Anna never thought she'd have a stepfather. She definitely never thought she'd walk in on him touching himself. Now she can't unsee it. And Steve can't pretend nothing happened. What follows is a dangerous pull neither of them meant to feel, a slow unraveling of boundaries inside a house that suddenly feels too small, too hot, and far too forbidden.

"Maybe I'm insane for loving him, but in a world this twisted, isn't it the ones who dare to see the humanity in madness that are truly sane?" -Y/N

Benjamin Poindexter, also known as Bullseye, is an FBI agent who moonlights as a freelance assassin for Kingpin. Despite his violent past and current dangerous lifestyle, he finds himself deeply infatuated with a New York City art student named Y/N. Haunted by the traumas of his childhood and the darkness that surrounds his life, Benjamin feels unworthy and unable to approach Y/N directly. Instead, he watches her from the shadows, both protecting and tormenting himself with his unspoken love.

𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒚? You worked as a prison psychologist, you were face to face with the worst criminals of New York every day, but was it scary? Yes. It was. But somehow the thrill of it all overruled the feeling of fear. The information you got, stored, 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺. Since your friend Foggy Nelson died you decided to seek out his killer, Benjamin Poindexter. To what end? You didn't know yet. All you knew was that you had to meet him. What you didn't know when you took the job was that it would make your life a whole lot messier. Your friendships were at stake, your life, your 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘴. Would you give it all up? For a certain criminal? T H I S S T O R Y C O N T A I N S : • Mature themes • Violence • Psychological influences • Lethal violence • Reader is around 26, Dex is 28.

Noor is a second-year fashion student at FIT, overwhelmed by deadlines, New York chaos, and the constant pressure to survive the city on her own. She has no idea the quiet neighbor downstairs is slowly memorizing every detail of her life. What begins as curiosity soon becomes something far more dangerous-as Noor is pulled closer and closer to the violent world hiding beneath New York's surface.

Benjamin Poindexter is a complicated man. Wicked and selfish, obsessive and toxic. Lucetta Gray promised herself she would never love again, especially a man like Poindexter. But promises are easy to keep until the wrong person looks at you like you're the only thing holding them together. Now she's caught between saving herself... or becoming just another casualty of Benjamin Poindexter.

Vivienne "Viv" Moretti's life is simple. She spends her mornings covered in flour, her afternoons serving pastries, and her evenings convincing herself that ordinary is enough. Then Dex walks into her bakery. There's something about him she can't explain-something mysterious, something broken, something that keeps pulling her back no matter how many reasons she has to stay away. As their lives become more tangled, Viv begins to realize that loving someone like Dex comes with secrets... and some secrets have a way of changing everything. Dex X femOC