Is Trouble Maker Based On A True Story?

Ava Whitmore is the perfect good girl. She follows the rules, stays out of trouble and completely off-limits to boys like Kai Cooper. Kai Cooper? Tattooed. Reckless. He’s the walking red flag she was never meant to talk to. The bad boy who lived just one fence away, the one she's spent her life avoiding. Until that night happened. One step over the line she swore she’d never cross. With a broken heart and a body begging to be touched, she walks straight into the hands that know exactly how to wreck girls like her. She knows he is all shades of wrong. That he'll break her, wreck her, leave her begging for more. But she’s already crossed the line. Worst of all? She wants more. She craves more of everything she shouldn't want.

What does the underboss of an infamous crime family have in common with a spirited primary school teacher? Absolutely nothing, except a marriage of convenience, of course. When Lionel Tyson defaults on a gambling debt and offers his most prized possession as collateral, Austin Hawthorne is underwhelmed. But in desperate need of a housekeeper and permanent child minder, he knows he’d be an idiot to look a gift horse in the mouth. So, against his better judgement, he accepts an offer he should absolutely refuse. Marybeth Tyson is horrified to learn that not only is her father wanted by loan sharks, but he has also sold her off to a mafia boss. Bound by duty and pushed by guilt, she agrees to give Austin Hawthorne one year of her life, despite common sense screaming at her to run the other way. After all, how hard can pretending to be madly in love with someone be? It’s all fun and games until play pretend becomes all too real, and an earth-shattering secret from Austin’s past comes to light, threatening to destroy his second chance at love with his dogged pursuit for answers. Betrayal, especially at the hands of his older brother Blake and long-time friend, Andrei Ivanov, is a bitter pill to swallow for Austin, and letting them off scot-free is not an option. Driven by his unquenchable thirst for revenge, Austin will stop at nothing to get to the truth, even if it means destroying decade-old friendships and fragile ties to The Corporation. 2022 Val Sims. All rights reserved. No part of this novel may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author and publishers.

Willow Henderson was never meant to carry the weight of her family's legacy. As the overlooked youngest daughter, she had one forbidden freedom—love. And she gave it to Jack Carter, the untouchable bad boy with a broken past.Jack came from nothing. With a deadbeat father and siblings to raise, hockey was his only way out—until Willow. She made him dream of more, but her powerful family crushed those dreams. When she got pregnant as a teen, they sent her away, forcing her to break Jack’s heart with lies.Years later, Jack is a hockey legend, ruthless and untouchable. Willow’s life has crumbled, and she’s forced to take a job as a sports psychologist—only to come face-to-face with the man she destroyed.But Jack isn’t the boy she left behind. He’s colder. Harder. And when the truth about their child comes out, everything changes.This time, if Willow wants him back, she’ll have to fight for him—before it’s too late.

Mia hasn’t had an easy life growing up in a trailer park with an abusive father. But after her father is arrested, she’s finally free. She moves in with her older brother who officially takes custody of her and for a moment she finally believes everything will be okay. That’s until she discovers her brother has a dark secret he has been keeping from her. Him and his friends are part of an illicit underground fighting ring. As Mia is accidentally thrust into this world, she soon catches the eyes of the infamous and ruthless fighter Kaden Scott, who is known for his undefeated record. Even though Mia wants no part of this life, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to Kaden and his mysterious, fast paced life. And against her brother’s wishes, she can’t seem to get enough of him and the danger that lurks around him.

“ Daddy had given me a set rules to follow. And I plan to disobey every single one of them.” Alec’s entire life was flipped by the mystery man who sipped on slowly on scotch. Three days was all it took to get him hooked and needing more. And then all of a sudden, mystery man disappears, leaving behind a fake name, and bundles of cash, like Alec was some sort of call boy. But Alec  cannot stop thinking about him. So he follows the thin trail he left behind, the need to find him and prove something to him was primal. After all, Daddy had called him, his little good boy. But could Alec handle all of him?

High school freshman JiJing 'Jay' Devin is an honor student, but she kept hearing the rumor "Jay is a trouble maker", which annoyed her to no end. Well, Jay isn't the only Jay in her high school. There's another Jay who's a handsome senior and well-known delinquent. Their lives are tied together when they joined hands to kill a teacher. That secret sparked a slow romance between them. . . Five years later, newbie detective TianHua Zhang looked into a case of a missing person, who just happened to be her little cousin Jay's high school teacher during the time he disappeared. Even though Jay isn't the good girl she used to be, and Jay is more than a bad boy now, can they keep their secret? What happens when the secret gets out?