Marlowe Hollis is used to getting what she wants. A Slytherin with a taste for honey, old books, and secrets, she has spent years fascinated by the one person she can't seem to understand: Theodore Nott. He is quiet. Unreadable. Impossible to reach. So Marlowe does what she does best, she keeps looking. But when Theo finally starts looking back, fascination becomes something far more dangerous: a game neither of them knows how to stop playing. And some things, once wanted, are impossible to un-want.

"ɴᴇxᴛ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʀʏ ᴛᴏ ᴋɪʟʟ ᴍᴇ... ᴅᴏ ɪᴛ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴏɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴋɴᴇᴇs." ──────────────────────── She was paid to kill him. She should've pulled the trigger. Now the don she was supposed to erase has her pinned beneath him.

❝𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒂, 𝒊'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕❞ ⟡ 𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭? "𝑷𝒊𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒂, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰'𝒎 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉." -𝓐𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨 𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢 ✦ "𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆." - 𝓡𝐡𝐞𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐳𝐚 ✦

she's the one that got away. He's the one who she never forgot... ************************** Carmen Kane has everyone in a chokehold. Her life was perfect. An excellent career in fashion, the best group of friends, what else could she ever need or want? On top of that she was the cities most wanted woman. Nobody could deny she was a woman who could capture attention. She didn't care though, after all she swore off love years ago. Ronan is a playboy billionaire bachelor, or rather that's what the general public see him as. But he has secrets- secrets that have cost him the most important person in his life. The woman he swore to love forever, Carmen Kane. He spent years loving her from afar, but after years of longing, he was done waiting. He was going to get her back, no matter who or what tries to get in his way. She was his drug, and he'd do anything for her to call his name again... ************************** They say time heals all wounds but does it really? Especially when all he ever sees is her?

𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 With barely twenty-five years, she's the youngest head of Blackveil Legal, London's most prestigious law agency. Having mastered the art of an unforgiving pokerface early, she causes even the mightiest of men to writhe uncomfortably under her cold gaze, trembling for forgiveness she will never offer. They do not know the truth. They do not know that she has sticky blood dripping off her sharp nails, staining her black heart. Because she effortlessly hides it like a secret made to be forgotten, playing the entire city in the process, like it's merely another piece on her board. After all, they do not call her 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 behind closed doors for nothing. 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 Leaving a trail of blood and empty souls behind everywhere he goes, he is hell's coldest threat, equally feared and sought after. They say he's the calmness to hell's chaos, a silent voice echoing louder than any shout. In a world without rules, his word is law. And no sane soul would ever attempt to interfere, because they do know the truth. They do know that he holds a buried past over his tainted heart. They do know that his calmness is a well-made façade, and fear the moment it's relentlessly torn to pieces. Because once it shatters, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 may fully be unleashed. 𝐈𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐈𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. In the darkest of nights, a dangerous deal is made, forged in blood and carved into skin. One may live, the other shall die. And it was in this moment that a destructive legacy woven in stars unfurled. Because two souls had set eyes on each other and would burn everything in their forbidden waltz, including themselves.

𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 explores the quiet helplessness of loving someone you can't save from themselves, even when you're just as lost. »» - ❦ - «« 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐳𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚 has learned to keep going long before she was ready to. She moves through life with a quiet kind of control, one that doesn't come naturally. She doesn't expect anyone to notice her. He does. He's rough where she isn't, guarded in ways that she recognizes without needing an explanation. Everything about him should've made her step away. But she never did. She stayed to see past his hard surface and understand the words he doesn't say. However, the longer she stayed, the more she noticed the patterns unraveling. It felt too familiar after all. Her father had lost the same fight he was still in. The kind of fight that consumes everything and everyone around it. She wonders if she's holding onto something that was never meant to last. 𝐑𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐳𝐨𝐯 has worn himself down by everything he's tried to outrun. After so long, numbness is the only thing that feels consistent and familiar. It's something he could slip into without thinking. He leaned on substances like a shield. After so long, he's gotten used to shutting everything out. But, she doesn't stay out. She isn't loud, but she's impossible to ignore. Her quiet steadiness unsettles him more than any high. Without meaning to, she shows him what he's spent his life denying. For a while, he allows himself to believe he could be different. But change doesn't come easy. He falls back into what he knows best.

"He's cold,intimidating, and hard on everyone else. But with you,he has a soft spot he just can't hide" Returning home from college for the holidays was supposed to be simple.But the moment 19 year-old April locks eyes with Jon Her father's best friend everything changes. He is supposed to be completely off-limits. Unreachable,forbidden yet behind closed doors and quiet rooms,the tension between them is Impossible to deny. April knows she's playing with fire but Jon's protective,jealous nature makes it impossible to walk away. What happens when the one person you're never allowed to touch becomes the only one you can't stop thinking about?

❝𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒚❞ ⟡ 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐠𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫? "𝑰'𝒎 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒍𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑰'𝒎 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆." - 𝓐𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢 ✦ "𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒈. 𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝑰'𝒎 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝑰'𝒎 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖." - 𝓚𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚 ✦

She didn't know him. She had never seen him before. And yet somehow, she had been the center of his world long before she even learned his name. Tulia Tacitus wants nothing more than an ordinary life. She finds comfort in books, music, and art, believing the distance between herself and her parents is nothing more than the price of their demanding careers. She has no idea the business her parents conduct behind closed doors is far from ordinary. Lucius Romanov is a man who lives by discipline. Every decision is calculated. Every move serves a purpose. So, when his search for answers leads him to the daughter of the family that shattered his world, he convinces himself she's nothing more than a means to an end. At first, that's exactly what she is. A way to uncover the truth. A pawn in a game years in the making. But the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to remember why he sought her out in the first place, and the harder it gets to hate her in the way he vowed he would. Lucius doesn't chase. He claims. And for the first time in his life, he's no longer certain who's hunting whom.

𓂃 In which the saint becomes the sinner's advocate... There's no escape, just a cage large enough to be called freedom. Welcome to Venom, where poison isn't enough to destroy, and beauty isn't enough to deceive. A dark romance built on rage and obsession. ⋮He wasn't supposed to fall for the saint, not when he was a sinner buried in his vice, and yet he found himself succumbing to the very woman he swore to destroy. ⋮She wasn't supposed to fall into the mouth of a wolf, and yet she found herself willingly digging her dainty hand into its mouth in search of freedom. A dark romance crafted on the deception of loyalty. Lies, secrets, and bittersweet revenge. #3 fox #arranged marriage # enemies to lovers #slow burn