not your average mafia workplace romance.. Victoria White has spent five years under the work of Vincent Morales. A cold, commanding, and completely untouchable force within the mafia underworld. But when she finally takes a vacation to chase the fairytale ending she thought she wanted, she comes back heartbroken, and face to face with a boss who suddenly won't leave her alone. The Brazilian Don, Vincent Morales doesn't do feelings. He does control, strategy, and silence. But when Victoria walks back into his life looking like an answer to all his problems, he makes a reckless move. A fake relationship to protect his reputation, and keep her close too. She's fire, he's ice, and the lines between fake and real blur with every lie they tell. 50/50 chapters completed 2/2 epilogues completed 1/1 playlists made rewards: #1 fake dating #1 mafia romance #1 unexpected pregnancy #1 ragstoriches #1 daddy issues #4 dark love #4 secretary #5 office #7 boss #10 office romance #14 grumpyxsunshine #22 marriage of convenience

She thought she was nobody. Aria Vale is a Class-V star-dim, unremarkable, easy to overlook. She keeps her head down, her music quiet, and her existence small. Until she wakes up married. To twelve strangers. The Zodiac themselves. Now twelve impossibly powerful constellation heirs are searching for her, bound by vow-marks they don't understand. And Aria? She's trying not to be found. Because girls like her don't get chosen. They get forgotten. But the stars have other plans. A cosmic reverse harem romance where the girl who thinks she's nothing discovers she's everything. Slow burn | Why choose | Found family | Avoidant FMC | Protective MMCs

❝𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐬❞ 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢❦ ঌ 𝐈𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧 is smart, stubborn, and never backs down-especially from Angelo Moretti. She's top of her class, quick-witted, and hides her soft heart behind sarcasm. Confident, competitive, and impossible to intimidate, she refuses to let the school's biggest troublemaker get to her... even though he always does. 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢 is pure trouble-detention's favorite visitor and the king of reckless decisions. He doesn't do love, only hookups, and he lives for chaos with his best friend, Damiano. Charming, dangerous, and always smirking, he thinks he's untouchable... until Isabella becomes the one person he can't shake. 🏅#𝟕-𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝟐𝟑/𝟎𝟑/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 🏅#𝟐-𝐟𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝟏𝟗/𝟎𝟒/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

Once there was a girl, daughter of an Alpha, who happened to face consequences of the things she had no control over. How? By being ostracized from her own kind. By being betrayed by her own family. By being rejected by her own soulmate who chooses her sister instead. And by being banished from the Kingdom. As she returns after years, she notices several changes. One of them being the demeanor of her mate.

Logan Romano didn't just enter the NHL. He tore through it. Dark. Brooding. Untouchable. With brutal talent and a reputation as cold as the New York winter, Logan dominates both the ice and every room he walks into. He doesn't lose. He doesn't bend. And he certainly doesn't fall in love. Not after the last time. Not until November Levine crashes into his life like a beam of sunlight he never asked for. She's warmth where he's storm clouds. She's soft where he's jagged edges. A walking contradiction to everything Logan swore he needed. When a deal forces the polar opposites under one roof, tensions ignite fast. Teasing turns to feuds. Feuds turn into something dangerously close to desire. And Logan is forced to confront the one promise he's never broken. Because once you step into the light- it's impossible to return. ✩ Grumpy x sunshine • forced proximity • slow burn Will the hockey captain cross that line? ✩ "Nova." I whisper, my voice low and hoarse against her neck. "Stop it." "Stop what." She whimpers back innocently as her thighs tighten around my hips. My teeth nip at the skin on her jaw in warning. "Either stop teasing, or put me out of my fucking misery." November pulls her head back from mine, resting it against the wall, and bats her lashes up at me. "Say please."

Esmee Hale has spent her entire life believing she was ordinary. Until the night grief awakens something impossible. After losing the only family she has left, Esmee is taken to a hidden academy where magic is studied and controlled. Suddenly surrounded by strangers, impossible abilities, and a world she never knew existed, she is forced to learn how to navigate a life that no longer feels like her own. As Esmee struggles to master a power tied as much to emotion as it is to control, she begins to find something she never expected: friendship, belonging, and a place where she might finally fit. But magic has a history, and the more Esmee learns about her abilities, the harder it becomes to ignore the questions surrounding them. Preview ♡ "I should have known I was in trouble the moment I saw you." Her smile widened. "Oh?" He let out a slow breath, shaking his head almost imperceptibly as though finally admitting something he had spent far too long refusing to acknowledge. "You've occupied my thoughts from the first day we met." His eyes searched hers with an honesty so complete it left no room for doubt. "I would catch myself looking for you before I entered a room, wondering where you were when I couldn't find you, inventing excuses to speak to you when I already knew exactly what I wanted to say." His thumb brushed slowly across her cheek. "And every time I convinced myself I'd regained some measure of self-control..." the corner of his mouth curved into the smallest, almost helpless smile, "you'd look at me like this." "Like what?" "Like you're doing now." She tilted her head ever so slightly, a teasing smile playing at her lips. "And what exactly am I doing now?" "Making it extraordinarily difficult to remember that I'm supposed to be the composed one." Book 1

