Novel Web & Cerita Protective Campus First-Person POV

I gave myself to a stranger in a penthouse, then ran before dawn. I thought I'd never see him again. Three days later, he walked into my lecture hall. Professor Xavier Carrington. Cold. Untouchable. A billionaire who owns half of Manhattan—and the secret of what we did. He pretends I don't exist. He treats me like air. But when my grandmother's café burns down and my bills drown me, he makes me an offer I can't refuse: a one-year contract marriage. Separate bedrooms, he says. No feelings, he promises. I sign because I have no choice. Now I live in his glass tower. I sleep down the hall from the man who took my innocence. He's ice to everyone else, but late at night, I catch him watching me. His hands shake when I get too close. He kisses me like he's drowning—then tells me he feels nothing. I don't believe him. Because there's something dark behind those cold grey eyes. Something he's buried so deep he thinks I'll never find it. And the closer I get to him, the more I realize his world isn't just cold—it's dangerous. But I have secrets too. I'm not just his contract wife. I'm gathering evidence to leave him—until I discover that his family's name is built on lies. And the truth I'm looking for might be the very thing that gets me killed. His obsession with me might be the only thing keeping me alive. He says it's just a contract. But the heart doesn't read fine print.

Lilian Williams has spent years trying to become someone worth loving. Behind her family's wealth and perfect surname is a girl who hates looking in the mirror, hides the scars on her face, and keeps giving everything she has to a boyfriend who makes her feel like she's never enough. Then Michael humiliates her in front of everyone. Desperate to save face, Lilian makes one reckless claim. Alex —the university's hockey captain and Michael's cousin—is chasing her. He isn't. But instead of exposing her lie, Alex agrees to play along. One week. One fake relationship. One chance to make Michael regret humiliating her. For Lilian, pretending to be Alex's girlfriend should be easy. Except Alex has his own problems. Between the pressure of being hockey captain, his rivalry with the Westbrook Ravens, and the expectations placed on him by the people who control his future, he has no time for a fake relationship. Yet somehow, Lilian becomes the one distraction he doesn't want to escape. As their staged romance pulls them deeper into university drama, hockey rivalries, and Fiona's growing interest in Alex, the line between pretending and falling becomes dangerously thin. Lilian only wanted to prove she could be wanted. Alex never expected to want her for real.

Scarlett Hayes never wanted to be a killer. But when her family's debt threatens to tear them apart, she takes the only offer on the table: a full scholarship to her dream school, in exchange for one task. Kill a stranger. That stranger turns out to be Adrian Whitlock, Ravenwood's hockey captain, and the longer she stays close to him, the harder it gets to remember why she's supposed to want him dead. Adrian has no idea the girl he's falling for was sent to end him. And the deeper Scarlett gets pulled into his world, the more she realizes her assignment was never as simple as she thought.

Maya Vance hates Liam Cross. The Upton University cheer captain and heir to a billion‑dollar empire has been raised to despise everything about the soccer captain and his family. So when Liam slides a fake engagement contract across a coffee shop table, she laughs in his face. Then her father calls. Sign it. Or lose everything. The SEC is investigating both companies for insider trading. A fake romance between the heirs is the only PR move that can save their families from ruin. Six months of pretending. A diamond ring that feels like a leash. A Homecoming crown they must win together while their families secretly undermine each other. But Maya doesn't expect Liam to hold her hand like it matters. She doesn't expect him to defend her when anonymous threats appear in her locker. And she definitely doesn't expect to miss her period. Two pink lines change everything. Now she's carrying the unexpected heir to both empires – the one thing that could either end the feud or trap her forever. As they race to uncover who forged the SEC emails and exposed their families, Maya realizes the biggest threat isn't the villain trying to destroy them. It's the boy she was never supposed to love. And the life growing inside her.

