Valeska is exhausted by life. Drowning in bills, dead-end jobs, and the weight of loneliness, she's desperate for change. When she lands a live-in housekeeper position at one of the city's most luxurious estates, it feels like the chance she's been waiting for-a clean slate and a quiet place to breathe again. Luca is refined, sinfully intelligent, and dangerously charming. Every word that leaves his lips is measured, every glance deliberate. Temptation in a tailored suit with a handsome smile. Enzo is dark, unpredictable, and impossible to ignore. His presence hums with danger, his stare burns like a threat and he's already decided Valeska belongs to him... and he's daring anyone to say otherwise. Valeska tries to keep her distance, but their world pulls her in filled with tension and temptation she's never known before. Their attention is overwhelming, their power intoxicating. The brothers take what they want. The brothers own what they desire. And what they desire is her. *** ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This story contains strong language, mature themes, and explicit scenes intended for readers 18+. Reader discretion is advised.

The world of Aeralith is divided into three realms: Light, Time and Shadow - each convinced they are the only thing keeping the world from collapsing. Eryss comes from Shadow. When she crosses into the realm of Time, she encounters Rhyel - who is bound to the Current of Time. When their paths continue to cross, something older and stronger than law begins to stir: Resonance - a forbidden blending of magic. They do not only risk their own lives - but also the balance of the entire world. Resonance is a romance about forbidden love, magical currents, and the question: can you be loyal to the world... and to yourself?

**slow updates** (College, Adult Romance) "You're special, Jess," he said, his British accent made my toes curl. Jess? I blinked. He called me Jess. He's never called me Jess before, only Jessica. He continued, "You're beautiful, you're intelligent, you're incredibly interesting, and you're definitely girlfriend material-I, however, am not boyfriend material." I looked into his deep blue eyes and said, "I know you're not boyfriend material, but I don't care about that. I like you, Garrett, and I want to spend some time with you." "Jessica," he said. "I don't want you to get hurt, especially by me." • • • • Twenty-year-old Jess (Jessica) Newborn is prepared to leave her grief-stricken past behind and start fresh-but that's all about to change when she meets Garrett Shaw on her first day at Seattle Pacific University.

Some summers are meant to be forgotten. Others write themselves into your soul. When Eleanor Belle Guevarra is forced to leave the city for one quiet season in the countryside, she expects boredom, mud, and the endless gossip of small-town neighbors. What she does not expect is Nine Verbos, the boy with a reckless smile and a fragile heart. As the days burn hotter and the nights fall softer, Eleanor discovers a world of laughter, friendship, and first love. A world both imperfect and unforgettable. But Nine carries a secret written in his blood, one that turns every heartbeat into a borrowed moment. Together, they will learn that summer is not only sunshine, but storms. Not only beginnings, but endings. And sometimes, the fiercest love stories are the ones destined to break us. Because summer always fades, but some summers leave their mark forever. ======== The History of Summer (The History Duology Book 1)

Title: Bound & Breathless ©Copyright Bound and Breathless 2025. Trigger warning!! ||18+||Dark Romance, Suspense, Erotic, Adult Themes (18SLV) Age restrictions Reader discretion advised. Read responsibly (Scenes may also include substance abuse and sensitive scenes involving suicide) BOUND & BREATHLESS Reagan didn't go looking for trouble. Trouble found her anyway-quiet, well-dressed, and watching from the shadows of a hotel bar. Fresh from a brutal breakup and standing at the edge of a life she no longer recognizes, Reagan makes one reckless choice: she lets a stranger in. Noah is everything she knows to avoid-secretive, controlled, carrying violence like a second heartbeat. He offers no explanations, no promises. Only intensity. Only heat. Only the kind of attention that feels like being seen for the first time. What Reagan doesn't know is that Noah is living a double life stitched together with lies. To the Bratva, he's a trusted enforcer. To the FBI, he's a weapon pointed inward. One wrong step will get him killed. One emotional attachment could destroy everything. As desire tightens into something deeper and far more dangerous, Reagan is pulled into a world where love is leverage, silence is survival, and trust comes at a brutal cost. When the lines between protector and predator blur-and blood is spilled-both of them will have to decide what they're willing to lose. Because some connections don't just bind you. They take your breath away. ~*~ We are on this journey together I will be posting new parts every week so stay tuned and please follow.

