Gianna Vale's new babysitting job was supposed to be easy until she met Kai Mercer. Smug, infuriating, and impossible to ignore. She had no feelings for him whatsoever. I mean, that's what she thought right?

"𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍." - 𝑺𝒉𝒓𝒗𝒚𝒂 "𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕." - 𝑽𝒆𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑨 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒐 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔, 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍. Lovers to enemies ᯓ★ He vanished for five years, leaving her with a marriage no one knows about and a silence that still chokes her. Now Vedarth Malhotra is back colder, unreadable, watching her like a shadow reborn. What does he want from Shrvya Sehgal now... forgiveness, revenge, or her entire life?

ᴀ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴀ ꜱᴛᴀɴᴅᴀʟᴏɴᴇ. ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇᴄᴏɴᴅ ʙᴏᴏᴋ ᴏꜰ "ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇɪʟᴇᴅ ᴅᴇꜱɪʀᴇꜱ" ꜱᴇʀɪᴇꜱ. ______________ 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝐴𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝐶𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖 spent her entire life running away from the world she was born into. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲. As a mafia princess destined to inherit an empire, she chose the one path that would disgrace it all. Becoming a stripper and disappearing into the shadows. But the shadows already belonged to someone else. 𝑁𝑖𝑘𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑖 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑧𝑜𝑣 was never supposed to notice her. A man built from violence. A man whose name is whispered but whose face remains unknown. A man who built his entire life around control, until the one woman who refused to fear him became the only thing he could not ignore. She hates everything he represents. He cannot understand why he cannot stay away. When two people built from opposite sides of the same darkness collide, will they destroy each other... 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒? ________________ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴛʀɪɢɢᴇʀ ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢꜱ | 18+

Olivia Williams has always been the quiet girl-someone who stayed in the background, never causing trouble, and carefully avoiding drama. She thought her ex-boyfriend and the heartbreak he left behind were safely buried in the past. But life has a way of throwing the unexpected right onto your path. On the first day of term after summer break, Olivia steps onto the ice, only to find herself face-to-face with Noah Johnson-the fierce, confident rival of her ex. From the moment their eyes meet, Olivia feels the electric tension that comes with rivalry and the pull of something dangerously exciting. Noah is everything her ex was not: daring, unpredictable, and challenging in ways that make her heart race. As Olivia navigates school, friendships, and the pressures of her figure skating ambitions, she finds herself drawn into a whirlwind of emotions she thought she had left behind. With every shared practice and stolen glance, the line between competition and desire blurs. But can Olivia open her heart again without risking everything she's worked so hard to protect? Caught In-between is a compelling story of love, heartbreak, and second chances, where ambition meets passion, and the ice holds secrets more powerful than anyone could imagine. In a world of rivalries, can love find a way to skate past the past and land where it belongs?

Reid Blackwell is the perfect stereotypical Ice Hockey player: cocky, always wears his hat backwards, and is in love with the idea of himself. He is the reckless bad boy every puck bunny dreams of calling their own, but when his future with the NHL is looming over his head, his team step in to save him from himself. Emiliana Beckett, raised by her famous, World Champion MOTOGP racer brother, is an ambitious law student who has to spend her year abroad working for the University of Michigan's Ice Hockey team, specifically, their star goalie-Reid Blackwell. To make matters worse, she is forced to live mere inches apart from him in the hockey house. She hides her body dysmorphia behind academic perfection, he hides his pressure and pain behind charm and chaos. What will happen when they are forced to find a way to understand one another?

