The night Isadora Valença finally discovers her fated mate, she believes her life is about to change forever. Instead, the most powerful Alpha heir in the southern territories looks into her eyes and rejects her before the entire pack. Humiliated and heartbroken, Isadora leaves behind the only home she has ever known, convinced that she was never strong enough, never worthy enough, and never meant to belong. But years later, she returns with a secret of her own. When mysterious attacks begin destroying ancient werewolf territories, Isadora is the only person capable of uncovering the truth. The powerless wolf everyone abandoned has awakened an ability that should not exist, revealing a forgotten bloodline that the supernatural world tried to erase centuries ago. Now she must work beside Caetano Ribeiro, the Alpha who shattered her heart. Caetano knows the truth behind his rejection, but explaining the reason may not be enough to earn her forgiveness. The bond between them is stronger than ever, yet the secrets surrounding Isadora’s past threaten to destroy everything they could become. As enemies rise, ancient powers awaken, and hidden betrayals come to light, Isadora must decide whether to trust the man who broke her or walk away from fate forever. Because she was never the weak wolf they believed her to be. She was the one they feared. And now the world will discover what happens when the wolf they refused to claim finally unleashes her power.

A Lesson in Loving You For four years, Maitê Vilanova has lived by one rule: trust no one, especially not Inácio Burlamaqui. Locked in a relentless, point-fraction war for the top rank at Colégio Anchieta, Inácio is everything Maitê despises—infuriatingly handsome, effortlessly brilliant, and heir to the cold corporate dynasty that quietly ruined her family. Winning isn’t just about pride for Maitê; it is her only escape from a life built on broken promises. Inácio wears his lazy charm like armor, masking the suffocating expectations of a father who treats him like a transaction. But behind his wicked smirks and deliberate provocations lies a quiet obsession. Maitê is the only girl who truly sees him, the only rival capable of making his numb world burn with life. When a forced partnership binds their futures together, the pristine walls between them shatter into electric, undeniable attraction. Late-night library sessions and shared secrets slowly blur the line between calculated hostility and intoxicating desire. But as the heat between them becomes impossible to resist, dangerous family legacies and hidden motives threaten to destroy the fragile trust taking root. In a game where love is the highest risk, Maitê must decide if she can surrender her defenses to the one boy who holds the power to save her heart—or break it forever. Will their explosive chemistry burn down the empires built to keep them apart, or will the secrets they carry cost them everything?

DRAFT 1: EMOTIONAL/INTIMATE TONE Magnólia has always been too much—too scattered, too loud, too impulsive. Her ADHD makes her the chaotic friend, the one people tolerate despite her scattered energy. But Cesária doesn't make her feel broken. Cesária listens the way other people love. They've been best friends since childhood in Porto Alegre, inseparable through everything. Magnólia never questioned what Cesária meant to her—until Cesária announces she's leaving for São Paulo, and suddenly everything feels like goodbye. So when Cesária suggests one last adventure—seven weeks traveling down the southern Brazilian coast, just the two of them, no phones, no distractions—Magnólia says yes. She thinks she knows what she's getting. A last summer before everything changes. She doesn't know Cesária planned every detail. She doesn't know about Cesária's hidden feelings, buried for years. She doesn't know that this trip is Cesária's attempt to clarify something she's been terrified to name. But as they drive toward small coastal towns and slower days, as nights stretch long and conversations deepen, and as boundaries between friendship and something else begin to blur, both girls realize: sometimes the person you're most afraid of losing is the person you're falling in love with. Magnólia is learning that her scattered mind isn't a flaw—it's what makes her see beauty others miss. Cesária is learning that planning can't protect you from heartbreak, and sometimes you have to leap. But what happens when the trip ends? When university calls? When you have to choose between safety and risk, between protecting yourself and being brave enough to love? A luminous, heartbreaking sapphic romance about the courage it takes to choose someone—and yourself. DRAFT 2: HOOK-DRIVEN TONE (BOOKTOK STYLE) Some people destroy you slowly. Some people save you without knowing it. Magnólia Rocha has spent seventeen years being "too much"—too chaotic, too scattered, too loud for a girl with ADHD who can't seem to fit anywhere. But Cesária Bittencourt has never made her feel broken. Cesária sees her. Cesária chooses her. Cesária is everything. They're best friends. They've always been best friends. But when Cesária announces she's leaving for São Paulo and will never come back the same, Magnólia feels something crack. So when Cesária proposes a final adventure—seven weeks driving down the Brazilian coast, just them, no escape—Magnólia doesn't hesitate. What she doesn't know: Cesária orchestrated every moment. What she doesn't know: Cesária has been in love with her for years. What she doesn't know: this trip isn't goodbye. It's a confession wrapped in sand and salt and late-night conversations. As they travel through quiet towns and empty beaches, sleeping in the same beds and sharing the kind of vulnerability that rewrites everything, Magnólia starts to understand. The person she thought would leave her is the person trying to stay. The person she was terrified to lose is the person she's falling in love with. But love doesn't solve logistics. Universities don't wait. Families have expectations. And sometimes choosing someone means risking the friendship that kept you alive. A sapphic love story about broken girls learning they're not broken at all. About the terrifying, beautiful choice to love someone with everything you have—even when the future is uncertain. DRAFT 3: LITERARY/EMOTIONAL TONE Sempre Com Você (Always With You) There are people who fit into the world seamlessly. Cesária is one of them. She plans. She's organized. She knows exactly who she is and where she's going. Then there's Magnólia—scattered, impulsive, ADHD, the kind of girl who is always apologizing for taking up space. But Cesária has never asked her to be smaller. Cesária has loved her exactly as she is. For seventeen years, this has been enough. A best friendship so deep it required no labels, no definitions, no questions about what it meant to share a life. Until Cesária gets accepted to university in São Paulo, and suddenly Magnólia understands: their childhood is ending. Cesária's solution is a summer road trip—seven weeks driving the southern Brazilian coastline, two girls and the ocean, searching for something neither can name. What begins as an escape becomes an awakening. On empty beaches and in small hostels, in late-night conversations and stolen glances that mean something new, Magnólia discovers that the person she was most afraid of losing is the person she's been falling in love with all along. Cesária finally confesses what she's carried silently for years: I chose you. I've always chosen you. But love is more complicated than confession. It's more terrifying than friendship. And when the trip ends and real life demands impossible choices, both girls must decide: Is love worth the risk of losing everything? Is being brave enough to choose each other more important than safety? A stunning sapphic debut about two girls learning that the most revolutionar

