TAMING MY SECRET BULLIES Genre: Teen Drama • Mystery • School Life • Friendship • Betrayal • Romance Moving to a new school was supposed to be my fresh start. At least, that's what Avery Collins told herself. New school. New people. New memories. No one at Westbridge Academy knew what happened at her old school, and Avery planned to keep it that way. She wasn't interested in becoming popular. She didn't want attention. She just wanted to get through her final year without making the same mistakes again. Unfortunately, Westbridge had other plans for her. It starts with something small. Her notebook disappears. Then someone spills a drink on her uniform. Then a picture of her ends up in the school group chat with a caption that makes half the school laugh. Avery tells herself to ignore it. Then the messages start. You shouldn't have come here. She has no idea who is sending them. At first, she thinks it's Scarlett Hayes, the girl everyone at Westbridge seems to know. Scarlett is beautiful, confident, rich, and has the kind of personality that makes people either want to be her friend or stay far away from her. Scarlett doesn't like Avery. That's obvious. But Scarlett swears she isn't the one sending the messages. Avery doesn't believe her. Things get worse when rumors about Avery's past suddenly start spreading around school. Things she never told anyone. Things that only a handful of people from her old life could possibly know. Someone is digging into her past. And they're enjoying every second of it. The only person who seems genuinely concerned is **Ethan Carter**, a quiet boy who spends most of his time avoiding everyone else. He tells Avery something she doesn't want to hear. Westbridge has secrets. Lots of them. And apparently, she's already involved in one. Avery starts paying attention. She notices the looks people give her when she walks into a room. She notices how quickly conversations stop whenever she gets close. She notices that Scarlett and her friends seem to know things they're not supposed to know. Then she discovers something on an old school account. A group chat. A group called "The Circle". At first, Avery thinks it's just another stupid group of popular students gossiping about everyone. Then she sees her own name. And suddenly, everything feels different. Someone in The Circle has been planning things against her for weeks. But why? Avery doesn't understand what she could possibly have done to any of them. As she gets closer to the truth, she starts realizing that not everyone in the group actually wants to hurt her. Some of them are scared. Some are being pressured. And one person seems desperate to keep Avery from finding out what really happened before she came to Westbridge. Then Avery starts questioning the people closest to her. Is Mia really her friend? Why does Madison keep deleting messages? Why does Scarlett become strangely defensive whenever Avery mentions her past? And why does Ethan already know things about Avery that she never told him? The more Avery investigates, the more complicated everything becomes. Friendships fall apart. People start choosing sides. Someone betrays her. Someone apologizes. Someone lies. And someone she trusted from the beginning turns out to have been keeping the biggest secret of all. But Avery isn't the same girl who arrived at Westbridge. She's tired of being scared. She's tired of staying quiet. And she's definitely tired of letting people decide who she is. So this time, she's going to find out who started it. Even if the truth hurts. Even if it destroys friendships. Even if the person behind everything is the last person she expects. Because there is one thing Avery hasn't figured out yet. The people bullying her aren't trying to make her leave Westbridge. They're trying to make sure she never discovers why she was chosen in the first place.

# MAFIA BOSS BECOMES MY PET **Written by Usman Jeremiah** **Genre:** Dark Fantasy • Romance • Mafia • Mystery • Suspense **Description** He ruled the underworld with an iron fist. She could barely afford her rent. Alessandro Moretti was Europe's most feared mafia boss—a ruthless billionaire whose name could silence an entire room. Cold, calculating, and dangerously powerful, he had built an empire on secrets, blood, and fear. Nobody dared challenge him. Nobody dared touch what belonged to him. Until Elena Rose Whitmore. Twenty-two-year-old Elena never imagined that one terrible night would turn her ordinary life into a nightmare. After witnessing a crime, she finds herself entangled with the one man she should have avoided. But Alessandro's interest in her isn't a coincidence. Her missing father, a mysterious silver necklace, and an ancient supernatural secret connect her to a world she never knew existed. When a mysterious force begins hunting Elena, Alessandro makes an unexpected decision: she must stay under his protection. Elena refuses to become another person under his control. Alessandro isn't accustomed to hearing the word *no*, and their constant clashes threaten to destroy the fragile arrangement between them. But beneath his ruthless exterior lies a secret even his closest allies fear. As danger closes in, hatred turns into reluctant trust, and an undeniable attraction begins to challenge everything they believe about love and power. Then Elena discovers the truth about the ancient curse binding Alessandro's family. The feared mafia king may be the only person who can save her. Or she may be the only person capable of bringing him to his knees. **In a world where everyone fears the mafia boss, what happens when the one woman who refuses to fear him discovers the secret that could make him hers to command?** Forty-five chapters. One dangerous obsession. A supernatural secret that could change their world forever. *Sometimes, even the king of the underworld must learn how to surrender.*