Newyorkcity Stories

They all said their friendship group was too big, too loud, too complicated - but somehow, it worked. Elowen "Elle" Marquez has always been part of the center of it all. Between brand deals, trending videos, late-night calls, and inside jokes that never made sense to anyone else, her life has always been full. Especially when Cesar Mendoza is around. Cesar is the kind of person who never has to try too hard - and somehow still ends up at the middle of everything. The jokes, the chaos, the attention... and maybe, without meaning to, Elle too. With their friends - Preslee, Ayden, Paul, Brennan, Marcus, Jafia, and the Harvey twins - nothing ever stays simple for long. One moment it's group trips, content days, and shared laughs under golden sunsets... and the next, everything feels like it's changing faster than they can keep up with. Because growing up doesn't wait. And neither does the way some people start to matter more than they were supposed to.

In the heart of Manhattan, Princess isn't just any service dog-she's a trained military veteran with sharp instincts, sharper opinions, and absolutely no patience for chaos. Between protecting her handler Makayla, silently managing the unpredictable ecosystem of apartment-dwelling pets, and keeping the building from descending into complete disaster, she has enough on her plate already. Then there's Miles. A massive Cane Corso from next door who treats "personal space" like a myth and her like a destiny he's decided on without consulting her. He's infuriating, overly confident, and somehow always there-whether she wants him or not. But when the city outside becomes just as unpredictable as the one inside their building, Princess is forced to rely on the one thing she trusts least: someone else. And as instincts collide with feelings she refuses to name, she starts to realize that maybe protection isn't just about keeping danger out... Sometimes it's about letting someone in.

"Clap... clap... clap." Every midnight, Neil Natwarlal Shah hears the same rhythmic, sarcastic applause through his paper-thin NYC walls. He's convinced it's Tuesday night sex. He's convinced his neighbor is a ghost. He's mostly convinced he needs better earplugs. Then he meets Tisha Kaur Valia in the elevator-IIT grad, Goldman Sachs shark, and the woman responsible for his sleep deprivation. The walls are thin, but their hearts might just be thicker. A story about wine, Oreos, and the noise that happens when two people finally stop listening through the wall and start knocking on the door.

𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢 explains art in the morning, sings the best songs at night. Never has she ever thought that one day her first love- 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘴 would come back into her life. As he buys her crayon hearts, she suddenly realizes the true essence of color behind life rather than just her explanations and what true love should really be. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦.

When Emily and her husband move into a mansion on Inwood Hill, she expects a quiet new beginning. The house was once a "reformation home" for troubled women. But the women weren't reformed. They were silenced. As she digs deeper, she begins to see them-glimpses of former performers in feathered headdresses and Vaudeville makeup, dancing between the walls, whispering warnings through the wallpaper. The past isn't haunting her. It's recruiting her. When the glamour and violence of the mansion's hidden history bleed into the present, she must uncover what happened to the women locked here before her... before the house decides she belongs to it too. A dark, atmospheric psychological horror blending feminist revenge, burlesque allure, and the ghosts of Vaudeville. Everything in this house was designed to correct her. But she wasn't built to be corrected.

Professionalism is a mask. Ambition is the mission. He is the distraction. Ciela Solara knows the numbers, the demographics, and the trends. She reads the pulse of the public with flawless intuition, yet she remains a hidden ghost in the competitive world of Corporate Marketing. But Ciela is playing the long game. She built high walls to protect her focus. Her eyes are locked on a singular goal. She wants to become the youngest Communications Director in the history of Calvin Klein. To her, the position is not just a title. It's the finish line she sacrificed her sleep, her relationships, and her own peace to reach. When she's chosen to orchestrate the biggest global campaign of the year, she accepts without a single hesitation. It's the opportunity of a lifetime. The certainty lasts right up until the confidential pitch deck is opened and the new face of the brand is revealed to be BTS's Jungkook. If she executes the project perfectly, the promotion is hers. If she falters, she loses the career she bled for. To the rest of the world, he is an untouchable global icon. To Ciela, he is the secret inspiration that kept her going when the industry tried to break her. She supported him silently for years. Working in his immediate orbit threatens to unravel every boundary she carefully constructed. As the pressure of the campaign mounts, Ciela finds herself caught. She must choose between the ruthless professional she needs to be, and the vulnerable girl who just wants to drop her armor for the boy who saved her. Can she maintain her flawless facade to secure her hard-earned future? Or will her iron-clad ambition soften under the weight of a love that was never supposed to be real? ・・・・・ DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. I do not own BTS, their associated agencies, Calvin Klein, or any of the real-life public figures and brands mentioned in this story. The names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products 04|17|26

It was your mother who was stolen from you. You and your best friend Clary Fairchild share a birthday. You guys find out that you're both special. And someone wants you both dead. But you both meet Jace Wayland, a shadowhunter dedicated to defeating this monster. But when adventure turns into desperation for connection, who will your loyalty fall to? Your best friend who you've always protected, or your new crush? Set in The Mortal Instruments movie 2013 (RIP to that franchise, I mourn it everyday) btw i did read the book but when i was 13 and that was 8 years ago so i lowkey forgot details so sorry. Dedicated to my best friend who also made the cover. You're my Clary <33

A girl finds her whole different life in the new city. Her everything changes...there. For good or not let's see.

