Just a good Friendship with you and Mattheo… Though your little secret will get revealed in front of the entire school because of this one girl you rejected.
Deep within the forbidden, suffocating dark of the forest, a hunt for ancient dark artifacts takes a sharp turn into the mythical. When a strike team of Slytherin’s most dangerous boys—Regulus, River, Mattheo, Draco, Lorenzo, Blaise, and Theodore—spot a rare Dragon-Kin hybrid asleep high in the ancient branches, their mission is instantly forgotten. Draped peacefully over a colossal oak tree, you sleep entirely unaware of the lethal wizarding bloodlines frozen in absolute awe beneath you. Your pristine white dragon wings and tail shimmer in the wandlight, trapping the boys in a tense, silent debate: slip away quietly, or risk waking a legendary beauty with enough volatile dragon magic to burn the entire forest to ash.
To the world, they are the definition of terror. To me, they became a home. Ensnared by the brutal grip of poverty, my parents did the unthinkable. Driven by greed and desperation, they sold me for a cool million dollars to five of the most ruthless criminal titans alive: Anderson, King, Wesley, Dean, and Melvyn. Hidden behind my parents' backs, I was paralyzed with fear, fully expecting a life of chains and cruelty at the hands of the world's most dangerous men.Instead, I walked into a sanctuary. Behind closed doors, the men society fears turn into sweet, fiercely protective giant bears who cater to my every need. They washed away my terror with warm food, clean clothes, and a cozy room, ensuring I was completely comfortable before my duties even began. But as the lines between captivity and genuine family begin to blur, a dark question hangs in the air: What happens when the rest of the world finds out what these monsters are hiding?
At twenty years old, you are the nation's most notorious master thief—a brilliant ghost who turns grand larceny into an art form. But a fraction-of-a-second miscalculation lands you in the high-security interrogation room. Enter Detective Lucian Kensington, the twenty-three-year-old prodigy who has spent two grueling years chasing your shadow. He’s determined to break your streak; you’re already mapping your escape. The cuffs are on, the cameras are rolling, and the ultimate game of wits has just begun.
Y/n lives completely in the front rows of third-period AP Literature, neatly aligning notebooks and answering every single question Mr. Harrison throws at the board. Safe in a pastel paradise of bright gel pens and structured study guides, her highly organized high-school routine is shared with Chloe and Noah. Yet, her eyes constantly drift to the dark corner of the room, completely anchored by the one guy who doesn’t even know she exists. Malakai rules the absolute back row of the classroom, totally detached from the mainstream buzz and completely wrapped in his own world of loud music and dark clothes. He sits as a silent ghost, surrounded by a massive, fiercely loyal circle of friends that keeps everyone else at arm's length. There is Jasper perpetually sleeping on his desk, Onyx aggressively spinning silver rings, Vance launching crumpled notes across the aisle, and Jax catching them out of mid-air with lightning-fast, silent precision. Everything shatters when Mr. Harrison slams his syllabus sheets down to announce a mandatory, month-long peer project on Frankenstein. As the back row groans and Malakai angrily pulls down his black headphones, the fragile boundary between the front-row genius and the graveyard shift completely disappears. Now, trapped at a single wooden desk between a mocking crowd throwing paper airplanes and her own racing heart, Y/n has to survive the ultimate partnership. It is a story about structured notes colliding with absolute unpredictability, and what happens when two opposite sides of a classroom are forced to face each other.
At Blackwood Prep, an elite tier of varsity athletes and mean girls rules over the outcast students, where intermingling serves as a social death sentence. ——— When alternative student {Y/n} accidentally drops a compromised phone into the hands of untouchable hockey captain Zarek Vance, a toxic, slow-burn feud of mutual hatred and anonymous blackmail begins.
Welcome to Elysium Hybrid Sanctuary, a literal paradise where you and your kind enjoy a life of absolute luxury. But paradise gets a whole lot more entertaining when a confident new caretaker named Julian starts his shift. You’ve made it your personal mission to ruin his perfect record with a series of chaotic pranks. He’s determined to master the job; you’re determined to make him look ridiculous. Let the enclosure wars begin!
✦ ━━━ ✟ ━━━ ✦ Oakhaven, a walled capital city, was founded on strict separation. The royal family lived in the Upper Ring, surrounded by luxury and protected by automated guards, isolated from the poverty below. Governance was a strategic game for the nobility, conducted from high balconies with the scent of spices in the air. Contact between noble bloodlines was forbidden by ancient laws, making the divide a social and criminal boundary. Beneath the Upper Ring lay the Lower Ring, a soot-filled maze of crumbling tenements and icy alleys. Here, the crown was a distant, oppressive force, represented by tax collectors and enforcers. The majority struggled to survive, learning that the law was a privilege for the wealthy. In these slums, survival required different rules, and morality was often overshadowed by necessity. In the slums, you moved stealthily with friends Lior and Brant. When hunger became unbearable, Lior distracted merchant guards with his wit, Brant planned escape routes, and you pickpocketed and stole food to ensure survival. This life was precarious, with a single mistake leading to imprisonment. The divide between the two worlds ended the night a rooftop heist went awry. ✦ ━━━ ✟ ━━━ ✦