you just got hired as billie eilish's new tour photographer. at first, it's just work. late-night texts, candid photos, teasing, and billie calling you "camera girl" every chance she gets. but somewhere between private shoots, long drives, jealous looks and conversations that go way past professional, things start getting a little too real. and when working for your idol starts feeling a lot more personal than it should, keeping things "just professional" becomes almost impossible...

Lennon Price has hated Jules Bennett since high school. One state championship game. One moment neither of them forgot. And a family rivalry that existed long before either of them stepped onto a basketball court. Now, years later, Jules has transferred to Calder University for their senior season-and Lennon is expected to call her a teammate. That would be easier if Jules wasn't still just as infuriating. And attractive. What starts as old resentment and constant competition quickly turns into something neither of them planned for. But Jules is about to learn that getting Lennon to want her is the easy part. Getting Lennon to let her in is something else entirely.

WLW | ProfxStudent | Contract Marriage Professor Selene Ashford needs one thing to secure her inheritance: a stable marriage that lasts two years. Amara volkov never expected to become her solution. Bound by a contract and a secret neither can afford to expose, they return to the same university as professor and student, pretending to be strangers in public while sharing a penthouse behind closed doors. As a married couple. The terms are simple. For two years, Selene stays married to Amara to secure her inheritance. In return, Amara receives a fully funded master's degree, housing, and the future she's spent years working toward. All she has to do is make the marriage look real. The arrangement is simple. Keep up appearances. Follow the rules. Don't get attached. Unfortunately, neither of them is very good at following rules. Between constant arguments, sharp banter, and a growing dependence neither wants to acknowledge, the line between obligation and something far more dangerous begins to blur. But secrets have a way of surfacing, and when everything starts to fall apart, some promises become harder to keep than others. And when the truth finally catches up to them, keeping their promises may cost far more than either of them expected. Rankings: #1 Fake wife 🥇 #1 Coma 🥇 #1 Academic setting 🥇 #2 Troubled past 🥈 #2 in txs 🥈 #3 Trauma bonding 🥉

teacher x student wlw age gap slow burn "You're staring." Chloe looked away "I'm not." Rebecca raised an eyebrow. "You are." "I'm thinking." "That's somehow more concerning." Chloe Walker has exactly one opinion about her new History professor: she's suspiciously familiar, annoyingly intelligent, and apparently impossible to avoid. Rebecca Harper has exactly one opinion about Chloe: she's chaotic, unpredictable, and somehow always saying the first thing that comes into her head. Between questionable meme shirts, university disasters, late-night encounters, and a friendship that slowly begins to mean more than either of them expected, their lives keep crossing paths. Neither of them is looking for anything. Especially not each other. But between unexpected encounters, terrible jokes, late-night conversations, Chloe and Rebecca might discover that some people enter your life when you least expect them. And sometimes, the people who seem the most different from you are the ones who understand you best.

Blair Donovan has spent four years building a reputation no one dares question. Captain of Ashford University's nationally ranked women's soccer team. Future professional. The defender every striker hates playing against. Cold. Disciplined. Untouchable. At least, that's what everyone believes. When Coach Ramirez recruits junior transfer Avery Bennett-the same striker Blair specifically begged her not to bring to Ashford-it feels like the beginning of Blair's worst nightmare. Avery is everything Blair can't stand. Loud where Blair is quiet. Carefree where Blair is controlled. Infuriatingly talented. And somehow always smiling. From the first practice, they're at each other's throats. Hard tackles become personal. Every argument ends with someone pulling them apart. Teammates start placing bets on who will throw the first punch, while reporters can't stop asking why the captain and the team's newest star seem to hate each other so much. Neither of them expected to become roommates on away trips. Neither of them expected the rivalry to turn into something neither one knows how to handle. Because somewhere between the screaming matches, the late-night bus rides, the brutal practices, and the moments no one else sees... hatred starts looking a lot like attraction. But falling in love doesn't erase years of walls. Blair has spent her entire life believing that letting people in only gives them the chance to leave. Avery refuses to give up on someone who keeps pushing her away, but loving Blair means fighting battles she can't even see. As the pressure of chasing a national championship collides with buried secrets, old wounds, and a relationship neither of them knows how to navigate, they'll have to decide whether love is worth risking everything they've spent years protecting. Some games are won in ninety minutes. The hardest ones are fought off the field.