Marco DeLuca's world is small by choice. He runs a gym in Astoria, takes care of everyone around him, and keeps his own life carefully contained between work, family, and routine. It's easier that way. Safer. No expectations. No heartbreak. No room for wanting more. Then his aunt arranges a blind date. Adrian Voss is everything Marco isn't prepared for-elegant, distant, impossibly composed, and very definitely a vampire. A centuries-old supernatural attorney with a reputation for icy control, Adrian has spent decades keeping the world at arm's length. People are complicated. Attachment is dangerous. Love is temporary. Neither man expects one awkward dinner to change anything. But somewhere between crowded Queens streets, late-night conversations, community center chaos, and the quiet gravity of being truly seen, something begins to grow between them-slow, tender, and impossible to ignore. As greedy developers threaten Marco's neighborhood and old wounds begin surfacing beneath the careful lives they've built, Marco and Adrian must decide whether love is worth the risk of letting someone close enough to change them forever. In a New York City where vampires, fae, werewolves, and humans coexist beneath the glow of subway lights and corner bodegas, I See You is a queer urban fantasy romance about found family, emotional intimacy, and the terrifying vulnerability of being loved completely.

amber is the sunshine disciplined soccer captain who's always needing to be in three places at once. growing up in a family that revolves around sports, amber's constantly feeling the pressure of having to do good and not let the people she loves down. on top of that, she doesn't have her license and not knowing how to drive makes it very difficult to be who she is. hayden mercer is the town's golden boy, attention following him everywhere he goes. however, a near-death experience leaves him closed off and unwilling to talk about anything. he keeps everyone at arm's length - except amber bexley, his since-childhood rival and next-door neighbor. so when both of their mother's suggest hayden become amber's new chauffeur, she can't say no; he's got a license, a nice car, smells good, and he's right next door. but hayden only agrees on one condition - amber must tutor hayden in his psychology class that he needs to be passing to stay on the hockey team and to make his father proud. amid long drives and late-night tutoring sessions, amber slowly discovers that hayden is not the boy she thought he was and begins to reconsider her feelings of loathing towards hayden.

After only a few days in New York, school reporter Mary Jane Watson sneaks from her class tour to try to uncover the nefarious dealings of Oscorp and ends up getting bitten by a genetically-enhanced spider. Now she must save the day the Spectacular SpiderGirl.

In a foreign city , a medical student chasing a new future crosses paths with a man wrapped in danger, power, and silence. What begins as stolen glances and sharp banter soon turns into something deeper, darker, and impossible to resist. But some men are not made for love, and some hearts are not meant to survive it. Before We Turned to Dust is about obsession, fate, and the kind of love that burns brightest just before it destroys everything.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯.

Everyone came to New York for a reason. Some for love. Some for money. Some to escape their past. But after a corrupt salesman tricks two groups into buying the same luxurious house, six strangers are forced under one roof - where secrets, danger, betrayal, and romance begin to collide.

A sequel to Love (Un)Arranged that follows Anjali in her new job in the big city.

On a blue moon in Sagittarius, Victoria stands barefoot on ancient temple steps as Asher kneels before her, ready to surrender everything he has ever been. Above them, Serafina watches with wings that see across every lifetime. One night. One rite. One contract dissolved forever. The Blue Moon Rite - by Suzanne Poulin Short, strong, and lets the cover do the rest. You're welcome, Suzanne. This was a beautiful morning's work.

Wesley Moran is terrible at being evil. Unfortunately for him, he's expected to take over his father's supervillain empire. When the mean girl at his high school discovers his secret alter ego as the Phantom, a bargain is struck up - evil lessons, in exchange for pretending to date as revenge on Iris's ex boyfriend, who just so happens to be the Phantom's rival. But as tensions brew between an anti-superpower political party that involves Iris's father, a rising rogue villain, and Iris's own developing abilities, their high school drama soon becomes the tip of the iceberg in a world of not overcoming evil, but outdoing it. [BOOK 1 IN THE VILLAINOUS VIRTUES SERIES]

Upper East Side Queen B Leni Arden of the has everything a girl could dream of...except her ex boyfriend. So she enlists the help of her new best friend's infuriating twin brother, Owen in a scheme to win back her ex and sweetens the deal by helping Owen win his own ex back in return. It's a solid plan where nothing can go wrong, right? The one tiny issue is the two cannot stand one another and there is that pesky lingering attraction that neither can deny. Oh, plus the fact that they're currently living under the same roof.... Will these two enemies be able to push through their preconceptions and get what they truly want? Or will it all end up in flames?

She was the fire he couldn't touch. He was the storm she couldn't escape. When 17-year-old Sofia Esteves returns to New York after five years in Portugal, she's not the quiet, broken girl the headlines once mocked. She's sharper, colder-and dangerously beautiful. With secrets buried deep beneath her designer smile, Sofia wants nothing but to start over. But starting over gets complicated when she runs into Emil Gusev-her twin brother's best friend and her sworn enemy. Emil is everything Sofia despises: arrogant, heartless, and breathtakingly magnetic. With his Russian blood and brutal charm, he's the king of the school and the only one immune to her ice. Except he's not. Underneath their venomous banter and heated glances lies something neither of them is ready for-obsession. As tension blurs into desire, secrets unravel, and past wounds resurface Sofia and Emil find themselves locked in a dangerous game of love and war. But when betrayal, trauma, and an old enemy return to destroy everything, will Emil still be the one to dominate her heart-or will he shatter it beyond repair? Enemies. Lovers. Survivors. In a world built on power, pain, and passion-only the strongest hearts survive. ---