Your older brother, Mason Bennett, has one rule: stay away from his best friend. Which would be a lot easier if his best friend wasn’t Noah Ryder. Noah has been in your life for as long as you can remember—the boy constantly sprawled across your couch after hockey practice, stealing food from your fridge, teasing you relentlessly every chance he got. Growing up, you were just “Mase’s annoying little sister,” and Noah made sure you never forgot it. But somewhere along the way, things changed. At eighteen, you return home from your first year of college after a brutal breakup and one disastrous semester that left you burned out and directionless. You’re expecting a quiet summer working at your family’s lake marina before figuring out your next step. Instead, you find Noah living in your family’s guest house. Apparently his hockey scholarship fell apart after an injury, and since your brother is studying abroad for the summer, your parents offered Noah a place to stay while he recovers and helps around the marina. The problem? Noah Ryder is no longer the cocky teenage idiot you remember. He’s older now—tattoos, rough edges, quiet anger simmering beneath every sarcastic comment. And he absolutely cannot stand you anymore. At least, that’s what it feels like. He criticizes everything you do, picks fights over nothing, acts irritated every time you walk into a room. But the tension between you starts feeling dangerously less like hatred and more like unresolved something else. Then your ex shows up back in town. Desperate to prove you’ve moved on, you impulsively pretend Noah is your boyfriend during a party. Noah plays along a little too well, wrapping an arm around your waist and calling you “baby” with a smirk that makes your stomach flip. What starts as one fake moment turns into an arrangement neither of you can seem to end.
Taggie O’Hara has spent months trying to ignore her feelings for Rupert Campbell-Black. Unfortunately, Rupert makes that impossible. Just when she thinks she’s finally figured out where she stands with him, a new face arrives at Venturer Television: Bas, a charming and ambitious producer who treats Taggie like she’s the most fascinating person in the room. Unlike Rupert, Bas is reliable, attentive, and actually says what he means. For the first time, Taggie starts imagining a future that doesn’t revolve around waiting for Rupert to get his act together. Rupert hates it. He hates Bas’s easy smiles. He hates how often Taggie laughs around him. He especially hates the way Bas looks at her—as if she’s already his. The problem is Rupert has no right to be jealous. He never asked Taggie to wait for him. As Bas and Taggie grow closer, Rupert finds himself in a competition he never intended to enter. The notorious Rupert Campbell-Black can win races, business deals, and almost any woman he wants—but winning Taggie’s heart may be the one thing he isn’t capable of controlling. And when old rivals, wounded pride, and buried feelings collide, Taggie must decide between the man who has always held her heart and the man who is finally offering it a safe place to land. AUTHOR’S NOTE: if you want Taggie as y/n add her as one of your y/n characters!!
Born into rival mafia families, you and Luca De Santis have hated each other for as long as you can remember. Childhood dinners ended in arguments, threats, and the occasional broken glass, and everyone assumed one day you’d kill each other—not marry each other. But when a fragile peace between your empires begins to collapse, your families force the two of you into an arranged marriage to prevent an all-out war. Now trapped in a dangerous alliance, you’re forced to share a home, a name, and a life with the one man capable of matching your temper at every turn. Luca is cold, ruthless, and impossible to trust—but beneath the hatred and tension lies something far more dangerous: feelings neither of you were ever supposed to have. And in a world built on loyalty, power, and betrayal, falling for your enemy could destroy both your families forever.
Childhood best friends turned strangers, you and Ace Calloway haven’t spoken since the day you left Michigan at thirteen— right after your first kiss. Years later, you return home after your parents’ divorce only to find that the sweet boy you once knew is now “Riot,” Kendale University’s arrogant star hockey player with a dangerous reputation and a grudge he never let go of. When a scandal threatens Ace’s future in the NHL, he proposes the one thing neither of you saw coming: a fake relationship. But between unresolved heartbreak, lingering chemistry, and years of buried feelings, pretending starts to feel a little too real.