Full Tilt: def. - a poker term for a state of mental or emotional confusion or frustration in which a player adopts a less than optimal strategy, usually resulting in the player becoming overly-aggressive. Elizabeth Westfield is the newest socialite to arrive at Constance Billard. She is rich, beautiful, smart and now the girlfriend of Nate Archibald. She has it all. Unit she meets the Upper East Side's notorious bad boy. Carter Baizen always gets what he wants. And when he spots a beautiful girl across the room, he makes it his mission to have her. She may be Nate's girl, but Carter's mind games may well push her into his arms. As in poker, going full tilt in the game is half the fun. After all, all's fair in love and war. *~* A Carter Baizen Story *~* Based on the characters from Gossip Girl. **** Some chapters have adult situations and will be marked with a (*) with a warning at the beginning of the chapter. Read discretion is advised. The Spotify playlist link is available in my bio. Cover art by @just-a-writer-and ** As always I don't any of the characters from Gossip Girl except for Ellie and her storyline.

Eleanor Nightingale is pursuing her career as a professional ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London. However, not everything is at it seems. Adjusting to life in London, she soon crosses paths with a man who will turn her world of peace and happiness upside down and be thrown into a world of pain and suffering. All it takes is for someone to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. She went to help, but ends up being blamed. Her life will never be the same as she goes head to head with London's most notorious and fearsome man, Oscar Hendricks.