Between the Monster and the Sea
Tessa Kelwyn
Every year, Liora's village sends an unmarried girl across the water as a ritual sacrifice to the gods of the deep. It is considered a sacred honor. The girls do not come back, which the village chooses to interpret as a good sign. Liora ends up in the offering line. It is, genuinely, not her finest week. What waits on the island is not divine mercy or a peaceful surrender to something ancient and holy. There are no gods. There is no gentle, luminous afterlife. There is a cursed man who has been alone for longer than she has been alive, a feral creature with an unreasonable number of teeth, and eight black tentacles that are absolutely, definitely, not coming from the walls. They are coming from him. He is not what she expected. He is not what anyone would expect, partly because of the tentacles and partly because he turns out to have a voice like gravel and a dry wit that has had many years of solitude to sharpen itself to a very fine point. He forgot his own name somewhere in the last century. She gives him a new one. The tentacles, supposedly instruments of ancient terror, mostly just follow her around. This is where things get complicated. And warm. And significantly more tentacle-forward than she budgeted for.
Welcome to the Family
Nancy S. Reece
Raised in a dysfunctional family, Cassandra Devlyn Ferguson has tried to leave the past behind and carve out a new life with her husband, former Black Ops specialist, Sean Ferguson. Her family's shady business dealings never involved her, and she intends to keep it that way. Sean wants nothing more than to be a devoted, loving husband. But his new job sends him to the front lines at some of the world's most dangerous spots. For years, he's blamed his Irish wanderlust for the risks, but the truth is he enjoys the rush of adrenaline danger brings. When the Devlyn family's mistakes come looking for Cassie, it's up to Sean to bring her home safely. The one positive? Cassie knows all about her family's true nature and is willing to walk away from everything to stay with him. The negative? Someone wants them dead and will stop at nothing to keep all the skeletons in the closet.
Forrest
Gia Hunter
Forrest Wood is an enigmatic tattooed bartender who lives in two worlds to protect someone he loves. He never questions his self-control over temptations while searching for answers for half his life. Until something has changed in a woman, he’s been keeping tabs for a while. When he’s finally ready to deal with his feelings, he knows nothing can be easy in his life — it only complicates his plans and his secrets that Megan might not accept who truly he is. A blunt, flirty, and funny Megan Simons built her walls over relationships until her life crumbles down in front of her. Forrest comes to the rescue. She always finds him intriguing and beyond attractive. When she starts breaking her walls down, she finds herself in a situation where Forrest Wood is more than what meets the eye.
The Lunacy of Tyler Lockhart
Kashmira Kamat
Victoria Lane and Tyler Lockhart have been best friends since they were kids, and the two have been through thick and thin together. But the thing that Tyler doesn't know is that Vicky has been in love with him for a long time. Tyler Lockhart has some dark secret: he is a Billionaire, and comes from an influential family. When Vicky finds out the truth, things turn from bad to worse and Tyler is forced to leave town. Vicky's life comes crashing down when Tyler steps foot in town almost ten years later, and he's come back with a motive - to stay and to win Vicky back.
Strictly Professional, Mr. Daddy
itsvlada
Five years ago, Elise Garnier made a mistake. One masked stranger. One unforgettable night. One secret she's been running from ever since. Now she's back in Paris, desperate and out of options. Her daughter is sick, the medical bills are crushing, and she needs money-fast. So when Veridian Group offers the highest executive assistant salary in the city, she takes it. Even though Veridian is connected to the scandal that destroyed her career. Even though working there means risking everything she's been hiding. She convinces herself she'll never cross paths with the CEO. That she can stay invisible. That she's safe. She's wrong.
Sentinel for the Untouched
Seraphina Wilde
He was hired by her father to protect her virginity. He didn't say anything about protecting her from him.✨ TROPES: Age Gap (16 Years) • Guardian / Bodyguard • Forbidden Temptation • Sheltered Virgin • Forced Proximity • Grumpy x SunshineOwen was supposed to be a shield. When he saved Noelle from a brutal assault, her powerful father trusted his oldest, most lethal friend with his daughter's life. Owen is cold, calculating, and twice her age—the ultimate professional. He has one job: keep the innocent, sheltered heiress safe at all costs. He is absolutely not supposed to become her darkest obsession.But Noelle is tired of being locked in a gilded cage.She has a toxic plan: seduce her impossibly attractive bodyguard, ruin his reputation, and get him fired.Armed with nothing but amateur flirting and sheer desperation, Noelle begins to push Owen’s boundaries. She thinks she’s the one pulling the strings. She thinks she can break the unshakeable stone-cold protector.She was dead wrong.Owen isn't just an old family friend; he is the most dangerous man she has ever met. He sees right through her reckless, innocent traps. And instead of backing away, the monster behind his professional mask begins to stir. Every amateur attempt to seduce him only pushes the dominant alpha closer to his breaking point.She wanted to play a dangerous game with fire. Now, she's about to get burned.When Owen finally snaps, the rules disappear. Noelle realizes too late that getting rid of her bodyguard is impossible—because once Owen claims what is his, he will destroy anyone who tries to take her away. Even her own father.
