Y/N never planned on going to the party. Loud music, drunk strangers, and frat boys like Luca Moretti are exactly the kind of things he avoids. But after being dragged there by a friend, one embarrassing comment suddenly puts him directly in Luca’s line of attention. Cocky, reckless, and impossible to ignore, Luca seems determined to get under Y/N’s skin — and maybe into his head too. What starts as irritation quickly turns into dangerous tension neither of them knows how to handle.
Y/N is the perfect son, the perfect captain, and the perfect fiancé—until a cheap shot on the ice leaves him broken in ways no one expected. The only person who can fix him is Thomas, the team's young doctor, whose "treatment" blurs every line Y/N swore he'd never cross. Now Y/N is trapped between the life his parents demand and the love he never wanted to feel.
Fifteen. Flawless on camera. Falling apart off it. YN has the face that sells magazines and the bank account to match. But her parents' love is conditional on perfection, and her rivalry with quiet, studious Emma Whitmore is the only place she can safely spit out her bitterness. Then Emma starts dating Jason Cole — the hottest guy in school. And suddenly YN feels something worse than hate: not good enough. Three weeks at summer camp. Two connected rooms. One shared bathroom. YN, Emma, and Jason under the same roof. The tension is a live wire. And Jason keeps looking at YN like he sees the cracks beneath her crown. She'll have to decide: keep performing perfection, or let someone see her break.
She was eight when they took her father away. Yn grew up shuttling between two parents who couldn't stand each other—until the night police sirens lit up her bedroom window and her father vanished behind bars. Her mother refused to explain, refused to let Yn visit, refused to even speak his name. But Yn never stopped believing. At ten, she started writing him letters. Secret letters. Letters her mother could never find out about. For seven years, they corresponded in silence—a daughter clinging to the father she lost, a father holding onto the only reason he had left to hope. Now Yn is seventeen, days away from eighteen, and Rick Hawthorne is finally being released. Her mother still doesn't know about the letters. She doesn't know Yn has been planning this moment for years. But some secrets can't stay buried forever. And some reunions are worth risking everything for. --- The past never really lets go. Neither does she.
Despite their divorce, Mason and YN have built a peaceful, loving co-parenting life for their two children. But when YN watches Mason play with their son, sharing that same familiar smile she fell for years ago, she realizes that some feelings—and some people—are still the same.
Y/N was Northwood High's untouchable queen—until her family lost everything. Overnight, her friends vanish, her enemies circle, and the girl who had it all becomes the school's favorite target. Enter Caleb Hartwell: the bully who's made her life hell for years. He offers a deal she can't refuse—pretend to be his for one week, and no one touches her. But Caleb isn't what he seems. His gray eyes hold secrets. His protection feels less like a game and more like a confession. And the line between enemy and something else? It's starting to blur.
YN survived one monster. Then another raised him. Now he works for Marcus Harold—mafia don, second father, second abuser. He doesn't run. He just follows orders and smokes through the panic attacks. Then Alex Davis, Marcus's rival, crashes into him one night, bleeding and grinning. Alex doesn't know who YN really is. He just hands him a business card and says, "Call me." But Alex has monsters of his own. And YN is about to learn that the hardest war isn't between mafias. It's between trusting someone new—or becoming what you hate.