He was never the villain they feared. He was the punishment their kingdom earned. For years, the people of Elysium whispered that their terrifying emperor had finally been leashed by a gentle queen. Ophelia softened the monster beneath the crown with warm hands, soft smiles, and a love powerful enough to make a tyrant kneel willingly at her feet. She became the mercy in a kingdom built on bloodshed. The shield standing between the empire and the beast wearing the throne. And then someone poisoned her. Now the queen lies unconscious. Their unborn child hangs between life and death. And the empire is beginning to understand a horrifying truth: Achille was never protecting Ophelia from them. Ophelia was protecting them from Achille. Because the moment blood spilled from the empress's lips, something ancient and merciless woke inside the emperor. The leash snapped. The restraint vanished. And the man who conquered kingdoms with fire and brutality remembers exactly why the world once feared him. The court is no longer a place of politics. It is a hunting ground. Every smile hides betrayal. Every ally looks guilty. Every servant, noble, and friend becomes a suspect beneath the emperor's cold gaze. Heads begin to roll. Bodies pile beneath the throne. And somewhere inside the castle, a traitor realizes too late that they did not poison a queen- They wounded the only thing keeping the empire alive. Now the kingdom prays for Ophelia to wake before another river of blood floods the palace halls. Because if she dies... The emperor will not stop until every nation burns with her.

He blocked her in. She shut him down. Now, the whole town is waiting for the explosion. Sage Woodson didn't come back to Liberty Creek to fall in love. She came to bury her grandfather, sell his estate, and get back to her life as a high-powered Chicago ER nurse. She has a plan, a timeline, and zero patience for the locals. Especially not for the arrogant Fire Captain driving a midnight-blue F-150 who thinks he owns the road. Captain Connor Stapleton is used to being the hero. He's used to respect. He is not used to a curly-haired tourist publicly questioning his manhood in a crowded coffee shop parking lot. They were supposed to be enemies. But when Sage inherits her grandfather's rusted-out 1969 Chevelle, she realizes the only mechanic in town skilled enough to save it is the very man she swore to avoid. A wager is struck: Connor has one week to get the engine running. If he fails, Sage leaves for good. If he succeeds? She owes him a date. But late nights in a humid garage have a way of blurring the lines between fighting and flirting. As the engine roars to life, so does a possessive, feral hunger that neither of them expected. Connor doesn't just want a date. He wants to ruin her for anyone else. And Sage is realizing that the only thing scarier than leaving... might be staying. Small town. Big truck. Massive attitude.

Naomi has spent years being very specific about why she hates Kai Mercer. He's been in her life since she was old enough to remember, her brother's best friend, the one who always knew exactly where to push, who looked at her like she was something he'd already figured out. When she was sixteen, he made sure she knew it. She never forgot. Now she's broke, unemployed, and out of options, which means she's living in his apartment. Kai is her brother's captain, his best friend, the person Easton trusts above everyone. He's kept his distance for ten years for reasons Naomi doesn't know and he's never planned to tell her. Forced into the same space, the same mornings, the same late nights, the hate starts to feel like something else. Not softer...just different. The kind of different that's harder to ignore than anger ever was. She still hasn't forgiven him for what he did. He's never stopped carrying why he did it. Some things were always going to end up here. Warning: May contain profanity and sexual content.

✨ Quote featured in WATTPAD chicklit's THE CORNER BOOTH - April' 26 community newsletter ✨ 34 chapters are unpublished and would be back in four days after EDITING!!! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧 𝐊𝐃𝐏 (after major editings ofc 😜) "Lie on the bed, Isla Maria Carter. That's my fifth payment" Falling for her brother's rival? Of course not. She'd rather eat dirt. For Isla, it was supposed to be a simple university project: observe, analyze, and leave. But you can't observe a predator like Noah Blackwood without becoming the prey. He's the new captain of the Blackthorns. The golden boy. The trustees' son and the visionary future of the University. But to Isla Maria Carter... he's nothing more than a SON OF A BISCUIT. He's her brother's greatest rival. Her biggest headache. And now? Her mandatory partner. Noah doesn't like being a subject; he likes being the one in control. And he has decided the only subject he's interested in... is her. HE WANTS HER TO FALL FOR HIM. SHE WANTS HIM TO FALL IN A PIT. HE WANTS TO KISS HER. SHE WANTS TO PUNCH HIM. FOR HIM, SHE'S THE CHALLENGE HE NEVER SAW COMING. FOR HER, HE'S THE PROBLEM SHE CAN'T ESCAPE. HE WANTS HER. SHE WANTS HIM-MURDERED. This season's game has officially moved off the field. But the question remains the same, "Who is going to win this match?" •=======• Cover by @elaradaven Well yes there are many kiss scenes in between (for absolute no reason acc to me) because, come on! It's my book and I love these things lol. Okay I know you guys. So, here's the spice level:- 4/5 🌶️ [UNDER EDITING]