For sixteen years, they kept her locked in the dark For sixteen years she was a problem they couldnt solve. For sixteen years she was a ghost in her own home. For the last few years she became there biggest enemy. They though she was a fragile little bird, little did they know she is about to burn there empire to the ground.

They call her Lucia Santoro. She is the daughter of Alessio Santoro, the Don who built an empire by making men afraid to disappoint him. Lucia was raised around power. She knows how to read a room, how to hold a grudge, and how to smile when someone mistakes her silence for softness. She has a family that would burn the city for her. A husband who believes he knows her. And a life that looks perfect from the outside. For now. Because love can be a promise. It can also be a weakness someone else decides to use. And Lucia is about to learn what happens when the woman everyone underestimates stops asking permission.

The Covington Affair A Criminal Minds Fanfiction Andrew Covington had everything. Money. Power. Influence. A billion-dollar publishing empire bearing his family's name. Then, on the night of his sixty-fifth birthday, Andrew Covington is found murdered inside his family's Connecticut estate. With no evidence that an outsider committed the crime, the BAU is called in to investigate-and it doesn't take long for them to realize that behind the Covington family's perfect reputation lies a web of secrets. A wife with everything to lose. A son hiding a life no one was supposed to know about. A daughter with a scandalous past-and an inheritance she never expected. Everyone loved Andrew Covington. Everyone hated him for something. And everyone had a reason to want him dead. For Dr. Spencer Reid, it's supposed to be another case. Profile the family. Find the lies. Identify the killer. Then he meets Margaret "Maggie" Camille Covington. Beautiful, intelligent, and born into a world of unimaginable privilege, Maggie is nothing like Spencer expects. Behind the designer clothes, Harvard education, and infamous last name is a woman grieving a complicated father and desperately trying to hold together a family that's beginning to unravel. The closer Spencer gets to Maggie, the harder it becomes to separate the woman he's falling for from the investigation surrounding her. Because Maggie has secrets too. And when the evidence begins pointing toward the woman Spencer has started to trust, he'll have to answer the question he asks for a living: How well can you ever really know someone? In the Covington family, everyone is hiding something. But only one of them is a murderer. Everyone had a secret. Someone had a motive.

A broken young woman is reborn as a powerful Volturi queen after a brutal human tragedy, only to reshape the entire supernatural world through compassion, fury, and unrelenting justice. Kylie Volturi, once a victim, becomes a ruler feared and respected across vampire courts, but unlike those before her, she chooses balance over cruelty. When she uncovers the hidden truth of hybrid beings and exposes the horrors behind their origins, she helps unite scattered hybrids, vampires, and shifters into a fragile but growing alliance. From confronting ancient kings to ending wars with fire and mercy alike, Kylie transforms fear into understanding and isolation into family. As new species are discovered and old secrets brought into the light, the supernatural world begins to shift-no longer ruled only by fear and secrecy, but slowly rebuilt through unlikely bonds, loyalty, and the will of a queen who refuses to let broken things stay broken.

Astrid is running from a monster, the man who kidnapped her and forced her to breed his heirs. But she's escaped his clutches. Finding herself fleeing across countries with heavy baggage she finds her self dropped on the compound of the Viking Warriors by a glorious stroke of fate. Vidar has always dreamed of finding his Goddess, his other half. But what will he do when he finds out his destined other half has more than he ever bargained for. Will the great Vidar finally find love, or will Astrid fail in finding him? Read to find out... I can't move swiftly enough as I drop down to my knees to pick her up. Gazing at her face, I loop one arm under her knees, the other over her back. She's as cold as death, and barely conscious. Her pale grey eyes gaze at my with a strange combination of trust and terror. I gently pull her closer to me. "Shhh love, I got you now." "L-Liam..." Her voice shudders and her lips tremble, the cold has seeped through into her bones, and she's so tiny anyway she must be permanently cold. Walking towards the car for the baby I pull her closer to my chest. She's now flitting in and out of consciousness, but, as I hold her closer- hoping my body can give her some warmth- I feel the bump, small and distinct. Panic grips me. She's pregnant? But that baby can't be more than 9 months? In her white T-shirt I can see the bruises and cigarette burns littering her pale skin. Whatever has happened to her is beyond awful. But I'm here now. I've got her.

