When It Hurts to Fall (The Hurt Series #5 - Zadie & Woody) She's chaos in eyeliner. He's the boy who's been in love with her forever. Zadie Spencer lives like there's no tomorrow - grunge playlists, late-night parties, too much eyeliner, too little sleep. She falls fast, especially for the wrong kind of guys - musicians with heartbreak written in their chords and destruction in their smiles. Woody Grant's the opposite. Boulder's golden boy. Star quarterback. Top of his class. The one who's always there when her world falls apart. He's spent years loving her quietly - fixing things she doesn't notice, catching her every time she falls. But there's only so many times you can put someone back together before the pieces stop fitting. Because loving Zadie Spencer hurts. And when best friends cross the line, somebody always bleeds. She's the storm he's been chasing his whole life. He's the steady heartbeat she never thought she'd need. ⚠️ Trigger & Content Warnings This story is 18+ and contains: • Mature language and sexual content • Alcohol, partying, and substance use For mature readers only. A messy, slow-burn, friends-to-lovers story about chaos and control, heartbreak and hope

💔 Where It Hurts to Stay (Wren Callahan & Leo Montgomery - Book Four in The Hurt Series) She met him before she knew who he was. Then she sat down in his classroom. And everything changed. Wren Callahan doesn't believe in happy endings. Not after her mom spiraled-again. Not after she left L.A. for Denver to live with her brother Dean, trying to finish her senior year without falling apart. She's sharp-tongued, political, impossible to cage- a girl made of wildfire learning how to survive her own sparks. Then there's Leo Montgomery- twenty-one, brilliant, too passionate for his own good. A first-year teacher who still looks more like a heartbreak in denim than authority in a tie. Too young to be cynical. Too idealistic to see the danger coming. When they meet, he's just the stranger who challenges her beliefs, matches her bite for bite, and makes her pulse forget how to behave. She doesn't know he teaches. He doesn't know she's still a student. Their spark is instant. Their chemistry-disaster dressed up as destiny. And when Wren walks into her new classroom and finds him standing there-sleeves rolled, eyes locked on hers every rule that's supposed to save them starts to burn. He's her teacher. She's the revolution he never saw coming. A forbidden, slow-burn, age-gap romance about crossing lines, defying expectations, and falling for the one person you were never meant to love. 🔥 18+ Mature Content Warning 🔥 Contains explicit scenes, underage drinking, and a forbidden teacher-student romance between consenting characters (legal age of consent observed).

💔 Hurting You, Loving You (Avery LaCroix & Roman St. James - Book Three in The Hurt series) Roman St. James doesn't lose control. Not in court. Not in life. And definitely not over her. Avery LaCroix. Nineteen. Sharp-tongued, reckless, and way too comfortable walking around his apartment like she doesn't set everything on fire. She's also his stepsister. He met her when she was still a teenager. Now she's grown - and staying in his space for the summer. Which is a problem. Because Roman's twenty-five . All clean lines and self-control. And Avery? She's chaos in eyeliner. The temptation he swore he'd never touch. They pretend the tension doesn't exist. That they're not circling something dangerous. But one spark... and it's over. This isn't the kind of love that waits its turn. It's the kind that breaks rules - and hearts - just to feel alive. 🔞 Mature Content Warning 🔞 This story is 18+ and intended for mature readers only. It includes: ✨ Explicit sexual content ✨ Strong language & adult themes ✨ Underage alcohol and drug use ✨ Forbidden, age-gap romance ✨ High emotional tension & family conflict A steamy, slow-burn, off-limits romance between a rule-following law student and the one girl he should never touch.

💥 Grumpy sunshine. Age-gap. 💔 The Hurt Between Us Book Two in The Hurt Series (Rowan & Nate's world) He was never hers to want. Too old. Too broken. Too buried in a past he never crawled out of. Dean Callahan lost the love of his life in Afghanistan. Now, he keeps his heart locked behind grief, guilt, and a garage door. Cassie Monroe? She's the storm he didn't see coming. Too young. Too reckless. Too good at getting under his skin. One night. One kiss. It should've meant nothing. But she tastes like a second chance- and Dean hasn't believed in those for a long, long time. He's the mistake she can't stop making. She's the fire he should've stayed away from. And this time? Walking away might just hurt more than falling ever did. ⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ The Hurt Between Us is a New Adult romance intended for mature audiences 18+ This story contains explicit sexual content, coarse language, and themes of emotional trauma and grief. It also includes depictions of drinking, smoking, and complex emotional relationships involving past military loss and guarded intimacy. Reader discretion is strongly advised. All rights reserved. This work is the intellectual property of the author. No part of this story may be copied, reposted, or reproduced without permission.

💔 Where It Hurts the Most - Part One: The Hurt Series He's her brother's best friend. A cop. Too old. Too off-limits. Rowan Hayes stopped caring the day her brother died. At seventeen, she's reckless, wild, and halfway to self-destruction-drinking too much, feeling too little, doing everything she can to forget. And Nate Delaney? He's the one picking up the pieces. Writing her up. Dragging her out. Dropping her off. The cop who's supposed to follow the rules- But breaks every single one when it comes to her. He promised he'd take care of her. But every time he sees her like this- Drunk. High. With the wrong guy. Something inside him cracks. She's the girl who doesn't want to be saved. He's the man who's breaking himself trying. He touches when he shouldn't. Stays when he should walk away. And looks at her like she's already his. The more he protects her, the harder it is to pretend he doesn't want her. And the closer they get, the more impossible it becomes to walk away. She's too young. He's sworn to stay away. But some lines don't just get crossed. They get shattered. A slow-burn, forbidden, age-gap new adult romance about grief, guilt, and the one person you should never want-but can't walk away from. ⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️ This story contains mature and sensitive content that may be distressing to some readers. Please proceed with care. Topics include: ✨ Explicit sexual content ✨ Substance use (alcohol, weed)Infidelity themes✨ Emotional trauma, grief, and self-destruction ✨ Strong language & adult themes ✨ Age-gap romance (all characters are 17+ and the story abides by the legal age of consent in Colorado) 💔 This is a New Adult / Mature Romance 🔞 Reader discretion is strongly advised.

