[COMPLETE] Casper's got three things: a trash boyfriend, a deadend job, and enough self-destructive habits to ruin his life. So, if Cain - a charming, enigmatic stranger - seems a little too captivated by him, he's not going to question his luck. Except his perfect stranger turns out to be yet another bad decision. Claiming to be Casper's lover from a past life, Cain takes him prisoner. But even if his kidnapper's starting to give him butterflies, Casper can't stay trapped in a cage. He knows how to get out - he's just got to trick Cain into thinking Casper loves him back, but Casper's never been able to stick to a plan. He's drowning in depression, his mental break demon won't leave him alone, and he's struggling to remember what's real and what's the game. Especially now Cain's madness seems just a little too real to feel safe. 🥇 1st Place for Romance in the Autumn Awards🍂 🥇 1st Place for Romance in the Starlight Awards🌟 🥈 2nd Place for Romance/New Adult in Books Got Talent 2020🌍 🥇 1st Place for Romance in the Phoenix Awards🐦 🥇 1st Place for LGBTQ+ in the Golden Wings Awards👼 🥉 3rd Place for Romance in the Soul Writers Award ☁️ 🥉3rd Place for Romance in the Halcyon Awards 💙 🥇 1st Place for Romance & 🥈 2nd Place of All Winners in the Cosmic Rose Awards 🥀 🥇 1st Place for General Fiction in the Carnival Awards🎪 🥈 2nd Place for Best Main Character in the Carnival Awards🎪 🏵️ 4th Place for Romance in the Tricolor Triennial Awards [Phase 3] 🇮🇳 🥇 1st Place for Romance & 🥉 3rd Place of All Winners in the in the Fairy Awards🧚 🥈 2nd Place of All Books in the Shut Up and Write Awards 💬 🥈 2nd Place for Romance in the Blooming Rose Awards 🌹 🥈 2nd Place for New Adult Romance & 🏵️ Honorable Mention Overall in the Lovely Awards 💗 CW: Suicide attempt, heavy mental health, drug abuse & implied sexual abuse/r*pe

A stubborn prince joins forces with the beautiful son of his enemy to save his kingdom and his life. --- Prince Toom has never questioned the safety and power of his family - until he meets Niako, the cunning, arrogant, and unnervingly beautiful son of the enemy Rakim chief. In Rakim, Toom discovers heinous traditions beyond his imagination, such as Claiming enemies as personal slaves. When Toom returns to Rakim ten years later, Niako proves more enigmatic than ever, and Toom grapples with conflicting feelings and an unsettling attraction. With the throne and his own family's lives at stake, Toom attempts to seduce Niako to unveil Rakim's plots. Niako reveals little but offers foreboding advice: flee Rakim and never return. As political machinations and cruel appetites overtake the land, Toom must work together with Niako to save the nation. To protect those he loves. And to survive. Set forty-four years after "The Claimed: Rashika's Resistance" (also works as a stand-alone novel) |2022 Wattys Shortlist| Trigger warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse and references to sexual assault

Josie McCall and Timothy Matthews were in love. Until, they weren't. It's been two years since their breakup, and Tim is a dedicated university student. He's been buried in books and homework since that dreaded day, and he's had little time to focus on his romantic life. With graduation just around the corner, he's worried about his future and what it will hold - or possibly, who. Josie is a diehard romantic. Her whole life she's pined for "The One". The one who will make everything okay, the one who can take her flaws and find the beauty in them. And now that she's engaged to Nathan, she's found it - or so, she tells herself. One day, Tim and Josie find themselves reconnecting, and as much as they don't want them to, old feelings resurface. Told from different times of their lives together, Tim and Josie's journey in and out of love is left with one question: When it feels like first love stays with you forever, was their breakup a mistake? AWARDs • 1st in Romance | The Eonia Awards • 2nd in Teen Fiction | Coffee After Dark • 2nd in Romance | Grande Awards • 2nd in Teen Fiction | Quotidian Love Awards • 2nd in Teen Fiction | The Moonshine Awards • 3rd in Young Adult | The Aspirants Award • Best Title | The Moonshine Awards Cover by @katherineWitherspoon