(HISPANIC MAN X BLACK WOMAN)
Julissa's life looks perfect from the outside - a husband, a home, stability. But her heart left the marriage long ago. One lonely night, she downloads a prison pen-pal app just to feel something. She never expected Angel - a cartel boss with ice in his eyes and walls no one can break.
He's cold. Sharp. Detached.
Until her.
When he's released early and she offers him a ride home, their connection explodes past letters and into something real - something dangerous. He's the kind of man she should run from. Instead, she leans in.
He swore he'd never trust again.
She thought she'd forgotten how to feel.
But now? She can't stop thinking about his voice, his hands covered in tattoos... and what it means when he says her name like a promise, when he says her name like its the first time something beautiful has fallen out of his lips.
This isn't a love story.
It's a collision.
Julissa was a married woman, this was true, she had all the friends she could ask for, lived in a nice place, had an okay paying job, and a loving husband.
This all cracks when she meets a man named Angel, who is an inmate is prison, maybe she just needs a little spice in her life, but with Angel's choice of career, her husband beginning to show his true colors, and her past with him, as well as her future as her life gets risked, she isn't sure they were meant for each other. But they do say love will prevail...
cover by @JaelynnMoore
𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥
It's so much easier to spread lies about people than it is to spread the truth. That's what Gabriel knows to be true, at least. According to everyone in his town, he's a monster. He doesn't deserve to be walking among the rest of them. That's far from the truth, though. He was never good at being alone, but it became something he was used to. After everything he'd gone through, he craved solitude. Until she showed up. She wiggled her way right into his heart and now all he craved was her.
𝐀𝐥𝐲𝐧𝐚
Moving to a small lakeside town in Washington was not where Alyna saw her life taking her. She also didn't expect that she'd fall so hard for the brooding mechanic who lived there. Everyone tells her that she should stay away from him. All of the rumors say that he's dangerous, but all she ever feels with him is safe.
With obstacles at every turn, will their love be enough to endure even the worst challenge they'll face? Or will they fall apart under the weight?
started: 12/15/2023
published: 05/18/2024
completed:
highest rankings:
#2 bwwm
#4 ongoing