At 20, Y/N Bellucci has spent her entire life caught between kindness and violence. Raised in one of Italy’s most powerful mafia families, she was taught how to survive a dangerous world—but never how to escape it. When her father suddenly arranges her marriage to Dimitri Volkov, the feared leader of a Russian crime empire, her future is no longer her own. Dimitri is cold, powerful, and known for showing no mercy. Y/N is gentle, anxious, and determined not to lose herself in the darkness surrounding them. Forced together by a deal neither of them chose, they find themselves at the center of a fragile alliance between two criminal dynasties. As old rivalries resurface and secrets threaten to tear both families apart, Y/N and Dimitri must navigate a world where loyalty is everything, trust is dangerous, and one wrong move could start a war. In a life ruled by power and bloodshed, they may discover that the most dangerous thing of all is letting someone get close.
Summary: Y/N returns to her old school after years away, no longer the quiet girl everyone bullied and ignored. Confident, beautiful, and unwilling to accept disrespect, she quickly becomes the center of attention. As old classmates struggle to adjust to the new version of her, Y/N must navigate jealousy, friendships, revenge, and unexpected romance—all while proving she’s nothing like the girl they once knew.
Kairo Anders has never been known for being friendly. As captain of the hockey team and the school’s most intimidating senior, he’s built a reputation for his sharp tongue, permanent scowl, and refusal to care what anyone thinks. He keeps his circle small, his answers blunt, and his emotions locked away where nobody can reach them. Then Y/N transfers halfway through the school year. Bright, cheerful, and impossible to ignore, Y/N is everything Kairo isn’t. She wears colors loud enough to hurt his eyes, talks to everyone she meets, and somehow manages to find something good in every situation. While everyone else avoids Kairo, Y/N doesn’t seem intimidated by him at all. Unfortunately for him. When circumstances keep pushing them together, the two quickly discover they can’t stand each other. Kairo thinks she’s annoying. Y/N thinks he’s impossible. But as the seasons change and the distance between them starts to disappear, both begin to realize first impressions aren’t always right. Because behind Kairo’s cold exterior is a boy carrying more than anyone knows. And behind Y/N’s sunshine smile are struggles she doesn’t let anyone see. Maybe opposites don’t attract. Maybe they simply find the pieces in each other they’ve been missing all along. A grumpy hockey captain. A sunshine girl. One unforgettable senior year.
PUBLIC SUMMARY Y/N never expected to see Elias Kingsley again. Not like this. Not as the most feared mafia boss in the city. Not as a man with blood on his hands, power in every room he walks into, and a reputation that makes people go quiet when his name is spoken. They grew up together. Same world. Same dangerous families. Same circles of wealth and violence they never asked for. And they hated each other for as long as they could remember. Y/N sees Elias as everything wrong with their world—ruthless, controlling, violent, and completely unbothered by the damage he causes. Elias sees Y/N as a problem he never managed to get rid of—stubborn, sharp-tongued, and the only person who doesn’t seem afraid of him. Now the mafia world is shifting. A betrayal puts families on edge, alliances start breaking, and suddenly Y/N is caught in the middle of a war they never chose. Elias doesn’t trust them. He doesn’t trust anyone. But he keeps them close anyway. Because in his world, trust is rare, and obsession is easier to control than uncertainty. Forced into proximity, surrounded by enemies, and tied together by a past neither of them can escape, Y/N and Elias are dragged into something far more dangerous than hatred. Because in a world built on violence, the line between love and destruction doesn’t exist—it disappears.
Y/N has never met a bad idea she didn’t immediately love. Nineteen years old and incapable of minding her own business, she spends her days talking too much, making questionable decisions, and discussing drugs like she’s writing a doctoral thesis on them despite never touching one in her life. Greyson Kingsley is twenty-six, permanently irritated, and involved in the kind of work people know better than to ask about. He’s rude, foul-mouthed, and has mastered the art of making everyone around him uncomfortable. Their lives should never have crossed. Then she witnesses something she wasn’t supposed to. Now dangerous people want her gone, Greyson is stuck keeping her alive, and neither of them can stand the other. At least, that’s what they tell themselves. Between late-night drives, criminal secrets, bad decisions, and an alarming number of near-death experiences, the line between annoyance and something much worse begins to blur. Unfortunately for Greyson, Y/N has a habit of turning every life she touches upside down. And unfortunately for her, Greyson Kingsley might be the only person capable of keeping her alive.