Aurora never meant to fall for someone like Red - dangerous, dominant, and wrapped in shadows. But beneath the edge lies a woman who holds her gently, loves her deeply, and sees her completely. In a world of quiet rules and unspoken power, their love grows fierce, tender, and unbreakable. A story of trust, devotion, and the kind of romance that rewrites everything.

Expelled from nine schools, Kira left her parents with no choice but to send her to Lustrous, a BDSM Academy, in the hope it would curb her behaviour. There, she meets Miss Evelyn, a teacher of both English and Brat Taming. The two capture each other's interest almost immediately. Their escalating tension sets the stage for an intense power struggle: Miss Evelyn thrives on challenge, while Kira's unyielding stubbornness refuses to back down. What will happen when their paths cross?

These women thought their paths would never align. Romy Vanelle never dreamed of working in a run-down pizza shop. The prestigious cooking academy La Cherief is supposed to be her escape. Little does she know that the gorgeous disaster who once ordered a pineapple pizza with garlic buns will soon become the person she fears most: Arabella Renette, world-famous chef-and Romy's strict, perfection-obsessed instructor, who mysteriously stopped cooking years ago. Keeping the elite scholarship that keeps her afloat won't be her only challenge. She'll also have to survive the dangerously attractive chef who watches her every move. Romy likes to taste the danger. And she soon realizes she'll have to take everything with... A Grain of Salt.

'Solitude' Philosopher Philip Koch defined it as "A stretch of experience disengaged from other people in perception, thought, emotion, and action" Solitude is an experience that can exist regardless of physical location, defined by the "absence" of other people, internally otherlessness, a spiritual/philosophical concept regarding the dissolution of self and a literary/existential term for extreme isolation. At forty-five, Professor Loredana Dove has built her life on control. Keeping her colleagues at arm's length and her students at a distance. At home, her marriage to an absent, quarrelsome wife is crumbling, leaving her to raise their five year old daughter in quiet isolation. She has convinced herself she needs nothing more until Romina Maple crashes into her classroom. Nineteen smart, and reckless, Romina is the youngest in her year. To her classmates she's the loud, infuriating party girl; to herself, she's struggling with mental health, taking care of her three year old brother and the only responsible adult in a house run by aging grandparents, her defiance masks hunger, her insolence disguises fear. Their lives should never touch. Yet hunger recognizes hunger. What begins as irritation morphs into fascination, into a closeness neither woman knows how to resist. Boundaries blur. Rules splinter. And both must face the truth: some desires do not starve quietly, and some silences can undo a lifetime of control. Our Shared Solitude is a story of two women who should have walked away yet found themselves consumed by the one thing they were never meant to want.

| teacher x student | wxw | slow burn | When 19-year-old Lena James enters English Literature class, she expects nothing special. Instead, she meets Ms. Sinclair her cold, sharp-tongued British literature teacher. Elegant, cutting, and unbearably superior. From the very first lesson, the 34-year-old woman seems to take pleasure in dismantling Lena's every opinion with cruel precision. Lena hates her. She hates the condescending red marks on her essays, the raised eyebrow that makes her feel small, and the way Ms. Sinclair lingers in her thoughts long after class ends. But hate this intense has a way of twisting into something far more dangerous. With a strict 15-year age gap and an unbreakable teacher-student boundary, their slow-burning tension threatens to break every rule both in literature and in real life. Some lessons aren't taught kindly. And some hatreds taste too much like desire. "Ms. Sinclair's Secret"