In Pine Ridge, Minnesota, hockey isn't just a game — it's the town's heartbeat. Jake Thompson has a shot at something bigger than his hometown, and he's not about to let anything slow him down. Maya Carter just wants to stop being known as "the coach's daughter" long enough to figure out who she actually is. Their easy friendship starts turning into something else, and in a town where everyone knows everyone's business, hiding it is basically impossible. Between Jake's brutal practice schedule, Maya's college workload, and families who think they know what's best, first love turns out to be a lot more complicated than either of them expected. With a cast of meddling friends, cousins, and townsfolk along for the ride and a backdrop of coffee shops, winter festivals, and lakeside cabins Jake and Maya have to figure out if what they have can survive growing up, growing apart, and everything in between. A slow-burn small-town romance about first love, ambition, and learning that some things are worth fighting for even when the odds are against you.

Ayla Carter has spent eighteen years believing she was just... ordinary.She has an overprotective father who panics every year on her birthday, a best friend who's determined to make college unforgettable, and a future she's finally ready to chase in New York.But on the night she turns eighteen, everything changes.Strange dreams become impossible to ignore. The necklace she's worn since childhood begins to burn against her skin. And someone—or something—is hunting her.Then she meets ThalricStar hockey player. Campus heartthrob. Future Alpha.The moment their eyes meet, his wolf recognizes her as his mate.The only problem?Ayla is human.At least, that's what she's always believed.As secrets buried for eighteen years claw their way to the surface, Ayla discovers that the woman she called Mom died protecting her from a truth too dangerous to tell. She isn't who she thinks she is, and the blood running through her veins could either unite the werewolf world... or tear it apart.With ruthless Alphas closing in, a prophecy awakening, and a mate who's torn between the laws of his pack and the pull of his heart, Ayla must decide who she truly is before someone else decides for her.Because some secrets are worth dying for.

He wanted the mafia princess before he even knew her name. Cold, calculated, and dangerously powerful, the Italian mafia king does not chase anything he cannot have—and she becomes the one obsession he cannot ignore. To secure an alliance and keep his enemies close, he arranges a marriage of convenience, forcing her into a bond neither of them expected.She enters his world as a pawn. He sees her as his possession. But between arranged vows, hidden enemies, and a craving neither can control, the line between hatred and desire begins to blur.In his world, love is a weakness.With her, it becomes his greatest obsession.

I have known him my whole life. He was my best friend’s brother, the boy I chased in the yard and the man I watched from the other side of the room. He was safe then, familiar in all the ways that make a childhood memory. Now he is dangerous in the quietest, most consuming way.One careless night on a rooftop changes everything. A conversation that should have been harmless becomes the first step over a line I never meant to cross. He starts looking at me differently. He starts touching me differently. The small moments add up until I can no longer pretend nothing has shifted between us. Every laugh feels charged. Every silence holds a question. What begins as curiosity becomes something raw, something that refuses to be ignored.We are keeping it to ourselves for now. We are inventing rules that bend and break. Each choice pulls us farther from the person I thought I was and closer to a life I never planned. It is not just desire. It is a mark, a memory, a decision with consequences I did not expect. In a world where loyalties matter and reputations are fragile, giving in could change everything I hold dear. This is a story about wanting someone you were never meant to want and learning how far you will go to keep what feels inevitable.

When Lorenzo Greco — Sicily’s most feared kingpin disguised as a respectable tycoon — spots Nolana Musk one night in his club, he sees more than a beautiful green-eyed stranger: he sees a way to solidify power, a spotless public heir, and a wife he wants for himself. Nolana, the golden-tailed daughter of Italy’s celebrated Musk Enterprises, agrees to the arranged marriage for reasons of her own: a petty, vindictive plan to prove something to an ex and to her friends. Neither knows the half-truths beneath their families’ façades. As alliance shifts to attraction and suspicion turns to devotion, their marriage becomes the battleground where loyalty, identity, and the price of love are put to the ultimate test.

His Mate, His Curse Morwen was born weak. Too fragile to shift. Too powerless to matter. An omega in everything but name. No one knew that under the Blood Red Moon, fate had already chosen her. An ancient seer once told her the truth that she was destined to kill her mate. Morwen laughed it off. Fate didn’t notice girls like her. But fate never forgets. Alpha Kael had heard the same prophecy long ago and buried it beneath duty and war until the night rogues attacked his territory and the mate bond snapped into place. One look at her. One heartbeat. And the memory returned. The fragile wolf everyone despised was his true mate. And the one destined to end his life. Now bound by the moon and hunted by enemies, Kael must decide whether to reject her to save himself or keep her close and wait for fate’s blade to fall. Because some mates aren’t meant to be loved. They’re meant to kill.