In a hospital where control is currency and vulnerability feels like failure, two women on opposite ends of the clinical spectrum are forced to confront what healing really means-both for their patients and themselves. Elizabeth "Liz" Ashford is a psychiatrist known for her precision, professionalism, and emotional restraint. At the hospital's eating disorder treatment unit, she's respected, feared, and entirely untouchable-by design. Ivy Hart is everything Liz isn't: warm, intuitive, and unapologetically human. A clinical dietitian with a quiet fire, Ivy believes that food is more than fuel-it's memory, connection, and sometimes the very thing that saves a life. She's also the one person Liz can't seem to shut out. Assigned to co-lead a new interdisciplinary treatment program, Liz and Ivy clash from the start-on philosophy, on structure, on how much of themselves they're willing to bring into the room. But when a shared patient takes a dangerous turn and the fallout threatens everything they've built, the carefully drawn lines between them begin to blur. Because healing others is one thing. Letting yourself be seen? That's something else entirely.

Belladonna (beh•luh•do•nuh) -it means beautiful lady in Italian. Coincidentally it's also the name of a deadly plant known as nightshade, which has deep purple flowers and poisonous black berries. ꨄ A new city, new school, a total new everything. Birdie Spine is starting her very first day of her junior year of college on the west coast. Far away from everyone she's ever known. She's excited for a new start and to get away from everything she's ever known until she suddenly isn't anymore. Dazzling hazel eyes ruin it all. Or at least she imagines that it's all ruined. This woman with dazzling hazel eyes is her professor-her most Important professor. Are Birdie and this woman able to keep it professional together since they both know their interactions are far from professional or is it just too strong to be held together? [THERE ARE ERRORS in this book! So many errors & they will get fixed soon enough. I just write for fun & none of it is professional. Please beware of these before you read further!]

(TeacherxStudent) ❝ i found love where it wasn't supposed to be, right in front of me ❞ - Amber Run Sent to a boarding school in England to try and put her on the straight and narrow, Evelyn Luis doesn't even expect to make it through the first semester. But her teacher and dorm leader seems to have some kind of hold over her, and Evie finds herself becoming obsessed with the one person she cannot have. They say everything happens for a reason, and maybe their paths were always meant to cross, but at what cost? Perhaps following your heart can be dangerous, particularly when your heart leads you to the forbidden.

Four and a half years ago, Elizabeth Sterling was the right person at the wrong time-and loving her nearly destroyed Emily Carter. Now, Emily's rebuilt her life: stable job, sobriety, hard-won peace. But when fate brings Eli back, older and even more guarded, the past collides with the present-and the feelings Emily thought she'd buried come rushing back. Maybe this time... it's not the wrong time.

"I can't help but love you, Even though I try not to. I can't help but want you, I know that I'd die without you." ~Ruelle (Song: War of Hearts) Elizabeth never meant to break the rules. She only wanted to survive them. Born into power, bound by expectations, and haunted by a mother who sees vulnerability as weakness, Lizzy has spent her life building a mask sharp enough to protect her-and cold enough to keep anyone out. But everything shifts when she meets her new physics teacher, a woman carrying just as much pain as Lizzy does. As their connection deepens, the carefully built walls around Lizzy's heart begin to crack, and for the first time, she must confront what it means to build a future-with someone just as shattered as she is. 🥇#sapphicromance (04. Sep. 25.) 🥇#txs (16. Sep. 25.)

READ BOOK ONE: "Love en Pointe" IF YOU HAVEN'T YET! Kennedy Williams finally made it: New York City, the American Ballet Theatre, and a future she's worked her whole life to earn. What she didn't expect was how lonely success could feel. 800 miles away, Katya Volkova is proud of the dancer she helped shape, but pride can't quiet the ache of an empty studio or the silence between calls. As rehearsals grow more grueling and expectations rise higher than her relevé, Kennedy must learn how to stand on her own without losing the person who taught her how to dance with her heart. Because love, like ballet, is all about balance. And when the curtain rises, not everyone can stay in the spotlight.

At eighteen, Kennedy Williams has one dream: to prove she belongs at the country's most prestigious performing arts academy. With her scholarship on the line and rivals all around her, she throws herself into ballet with relentless devotion. But nothing prepares her for Katya Volkova. Once a world-renowned prima ballerina, Katya's career ended in a single, devastating moment. Now thirty-three, she rules the studio with the same precision that once ruled the stage-cold, untouchable, and demanding perfection from her students. From the first correction-Katya's hands guiding her posture, her voice sharp but low; Kennedy feels a spark she can't ignore. And behind Katya's icy discipline, Kennedy glimpses a woman aching with loss. What begins as a dance of teacher and student soon turns into something far more dangerous: a forbidden pas de deux of stolen glances, unspoken desire, and love balanced on the knife-edge of scandal. In the world of ballet, perfection demands sacrifice. But when the heart takes center stage, will Kennedy and Katya risk everything for their greatest performance yet? 🎶 Set the mood while you read. Listen to the official Love en Pointe playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/174ujunkMafKJEILlu2Ckp?si=6RASAnGcS7ew9Hon_wpumQ&pi=sUco3D0zQ62kG

Jade knew that the moment Maya stepped back into the room, soft and sleepy-looking in borrowed cotton, Jade would be gone. Just dust. She pressed the heels of her hands into her eyes. "Get a grip," she whispered harshly. "You're not thirteen and writing fanfiction. She's your friend. She trusts you. Don't be a fucking creep." Still, the part of her she hated most whispered: But what if she wanted you to look? And fuck. What if she did?

Victoria Blackwell, a sharp and ambitious law professor, and Dr. Natalie James, a passionate architect with a PhD in architecture, have been rivals since their fencing days at competing schools. When their paths cross again at a prestigious university, old tensions reignite. Their contrasting teaching styles and opposing life philosophies fuel a relentless battle of wills, but beneath the surface, there's more than just rivalry at play-there's undeniable chemistry. As their animosity intensifies, so does the attraction neither expected. Their journey forces them to confront their past, their boundaries, and the complex connection between them.

[Sequel to Clean - you need to read that one first] "Five years together. Five years apart. And still, you carry her voice with you. Still, when it's late and you're too drunk or too lonely or too honest, you hear her say your name the way she did when it was the only thing in the world that mattered to her. Selling the apartment won't fix you. It won't make her disappear. It won't erase the way she made you feel, the way she laughed, or the way you fucked it all up. You'll carry every inch of this place inside you-every memory, every fight, every night spent tangled up in sheets, in each other, thinking you had all the time in the world. But you tell yourself it might help, that maybe one day, the memories will fade-from this scarlet maroon, to quote yourself. That maybe if you leave this place behind, you'll finally stop searching for her in every city, every stranger, every quiet moment you don't know how to fill." This story starts 10 years after the ending of Clean. Taylor thought she and Karlie would have forever together. She was wrong. Five years later, she's still writing Karlie into every lyric, still mourning what they had, not even pretending to move on. Then one night at a fundraising dinner, there's Karlie across the room, radiant beside her husband. They don't speak. Can barely look at each other. But Taylor feels that familiar pull, that dangerous flutter of possibility, and she knows-knows-she's about to make a catastrophic mistake to kill whatever part of her still belongs to Karlie. What she can't imagine is just how catastrophic that mistake will turn out to be. And how it will change her life forever. CONTENT WARNING: throughout the story, there will be moments with vomiting, blood, self-harm, alcohol abuse, mentions of past drug use, mental health issues, pregnancy, abortion. I will try to remember to include the warnings in the chapters, I promise.