"It's easy to love you, baby girl..." Rae Olsen discovered her mother's secret-one that could ultimately ruin their already broken family. After enduring another year of her twin brothers basking in their father's attention, Rae sets out to find the truth for herself. Little does she know, she's about to uncover the life her mother, Renee, lived before settling down-a life Rae never dared to imagine. After traveling hundreds of miles from home, Rae arrives in Iron Angels MC territory. There, she meets the President, hoping for the chance to ask him a few burning questions. During her stay, Rae stands out more than she expects, her quiet presence drawing attention in a world so different from her own. But that isn't why she's here. With more questions and emotions rising to the surface, Rae begins to realize that while she misses her mother, the woman has a lot to answer for. If only Renee were here to face the mess she's left behind. But through it all, nothing compares to the time Rae has lost-now stepping into the life she should have been born into. HIGHEST RANKING: #1 in Complicated #1 in Biker #1 in Motorcycle #1 in Second Chance #9 in Club #23 in Bikerromance

Isabella had never really fit into the mold that her family was forcing her in. Luckily, she finds a place that accepts her as she is. However, she didn't expect it to be among a bunch of rowdy bikers. *** Isabella knew how her life would go - even if she didn't like it. Since the day she was born she had been shaped and squished into the role of the perfect high-society trophy girl. But the shoe never really fit. She was too curious, too clumsy, too nice. When she intercepts a flying coffee cup for a complete stranger, little did she know she would soon be staying with the city's infamous motorcycle club. And it seems the rowdy men have little intention of letting her go any time soon. Especially not their large, protective enforcer. And that is alright with Isabella. Home is where the heart is and she's lost hers in the Steel Rebels' club house. **** This is the first part of Isabella's and Knux's story and will be completed with "Hammer & Anvil (Steel Rebels MC #2)". ***** Fictive location. Mature scenes. Strong language. Past abuse (Trigger warnings in chapters)/PTSD. Violence. D/s (mainly bedroom, gentledom/sweetsub, light ddlg). Relates to "Neighbor cottage" but can be read independently. Word count: about 200 000 Original cover picture: https://unsplash.com/photos/DdPvyjLOeyA - Edit by noige22 Completed May 2023

How do you protect the love of your life if he's sitting in prison for a crime he didn't commit? *** Isabella was happy - happier than she's ever been before in her life. But everything changed when her fiancé Iron Knuckles, or Knux as she calls him, got charged and convicted for a crime that he didn't commit. Knux was known around town as a formidable fighter and served as the Steel Rebels' enforcer. He had some anger issues, especially when it came to protecting her but he'd never kill a guy. Isabella knew this, their friends knew this, probably even the police knew this. But still he's serving time. With him gone, Isabella is stuck between a rock and a hard place and is forced to move to the place that she abhors - her parents' mansion. While her instincts tell her to lay down her guns, just to keep the fragile peace and to prevent anything worse from happening, she is also not the same girl she was before meeting Knux and the Steel Rebels. She has learnt to fight. And she will fight for the man that showed her that unconditional love is a real thing. She'll fight to save him. But what if she is the one that actually needs saving? *** This is the sequel to "Babydoll" and the second part of Isabella's & Knux's story. Please make sure you've read the first book before reading this one, as it won't make sense otherwise. ***** Fictive location. Mature scenes. Strong language. Abuse (not between main characters). PTSD. Violence. D/s (mainly bedroom, gentledom/sweetsub, some ddlg). HEA Current word count: 65 000+ Original cover picture: https://unsplash.com/photos/uCkbfNIkK_U - Edit by noige22 Updates: (usually) weekly but not on a fixed day

𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐨 is a man Italy has learned to fear. Ruthless, merciless, and seated at the head of a blood-soaked empire, he has never been known for forgiveness. His unfaithful wife learned that before her death. Now, the only person Dante cares for is his five-year-old son, Matteo. When Matteo needs a nanny, Dante makes his expectations painfully clear. He wants someone he will never look at twice. An old woman. A nun. Anyone incapable of becoming another temporary desire. Then Sister 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐡 steps into his mansion. At twenty-one, Delilah has known nothing beyond the walls of the church. Gentle, painfully innocent, and carrying wounds she has been taught to call punishment, she arrives in Italy believing she has been sent to care for a lonely little boy. She knows nothing of the criminal empire surrounding her. Nothing of the blood on Dante Russo's hands. And nothing of the way he looks at her. She was supposed to be invisible to him. Instead, the quiet little nun becomes the only temptation the devil cannot ignore. And Dante Russo has never been a man who denies himself what he wants.

***This story is now available on KU!*** Mara Holloway remembers everything. Every number. Every face. Every mistake. When a freelance accounting job exposes hidden financial trails tied to the deadly Barone crime family, Mara becomes the target of a criminal network powerful enough to corrupt police, erase evidence, and make people disappear without consequence. Desperate and running out of places to hide, she finds refuge inside the territory of the Revenant Kings MC-a motorcycle club known for protecting its own with brutal loyalty. Especially Stryker. Dangerous, controlled, and impossible to read, Stryker doesn't trust Mara the moment she arrives. But the more he watches her, the more he realizes the terrified woman hiding behind perfect manners and sharp intelligence is connected to something far bigger than organized crime. Because Mara isn't who she thinks she is. And the past coming for her was supposed to stay buried twenty-five years ago.