Football players are assholes. I know - my brother is their king. Older and annoyingly overprotective, he's the star quarterback at Santa Cruz High School. I love him, but everyone worships the air he breathes and it's suffocating. After a traumatic experience with a quarterback three years ago, I want nothing to do with boys and dating. All that matters is getting into college, so I ace my classes and sign up for my school's student ambassador program to boost my applications. Thankfully, I have my best friend, Harper, to get me through high school being overshadowed by my brother. My plans for a quiet, low-key senior year are destroyed when my brother's cocky, arrogant rival keeps butting into my life. Logan Hightower is a total player who expects me to drool at his feet while he uses me to burn my brother's game. If he thinks I'll fall for his gorgeous looks and shallow charms, he's totally mistaken. He'll never succeed because I hate football players. Note: Some of the chapters have mature content, as marked. Swearing is blatantly rampant and sensitive chapters are marked with the associated trigger warnings. highest rankings: #1 lovestory, youngadult, quarterback, goodgirl, cute, texting, sports, slowburn, series, & California, highschool, teenager, teenfic, series, completed #2 romance This story is complete, edited, and totally revamped in 2023! -me

Rebecca Downhill (Becca) has known nothing in her life but a strict father who is involved in businesses with the Italian mafia in NY, an absent mother who has taught her to be obedient and fulfill her duties towards the family, and a twelve years older, jaw-dropping handsome husband, a businessman in NY, who falls madly in love with her on a summer night and who crosses hell to keep her safe, even with the price of his life. ***** Becca finds her happiness marrying Lucas Tate, but when her father finds out that her marriage has been a fake trade planned by Lucas, he decides that it's time to take her back and marry her off to Salvatore Benito, the elder son of Italian mafia head, Marciano Benito, for better businesses. Sniffing danger coming, Lucas has to build yet another plan of taking her father and Marciano Benito down, his father being involved in their shady businesses, so he decides to get rid of them both and live peacefully for the rest of his life with Becca, the woman he has madly fallen in love on a summer night, at first sight. His plans throw him and Becca into a whirlpool of danger and death hanging on their heads with Becca running away, making it even harder for him and falling into the hands of Enzo, the son of her husband's enemy, who finally becomes his ally. Family secrets are revealed, and nobody is who they seem to be, with friends becoming enemies and enemies becoming friends, for life. Dive into Lucas and Becca's endless love story, filled with passion, pain, sacrifice, and joy, a passionate mafia romance, Book1 of the "Mafia in Love" series. 🎯 Make sure you don't miss Book2, "Enzo's Girl" (completed), and Book3, "The Don between the Covers" (ongoing). All Rights Reserved - 2020

'Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by' -William Shakespeare _______________________________________________________ Maya Matthews is the description of perfection, or as she has been addressed. She excels in every field she steps her foot into, be it from her perfect grades to being the best daughter a parent could ask for, you name it. Her tenderness is what attracts every guy's attention. She seems to have everything she could ask for. What could possibly be wrong with her near to perfect life? Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Maya has her demons that she desperately attempts to hide from the world that not a single soul knows about. Shawn Daniels is the perfect storm and the missing puzzle in Maya's life. He is the polar opposite of Maya. Smart, confident, and witty. He's often misunderstood for a bad boy, who has quite a handful of girls swooning over him. He's a carefree soul. He is the yin to her yang. What happens when they cross paths and Shawn unleashes Maya's dark secrets? Will he succeed in his mission to pull Maya out of her past, and show what life has to offer? But life is certainly not a bed of roses and nothing comes as easy. _______________________________________________________ They say love can overcome anything. You never exactly know when it will strike and turn your life upside down. Love will make you doubt every single thing that you believe in yet you will find yourself drowning in it slowly, very slowly but deeply. _______________________________________________________ All rights reserved © 2020-Shrya1712

'I have battled with things inside me for longer than you know; I do not know what they are and why they are there, I only know that they feel manageable, defeatable when I'm around him' - Veronica Lockwood 'She is the silver lining in any and every dark cloud I could ever find. There is no need to go looking for the light when she brings it with her' - Atlas Rivera ****** "You'll be fine, just give it some time", But ever wondered, Exactly how long is that "some time"?, A day? A week? A month? Years? For Veronica, it was when Atlas barged into her life, dealing with his own demons , while unknowingly healing her in the progress. There is no accidental meeting between soulmates, in this case, heartbeat bought them closer. Highest Rankings #1 - clinical (12/11/2020) #1 - intern (27/12/2020) #1 - heartbeat ( 22/05/2021) #9 - medicine (26/09/2020) #15 - latest ( 13/10/2020) #56 - save ( 13/10/2020)

❝ᴍᴀꜰɪᴀ ᴄᴀᴘᴏ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴀʙʏꜱɪᴛᴛᴇʀ❞ • • • "Why make me fall in love with you?" • • • ⇥ ꜱʏɴᴏᴘꜱɪꜱ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰɪʀꜱᴛ ᴘᴀɢᴇ. • • • ᴀʟʟ ʙᴏᴏᴋꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ʀᴏᴜɢʜ ꜰɪʀꜱᴛ ᴅʀᴀꜰᴛꜱ