Mira Cole was never the girl anyone chose.She was the one boys joked about.The one girls ignored.The one teachers barely noticed.Too big. Too quiet. Too easy to laugh at.At Ravenport High, Mira had learned to survive by keeping her head down and her heart guarded. Love was something other girls experienced not her.Then Lucas Reed sat beside her.The most popular boy in school.Handsome. Confident. Untouchable.He talked to her. Walked with her. Smiled at her like she mattered.For the first time in her life, Mira felt seen.She didn’t know she was part of a bet.Lucas never meant to fall for her. What started as a joke to impress his friends slowly became the one thing he never expected real feelings.But when the truth comes out, it doesn’t matter what he feels.Because Mira’s heart still breaks the same way.Humiliated. Betrayed. Angry at herself for believing him, Mira makes a decision.She will never be anyone’s joke again.The quiet girl they mocked begins to change. Not just in how she looks but in how she walks, how she speaks, how she sees herself.And when Mira comes back stronger, confident, and impossible to ignore… Lucas realizes he didn’t just lose a bet.He lost the only girl who ever truly loved him.Now he wants a second chance.But this time?Loving her won’t be easy.And forgiveness will cost more than he’s ever had to give.

When a single photograph brands her as Lagos’ most hated woman, Amara Okoye, a 25 years old junior marketing executive, loses more than her reputation she loses her career, her contracts, and the future she fought so hard to build.Xander Cole, a powerful businessman known for his ruthless control over both the corporate world and his personal life, offers her a lifeline a fake relationship designed to silence the scandal and protect them both. No emotions. No questions. No attachments.But survival comes at a cost. What starts as a strategy to escape public disgrace evolves into something far more dangerous trust, desire, and truths neither of them expected.In a city that never forgives mistakes, some love stories begin as lies and end as choices.

Adaora Nwosu’s life is ordinary until one night at a Lagos high-society event, she locks eyes with Alexander Durojaiye a mysterious billionaire whose presence commands the room and whose touch awakens something she can’t resist. When chaos erupts, Alexander pulls her into a dangerous world she never belonged to and her life will never be the same

Adella Moretti thought she had escaped her past. A talented illustrator in the mysterious city of Lucentha, she lives quietly, focused on her work until one night, she rescues a stranger from a violent attack.Kian Rafe Valerio is enigmatic, powerful, and dangerously compelling. From the moment their paths collide, his desire for Adella consumes him completely. Every look, every touch, every whispered word pulls her deeper into a world of passion she can neither resist nor fully trust.But nothing about Kian is as it seems. He was hired to retrieve something she possesses a secret she didn’t even know was valuable. Instead, he became obsessed, watching her from the shadows, torn between his duty and his uncontrollable need for her.As secrets unravel and danger closes in, Adella must decide who she can trust, who she can love, and whether the flames consuming them will destroy them or forge a bond hotter than anything either has ever known.Bound by Flames is a dark, sensual romance of obsession, desire, and the intoxicating danger of giving yourself completely to someone who should have been forbidden.