Dear Diary, The Cross Brothers are After Me
itsvlada
"Dear Diary...The Cross Brothers Are After Me" is about Lila, a girl who moves to a new town and becomes the focus of the Cross brothers-Aiden, Asher, and Grayson. They start by bullying her, but their behavior turns obsessive and manipulative, dragging her into their twisted games. Through her diary, Lila reveals her struggle to endure their torment, navigate their dangerous intentions, and figure out how to take control of her own life.
The Chief Executive's Covert Offspring
Chief Vance
He called her an invisible, useless housewife and replaced her with the Governor's daughter. He has no idea she is the President's secret heir—and the only reason his family has an empire.✨ TROPES: Secret Presidential Heiress • Public Betrayal / Divorce • Workplace Revenge & Retribution • Arrogant CEO Regret • Forced Proximity • From Submissive to QueenZorina thought marrying Kael Veridan, the ruthless heir to the country’s most powerful billionaire dynasty, would bring her a life of love and mutual respect. She gave up her own name and her freedom to support him. For three grueling years, she stayed silent, playing the part of the perfect, quiet wife while operating as the brilliant, hidden force behind the Veridan family’s massive corporate and political success.Then, Kael committed the ultimate public execution of her dignity.At a high-society media gala, Kael stands on stage and boldly announces his engagement to the glamorous, ultra-wealthy governor's daughter, Liora. He looks directly at Zorina and demands a quiet divorce, treating her like an embarrassing, disposable placeholder who offers him zero strategic value.Betrayed, humiliated, and stripped of her last shred of loyalty, Zorina doesn't shed a single tear. She slaps the signed divorce papers on his desk and walks out of his mansion forever.The submissive housewife is dead. The true Queen of the nation has just stepped out of the shadows.What the arrogant Veridan family never knew is that Zorina is no helpless orphan. She is the long-lost, fiercely guarded secret daughter of the President of the United States.Armed with steel in her spine and her father’s lethal political and financial backing, Zorina drops her plain disguise and takes her rightful place at the peak of high society. Overnight, the Veridan family finds their corporate empire completely frozen, their assets seized, and their political influence crushed by a mysterious, omnipotent force.When the ruthless Kael is forced to crawl to the capital to save his family from absolute ruin, he walks into the Oval Office—only to find his "invisible" ex-wife sitting in the seat of power.As the staggering truth hits him like a tidal wave, Kael realizes his glamorous new fiancée is useless, and the quiet woman he threw away was his greatest ally. Will the broken billionaire survive his own brutal regret as he begs for a second chance, or will Zorina use her immense new power to crush his empire to ashes?
Trust
JC Valentine
Following his divorce, Felix Sinclair vowed to never commit to a woman again...until he washed up on Poppy Montgomery's doorstep.
Playing with Violet Ashlock
Janice Martana
Classy. Arrogant. Proper. These 3 words described Violet Ashlock perfectly. One day, she met Austin Portwalt, a Billionaire, at her friend's party. She liked but their feelings weren't mutual. However, one day everything had changed...
Mount the Equestrian
Rider Sterling
She’s his best friend’s twenty-one-year-old daughter. She wears another man’s engagement ring. And she was just exiled to his isolated Texas ranch for two months.✨ TROPES: Age Gap (21 vs 43) • Best Friend's Daughter • Forbidden / Taboo Love • Alpha Cowboy / Rancher • Forced Proximity • City Girl x Small TownManhattan socialite Adison just watched her perfect, high-society life burn to the ground. Overnight, a brutally doctored scandal destroys her reputation, leaving her a public outcast. Furious and deeply ashamed, her powerful father delivers a ruthless ultimatum: he strips her of her credit cards and ships her off to Texas for two months of "character building" on a remote cattle ranch. Her instructions are clear: no money, no escape, and absolutely no trouble.She was supposed to learn humility.Instead, she walks straight into the path of a six-foot-three walking temptation.Enter Jake Sullivan—the devastatingly hot, forty-three-year-old alpha rancher who runs the territory with an iron fist. Jake owes Adison’s father a life-altering debt, which includes babysitting his wild, rebellious daughter and keeping her safe from her own mistakes. Jake is a man of routine, honor, and strict boundaries. He has zero room in his life for a spoiled city girl.Two decades of stone-cold control, completely unraveled by a forbidden touch.But Adison didn't survive being publicly destroyed in New York just to play it safe in Texas. Refusing to be tamed, she pushes the grumpy rancher's boundaries at every turn. Soon, their hostile sparks ignite into an undeniable, suffocating attraction. Every lingering look and heated midnight encounter blurs the lines of his loyalty. To Jake, she is a walking sin—the ultimate temptation who represents everything he should never touch.As the daily proximity pushes Jake past his breaking point, dark ghosts from his own guarded past begin to claw their way to the surface, tying him directly to her family's empire.When the forbidden fire finally consumes them, the rules disappear. Will Jake push her away to protect his past honor, or will the ruthless cowboy risk his friendship and his legacy to claim the one forbidden girl who can finally set him free?
