When Raven agrees to help sheltered Cassian complete his list of firsts in exchange for cash, it's strictly business-until their deal ignites an undeniable chemistry neither of them saw coming. *** After making a deal to finish her last year at Briarwood Academy in exchange for a shot at her dream job, 18 year old Raven Castillo has one mission: graduate and get out. No fights. No distractions. No complications. Cassian Hawthorne has spent his life buried in books, sheltered by his overprotective parents. But with college looming, he's ready to change that. He has a list of firsts to complete, and the unbothered new girl seems like the perfect person to help him. *** She needs the cash. He needs the experience. It's just business... until addictive kisses, lingering touches, and stolen glances make it anything but. What happens when their deal turns into something neither of them can control? Will they allow these sparks to fly, or will their personalities be far too different to carry on? ☪︎ ִ ࣪𖤐 𐦍 ☾𖤓 𝐁𝐚𝐝 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐱 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐲 [CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE] #1 in goodboy #1 in badgirl #1 in badgirlgoodboy #1 in plottwist #1 in forbiddenlove #1 in bucketlist #1 in eroticromance #2 in romance #2 in steamy #2 in lovestory #3 in teenromance

One year. For foster kid Jack Kelly, only one year stands between him and freedom. All he has to do is keep a low profile and stay out of the way of his foster dad. Everything was going fine until he was forced into the drama program, partnered for a class project with two nosy smart kids, and somehow gained the protection of the captain of the football team. Suddenly, staying under the radar becomes much more difficult. As he deals with escalating abuse at home, his new friends begin to notice that Jack's life isn't normal and that he is far from okay. A Newsies Foster Care AU WARNING: Child Abuse, Dissociation, Physical Abuse, Verbal Abuse, Child Neglect, Panic Attacks, Anxiety Attacks

She wasn't looking for anything when Claire Redfield put a stranger's number in her phone. He wasn't looking for anything either... or so he said. What followed was a year of coffee shops and late-night texts and a deployment that changed everything, a relationship built in the spaces between impossible jobs, and then the slow, brutal unraveling of a man who didn't know how to stop carrying everything alone. She loved him enough to walk away. He loved her enough to finally do something about it. This is the kind of love story that doesn't announce itself, it happens quietly, in the ordinary moments, in the getting better and the showing up and the specific, patient hope of two people who know what they had was real. The red string doesn't ask permission. It just keeps doing its work. DISCLAIMER: This is a Resident Evil fanfiction featuring Leon Kennedy x Reader. All characters and elements from the Resident Evil franchise belong to Capcom. I do not own RE; this work is fan-made and not for profit.

The tale of Visenya Velaryon and Cregan Stark. Visenya Velaryon, young Princess of Dragonstone, is determined to prove herself worthy of her blood and protect her kin as the realm teeters on the edge of chaos. Far in the North, the young Lord of Winterfell- solemn, steadfast, and born to lead- grows into his destiny. Their paths collide once more, and the embers of an old bond flare hot amid rising shadows. But the Greens have seized Rhaenyra's throne, and war sweeps towards them like a storm, sparing neither the brave nor the beloved. As the realm burns and loyalties are tested, Visenya must confront the question that haunts all who bear the name Targaryen: When the coin is cast, will she rise to greatness... or fall to madness?

𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐂 ── .✦ 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫 ιηтєηтισηѕ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆: Mature graphic content and non-consensual themes. Discretion advised. *ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ ʳᵉᵛⁱᵉʷ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘˡˡ ˡⁱˢᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʳⁱᵍᵍᵉʳ ʷᵃʳⁿⁱⁿᵍˢ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "...𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘵, 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨..." ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘ ＊*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚After five years navigating unexplored space, Charlie and her crew arrive at a planet that promises salvation for post-apocalyptic Earth. But one mistake - one faulty scan that instills a false sense of security - sets her on a journey she can't come back from. Once she steps foot onto this sentient world, her fate is sealed. What begins as a mission of hope quickly becomes an inescapable nightmare. It won't let her wake, and the reptilian inhabitants ​𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Word count: 135,000 #1 in ScienceFiction - 04/13/2025-05/29/2025 All donations to my buymeacoffee link in my bio will be put towards self-publishing physical copies of my books! Thank you to all who donated!

"I'm not good enough for you." I say to him. He looks at me and wipes the tears from my cheeks. "You're more than enough for me." I start to shake my head but he holds my face to make me look at him. "Listen to me, I may not know you but I can already tell that you're gonna be the death of me. You're so beautiful, sexy and gorgeous. I need you. We need you." I know he's talking about him and his wolf. But I don't know. Should I stay with him? Or help him out and reject him? For Karisma life was rather torture or boring. Nothing particularly exciting or interesting happened to her. Except that she gets bullied everyday because of her appearance. She is the alphas beautiful daughter. But when she finds out that her mate is the guy that every girl wants, she thinks about rejecting him. For Damian, he is excited to meet his mate. He is the sexy, popular, bad ass guy in school. What happens when he finds out that his mate doesn't want him ? Karisma's life just got more interesting.

Heliophilia (n.) desire to stay in the sun; love of sunlight To be loved is to be known. Arabella Dawson Has never had anybody constant in her life. From parents always being away at work to one shitty friend, she doesn't know how to exist when people are looking. Flint Camero Has never needed anybody but himself. From a dead mother to an unpredictable father, he's doesn't know how to let people in. That all changes when he meets a burning ray of sunshine. Shitty at descriptions. But try please 🙏 Book 1 in the sun series

You are a trauma doctor living what you thought was a normal life. Long shifts, crowded ER halls, and the constant rush of saving people on the worst days of their lives. Until one night your hospital is overrun with the infected and the emergency department turns into a nightmare you were never trained to survive. The only reason you make it out alive is a stranger named Leon Kennedy. You don't know who he is, why he showed up exactly when everything went to hell, or why he seems so determined to keep you alive. But the outbreak was not random, and the more the truth starts to surface, the more it becomes clear that meeting Leon was never an accident.

Years before his birth, it was prophesised that his soul would never be whole, that his heart would never beat in rhythm to his other half. Micajah was born with a dark soul, a soul that was corrupt. A soul that was more wolf than human. A soul incomplete. Nothing but an imperfect creation that walks earth. He will never have a true mate. When his turn to rule the wolf kingdom arises, after the death of his mother, he is forced to choose a female that has already been rejected from her true mate. Alongside his rise to the throne, the wolf kingdom begins to tear itself apart. An uprising begins. No one wants a creature, hated by the Moon Goddess herself, to rule. Even if he is the only royal heir by blood. Even if it is what tradition dictates. A male more beast than man, can never yield humanity, let alone love. But humanity can be learnt, and love seizes all - even those with corrupt souls.

After months of drifting from place to place, Elena stops in the small town of Ashwood, desperate for some peace and quiet. But peace is the last thing she finds. The town carries secrets that press against her with every step, and at the center of it all is Ezra, a dark, guarded man whose hostility toward her feels almost personal. The longer Elena stays, the stranger everything becomes. The town isn't what it seems, Ezra isn't who he pretends to be, and the shadows of her past may not be as far behind her as she thought. Because buried somewhere in Ashwood is the truth about her father's unsolved murder and the reason fate refuses to let her go.