"how could a heart like yours ever love a heart like mine?" -- -- -- Delilah Bellerose knows love. She knows it destroys you and gets people killed, and she doesn't fall in love because of it. Enter Jennifer Jareau, the force of nature intent on making a home in Delilah's heart, the sun to her moon, her invisible string, her best friend who, as far as Delilah knows, is straight. Delilah knows love hurts. She knows how things will end when she falls in love with JJ, but she lets herself fall, anyway. She finds the pain isn't so bad when it's JJ causing it. -- -- -- jennifer jareau x fem oc s1-5 book one of the "long live" series

Blood and Battle: Book 2 /// Elle is gone. She left the BAU, the FBI, and Carli D'angelo in a pile of ruins. Running from the demons she can't control, she flees to New York and the only sense of familiarity she manages to scrounge up. Carli is lost. Her reason to fight has quit the battle, leaving her without direction. Struggling to keep the FBI off her back along with psychotic serial killers, Carli drowns herself in the only thing she can make sense of: the never-ending piles of horrible cases she faces every day. But when a mysterious case forces the two back together, the demons catch up. The fight continues. But this time, they find themselves on opposing ends of the battleground. #1 crime 10/24/21

Carli D'angelo has been a member of the Behavioral Analysis Unit for nearly a year and a half now. Her team is called in to track down an active serial killer in Seattle. The last thing Carli expects as she works the case is to meet Elle Greenaway, a sex crimes agent with her eye on the open BAU position. In a line of work with strict policy and unpredictable danger, Carli and Elle fight to keep their emotions in check. But as time progresses, they slowly realize the truth: they are fighting for each other. #1 fbi 3/26/23 #1 elle 1/23/23 #1 ellegreenaway 8/25/22 #1 bau 5/24/22 #1 gxg 4/10/22 #1 womanxwoman 2/25/22 #1 derekmorgan 2/10/22 #1 wlw 2/8/22 #1 jenniferjareau 12/14/21 #1 crimefiction 11/12/21 #1 penelopegarcia 10/24/21 #1 lgbtfiction 8/11/21 #1 criminalminds 3/5/21 #1 fbiagent 12/14/20

Blood and Battle: Book 3 /// Carli D'angelo finally has her life all figured out. She's got the job, she's got the girl, and she won't let anything or anyone take that away from her. But when an old enemy resurfaces and threatens the people Carli cares about most, it's time to take matters into her own hands. She won't let him win this time. Even if it requires a piece of Carli's past she thought was buried long ago.