Sugar Daddy
Erin Garvey
“I won’t push you; I won’t ask you to be available every second of the day, but I want a relationship.” “How much?” I asked finally. “Two thousand a week.” A week! I almost started crying at the table. By the end of the year I could pay off my school debt and easily move out of my parents. I could keep writing fulltime and not worry about the awful waitressing job at the diner. I just smiled and squeezed his hand in mine. Alex finally looked up and we locked eyes, my heart skipped one long and painful beat but I didn’t look away. I could do this, I decided dazedly, I can do this with him.
The Wrong Kind of Guy
itsvlada
Alessia Marino's scholarship to Westwood University was supposed to be her golden opportunity, but her first day spirals into chaos when a lie about her father's job draws her into the orbit of Regina, the manipulative queen bee, and Caleb, the playboy who's hiding his own dark secrets. Caught between Regina's overly friendly facade and Caleb's unsettling attention, Alessia struggles to keep up as whispers of betrayal and ulterior motives surround her. When she discovers that she's part of a cruel setup involving Regina's cousin Malfoy, Alessia's carefully constructed lies begin to crumble, and the line between survival and losing herself in Westwood's elite world becomes dangerously thin.
Always Been Mine (The Moreno Brothers #2)
Elizabeth Reyes
Valerie Zuniga vows to never let Alex Moreno hurt her again. She’ll resist him even if that means using the one thing that’ll stop Alex: another man.
BLSC 9: His Cold Heart
Janice Martana
Love can melt even the cold heart...
Love is a River
Kat Mclntyre
Will love be her salvation … or her demise?
Sabotaging Our Platonic Bond
Penelope Wilde
He was the untouchable bad boy everyone wanted. She was his invisible best friend. Until a brutal game of spin the bottle changed all the rules.✨ TROPES: Best Friends to Lovers • Bad Boy x Nerdy Girl • Forced Proximity • Love Triangle Drama • Jealousy & Possession • Slow-Burn TensionTo the entire school, Emma was just "the quiet, nerdy girl"—the invisible ghost with her nose buried in books, whom nobody ever noticed. But her quiet reality hid a dangerous, heartbreaking secret. She was hopelessly, desperately in love with her childhood best friend, Logan Reyes—the notorious bad boy whom everyone wanted but nobody could ever tame.And Logan didn't have a single clue.To him, Emma was his safe haven. They shared late-night laughs, endless banter, and a tight bond. But she was strictly the platonic confidante—the girl he talked to right before he went out with girls like Vanessa, the vicious reigning queen bee who had just claimed him as her boyfriend.One wild party. One spin of a bottle. One forbidden kiss that shattered a lifelong friendship.Emma thought she could survive the torture of watching Logan from the sidelines forever. Until Vanessa’s party. Roped into a high-stakes game of spin the bottle, the room goes dead silent as the arrow points straight to Logan.In front of the entire school, and under the venomous glare of his girlfriend, Logan didn't just give Emma a friendly peck. He kissed her with a raw, dominant passion that left her breathless and changed everything.The bad boy is done playing by the rules. And he’s coming for his best friend.Suddenly, the strange, unspoken chemistry they always ignored explodes into a blazing fire. Logan stops looking at Emma like a little sister and starts pursuing her unabashedly, breaking every rule he's ever lived by. His attention is thrilling, unsettling, and completely forbidden.As a toxic whirlwind of school gossip, deadly jealousy from Vanessa, and overwhelming emotions close in, Emma tries desperately to resist. But how do you fight a boy who knows all your weaknesses—especially when he's ready to ruin his own reputation just to make you his?
Silva Arellano (The Billionaire Boys Club 7)
Precious Pages
"I'm sorry about this ..." She could feel her heart slowly melting as she gazed into those warm brown eyes. "Have we met before?" "Well let's see if this trick will help." He extended his hand to her. "I'm Silvanus Arellano. And you are ...?" "That's it!" she shouted. "You are Silvanus Arellano!" "Yes, I said that a while ago." "Will you go out with my cousin? She really likes you." It surprised her. But that was only for a moment because the sweet smile flashed on his lips again. "To tell you honestly, beautiful woman, it is you whom I want to go out with. In fact, I was just about to ask you."
When You Were Mine (The Moreno Brothers #1.6)
Elizabeth Reyes
When her head was screaming “enough,” her hopeful heart continued to whisper “wait.” A prequel of 'Always Been Mine'
BLSC 8: Her Black Knight
Janice Martana
Cruel and cold, that's Marco Hastington in public's eyes. He loves his work and has no time to care about anyone else. Until one day, he bumped into a mafia girl...