What happens when the guy you can't stand becomes the solution to all your problems? --- Xavier Cole is a man-whore. A womanizer. A complete player. And on most days? A walking red flag. Unfortunately for me, he's also charming, reckless, and very publicly unattached. The kind of guy no one would ever question suddenly having a girlfriend... and the last person anyone would expect to be faking it. Which makes him the perfect solution when my ex shows back up in town, convinced he deserves a second chance. I didn't mean to kiss Xavier at the annual hockey team New Year's Eve party. I really didn't! But it happened. And now everyone thinks we're dating. That he's my boyfriend. Which might be my fault too... because I may have told people we were together. And he might be going along with it. The problem? Xavier Cole and I don't flirt... we spar. And apparently, we're supposed to be convincing as a couple. Which means we're going to have to make this work. Because if our cover gets blown, I'm screwed. - A fake dating, enemies-to-lovers hockey romance at Henley University - ****The Henley Boys is a set of standalone novels. Against the Boards is the second book in the series, but you can choose to read in any order!*****

Anxious overachiever, Sophia Calloway, has a plan; graduate top of her class, get into a top 3 law school, keep her head down and emotions quieter. So when the University of Michigan's ice hockey team targets her in a prank gone wrong? She's ready to call campus security, drop-kick the nearest jock and move on with her structured little life. Instead, she gets Holden Zhao. Captain of the hockey team- too charming for his own good, worryingly reckless and absolutely allergic to authority. And now- assigned to her beloved library shift as punishment. Holden has never met a girl who doesn't fall at his feet. Sophia has never met a boy who makes her want to scream... and maybe kiss, all in the same breath. He calls her uptight. She calls him a menace. But the longer they're stuck together, the harder it is to pretend it's just a punishment. The less it feels like one, too. ➳♡➳ "I'm not going to kiss you, Soph." She crosses her arms defensively. "And why the hell not?" "I'm not going to kiss you," My lips graze the shell of her ear. "Until you beg me to." ➳♡➳ Slow burn. Enemies to friends to lovers. Banter like a whiplash. One anxious overachiever. One chaotic hockey captain. This was never part of the plan.

Elaine Williams, a bubbly, kind girl, is moved to a boarding school after her step brother is arrested. Moving into this school is a very big change for Elaine, and there are lots of bumps in the road. Due to circumstances, she ends up having to stay in a dorm with 6 guys. How will Elaine adapt to these new changes, while she is struggling with lots of things herself? Will she fall in love? Will she get heartbroken? Will anyone figure out her secrets? Best rankings🥇 #1 lovers 09/28/25 #1 ed 09/28/25

He loathe his wife, yet he can't take his eyes off her. He wants her gone, yet he can't seem to stay away. He wants her to suffer, yet he's overly fond of her sweet smile. He wants her to hate him, yet he craves for her love.. ⚠️Warning!⚠️ This story contains : • sexual / mature content • foul language • abuse • violence • sexual assault Highest Rankings : #1 Adult #1 Don #1 Sweet #1 Mafiaromance #1 Marriage #1 Trauma #1 Adorable #1 Grumpysunshine #1 Mobboss #1 Soulmate

---···₊⊹ ✞🕷️✞ ⊹₊···--- "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆," 𝑰 𝒎𝒖𝒓𝒎𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏, 𝒎𝒚 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆. "𝑺𝒐 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓." 𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒕. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆, 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒏. ---···₊⊹ ✞🕷️✞ ⊹₊···--- Stella Kingston has survived more than most ever could-trauma, fear, and a past that refuses to stay buried. So when her brother's best friend, Jeremy-the same man who once couldn't stand her-finds her bloodied and shaking in the middle of the road, something in him snaps. All the hatred disappears. Replaced by one thought: Who the hell did this to her? Jeremy was never a good man. Morally grey. Possessive. Dangerous. But for Stella? He'll become something far worse. Because whoever broke her... will burn. And he'll make sure of it. ---···₊⊹ ✞🕷️✞ ⊹₊···--- ⚜️TROPES: mafia, enemies to lovers, touch her and die, he falls first (and harder), possessive MMC, trauma, obsession ⚠️ Content warnings: PLEASE SEE INSIDE FOR GRAPHIC CONTENT DESCRIPTION #1 in SCARS, LANGUAGE, MENTALHOSPITAL, MENTALINSTITUTION, BROTHERS BES