I was supposed to be invisible. The scholarship girl. The ghost in their world. The one nobody noticed—until I made the mistake of catching their attention. Basílio Dos Santos Ferreira owns half the city. At thirty-eight, he's a billionaire who doesn't accept the word "no." His inner circle—Eustáquio, the Russian enforcer with blood on his hands; Leôncio, the strategist who manipulates empires; and Nemésio, the beautiful dark angel with secrets of his own—are equally untouchable. They're powerful. Connected. Dangerous. And they've decided I'm theirs. It started with a chance encounter at a gala, Basílio's hand on my back, his whispered promise: "You're going to belong to me." But these men don't share what they own—except they do. Because they want me completely. Utterly. Irrevocably. Within days, I'm locked in a penthouse high above the city where doors open only for them. My phone has no numbers. The world can't reach me. I'm theirs to touch, to claim, to corrupt piece by piece until I can't remember who I was before. They call it protection. I call it captivity. They call it love. I call it obsession. But here's what terrifies me most: I'm not sure I want to escape anymore. Because belonging to four dangerous men—even in captivity—beats being invisible. Except there's a truth they don't know. I'm not their victim. I'm their reckoning. And when they discover why I really came into their world, everything—their empire, their bond, their obsession—will burn. Some cages are built from desire. Some prisoners are actually architects.

My father sold me to pay a debt. Not to a husband. Not to a suitor. To a king. Vittorio Casarella doesn't negotiate. He doesn't compromise. He doesn't forgive. When my father's business collapsed and left him in debt to the most dangerous man in South America, Vittorio didn't demand money. He demanded me. "You're mine now," he whispered against my ear the night he claimed me. "Not a bride. Not a wife. A possession. And I protect what belongs to me." I was supposed to be terrified. I was supposed to break. But Vittorio isn't the only one who wants to own me. His sons—Alessio, beautiful and deceptive, and Ricco, cold and calculating—circle me like sharks who've tasted blood. They look at their father's newest acquisition like she's far too tempting to resist. Like the rules don't apply when it comes to me. Trapped in a mansion where every room is a cage and every corner holds a secret, I discover that nothing is what it seems. My fiancé was a spy. My father orchestrated his own ruin. And the men who own me are hiding something far darker than possession. I should hate them. I should fight. I should want to escape. But the worst part? A traitorous part of me doesn't want to anymore. They're destroying me piece by piece, remaking me into something new. Something darker. Something theirs. And when I finally discover the truth about who I really am—about the power I've been holding all along—there's only one question left: Will I escape the cage, or will I burn it down from the inside? Because queens don't beg for freedom. They rule from inside their gilded cages.

My father stole millions from the most dangerous man in southern Brazil. Then he disappeared and left me behind to pay for it. I expected Leôncio Sartori to kill me. Instead, he kept me. At forty-two, Leôncio rules a criminal empire built on blood, loyalty, and fear. He says I belong to him until my father's debt is paid. My time. My obedience. My freedom. Everything. I should hate him. I should spend every waking moment planning my escape. But the longer I remain inside his luxurious cage, the more impossible Leôncio becomes to understand. He knows things about me I've never told him. He protects me with terrifying brutality. And when another man gets too close, the controlled crime lord becomes something far more dangerous. Obsessed. Then I find the photographs. Pictures of me taken years before my father ever stole from him. Suddenly, nothing makes sense. Not the debt. Not my mother's death. And definitely not the man who claims our lives collided by accident. Leôncio didn't discover me because of my father's betrayal. He's been watching me. Waiting for me. And whatever brought me into his world started long before the missing millions. I thought the most dangerous thing I could do was fall in love with the man holding me captive. I was wrong. The most dangerous thing is discovering the debt was never the real reason he took me.