Billy Hargrove sees her first—from the lifeguard chair, from a distance, from a place of control. She’s cool, untouchable, and dangerous in a way only a city girl could be. By the time Hawkins notices, it’s already too late. Summer stretches long, boundaries blur, and desire burns hotter than the August sun.
Kaelis Vey has her future carefully arranged by her powerful Senate family—including a political engagement she never wanted. When Jedi General Anakin Skywalker is assigned to protect her amid rising political threats, their constant clashes turn into an unexpected and dangerous connection. What Kaelis doesn’t know is that Anakin is already secretly involved with Senator Padmé Amidala. As political pressure mounts and all three are pulled closer together, secrets begin to fracture—and nothing about their futures stays under control for long.
One wrong number puts Y/n in contact with a stranger claiming to be Spider-Man. She thinks he’s joking—until he sends proof. What starts as an accidental text becomes late-night conversations, inside jokes, and a friendship with the one person in New York whose name she isn’t allowed to know.
Sloane Mercer has been an Avenger for years. She’s fought beside gods, super-soldiers, and assassins, mastered her elemental mutation, and earned a codename that doubles nicely as a warning. She’s never needed the X-Men. But when an investigation into attacks on mutants forces the Avengers and X-Men into an uneasy alliance, Sloane discovers there’s considerably more to her mutation than she ever knew. According to Charles Xavier, Calamity is an Omega-level mutant—and someone has become very interested in finding the limits of her power. Then there’s Remy LeBeau. Gambit is a thief, an X-Man, an incorrigible flirt, and exactly the sort of man Sloane should know better than to entertain. Unfortunately, she’s always liked a little trouble. And Gambit has never met a gamble he wasn’t willing to take.
There are worse things than being chosen by Caleb Altair. Lyra Asterion just hasn’t found them yet. Because once Solaria’s most arrogant vampire gets a taste of celestial blood, obsession stops being a figure of speech and starts looking a lot like sharpened teeth, ruined self-control, and a claim neither of them asked for.
Anakin Skywalker has faced Sith assassins, impossible battles, and odds that should have killed him ten times over. None of it is quite as frustrating as trying to convince one painfully oblivious Temple employee that he’s flirting with her. Elara Venn has no idea why the Hero With No Fear keeps showing up at her desk. As far as she’s concerned, Anakin Skywalker is charming, handsome, and entirely out of her league. Anakin, unfortunately, has been pining for months—and he could not possibly be making it more obvious.
When Wilson Fisk vanishes, New York braces for another bloody gang war. Instead, Black Cat steals the throne. As Felicia Hardy transforms Manhattan’s criminal underworld into a carefully controlled empire, violent crime plummets and the city becomes safer than it’s been in years. Spider-Man should bring her down—but every time he gets close, he’s forced to admit one uncomfortable truth: She’s breaking the law… …but she might be saving New York. Caught between his unwavering sense of responsibility and the woman he’s never been able to stop loving, Peter Parker must decide how far justice can bend before it breaks.
