Ruthless Rival

In a college world where every hallway is a battlefield of intellect, pride, and desire, Rival Hearts explores the thin line between hate and a love that burns hotter than anyone expects. When fiercely independent Harper Lawson, a chemistry major with a sharp tongue and a stubborn streak, collides with Emery Collins, a confident and ambitious literature student, sparks fly—literally. Their rivalry begins in classrooms and spills into dorms, cafeterias, and late-night campus corners. Harper thrives on rules and routine, while Emery lives for unpredictability and teasing chaos. Every insult, every sarcastic remark, every heated debate draws them closer to a truth neither is willing to admit: attraction doesn’t always ask permission. What begins as antagonism turns into stolen glances, secret touches, and nights filled with whispered confessions and passion that neither can deny. Their friends notice the chemistry, professors are oblivious, and both women struggle with pride, past heartbreaks, and the fear of being vulnerable. As the semester unfolds, Harper and Emery navigate parties, group projects, dorm-room secrets, and the intoxicating highs of desire and intimacy. Amid campus gossip, emotional upheavals, and raw, steamy encounters, Rival Hearts captures the journey of two women learning that love can come disguised as hate, that surrendering to desire can be terrifyingly exhilarating, and that the fiercest rivals often make the strongest partners. Full of witty banter, heart-pounding tension, and intimate romance, this novel is a slow-burning, passionate exploration of the chaos of first love and the unstoppable force of attraction.

******** This book is strictly for mature audience. ********* I wish I could name this. But I can't. He is cruelly handsome, amazingly rich and undoubtedly a drug. He came into my life uninvited,forced himself into me physically and mentally. He broke every wall I built around my bruised soul. He brought the light I never asked for. Now the walls are down and love took a stroll, he left me shattered, crumbled and broken beyond repair.

On the night she believed fate would crown her Luna, Elara was publicly rejected by her destined mate—the feared Alpha King who chose power over love. Humiliated before the entire pack, cast aside like she meant nothing, Elara swore she would never beg for a man’s affection again. But fate had other plans. Before she could escape the ruins of her shattered life, another mark burned across her skin—the claiming mark of the Alpha King’s most dangerous enemy. Cold, merciless, and thirsting for revenge, the ruthless rival wants Elara for reasons of his own. To destroy the King. To start a war. To possess the woman his enemy discarded. Now trapped between the mate who broke her heart and the beast who refuses to let her go, Elara must uncover secrets buried in blood, power, and betrayal. Because her rejection was never an accident… And the war for her has only begun.

Camilla is forced to marry Arthur Bellingham, one of New York's wealthiest billionaires, but as an imposter. He's cold, hard and everything she hated in a man. On their first night, she even came up with excuses not to consummate the marriage; but the more time they spent together, the more she saw a different side of him the world was yet to see… Arthur's world is complicated and shrouded in secrets but one thing remained certain to him…he was in love with his wife, Pamela, and had always been in love with her. Only that he isn't married to Pamela, but to her identical twin sister. It's all roses for him until things begin to grow inconsistent. She's allergic to nuts which she loved and she was an introvert. What's worse—a virgin—when they've been together sexually once before. Yet, his heart is drawn to her. It's not just the inconsistencies but also the workings of an enemy who threatens his perfection. Marriage that sets him on edge. Camilla on the other hand, is torn between her deceit and her growing affection for her sister's proposed husband. What happens when the veil of deception is torn apart and the real bride resurfaces? Will Arthur abandon his love and will Camilla abandon her castle? A thrilling tale of deception and redemption.

They thought he was just another runaway. They never knew she was a storm waiting to rise. After the tragic death of her parents, Alex a girl mistaken for a boy all her life was one step away from being dumped into a foster home. But instead of surrendering to the system, she ran. That night on the streets, she didn’t find safety. She found the mafia. Dragged into the brutal underground world of Vegas, Alex was forced to train like a soldier, live like a ghost, and survive like a killer. No one ever questioned her identity not when she could fight better, bleed harder, and keep her mouth shut longer than anyone else. They called her a boy. She didn’t correct them. Not when being seen as male was the only thing keeping her alive. Sent to Base Two, the deadliest tier of training, Alex learned to fight, spy, kill and to hide her real self behind layers of silence, steel, and scars. Years later, she walks the streets of New York, not as the scared runaway girl from the past, but as The Rival. A faceless vigilante by night. A silent infiltrator by day. And a weapon forged for one purpose: revenge. Alex isn’t just hunting criminals. She’s chasing the truth behind her father’s deathand every masked figure connected to it. But the deeper she digs, the more twisted the game becomes. Hidden enemies, familiar faces, and a web of betrayal that leads right back to the organization that made her. How long can she keep the mask on... before her real identity shatters everything?

“It’s called the Omertà. Well articulated, like a true mafia princess,” the idiot says, destroying all my chances of getting wedded. Nikita is the gorgeous princess of the Davi mafia empire who is determined to leave the mafia world behind. The only problem is that Leo, the lord of her rival mafia empire and her solemn enemy keeps sabotaging those plans, sucking her back into the vengeful, deceptive world she desperately wants to forget. When unexpected tragedies leave her being the only heiress to the throne of the very world she despises, she finds herself mysteriously pregnant and wedded to her worst enemy, but that’s not all. She discovers just how hard it is to find information she desperately needs to find the man who hijacked her womb in a world that is governed by the omertà code of silence. Will she ever succeed? What happens when she is torn between protecting her son and her surprisingly passionate husband? To walk away she must quench the fires her mafia husband ignites in her, will she succeed?