He may be the reason my best friend is dead, and now I'm supposed to marry him...
Nikolai Sterling is the golden heir of the Sterling family, captain of the Black Ridge Ravens, and the last person I want anywhere near me.
Especially after Ivo Mercer died.
Everyone says Ivo killed himself.
I know better.
When mysterious letters begin appearing, warning me that the Sterlings aren't innocent, I decide to investigate.
But then my family announces my engagement to Nikolai.
So I make them an offer they can't refuse.
Three months, we'll fake-date.
We'll convince our families we're falling in love.
And if it doesn't work? The marriage is cancelled.
Perfect.
Except Nikolai agrees too quickly.
Because while I'm using our fake relationship to uncover his family's secrets...
He's using it to uncover mine.
And the closer I get to the truth about Ivo's death, the closer I get to the boy I'm supposed to hate.
Now we're pretending to be in love while secretly investigating each other. But there's one problem with fake dating a man you suspect of murder.
Eventually, you stop knowing which parts are fake.
He hates me. He hates me so much, it shows with every breath he takes and every glance seems to physically affect him and the worst part is I still don't know why.
Malakai Hawthorne was the first person I gave my heart to. The first person I trusted with every broken piece of myself. He took it all, smiled that devastating smile, and tore it to shreds while his dead grey eyes watched me bleed.
He's already destroyed me once, left me hollow and gasping in the wreckage of what we used to be.
Now he's back, and he swears he'll do it again. Again and again and again. Until I remember whatever twisted sin he knows I've committed.
But Malakai is wrong about one thing.
I don't want to remember our past. I won't let myself drown in whatever sick game he thinks we're playing. Because he's not the only one who's learned how to be dead on the inside.
This time, I'm determined to make sure he burns with me.
Milena Volkova has spent her entire life proving herself in a world where power is everything and women are easily disposable. As the daughter of the ruthless Bratva leader, she has fought with her everything to become more than a pawn. But when her father strikes a deal with the devil, she’s forced into a marriage with Dominic Salvatore—New York’s most feared mafia capo.
Known as the torture god, Dominic is as lethal as he is cold. His cruelty is legendary, his reputation drenched in blood. A man who commands fear without saying a word. His eyes are cold and, in his heart, lies many secrets.
In this world full of betrayals, lies, blood, sacrifices and secrets, Milena and Dominic must walk through a marriage built on nothing but power and lies. But the more the delve into each other’s worlds, the line between love and hate begins to blur and the dangerous becomes impossible to ignore.
Because love wasn’t part of the deal. And falling in love could be the deadliest game of all, specially in a world where everyone lies.
Getting dumped was humiliating.
Getting cheated on with her best friend? Worse.
Now Calliope Sinclair has two goals:
make Blake Turner regret everything,
and survive the public disaster that is her social life.
Enter Reed Lawson:
campus hockey captain,
professional menace,
and the one person Calliope has spent years trying not to kill.
Reed is arrogant, emotionally unavailable, and somehow always one step ahead of her. But when Calliope proposes a fake relationship to make her ex jealous, Reed agrees on one condition:
If they're doing this, they're doing it properly.
Suddenly there's late-night tutoring, lingering touches, jealous stares across crowded parties, and kisses that feel a little too real for two people who are supposedly pretending.
The problem?
Calliope is starting to forget this was ever fake in the first place.
"You drive me fucking insane," he breathes against my throat.
Heat pools low in my belly as he pulls back to look at me, his eyes dark with hunger.
"Say stop," he whispers, voice strained.
I hold his gaze. "I won't."
…
I never wanted to come to KAQ Academy. But when your mother marries into the Blackwell family, you don't get a choice. What I didn't expect was her new stepson deciding I was his personal enemy on sight.
Grayson Blackwell—hockey captain, honor student, golden boy with a black heart—has made it his mission to destroy me. He's beautiful and cruel and absolutely magnetic, the kind of boy who sets fires just to watch them burn. He wants to break me, piece by piece, until there's nothing left of the girl who dared to invade his perfect world.
The problem? I like the way he burns.
But I'm not the only one obsessed with me. Someone has been sending me twisted letters for years, and they've followed me here. When Gray finds out about my stalker, something dark shifts in his eyes.
Suddenly, I'm not just his enemy—I'm his obsession. His hatred turns possessive.