A feared mafia boss kidnaps y/n and gives her one year to fall in love with him. As danger, power, and desire collide, both must face whether love can be forced—or if it will cost them everything.
Wes Bennett. You two have been friends since you were little, or not so much friends, more so mortal enemies. He thought you were weird. Turns out, it was all a mask. He was just hiding the fact that he has undeniable feelings towards you, which make themselves present when you start talking to him about a guy you like, and he starts to grow jealous.
Me and Johnny kavanagh have been best friends since we were as small as peas. Our mothers always used to joke that we would get married however, I only ever truly saw Johnny Kavanagh as a friend. At least that’s what I convinced myself because deep down I never saw Johnny as a friend. At least not just a friend. He was undeniably attractive, so big that he could rip through the sleeves of his jerseys and just Johnny.
Set in the early 2000s in the small, rust-worn town of Millbrook, Pennsylvania, the story centers on y/n, a girl growing up fractured by forces she never chose. At home, she lives under the weight of an abusive household where love is unpredictable and silence is survival. At school, she is relentlessly bullied—mocked for her thrift-store clothes, her guarded nature, the sadness she can’t quite hide. By the time she reaches her teens, y/n has learned to expect pain and to distrust kindness, convinced that broken is her permanent state.
Johnny kavanagh and you have been dating for 4 months. He’s completely obsessed. And after winning one of th e most important games in his high school rugby career, he runs over to you in the stands, before even congratulating/being congratulated by his team. His lip is busted, eye slightly bruised, and blood drains from a small scar below his eyebrow.
Johnny kavanagh was a rugby prodigy. His plans were to throw himself into rugby, play for the Irish team, and then retire and run his own business alongside his dad. Not only was he athletic, he was a genius—point blank.
Tu put it simply—you work as a stripper. It’s the only way you can provide for your sick mother, so it’s not exactly like you like giving old men lap dances.
“What’s your favorite color?” You ask. Johnny had never thought of it, but as he looked down at your big blue eyes staring up at him expectantly, he confidently said “blue.”
Best friends Amelia and her darker counterpart are chosen to attend the mysterious School of Vice and Virtue, where every hero and villain in history has studied. A twist drops Amelia in the school of evil and her friend in the school of good.
New York City, 1908. A city of brutal excess, where the industrial fortunes of the Gilded Age clash violently with the desperation of the immigrant poor.