Lina Reeves has always been better at putting her feelings onto a canvas than putting them into words. She's worked hard for success and independence, hoping that she'll finally have everything she's ever dreamed of. However, she's spent years hiding parts of herself she isn't ready to face...until a certain ex-best friend shows up. Sloane Laurent has never been the type of woman to apologize for who she is. She's successful, sharp-tongued, confident, and brutally honest. She thinks she has it all until a certain ex-best friend returns to her life and makes her realize how much she's missing. Now that Sloane is back in town, she has one thing in her mind, and so does Lina: business. After all those years of resentment, unresolved feelings, and secrets rushing back, will these two be able to work together or will undeniable feelings get in the way?

Miles Cunningham is not the right guy to fall for. Isabella knows that. So when he decides to barge his way into her life, she does everything she can to keep him out...but part of her likes where things are heading. Will the consequences be too much for her to handle? ***** Just when Isabella Gallagher thinks she's in control, it takes only one incident to completely throw her off balance. With perseverance, she works hard to get her life back on track so she can focus on nursing school. However, someone unlikely and brash wants to get closer to her heart - Miles Cunningham, the most notorious bad boy on campus. Knowing he's a bad idea, Isabella tries to resist him, but his charm may be stronger than she realizes... Content/trigger warning: This story contains a sexual assault scene.

𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐬. 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫; 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐇𝐞 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬, 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬' 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞. The Damned Dynasty Series #2

Soraya Erickson has it made. Perfect fiancé. Perfect best friend. Perfect life. In her world, things were perfect. You know, until they weren't. Twenty-eight days before her wedding, Soraya's carefully constructed life begins to crack, and suddenly the people she trusts most are starting to look like strangers. Then there's Luciano Vega. Dangerous, powerful, and connected to a world Soraya never knew existed, he seems to know far more about her than he should. But the deeper Soraya is pulled into Luciano's world, the harder it becomes to separate the truth from the lies. Everyone around her is hiding something. Everyone seems to know something about her that she doesn't. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more she begins to question how much of her life was ever real. Because the most dangerous deception is the one you never knew you were living.

UPDATES PAUSED "You think forcing me into your bed will make him pay?" He leaned in, smirking. "No, princess. That's just a bonus." 𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪 Elio Moretti is cold. Beautiful. Vicious. The kind of man who doesn't ask. He takes. And what he wants is me- Not because he loves me, but because he hates my father. I, Sofija Kastrati, daughter of the Albanian mafia's most feared leader. I've lived in silence, surrounded by men who kill for my father and spoil me to keep me quiet. But when Elio returns from Italy, he doesn't come for blood. He comes for my hand. My freedom. My life. He wants to punish my father for a betrayal I don't even understand- And I'm the weapon he plans to use. But I'm not soft. And I'm not afraid of the dark. Because the moment Elio put a ring on my finger, He made a mistake. He forgot the Kastrati blood in my veins. And I will make him remember.

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)

As a British Intelligence Officer, Elias Forester was assigned to the University of Allahabad with only one purpose: find the student group responsible for the unrest being planned against the Britishers. Cold, disciplined, and fiercely loyal to his duty, he has no interest in forming attachments-least of all with the outspoken Indian student ordered to assist him. The only thing they share is the mutual hatred for each other. Until she starts to occupy his every thought and he is left with an yearning so strong that it threatens to destroy all that he has ever known. ...because love has a weird way of growing in places it's not supposed to.

When my cover blows, the Blood Hounds MC make sure I regret every breath I take. Months of torture carve me down to nothing but madness and instinct - until the man who saves me is worse than the ones who broke me. Gunner, the enforcer of the Silver Devils, drags me out of hell and into a new one. He's violent, unreadable, and far too calm about the fact that I try to kill him the moment I wake up. I'm supposed to hate him. I'm supposed to run. But survival has teeth. And every one of them belongs to Gunner. My monster. My redemption. My destruction.

🖤 ONGOING STORY 🖤 🔪 Dark Romance | Mature Themes 🕯️ Updates Weekly ‼️ TRIGGER WARNING ‼️ This story contains dark and sensitive content. Please read with caution. Themes include: ⚠️ Childhood abuse ⚠️ Sexual assault (SA) ⚠️ Domestic violence / abuse ⚠️ Graphic torture & violence ⚠️ Suicidal thoughts / ideation ⚠️ Possessive behavior & light stalking This is not a love story for the faint of heart. It's about survival, obsession, and what happens when the only person who ever protected you... becomes the only one who can destroy you. 🩸 Read responsibly. Take breaks if you need to. 🩸 Solana Beaulieu has learned how to stay quiet. It's how she's survived-keeping her head down, hiding the bruises, and pretending everything is fine. The world only sees what she allows them to see. And no one asks questions... until he shows up. Cassien Donatello was the boy who once protected her in silence. Now he's a man-colder, more dangerous, and unwilling to walk away this time. When fate places Solana back in his path, Cassien refuses to look the other way. He's seen too much. And he knows the truth: the man in her life is a monster who doesn't deserve to keep breathing. But Solana isn't the broken girl he remembers. And Cassien is no hero. Dark, obsessive, and unflinchingly loyal, Cassien will burn down the world to protect her. Even if she's too afraid to ask for his help. Even if she tells him to leave. In a world where pain has always been louder than love, Solana will have to decide who she can trust-and what it really means to be safe.

Arabella Boyd has finally escaped the violence of London. She waitresses. She pays her own bills (mostly) on time. Her criminal father is out of her life, on the run, and out of her mind. But violence knows where she lives. The men her father is indebted to know where she lives too. Cold-eyed, armed, and impossible to read, Nikolai Vaz is exactly the sort of man Bella knows to stay away from. Unfortunately, he's also the only thing standing between her and the people hunting her father down. The deeper Bella gets dragged into the criminal underworld she tried to escape, the more she realises one terrifying truth: Nikolai Vaz might be the most dangerous man she's ever met. And she's beginning to feel safest when he's near.