Ambitious marketing executive "Alexandra a.k.a Lexi Thompson" has built her life around deadlines, clients, and success-leaving little room for love. Freelance writer "Max Nolan" prefers quiet corners and daydreams, chasing inspiration for his first novel. ___ When chance brings them together, sparks fly-but so do secrets. A hidden past, misunderstood choices, and unexpected betrayals threaten to tear them apart just as they begin to fall. Torn between trust and doubt, passion and pride, Lexi and Max must decide: are they destined to be strangers forever, or can love survive the collision of two very different worlds?

Valentina Rossi - 22 years old, a small-town girl from Todmorden. Bright, talkative, and impossible to ignore once she starts speaking, valentina's mind is always overflowing with ideas, colors, and designs. A college student with big dreams stitched together from ambition and imagination, she's obsessed with fashion sketching outfits, studying fabrics, and dreaming of the day her creations will walk real runways instead of living only in her notebook. Killian Carrington -25 years old. Billionaire. CEO of Velouré Atelier. Ruthless perfectionist. Known in elite business circles as Mr. Arrogant, he's a man built from discipline and ambition. Cold, calculating, and dangerously handsome, Killian lives by one rule: work comes first everything else is irrelevant. _____ Killian is adamant about firing Valentina for discovering his secrets. Can Valentina find out a way to blackmail him into letting her stay? More importantly, what's going to happen when he finds out that she is an intern at Velouré Atelier AKA his company? But it's not as easy as it seems.... Can Valentina handle having her CEO as her roommate?

|| Highest Rank - #1 in Teen Fiction || Ever broken into Disney World at three in the morning? Ever pranked the police and almost gotten arrested for it? Ever played paintball at the park in nothing but your underwear? Maya hasn't. But she is about to... Dylan Thompson is the most popular guy in the school and is seeking revenge after Maya slapped him for being a 'pervert'. What would you do if you were Maya? Move to Mexico and change your name to Rico and then proceed to move into an apartment with a goat owner named Pablo, obviously. What does Maya do? She doesn't run, instead she kicks him where the sun don't shine and slaps him again. Time for revenge nerd. --- Cover by the best human @1Dgurlwrites WARNING: Contains mild language & may cause many eyes rolls, fangirl moments and tears. [COMPLETED] Copyright © by Laylaa Khan

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'