Maddox: Depriving myself of my desires and hiding behind my pen name was one thing. Having the campus legend and hockey captain make a deal with me, that was another. But the real nightmare? He became my new stepbrother. Damian Prescott was everything I despised and the temptation I couldn't resist. He says he hates me, yet he refuses to break the deal. He curses me in the morning and worships me at night. He’s confusing, infuriating, and impossible to ignore. I’ve spent years avoiding love, hiding secrets, and staying in the shadows. But Damian refuses to let me hide, and suddenly, I’m falling. Damian: Thought I had it all under control; stalking him, striking a deal and even staying behind for him. Then I found out he was my new stepbrother. And like always, I ran. Close enough to get attached, far enough to avoid the fall. A push-and-pull game I never meant to lose. Now… losing him forever feels inevitable. What’s the next move when the heart refuses to listen?

Stolen as an infant, Isla has lived her entire life under the control of cruel strangers who never let her feel like she belonged. Years of abuse dampened her spirit, and when she escapes to college, she only wants to finally live her life without any dark cloud looming over her. Instead, trouble seems to follow her. Stalkers, threats, and shadows from her past keep dragging her into danger.     That’s until she keeps bumping into her college lecturer in unusual places and she realizes that there’s a whole lot more to him than what he lets on. Protective, ruthless, and dangerously charming; willing to risk everything for her, he vows to keep her safe.     The deeper she’s drawn into his orbit, the more she realizes her past isn’t what it seems to be — and the truth may be darker than she ever imagined.

Three years after her father's death, her mother announces that she's getting married to someone. Stacy, overwhelmed with grief, runs away into the night, she gets drunk and wanders out from a club. A gang of guys want to attack her but she gets saved by a stranger, one which gives her a night she couldn't forget only to discover the next day that he was her stepbrother and they would be living under the same roof, going to the same school, basically doing everything together. She hates him. For the fact that he already knew who she was but he still did it. She thinks its out of spite But to him, it's because he wants her and he'd do anything to have her.

One photo. Two golden boys. A truth that could destroy everything they've built. Everyone thinks they know me - Perfect grades, perfect girlfriend, student council, perfect future. But it's all a lie to hide who I really am. Until my past caught up with me. Until Chris Moore turns up at summer camp and appears in school on the first day. Until a photo was pinned on my locker on the first day of school — a photo of me staring at Chris across the summer bonfire. And an anonymous note: “I know who you are looking at.” Now my lies are crumbling. The perfect life I built is cracking. And I can't keep pretending. With Chris back in my life, the feelings I buried for two years refuse to stay hidden. Someone is watching. Someone knows my secret. And if the truth comes out, I don't just lose my perfect life. I lose everything.

They were never supposed to fall for the same girl. For eighteen years, Seraphina has lived as the unwanted adopted daughter of the Mooncrest Pack, mocked as the wolfless disgrace and treated as little more than a disappointment. The Royal Werewolf Academy is her chance to leave that painful life behind. Instead, she walks straight into three infuriating Alpha princes. Kael, the cold Shadow heir whose silent protection infuriates her. Adrian, the irresistible flirt who never misses a chance to make her blush or lose her temper. Rowan, the calm strategist whose quiet eyes seem to see every secret she's trying to hide. She calls them arrogant. They call her impossible. Forced together through dangerous missions, brutal combat training, royal banquets, and moonlit dances, every argument turns into stolen glances, every rivalry into irresistible chemistry, and every near-death encounter pulls their hearts closer together. A jacket draped over her shoulders. Fingers lingering just a second too long. Jealous looks that say what none of them dare admit. But while love quietly blossoms, someone is trying to kill her. Poisoned tea, midnight fires and rogue attacks. Anonymous threats. As hidden enemies close in and an ancient prophecy begins to awaken, Seraphina discovers she is far more than the wolfless girl everyone believed. Now three Alpha heirs are willing to wage war to protect the woman they've fallen hopelessly in love with. But destiny has never been kind. Because the greatest betrayal will come from the person Seraphina never learned to love... and the heartbreaking truth may cost her the family she never knew she had. In a world where kingdoms fall, secrets bleed, and fate demands sacrifice, Seraphina must decide whether to protect her heart... or surrender it to the one Alpha she cannot bear to lose.