction. But she sat there, her eyelids still shut, her hands trembling by her side and her lips pressed together. She said nothing and it infuriated him. He hated the woman that sat before him, the weakling that was his curse. He watched with great disgust as a drop of tear disentangled itself from her thick, black, long lashes and made its way down her flushed cheek while her eyes stood shut. With that, he turned around and walked away, determined to be the one to break Kyra. **** When Vihaan's father forces him into an arranged marriage with Kyra, he treats her as she deserves; with anger and disgust. Until the real reason his father chose Kyra is revealed; her life hangs on the balance and with her death, Vihaan stands to gain her father's entire empire. Will Vihaan eventually turn against his father's sinister plan to get Kyra out of the picture and stand to fight for her life or will he see her death as an escape from his emotional prison? Copyright © 2016-2019 Lily Orevba All rights reserved