Playful Destiny (GxG) (Student X Professor)

Maddison Esquivias has learned the hard way that life doesn't play fair. Grieving the sudden loss of her parents and reeling from a betrayal she never saw coming, all she wants is to disappear. But fate has other plans-plans that come in the form of a terrifyingly beautiful professor with a sharp tongue, a shorter temper, and an uncanny ability to show up exactly when Maddie needs her most.

Syd Elyse Madrigal is everything Maddie should avoid. She's strict, impossible to please, and connected to Maddie's heartbreak in ways neither of them could have anticipated. Yet somewhere between the cold glares and the unexpected acts of kindness, Maddie starts to feel something she can't explain-and definitely doesn't want to name.

But while Maddie is busy trying to survive her chaotic emotions, a darker storm is brewing. There are secrets buried beneath the surface of her family's tragedy. Powerful people who have everything to lose if the truth comes out. And as danger creeps closer, Maddie realizes that the line between love and ruin is thinner than she ever imagined.

In a story where nothing is coincidence, and everyone has something to hide, Maddie will have to decide what she's willing to risk-and who she's willing to trust-before destiny makes the choice for her.

Playful Destiny is a slow-burn sapphic romance about grief, healing, and finding love in the most unexpected places-wrapped in mystery and the kind of tension that lingers long after the last page.