Contemporary Web Novels & Brave Hate to Love Stories

I earned my place on the ice. I didn't earn his hatred, but I got it anyway. When Scarlett Voss becomes the first woman drafted onto the Northgate Wolves, she isn't there to make history. She's there to play. But team captain Cade Harlow makes his position very clear: she doesn't belong here, and he will make sure she knows it every single day. What Cade won't say, what he won't let himself think, is that the moment she stepped onto his ice, something inside him stopped making sense. He hates her in public. He watches her when she doesn't know he's looking. And when a housing mix-up lands them as roommates, every rule he set to keep her at a distance starts to crack. But Cade Harlow is hiding something. Something that could unravel everything she thought she understood about why he fought so hard to push her away. Some rivalries end. Some become something you can't breathe without.  

One night, Lisa Hasse had a fiance, a family name, and a future. Then Victor Elsner was murdered. Every piece of evidence points to Lisa’s father. Ethan Elsner, the man she was going to marry, believes the evidence before he believes her. He leaves her standing in the ruins of their love. But Lisa refuses to break. She will become the lawyer her father needs, expose who used her stolen credential, and make Ethan regret the night he chose grief over faith. The deeper she digs, the closer the truth gets to Ethan’s own family. In New York’s elite, love is dangerous. Evidence lies. And the real killer may be smiling at the funeral.

Bianca Salvatore has spent her entire life learning one thing: never trust anyone. Raised in foster homes and shaped by a childhood she would rather forget, Bianca had built herself into what had become the nightmare of even the most powerful men in the underworld —a highly skilled, cold-blooded assassin with a reputation for never failing a contract. Then she is given the contract of a lifetime: kill Luca Vincenzo, the ruthless and untouchable leader of the most powerful mafia cartel in Boston. Luca is everything Bianca has been trained to kill—dangerous, calculating, wealthy, and seemingly impossible to kill. When Bianca's assassination attempt goes wrong, she finds herself at Luca's mercy. Instead of killing her, Luca offers her a deal, one that changes everything. A temporary alliance between an assassin and the man she was hired to kill. But living together under the same roof changes everything. Luca discovers that the woman sent to murder him is far more complicated than the ruthless killer she pretends to be, with wounds, secrets, and a desperate longing for something she has never allowed herself to want: a home. And Bianca begins to discover that the monster she was sent to kill may not be the monster she believed him to be. As their attraction grows, the lines between captor and captive, enemy and ally, slowly begin to disappear. But love is dangerous in the mafia world. And someone is willing to destroy both of them to get what they want. Bianca must decide what is more important to her: the freedom she has spent her entire life fighting for, or the man she was supposed to kill. When an assassin falls in love with her target, the dangerous question is not who will die? But who will betray whom first?