Growing up, we hated each other. Now, we're f**kin' roommates for the summer. ALY It's been twelve years since I've seen him, but loathing Emmett Hoult still runs in my blood. Thanks to the hell he wreaked on my teenaged life, I've avoided the prick like the plague. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and after a fire destroys my apartment during the most important week of my life, I'm suddenly as desperate as they come.Hence the roommate situation.It's his summer home. His family said he wouldn't be around. They said I'd never run into him. But oh, did I run into Emmett Hoult.And in the worst way possible. EMMETT I didn't expect to see her ever again, let alone the way that I did.But now that she's back in my life, I'm not screwing things up. She still hates me - I know that - but it won't stop me from chasing the only two goals I've made for this summer.Making things right.And making her mine.

WHEN IT HURTS TO LET GO Book 6 - The Hurt Series 🔥 MARCUS Marcus Reid doesn't do feelings. He does parties. Football. Shots that burn and girls who don't stay. 🥃 Fuckboy extraordinaire. The guy your mother warned you about. 😏 Never the same girl twice. Never anything that could actually hurt. Until her. Harper Davies was supposed to be just another hookup. One night. One mistake. One more girl he'd forget by Monday. Except she felt like everything. 💫 So he did what Marcus Reid does best. He ran. 🏃 Now she's moved on. Happy. Glowing. With someone who isn't him. And Marcus? He's totally fine. Isn't he? 💔 ----- 💔 HARPER Harper Davies is done. ✋ Done waiting. Done hoping. Done being the girl who thought she saw something real. She gave him everything. And he threw it away before the sheets were even cold. Classic Marcus. 🙄 So she moved on. Found someone safe. Someone who actually shows up. She's happy now. She is. 💕 So why does her heart still skip when he walks into a room? Doesn't matter. Marcus Reid already broke her once. And Harper Davies doesn't do second chances. Does she? 💔 ----- 🖤 Some people are meant to be. Some are just meant to wreck each other. ----- 📚 CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE *(But reading the Hurt Series in order lets you watch the world grow, the friendships deepen, and the heartbreaks connect.)* ⚠️ **CONTENT WARNING** ⚠️ Mature themes including: explicit sexual content, underage drinking, substance use, strong language, and emotionally intense situations. 18+. 🖤

Avery's senior year is turned upside down when a kiss with her older brothers' best friend ignites a forbidden relationship tangled in danger, heartbreak, and family secrets that could destroy everything. *** "Aiden..." I shake my head, eyes fixed anywhere but the gorgeous man next to me. His hand grips my chin tightly, just enough to make me avert my eyes to his. "You know you want this as much as I fucking do. I want you to be mine. I want to be the one to hold you and kiss you the one you go to whenever you're happy or fucking sad. But let it be me, let me fucking show you that it should be me." He glares, jaw tensing. ...... ©hessaherophinelove

What she'd look like without that shirt. What she'd sound like if I kissed the corner of her throat and whispered her name there. What she'd do if I pinned her against the counter and made her say please. What she'd do if I- "Dominic?" • "I stayed up late, trying to get good at maths... just so I could be someone you'd respect. Someone you might someday look at and see more. Someone who could belong in your world." "I didn't want your money. Or your praise. I just..." my throat tightened, "I just wanted you to see me. Not Tristan's sister. Not a kid." Just Elena. • Elena Evelyn Grantt has spent years pretending. Pretending she didn't love him, pretending she could move on, and pretending it didn't matter that he never saw her that way. To Carl Dominic Enzo, she was only his best friend's little sister. But when Dominic returns, everything begins to shift. Older now and harder to ignore, he still calls her "little sister" and still treats her like family, yet his eyes linger longer than they should and the tension between them grows harder to resist. She was never meant to love him. He was never supposed to want her. But some lines are meant to be crossed...

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 Haze De Luca is the scariest, heartless, most popular boy in the school. Every-time he sees her, he is annoyed. She is an eyesore to him and he can't comprehend this feeling he has towards her. Evelyn Parker is far from what he is. She is shy and has a heart of gold. He is her bully. She thinks he's a monster and is terrified of him. She doesn't know what she did it deserve any of this. ... From since freshman year, he has made it his personal mission to bully her. She has grown to hate him over the years for this but what will happen when they decide to become enemies with benefits? Will they finally address their growing feelings towards one another, or will she remain his secret? ・‥...━━━━━━━☆☆━━━━━━━...‥・ *This book contains sex scenes, drug use, some inappropriate language, physical and verbal abuse which may be triggering for some readers. Please read at one's own risk as a trigger warning will not be designated at each chapter.* THANK YOU FOR THESE TOP RANKINGS!!! #1 in enemies #1 in enemiestolovers #1 in enemieswithbenefits #1 in enemiestofriends #1 in teenromance #1 in teenfiction #1 in badboy #1 in bully #1 in highschoolcrush #1 in forbidden #1 in characterdevelopment #2 in loveromance #2 in highschoolcrush #3 in highschoolsweethearts #3 in highschool #4 in drama #7 in loveromance