Isabella is desperate for her own independence, but her overprotective father stands in the way of her future. When she demands that she attends a University two hundred miles away from her home, her father only has one exception; a bodyguard. Elio is dedicated to his career to honour his late sister, but when he owes a favour to an ex-mafia boss, he takes body-guarding to a completely new level. Isabella is reckless and likes to push her bodyguards limits. Elio has zero patience and a desire to punish his client. When things start to get heated and unexpected feelings get in the way, their forbidden relationship becomes a distraction when Isabella's life is on the line. Elio is desperate to not let down another important woman in his life. But he can't save everyone, including his own bleeding heart. Tropes: - Mafia Romance - Bodyguard - Age-gap (8 years - FMC is 21 and MMC is 29) - Forbidden Love - Brat FMC/Grumpy MMC - Light BDSM (sub/dom vibes) - Size difference (5'4 & 6'6) - University/College Setting - Past Trauma/Healing - ANGST (so much of it)

Releasing the Genie • A Dark Mafia Romance • What happens when the bodyguard falls for the mafia princess he is supposed to protect? Note: This is the second book in The Sardensky Twin series. It can be read independently, but might be more enjoyable if you read Taming the Rogue first. Regina "Genie" Sardensky was raised to be perfect. The good daughter. The obedient one. The Queen in waiting. Unlike her twin sister, Rogue, Genie followed every rule her father set, no matter the cost. She learned early that survival meant silence, and loyalty meant sacrifice. Now, however, Genie is realizing her own strength, and she is willing to climb the arduous steps that will lead her to the top of her father's empire. Not as a pawn. Not as a prize. But as a ruler. Her only weakness is the man meant to remain unseen. Gavin Bronson. The man who has been tasked with protecting her. The man who grows stronger, yet more unstable, as her father tightens his grip and piles more blood on his hands. Genie was never meant to fall in love. She was meant to reign. ***This story is complete*** ***New chapters will be published every Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday*** ⚠️🌶️ Contains violence, manipulation, obsession, spice, and morally gray love. Because power is never won clean.

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The Rogue • A Dark Mafia Romance • They call me The Rogue. The brat. The mouthy mafia daughter who doesn't know her place. But the truth? I know exactly where I stand. I just refuse to bow. My father built his empire on blood and fear, and now he's trading me like a pawn in his next power play. Marriage to a stranger I never chose. One man is supposed to own me. Another man won't stop watching... Monsanto Cruze. My father's most ruthless enforcer. Silent. Brutal. Untouchable. He never spared me a glance... until the night everything shattered. Now I can't tell what's more dangerous: The marriage I'm being forced into. My father's wrath. Or the way Monsanto makes me burn. ⚠️ Contains violence, obsession, and morally gray love. Read at your own risk. Pinterest Link: https://pin.it/4H4sULWQi Images are not my own. They have been collected through Pinterest, Midjourney, and other sites. They are only to provide an idea of what I imagine the characters to look like.

Valley • They called him King when looking him in the eye. Behind his back they called him the Devil of the Rising Sun. This devil thought I had been reduced to nothing. Little did he know... I was now his worst nightmare. Greyson • She had stolen from me. Not money nor time nor mind nor heart. So much more. And because of that... I destroyed her. Devil of the Rising Sun is a dark, dangerous, enemies to lovers tale that will feed your toxic reading desires. Expect situations that may not be entirely comfortable for the faint of heart. ⚠️ 🌶️ This novel is set in the heart of the New Orleans underworld. While mentions of certain locations are within the novel, all characters and the Rising Sun establishment are purely fictional.